> Super Mario ponies in Peril
>  by SECURE0777
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> Assault on the Crystal Empire
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DISCLAIMER
I DO NOT OWN My Little Pony Friendship is Magic  All Rights go to Hasbro
I DO NOT OWN Super Mario Bros all rights go to Nintendo

A Red and blonde haired young women was staring at herself in a mirror. Her leather jacket clung to her body and her sun pendant hung proudly around her neck. She looked at her bag; it was completely stuffed with text books, a teddy bear, and more text books. Today was her last day of school. She had spent the first two years of her high school career bullying her way to the top, only to spend the last two repaying all those she hurt. She snapped her finger and a single spark erupted from her finger tip.

"Was it the Element of Magic that is making magic enter this world.” Her eyes flickered over to a series of pictures. Each one depicting the same six girls; herself, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Fluttershy, Applejack, and Pinkie Pie. Her eyes went to the pictures with a seventh member to their little group. She had light purple skin and dark purple hair with a light pink streak. "Or is it us Twilight?" There was a deep ache in her heart, stories of magically powered criminals where becoming more and more common. Of course magically gifted police and military officers where racing into the fray. But what frightened her was the simple fact that the magical power was growing exponentially. She remembered how it started, her five friends where simply able to gain pony like qualities. But then, one morning while she was getting ready for school she to gained pony ears and a tail. So originally she thought it was people the Princess of Friendship interacted with that were gaining magic. But then one morning, a random track runner doubled in speed, and then Trixie began utilizing real magic in her shows. "Is it too late to reverse the damage? Am I choosing to runaway again?"

"SUNSET SHIMMER!" A puffy pink haired and skinned girl burst into her room. "We're going to be late!" She slid beside Sunset. Her Hair deflated slightly noticing Sunsets bursting bag. How Pinkie convinced her to leave her ever so comfy school attic, she'll never know. "Are you leaving?"

"I Need to go home Pinkie." Sunset Shimmer told her first friend. Yes the other four followed her more timidly, but Sunset couldn't get Pinkie to leave her alone. Everywhere she went Pinkie Pie was following her and eventually somehow she wormed her way into her heart.

"I Know Sunset...I'll miss you." She whimpered, tears threatening to pour down her cheeks.

"Don't...Pinkie, please don't cry." Sunset threw her arms around Pinkie. "Its graduation today, Pinkie, you're leaving for Cloudsdale University."
"RD’s Texas."
"AJ’s going to help her family farm and go to community college."
"Rarity is moving Manehattan."
"Fluttershy is going to veterinary school in Ponyville."

"We'll never see each other again!" Pinkie Pie howled a river of tears pouring down her cheeks.
Pinkie Pie gently placed her head on Sunset Shimmer’s shoulder. The flame haired young women gently rubbed Pinkie’s back. 

"I'll come back Pinkie, when you graduate I'll be there…" She soothed the women.

"Pinky promise?" She whispered.

"Pinky promise." Sunset confirmed. "Let's get the others, today we leave high school!"
FIVE HOURS LATER

Six friends where sitting around a room. Sunset looked around; a small smile came to her lips. Rainbow Dash was wearing a plain blue dress, her rainbow colour hair done in simple curled pony tail. Beside her, Fluttershy was having her light pink hair curled by Rarity. Her pale pink dress had light pink accents around her breasts. Rarity’s dark purple hair was completely straight. She wore a purple dress with white mesh around her hips.

"So you're leaving." Rainbow Dash, a pale blue skinned girl with rainbow colour hair stated. The only signs of how distraught she was a simple warble in her voice.

Fluttershy, a light yellow skinned young woman quietly whispered. "What will you do in the other world?"

Sunset saw some tears. "I Have some apologizing to do, practicing my magic, and find a job."

"Well darling, I'm sure that your teacher will accept your apology." Rarity stated calmly.

Applejack was fiddling with her dress "I don't know, Rarity." The light pink material clung to her hour glass figure "I feel weird…"

"You're kidding me, you look stunning!" Rarity cried out in shock.

"She's right, AJ." Rainbow Dash cut in. "Looking hot!" Rainbow stated simply.
TWO HOURS LATER
The Six friends sat among a large crowd of students. "Applejack!" Principal Celestia proclaimed loudly. Sunset watched her blonde friend shake Celestia's hand and get handed a diploma. Slowly as the students get their diploma her next friend was called. "Fluttershy!" The timid girl slowly walked in front of the crowd. "Pinkamena Pie!" Pinkie laughed and bounced towards Celestia. "Rainbow Dash!" The star athlete raced, waving at the crowd as she did. "Rarity!" Rarity walked out elegantly.
Sunset closed her eyes as her name got closer and closer to being called. "Sunset Shimmer!" The red head walked up, she could see a smile spread across the older women's face. Sunset's hand shot out shaking the principal’s hands. She took the diploma from her and Celestia whispered, "You've come such a long way. If your Celestia is anything like me she'll be proud of the young woman you've become."

Sunset Shimmer fought back tears replying with, "Thank you principal."

TWO HOURS LATER
The graduates where laughing and partying outside in front of the school. A large banner was hanging in the front entrance reading, "Congratulations, good luck". Pinkie Pie had gotten a conga line going. Rainbow Dash was reminiscing about past soccer matches with her now former teammates. Applejack was eating some of the snacks her granny was giving out. Rarity had a large group of people around her, talking about her upcoming move to Manehattan. Lastly, Fluttershy and Sunset where sitting next to the portal. Sunset had to stop anybody from stumbling into Equestria and Fluttershy because she didn't feel comfortable in large crowds.

"Sunset what is that!?" Fluttershy yelped, pointing at a large pitch black cloud.

"Is a storm coming in?" Sunset asked her.

"It's coming this way!" A bright red flash erupted from the mass. Near instantly a cannon ball exploded against the ground.

"Everyone into the school!" Celestia screamed over the student’s terror. A stampeded of students raced towards the front entrance. Fluttershy dragged Sunset always from the statue.

"GWAHAHAHA!" A voice laughed. The mass split apart into hundreds of ships, all of them surrounding the statue. Suddenly the largest ship with a huge dragon like figure head slowly descended in front of the statue.

"They're trying to get into the portal!" Sunset proclaimed. She ripped her hand out of Fluttershy's grip. Sunset raced back to the statue.

"Sunset, no!" Celestia screamed frantically.

Suddenly a massive figure flew off the ship. It smashed into the ground with earth shattering force. It was easily ten feet tall, maybe even fifteen feet. The figure was wearing spiked wristbands, shoulder guards, and a collar. It had thick mustard yellow scales and a light yellow under belly shell. It had a massive cream colour jaw with razor sharp teeth. The top of its skull was bright green with large bright red eye brows and a red Mohawk. Sunset could make out a highly spiked bright green shell. The figure clenched his large dagger like claws before letting out a large pillar of fire and a bone chilling roar.

Its red eyes went to the portal. With each footfall it took shook the earth. "NO!" The creature’s eyes snapped onto Sunset standing before itself. "You're not getting through the portal!" She proclaimed.
"GWAHAHAHAHA!" The creature laughed in Sunsets face. "And what are you going to do to stop the great Koopa King Bowser?" He questioned menacingly.

Sunset raised her hand till it was aimed at his face. "This." With a snap, flames smashed into his.
Bowser roared loudly putting out the flames "That is a mistake..." He took a step towards her "Child!" He ripped her off the ground by her neck.

"Sunset!" Her five friends screamed.

Her world was rapidly darkening. The beast was placing more pressure on her neck.
Thud
"OUCHHHHHHHHH!" Bowser whipped around throwing a wild backhand, narrowly missing a red hat wearing figure. "Mario!" He snapped viciously.

"Picking on a kid, Bowser?" The man was wearing a red hat with an ‘M’ on it, a red long sleeve shirt, dark blue overalls, and brown shoes. He was also wielding a large black mallet.

Bowser roared threw Sunset angrily. Then he roared a torrent of flames straight at Mario. But Mario was too quick, back flipping, which instantly transitioned into a backhand spring, finally ending with a double back flip. Sunset flew straight into the arms of a green cap wearing man. He was dressed very similar to Mario, but had an ‘L’ on his hat, and a green long sleeved shirt. "Don't worry, my bro can beat Bowser."

Sunset groaned weakly "Who are you?"

"Imma Luigi!" His joyful demeanor putting her at ease.

Bowser
vs
Mario

The Red cap plumber frowned. "Let's-A-Go!"

"ROAR!"

Bowser charged straight at Mario and swung a wild left overhand. Mario side flipped to the right as sparks sprayed when Bowser dragged his left hand towards Mario. Dark purple energy erupted from his elbows. Mario rolled back as the large turtle twisted, sending energy through the school.
"Wahoo!" Mario jumped unto Bowser, spinning a punch into the Koopa King gut and sending him flying away from the school. Bowser slid into the streets, rolling backwards as he regained his footing. 

Bowser fired a stream of flames straight at Mario. "Ow, ow!" He screamed, racing away from the turtle. Bowser rushed at Mario swinging a right-hook which the plumber instantly back flipped over, a left jab which Mario parried, and ending his combo with an attempt to bite Mario. Mario countered by ducking under then upper-cutting Bowser right in his large chin.

Mario pulled his hammer out and jumped high into the air. "So long, King Bowser!"

Crack. 

Mario's hammer smashed into the top of Bowser’s head. Bowser’s eyes went wide, he could already feel a lump begin to form. "OUCH, OUCHY, OUCH!" Bowser bounced from leg to leg. Mario swung his hammer again. Thud. The Hammer smashed into Bowser’s gut.

Bowser rocketed back, cleaving through an office building. "Yippee!" Mario did a double front flip before yelling, "Mario's number one!"

"Wow!" Rainbow Dash was the first student to say anything. Mario and Luigi ran into a high five. "What are they?" Sunset limped towards the brothers. They were dancing, laughing with one another.
Suddenly a massive shadow was cast over Sunset. "Look out!" Screamed Pinkie Pie. But it was too late. Bowser’s massive claws wrapped itself around her head.

"Step aside my old rival." Bowser was nursing a couple wounds, but other than that he was completely unfazed by Mario's assault.

Sunset kicked wildly. "Kooooo!" Came her muffled scream. Both Mario and Luigi where locked onto the Koopa. "Kont set im thoo!" Bowser took steps towards the Mario Bros.

"Move!" He roared. The two brothers looked at one another, before calmly spreading their arms wide in defiance. "The hard way then…" With a sharp kick Mario went slicing straight through the school walls and with his free hand he upper-cut Luigi into the school.

He tossed Sunset Shimmer before making his way towards the statue hiding a portal. Bowser clenched his right hand before flexing to open. A large golden star erupted from his hand. Sunset Shimmer was nearly choked by the pure magic pouring off it. Bowser’s claws dug into the stars back. He was now right in front of the portal. "My Koopa!" He proclaimed loudly. "Attack!" Bowser smashed the star into the portal. A blinding explosion ripped apart the statue created a twenty foot deep crater earth. Sunset watched in horror as a castle began to collapse on the other side of portal. She watched as Bowser stepped into Equestria, the armada of his Koopa Troop army flew through the portal.
Cannons fired and Koopas ripping apart the ponies defenses.

"NO!" Sunset screamed, running towards the portal. The magic started to swirl into a tornado of pure magic. In an instant the portal collapsed, a shockwave ripped into Sunset flinging her backwards.
> The Crystal Empire
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I DO NOT OWN My Little Pony Friendship is Magic  All Rights go to Hasbro
I DO NOT OWN Super Mario Bros all rights go to Nintendo

"Su...Mmer…" A heavily garbled voice called. Every part of Sunset’s body was in pain. Her head felt like a jackhammer was digging through it and her ears ringing. "Sunset!". Sunset cracked her eyes open weakly. "Thank goodness, you had us worried, Sugarcube."

"Pulljack…" Sunset slurred. She stumbled up, but fell back onto her butt.

"Whoa, stay still Sunset."

"The portal…" She mumbled weakly.

"It's gone." Applejack held down Sunset.

"No!" She screamed.

Mario pushed rubbles off his body. "Mama Mia…" He dusted his hat off. "Luigi!" He bellowed "Bro!" Mario bounced over a table, and then long jumped out of school. "Luigi!" Mario called for his younger brother desperately.

"Bro!" Luigi jumped out of the school.

"Luigi!"

"Mario!" The Brothers ran into one another and hugged each other.

"Are you ok bro!?" Mario patted his brother down.

"I'm ok." Luigi waved his big brother off him.

"Bowser!" The two looked at the destroyed buildings across the street. Two holes punched clean into the school and lastly the twenty foot crater near the front entrance. "Mario..." Luigi gently rubbed his brother’s shoulder. His eyes went to the groups of students huddled together.
"We need to go stop Bowser, bro" Mario jogged towards the crater. Shaking his head at the destruction Bowser and the battle had caused. Mario stopped suddenly and turned towards the surrounding people. "Wassa anybody hurt?" He asked.

"Luckily, no." Principal Celestia watched the strange little man let out a sigh of relief.
Mario dropped into the crater, sliding down the cliff before rolling to a stop at the bottom. Luigi Flutter Jumped down slowly, landing beside Mario with a soft thump. "The Grand Star’s magic..." He watched faint golden sparks bouncing around his hand. "Ok, good."

"The bridge wasn’t destroyed." Luigi stated simply, the same faint sparks jumping between his hands.
Mario dug into the front of his overalls and after ten seconds a large golden star erupted from his body. Both brothers took their hats off revealing neatly combed brown hair. "Please help-a us." The star hovered around surveying the damage. "There's a broken bridge, between this world and another." The Grand star erupted into a golden pillar. Both Mario and Luigi where lifted off the ground. The earth beneath them slowly corrected the damage made.

Sunset watched in awe as the buildings repaired themselves from the damage and even her own injuries were beginning to correct themselves. The intense pain in her neck and back seemed to melt away, followed shortly by the blown out ear drums. She suddenly started to feel hope begin to creep up in her heart. The hope then blossomed into joy; the star gave an almost childlike giggle.
As the damage was completely corrected a bright green pipe erupted from the ground where the portal statue once stood. Mario couldn't help but smile as pillar began to fade. The two where gently placed back onto the ground. "Thank you!" The star gave what amounted as a nod before disintegrating into a golden dust, which was instantly blown into the sky. "A Luma was born today, Luigi."

"I know bro."

"The portal, they rebuilt it!" Sunset jumped up, happiness coursed through her heart which thumped as she ran towards the pipe.

"Whoa!" Luigi landed on top of the lip of the pipe. "You can't come through; we don't know what's on the other side!"

"I do!" Luigi looked down at the young women "I came from there, the land is called Equestria. It's inhabited by ponies, dragons, leviathans, griffins, and any number of magical creatures." Luigi eyes remained firm "It’s ruled by princesses called an Alicorn. They are led by Princess Celestia, my teacher." Luigi sat down on the edge of the pipe. "Please let me go back to where I came from, let me see my teacher!"

"Mario?" Luigi deferred to his big brother.

Mario nodded at her "Lets-a go."

"Ok, Mario." The pair dropped into the pipe.

"Bye everyone." Sunset waved, tears welling as she met eyes with her five friends standing five feet away from her. "I'll miss you all." She sprawled up the pipe before dropping in.
"Bye, Sun-" The four began to say.

"Yippee!" Suddenly, a puffy pink hair and skinned girl flew into the pipe.

All of their jaws dropped as she disappeared from sight. "Did Pinkie just..." Rarity began.
"Oh my." Fluttershy squeaked.

"Why weren't you watching her!?" Applejack hissed at Rainbow Dash.

"I'm not her babysitter!" Rainbow Dash countered instantly.

"She tried to follow Twilight through the Portal..."

"Forget it, Cowabunga!" Rainbow Dash ran and dive head first into the pipe.

"For Pete's sake!" Applejack jumped in after Rainbow.

"Well now, I guess if they're going..." Rarity climbed in.

Fluttershy climbed on to the lip of the green pipe, her vision swirled as she watched the rainbow colour. "Oh my goodness…"

Suddenly, Pinkie’s head erupted from the portal. "Let's go, Fluttershy!"

"Oh my!" She screamed as she was dragged into the portal.

The group of young women felt as if they were water, all they could see is a rainbow of colour. Sunset could feel the familiar shift, her hands became hooves, her clothes disintegrated and where replaced by fur.

Mario and Luigi shot out of a green pipe. "Oh no..." Luigi cried. The city was completely leveled. Around them once stood a large castle with Earth ponies, Unicorns, and Pegasus where injured. "We need to help."

Suddenly a unicorn shot out of the pipe. "Ah man.” She slammed face first into ground.

"Wahoo!" A pony slammed into the unicorn, her puffy pink mane flattened as she looked around the destruction

"Pinkie Pie?"

Pinkie’s tail twitch, right back hoof and front left hoof vibrated. "Wonder what that means?"
"It means get off my head!" Sunset Shimmer screamed. The pink earth pony shot up into the air from fear, levitating for a split second before shooting off in the direction of the city.

A Blue pegasi flew out of the pipe. "Look out!" Rainbow Dash crashed into Sunset.

"What are you guys doing!?"

"We're coming to get Pinkie Pie.

"Watch out darlings!" A Pure white unicorn with a dark purple mane flew into Rainbow Dash.

"Incoming!" Applejack smashed head first into Rarity's flank.

"Oh no!" Fluttershy landed on top of the pony pile with a thump.

Luigi fluttered off a boulder sized chunk of the destroyed castle. He could see a pegasi pinned beneath a chunk of the castle. "Imma coming!" He ran towards the injured pegasi. "I'm Luigi." He greeted calmly. It was a two toned green colour, with a forest green mane and tail, and light green body with wings.

The pegasus stared at the strange biped before weakly replying, "Emerald Dream…"
"Ok, Emerald, this might hurt." Luigi, with a mighty grunt he lifted the boulder off of her.
"Ahhhh!" she screeched.

Luigi gently placed the boulder down. He dug into his front pocket and pulled a red mushroom with white dots and cream base. "Here eat this. It won't heal you completely, but will dull the pain." The Pegasus timidly ate the Mushroom.

She felt some of the pain subside. "Thank you."

"Not a problem, mam." Luigi tipped his hat at her. "I've got to help more people." The green cap man jumped over a rock and front flipped over another, flutter jumping down an inclined drop going into the castle "Hello!" He hollered. "Imma here to help!"

"Over here!" A Deep voice hollered. Luigi ran down the half collapsed hallway. He slid around the corner and came face to face with a large white unicorn stallion. He was using his magic to rip boulders off pile.

"What are digging for?" If the stallion was shocked by a lanky biped easily ripping boulders off the pile, He hid it well.

"Some of our maids and a couple soldiers." The Stallion replied.

"What happened?" Luigi questioned.

The stallion grunted as he picked a large stone off the pile. "After the attack began I sent some soldiers to escort our maids to safety, but they never reported back to me." Luigi tossed a boulder back. "Shining Armor." He introduced himself.

"Imma Luigi"

"We're here…" Luigi heard a faint voice.

Both men looked at one another. "Keep going." Shining tossed another stone "We're coming!"

SCENE SHIFT

Mario shoulder climbed through a destroyed building. "Hello!?" He climbed over a chunk of wood. "Imma here to help!"

"My filly please, I'm over here!" A muffled voiced came from behind a door.

Mario jiggled the door knob. "Step back!"

"Ok!"

Mario slammed shoulder first into the door, ripping it clean off his hinges. Mario rolled into a half collapsed room. "Over here!" Mario looked over at a pony stallion trying to move a large chunk of wood. A young looking pony was pinned down. "Please, help me!" The stallion begged, nuzzling the filly. "Don't worry, Moony."

Mario squatted underneath the piece of wood. "Ok, one..." The stallion wrapped his mouth around the filly’s neck. "Two…" Their eyes met. "Three!" Mario lifted up the chunk of wood, he could here stones shifting. The stallion ripped his filly out from underneath the collapse. "Go, get out the room!" Mario ordered. The stallion quickly dragged his filly out. Mario smirked as he dropped the wood then dove, rolled, and longed jumped out of the collapsing room. "That was close."

"Thank you." The stallion was holding his filly tightly, fresh tears pouring down his cheeks. "If I lost her…"
"No problem." Mario waved off the stallion.

"Who are you?"

"It's-a me, Mario!" Mario proclaimed proudly. "I've got to go help. Take care of her, oh and get out of the house." Mario climbed out a hole in the ceiling. He could see a dark cloud swirling above them. "Bowser…" Mario jumped off the roof; he could see three stallions dragging boulders off a couple.

"Imma a coming!" He hollered.

He jumped from roof to roof. As he got closer he long jumped, slid down the steep roof, and front flipped off the roof before landing behind the group. He moved a boulder off the couple "Imma here to help." He soothed the two. Mario tossed another boulder back. "Imma, Mario, hello." He greeted.
"Star Spangled, this is Sun Spot, my wife." The stallion introduced the two.
Mario dug into his front pouch and pulled out a red and white mushroom. "It won't heal you completely, but it will help." Both ponies nibbled at the mushroom.
Mario raced off down the destroyed streets before giving a final wave.

SCENE CHANGE

Four mares walked back and forth. Rainbow Dash flapped her wings. "This is weird." She tried to stand in two hooves, before stumbling back down on to all fours.

"Your spine isn't built to stand on your backhooves." Sunset Shimmer explained to her friends.
"Ouch!" Fluttershy’s flank was in the air and her head was on the ground.

"Fluttershy! Stand up!" Sunset dragged Fluttershy to her hooves with her magic.

Applejack trotted in a small circle mis-stepping every couple of moves. Rarity took two slow deliberate steps. Suddenly a bright blue spark erupted from her horn, blowing down a piece of stone. "Oh no!"
The stone was encased in green energy. "Rarity, calm down!" Sunset placed a hoof one the white mares back. "Magic listens to your emotions."

Rarity took two deep breaths. The magic around her horn faded. "Thanks, Sunset"

Sunset looked at the destruction around her. "Let's go help."

The five mares surveyed the damage. "Where do we start?" Rarity questioned. "There!" She pointed at a crystal pony trying to free a pinned soldier.

The six slowly went down the rubble. "Hey, partner." Applejack greeted.

"The mares of Spike the hero!" the crystal pony gasped. "It's such a honor!"

"Mares of Spike?"

"Wahhh?”

"Ok?"

Applejack shook her mane; a cowboy hat fell off her head. "Where did that come from?"
"Girls, be careful. We don't know what your bodies can..."

BANG A large boulder bounced across the ground.
"Oh!" Applejack cringed as it flew down the road.

Sunset disappeared in a flash of green. She reappeared in front of the boulder, stopping it instantly before immediately teleporting back in front of her friends. "As I was saying, be careful. Your pony bodies are flowing with magic now and we don't know how that's going to affect you." Sunset lectured.

"I see what you’re talking about, Sugarcube." Applejack was bright red.

TWO HOURS LATER

Luigi gently helped a mare out of the collapsed building. "Thank you, sir!" A soldier bowed slightly to Shining Armor.

"I had help." Shining pointed towards Luigi.

"Thank you." The soldier tipped his head at Luigi.

"Oh, no problem." Said Luigi while helping another soldier out of the rubbles.

"The princess, is she ok?" The nameless soldier asked Shining Armor.

"Yes, she’s helping the medic teams." Shining Armor turned on Luigi. "Luigi, I’m going to see my wife."

"Oh, ok." Luigi tipped his hat at Shining.

"Are you going to come along?" Shining questioned Luigi.

"Umm, I'm sorry, but I want to help other ponies." Luigi replied.

SCENE SHIFT

Mario watched as a tall mare walked elegantly from pony to pony. She was pink with purple tipped wings and was wearing a set of golden armor studded with diamonds. Her mane was a long mixture of purple white and pink. She, unlike every other pony who either had a horn or wings, has both, plus her long horn was longer. She gracefully walked straight up to Mario. "My little ponies have spoken nothing but good things about you." She held herself with an air of authority. She then looked around sadly. "I wish you could see the empire at its greatest height." She gave a slight smile. "Now if I may ask, who are you?"

"I am Mario of the Mushroom Kingdom." Replied the red capped hero.

"Welcome, Mario of the Mushroom Kingdom, to the Crystal Empire. I am Princess Mi Amore Cadenza."

Mario instantly fell onto one knee and ripped his cap off his head. "Princess Cadenza, it is an honor to meet you." Mario bowed his head respectfully.

A faint blush spread across the mares face. "Oh my, aren't you the formal one." She placed a hoof on Mario's back. "Rise, Mario." The man slowly rose to his feet. Keeping his hat off his head as the mare continued to speak. "My Aunty, Celestia, taught me many things. One of which formality with a hero is never necessary." She levitated four ponies to a medical tent. "Put your hat back on." Mario placed his prized hat back on his head "Oh, and call me Cadance."

"Princess, the creature who attacked your country; his name is Bowser. Myself and my brother, Luigi, we're going to find him, beat him, and then drag him back into our world." He explained to her. "But I am unfamiliar with these lands."

"You'll get a map." Cadance told Mario.

"Cadance!" A large white stallion trotted up and nuzzled her.

"Shining, how many..."

"Fifty, probably closer to a hundred though, with everypony who was helping me and Luigi." Shining Armor replied.

"My brother." Shining Armor turned to see a shorter biped.

"Ah, you're, "Super Mario", Luigi told me about some of you adventures."

"Where’s my bro?"

"He stayed back at the palace to help get more ponies out."

"Ok, sorry I just worried." Mario told the stallion.

"Not a problem, I have a little sister who manages to find trouble every other week." The stallion held out his hoof. "Shining Armor."

Mario took the hoof in his hand. "Mario."

"Any reports, has it made its way back?" Shining asked Cadance.

"No sightings of Bowser or his army."

SCENE CHANGE

Sunset lead her friends through the streets, helping any pony who needed. 'You can still be better then Twilight you know'. A voice purred through her mind.

Sunset flicked her head. "Anything wrong, honey?" Rarity inquired calmly.

"I'm fine, just imagining things." The group had made their way to a half destroyed train station. 

"Anybody in here that needs help!?" Sunset bellowed.

"Wonder where those brothers are." Applejack galloped into the building.

"Something's wrong. Why would he level a city, and then leave?" Sunset looked around at a once regal train station. She felt a tinge of regret, because she felt happy that the city wasn't Canterlot.
"Yeah, I've been wondering the same thing." Luigi jumped out of a train car and landed beside the group with soft thud.

"Luigi!" Sunset ran and hugged the green cap man. "I'm sorry you saved me and then I didn't even introduce myself. I'm Sunset, Sunset Shimmer."

"Luigi." He patted the pony on her head awkwardly.

"I'm not a dog!" Sun barked angrily.

Luigi stumbled away from the pony and slid on a chunk of rubble before falling on his back. "Mama Mia…"

"Oh my goodness, are you alright? Sunset that was very mean!" Fluttershy whipped around and glared at Sunset. "Apologize. NOW!" Fluttershy glared down at Sunset.

"I'm sorry Luigi, it's just I've always had an issue with being petted." Sunset looked down in shame, her ears and tails drooping.

"Oh, no problem, I've been through worse." Luigi jumped up. "I’ve cleared the building out. I came back to double check for unconscious ponies." He told the group.

"So why were you wondering about Bowser’s attack on the city?" Rarity jumped into the conversation.

"It doesn't suit him. Bowser is a conqueror, using brute strength and force of will. But he isn't stupid; he understood he had the element of surprise. Normally, Bowser would use it to take over and rule." Something clicked in Luigi's mind. "Unless he found something…"

"Something?" Fluttershy mimed.

"Yeah, something powerful that has enough strength to catch him off guard,  and forcibly repels him before he could counter attack." He kicked a chunk of rubble, deep in thought.

SCENE CHANGE

"How did you beat Bowser?" Mario and the princess were sitting in a tent, the latter of which was sipping water.

"There's a magical artifact here, I can't say much about it. But needless to say, I used it to boost my magic of love and was barely able to send him and his army out of my empire."

Cadance watched the man; she could see gears begin to spin in his head "Bowser...”

SCENE CHANGE

“...doesn't like to lose...”

SCENE CHANGE

“...he'll come back...”

SCENE CHANGE

“...as a show of strength."

SCENE CHANGE

"Princess, you need to evacuate the city!" Cadance watched the little man jump to his feet.

"Where are you going!?" Cadance exclaimed.

"To find my brother." Mario replied quickly. "Get that artifact now, Bowser will go straight for it when he returns."

"He can't use it, it's pure magic!" She countered as she galloped up to the now running Mario.

"Then he'll taint the magic, he does it with everything he touches."

SCENE CHANGE

Luigi and the five ponies were running down the street. "We need to find Mario, and then find whatever repelled Bowser before-"
Luigi and the girls slid to a stop. "No…" The sky was almost black, and he could clearly see tanks rolling down along. "Girls, you need to run, me and Mario we'll deal with Bowser."
"Gwahahaha!" An almost childlike echoed down the street. "Luigi, looks like a get crush you." Faster than the ponies could comprehend, Luigi was smashed by a powerful straight hand. Luigi rolled to a stop shaking his head.
Floating in a pure white machine, with a green rim, glass dome, and green helicopter bottom sat a tiny Bowser. His sharp teeth were just buds and the sharp points on his back where rounded. The machine twisted, sending the five ponies flying. The machine displayed a maniacal grin. "The only thing that could make this day better is getting to crush Mario!"
"Jr!" Luigi's hands trembled as he put them up "Let's-a go."
> Mario's Failure
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

I DO NOT OWN My Little Pony Friendship is Magic  All Rights go to Hasbro
I DO NOT OWN Super Mario Bros all rights go to Nintendo

LUIGI
vs
BOWSER JR

Luigi backhand sprung away from the Koopa prince. Narrowly avoiding a flurry of jabs he cart wheeled to left letting the Koopa Clown car fly by him. The Koopa whipped around, straight into the dome. Crack. "OUCHY!" After a failed super human jab, Luigi bounced away from the glass covered protecting the Koopa.

"Upgraded the Clown Car, you like?" Bowser Jr taunted. He shot straight at Luigi delivering a lightning fast right hook, followed instantly by a left hook. The green capped plumber stumbled away as Bowser Jr. delivered a skull crushing punch to both ears. Jr's clown car swung its fist in a circular motion; the arms became a red donut. BANG. Luigi's ears shook from the force of a uppercut. Luigi flew straight back, completely decimating a home. "Hmmm, to easy."

Luigi dragged himself out of the rubble. "Mama Mia…" He dusted himself off as he got back to his feet. "Jr!"

The youngest Koopa whipped around. CRACK. Luigi fly kicked straight into the thick dome, cracking the glass. Luigi back flipped off the dome dodging two incoming wild hooks. He parried back avoiding being cut by the razor sharp helicopter blades. He jump kicked the imprinted cracked, spreading the crack slightly.

Suddenly, the mouth of the clown car opened wide revealing a large canon. "Eat this!" Luigi cringed as the cannon fired straight at home. BOOM. An explosion shook the surrounding area, spreading some trails of fire. As the flames swirled dangerously Jr got a triumphant grin. "Take that!"

"That was close." Jr turned to the left. Luigi looked no worse for wear; standing behind him was Sunset Shimmer. "Thanks." He gave her thumbs up.

Rarity gasped. "She teleported him out of the way before that cannon could hit him."

Bowser Jr. smashed the boxing gloves together. "You won't escape me again!"

Bowser Jr. shot straight at the green cap man throwing explosive straight jabs. "Stay right behind me!" Luigi warned as the Kopa got closer. Luigi's fist shook slightly, but he steeled himself. Just as Jr. was about to land a punch Luigi shot into the air. Crack. The glass dome exploded from the force of Luigi's kick. The Koopa prince didn't even have time to react before he was violently flung from his Clown Car. Jr. rolled twenty feet before stopping. Tears poured down his chins as Jr. clawed his throbbing nose.

"I'll get you." Jr hissed. The Clown Car drove itself back towards Bowser Jr. "Gwahahaha! Ready for round two!?" The Prince jumped into his Clown car.

SCENE CHANGE

Mario slid from cover to cover. The tanks rolled through the city streets. He could here cries of pain as Bullet Bills slammed into their targets. "Princess, where is the artifact!?" The top of the wall he was using was destroyed by a canon ball.

"It's in the war bunker, on the eastern part of the castle!" Cadance replied, reflect a canon ball as she did. "I can teleport us there!"

"Ok!" Mario jumped out of cover kicking a Bullet Bill as he did.

Suddenly, the rubble in front of Cadance exploded, flinging the pony princess away from Mario. 

"ROAR!"

"Morton!" Morton is a massive black Koopa, with large off-white colour head, white spikes on his shell, and a grey star on his right eye. He wielded a massive hammer with ease.

"Mario!" Morton roared loudly, he smashed the massive hammer into the ground, causing an earthquake to destroy one of the few houses still half standing.

MORTON KOOPA JR.
vs
MARIO

"Princess, go get the artifact!" Morton smirked at Mario. "I can't let him run wild; he's as strong as Bowser!" Mario cart wheeled out of the way from the massive sledge hammer.

Cadance disappeared in a flash of pink, leaving the two warriors standing in the partially destroyed city. "Someones in need of a beating." Mario grinned at the Koopa.

"I'll crush you!" Morton swung his hammer high above his head.

Mario shot forward to deliver a fast right hook and then he jump kicked him in the gut. Morton slid back two steps. With all his might Morton brought the hammer down. Mario jumped away, the earth below him exploded. He felt the shockwave rip into him, mountains of rubble collapsed in on the two combatants.

SCENE SHIFT

Luigi shoved Sunset to the side as he backpedals quickly. Jr. was swinging wild combinations of hooks, jabs, and uppercuts. The Clown Car had a demonic grin on its face. The Clown Car suddenly fired a cannon ball which Luigi leapfrog over. Bowser Jr. landed a left hook. Luigi responded with a right hook, and the two flew into a head butt.

Jr. tackled Luigi, sending him sliding back ten feet. Luigi whipped out a black hammer as the young prince rush. Bang. The Koopa and the Clown Car flew away from Luigi. A large dent was on the side of the clown car.

Luigi slammed foot first into Bowser Jr., throwing him from his car. Instantly, Luigi flew into Bowser Jr., delivering to lightning fast jabs to his snout. "Bowser, where is he!"

"Gwahahaha…" Jr laughed weakly. "I'm the distraction. Couldn't have you and you nuisance brother get in our way now, could we?" Luigi's widened at the simple statement "The Crystal Heart. That's only the beginning of Disharmony…" Jr. erupted into a cloud purple smoke.

SCENE SHIFT

Mario and Morton erupted from the pile of rubble, instantly swinging right hooks and stumbling upon one another. Morton ripped his hammer from garbage pile, doing a one armed swing to the left, sending Mario flying down the piles. He slid onto the road with Morton following the plumber, swinging his hammer high above his head.

Mario rolled, narrowly avoiding earth quaking smashes from the hammer. Mario hand sprung off the ground, landing deftly on his feet. Mario threw a wild left jab, followed by a right hook, ending with a kick.

Morton didn't have time to dodge a powerful stamping dropkick. "Bowser!" The dazed Koopa looked up dumbly at Mario.

"We are distracting you and your brother, while uncle Bowser finds the Crystal Heart." He grumbled dumbly. Morton smirked as he disappeared in a dark purple cloud.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

Time stood still for the plumber. A deep purple energy completely decimated what was left of the crystal castle, spreading a fifty foot energy waves around the castle. The earth shook violently as the deep purple shockwave ripped apart buildings, knocking over rubble piles. The shockwave slammed into Mario, he was ripped off the ground violently flinging and eventually smashed back down from afar.

Mario slammed face first into as the wave of energy dispersed. "Luigi…" Mario rolled over and looked up into the sky weakly.

TEN MINUTES PRIOR

Cadance appeared in front of a deep blue heart. Magic was radiating off the crystal object. "Do NOT touch it, little pony!" Thunderous foot falls shook the room.

"Eat this!" Cadance screamed, a pink beam erupted from her horn, but Bowser merely raised a single claw. The beam spread across the Bowser’s palm as he walked towards her. 

"Not this time." He growled. Bowser swung a fast uppercut, flinging the pony princess across the room. Candace slammed back first into the wall, cracking it slightly. "Mario packs a wallop. This time, though, I'm not hurt!" Bowser swung over a left punch. The earth around Cadance shook as she blocked the fist.

Searing flames surrounded the princess. Out of the flames came a fist, this completely shattered her barrier. Cadance felt a hand wrap itself around her neck, and she was violently thrown across the room.

She watched the Koopa King strut towards the Crystal Heart. "You won’t be able to use it." The crystal princess claimed. Bowsers deep red eye locked onto her.

Deep blue sparks erupted from the Crystal Heart. "I am you master NOW!" Bowser roared, ripping the Crystal Heart from its pedestal. Dark blue spark sprayed into the Koopa King, burning him slightly. "I said I am your MASTER, NOW YIELD!" Dark purple sparks mixed with the light blue ones. "Yield!" Bowser roared.

Crack

A single long purple strip sliced through the heart. It quickly spread, over taking the deep blue. "ROARRRRRRR!" Bowser fired a stream of flames high above his head. The Crystal Heart started to glow a sickly purple colour. Bowser's hand shook. "RAWWWWWW!" A shockwave ripped the building apart.

SCENE SHIFT

Luigi dragged himself out of the rubble. "Oh, thank goodness you're alright." Sunset was looking around weakly. Scrapes and thin cuts etched across her body. "I'm sorry, my friends. I took a bet that you can take the hit, but they can't." The four ponies were lying in a pile. "I was only just able to protect them." She nuzzled Rainbow Dash.

"It's fine" Luigi dusted himself off.

"Bro!" Mario limped towards the group. "BRO!"

Luigi smiled at his brother. "Mario!"

"GWAHAHAHA!" A shadow was cast over the group. "You have failed, Mario!"

"Bowser!"

"I'll have to crush you later! My eyes are on bigger more powerful element in this world!" Bowser swung his claw out revealing a dark purple heart. "My Koopa Troops, let's go!" The airships and tanks crushed their way out of the Crystal Empire.

"The Princess." Mario walked towards the utterly destroyed castle.

"What happened?" A pink pony with a long straight mane asked as she appeared.

"Pinkie, where have you been!?" Sunset questioned.

"I don't even know, just a black space." Pinkie Pie was in tears, as they walked down the destroyed city.
The group climbed into a small crater where a castle once stood. "Princess Cadance!" Mario yelled. "Princess!" Mario hopped over a boulder.

"Mario, Luigi." The two plumbers met eyes with a stallion.

"Shining Armor." The brothers greeted. "Where is the Princess?" Mario asked.

Shining Armor side stepped to right revealing a dark purple crystal. In the centre was a terrified looking Cadance, frozen in place. "Princess!" Mario ripped his hat off and bowed in front of the crystal prison, Luigi mirrored his brother’s actions.

Sunset quickly followed suit. "Girls, bow." The five hesitantly bowed in front of the prince of the Crystal Empire.

Shining Armor sniffled. "What are you girls doing here, where's Twilight?" Shining Armors heart dropped. "Is she ok?"

Sunset stood up. "These girls are not who you think they are."

His eyes darkened. "Sunset Shimmer." His voice was a borderline growl.

"Leave her alone she's changed!" Rainbow Dash shot into action. "If you want her you’ll have to go through me!"

Sunset let her head droop slightly. "Rainbow Dash, that's enough I knew I would get this when I came home"

Rainbow frowned; her teeth bore like a wild animal. "Sunset you deserve better."

Sunset Shimmer stood up tall. "Mario, Luigi." The brothers noticed a deep blaze bubbling in her eyes. "We need to go to Canterlot."

"Shimmer, if you step a hoof in Canterlot you'll get dragged to the dungeons." Shinning warned the unicorn mare.

She smiled slightly."Doesn't matter. Princess Celestia needs to know about Bowser. If I get arrested trying to warn her, then at least I did some good."

Shining Armor plucked a map from his saddle bag. "We're in the Crystal Empire."

"Where?" Sunset looked at him quizzically.

"Exactly." She looked down at the map. "Go south; I'm going help the relief efforts here. When you see my sister, Twilight, tell her I said be careful."

"You're Princess Twilight’s brother!?" Sunset looked shocked.

Mario muttered. "I'm sorry princess…" He held his hat over his heart. "I Failed, I knew Bowser was going for the artifact, I should've come up here with you." Mario looked back at the ponies. "I promise you this, I'm going to find Bowser and get your artifact back. Then I will come back here and set you free!" Mario placed his hat on top of his head "Let's go to this Canterlot.”

"Bro, Bowser will pay."

The two brothers and six ponies walked/trotted south out of the city. "So, we are umm, going to meet the pony Celestia?" Fluttershy timidly said.

"Yes." Sunset replied.

"Who you betrayed and ran away from." Rarity stated slowly.

"Thanks for the reminder." Sunset growled bitterly.

"So, should we be excited or scared?" Pinkie pie bounced slightly was she trotted.

"Little bit of both."
> The Second Sun 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------


I DO NOT OWN My Little Pony Friendship is Magic  All Rights go to Hasbro
I DO NOT OWN Super Mario Bros all rights go to Nintendo

"So, how long can you do that?" inquired Rainbow Dash. She was trotting next to Mario who was walking down the road on his hands.

"Don't know." Mario replied. "Until I need to sleep."

Luigi was on the side of the road jumping from tree to tree. "And what are you guys doing?" Applejack continued the line of questions.

"It helps keep us sharp." Luigi replied as he long jumped across the gap and swung on a large tree limb.

Mario front flipped, landing back on his hands fluidly. "Darling, how did you get so good at your gymnastics?" Rarity asked the red capped plumber.

"Luigi, where did we learn our stuff?" Mario raised one hand and started bouncing down the road.
Luigi scuttled down from the trees before bouncing right back up. "Don't know, I guess as kids we just started."

"So, ya'll are naturals then? Impressive." Applejack stated calmly.

"If you want we can stop and eat." Mario grunted as he bounced down the road.

"The nearest town is still five miles away where would we eat." Sunset Shimmer said as she lifted a rock with her magic.

"Don't you eat grass?" Luigi questioned as he dropped onto the road with a skip to his step.

"Wait, what, no!" The unicorn pony exclaimed. "I don't know about ponies from your world, but here in Equestria ponies eat mostly grains, fruits, and vegetables with some small meats like rabbits. In times of recession, however, you're correct ponies have eaten grass. But there just aren’t enough nutrients, especially with the strain magic puts on my own and Rarity's bodies, and Fluttershy and Rainbow's wings put a heavy strain on their bodies also. Maybe Pinkie and AJ, but even they need the nutrients to help give them their ground pony agricultural talents." Sunset lectured the plumber. "Doesn't even matter though, we might as well eat grass since we have no bits."

"Bits?" Sunset’s seven companions looked at her questioningly.

"Oh, right. Bits are Equestrian currency. They're about quarter sized." The plumbers looked at her. "About this size." A tiny flame about the size of a thumb hovered in front of the plumbers. "Made of gold."

The plumbers grinned at each other. "Can we get these converted to bits?" They pulled out a large golden disk. Sunset’s jaw dropped. The other five pony-humans matched her expression. It was easily the size of her hoof.

"Do you know how much that’s worth!?" The six ponies screamed at the two. "You could buy a family a home!"

"So, it's worth a lot?" The bros looked confused.

"Where did you get that gold!?"

"Sometimes when Luigi and I helped people they give us coins as gifts. We try not to accept too much, but when they insist we try not to be rude and take it." Mario explained easily.

"Ok, we'll have no problem finding a place to stay and get some food."

7 HOURS LATER

The group had finished their trek, just as the moon was peaking over the horizon and made their way to the local inn. Sunset half laughed at the owner’s expression to the massive golden disk they paid with. The brothers had fallen asleep as soon as they hit their bed.

But the humans turned into mares were still wide awake. "Ah man look at that mane, pure awesome." Rainbow Dash preened herself. Her wings popped open. "I'm going to get up early tomorrow and learn how to use these babies." She vowed.

"Yes, I must say I'm all for the human look, but I still look just as stunning." Rarity fluttered her eyes at herself in the mirror.

"Yep, this is pretty neat. Got to thank Pinkie for this little adventure." Applejack claimed as she twitched her tail to the right.

"AJ no!"

"What’s wrong Sunset?"

"Exposing your self is extremely rude!" AJs face went deep red at the statement. "Oh, and don't ever flick your tail across a stallions nose. That's pretty much the pony equivalent of dropping your pants." All five girls nodded I agreement.

Fluttershy blushed, her flowing mane getting in her face. "Wow, the pony, Fluttershy, is very pretty."

"You're very pretty, sugarcube." AJ gently rubbed against her side.

"What's this?" Pinkie was digging through her mane.

"What is it, darling?" Rarity asked.

With a grunt Pinkie dropped a cannon in front of her hooves. "Where did..." Her body practically vibrated with twitches. "Wow that's a...a...a doozy!"

THE NEXT MORNING

Sunset was sitting in front of a lake, flames dancing around her. "Getting back my old skills."
Mario walked up clapping "Impressive."

"Not as good as I wanted to be." Sunset grumbled. "But I guess that makes sense, I've spent the last four years without magic."

"Me and my bro are going to rest here for a couple days." Mario told the young mare.

"Why?" Sunset asked.

"We're recovering from our fight and we have some time before Bowser makes his next move. We still don't know where he will attack." Mario explained his line of thought. "You should get you friends out here to practice."

CANTERLOT TWO DAYS LATER

It was a bright sunny day. In the centre of a city sat a massive fifty story pure white castle. In the throne room of the castle sat a massive white mare. She was easily four times as large as the average pony. Her mane and tail was a multicolour rainbow’s of pink, greens, and blue, with ghostly sparkles floating through her it. She had large pure white wings, golden shoes, a necklace with a purple gem, and a crown with a purple gem. In the centre of her head was a long horn. On her flank was a bright yellow sun.

Sitting beside her was a smaller alicorn. The mare was dark blue with an almost liquid mane and tail, which was a slightly lighter blue with almost star-like flecks flowing through her mane. She had a pitch black necklace with a crescent moon and a black crown. On her flank was a black patch with a crescent moon.

Sitting on the wall were six much smaller mares. The alicorn in the group was a two toned purple colour. She had a light purple body, wings, and horn. Her mane and tail was dark purple with a pink streak. On her flank was a pink star surrounded by five white stars.

Sitting on her right was a baby blue Pegasus with a rainbow mane and tail. On her flank was a cloud with a rainbow coloured lightning bolt coming from it.

To her left was a pink pony. She has a puffy dark pink mane and tail and her body was a cotton candy pink. On her flank were two blue balloons and a yellow one in the center of the two.
On the purple alicon’s left was a white unicorn mare with a dark purple curled mane and tail. She had three light-blue diamonds on her flank.

Another was a pale-yellow colour Pegasus with a pink mane and tail. On her flank were three pink and blue butterflies.

Lastly was orange pony. She had a blonde mane and tail with a red ribbon binding her mane and tail into a ponytail. On her flank were three red apples and atop her head was a dark brown Stetson.
Standing in the center of the throne room was plain brown pony with a set of silver armor plates on. "What news do you have on the Crystal Empire?"

"The relief efforts are going well. But the crystal ponies lack of support is, well, disheartening."

"Why aren't they helping out?" The Rainbow mane Pegasus asked.

"Ninety percent of their city was destroyed, many have died, and their princess was beaten."

"Cadance is she...is she ok?" The purple alicorn cut in.

"Princess Twilight," He bowed. "I know she's your sister in law..."

"Is she ok?" Twilight urged the stallion forward.

"She's alive."

"Is she ok?" Twilight asked urgently.

"She's been sealed in a crystal.” The stallion took a step away from the alicorn.

"Why haven't you broken her out!?" Twilight got into the stallions face.

"We've been trying mam, but the crystal is not normal. Our team working on it, they say that the crystal is almost pure crystallized magic."

The large white mare stood up. "Twilight that's enough."

Twilight backpedaled quickly. "Yes, Princess Celestia."

"Keep going, Golden Pride."

"Shining Armor has been a help though."

"The Crystal Heart, have you located it?"

Golden Pride took a deep breath. "The Crystal Heart was stolen."

The ground beneath Celestia's front left hoof cracked. "What?"

"The Bowser, he was able to overpower Princess Cadance and steal the Crystal Heart."

"Bowser?" The dark blue princess raised an eyebrow.

"That's what the creature called himself."

"Bowser, continue."

"Yes, Princess Luna." Golden Pride sighed. "Before the second assault though, that's where things got strange."

"Strange like a giant fire breathing turtle?" The Rainbow mane Pegasus joked sarcastically.

"According the multiple eye witnesses, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Rarity, and Fluttershy came to the empire to help the relief efforts."

"Wait...What, none of my friends where anywhere near the Crystal Empire." Twilight stood up.

"Yeah we were in Ponyville during the second assault." Rainbow Dash jumped in.

"We know. According to eye witnesses "you" weren't being lead by Princess Twilight Sparkle, but rather a yellow unicorn mare, with a red and yellow mane and tail and a-..."

Celestia looked down at the stallion. "Continue."

"The unicorn mare, she had a cutie mark...it was a shaped like a...a...a sun."

Celestia's heart stopped. "Sunset Shimmer." She gasped.

"Sister." Luna's wing gently touched her older sister.

"Princess Celestia." Twilight walked towards her former teacher. "Sunset Shimmer...it’s been years and the portal was closed before the second assault. It can’t be her."

"It was Sunset Shimmer." The Soldier flinched away from Celestia.

"How sure you are of that!?" All three princesses snapped at him.

"Prince Shining Armor, mam. He confirmed that it was her. But he was too busy with the relief effort to capture her."

"Where is she now?" Celestia asked in false voice, but Twilight and Luna could hear a warble of hidden emotion in her voice.

"With all due respect, I know she was your student. But shouldn't we be focused on the Crystal Empire relief effort and finding the lost Crystal Heart."

Celestia stood at her full height, her purple eyes hard. "Tell me Golden Pride, do you happen to know why I took her in as my student?" Celestia was getting slightly worse at hiding the deep pain that ached in her heart.

"I always assumed she did something spectacular at her test for the Gifted Unicorn School." He stuttered.

"So you heard of Twilight Sparkle’s story and just assumed all my students were found in the same way?" The stallion nodded, pure terror clenching him. "Do you happen to know what her nickname was before it was the Fallen Sun?"

"The Second Sun."

"Have you ever wondered why?"

"Well, you both have sun shaped cutie marks, and in her days as your student people said she was your daughter hidden from view until her accession."

"I admit I love her very deeply."

"Love as in…"

"Yes, I still love her. You can only do so much to grow indifferent when you watch a filly grow into a young mare who made you so proud in so many ways. Yes, overall she failed, but even so I still loved her." A tear streamed down her cheek. "Back when I found her we were in a time of war. A shadow beast was using my weaker control over the night as her time to attack Equestria. No night was safe.
"Our forces where mounting effective defenses though. The Shadow Queen seeing her time was coming to a close. She poisoned me, however she didn't take into our account my stronger than average immunity to most forms of poisons and sicknesses." She looked around the room, every single pony were rapture in her story. "However, she did achieve one thing; she sufficiently weakened me enough that I could not raise the sun. So there we were; I could defend myself, but my troops couldn't. That's when I saw her; a little filly, small for her age and blank flank, one of my precious little ponies face to face with the Shadow Queen with no fear in her eyes. I had only one option to save her. You see, I do not just manipulate the sun; I am the sun." As if to prove a point her horn flashed in a pure white light. "The Shadow Queen, she underestimated me. With all the strength I could muster up I erupted pure sunlight from deep within my veins, destroying all the shadows and I severely weakened their queen, causing her to flee. But there I lay, no strength left, the sun still behind the horizon. That's when I noticed her; the little blank flank filly looking at me. Her eyes shimmering with an understanding that went far beyond her age.
And then she did it..."

"Did what sister?" Luna asked quietly.

"She raised the sun."

"No, that's impossible; no filly should be able to raise the sun! It took entire squads of master unicorns to raise the sun before you princess!" Twilight exclaimed.

"Now, now, my little pony is anything truly impossible? Before you it was impossible for a filly to hatch a dragon and then rapidly age it." Celestia replied with the same serene grace she normally carried herself with. "So tell me, do you want an angry, motivated, and arguably the most powerful unicorn on the planet aligning herself with a creature with the strength to destroy one of our most powerful cities and then disappear without a trace?"

"No mam."

"Find her then bring her directly to me." Celestia ordered. "Anything else?"

"Well, Prince Shining Armor, mam. Before the attack, Shining Armor, he says there was two strange bipeds. Brothers, the older one was a shorter pale skinned male with a neatly trimmed moustache. He wears a red shirt and hat with blue overalls, and the hat has an ‘M’ in front of it. And his younger, brother very similar except her wore green, and hat an ‘L’ on it. They are called Mario and Luigi and are coming to Canterlot."

"So, this Mario and Luigi are coming, why is this important?" Applejack questioned.

"They were able to fight off some of the Bowser’s generals in combat."

Celestia sighed. "Ok, that will be all."

THREE DAYS LATER

Mario and Luigi watched the group. Rainbow Dash probably made the biggest improvements doing high speed twists and turns. Sunset had hoped Rarity gain control over her magic. Now the white unicorn was floating stones around her. As for Applejack, it was learning how powerful her hindlegs were.

Fluttershy, however, had not even attempted to master her pony body. Instead she was extremely happy just speaking with the animals. "Oooh, that's very interesting Mr. Squirrel." She said giddily.

"We are ready to go, bro?" Luigi asked.

"Yep." Mario nodded his head proudly. "They can defend themselves now."

"To Canterlot!" Mario proclaimed.

??????????????????????????????????
The Koopa King was sitting in his throne. His deep rumbling breathes scaring one of his soldiers. "Dad." Bowser Jr. was nursing his injuries from his fight with Luigi.

"Jr., how goes the search?" Bowser greeted.

"Well, dad, I hate to say it but they have disappeared.” Jr. explained calmly.

"Nothing can disappear, find them!" Bowser roared in his sons face. "And Tartarus!"

"Dad, it's a horrible idea to go and release the entirety of Equestria’s War Criminals." Jr. argued.

"Do you think me as a fool?"

"No, dad, of course not!"

"Good. If you must know, Jr., in their capitol city there's a book; a book of Tartarus."

Jr. grinned up at his dad. "And it will tell us everything about the criminals before we release it."

"Exactly!" Bowser clapped his son on the back proudly.

"But what about the Princess of the Sun, she sounds super powerful." Jr. asked worriedly.

Suddenly, the Crystal Heart started glowing. "We deal with her; Mario is the one I worry about. The Heart is not powerful enough." Bowser growled hatefully.

"Actually, dad, I might have a plan. We might just try out some of the new recruits." Jr. stated with a glint in his eyes.

"Which ones?"

"The sirens." Jr. replied.

"And they can beat Mario?"

"Who said anything about beating Mario?" Jr. retorted smoothly. Bowser clenched his fist in anticipation. "They'll weaponize him!"
> Story of Shimmer
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------


I DO NOT own Super Mario all rights go to Nintendo
I DO NOT own My Little Pony Friendship is Magic all rights go to Hasbro
SOME SPOILERS FOR RAINBOW ROCKS (Though its an AU on how I believe the movie should've went)

The six mares and two brothers looked at Canterlot. Sunset held her chest. "Beautiful…" Her voice warbled slightly.

"Sunset." Pinkie hugged her friend tightly. "You're home."

"Yeah…girls, let's go back to the Crystal Empire...Mario and Luigi can tell her about Bowser... we can go..." Sunset nervously padded the ground.

"No you don't, Sugarcube. You came here to see Celestia and that's what you're doing!" Applejack declared.

"She'll throw me in prison, banish me, break my horn off, erase my mind, and turn me into a filly, and throw me into the sun-" She was galloping in around the group frantically.

"Sunset, sweetie, you need to breath." Rarity tried to reason by lifting up her spirits calmly.

"Maybe she'll leave me to the griffons..." Her legs where a blur as she ran on.

"Sunset, if Princess Celestia; if she's anything like Principal Celestia, I'm sure she'll do none of that." Fluttershy gently stated.

"-throw me at the Dragons Hoard-"

SLAP

"Sunset, SNAP OUT OF IT!" Rainbow Dash screamed in the unicorn’s face with ear drums bursting volumes. "Get your butt down there, talk to Celestia, and if you wanna still come back with us than you can!"

"Fine then!" Sunset screamed back in Rainbow Dash's. "I'm going to see Celestia!"

"Yeah!" Rainbow hollered in reply.

"I'm going to apologize to her for being a jerk!"

"Yeah!"

"I'm going to warn her about Bowser!"

"Yeah!"

"I'm going to help save Equestria!"

"Yeah!"

"And you're coming with me to the castle!"

"Yeah! Wait, what!?"

"Let’s go!" Sunset galloped away, dragging Rainbow Dash along with her.

The four mares looked around at each other, Mario and Luigi wrung their hands. "Well that was weird."

"Should we go after them?" Rarity asked the group.

"Yipee!" Pinkie bounced along the road.

"Pinkie Pie!" Rarity grumbled and chased after the pink pony.

Sunset and Rainbow made their way down the road. The closer Sunset got to Canterlot, the more of her fears got the better of her. "You can do this, you're Sunset Shimmer." Rainbow flew next to her. "Student of Celestia!"

"You're right, I AM SUNSET SHIMMER!" A bright red syringe shaped spell flew out of the trees. Instantly, Sunset collapsed in a heap rolling across the ground before coming to a stop.

Suddenly, a group of unicorns appeared in front of the shocked Pegasus "Hold Ms. Rainbow Dash." His deep baritone voice shook Rainbow Dash out of her stupor.

"What did you do to her!?" She bellowed, her wings flaring to the side.

One of the unicorns clamped a ring around her horn then clamped her hooves together with hoof cuffs. "Thank you for your assistance." He bowed his head.

"Hey!" Rainbow shot straight at the unicorn team.

"Stun her!" The last thing Rainbow saw was a flash of red.

CANTERLOT

The unconscious mare was dragged through the castle. "Go tell Princess's Celestia about her." Her head skidded across the ground as they went into the throne room. He tossed the mare unceremoniously in front of the large throne, just as a brilliant golden light nearly blinded him.

"Leave us Pride." Celestia all but growled.

"Princess, are you..."

"I said leave us!" She snapped.

"Yes, my princess." The stallion bowed and walked out of the room shutting the door with a thud.

Celestia looked down at the mare. She gently unlocked the hoof cuffs and tossed them across the room. Her horn touched the horn ring, incinerating it instantly. Like a mother caring for her foal she gently raised Sunset off the ground. She healed the injuries caused by the stallion dragging her across the floor before gently placing her on a fluffy pillow she conjured. Instinctually the mare hugged the pillow close to her body. Celestia felt her heart flutter at the unconscious movement. Taking the old ruler back to when this mare was but a filly learning her first spell.

"Sunset, my faithful student." Tears dripped down her cheeks as she gently nuzzled the mare. "Oh how I prayed for this day." Celestia took a step back. The mare was no longer the filly that once told her, 'Nothing but power and potential'. The baby fat that once was in her cheeks and ribs were gone, replaced by healthy curves that mares hoped for and stallions wanted. "You've grown in yourself appointed exile." Celestia dropped down beside Sunset covering her with her wings. Tears dripped onto the cold ground when Sunset snuggled deeply into the warm wings. "You never had to hide from me."

Celestia pulled away from Sunset to dab her eyes with a handkerchief. Celestia took three deep breaths, regaining a tight reign over her emotions. Her eyes hardened as she dipped her head, a small bolt arced between the alicorn and unicorn horn. "Ahhh, was the stunning spell necessary, I would've came freely." Her heart stopped when she noticed who was sitting in front of her. Pain, regret, fear, ached away at her heart. "Princess…" Tears pooled at the bottom of Sunset’s eyes. She had grown fond of Principal Celestia, and as tall and regally the school teacher carried herself with she didn't, or couldn't, carry herself the millennia of experience her princess carried herself with.

"Hello Sunset." Her voice calm.

"Princess!" She whaled, hugging the Princess of Equastria. "I'm so sorry, I was brat, I wasn't experienced, wanted nothing but power, I was a stupid child, please mother; please forgive me!"

"My little pony," Her wing completely enveloped Sunset Shimmer. "my Second Sun." She felt the unicorn’s horn dig into the her side. "I've waited years. Every time the portal opened I hoped you would come through." Sunset’s heart skipped. "I knew of your quest. It was something that I couldn't guide you through." Tears soaked her ribs. "I failed you as a mother, but I pray some of what I taught you helped on your quest of discovery."

"You never failed. Once the haze was gone, once I was stripped of my destructive quest for power all I had left was your lessons about friendship. That guided me, I made friends and paid penance to everyone I had wronged…at least I tried some, wouldn't accept my apologies." Sunset buried her face deep in the alicorn’s chest.

"Yes, sometimes a person been wronged can't see past the past." She clenched her wing tightly around the much smaller mare. "Why have you returned, daughter?"

Sunset smiled. "I graduated and my friends were starting to drift apart. I knew it was time to come home. I'll face whatever you throw at me, mother."

Celestia released the mare and looked down. Shock at Sunset’s actions went through her body. 'Was I a bad teacher? Was it me who made the mistakes?' Celestia thought to herself, deep regret going clenching her heart.

"You can't be both teacher and a parent." Princess Luna was sitting in the doorway; her dark blue eyes remained locked on Sunset.

"Sister." Celestia greeted. The sun princess instinctively stood in front of Sunset. The Sisters remained calm, their eyes never leaving one another. Luna knew if she pushed for Sunset's arrest that she would have to butt heads with Celestia. Luna knew that this mare, this mare her elder sister had adopted while she was in exile, this Sunset Shimmer, she had never lost her spot in her adopted mothers heart. No matter the pain she had caused her, this mare was even closer then Twilight to being the daughter Celestia never had.

"Princess Luna," Sunset Shimmer gasped. "Shes alive." She stuck her head from behind Celestia hulking frame. She flinched at the cold stare Princess Luna was giving her.

"How do you know who we are?" Her voice remained the cool calm, but Sunset swore she saw the lunar princess's iris become a slit.

"The other world has a Luna. But I always assumed you were dead." Suddenly, something clicked in her mind. Celestia watched the preceding with calculating eyes. "YOU! You're Nightmare Moon!" Her horn sparked. Instantly, Celestia was in front of Sunset, her wings half flared. "Princess!" Celestia sent her a meaningful glance at Sunset Shimmer.

"I mean her no harm, sister." Luna stared at Celestia with trepidation. After three tense seconds, seconds in which the fate of Equestria was in balance. Celestia lowered her wings revealing Sunset, who felt like nothing more than a foal in between the two rulers of Equestria. "No, I am not Nightmare Moon." Her voice was even as she looked down at Sunset. For the first time there was a glint of kindness in her eyes.

"Princess," Sunset bowed her head slightly. Her mind went to the moment she had been completely and utterly possessed by all the negative emotions in her heart. The feeling of being a passenger in her own body. "I apologize." A moment of deep understanding passed in Sunset’s mind.

Luna placed a hoof on her back, signaling the mare to look up. Luna and her met eyes, and the same understanding that passed over Sunset moments earlier now passed over to Luna "You were right in the assumption. We once allowed our jealously drive us to rule us, and that very jealousy became personified and took a life of its very own." Tears pooled in the mares eyes.

"Nightmare Moon was all your inner negative emotions?" Sunset guessed.

"Yes," Luna frowned, her mind going back to the story Twilight Sparkle once told the two princesses. "I've heard of you, not much though." All her sister had told her about Sunset Shimmer was that she was a former student lost to pride. Never once mentioning that she adopted Sunset when she was but a filly.

"Ditto." Celestia had only mentioned her battle with Nightmare Moon. Instantly the two realized the deep heart shattering pain they had caused their family figure head.

Luna choked back tears as she eyed a mare so similar to her was doing the exact same thing. "Our stories follow the same path, correct?" Luna remembered the stories told by Twilight and Celestia.
"Became an evil-she demon who was blasted with a rainbow?" Sunset and Luna flinched away from the memories of their time being possessed.

"Yep." Luna replied calmly. "Jealously and fear is what drove us from our family." She stated bluntly, but once again the two struggled to fight away tears that threatened to come forth.

"Yeah." Sunset flinched slightly. 'Nothing but power and potential'. The one of last things she had ever told her mother. The mare who had raised her with kindness and with that thought the tears that had been fought poured down her cheeks.

Suddenly, Luna wrapped her hooves around Sunsets small frame. 'There can only be one princess in Equstria... And that Princess will be ME!' The single worst moment in her life, the moment that cost her a thousand years played over in her mind. "But you've learned from all of that, correct little pony?" Her whispers soothed the tearful mare. She looked at Celestia watching two of her two most precious ponies soothing the deep wound in their hearts.

"Yeah." Sunset sobbed, her tears soaking the Luna's fur.

Suddenly, the two were grabbed by a massive set of white hooves. Celestia completely encased the two in white feathery fur. "Sister," She looked at Luna onto her left. "Daughter", She looked at Sunset on her right. "I will never lose you again." The two nuzzled into the ancient alicorn’s chest.

"Mother." She looked up into Celestia's dark purple eyes. "Bowser, he's going to attack again. We need to find out where..."

SCENE SHIFT

"Rainbow!"

"Dashie!"

Rainbow Dash’s eyes flicked open. She rubbed her head weakly. "Dash!" Applejack helped her to her hooves.

"Ahhh…" She moaned weakly.

"Where is Sunset?" Fluttershy asked gently.

"I think" Rainbow Dash rubbed the cobwebs from her eyes, "some kind of police force arrested her."

"That's not good." Luigi whispered under his breath.

Mario step into the semi-circle of mares saying, "We need to know the whole story, just what did Sunset do?"

The group looked around each other awkwardly. Suddenly, Fluttershy cleared her throat. "Sunset Shimmer, one year she showed up partway through 8th grade..."

Rainbow looked down sadly. "We were best friends. Us five at that time, we did everything together..."
Rarity frowned as she continued. "Best friends, closer than any group in our school..."

Applejack sighed. "That made us a target for her though..."

The memory caused a deep pain in Pinkie Pie’s heart. "She came at us and destroyed what we held dear; our friendship..."

"So why are you friends with her?" Luigi was sitting crossed legged on the dirt.

"In our Sophomore years, a second pony came through the portal" Fluttershy explained. "Apparently, Sunset had learned that her former teacher had taken a second student. Sunset was not happy, she became blinded by jealously and her ego. She wanted to take what she thought was hers."
"She was going to force and accession to princesshood by using a power she barely had an understanding of." Rarity looked away from the brothers. "The Element of Magic."

"Well, one of the bearers of the Elements chased Sunset into our world where she realized the damage Sunset was causing to us and the other students." Rainbow all but growled this out.

"But Twilight Sparkle, that's the one who followed Sunset through by the way. Twilight Sparkle, she was able to bring us all together. But we were too late." Pinkie's hair deflated like a balloon "None of us, or even Twilight. We didn't understand how far Sunset had fallen or what she was willing to do." Pinkies mane was completely flat.

"Sunset was able to force Twilight to give the Element of Magic to her." Applejack shuddered. 

"Something happened though. The Element of Magic released all of Sunset’s inner demons. Her vanity, pride, jealousy became a She-Demon of fire."

"But Twilight wasn't going to allow Sunset to destroy everything and used us as a weapon." Rainbow Dash smirked. "She used our bond of friendship as a bridge and we purged Sunset.  Twilight regained her Element and left us with Sunset Shimmer."

"None of us trusted Sunset Shimmer though, well, maybe Pinkie and Fluttershy." Rarity chuckled. "No, not in the slightest, but she was making an honest attempt at redeeming herself. She outright came and apologized to us, joined a few clubs, and was overall just trying to be more social. But no one could trust her."

"But then, the Dazzlings happened."

"The Dazzlings?" Mario looked around at the group.

"They were a group of sirens who witnessed our fight with Sunset Shimmer. Realizing that our school was the epicenter of magic in our world, they began to feed off the residual magic around the portal and used their new found strength to cause the strife they feed off, which allowed them to feed off more of the pure magic in the portal, which in turn gave them more strength.” Fluttershy explained to the two with a hitch in her throat.

"A circle of never ending power." Mario cringed at the thought.

"But Sunset saw what we didn't. She realized what they were. One day after school, we practiced for what the Dazzling’s turned into a battle of the bands. Sunset came to us, got down on her knees, and begged for our help." Pinkie Pie frowned at the memory.

"Why?" Luigi quizzed with some worry in his voice.

"Twilight had embedded us with magic. We didn't realize it, but Sunset had watched our practice and during it Rainbow had used her half Pegasus state." Applejack revealed with some amount of pride.
"And she realized that we may be the only ones on planet with the magic required to counter the Dazzling’s magic."

Rainbow grunted out. "We failed her though. I had gotten a massive headache. Heck, I even named a song, ‘Awesome as I Wanna Be’. Rarity and AJ were constantly arguing about costumes. Yeah we didn't know at the time, but we were fuelling the Dazzlings."

"She tried with everything she had to bring us back together to reignite the magic of friendship in us. But why would we listen to a cruel and mean bully like Sunset Shimmer." Rarity growled at her own past stupidity.

"Sunset then did something very stupid." Applejack cringed. "She tried to take the world onto her shoulders."

"How?" Luigi questioned worry clear in his tone.

"The Dazzlings won the battle of the bands, but then came Sunset Shimmer she-demon form." Fluttershy was in tears at this point. "She challenged the Dazzlings to one last battle, on her own."
"Sunset was completely and utterly rolled over, but she didn't flinch, even as the Dazzlings drained her very life energy from every pore in her body. She continued to sing with as much ferocity as a wild beast, never allowing the Dazzlings to intimidate her." The five mares where in crying as they continued. "In that moment, we were brought together though. Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Applejack..." The five looked at each other with a smile "And Sunset Shimmer."

"We got onto the stage and began to sing. We began to force back The Dazzlings with all the magic we could muster, but they were still stronger than us. Then it happened. Sunset, somehow, someway, she began charging herself up. She became super charged with our magic and with all our magic she was completely overwhelmed and destroyed the magic within the sirens gems."

"So, what exactly did she do to get arrested? Because other than becoming a She-Demon, she seemed to be a hero?" Mario looked pointedly at the group.

"She assaulted royal guards, betrayed the princess, stole the crown of a princess, and attempted a coup d'état." Rarity summarized simply.

"And you told us her whole story, so we want to go and rescue her?" Luigi guessed correctly.

"Eyup" AJ looked at the two pointedly.

Mario and Luigi cast a glance at one another. They just stared at each other for ten seconds before in unison saying, "Ok, we'll go get Sunset Shimmer!" The brothers scrambled up a tree. Luigi hugged the tree trunk as Mario hand stood on top of the tree.

"What are you guys doing?" Rainbow was hovering beside the two.

Their eyes traveled along the wall. "Well, this isn't good."

"What is it?"

"The wall is well maintained and we can't just walk through the front gate, we'll cause a ruckus." Mario explained.
"Bro." Luigi pointed at a gate.
"Luigi." Mario looked at his younger brother questioningly. "We can't- ohhhh the direct approach."

"Yep." Luigi and Mario high five each other.

"The direct approach?" Rainbow Dash looked at the two like they're crazy. "Guys, they took out me and Sunset in a blink of an eye. Not only that but I promise you there’s an army down there."

"An army, we take on armies." Mario and Luigi dropped out of the tree. "But these aren't bad ponies, so we can't beat them up thoroughly." Mario put a finger on his chin. "So we’ll run, get Sunset and get out of Canterlot."

"You girls go ahead, try and figure out where Sunset is, and when the ruckus hits we'll find you and you’ll tell us what we need to know." Mario told the five pony friends.

"Me and my bro, we'll wait a couple hours. If you need us, Rarity, use your magic send a spark up into the clouds." Luigi stated to the white mare.

"Ok!"

Suddenly, Mario clapped Applejack and Pinkie Pie on the back "Be careful, the ponies here don't seem to be dangerous. But still we can't just assume."

The five jumped into the bros arms hugging them tightly. "Thank you for helping her!"

"No problem." The bros laughed joyously. "We always help our friends."
> Canterlot Defence Force
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

I DO NOT OWN My. Little Pony Friendship all rights go to Hasbro 
I DO NOT OWN Super Mario all rights go to Nintendo

The five mares that use to be human walked through the bustling city streets. "Should we split up?" 
Rainbow Dash suggested. She trotted along on the cobble stone streets.

"We can probably figure out where Sunset is easier if we have more eyes and ears in more places." Rarity replied, enjoying the slight clop of her hooves on the stone.

"Alright girls, spread out!" Applejack commanded. "We’ll meet back here an hour and a half, and meet MnL."

"MnL?" Pinkie Pie was in Applejack’s face now.

"Yeah, a nickname I came up with. Y’all like it?" She tipped her cowboy hat slightly.

"I LOVE IT!" Pinkie Pie shot into the air.

"Pinkie, quite!" Rainbow hissed.

The pink pony stopped abruptly, levitating in the air. "OOOH, that's a new one!" Pinkie giggled before bouncing away from the group.

"Bye girls." Rarity waved at the three ponies.

"See y'all later." Applejack waved as she galloped down the street.

Fluttershy nudged Rainbow slightly. "If you don't mind Rainbow, I think I'll just stay with you."
Rainbow slapped Fluttershy with her wing, grinning as she said, "Flutters you can always stay with me."

RARITY

The white unicorn calmly waved awkwardly as she walked down the path. "Rarity." A stallion trotted up and hugged her slightly.

"Oh, hello..." Rarity stuttered.

The stallion was half an inch taller than her and was wearing a simple black coat. "Hello." The stallion dipped his head and kissed her left front hoof. "How goes business?" The two started to walk towards a simple fruit stall.

Rarity raced through all the memories she had of Twilight, trying to figure out which business the stallion was referring to. "Rarity, are you feeling well?"

Rarity cursed inwardly before saying quickly, "Yeah, I'm fine."

The stallion eyed Rarity with trepidation. "So, where's Spike?"

'Spike the puppy?' Rarity's mind raced "Probably with Twilight." She replied.

The stallion stopped, he eyed the mare strangely. "Rarity, I have to get going." The stallion waved as he walked away. 'Something's wrong' He thought.

APPLEJACK

Applejack was in awe at city and for the first time taking in the entirely new senses she had gained from becoming a pony. Fresh bread, cheerful songs, and freshly clipped grasses assaulted her senses. Applejack’s tail twitched, but instantly snapped between her legs 'Careful' She scolded herself for the near social taboo.

"Hey, darling." Applejack didn't have time to react before she was dragged into a deep kiss. Her eyes widened as he deepened the kiss. "I thought you and your friends were going to see Princess Celestia." He was a caramel coloured stallion with a short brown tail and a brown mane under a dark brown leather hat.

"Why?"

"You didn't hear? When I saw Twilight she said it had something to do with," he kneeled close to Applejack’s ear and whispered, "Princess Celestia's ex-student.

"Sunset Shimmer!" Applejack gasped.

"She didn't find you then?"

"Yeah." Applejack looked at the stallion in the eye and nearly faltered.

"Who are you?" His eyes where hard as granite.

"I'm Applejack." Applejack replied squaring herself up to the larger stallion.

"You may look like her, talk like, tartarus even smell like her!" He glared down on Applejack. "But you're not MY Applejack!"

"I AM APPLEJACK!" Ponies stopped and looked at the two earth ponies screaming at one another.
"Then say my name!" He snarled viciously.

"What!?" AJ took two steps back.

"My fiancé!" He bared his teeth while standing over Applejack. "Would know my name!"

PINKIE PIE

Pinkie giggled as she helped a unicorn hammer into a fence. "Thanks for your help, Pinkie." The unicorn mare hugged Pinkie gently.

"No problem." Pinkie bounced down the road.

"Hi, Pinkie Pie!"

Pinkie waved. "Oh hello!"

"Pinkie, let’s play a game of hoofy sack!" A colt yelled as she bounced by.

"Sure!" He kicked a bean ball at Pinkie. Instantly, she bounced from left back leg, to right, bounced it off her head, before finally bucking it back to the colt. "Have fun." She waved at colt.

"Will do!" The tiny colt laughed.

Pinkie's nose twitched, instantly she looked up at a two movers struggling to move a large furnace out onto a balcony. "Need some help!?"

"No thanks, Pinkie Pie." The two stallions waved slightly.

"Ok!" She waved at the two before bouncing away.

"Oh, hi Pinkie Pie!"

RAINBOW DASH/FLUTTERS

The two flew lazily over the streets. Well, Rainbow flew. Fluttershy mostly glided from roof to roof. 
"Fluttershy, Rainbow!" A mare greeted the two.

Rainbow turned around, instantly recognizing the voice. "Spitfire!" Rainbow Dash greeted.

Spitfire glided next to Rainbow Dash. "So, Dash, have you changed your mind about joining the Wonder Bolts?" Spitfire questioned. Rainbow saw the glint of anger in her eyes.

"Nope." Rainbow replied, having no clue what the Wonder Bolts were. The yellow mare turned and started to fly away "Hey Spitfire?"

Spitefire replied with, "Yeah, Rainbow Dash?"

"Where would they take a prisoner?"

Spitefire eyed the mare strangely. Her golden eyes doing nothing to hide her anger. "The Castle, Captain."

She flew away from the two mares in a huff. "Was it something I said?" Rainbow Dash looked at Fluttershy questioningly.

"I think the other Rainbow Dash offended her." Fluttershy replied helpfully.

MnL

The brothers were snoring underneath a tree. "Pizza…" Mario mumbled. "Ravolli…" he continued. 
"Cake…" With a jump Luigi got to his feet.

"Mario!" Mario jumped to his feet.

"Time to go?"

"Time to go." Luigi confirmed.

RARITY

The white mare calmly took a sip of tea. "How nice, giving me tea on the house." Rarity sighed as the tea's warmth spread through her.

A young mare waitress walked up to her. "Anything else, Ms. Rarity?"

"Actually, darling, I have a question." Rarity replied with a friendly smile.

"Ok, what is it?" The waitress looked nervously at her counterpart.

"I'm just wondering where they would take a recently arrested pony." Rarity asked smoothly.

"Well, probably to the castle."

"Thank you." Rarity stood up. "I'm sorry I don't have any bits on me right now. But I'll come back and give you a tip Ms-" She looked down at the waitresses name tag "-Ms. Blue Skies."
"Oh, thank you." Rarity trotted off with a smile.

APPLEJACK

Applejack and her counterpart’s fiancé glared at one another. "What are you, changeling?" He growled.

"I'm Applejack." AJ hissed fury.

"You're not." The stallion countered.

"I went to live with the oranges, but realized that my family on the farm was where I wanted to live." She was praying that this world’s Applejack did something similar.

"Everyone knows AJ’s cutie mark story."

"Pinkie Pie is a distant cousin."

"Pinkie doesn't make that a secret"

"What do I need to do to prove I'm Applejack!"

"Say my name!"

Applejack dug through mind. Trying to find any indicator for who he was, she didn't recognize the voice nor his hairstyle and fur colour. Her mind was bringing up nothing. And then it hit her like a flash. "Caramel!" The stallion faltered. 'Caramel!' Caramel was Applejack’s first crush back in the seventh grade, he was in high school. Her face became a deeper shade of red as a realization donned on her. 'I kissed Caramel', she squealed like a 7th grade child with her first crush.

"Apples." He kneeled over her.

"Got to go!" In a flash Applejack was around the corner, galloping so fast her legs became a blur. 'I kissed Caramel!' She repeated that quote in her mind over and over.

MnL

The two plumbers walked down the dirt path. "Ok bro, go for the rafters." Mario spoke rapidly in Italian.

"Go under the cart." Luigi suggested as they eyed a merchant cart being inspected by the guards.

"Ok, be careful." Mario replied.

"You to." Luigi looked at his big bro and high fives him.

"The rooftops; makes it harder for ponies and unicorns. We'll need to deal with Pegasus though." Mario could feel his heart beginning to pump faster.

"Let's a go!" Adrenaline coursed through their bodies.

"Hold!" A soldier called to the two bipeds racing towards the gate. Time slowed for the two brothers, instinct began to kick in. Mario dove into a roll, underneath the merchant’s cart. Spells being fired exploded on either side of him as he rolled towards the city. As he rolled out from underneath the cart the red plumber long jumped unto a wall, kicked off the wall and landed on the roof with a soft thump.

As this was happening Luigi jumped high into air and bounced off the top of the merchants cart. He flew straight into the open rafters and jumped from rafter to rafter, avoiding spell fired at him. As he reached the end of the rafters he long jumped into a flutter jump.

Time stopped as he raced towards the earth. He watched as Mario wall jumped onto the roof. "Bro!" Luigi cried out. Mario instantly turned around, the two reached out for one another as spells shot around the green cap. They met hands and Mario dragged Luigi onto the roof, just as a gutter exploded.

"Move!" Mario and Luigi raced across the roofs. A rainbow of spells fired at the two. They started sprinting in unison as the two causally crossed a gap. "Look for the girls!" Luigi stammered.
Mario did a twist as they flew over an ally. Luigi did a back flip over the next gap. "Show off." Luigi grinned at his big brothers comments.

Suddenly a yellow blur slammed Luigi into the roof. "Pegasus!" He gasped as the mare tried to choke him. Mario pounce the yellow Pegasus away, flinging her off the side of the roof.

"Keep going!" Mario stopped for a second, watching as the yellow mare managed to regain her flight in time to not crash into the ground. As the two bounced across the gap four shadows where cast over their heads. "We don't want to hurt you!" Mario tried to persuade the group.

Suddenly, the group was knocked out of formation by a rainbow blur. "Rainbow!" Luigi waved.

"Where is she?" Mario asked leaping over a small gap as he did.

"The Castle." Rainbow pointed at the massive white marble structure in the center of the city.

"Ok. Attack us, now!" Mario ordered quickly.

"What why?"

"You can't come into the castle, if you get hurt it will be on us." Luigi stated as he dodged a bright red spell.
Rainbow grumbled. "Ok, I guess." Rainbow dove straight at Mario. Mario caught her and sent the pony flying down to the road below.

"Castle, now." Mario said calmly.

SUNSET

Sunset had just done telling the full story about the fall of the Crystal Empire. She was looking away from Twilight Sparkle shamefully the entire time. "So, Bowser, he can alter gravity if he has those stars with him?" Twilight looked at Sunset for confirmation.

"Yes, as much as I can tell from the stories Mario and Luigi told us as we traveled." Sunset looked down.

"He was able to survive a full blast of the Crystal Heart?" Applejack looked worried.

"Apparently, he and his army."

"Sombra was utterly decimated by that blast though." Rarity was eyeing the unicorn with unbidden doubt at her story.

"I doubt Sombra could survive a star blowing up in his face though." Sunsets eyes shot up. It was Twilight Sparkle defending her story. She had a soothing smile on her face “Mario and Luigi, they're just outside of the city right now?"

Sunset face hoofed before groaning. "We need to go stop my friends before they try to storm Canterlot!"

MnL

The two laughed as they flew across the roof tops, the castle growing larger and larger as they got closer to it. Mario swore he heard a finger snap, and suddenly, all the shingle became banana peels. "OH NO!" Luigi screamed as they flew off the side of building. "Mama Mia!" Mario hollered as they fell towards the cement.

> Mario Bros vs ????
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

DISCLAIMER
I DO NOT OWN My Little Pony Friendship is Magic  All Rights go to Hasbro
I DO NOT OWN Super Mario Bros all rights go to Nintendo


"We need to stop my friends before they try and storm Canterlot Castle!" Sunset started towards the door when a pegasi suddenly shot through the window of the throne and landed in a heap in front of Princess Celestia.

"Princess, the Mario and Luigi, they're attacking!"

"Go spread the word; they are not to be intercepted and open all the castle doors leading here." Celestia commanded instantly.

"Yes, Princess." He bowed before shooting out of the castle.

"Sunset Shimmer, go find your human friends." Celestia then added as an afterthought. "Twilight, you stay, but the rest of you spread out and find them." Rarity, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, and Fluttershy nodded and proceeded to leave.

M & L

The two bros smashed face first into the ground, groaning loudly as they got to their feet. "Oh stop, that fall wouldn't even faze Super Mario and Luigi." The bros turned to look at the voice and we're met with the strangest creature they've ever saw. He had no uniformity and looked like a Frankenstein monster. It had an amphibian tail, a brown fur body with an almost a dragon like head but with a horse like fur. Each limb clearly came from separate animals with one of its wings being bat-like and the other being bird-like. He has a hoof and a claw for feet and a large paw and a bird talon for hands. Suddenly it started giggling like a school girl. "Mario and Luigi, I played all your games!" Abruptly the bros were surrounded by boxes, most of which depicted Mario and some with Luigi.

"Super Mario Galaxy 3?" Mario was about to flip it to the back cover when suddenly all the games disappeared in a flash.

"Spoilers." The creature whispered in Mario's ear, causing the red cap to jump back. The creature had a large black wig on his head now.

"What are you?" Mario frowned as the creature shot into the air with a twist.

Suddenly fireworks exploded around him as he yelled. "God of Chaos..." The ground then became chocolate, "Mischief maker" Suddenly, a doll popped into existence, "and resident good guy" He looked down expecting a medal, but came eye to eye with a Celestia stuffed animal. "Oops!" It disappeared in a golden flash. "Discord~!" He finished with a singsong tune.

"Please, we don't want to fight you." Mario noticed how the surrounding ponies where starting to step back, even soldiers were giving the three a wide berth. 'He's scaring them', Mario guessed. 'Why?', "So step aside." Mario pulled a large hammer from behind his back.

Luigi mimicked his movement as Discord snapped a single long pin into existence. "I don’t like to fight, I prefer pranking." A long dark purple mane flowed down his back. "But I'll rip you to-" The purple mane disappeared. "Doesn't really suit me does it?" His talon shot forward wielding the pin like a rapier. "Hey listen!" A tiny Discord screamed in Mario’s and Luigi's ears. "Just let me take you to Tia personally and..." Mario shot straight at the God of Chaos, swinging his hammer high above his head as he jumped into the air flying straight at Discord.

POP

Discord’s needle dug into the head of the hammer popping it like a balloon. **i]Snap/i] Suddenly, the ground beneath Mario and Discord became a crystal clear pool. Mario hit the water with a loud splash. As soon as the plumber’s head was above the water he heard a snap.
"Oh no!" Mario grumbled as he was encased in solid stone.

Discord snapped his finger levitating the cube of stone Mario was trapped in above his head. "Now Luigi…" Discord stated.

Discord’s head was suddenly thrown from his body. Luigi grinned as he rolled away from the headless chaotic being. "Luigi's gotcha!"
The head of Discord rolled straight back into his own feet. "Be careful-" Discord’s body grabbed his own head into his waiting appendages. "OUCH! I said be careful!" He snapped irately at himself before he readjusted his head.

Luigi smashed the stone with his hammer freeing Mario from his prison. "We gotta’ work together, this guys magic...it's off...it's not like the magic Sunset taught Rarity." Luigi summarized. Mario shook his head no. The older brother had noticed at least three ponies who were trapped within the stone streets.

Discord floated lazily on standby. "Shall we continue?"

Mario looked around; terrified ponies lined the streets. "We can't fight here." Discord glanced at his surroundings noticing the situation as Mario.

"Too many bystanders…" Discord frowned. He was not much of a fighter, but he had always felt like he lived in a world of cardboard. 'Literally, if I wanted it to be', Discord thought to himself bitterly. No one on the planet could match him, not even Celestia herself. But these two could, these two might even be able to push him back and that thought drove his inner animal wild, but then his mind went to the two mares, 'Celestia and Fluttershy'. After the incident with Tirek, Discord never wanted to see the look of disappointment in their eyes ever again. If he fought and hurt the bystanders he knew they would be disappointed. With a snap all the ponies in the stone ground were teleported out of their prison. "I agree," Discord dropped from his normal hover and landed on the ground softly, "what are we going to do?"

"Luigi, we've got to go with this guy." Mario stated calmly.

Luigi slowly placed his hammer back into his pocket. "Are you sure?"

"Yes." Mario replied calmly raising his hands.

"Ok, bro."

Discord sighed. "Let’s go." With a snap of his talons the three disappeared.

SUNSET SHIMMER

Sunset walked down the street quickly. 'Find the others! Mother, Twilight, and Luna will...deal with Mario and Luigi'. She was trotting through the street when out of the crowd came an orange blur at full gallop.

Bang
Crash

The two mares rolled back to their haunches. "…AJ." Sunset groaned.

"I kissed Caramel…" The blonde human turned earth pony muttered.

"You what!?"

"There was this, this stallion that came up and kissed me, the other Applejack’s fiancé!"

"Caramel?"

"Caramel!" AppleJack confirmed.

DISCORD

"Princess!" Discord did with a bow. "I come bearing gifts!"

Celestia frowned at the Chaos God. "We're waiting for someone Discord."

"Oh, oh, who?" Discord bounced from foot to foot, sarcasm dripping from his voice.

"You know who." Celestia growled.

"Oh, you mean..." Discord flourished his paw, as Mario and Luigi appeared in the center of the throne room, "I present to you, Mario! …and Luigi!"

Princess Celestia shot up. "Mario and Luigi…"

The two stumbled to their feet. "Oh, Mama that’s weird." Luigi fell down onto his back with a loud groan.

Mario looked up; the sight took his breath away. The Alicorn was massive, easily five times as large as the rest of his pony companions. She was pure white and almost engulfed him with the amount of magic she carried, which was easily as much as a Grand Star. Her mane and tail shimmered in a rainbow of light pink, baby blue, and green colour that shimmered with stars like speckles. While she may not look or even act like her, Mario's mind went to a single person he had met; "Rosalina."

Celestia’s eyebrow arched up. "The guardian of the Cosmos?"

"You've met her?" Luigi looked up at the hulking mare.

"No, Mr. Luigi, we are equivalents. When I took the mantle of the sun and moon something shifted. I could see beyond the stars; I could see a blonde goddess of wisdom, a man named the watcher, and even an echidna who befriends chaos. She’s my sister guardian, one and all."

"Rosalina?" Mario looked up in awe, this universes guardian who looked down kindly at him.

"Yes. She warned me that one day her warriors, her star children, would come…" She lifted the two up with her magic, and almost immediately, eight Grand Stars appeared and danced around the room. They bounced off Luna and Twilight, the stars giggling. "…that when they came, they might not be enough." She flipped the two plumbers over towards her and gently prodded them with her horn. 'What is it? Why these two? They don't have much magic. They don't seem all that impressive. No! Rosalina chose them; she marked them as her warriors! I would hope, even if my little ponies don't impress her, she would trust my judgment'. She cast a glance back at Twilight. ‘Would Twilight, Sunset, and their friends be able to stop Bowser? Would these brothers be the catalyst necessary?’ She thought some more as she placed her hoof gently on her temple. "Can I ask you something, Super Mario?"

Mario placed a hand on her hoof. "I’ll try my best to answer it." He replied.

"Do you believe in my little ponies?"

Mario thought for a second. "I believe that your ponies are great!" Mario exclaimed happily. "They can do great things." Twilight watched the strange human comfort her mentor. "Yep, great things."

"And what of Bowser?"

"I'll beat him and then we'll go home!" Mario explained to Celestia with complete and utter confidence. "Sunset..." Mario took two steps back. "Where is Sunset Shimmer?" He glared at Celestia.

"She went to go get her friends." The sun princess answered as Twilight took her chance to get in close to prod Luigi gently. "They'll come back soon enough." Celestia finished and looked over towards Twilight.  "What is it Twilight?"

"Oh, nothing, I just find these two fascinating. I mean, they look harmless, pudgy, short, and have almost a childlike aura. But these two tossed Bowser into a sun and went inside a black hole." She jabbed at Luigi's armpit. "Muscles as hard as metal…" She jabbed Luigi's slightly chubby belly. "I'm sorry, Mr. Luigi, it's just fascinating!"

A Light blush speckled Luigi's face as he bashfully kicked the ground. "What's fascinating?"

"Just seeing how magic manifest itself in other creatures." Luigi continued to blush as she prodded him. "Lightning based magic!" She giggled as she prodded his hands.

?UNKNOWN LOCATION?

A Griffon flew straight into Bowser’s gut, digging his claws into the rock-hard belly as he did. "Gwahaha!" Bowser’s right claw shot down and wrapped around the griffons neck. "You're getting better." He tossed the griffon across the room. He looked around his vicinity; a ruby red dragon laid unconscious, four unicorns where huddled together, five pegasus nursed small wounds, and ten earth ponies where scattered around him.

Bowser lumbered to his throne. "Wendy." He called. A small Koopa with a pink shell and white spikes was seated. Her large golden bracelets hung loosely around her wrists and on top of her dark yellow scale head was a large pink bow with white dots. On her feet she also wore small high heeled pink shoes. She was mustard yellow, except for her mouth and belly, which were a light yellow colour, and on her lips was pink lip stick.

"Dad." She looked upon him from his throne.

Bowser lifted her up. "Princess." He placed her on his lap as he dropped down with a room shaking with a loud boom. Bowser looked around at the injured equestrian recruits. "I have to say, these creatures are good for bolstering our forces, and some of them are better than our best." He looked down at Wendy. "How is our recruitment drives going?"

"Celestia has made many enemies," Wendy replied, "and her chosen warriors, the bearers of the elements, they've made just as many."
A thick glass window exploded and into the throne room shot a turquoise blur stopped right in front of Bowser’s jaw, giving him a good look at the interloper. She was Pegasus, with turquoise body, her mane and tail where a two toned amber, and light yellow mixture. Her dark amber eyes looked onto Bowser’s dark red eyes. "I heard you're looking for powerful ponies." She smirked at Bowser.

"And who are you little pony?!" He growled.

She suddenly shot out the broken window before rocketing back two seconds later, an apple spinning on her hoof. "Just the fastest flier in all of Equestria!"

> Mane meets Humane
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

DISCLAIMER
I DO NOT OWN My Little Pony Friendship is Magic  All Rights go to Hasbro
I DO NOT OWN Super Mario Bros all rights go to Nintendo

Mario and Luigi sat around a table eating a plate of salad placed in front of them. "So what happened next?" Twilight then questioned. She, along with Princesses Celestia and Luna, gave the plumbers their full attention.

"My bro went to Bowser’s new galaxy..." Luigi continued.

"New Galaxy!?" Twilight was both a little scared and excited to hear the end of the story.

"Yes. Bowser used the Grand Star’s to create a new galaxy. Mario went to the Fiery Galaxy, and, after some traps, he came face to face with Bowser."

"Bowser didn't go down easy, but eventually I was able to knock into a nearby star. But something went wrong and everything around me collapsed. A universal black hole formed and every Luma in the universe had to save us all."

SUNSET SHIMMER

Applejack trotted down the street of Canterlot along with Sunset Shimmers who was a half a step ahead her. "Sunset!" Pinkie Pie bounced to a stop beside the two. "You do look like our AJ!" She slouched over, inspecting the orange mare.

"Wait, you're the other Pinkie!?" Applejack tumbled away from the pink pony.

"Yep!" Pinkie replied, not missing a beat as she continued to stalk Applejack. "Hmm, but you're not a duplicate, shorter, and stalkier then our AJ." Pinkie circled the human-turned-pony, backing her into a wall as she did so. "Wider flank, you're hat is less worn."

Applejack could feel the world begin to close in on her. She flicked her head, snorting once. "Pinkie Pie, step back!" Sunset commanded. Applejack bucked viciously, narrowly missing Pinkie. "Applejack! Calm breath!" The distressed mare bucked wildly, her breathing coming out as loud snorts. "AJ breath. Deep breaths…" Sunset then nuzzled Applejack. "Slow breaths, slow…" Applejacks manic kicks stopped. She took in the scent of Sunset Shimmer. "Good girl…" Sunset continued her slow deliberate nuzzling. "Calm." Her voice was low. Pinkie stood back. She remembered her mother doing something similar when she had one of those episodes as a filly. She even saw the Cakes do that with Pumpkin and Pound.

"What happened…?" Applejack’s voice was a low and raspy.

"You had a fight or flight episode." Sunset placed a hoof on her back and rubbed small circles.
Applejack fought back a moan that was nearly caused by the soothing touches. "What's that?"
"You've had a pretty stressful day; with me being taken, that stallion, and now Pinkie Pie. Your instincts must have finally just told your body you were in danger." Sunset explained as she slowly took a step away.

"But why now? I was in a war zone and didn't react that way?" She laid herself down on the stony ground.

"That's something you have to answer for yourself. But my educated guess is that you've become more, for lack of a better term, in tune with your body. Rather than your human mind overpowering your instincts, your instincts are able to overpower your mind." Sunset sighed, gently stroking her friend’s mane. "You should head to the castle and see Princess Celestia. She'll get you some warm food and a nice bed."

"I'm sorry, I was excited to meet a human and I hurt you…" Pinkie shied away, her ears laying flat along with her mane deflating a little.

"It’s alright sugar cube, you had no idea I would react." Applejack got back on her hooves and shook her head as she did so.

M & L

The two brothers we’re upside-down as they handstand themselves across the soft carpet. The pair twisted and dodged the clay pigeons from Twilight Sparkle’s telekinetic tosses. "You guys…" She giggled as the two twisted back to their feet. "How do you guys do that?!”
"Professor E. Gadd once ran some tests on us. He told us that our magic mixes with adrenaline." Luigi replied slowly. "We kinda see things slow."
Twilight was quickly scribbling down everything Luigi said. "I see. I guess that makes sense."

RARITY

Rarity toured alongside the many buildings within Canterlot’s marketplace. She looked through a shop window subconsciously comparing the differences in pony and human styles. Probably the most notable change was the saddle that lay atop each mannequin and the dresses seemed to be designed in the fifteen hundreds. "Are you trying to get inspiration from yourself?" A sudden voice inquired.

She whipped around. "What..." Rarity came face to face with a large dark purple scaly neck. The figure was tall at least twice as tall as herself. He had a long thin body, large fang, and even long claws. Furled on either side of his back were wings. "Are you…?"
"Dragon." He dropped his head to her level. She felt a chill go down her spine as his long scaly tail wrapped around them to block her escape route. "Changeling?" Instinctively she lowered her head, casting a dark blue glow with her horn. "Not changeling." She felt his nostrils suck in. "You smell a lot like my Rarity, if I was a stallion you would probably have tricked me." Spike flicked his eyes to the left and right. "So tell me, what are you?"

Rarity horn dimmed "I'm Rarity." She replied.

The dragon in front of her closed his eyes. "You're..."

"The human Rarity. It’s a pleasure to meet you darling." Announced another, but yet similar, sounding voice. Both Rarity and Spike whipped around, eyes locking onto a second alabaster mare.

"Rarity!" The dragon roared happily. He ran to her side and pulled her into his arms.

"Spikey need to breath!" She wheezed. Spike released her instantly; the two fell into all fours. The large drake gently wrapped a wing around her body. The ponified Rarity walked right up to her mare counterpart.

They were almost mirror images of one another, almost. The original Rarity had a slightly sharper longer horn. 'About a half inch, if my eyes sharpened by my fashion designing aren't fooling me'. She gently pulled herself out from underneath the dragons wing, revealing more differences. Her mane and tail were both much shorter then her own, by at least a foot. Her figure was, at least from her own experience in this world, was fantastic. "Pleasure to meet you Ms. Rarity!" The human raised her hoof.

Rarity took the hoof and gently shook it, with a simple reply of, "As to you."

"Why are you with a dragon?" Ponified Rarity questioned her mare counterpart.

Rarity raised her eyebrow and looked back at the dragon. "Oh Spike, he's my drake friend."

RAINBOW DASH & FLUTTERSHY

Somewhere in the royal city of Canterlot, two Pegasus flew between buildings with Rainbow Dash leading slightly. Fluttershy whimpered as her wings almost failed her again. She looked up at the rainbow maned human turned pony. 'Always the natural…', Fluttershy smiled proudly as her friend did a twist. 'I can make you better.' Fluttershy suddenly dropped out of her flight.
"Fluttershy!" Rainbow dropped into a dive, grabbing her and narrowly pulling up in time to stop Fluttershy from taking the brunt of the crash landing. "Flutters! You ok?" Rainbow jumped onto all fours.

Fluttershy got to her hooves shaking her head as she did. "I'm ok…" Fluttershy groaned "I'm sorry Rainbow, I got distracted. I could've got you hurt… How are you? Oh my goodness!"

Rainbow flicked her with one of her wings. "I'm ok. This body is tough, barely felt a thing." She pacified her fretting friend by gently wrapping her wing around her and pulling her in close.

"I gotta’ say, I'm impressed." Hearing someone spoke Rainbow Dash looked up. A Pegasi landed in front of the two with a resounding thump. Both ponified humans stepped away from the mare. "Not many new fliers can pull off a ninety degree dropping rescue. But I guess you are a version of me." The other Rainbow Dash boasted confidently. She was at least two inches taller and much thinner. The athletic frame of the human Rainbow Dash, replaced by a strong build of a warrior. Her right ear had a nick in it and right shoulder was scarred, at least judging by the thinning fur. She had a long mane, easily twice as long as Rainbows own, in a ponytail. "What, never saw your extra-dimensional self?" She joked, prodding her human counterpart. "By the way. You guys don't want to wrap your wing around Flutters like that. In Pegasi culture it's a sign of deep affection, marking someone as your. I guess in this case mare friend with your scent." Instantly the two Pegasi flew apart, their entire body heat up as they realized a strong scent of one another was clinging to them.
"OH HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA!" Rainbow Dash collapsed onto the street laughing.

"Rainbow Dash!" A strong accent rang out, silencing the mare. "We're supposed to make them feel welcome. Not embarrass them." Applejack calmly tipped her hat to the two. "I'm Applejack, but you probably knew that."

"Oh come on AJ. It's just a harmless joke, I'm sure they get plenty of it. Remember how people thought me and Fluttershy were secretly mare friends when we first came to Ponyville?" Rainbow Dash raised her hoof greeting the two with a simple, "Captain Rainbow Dash at your service!"

"Ah still don't know how you got to the rank of captain." AJ jabbed at her friend sarcastically, her deep accent becoming even more pronounce."

"Best friends make the parent question your sexuality." The human now equine Rainbow Dash laughed alongside her mare counterpart.

PINKIE PIE

"When I was a little filly and the sun was going down..." Pinkie Pie sang to a group of fillies and colts, "The darkness and the shadows they would always make me frown," She bounced and bobble, appearing over the crowd, "I would hide under my pillow," She ducked into the crowd again, only to appear almost instantly five feet away, "From what I thought I saw, but granny Pie said that wasn't the way to deal with fears at all!"
"Sing it Pinkie!" A colt yelled.
Pinkie flew out from an explosion of confetti singing loudly. "She said, Pinkie you gotta stand up tall, learn to face your fears. They can't hurt you, just laugh and make them disappear!"
"Ha Ha Ha" The crowd sang as Pinkie pulled out her part cannon and fired candies high into the air.
"So giggle at the ghostly, guffaw at the grossly, crack up at the creepy, whoop it up at the weepy, chortle at kooky, snortle at the spooky!” The group sang along with Pinkie Pie now. "And tell that big dumb scary face to take a hike and leave you alone, and if he thinks he can scare you then he's got another thing coming, and the very idea of such a thing just makes you wanna... hahahaha... heh...Laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaauuuugh!" The small picnic party was in full swing as she finished her song, a large piñata was hanging from a tree, and a cake rest on a picnic table.
"When did you...you know what never mind." A mare raced and hugged Pinkie tightly. "Fleeting Glance’s birthday would've been terrible" She stated joyfully.

"Oh no problem, just have fun." Pinkie Pie bounced away from the loud party.

"Ohh umm, that was great..." Pinkie’s ears almost failed to pick up the quite voice. "Just like our Pinkie"

Pinkie smiled broadly, as the pale yellow pegasi made her presence known. "The other Fluttershy!" Pinkie bounced right into her muzzle. "Oh, Oh this is amazing! Awesome! Fantastic!" The mare had shorter mane, her wings were larger, and had a slight amount of fat, that just accentuated her figure. "Hi!"

"Hello, do you want to come back to the castle? Sunset Shimmer is very worried about you all." 
Fluttershy explained as the ponified human circled her like a dog. "Eep!" She squeaked as the mare forced her head underneath her wings.

"You smell like rock candy." Pinkie stated simply as she stuck her head from underneath the wing. "I LOVE ROCK CANDY!"

M  & L 

Luigi fluttered down from the beams over Twilight’s head. "Wow!" Twilight was bouncing like a schoolgirl. "Kicking off the...air." She stated simply.
"Oh you think that's good, you should meet a Yoshi." Luigi rebutted kindly. "He can actually fly up."
The two walked back into the throne room of the castle. They spotted Princess Luna having a discussing with Luigi’s brother, Mario. "Do you wield any weapons or need any armor?" Luna asked the red plumber, who was sitting on a small stool.
"Oh no, me and my brow don't use normal weapons." Mario replied. "We use these..." He dug into the front of his overalls and pulled out a single flower. The flower itself was oval shaped with circular red, orange, and white as the middle base. It also has a pair of eyes. "They let me and Luigi throw fireballs."

"Where's Princess Celestia?" Twilight said as she trotted up to the two.

"She's in the front entrance waiting for Sunset Shimmers return." Luna stated calmly.

UNKNOWN LOCATION

Bowser’s rolling castle crushed the dark earth beneath him; his troops marched onward in front of him. The Koopa tyrant eyed the massive spire of black and forest green in the distance. "So, you're the Koopa King?" spoke a creature in Bowser’s presence.
"Our Queen has been waiting."

> Bowsers Ally
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

DISCLAIMER
I DO NOT OWN My Little Pony Friendship is Magic  All Rights go to Hasbro
I DO NOT OWN Super Mario Bros all rights go to Nintendo

Within the entry halls of Canterlot Castle, Princess Celestia stood awaiting Sunset Shimmer’s return and for the next event of the situation to unfold. The Alicorn didn’t have to wait for long as her flame mane daughter trotted through the front double doors. She gave a pleasant smile. "Hello Sunset, I take you have found your friends." Celestia greeted.

Ten other ponies enter in, following behind Sunset Shimmer shortly afterwards. Each pair was nearly identical to each other. "So in your world you can't speak with animals?" Fluttershy said to her counterpart.

"No, I'm good with animals, but being able to speak with them is amazing." The ponified Fluttershy gushed.

"Hello humans!" The five humans-now-ponies looked towards the near ethereal princess pony. "Come along, you all must be hungry."

The five ponified mares looked up at the white princess with awe. "When Sunset said pony Celestia was a princess, I never imagined this…" Applejack stated quietly, her friends nodded in agreement.

"Mother." Sunset greeted.

"Mother!!" All ten ponies exclaimed.

"Hee hee, guess I never did tell you about my mom…" Sunset shrunk back as her friends rounded on her.

"Your mom is princess Celestia and that never came to mind!!" All ten of them bellowed.

"Yeah, I guess I have some explaining to do."

"Get to it." The five ponified mares demanded.

"Ok, it started when I was a filly. My parents, they were unicorn soldiers...they died. I was little, not healthy by any means. Heck, I think most ponies at the orphanage wrote me off. I was the orphan daughter of two nameless soldiers, no one cared about me. That's until I met my mother, I was out later then I should've been when the attack hit...”

17 Years Prior… 

A tiny Sunset Shimmer heard the explosion then felt it shake her to her bones. She looked up and saw a long line of unicorns flying over head. She just had enough time to dive head first into the gutters as a stampede of unicorns and earth ponies galloped down the darken streets.

Just as suddenly as the attack began four earth ponies were sent flying back towards her. She looked at the unconscious ponies with fear. "Hey are you ok?" She nudged them. "Come on…" She bit one of the solider, a stallion, ear and gently tugged him towards the gutter. She looked up towards a building, a coffee shop if she remembered correctly. "Come on you." She felt her magic begin flow into her horn to help lessen the load of weight. A minute of tugging past before she gently bucked at the door. "Please help!" She called out as she bucked the door with all her might.

"Get in!" She was grabbed by the scruff of her neck by somepony and dragged into the building. "Gleaming." The Pegasi mare called out. Another Pegasi, a slightly young mare, made her presence known as the first pony galloped towards the stairs with Sunset at the edge of her mouth. "Help the soldier." Order the Pegasi through her teeth.

"Ok mom." The other Pegasi was out the door in an instant tugging at the soldier. The older Pegasi plotted Sunset Shimmer down before racing back to the stairs. Quickly, the little Unicorn filly looked for an escape route. That's when Sunset noticed a tiny window half opened and quickly galloped towards it. She jumped up and slid through the window, grunting as she forced the window to open.

"Stop, get back in here!" Ordered the Pegasi mare once she noticed what the Unicorn filly was doing. Sunset kicked frantically, the sounds of hooves stomping coming up behind her. Within seconds she dragged her way out of the window. "No!!" Sunset raced into the open streets and galloped into an ally. She heard the faint battle cries of stallions and mares, a bright gold flash drew her closer to the battle.
That’s when she saw her; she was cleaving through shadows with ease. Looking at her horn was akin to staring directly at the sun. "Support Princess Celestia!" One the soldiers screamed.

"Princess Celestia!" The filly gasped, awestruck by the giant mare throwing shadows away. She failed to notice inky shadows slowly snaking their way around her. "She's..." She began to feel her heart beating, fear and terror clenching her body. "…terrifying…" She whispered, making her way back into the ally.

"Little filly." Sunset Shimmer watched as the mass of shadows form itself into a large quadruped figure, its massive crooked teeth glinted. "Now where are your mommy and daddy?" The voice chilled Sunset to her core, the figure’s long claws dug into the earth. Its canine like head leveled with filly.

"You!" She lowered her head, tiny sparks of light then sprayed the figure.

The Shadow Queen rose to her full height "Your Queen."

Sunset Shimmer forced all the fear from her tiny body "I'm not scared of you." She stated defiantly.

"Spunk…" The Queen snarled. "I like- Thaaaaaaaah!!!" A wave of pure light half incinerated her body. Sunset Shimmer nearly screamed as the shadow was half destroyed. Princess Celestia set off all of her fight or flight instincts. The agonized wails of screaming from the shadows around the Alicorn chilled her very core of her body, but the intense heat warmed up her chilly frame.

"Princess!" Sunset looked towards the Alicorn. She was half collapsed on the ground with sweat drenching her coat, and for the first time the deep rooted fear that took her heart fled. She looked at Celestia 'She can’t control the sun?' She felt her magic reach out for Celestia, their magic intermingled for a second. 'I get...’

CURREN TIME…

"…I don't know how, but when I went to move the sun it listened to me, we became one in that instant." Sunset Shimmer finished her story.

During the time of Sunset’s tale the large group have reenter the main throne room to refresh themselves with nourishments. Princess Luna waited patiently for her sister to return, having mild entertainment by viewing Twilight Sparkle continue with her experiments with Mario and Luigi and asking questions. Upon noticing Sunset Shimmer and the others the foursome joined the group.
"So how did you end up...well, the raging fire throwing She-Demon?" Rarity stated from her seat.

"Ahh…" Sunset groaned, putting her head in her hooves. "I let my ego get out of control, and then mother stopping me from looking into Alicorn ascension. I was an idiot looking too far in advance, years ahead of where I was at. I wish mother never adopted me, I would never have her of Alicorns, never would've been told I was destined to help my mother raise the sun and moon…" Sunset whimpered weakly.
"Sunset..." Twilight Sparkle started.

"I like who you became." The ponified Rainbow Dash grinned, gently punching Sunset on her side.

"Yeah, Twilight brought us together. But you kept us together, without you we would've fallen apart." The alternate human Applejack added instantly.

"Remember the Dazzlings? Without you they wouldn’t have won!" Ponifed Rarity jumped to her friend in defense.

"Yeah Sunset, remember Pumpkin’s and Pound’s birthday party?" Remarked ponified Pinkie as she strangled Sunset with a hug.

"And the calves you helped me raised? Alternate Fluttershy gently added.

"We haven't known you long but you rescued my bro back in the Crystal Empire." Mario stated.

"My daughter, everypony makes mistakes. Mistakes define the lives of most ponies, but those mistakes they made let you know who you don't want to become. Look at how far you've come, look at the friends you made. Willing to chase you into a world they know nothing about, willing to fight by your side." Celestia lectured from her throne. She cast a smile over the eleven ponies, the two humans, and two Alicorns.

Her daughter, her student, her sister…
Now if only Sunset could join them…
Then her family would be…
Complete 

UNKNOWN  LOCATION…

Bowser walked through the dark halls within the dark spire construction. His claws fiddled with the crystal heart as his deep red eyes fluttered around. He caught glimpses of bright blue eyes as they raced into the holes in the walls. The insectoid creature, a Changeling, leading the massive tyrant looked back. It was near black with a dark sheen of an exoskeleton. It had clear blue wings and a horn, its hooves has open holes formed in varies sizes, it trotted like a pony, and had massive white fangs.

Two large double doors were flung open, casting a dark blue light down the halls. "The Koopa King…" A large creature sitting in a throne across the massive main hall spoke aloud.

Bowser strode, listening to the hiss of insectoids around him. "The Changeling Queen…" Bowser grinned and leisurely walked into a large crystal throne room in the middle of the hall. His red menacing eyes observe the figure on her throne. She was huge, standing seven feet tall. Just like a regular Changeling she had a black exoskeleton. On her back was a baby blue saddle, sticking out of her back was a set of pale blue wings. Her mane and tail was a stringy blue mess, sitting atop her head was an ugly black crown with blue orb gems probed on each triangular point. Her horn was a jagged mess and large holes were in her legs.

The shrouded figure hissed, "The rumors are true." She looked at the dark violet heart in Bowser’s claw. "My Changelings, retrieve the Crystal Heart!"

Instantly hundreds of Changelings flew out of the darkness from all angles. "Gwahahaha!" Bowser laughed. The Crystal Heart within his grasps disappeared as he swirled into his shell, becoming a massive whirling fortress of spikes. Changelings were fling away with ease. Bowser popped out of his shell and fired a river of flame searing the Changelings around him. With thunderous footfalls Bowser charged straight at the queen.

She got to her hooves and fired a dark green beam straight at Bowser, who instantly created a barrier with the crystal. As the beam spread across the dark purple crystal shield, Bowser slammed shoulder first into his shield firing his crystal barrier like a missile. The Changeling Queen barely had enough time to teleport. The crystal mass destroyed the throne just as the queen reappeared ten feet away from Bowser. "GRAHHHHHH!" Bowser roared a stream of flames which met a dark green beam of magic. The two glared at one another, fury pouring into the attacks. After a minute and a half an explosion sent the monarch Changeling flying into the walls of the throne room.

The Changeling Queen didn't have time to react as a massive claw grabbed her throat and hefted her to Bowser’s eye level. "They won't listen to you!" She hacked.

"I ain't here to destroy you." Bowser replied, tossing her to the ground. "I am here for an ally." The Changeling Queen slowly rose to her hooves.

"Ally?" She met eyes. "Why would you need me as an ally? You're clearly much stronger then I."

"True…" Bowser frowned for a second. "I am going to attack Canterlot." The Queen looked shocked at the simple statement. "I heard that you almost took over Canterlot.”

"I did…" She admitted as Bowser collapsed onto a crystal covered throne. "I was powered by pure love though. Back then I was much, much, more powerful then I was now…"

"What if I told you I can get you a source of love to feed off of?" Bowser gave a toothy grin.

"What are you talking about?" Inquired the large Changeling with some suspicion.

"Sirens, I have three of them under my command."

The queen’s eyes further widen in shock. "That’s...impossible...” She was on the verge of disbelief from hearing that. “The Sirens, they were wiped out after their leaders fell!"

"Adagio Dazzle, Sonata Dusk, and Aria Blaze." Bowser confirmed.

The Queen felt the wind get punched from her chest at those names. "Those- that- impossible… those three, they would never bow to another…"

"They can’t feed as freely now; the magic I gave to them doesn't allow it."

"What magic is that?" She asked curiously.

"The magic of the Crystal Heart mixed with the power of a Grand Star." Bowser glared down. "Will you join me?"

A split-second of hesitation later, the Changeling looked at Bowser. "Yes." She simply stated. "Queen Chrysalis." She introduced herself regally.

"King Bowser." He replied gruffly.
> Peace 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

DISCLAIMER
I DO NOT OWN My Little Pony Friendship is Magic  All Rights go to Hasbro
I DO NOT OWN Super Mario Bros all rights go to Nintendo

It was the next day at Canterlot Castle. Mario and Luigi yawned in the bright morning sun that Princess Celestia has risen moments ago. Rainbow Dash stood at attention fifteen feet away from the par of brothers as a line of soldiers stood behind her, all of them wearing their armor. "So what exactly are we doing?...Egghead?" Rainbow Dash yawned.

Twilight looked over the entire courtyard from a balcony. "Well, I want to know how Mario’s and Luigi's magic work." Two metal bands floated down and bolted themselves to Mario and Luigi's upper arm. "This Nth Metal works by reacting to magic. It sends particles into the air that I'll be personally collecting", Twilight pulls out a large vacuum and straps it to her back, "the Nth Metal’s particles, and judging by how they reacted I'll know a little more about how your magic works."

"Yes, but that doesn't explain what me and my soldiers are doing here." Rainbow Dash grumbled.

"Well, I could probably personally see how their bodies react to equestrian magic. But being well...not an ordinary magic wielder, I could skew the results." She explained.

Meanwhile, the two brothers were chanting, "Rock, paper, scissors!" Mario threw out a fist as Luigi threw out a scissors motion with two fingers "Yipee!" Mario bounced into the air. "Maybe next time bro."

"First we'll test strength!" Twilight yelled.

Rainbow Dash shot over to a six foot earth pony, with dark green fur and emerald green mane and tail. "Unmovable Wall." She tapped the soldiers head. "You're tagged in."

"Little man." Came a high pitched Falsetto voice.

Mario chuckled slightly. "Let's a go!" Mario proclaimed. Unmovable Wall galloped straight at Mario. The red plumber clenched his jaw as the massive stallion charged him. Then he raised his hands. Bang Mario slid back a foot and a half, his feet dug half an inch into the dirt. The stallion grunted and snorted as he pushed against Mario. Mario shifted his hand grip from the stallion’s head to his neck. The Nth Metal band sprayed dark red sparks as Mario began to heft the stallion by his head. Mario tossed the stallion back onto the ground with a thud! Unmovable Wall shook his head. "You got lucky little man."

"Really looked like a TKO to me"! Rainbow tapped the large stallions saying, "Ding, ding, ding!" As she did.

"You’re next, bro?" Mario walked back to Luigi.

"Ok bro."

Twilight Sparkle vacuumed up the red particles hanging in the air. She trotted out of the way as Luigi walked towards the soldiers. "Give me a minute." Twilight said as she was just getting finished vacuuming the rest of the dark red particles in her surroundings. "Luigi, does this hurt?" She then fired a small lavender ball into the green caps chest.

Luigi flinched slightly, before replying, "No."

A dark purple unicorn trotted into a bow. "Pleasure Messrs L." She greeted with a deep Italian accent.

"Ooooh!" Luigi started speaking rapidly in a different language. ("Hello, Miss Unicorn, do you happen to speak Italian?")

The Unicorn’s eyebrow arched elegantly before replying in the same language. ("Yes yes, but we call it Itrottian.")

Luigi laughed before bowing his head. ("I am Luigi, it's a pleasure.")

She gave a tinkling laugh before she introduced herself. ("I am Rapid Dash, I'll be gentle since I have a feeling I know what my Princess about to ask.")

"Ok, Rapid Dash, I want you to fire a small concussion spell at Luigi's gut."

Luigi was instantly by Mario's side. "Your turn bro." He timidly shoved Mario.

"Don't be scared bro, you can do this." Mario confidently clapped Luigi on the back. Luigi nodded before timidly walking straight towards the unicorn.

Luigi crossed his arms, creating an ‘X’ across his chest. "What's he doing?" Twilight asked herself as she observes.

FLASH BACK

The Crystal Empire…in its surroundings nothing but destruction as if a tornado and a massive earthquake struck the once beautiful haven for the Crystal Ponies. Luigi watched as Bowser Jr’s Koopa Clown Car mouth opened wide to reveal a large cannon. He could see the tell tale flash of gun powder. Time was almost at a standstill as he watched. A near translucent green cloud flew in between the two. It shimmered and took the shape of a quadruped figure. The figure took the form of, "Sunset Shimmer!" He gasped, as her body took form a green bubble erupted from her body.
"Grab my tail!" She commanded as a deafening 'Boom' shook Luigi.

END OF FLASH BACK

"This won't work…" Luigi laughed, "But it's worth a shot." A forest green bubble then formed around Luigi.

"A low level barrier spell?!" Twilight was on top of Luigi instantly. "Where did you pick up a spell like that?"

Luigi’s concentration was broken, making him stumbled as his newly formed barrier disappear and he tripped on a rock. "I watched Sunset Shimmer and decided to try it myself." He explained.

"Ok, do that again. Rapid Dash, get ready!" The lavender princess ordered. The unicorn soldier nodded and her horn started to glow.

"Luigi time!" The pale green bubble glowed around Luigi. Green specks sprayed off Luigi's Nth Metal band. A dark orange spell hit the barrier, followed shortly by a larger ball of orange energy. Rapid Dash's concussive spell grew larger with each spell fired until it was the size of a basketball. Luigi was blasted off his feet as his barrier failed and he slid into Mario's legs.
"Mama Mia…” He groaned.

"Luigi, are you ok?" Twilight flew over to the two, concern clear on her face.

"I'm ok." He dusted himself off as he got to his feet.

"Can we...do you want to stop the tests?" She asked the plumbers.

Luigi grinned at her. "Let's keep going."

The day wore on and hours past as the brothers where meticulously tested. Speed, accuracy, powers; everything was tested. Vials of Nth Metal particles where labeled and stacked neatly. As the morning became noon, soldiers, servants, and maids alike began to flow into courtyard. Most were awed by the brother’s skills, other convinced they could do better. Luna was the first princess to come out of the castle, followed shortly by Twilight Sparkle’s friends, and lastly Celestia.

Sunset Shimmer trotted up to Twilight Sparkle, her eyes went to Mario and Luigi. "So, find anything interesting?" She asked the young Alicorn.

"They're fast enough to out sprint our fastest Earth Ponies, strong enough to overpower them also. I'm guessing that their magic acts in way to defend them, since their skin hasn't been broken yet, and their fire and lightning magic are just as accurate as concussive spells!" Twilight listed off like a happy school filly. "I haven't had this much data since Spikes growth spurt!"

"Need some help sorting it out?" Sunset gently lifted one of the vials with interest.

"Sure, Sunset, I just have one more test." Twilight motioned towards Rainbow Dash.

"What do you want me to do?" Rainbow Dash looked at the princess with a raised eyebrow.

"Rainbow Dash, you're the best of the best right?" Twilight stroked the pegasus's ego.

Rainbow Dash puffed her chest up proudly. "Pinnacle of Pegasi!" She replied.

"Do you think you can beat Super Mario?" Twilight watched as what she just clicked in Rainbow Dash's mind.

"Of course!" She puffed her chest up.

Mario grinned at the pegasi. "She's good." Rainbow was practically vibrated as she turned towards Mario.

Rainbow Dash flared her wings. "Sparring match, right Twilight?"

"Correct." Twilight could practically see lightning shooting out of Rainbow’s purple eyes.

"Awesome!" Rainbow Dash trotted straight toward Mario.

"How long you want to go?" Mario took two steps towards Rainbow Dash.

"Until I say stop." Twilight watched the two glaring at one another.

"Ok." Rainbow Dash said calmly.

"Let's-a go!" Mario raised his hands.

TWO HOURS LATER

The red cap plumber walked through the streets of Canterlot, strolling past a few Unicorn citizens and various buildings. Everything was peaceful; he watched a filly and a colt bouncing around their mother. 'Bowser', he thought watching the ponies. 'This place, our fights shouldn't have come here'. Mario sighed deeply and fell onto his butt.

"You ok?" Mario turned towards a quiet voice.

"Mareshy?" Mario looked at the pony, his eyes finding the subtle changes. "Mareshy." He affirms himself.

"Yes, yes." Fluttershy nodded. She looked down the peaceful streets. "Hard to believe that just a year ago a major Civil War was being threatened." Mario looked up at the mare standing over him with a questioning look "Oh, you want to know about it?"

"Yes, please." Mario replied.

"Well, it started out with just the Griffins. Ponies and Griffins, they never got along. Some call us natural enemies...predator and prey." Fluttershy sat down beside Mario. "Princess Celestia, she wasn't always the kind ruler you met. She and Luna both were the first to ascend into Alicorns. So unlike Twilight and Cadance who had something, something to base how they rule off of, Celestia and Luna had to rule off of instinct."

"Did they become tyrants?" Mario sat up and looked into the ponies large eyes.

"No never....to ponies that is…" She stated, whispering near inaudibly. "However, to the other cultures, she was. Celestia and Luna systematically obliterated all other "Threats" to their ponies. Crushing all rebellions with a ruthlessness only seconded by a stallion named Sombra."

Mario observed their surroundings again. For the first time he noticed among the cavalcade of Ponies where Griffins, Buffalos, and Monkeys. "So what happened? How did she become, well, such a great ruler?"

Fluttershy's ears drooped. "Around a thousand years ago Luna became possessed, a dark creature of the moon, Nightmare Moon. Celestia was finally forced to fight something she never wanted to ever have to fight; her own family, the only family she has ever had. The day Celestia sealed her own blood away for a thousand years was the day something inside her broke. Something so deeply fundamentally part of who she perceived herself is was shattered. She could no longer be Celestia the ruthless. Over the next thousand years, Celestia, she began to bring back the Griffins, allowed the Monkeys and Buffalos to wander the lands. She even allowed Dragons more land to find their food sources."

Mario frowned deeply. "The Griffins took advantage of her kindness?" He guessed.

Fluttershy nodded her head and looked around the open streets. "Yes, exactly. The Griffins began small swipes at land on the cusp of our borders. Small towns and cities. Celestia sent envoys to the Griffins nations, the Griffins had no idea what was happening but assured Celestia that they'll investigate. Apparently these Griffins felt like ponies where finished as the dominant species. They began spreading rumors and gaining allies among the other species."

"Did Celestia stamp them out?" Mario gesture his head at the equestrians.

"No, she sent her armies out, defending the large cities and placed soldier among the borders. Their leader is a Griffin alpha named Alexander the Mauler. He caused his armies collapse. He tried to assault Manehattan and Canterlot simultaneously."
Mario stood up at that statement. "Why would he do that!?"

"He thought he could split our army’s response and maybe... Nobody quite understands why he did what he did. While needless to say, he was beaten in combat by Princess Luna."

"And Manehattan?"

"Rainbow Dash, she was in Manehattan visiting her friend Scootaloo. She took control and was able to repel the invaders." Fluttershy suddenly shot forward and pulled Mario into a hug. "Don't worry Mario, together we'll beat Bowser."

Mario grinned and pulled the mare into a powerful hug. "I got your back."

"And I got yours." Fluttershy replied.

PINKIE PIE

The once human now pony, Pinkie Pie, trotted around the royal garden outside of Canterlot Castle. Her face was occupied with sniffing a large rose as she trotted behind a tree. She suddenly slammed muzzle first into the wall of the castle as she exited across the garden. "Ouchy!" Her mane deflated slightly as she rubbed her nose.

"Are you ok?" The ponified human looked up to her pony counterpart. She was grinning at her. "Having trouble controlling whatever it is we do?"

Pinkie Pie rubbed her nose a little more. "How do you control them?" She asked as her mane deflated completely.

"You want to know my secret?" The pink party pony whispered into her human counterpart’s ear.

"Yes!" Ponified Pinkie bounced up, her mane instantly puffy.

"I can't!" Pinkie Pie giggled. "So I’ll just go..." The mare bounces behind the bush, only to fly out from behind a fence "…with the flow. And have..." She then cartwheeled behind the ponified human’s back giggling, "FUN!" She exclaimed happily as she finished rolling behind a picnic table.

The Poni!Pinkie laughed loudly. "My name is Pinkie Pie!" She sang.

The mare Pinkie flew above her with three balloons. "Hello!" She waved down at her counterpart.

The human turned pony dug into her mane and pulled out a cannon. "And I am here to say..." She fired herself out the cannon.

The mare Pinkie air swam up to her counterpart. "How you doin?"

"I'm going make you smile, and brighten up your day." The two slowed down mid flight, and then abruptly fell to the ground.

"It doesn't matter now-" Poni!Pinkie sang as she bounced into a and flew out a tree.

"What's up?!" Pinkie waved at her counterpart.

The Poni!Pinkie trotted through the air. "-if you are sad or blue-"

Pinkie Pie flew out of her counterpart’s mane. "Howdy." She waved.

Hours past as the two lookalike mares continues to sing, and bounce around the garden happily. As the moon rose above the castle the two ponies slowed down, giggling and laughing with one another.

SUNSET/TWILIGHT

As evening fell on Canterlot, Twilight Sparkle and Sunset Shimmer remained in a small lab. Fumes were wafting through the air, coming out of various test tubes to ventilate. "They're unique…" Sunset mumbled as she filed through Twilight’s charts. "Strong as an Earth Pony, can manipulate magic like a Unicorn…all they need is the power of flight and weather control.” She glanced towards the lavender princess. “And they'll have Alicorn like magic…"

"Yes, also their instinctive use of magic to supplement their physical abilities is nothing short of impossible." Twilight watched the Nth Metal particles floating in a vial. "Muscle density, skin toughness…" A dark purple potion dripped into a vial. Without warning it exploded into a dark red mushroom cloud directly in her face. "It's like every pore in their bodies have some form of magic!" Twilight coughed out her response loudly.

??UNKNOWN LOCATION??

Somewhere within the interior confines of a dark and dreaded environment, the King of Koopas, Bowser, was getting his organization into preparation. "The green cap", Bowser looked down at a Pegasi. "Keep him busy. And the humans." Bowser instructed the next assignment towards a Dragon. "You!" He then quickly pointed a sharp claw at another member of his growing army. "The Elements!"
When everything was all said and done the massive Koopa tyrant switched his attention towards his son. "Is your machine finished, Jr.?"

"Of course dad!" Bowser Jr. declared with an upbeat tone, radiating with great desire to cause mayhem.

Bowser smirked at his son, the gleam on his sharp teeth briefly shined. He returned his attention on the awaiting faces of his allies, waiting for their next order of operation. Smog of smokes blew out of the Koopa King’s nostrils. "The princesses”, Bowser roared. “They’re mine!!”

> War
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

A large hulking figure watched as the moon replaced the sun in the sky. He was standing in a large forest, behind him stood a great number of creatures that make-up as his army of allies. Their eyes were glowing against the blackness of the forest. A slow wind whistled through the armada. Bowser's dark ruby red eyes glinted in the forest as he waited patiently. Standing beside him was Queen Chrysalis. The large Changeling turned back and cast a glance down at the army that had assemble within mere days; her loyal Changeling Swarm, the tyrants Koopa Troop forces, and a selected few as oppose to generals with their given assignment. In a blink of an eye Bowser snatched up a helpless pony. "You and your sisters," the pony had a long afro like orange mane with blonde highlights.  She squirmed in his large claw. "Go into the city and find Mario!" Her light yellow body glowed in the menacing orange light that Bowser cast from his mouth. "Don't betray me." He growled, lifting her to his eye level.

"My Changelings, go infiltrate the city walls." The thunderous sound of an army of Changelings shooting into the air echoed through the empty forest. Chrysalis watched as her swarm disappeared against the black sky.

CASTLE CANTERLOT 

The large pearly white moon hung high in Princess Luna's night. Stars, almost gemlike, twinkle against the night’s backdrop. Canterlot Castle was long since quite. Only the small crackling of fire and occasional coop of servant’s hooves echoed through the empty halls.
Princess Celestia watched the group from the shadows. Sunset Shimmer had her friends set up in a large arched ceiling room. "The brothers?" Celestia asked simply as Luna walked in from cool night air.

"They're sleeping."  Luna looked up at Celestia. Worry lines etched across the pony princess face. "What is it sister?"

"Nothing, Luna." Celestia replied.

"Nothing…?" Luna nodded slowly.

Celestia looked over the peaceful city, her eyes dipped along the guard covered walls. She could make out a bipedal figure jump from the tip of a tree onto the wall. She turned back to see her younger sister dismissed herself as she walked down the hallway. Quietly, Celestia launched herself out of the window, arcing herself straight down towards the plumber. "Mario. She greeted.

"He's going to come here." Mario told her simply. "Bowser, when he does, everyone will need to fight." He looked up at the elder Alicorn. "Don't fight him, he will win."

"Mario…" She dipped her head. "I have to protect my little ponies."

"Me and my bro we'll have to beat you to him then?" Mario laughed has he sat down. "Be safe princess."

The next morning, the twelve ponies and Luigi sat around a table eating breakfast. Luigi had a massive mountain of pancakes in front of him. "Yummy!" Pinkie Pie was inhaling pancakes beside the plumber. "Goody!" On Luigi's left was Pinkie’s ponified human counterpart, Pinkie Pie, eating with equal vigor.

The rest looked at their friends with a certain amount of disgust. Mario was in the throne room, not entirely hungry since he had eaten earlier. Discord was with him, bouncing around the throne room in the form of a large bouncy ball. "Hah ha!" Mario laughed. "You're great!" Mario jumped into the air intercepting the ball.

"You're over a thousand years old…" Celestia stated as she rubbed her temple.

"Well excccccccuse me princess," Discord said extending each syllable to an obnoxious level. "I seem to remember hearing a story of you sicking Pinkie Pie and her friends on the high class."

Celestia blushed slightly "Discord!"

"Ahh a~h!" A melodious tone suddenly echoed through the throne room.

"Ohh~ oh ohh~h!" The throne room door was flung open. Three mares trotted in elegantly, flanked by two red eyed guards.  "We've come to meet Mari~o." Their melodious voices held a deep twinge of hate in them. The middle was a two toned blond mare with dark pink eyes, a large puffy mane and tail.

"We've come to declare war~." On her right was a baby blue color pony, a streaked light and dark blue long straight mane and tail. "We've come to get our all~y." Mario collapsed onto his knees, grabbing at his head.

Discord started to teleported across the room. "Stop him~!" The pink bodied mare with a purple mane and tail streaked with turquoise sang. Discord appeared behind the three, right into the dark brown shoe of Mario’s attack. Discord slid across the marble floor grinning as he teleported back to his original position.

"Mario!" Celestia walked towards the plumber. "The Sirens."

The three laughed at the sun princess "The sun princess." Celestia glared down at the three. "How is Starswirl?"

"You don't know how long you've been gone?" She calmly flared her large pearly white wings.

"Mario, destroy her!"

BOWSER 

Within the walls of the city of Canterlot ponies were going through their daily morning routine. However, outside of the near city limits a great disaster was approaching, completely unaware by any living residents as they appear in uncountable numbers. Dark clouds were beginning to swirl around the capital city of Equestria, slowly blocking out the sun. It appeared without warning as if it was a signal; a signal that not one pony didn’t get any lead on. "Fire the Bullet Bill Launchers!"

LUIGI 

Explosions shook the entirety of Castle Canterlot. Windows were blown out, chunks of stone were ripped from the streets, and many of the castle structures fell apart. "Bowser's here!" Luigi alarmed and jumped from his seat. An explosion ripped the outer wall of the dining room. "Go, get out of here! Help the civilians!" Luigi then raced out of the dining.

The twelve ponies raced after the plumber. "You're not getting away from us that easy!" Poni!Applejack caught up to the plumber. Within a blink of an eye a golden wrecking ball cleaved through the wall in front of them. The force of the blow cleared the dusty smoke from view. Luigi, along with Twilight, Sunset, and the others were surprised to see a certain pony inside.

"Princess!"

"Mother!"

"Celestia!"

A sudden red blur shot through the hole. ’BANG’ Mario's large black hammer cracked into the sun princess barrier.

"Mario!" Luigi was shocked. He watched his brother slam into the princess’s defense.

"Sunset Shimmer." The blonde mane leader of the Sirens walked through the hole in the wall.

"Adagio!?" Sunset looked at the Siren with a mixture of fear and rage. "How…?" Discord flew over the head of mare. "Mario, attack the Chaos God!" Adagio commanded. Mario whipped around with fluid motions. But before he could attack Luigi speared him.

"Go, I can hold him off!" Luigi looked back at the ponies and the chaos being. Mario kneed Luigi in the gut viscously. He then grabbed his throat, and with a push Luigi was sent flying backwards.

"Got you!" Discord successfully caught Luigi with his telekinesis. The Draconequus kept the green plumber in his magic grip as they both hovered in midair.

"Luigi!" called out Twilight Sparkle. "Bowser is out there, we need you!"

Adagio’s two allies, flanked on each of her side, trotted their way into the hall. "Sonata!" Poni!Pinkie waved at the blue pony as she confront the trio. "What are you doing with those two meanies!?"

"Pinkie Pie?" Sonata looked at the pink mane human turned pony. "What are you doing? Go home!"

"The Dazzlings!" Sunset Shimmer growled. She quickly turned her attention towards Celestia. "Mother, go get the Royal Guards, they are going to need you." She could hear explosions in the distance, each strike heard shook the foundation of the surrounding area. "Girls, go help the ponies get out of the city!"

"Sunset…" Rarity placed a hoof on her nearby high school friends. Sunset’s horn began to glow faintly. "Girls we need to trust Sunset." 
The white ponified mare turned away from the three Sirens and began galloping away.

"Stay safe." Poni!Applejack followed Rarity slowly.

"Good luck." Poni!Rainbow Dash glared at the Sirens before leaving.

"Stay safe…" Poni!Fluttershy was almost in tears as she followed after the others.

The ponified Pinkie Pie remained glued to the spot. "Sonata…" Her mane rapidly deflated. "Please come on, you can help us…"
"Sonata!" The pink bodied Siren glared down at her fellow Siren.

"Just go Pinkie Pie." Sonata hissed back at her high school companion.

"When this is done we're going to get tacos, you're my friend and I won't abandon you!" Poni!Pinkie vowed.

The mane six watched the exchange with interest. "I'm going to stay and help Sunset Shimmer." Twilight Sparkle spoke up. She swiped her heard around the hallway. "Discord, you can leave. The Royal army will need you."

Discord released his telekinetic grip on Luigi. "Right-o!" He teleported near Twilight and pinched her cheek. "Stay safe friend." He stated before flying out an already shattered window.

The lavender Alicorn glanced at her friends. "Girls, go!" The ponies nodded.

Princess Celestia followed the galloping ponies as they made their way for the exit. "Stay safe my faithful student, daughter…" the Unicorn and Alicorn nodded at the sun princess.

Luigi glared at his brother. He stared straight into his eyes, which were once bright blue, but now their replaced by a dull red glow of lost control.

"Luigi…" Twilight started.

"You need to go." Sunset finished.

"They need your help to defeat Bowser." Twilight looked at the younger brother remaining firm. "I know how you're feeling, I have a big brother and I would do anything to help him. But right now you need to trust us." Twilight gently, but firmly, pushed Luigi away from the fight.

"Bowser…" Luigi muttered to himself. He clenched his fist before running up to and diving out a window.

CELESTIA 

Princess Celestia caught up to the ponies running out of the castle. "My little ponies!" The ten ponies turned on Celestia. "The Humans go east, get as many ponies out of the city as possible. I'll go to the eastern front and make certain it remains free of enemies." Celestia felt the earth shake underneath her hooves. "Captain Dash," Rainbow Dash nodded her head instantly, "go to the wall barricade and make sure it stands. Funnel the enemies into as small of location as possible." Celestia finally turned the rest of the Element Bearers. "Go along the wall; help as many ponies as possible.”

The large group split apart, running into the war torn streets. Celestia could see her sister, Luna, flying away from the castle. "She's going straight for Bowser…" Celestia sighed deeply. She could see swarms of Changelings high above the cities. "Chrysalis…"  She could see a pillar of dark smoke rise from one of the walls. "…he's here…" Something that flung itself caught Celestia’s attention from side of her eyes.n  She saw Luigi bounce from roof to roof, heading straight to the southern wall. "Protect her…" she mumbles as she flew to the east.

HUMANE 

The five friends raced through the streets of an almost nearly destroyed capital city. Many buildings were pulverized to rubble with rising smoke from the fire adding more to the already darken skies. The fine toning of the cobblestone streets were broken, cracks webbed and stretch alongside the roads and sidewalks. If it wasn’t bad enough, ponies and various other creatures panic as they ran for their lives. Some of them were scared to the point of absentmindedly running around with no prior thought of an escape route.

"Follow us!" Applejack yelled over the screaming of terrified stampede of Canterlot citizens.

"Please, stay calm." Rarity attempted to calm the crowd.

"Look out!" Pinkie Pie suddenly yelled. A swirling mass of blood red flames smashed into the ground causing an explosion.

Rarity was flung up against a wall from the impacting force. Shaking the pain away she looked up in the air. A leathery winged creature was making its way straight at them. Her heart stopped as it smashed into the ground with beats of its wings and swipes of its tail flinging ponies away from it casually. "The other Elements of Harmony…" his voice was a deep feral baritone. "You don't belong here!" His deep red scales flexed and shimmered.

LUIGI

Luigi jumped from rooftop to rooftop, professionally maintaining his aerodynamic travel without losing his footing. He could see smoke rising in the distance. "Bowser…" He slowed down slightly. 'I Can do this!'  Luigi stuttered to himself. The green plumber stumbled as he bounced over the fighting below.

"So you're the plumber." In blink of an eye a green blur slammed into Luigi's back, flinging him into the streets below. Luigi rolled to stop and was instantly struck by a bolt of lightning. Luigi twitched as the electricity arced through his system. He collapsed onto his stomach, smoke smoldered from his body.  "Gotta say…I'm not impressed."

Luigi looked up, a Pegasi hovered five feet in the air. She was a turquoise colour with two toned blonde mane and tail. Her yellow eyes glowed with confidence. "…Mama Mia…" Luigi stumbled to his feet and he raised his hands into fists, his body still smoking from the lightning strike. "Let's-a go…" He timidly said.  With a swish of her head, her long mane fell out of her eyes and goggles fell onto her face.

THE MANE SIX 

Pinkie Pie fired her party canon into crowd of Changelings. As they worked their way through the small waves of enemies, the group got closer and closer to the large wall around the cities. "AJ!" The pink party pony called out. Applejack bucked a cart sending it to smash into a Goomba and Koopa Troopa.

"What?" Applejack turned to her friend.

"…nothing!" Pinkie Pie bounced farther down the street.

"Oh, I hate getting my hooves dirty…" Rarity sighed dramatically as she tossed stones, woods, and everything she could grabbed with her magic that’s not bolted down to fend off the Koopa Troops and The Changelings Swarm. They were a hundred feet away from the gate, and cannons were battering the wall.

Fluttershy flew above the group to get a good look at what’s happening on the other side. "Oh dear…" Her voice trembled.
"What is it, sugarcube!" Applejack looked up at her friend.

"They've built a tower." She swerved to the left, avoiding a swirling Bullet Bill that could have struck her.

"Gwahahahaha!" A high pitched voice rang out. "I see you Fluttershy!" Without warning a twister ripped through the wall, and Fluttershy couldn't react as the whirling wind smashed into her body. In a blink of an eye Fluttershy punched through the wall of Canterlot.
"Fluttershy!!" Her friends screamed fearfully.

A large shadow was cast over the group; Changelings, Koopas, and Goombas raced into the ally to get out of the way. Applejack, Rarity, and Pinkie Pie took two steps back as a five story tall rolling tower plunged through the city wall. Three large chains of fire swirled around it burning through anything it touched. Four cannons ringed around the top of glass globe. On two long arms was a large fan. The glass dome opened and a figure raised a bright purple pillow. "I would like to introduce you to the super awesome, bad to the bone, mark 4, ultimate rolling tank, the BOOMSDAY MACHINE!!" In seconds the arm canon’s fire rods pointed at the three Element Bearers. "Also known as your doom!!" Bowser Jr. roared loudly.

TWILIGHTS/SUNSET 

The three Sirens remained against the back wall entrance hall of Canterlot Castle. Their ever present singing filled the empty halls of the interior room. Mario flew through the air smashing both feet first into Twilight Sparkle’s barrier. He did a back flip, narrowly avoiding a bright green beam.  Mario whipped around, slamming the head of his hammer into the dark green barrier of Sunset Shimmer in rapid session.

Bang 

Thud 

CRACK 

Sunset stumbled back two steps as her barrier gave way. 'He's strong' , she thought as she teleported out of the way of another wide arcing hammer smash. Sunset reappeared next to Twilight, both Alicorn and Unicorn panting slightly. "We can do this...right?" Sunset breathed.

Twilight watched the red cap plumber making his way slowly towards them. "We got each other." She replied reassuringly.

RAINBOW DASH 

Rainbow flew above the war torn streets screaming orders at the top of her lungs. "You go to the wall, tell them to keep funneling the enemies through the broken entrance.” She became a blur as she flew westward. "You, stallion up!" She roars at the defending forces along the wall. "If that gate opens all of us will be overwhelmed!" She then flew down to ground level. "Hold them back!" She yelled into the group of stallions and mares pressed firmly on the gate. Rainbow could smell the faint scent of fire. "Pegasi! Get into the air!" She yelled. Her eyes went into the distance. She could just make out Luna flying high above the city, dodging and weaving large pillars of flames. 'Where are you Luigi?'  She growled through her mind.

"Griffins!" She heard one of the Royal Guards from the wall.

Rainbow Dash cork straight into the opposing half-lion and half-eagle terrorist. She slammed hoof first into the exposed belly of a griffin with enough force to send it flying over the wall. "Half of you Pegasi," she pointed at the group flying into air, "suppress the fire, the rest deal with these Griffins!" Pegasi broke off from the group. With a sharp kick into a cloud Rainbow causes a bright flash of lightning followed by a deafening boom of thunder. "Griffins!" She yelled having full attention of both sides of the war. "Leave now!" Rainbow then saw a shadow, just as a mass brown fur and white feathers flew talon first into her back. This caught her completely off guard.
In a second she was slammed into the cobblestone street. "Ready for round two?" inquired a familiar sounding smug voice.

"Gilda!" Rainbow Dash bucked furiously.

BOWSER 

Bowser cleaved through the Royal Guard ponies defenses. His meaty fist and dagger like claws casting ponies aside with ease. Buildings crumbled around the Koopa King and the crunch of cobblestones sounded as his tanks rolled forward. "The castle!" He roared over the sounds of war. Bowser gulped in air before letting out a swirling pink flame from his maw. The flames drilled straight through various buildings of homes, stores, and outlets, causing them to explode in fire and crumble like sawdust. Bowser stopped moving and gave a hearty guffaw. "Gwa ha ha ha!!" In that instant he was struck by a bright white bolt of electricity.

After about five seconds the bolt stopped its assault. The Koopa King remained standing as if unfazed. His dark ruby eyes looked up at a figure floating down towards him. "The Princess of the night." Bowser acknowledged her presence. Princess Luna landed softly twenty feet away. Bowser causally rubbed at the smolder spot on his shoulder. "You're stronger then that Crystal Princess."

"You speak of my niece." Luna replied confidently.

Bowser shrugged off handedly. "Yeah, whatever."

Luna's blue eyes hardened at his dismissal of Cadance. "Leave vile monster!" She blasted two battalions back. "And take your creatures with you!"

With a surprising burst of speed, Bowser had closed the distance with thunderous stomps, battle roaring and searing flames shooting out of his mouth. Luna managed to block the flames and avoided a shoulder tackle by shooting into the air. She dodged a series of fire blast.
"You're stronger but not enough!"
> The beginning 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------


Luna barrel rolled as a stream of flames chased after her. She looked down at her enemy. The Koopa King was still firmly on the ground, his troops flowed around him as they continue their march and assaults within Canterlot. Bowser crouched low, the ground cracked as the large tyrant flew into the sky with a mighty leap. She twisted in the air, but his claw  shot out grabbing her by the throat. Luna retorted by punching Bowser in the jaw. She tried to flap her wings as they dropped towards earth below, but his grip was still firm.

They crashed into the streets with explosive force kicking up a massive cloud of dust. A bright blue flash sent Bowser flying out dust cloud and his  spiked shell shredded the cracked cobblestone. Bowser rolled backwards, sliding to a stop twenty feet away from the Alicorn. He growled at the pony as she flicked her mane out of her face. "Gwahahhaha!" Bowser laughed.

Luna walked towards Bowser. "I will defeat you."

Bowser lumbered forward. "This world belongs to me."

Luna started galloping her horn started glowing bright blue. "No! This world belongs to everypony!"

Bowser charged straight at her. "Not anymore!" The Koopa King through a wild haymaker, his fist only succeeded to smashed into a bright blue barrier. Luna stumbled from the blow before jabbing him with her bright blue horn, but Bowser quickly blew a stream of flames at her. Instantly, Luna was in the air avoiding flames licking the ground at the last second. 'Got you'. In an instant Bowser's large claw flew into her side. Luna's eye went wide, then she looked down. Buried in her side up to his knuckles was the large claw of the King Koopa.

HUMAN SIX

A pink pony and a red dragon ran down the rapidly emptying street. The sounds of war in the distance echo at all surroundings. Empty houses shook with roars and mighty foot falls. Giggling echoed through the darkened city streets.  Pinkie Pie raced away from a stream of fire. The bright red dragon's golden under belly glinted in his flames. She jumped behind a barrel in a corner.

"Got you!" The dragon proclaimed before he released a blazing jet of fire, instantly incinerating the barrel. "One down." He turned around to a pink pony eating a carrot cup cake. "How...did...you....you-"

"What's up doc?" Pinkie pie asked.

"I'll destroy you!" The bright red dragon charged towards Pinkie Pie, his massive claws ripping up the streets.

Four balloons fluttered from Pinkie Pie's back, and with a kick she flew into the air. She trotted through the air giggling as the dragon flew underneath her.

The dragon slid onto all four of his claws, shredding the ground as he slowed to a stop. "ROAR!" A cloud of flames went straight down the street at its intended target, but the pink pony was out of sight. "Where are you?"

Suddenly he felt a sharp jab on his tail. "Tag!" He whipped around with a wide arcing claw he buried his fingers up to his claws in the destroyed street.

"Over here!" The irritating child like voice rang out from his left. "No over here!" His right. "Above you, silly!" He looked up and then felt fur brush between his front legs. "Look down." Instantly the dragon jetted flames from his maw, melting the stone between his legs. The bright red fire licked his fire proof scales.

"You are irritating!" He bellowed. "I am Alduin!" He looked up letting a beam of flames punch through the clouds. "I will not play games with you any longer!" He punched the molten earth between his claws.

"Oh I'm not playing games." His furious red eyes snapped down onto Pinkie Pie. She was sitting like a dog on her haunches her tail wagging.

His head fell to her level. "What are you doing then?" His voice was a low growl.

"Distracting you!" She replied with a chipper tone.

"Distracting me, distracting me for what?" He laughed. "Look around you girl. Your friends abandoned you, your city has fallen and...."

"You want a piece of pie?" She dug into her mane and tugged out a large pie.

"Do not interrupt my..."

"Villainous monologue?" She grinned at him.

"I am going to kill you now!" He snapped, his fangs glinting as a flame began swirling around his mouth.

"No you're not." Pinkie replied with a cheeky smile.

"Of course I am!" Warm spittle sprayed Pinkie Pie on her face.

"No you're not." Pinkie Pie confidently stated.

"OK enough with your....." Bang A Large ornamental carriage smashed in Alduins back, driving him face first into a small home.
Pinkie Pie was still sitting in her spot. "Hi girls!" She waved at the four ponified humans ten feet away.

"Pinkie Pie!" The five ran over and hugged her tightly. "Don't scare us like that" Applejack dusted her off. "You had us worried Sugarcube!"

Alduin shook his head, shoving a large wooden beam off his body. He slunk out of the hole in the wall. "Pink pony..." He voice was calm, but his red eyes showed nothing but tightly controlled fury. "First your friends, then you..." He calmly walked towards them. The five friends remained calm as the dragon slammed his tail into the wall of the building he had crawled out of, collapsing it into pieces. 

"Maybe we can hug this out?" Pinkie Pie suggested.

Alduin spread his large wings. The golden underbelly of the red dragon was visible as he flew straight up. "Ok maybe we should...." Rainbow Dash began as the dragon circled back on them, "Get into cover!" The five ponies ran in the over hangs and arches FwOOOOOoooom. A river of flames poured into the street. The humans felt the heat lick at them. Their fur coats causing them to sweat profusely. Rainbow Dash kicked off the ground. "I'll try to get him to land!" Alduin made a wide turn.

Rainbow flew towards Alduin. "Little pony, or girl, what do you prefer?" Alduin taunted. Rainbow hovered in place, she could feel each of Alduin's wing beat.

Rainbow Dash chuckled at the comment. "Really, picking a fight with girls who just got their pony bodies?" She dropped down in elevation as Alduin blew flames at her. "You're really tough." She shot underneath him, becoming a rainbow blur. "Let's play follow the leader!"

Alduin raced after her, send balls of flames flying at the Pegasus. "I'll roast you!"

"With aims like that it's doubtful" She quipped. She pulled up, flying straight towards the clouds.

"Stay still!" Alduin roared.

Rainbow Dash punched through the cloud, the dragon still on her trail. "Going down!" Alduin heard her voice. His wings locked up and he fell back towards the earth. He came out of the clouds staring at the flank of the rainbow mane. "Enjoying the view!" She taunted as she flapped her wings furiously.

"You humans never shut up do you!?" He replied angrily.

"Pinkie Pie wasn't a good first impression, but hey we love her." Rainbow could see the earth rapidly approaching. "You know you dragons are fast, faster then me." She rolled out of the way of a flame thrower. "Of course this is my first time really flying." She could see her friends clearly now.

She flared her wings, however Alduin zoomed passed her instantly. She screamed when a sharp scale sliced into her flank. "Got you!" He growled as he slammed face first into the ground.

"Girls, now keep him on the ground!" Rainbow yelled through gritted teeth.

"Got you!" Applejack throw a lasso around the  Alduin's necking, cutting off his air supply. The red dragon thrashed in place. 'She's strong' He thought as he continues to struggle. Pinkie Pie jumped into the air with her Party Cannon out. Bang. The dragon was blinded by streamers and a large cake hitting him in the face.

"Rainbow, your side." Fluttershy looked at the cut on her flank worriedly.

"No time to worry, Shy, get him in the face I'll get him in the gut!" Rainbow Dash shot away from Fluttershy, the butter coloured ponified human chased after her.  "Rarity, his knees!"
The once human Unicorn nodded affirmatively. She levitated a small boulder "OK!"

Three things happened in quick  succession; Rainbow Dash smashed hoof first into Alduins gut, Fluttershy hit his snout, and Rarity drove a boulder into the back of his knees with a loud crack! Alduin collapsed onto his back roaring in pain. "Did we do it?" Applejack looked at the red dragon laying on his back.

"I think we did." Rainbow Dash winced, the burning feeling in her flank become more pronounced as she landed.

"Ok, good, let's go darlings we need to make sure ponies can get out of the city safely." Rarity turned away from the dragon.
While the others had their backs turned Fluttershy inspected the dragon. "Girls, I don't think..." Alduin eyes popped open. Instantly Applejack flew into the dragon's claw from the sudden yank. He snipped the lasso in pieces with his other claw. Then he threw her viciously towards the butter coloured mare. Applejack ploughed into Fluttershy, sending the two smashing at a wall on the other side of the street. Before Rainbow Dash could take flight he upper-cutted her over a building, crash landing a few distances away. With fluid motions he whipped around and back handed Pinkie Pie in a blink of an eye.

Rarity stumbled away from the dragon as he rounded on her. He wiped the cake and streamers off his face and spoke calmly as he did. "You're first." He limped towards her, his iris just a slit, flames began to build in his mouth. Rarity froze up as he stood up to his full eleven foot height, tower over her small frame. Terror clenched her heart as he began to sucked in deeply. Time froze for her, the flames raced straight at her. She could do nothing but wait for death to take her.

Suddenly, out of the sky dropped a purple figure with it's wings flared wide. Rarity could see the bright orange flames licking its back. The flames stopped and she looked up into the figures smiling face. "Hey other Rares."

She could only manage a single word "Spike..."

LUNA

Bowser hefted the Princess of the Moon up, his claws cutting into her. "This city is-" Bowser was cut off by a sudden 'BOOM'. Beyond any logic or reason to explain why, Luna exploded into jelly beans. "...what is this?"

He turned around to find the moon princess standing ten feet away with a equal look of shock on her face. "What just happened?" Luna muttered.

A tall lanky figure began to materialize between the two. He wore a long red cape, which flowed in the non existent wind. "The day Discord saved your life, it was the most important of your life!"

"Discord..." Luna frowned.

"But for me it was Tuesday."
> The Beginning (2)
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Luigi smashed face first into the ground, siding on his large nose before coming to a stop in a smoking heap. "You're very fast..." Luigi mumbled.  He could hear ponies racing away, distancing themselves from their fight as he looked up to the smoking portion of the city. The green plumber pushed off the ground and stood up ."As fast as a lightning bolt."

The Pegasi chuckled. "Fastest Pegasi in all Equestria!" She boasted proudly.

"Nope, I've seen faster." Luigi disagreed instantly.

A bright green flash suddenly appeared and the Pegasus was in Luigi's face, sending him flying with a jab. "You lie." She hissed. "I've been trained by the samurai  of Nipponi." Luigi got up, but was instantly bowled over by a green bolt of lightning. "I've mastered the elements!" She beat her wings, sending a powerful gust of wind straight at the plumber, nearly knocking off his hat. "I am Lightning!" Then another bolt of electricity came flying at him.

Luigi cartwheeled to the left narrowly avoiding the lightning strikes. Millions of thoughts went through his mind. 'How is she doing this!?', was the next question he thought of before she slammed hooves first into his gut, sending the hapless plumber through a wall of someones now vacant house.

THE MANE SIX

The three ponies watched as the rolling tank got closer. "Pinkie Pie, AJ," Rarity called out as she watched the buildings crunched into stone rubble underneath the tanks tread, "I have a plan." The white unicorn then sighed dramatically "If only I had ten minutes!"
Applejack sighed at the purple maned mare. "What do you want us to do?" She asked. The blasting tornado's from Bowser Jr's machine flung Royal Guards away as he got closer.

"Jam up the treads, use your earth pony magic, and Pinkie's Party Cannon!" The two nodded in her direction. A battered butter coloured mare fluttered towards them. "Fluttershy, darling, you need to go get help!"

Fluttershy landed beside her friends. She winced from the pain and held her right hindleg up. "Please let me help." She grunted.

Pinkie placed a hoof on her back and rubbed a small circle. "Please you have to go you're hurt." Pinkie's eyes welled up. "For me." Her electric blue eyes watered with worrying tears.

"Pinkie..." Fluttershy relented. "I hate it when you do that."

Pinkie Pie gently flung her hooves around Fluttershy's neck, raining soft kisses around her face ."Thank you love." She held her tightly. "Go help Princess Celestia."

"Actually, darling, can you fly with me?" Rarity looked at her injured friend with trepidation.

"Of course." Fluttershy flared her wings wide.

"Good." Rarity frowned. "Girls stay safe."

"What are you doing?" Applejack placed a hoof on Rarity's front left hoof.

"We're going to need to crack that dome to get to the little beasty." Her frowned then deepen. "It's built to take hits from Mario and Luigi, I very much doubt any of us can crack it open!"

The rolling tank got closer, the high pitched "Gwahahahaha" of Bowser Jr's laughter echoing through their skulls.

"Look, AJ, I know we haven't always looked eye to eye, but you have to trust me. I have a plan that's going to work!" Rarity pleaded with the farm mare.

The two mares looked at one another for three seconds. Finally Applejack relented. "Go!"

Rarity jumped on the Pegasi's back. "Stay safe Pinkie." Fluttershy gently kissed Pinkie's cheek.

Applejack walked towards the Boomsday Machine. "OK, Pinkie get the left, I'll get the right!"

"Okie dokie lokie!" The pink mare giggled.

"We can't beat it, Rarity's right, but we can slow it down. Make sure it doesn't hurt anypony else!" Now determine than ever Applejack galloped straight at Bowser Jr.

LUIGI

Luigi was slammed into the wall of a building, his body left a clear imprint. Without even faltering he side stepped to right as a the Pegasi slammed hooves first into the wall and obliterating it with an explosive jab. "What's your name?" Luigi asked as he took a quick second to dust off his hat. "Imma Luigi." He introduced himself while avoiding a right looping overhoof.

"Lightning Dust." She replied as she turned on Luigi. Her larger then average wings, tipped with silver, spread wide.

"It sucks doesn't it...?" Luigi looked back at the castle sadly. "Having someone who is just plain better no matter how hard you work." Luigi placed a hand on the Pegasi, which was knocked off in a second. "But I learned that even the best have their limits, and while I might not be as strong, I'm scared of a lot of things...heck even now I'm scared. Mario needs me, because if he stumbles I can help him." The ever present shaking in Luigi's fist stopped as a surreal calm past over him. "Rainbow Dash, she might need a Pegasi like you to help her if she stumbles."  Lightning Dust glared coldly at the plumber. "Just let me go stop Bowser."

"Not a chance!" Her body started glowing with green electricity.

Luigi's left hand dropped to his side, his eyes leveled to the ground in front of him. "I learned this from my big bro, Mario. He calls it the 'Jump Punch'." Lightning dust squared her shoulders on Luigi, not at all caring for his speech. "Mine...I call it the 'Super Jump Punch'." The Pegasi had enough. In a flash Lightning Dust was in front of Luigi, her hooves at the ready to delivered another devastating attack. At that exact split second Luigi swung an uppercut, his fist made impact on the Pegasi's chin.
The resulting strike was immense. BOOM!

> The Middle
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------


Gilda and Rainbow Dash were a blur of movements, popping in and out of existence to their griffin and pegasi companions. The air shook with every hit they managed to land on one another. "Come on RD, we both know that one lucky move pulled from your flank is the only chance you have at beating me!" Gilda chuckled. "I've been training with Bowser himself!" Her eagle eyes remained glued on the pegasi.

Rainbow Dash frowned at her former friend’s direction. "Please Gilda, I never wanted to fight you." She threw out her hooves "Look around you, not just ponies are going to get hurt!" Gilda eyes went to the two armies, her griffin forces were being waddled down, Koopa Troopas climbing over the wall flinging themselves against pony defenders. "Just stop, together we can end this war, stop Bowser, and maybe we can be friends again!"

Gilda frowned. "Shut up and fight!"

MARIO

Mario flew through air, smashing feet first into Twilight’s barrier. He then whipped out his hammer...

Bang Boom CRACK Fwoom

The plumber dropped towards Twilight. Instantly the young Alicorn fired a beam straight at Mario, who slid three feet as a dark purple aura dissipated across his hammer. A bright green flash blinked behind Mario, he quickly jumped to right as a pillar of golden flames smashed into Twilight’s shield. "Was that solar magic?" Twilight teleported next to Sunset Shimmer’s side. "I can barely do more than a flicker of solar energy." She nudged her blushing friend gently.

"Yeah, mother had to teach me control after I became a miniature sun during one of our sessions." Sunset replied, her eyes followed the red capped plumber. He walked slowly towards the two, each step cracking the earth beneath his feet.

"We can't keep slamming our heads against a brick wall." Twilight frowned darkly.

Sunset's vision shifted to the Sirens, Adagio sat confidently in Celestia's throne. On either side of her was Sonata and Aria. "You thinking what I'm thinking?"

Twilight eyed the two with a predatory glint. "Yep."

Sunset glared at the plumber getting closer to them. "He's fast, it's still going to be hard to get to them."

Twilight nodded her head. "We got each other."

Sunset smiled proudly. "We got each other."

HUMANE SIX

In the empty smoking streets two dragons snarled at one another. The purple one, smaller then his ruby red counterpart,  gently flicked his tail knocking Rarity away from the two. "Get back!" Spike commanded the white mare. Spike dug his claws into the ground and with a powerful beat of his wing Spike smashed into Alduin’s large chest. Spike and Alduin were a rolling, gnashing, and a clawing mass of purple and red. In a blink of an eye Spike was smashed against the ground. "ROAR!" Spike gave out an agonized roar, as the razor sharp teeth of Alduin dug into the scales above his left shoulder.

Suddenly, a stone smashed into Alduin's right eye. "Get off him great beasty!" Rarity yelled, tossing another sharp stone at dragon. "Get off!"

He turned towards her and threw a wild swinging claw. "No you don't!" Applejack tossed her lasso intercepting the claw mid attack, and with a sharp tug his fist dropped to the left.

"Aw WAH WAH!" A Rainbow Dash blur through the air and smashed into the center of Alduin’s back.

"RA!!" He bellowed, releasing his death grip as Rainbow Dash dug into his scales. Spike shot up grabbing Alduin by the throat. With two powerful steps he then shot his left leg out tripping the two. The earth shook as they crashed into the ground. "You are not going to beat me little dragon!" Alduin hissed as Spike continued to apply pressure to his throat.  Alduin reached up and started choking Spike, viciously shaking the dragon off himself. Slowly the two rose to their feet, Spike dug his foot claws into the ground. He sliced cobblestone as Alduin pushed him back.

"Applejack his tail!" Rarity yelled at the cowgirl.

"Already, on it!" She galloped behind the ruby red dragon, his tail thrashing wildly.

Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie galloped towards the four fighting the dragon. "Who is that?" Pinkie pointed at Spike curiously.

"He's the other Rarity's boyfriend." Rarity replied.

"You're dating a dragon!? Oh my!" Fluttershy shivered slightly.

"Got yeah!" Applejack lassoed around Alduin’s long tail.

Spike smirked as they stopped moving "Friends…" He growled.

MANE SIX

Pinkie Pie fired off her Party Cannon into the tracks of the Boomsday Machine. On the other side of the machine Applejack bucked larger boulders into the track. "Boomsday Machine storm function!" Bowser Jr. cackled proudly. The large metal boxing gloves opened to reveal a massive fan. In a split second they smashed into ground, shattering the cobblestone streets.

"What's he going to do?" Applejack whispered, remaining still.

"Fancy, dancy, prancy!" Pinkie Pie said.

Applejack noticed it, she could see small stones began dancing. Pinkie Pie felt a powerful vibration cut through her body. "Doozy!" She frowned her, mane deflating to half its size. "Oh my goodness…" She whispered.

"Crabapples, this going to hurt." The earth began opening beneath the two. Then as sudden as a dam releasing all its water, the earth exploded into a huge hundred foot tall fifty square foot twister ripping apart buildings. The two Elements of Harmony were lifted and pounded by the debris, after thirty seconds the twister stopped dropping the two into the destroyed street below.

"Gwahahaha!" Jr laughed, he fired his cannons randomly. "Now the castle!" The wheels of the Boomsday Machine slowly rose from the floor and began to turn.

A large metal sword flew through the air and it slammed into a single cog of the tanks treads. "Hey!" Jr jumped from his seat and looked down. Standing among the rubble stood the blonde apple farmer. Applejack placed her heavily worn cowboy hat back on her head. "You're not going anywhere!" she looked around  rubble. 'Where are you Pinkie Pie'

"You ok, Applejack?" Pinkie Pie trotted towards her friend, a small limp evident in each step.

"Are you?" Applejack looked back at the party planner.

"We got to keep fighting." Pinkie Pie frowned deeply.

LUIGI

The green capped plumber flicked his bulbous nose, watching the smoldering Lightning Dust punch into the black clouds. "Luigi's gotcha." He timidly mumbled. Suddenly a bright turquoise bolt of lightning arced through Luigi's system. "OWOWOWOWO!!" Luigi screamed as he was flung ten feet back.

"You're pretty tough." The turquoise pegasi fluttered fifteen feet in the air. Luigi stumbled to his feet, the perfectly quaffed mustachio smoldering slightly. "You're still awake?"

DISCORD[\b]

Bowser gave a powerful roar, the earth shook and what windows were still in place shattered.  Discord puffed up his chest, sucked in a large gulp of air until his chest expanded, and after three painful seconds he, "Roar." He coughed out. Luna and Bowser stopped their movements.

"…really?" Luna sighed.

"What!?" Discord looked at the pony princess with a dramatic tearful dab at his eyes.

"Never roar again." She blasted back Bowser with  a energy beam. "Your roars are disgraceful to all roaring creatures."

"Ouch, that hurts me right…" A valentine heart appeared in his out stretched chest. "…here" He pointed at the heart.

Bowser frowned "I hate to admit it..." Bowser chuckled slightly. "But the pony has a point."

?????????

A tiny pink bow wearing Koopa bounced down the empty hallway. She giggled slightly "Red cap or..." She sighed, her heart racing "Green cap"  She looked through the empty rooms "Where are you book?"

??????????

Queen Chrysalis calmly trotted through the worn torn street. Her eyes never left the large castle. "Stop!" A Unicorn stallion jumped at her. Calmly Chrysalis said, "Weak." Instantly a black crystal encased the helpless stallion.
> End of two fights
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------


The sky was still covered in thick dark clouds as the battle within Canterlot continues. A great number of residential buildings have crumbled and the landscape misshapen, making the once peaceful capital of Equestria all the more war ridden. Luigi sidestepped a bolt of lightning that narrowly struck him, but only for Lightning Dust to appeared in a flash and slammed her hoof into the green plumber’s right cheek. Luigi stumbled away from her, throwing a blind left hook. Lightning Dust dipped her head, avoiding the punch. Her right hoof glowed with electricity and planted a solid strike, sending Luigi flying back as the mare punched him in the gut. "You can throw a hundred punches, but if you can't hit me none of that matters."

Luigi pushed himself off the ground and back onto his feet. "I'm working on that…” He replied timidly. The amplified punched from the Pegasus’s hoof lingered through his body.

Her body flashed and Luigi was sent flying by a devastating straight kick to his bulbous nose. "Doesn't look like it."

"I hit you with my Super Jump Punch didn't I?" Luigi mumbled as he got back to his feet. Ten quick flashes of lighting sent Luigi bouncing back across the ground.

"I hit you a hundred times in a second." Lightning Dust stated calmly.

"I felt it…" Luigi coughed as he shakily stood up again. He threw his hand out firing a beam of dark blue electricity. "That didn't work?" Luigi sighed.

 SUNSET & TWILIGHT

Canterlot Castle wasn’t fairing well either. Along the interior walls, many of its stained-glass windows and furniture of the like, have been wrecked and effortless turned the half the castle into a battle zone. Mario grabbed Sunset Shimmer, hefting her up before jumping into the air. 'This is going to hurt', Sunset thought before Mario threw her straight down with floor shattering force. She struggled but manages to rolled out of the way, just as Mario came crashing down butt first. Twilight Sparkle slammed shoulder first into the possessed red plumber with all her might. Mario grunted slightly as she lifted him up with her hooves and then threw him across the throne room.
Sunset was astonished from witnessing such a feat. "So, Alicorns really do have all three species magical abilities."

"I'm not very good with my Pegasi and Earth magic." Twilight’s face ignited with a blush. "Last time I tried manipulating the weather I electrocuted myself." She admitted.

"So there's no way in Tartarus that you could match Mario's strength…" Sunset guessed calmly.

"Not in a hundred years." Twilight replied.

"So what's the plan?" Sunset flinched at the pain in her back. If she was human at this point she’ll be lucky to even stand straight again. Just in time she saw Mario pushed off the ground and ran straight at them full speed.

A barrier flared around them as a pillar of flames smashed into it. "How long can you hold him back?" Twilight asked as she watches the red hot fire swoosh around the outside barrier.

"Long enough…" Sunset blurted as limped forward.

LUIGI

Luigi lay on his back, his entire body poured of smoke. "You done yet?" Lightning Dust gasped out as she heavily panted and frowned down at him. She lost count on the number times she electrocuted the human since the start of their battle.

"No…" Luigi stumbled to his feet. "…Ok, I gave you a chance…and it took me a long time to figure your lightning speed."

"What are you talking about?" Lighting Dust hissed.

"I really wish I didn't have to hurt you…" Dark blue sparks of electricity arced from his hand and traced around and into his body. "You're not bad. Just jealous," He dropped down, his right leg further back, and his right hand bent underneath his belly. "…I've been holding back. I like you a lot" A bright cyan flash and a millisecond later Luigi was in front of the pegasi. He delivered a jab. BOOM, Lightning Dust was sent flying straight back, she could barely register ten quick flashes as she was sent pin balling around the empty city streets. Her body crackled, but before she could interrupt Luigi's assault he appeared behind her and landed a devastating jump-kick right in between her flared wings.

In another flash he was in front of her. "Super..." She was half way to him. "Jump..." She was two feet away. "Punch!" He landed an upper cut, jumping into the air. Boom! His fist exploded sending the pegasi a hundred feet back, she slammed back into a build. She punched clean through the building, flying across another street, before punching through another building before finally coming to a complete stop three hundred feet away from Luigi. It was lights out for Lightning Dust. "You're strong…" Luigi looked at the smoking mass, through the hole in the building. "You can still do great things."

Luigi turned on his heels and began running towards..."Bowser." he cursed.

EMPTY STREET BATTLE
LUIGI VS LIGHTNING DUST

WINNER
LUIGI

SUNSET & TWILIGHT

Sunset Shimmer teleported out of the way of a jab. She brought up a barrier in time to stop a powerful kick. The impacting force made her stumbled backwards two steps. "Every time you hit me it makes me thankful your on our side." She lifted a up a chunk of broken floor marble. Mario whipped around only to be hit by a beam to the centre of his back, flinging him into the rocketing marble. The marble stone sent Mario flying straight into the wall. The wall cracked as Sunset began applying pressure. "Twilight, NOW!" Sunset screamed. Instantly the young Alicorn shot away from the fight. Her target was the very source themselves.

Adagio Dazzle flinched at the incoming purple Alicorn. "Mari~o! Save us~!" The trio of Siren’s sang together.

Mario placed both his hands on the marble stone wall. "No you don't!" The Unicorn mare proclaimed. The marble missile began forcing Mario into wall. The red cap man began pushing back with equal or greater strength; he dug his feet into the ground for more leverage. Sweat soaked Sunset's body as Mario slowly but surely began moving forward.

"No you don't!!" She loudly repeated and summoned a bright green wall. It smashed into Mario, pinning him straight onto the wall. Mario frowned, chunks of broken marble flaked around his being, but where instantly crushed into dust from all the added pressure of Sunset’s magic wall and his resident to stay put. He calmly began walking forward under new orders.

Twilight Sparkle flew straight at the Sirens, her horn was glowing menacingly. She lifted and threw chunks of broken tiles, destroyed nearby doors, and paintings all around them. Adagio, Aria, and Sonata coughed slightly from the rising debris and dust as they avoided the thrown projectiles. Mario’s red glowing eyes shifted to their normal blue colour for a split second. A sudden red magic spark hit the throne above the Siren’s heads."Stop singing." Twilight commanded calmly.

Adagio Dazzle stood up proudly with no intensions to stop. "Mari~o, des~troy the Ali~corn!" She sang.

Mario's dark red eyes shifted to bright blue. "Mario?" Sunset Shimmer looked through the wall of magic.

Sonata Dusk flinched as Adagio and Aria rounded on her. "Sing...NOW!" Adagio ordered viciously.

She stumbled away from the two. "Pinkie Pie and the others, they've always been nice." Adagio jumped off the throne walking straight to the blue Siren pony.  "Bowser, he'll have Mario kill them all." Sonata's front hooves shook as she fought a bow. "We can't let him hurt them-"

"I said sing~!" Adagio’s angelic voice echoed through the throne room, completely cutting off Sonata’s words.

The blue Siren pony collapsed slightly, a shiver went through her body. "Stop!" Sunset Shimmer yelled across the room.

"You're hurting her!" Twilight galloped in front of Sonata placing a hoof on her back.  

Sonata clawed at her head as Adagio glared coldly. "I am your master, your queen! And I said-" The yellow mare never got to finished her claim as a brown foot slammed into the side of her head, flinging her to crash into a nearby wall.

BATTLE CASTLE CANTERLOT
THE DAZZLINGS
VS
SUNSET SHIMMER AND TWILIGHT SPARKLE
WINNER
SUNSET AND TWLIGHT

"Mario!" Twilight and Sunset proclaim in unison as the red plumber stood by, finally release from manipulation.

"You know, I’ve met a queen willing to kill her own soldiers to beat me." Mario looked at the crumpled Siren pony holding her jaw as she lay on the spot, defeated. "Shroobs, you would get along with them."

Sonata stopped her thrashing as her mind was no longer assaulted. She looked over at her fallen Siren companion. "Adagio!" She attempted to gallop to her, but was grabbed by Twilight.

Mario looked down at the red crystal hanging off Adagio’s neck.'Princess Cadance…', he thought out of realization. The yellow Siren pony watched with fear as Mario reached to her neck. "Where did you get this?" He ripped the necklace away from her.

"Why does it matter?" Aria Blaze hissed at the plumber. She quickly went over to helped Adagio to her hooves.

"I've seen these crystals before." Mario played with the necklace.

"Go back to Bowser’s forces!!" Adagio and Aria flinched from the recognizable sounding voice that boom directly towards them. Mario, Sunset, nor Twilight tried to stop the two as they slunk out of the throne room, their tails between their legs and their heads low in shame. "I should've known those three were too weak." The new figure commented as she looked at the third Siren. "Or did she just lose control of what is hers?" She looked down condescendingly at Sonata Dusk. "None of my Changelings would dare betray me. No wonder we survived where you were wiped out." She continued, further disgracing the Siren name.

Mario, Twilight, and Sunset looked at the new voice. "Chrysalis…" Twilight glared at the queen of the Changeling as she made her presence.

"A Changeling? What have I missed?" Sunset frowned as the large black Alicorn and bug-like figure walked towards them.

Mario looked at the dark purple heart encased in a silver collar hanging around Queen Chrysalis neck. "Is that the artifact Princess Cadance tried to use to defeat Bowser?" He pointed at the heart.

Twilight Sparkle squinted, looking straight at the artifact before gasping aloud. "The Crystal Heart! What happened to it!?"

"Bowser corrupted it." Mario cursed. Mario jumped to the right as a razor sharp crystal flew out of the ground, punching a hole clean through the wall behind him.

"An exhausted Alicorn and Unicorn," she looked at the two and then at Mario, "And a beaten up plumber," Chrysalis said taking note of his bruised appearance. "Do you think you can beat me?" She let a burst of her magic, anything loose in the surrounding area flung against them. Mario, Twilight, and Sunset slid backwards as the wave of magic washed over them.  "I have fed off more love then any single time in my life!"

Mario took two steps towards the Changeling Queen. "Go!" He looked back the two. "I promised the princess I would get back her artifact!" He looked up at her. "I'm taking it back!" He vowed.

Chrysalis unleashed a wave of black crystals; they cleaved through the broken stone flooring going straight for the plumber. Mario shoved Twilight and Sunset out of the way, before quickly grabbing Sonata and sailing high into the air with a jump.  He landed gently on top of crystals jutted out of the cracked marble floor. Chrysalis chuckled slightly. "It's no wonder you're Bowser's enemy."

Mario looked at the Siren in his grasp. "What is Bowser after?"

Sonata replied shakily as she looked at him. "T-the book of Tartarus!"

Twilight and Sunset flinched. "He's going try a mass break out of Tartarus!"

"Go get the book!" Mario jumped off the crystals. "Go with them." He ordered. Sonata nodded as they landed on clearer ground where Mario set the blue Siren pony down.  The three ponies ran from the room as Mario tapped the ground with his right foot. "I'm taking back the Crystal Heart!" He vowed with determination, facing toe-to-toe against the mighty Changeling; Queen Chrysalis.
> Dragon raised by ponies 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

TWILIGHT, SUNSET, & SONATA

The three mares galloped through the castle. They heard the sound of a battle going on in the empty throne room they have recently left, leaving the heroic plumber to deal with Queen Chrysalis 
alone. "He'll be okay, right?" Sonata Dusk timidly asked, looking back down the hall.

"He's very strong." Twilight Sparkle replied while looking at Sunset.

"He'll be fine, Mario beat Bowser back in the other world." Sunset Shimmer added to Twilight's statement.

HUMANE SIX

Alduin back handed Rainbow Dash, flinging her a block away. He then kicked Pinkie Pie soundly, knocking her into a nearby wall and he ended his attack with a lashing claw straight for Fluttershy. He locked onto Rarity and growled slightly. Instantly the smaller purple dragon was screening his view of her. "Friends" Spike hissed.

Spike was hip tossed by the larger red dragon. Alduin, in one quick motion, stepped on his neck. He sucked in deeply and in a second a wave of flames licked over the deep purple scales of the smaller dragon. In a flash Spike has lifted the dragon up and shoved him into his back. "Rarity!" Spike punched Alduin twice as she spoke.

Rarity timidly walked towards the two thrashing dragons. "I have a plan!" Alduin kneed Spike in the gut viscously. He then drove the smaller drake back, dragging Applejack with him who was still hanging from the backend. With a twitch of his tail Alduin sent the apple farmer into a building. "Get Rainbow Dash!" Spike roared a massive pillar of orange high into the air, stunning Alduin enough for Spike to get back to his feet. "Tell her to go to clouds!"

MANE SIX 

Fluttershy and Rarity ducked and dove as they flew above the war going on beneath them. Many of Bowser’s Koopa Troop forces rampaged throughout the city streets and homes of residents. The Royal Guards are doing their best to apprehend the invaders while many of the citizens ran from the fray, trying to evacuate or find inconspicuous hiding places. "We should help them." Fluttershy mumbled tearfully.

"We'll come back, AJ and Pinkie needs us." Her eyes traveled to a east. She could clearly see bright orange flames traveling high above the city. "Spike…" She frowned deeply. "Fighting wasn't supposed to be happening to the east…" She muttered worriedly.

Back with Applejack and Pinkie Pie, the two continued their assault on the treads of the Boomsday Machine. It slowly rolled down the street straight towards the castle. "Darn it!" Applejack grunted as she avoided a large canon ball. "Where are those two?"

Pinkie Pie kicked off the roof of a still stable building; two balloons tied to her back and manage to float gently on the towering war machine. She ran straight to the large dome on the very top. "Hello!" She waved at Bowser Jr, as she flew around the domed.

Pinkie dug into her puffy mane and pulled out one large cannon. The two large arms aimed directly at the pink pony. "Gwahahahaha!" The miniature conquer cackled. "I'll beat you element of harmony!"

Pinkie jumped back as she fired her cannon, a large twenty layer caked exploded against the glass dome completely blinding Bowser Jr. The pink party pony slowly dropped to ground level, the Boomsday Machine swung blindly. 

"Good going Pinkie!" Applejack said as Pinkie landed beside her.

"What we going to do?"

Applejack looked around; the tower of weapons had slowed down, but it was still inching forward. The large fire bar kept destroying builds with each rotation. She went to the large rubble piles.  In the fire she could see a small seed bag. Applejack tapped Pinkie, "Let's go cow tippin cuz."

HUMANE SIX

Spike kicked off the ground, shooting ten feet in the air with a single mighty wing beat. "Are you running!?" Alduin spread his wings before mimicking Spike. "We are predators!" Alduin growled. Spike plunged into the clouds. "We hunt, we kill those who would harm us!" Alduin followed after the young drake into the dark clouds.

"Dash!" Spike flew silently through the mass of pitch black clouds. "Are you in here?" Spike twisted out of the way of a ball of orange flames.

"Quit hiding from me!!" Alduin roared.

Spike squared his shoulders, "You see the difference between you and I," Spike sucked in deeply, a pale purple flame began swirl in his maw. "I was raised by the Sun and learned magic..." A powerful purple flame smashed into Alduin's back, driving him straight down towards the earth. Spike shot out of the clouds grabbing him by the neck, "from the Alicorn of Magic!" He smirked down at Alduin. "Concussive flames," Alduin flared his wings and instantly the two were twisting and turning. Spike popped his wings, "Lightning," a golden flame swirled in his mouth, "Flame!" Electricity arced through Alduin's system.

"Spike the Dragon raised by ponies." Alduin and Spike kicked apart, instantly stopping to hover twenty feet above the ground.

Spike looked down at Rarity. "She's up there." Alduin charged towards Spike, but the younger dragon reacted quickly, furling his wings. He dropped into a back flip. He popped his wide wings; he flew right by the white mare and winked at her. "Thanks." He flew in a wide arc straight up.
Alduin chased after him "What's the point of all this!?" He roared loudly.

"Dash!" He flew through the clouds, he knew he broken the sound barrier but didn't care. "I was taught to fly by the best pegasi!" He yelled back. "Rainbow!"

He felt a much smaller figure hit his side. "Yeah what do you need?" She was keeping up with him, but only just.

"Stay in the clouds. Find a real cloud and then wait for my single. Buck it with everything you have!" Spike doubled in speed, leaving the Pegasus in his wake.

She felt Alduin blast by her. 'That was close', she thought, the ever present burning on her flank from the cut aching more in these ash clouds.

Spike dipped down, each wing beat like a rowing beat in a canoe. He veered off suddenly, catching wind beneath his wings. Spike slowed dramatically, he heard Alduin shoot by him. In a split second Spike fired a ball of flames. "Over here!" Spike taunted.

"Spike." Rainbow Dash tapped his side. They both avoided a blast of flames. "How do I find a cloud?"

"Just feel around, you're magic lets you touch clouds!"

MANE SIX 

"Hey, you, over here!" Pinkie Pie yelled through a megaphone that was the size of her body. She shot back like a rocket in a pink blur avoiding a blast of wind, a bullet bill, and the fire bar swinging down at her. "You missed!" Pinkie blew a large raspberry at the Koopa prince. She dove into a partially destroyed building disappearing from sight.

"Over here!" Applejack bucked a boulder straight into the tank tread. She jumped away as a hail of bullets sprayed into the ground around her. She galloped towards a building. "Pinkie!" Applejack yelled as she slid beneath rubble.

The pink pony bounced from under a large chunk of rubble. "Yoohoo!" She ran into the opposite direction. Slowly the treads began shifting, crunching the earth beneath it.  Applejack bit into the seed bag as Pinkie bound down the street. "Here we go!" The apple farmer spit ten seeds. They flew fifty feet and arced just underneath Boomsday Machine. Jr felt the sudden lurching; a large cider tree was rapidly growing under his machine.

Pinkie Pie bounced behind a boulder before flying out from behind a boulder ten feet from Applejack. "Load and lock!" She yelled pulling a green military cap onto her head.

"PINKIE PIE!" Applejack screamed as the pink pony shoved her into the cannon. "Don't you dare!"

"FIRE!" Pinkie squealed.

The apple farmer flew high into the air, screaming "PINKIE!!" As she flew a wide arc towards the Boomsday Machine. Pinkie whipped out a large foam finger with Applejack's head printed on it. "BUCK IT CUZ!" She screamed. Applejack dipped her head into, she began front flipping wildly. She felt cannon balls and bullets bills fly by her. "Let's go AJ!" Applejack smashed hoof first into the machine. The shock wave shook Pinkie Pie.

"You're going to fall down…!" Applejack hissed at the machine.

Slowly the machine began to rise on one tread. The tree beneath its tread continues to rapidly grow. The tread groaned as pieces of metal and bolts flew from the tank tread. Applejack smiled as it began to raise and fall towards the earth. "Gotcha!" 

The earth shook as the mighty Boomsday Machine crashed into the rubble. Jr smashed head first into the glass and large clouds of dust was kicked up. "Darn those ponies…" Jr mumbled as he looked out of the dome.  

HUMANE SIX 

Spike and Alduin flew high above the city, streams of flames raced in between the two teenage dragons. The two smashed into one another with a powerful concussive shockwave. Immediately Spike was driven back by the larger dragon. "You're..." Alduin slammed Spike into the ground. "A..." He punched Spike into the stone beneath them. "Joke!!" He roared a blinding stream of flames into Spikes face, melting the stone underneath his head. Alduin took two steps away from Spike and instantly grabbing his tail. Spike was flung through a pile of stone and wood, rolling to a stop in front of Rarity. "The mighty pony dragon falls."

Spikes eyes cracked open, he looked back towards the terrified pony. He could see all of them, 'Rarity...'. His muscles protested as he rose. "…AJ…Pinkie…Fluttershy..." He looked up. "Rainbow…" Spike puffed his chest up once he’s on both of his feet. Alduin frowned deeply as he took two steps towards Spike. 

"Spike, no." Rarity jumped in-between the two dragons and was quickly flinging boulders into the large red drake with her magic. "Stay away from him you great beasty!"

Spike calmly pushed the pony out of the way. "Little dragon." Alduin taunted coolly.
Spike squared his shoulders and flared his wings. Finally, he unleashed a bone chilling, eardrum shattering, earth quaking "ROAR!!!!!!"

 MANE SIX 

Rarity dug through the half collapsed shop. "Hurry!" Fluttershy urged her friend from outside. "If you don't mind…" She added timidly.

"I'm going as fast as I can!" Rarity irritably replied. Her horn glowing a faint baby blue colour as she dug for gems. Both ponies froze; a loud roar shook the alabaster mare to her core. "Spike!" She cried out helplessly.

In an instant Rarity was running out of the half destroyed building. Two butter coloured hooves wrapped around her neck tightly. "Calm down Rarity." Fluttershy soothingly hugged Rarity.
"But Spikey…" She muttered.

"Spike has always been strong. You have to trust him, just like always trusts you."
Rarity took three deep breaths, her heart rate slowing to a controlled manner. "Ok." She galloped back into the collapsed store. "Be careful my dragon."

HUMANE SIX 

Spike smashed shoulder first into Alduin. The two dragons thrashed for a split second. Spike spread his wings, and in an instant he was shooting high into the air. Alduin raced after him as Spike pierced the clouds with a soft ’Whoomp’. Alduin stopped abruptly; he began a wide circle below the ash clouds. "Not this time!" He rumbled.

"Dash!?" The purple dragon called into the ash cloud.

"I found a cloud!" Came the reply from behind him.

"Follow me." Spike ordered as he furled his large wings.

Alduin watched the dark clouds carefully and saw a single baby blue light shines through the cloud. In an instant a ball of blue flames smashed into his chest. "Little dragon!" Alduin screeched. A second ball slammed into the center of his chest. "Come out and fight!" A third ball hit him in the face. A bright blue ball shot out of the clouds, but Alduin quickly raised his hands to block the flames.

Upon contact with the dragon's scales the ball exploded a blinding shimmering blue orb. Alduin roared loudly, a river of orange flames punched through it. Spike instantly shot into Alduin, sending him flying straight back. A blur of purple caught up to Alduin. Sucking in deeply Spike smirked. "Got..." Alduin threw a blind right slash. With a wing beat, the young drake widened the gap avoiding the slash. He released a blast of emerald flames, blinding the large red dragon.

"Where are you!" Alduin yelled, as his vision returned a second later.

"...you!" Spike flew into a Full Nelson. "Dash!" Spike bellowed loudly. Alduin thrashed wildly, powerful wing beats knocking Spike off balance. The tiny pegasi flew out of the clouds, pushing a tiny grey cloud. The two dragons continued their slow decent.

"What do I do!?" Rainbow Dash cried out desperately.

"Buck it!" Spike shouted in reply. Rainbow Dash swung a jab, sending a bright gold bolt of lightning into the middle of Alduin's chest. The two dragons roared in pain. "I said BUCK IT!!" Spike roared. "Hard!"

Rainbow Dash flew up getting ten feet above the cloud. Alduin's eyes flashed dangerously. "No you don't!" Spike twisted, just in the nick of time. Alduin sent a large stream of flames into the earth below.

Spike closed his eyes, time seemed to freeze, a sensation of calmness passed throughout his system. He could make out the whizz of Rainbow Dash breaking the sound barrier, each wing beat heard, the deep rumbling of Alduin beneath him. He looked at the war torn streets below him and he could make out ponies running from the battle. He could see a large half crumpled tower, 'Rares', he thought sadly. The once majestic white marble castle, a pale imitation of its former glory, came into his view in the far distance. He looked down at the terrified expression of the four former humans. 'Now!'. The cloud exploded into a blazing golden ray. The entire city was instantly illuminated by the shaft of energy.

Spike thought of all his friends, the studious princess, the apple bucking ace, the show pony turned royal guard, the party pony, and animal lover. Ending his train of thought was an image of a white mare, chasing her until she finally relented, trying to make their first date perfect, their first kiss, opening her boutique in Canterlot, waking to her beside him, and helping her find gems.
'Her smile'. The pillar of electricity collided with two dragons.

BATTLE OF THE EAST 
WINNER SPIKE AND THE HUMANE FIVE 

> The Fall
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

LUIGI 

The green capped plumber sailed across the roof tops. He could feel the earth shaking under his foot falls. "Bowser..." He timidly muttered. The tremors of nervousness in his hand continued to grow. Luigi shook his head to rid himself of doubt. He stopped and looked up; a massive fireball shot into the air and it was arcing towards the castle. Luigi tracked it as the flaming ball punched into the tower of castle, causing structured damage and chunks of pieces to fall apart.

"Help..." The voice was barely audible.

Luigi jumped off the roof. "Hello!" He called out.

"Help…," Luigi turned and looked around the empty streets. "Please help..."

Luigi followed the voice into a small cellar door just off the streets. "I'm coming!" Luigi ran up to the cellar door. "Are you in here?"

"Yes!"

As Luigi tugged at the door he heard the wood creak and groan with each tug. "Ok, I’mma coming." The door was instantly ripped off its hinges as the younger plumber tugged powerfully. A series of cracks echoed through the house, which Luigi instantly jumped to the bottom of the stairwell and caught a large support beam that became loose with ease. "Hello!" He yelled. He followed the beam’s structured path. "I'm here!"

"Here!" Luigi looked through the dark.  Half buried was a small mare, her mane was a deep mahogany and body a was golden yellow with bright blue eyes, dulled with exhaustion.  "My filly...." Luigi saw underneath her chin was a tiny baby blue filly. "Just take her." She wheezed weakly.

Luigi frowned at the young looking mare. He looked across the basement. "Give me a minute." He walked along the support beam. Luigi felt electricity course through his system, a pleasurable tingle travelled down his spine and into his legs. With a sharp push, the support beam Luigi was carrying was thrown into air. A sudden bright blue flash blinded the helpless mare.

Luigi ran across the cellar and slid underneath another collapsed beam. He slid into filly, wrapping his arms around the tiny pony and quickly raced across the basement. Luigi arced through cellar coming to a sliding stop two feet outside. The green plumber whipped around and in a flash he was back in the basement catching the support beam he tossed earlier. Luigi panted as he stopped in front of the pinned mare. "She's safe," Luigi smiled kindly down at the mare. "She'll need her mom though."

She smiled weakly, "Thank you."

Luigi released his grip on the support beam, holding it with his right hand only. Digging into the front his overalls, he pulled a red and white mushroom. "Here eat this, it will heal you some." Luigi tossed the mushroom towards her muzzle.

She slowly bit into the mushroom taking small nicks and scrapes. Then her weak eyes brightened and her coat shone slightly. "Whoa!" She mumbled to herself. "What was that?" She asked looking into the plumbers bright blue eyes.

"Super Mushroom." Luigi simply replied. He stood on one leg and swung his foot towards the mare. "Bite down, I’m going to tear you out of there." Luigi vowed.  She stretched her neck and bit down on the brown shoe; Luigi and her met eyes, a simple nod was all the Italian plumber needed. The house groaned, wood and stone buckled, and the chunks of plaster crack against his back. The smell of dust and earth mixed together as nails bounced off the ground.

He heard the house scream in protest; his entire body arced with electricity once again. With a tug she flew from rubble and Luigi twisted his body, she flew into his waiting arms. Luigi flashed a bright blue and the two rolled into the empty street, just in time as the whole cellar collapse within itself.
The young mare stopped coughing once the dust finally settled and she looked at her filly. "You saved us." She whispered, she felt an immense weight melt away from her back.

Luigi stood up happily. "No problem. You should make your way from the fighting." Luigi stated simply. He picked up the filly and gently strokes her fur. "She's great, keep her safe."

"Where are you going?" The mare wrapped her jaw around the back of the filly's neck.

"I'm going to stop this." Luigi was about to leap onto a nearby roof when the mare hugged him tightly.

"Stay safe." She whispered fearfully
.
"I'm Luigi." He replied simply. "My Bro and me, we do this daily."

"I'm Daisy." She introduced herself.

RAINBOW DASH 

The Pegasus crashed face first into the road, sliding twenty feet on the pavement before stopping. "Ouch...ouch...well at least all this pain means I'm alive…" Rainbow Dash moaned. In a blur she rolled out of the way from of a massive talon. She kicked off and in a blink of an eye she smashed hoof first into Gilda.

Rainbow Dash drove Gilda into the ground in a rainbow streak blur as she dragged Gilda two hundred feet before flinging the griffin into a wall. Gilda smashed through the stone and rolled across the cobble stone. Gilda looked up, stumbling to her bearings on foot. "Your beak!" Gilda didn’t react in time from Rainbow’s voice. She watched a hoof swinging straight towards her dangerous looking beak. Gilda was back-flipped head first into the ground, the cobblestone exploded under her head.  She winced as she bounced five feet into the air. She flinched, a small hoof smashed into her side "Ribs!" Gilda twisted wildly flying away from Rainbow Dash.

The Pegasi then disappeared. Gilda managed to track the pony as she flew straight at her. 'Not this time!', Gilda thought.

The two swung right hooks. "Chin!" Talon met blue fur, hoof met feathered face.
The two hung in the air, glaring at one another, their hoof and talon respectively still buried in one another's face. In union the two shot away from another, Rainbow Dash corkscrewed through a half collapsed building.

MANE SIX 

Pinkie and Applejack looked at the machine laying on its side. Both ponies panting in exhaustion; Pinkie collapsed on Applejacks back. "So tired, let's go eat shawarma." Pinkie sighed loudly. "Or pie, maybe a pink pie, made by a Pinkie....." The earth began to shake underneath the ponies. "So…pie later?"

The tower’s arms popped from its side, two large boxing gloves began slamming into the earth.  It threw its arms high above the two ponies. "RUN!" Applejack grabbed Pinkie Pie and the two tore down the street. With a mighty punch the Boomsday Machine rose high above the ponies once more.

"GWA HAHAHA!" Jr laughed condescendingly. The front of the machine opened revealing a series of cannons.  Applejack and Pinkie Pie raced away from the tower of weapons. "I'm going to blow you away!"

"Why?" Pinkie asked loudly.

The younger Koopa Prince frowned at the pink pony. "Because we're enemies!" He screeched in reply.

"Well, we can be friends, right?" Pinkie quirked her eyebrow in his general direction.

Bowser Jr snorted at her statement. "No!" All the cannons locked onto the pink party pony!”

She moved her head slightly. "Why not?" Her puffy pink mane was half its normal size.

"Because we're on different sides, you're siding with the MARIO brothers my arch rivals!!" He screamed at Pinkie.

"But we can still be friends; I don't like all my friend’s friends." She explained confidently. "So why not be friends with me?"

"You are getting on my nerves!" Bowser Jr grumbled.

"Pinkie stop." Apple Jack whispered into her ear.

Pinkie Pie whipped around on the apple farmer. "Sorry." She quickly shoved Applejack aside; the farmer didn't have time to react.

Rolling behind a rock the apple farmer rolled out down the block away from the two. "Pinkie Pie! What just..."

Pinkie looked up at the Boomsday Machine. "Ready the cannons..." Bowser Jr fiddled with buttons.

Pinkie Pie puffed her chest "Wait, wait!" She yelled.

"WHAT!?" Jr roared down on her. 

"Can you just wait a minute!?" Pinkie Pie asked calmly.

Ten more cannons erupted from the middle of the Boomsday Machines body. "No!"

Pinkie watched as cannons ignited. The menacing faces of Banzai Bills and the angry eyes Bullet Bills shot out of their cannons. A butter coloured blur smashed into Pinkie Pie and quickly shot up with the pink pony in toe. Missile Bills homed in on the two, but the buttery blur twisted, driving the two bills together. She shot over the Boomsday Machine, avoiding the ten cannon balls. She zigzagged, blurred in and out of existence as the Bills chased after her. "FLUTTERSHY!" Pinkie exclaimed happily.

The butter coloured injured mare frowned at her mate she was holding bridal style. "Pinkie you could've been...." The worrisome Pegasi looked down at the party planner with tears in her eyes.
Pinkie gently kissed Fluttershy on the cheek. "I knew you would save me." She stated simply.

RAINBOW DASH 

Rainbow Dash frowned as she avoided wild strikes swung by the larger griffon. Her heart raced in her chest, her focus remained on the hovering griffon. In an instant Gilda closed the gap, swinging her vicious talons with crippling intent. Rainbow shot back with speed rivaling a cannon ball. She banked into the wall knocking four Koopa Troopas and a Goomba to the earth below. "Hold the line. I'm ending the griffon assault...." Her deep red eyes went to Gilda. "Stop this Gilda!" Rainbow pleaded. "I don't want to hurt you."

The entire wall shook as the griffon smashed fist first into Rainbow Dash's cheek. The small Pegasi crashed head first into the ground, digging a five foot ditch in the cracked stone. In a blink of an eye Gilda was on top of Rainbow Dash. Two punches drove Rainbow’s head into the earth. Gilda closed her eyes as she rained punches down on the helpless pony. "Dash..." For a moment Gilda stopped her onslaught. She shook her head, "You ponies, lording over all of the other races, like we're nothing but, but..." She swung a punch down with a sickening crunch. "Like we're animals!" She wrapped her talons around Rainbow’s neck, slowly applying pressure on the Pegasi's neck, cutting into her flesh slightly. "Well guess what, we're sick and tired of-"

"Shut up..." Gilda's eyes instantly dropped to the pony beneath. "You're a broken record." Rainbow bucked powerfully, sending Gilda high into the air. "Celestia has done nothing but try to integrate all of the other races into Equestria, but you and your kind spat in her face!" Rainbow pushed off the ground. "I'm done hearing you whine about us." Rainbow's wings popped open. The Pegasi felt power flow through body, her wings spread wide. Bones cracked, her men watched with wide eyed terror. The earth exploded beneath her as she took to the air.

Gilda didn't have time to even raise a talon to block. To a regular eye, it would've looked like Gilda was sent spinning by a shockwave. Gilda popped her wings open hanging high above the Koopa war machine and troops. "Where is....." A Rainbow shockwave smashed into the unprepared griffin.
"Sonic Rainboom!" The soldiers of Equestria streamed from the wall, pride echoing in their voice.
"I'm not done yet!" Rainbow Dash exploded from the shockwave. On impact with Gilda a second shockwave ripped through the Koopa Troop armada. Gilda twisted and turned as she raced towards the earth. "One more time!" Like a beam of pure energy Rainbow Dash flew into Gilda's gut. The soldiers on the wall watched in awe, three massive waves of rainbow coloured energy spun in air, clouds split revealing the sun shining brilliantly. The earth cracked underneath the series of powerful shockwaves. Everything seemed calm; a crack shook the Koopa Troop forces. Screams and shouts echoed as the rainbow coloured cloud slammed into their lines. It immediately began sailing into a large rainbow coloured tornado.

Sixty seconds passed as the rainbow swirled dangerously the Royal Guards barely remained on the wall as a powerful twister spun against the barricade. The wall cracked and chunks were thrown into the city. The rainbow tornado slowly dissipated. The soldiers slowly crawled up, and as they began looking over the wall their mouths hung open. Hanging in the air was a single Pegasi over a rainbow smoldering crater. The Koopa war machines flung like toys hundreds of feet in every direction, Koopas, Goombas, Changlings, Unicorns, Griffon, Earth Pony, and Pegasus remained strewn across the land. "RAINBOW DASH!" Cheered loudly from the wall.

"Maybe I went a little overboard…" She mumbled before falling unconscious, smiling as she heard her soldiers cheering.

MANE SIX 

Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie flew high above the Boomsday Machine. Underneath the spire of metal and stone sat a single Unicorn and Earth Pony. "What's your plan to crack that dome?" Applejack asked Rarity.

"You buck it," she then pulled a large highly pointed diamond, "and we drill straight through!"
Rarity and Applejack watched the two avoiding canon fire. "How am I gonna get to up there?" She questioned curiously. Fluttershy swooped down dropping Pinkie Pie next to the two before flying back up to the Boomsday Machine.

"Ok, Pinkie, Party Cannon!" Rarity ordered the pink pony instantly. Her horn began to glow a faint blue colour and gems danced out of her saddlebag. "We only get one shot Pinkie, so be a dear and don't miss!"

Pinkie saluted the Unicorn, atop her head was a military helmet with her cutie mark stamped on it. "Aye, aye sir!"

Fluttershy flew around to the opposite side of the Boomsday Machine. 'Keep him distracting!', she canted a continuous mantra in her head. Her wings ached, she was terrified, but her friends needed her and she refused to let them down.

Diamonds after diamonds slammed into the dome, bouncing harmless off of the thick glass. 'Come on, just give', sweat poured down the Unicorn’s brow as she continuously used her magic, 'They need me!'. She growled faintly, her horn began glowing brighter. She was drenched in sweat, her hooves ached, and her mane was messy. But she refused to give, with a powerful blast of magic a diamond tore out of bag knocking Rarity onto her flank. The diamond shimmered; it smashed into the dome cracking it lightly. It slowly began rotating as Rarity began applying pressure on it.

Pinkie giggled. "We're up!" She closed one eye taking aim at the small diamond. She caught a glimpse of Fluttershy and gave a sideways glance to Rarity. 'We can do this', she thought confidently. She laughed as she blasted Applejack up to the dome.

The apple farmer twisted as she curled into a tight ball. She got closer and closer. 'We're taking you down partner!', she thought coolly. She arced straight towards the diamond, her hindlegs positioned for landing. Applejack was tired and injured, but she refused to relent and she refused to let her friends down. A bang made its way to Rarity’s and Pinkie Pie’s ears. A large spider web-like crack spread across the glass dome. Applejack felt the diamond began to cut into the window. Bowser Jr whipped around as the crack spread into his view.

Fluttershy turned immediately and witness the large arms shifted into cannons. She flapped her wings powerfully towards the dome. "Gwahahaha!" Jr giggled loudly. “You girls should've stayed out of my way!" He taunted Applejack. Fluttershy swung her front hoof out. "But whatever, dad will be proud that I beated this world’s greatest protectors. Not Mario, but almost as-" The sound of glass shattered interrupted his monologue. Jr turned back to the butter coloured mare, right into a hoof punch, sending the Koopa prince flying out of the Boomsday Machine. "AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!" He screamed as he fell towards the two ponies. Pinkie Pie fired her Party Cannon, a large cake blinded Jr. The Koopa a series of stone punch into his gut sending him tumbling back to the earth wildly.
Bowser Jr slammed head first into the ground before rolling onto his shell thrashing violently. "Owwwwie! How did you beat me!!" He thrashed childishly. "Ah man, dads gonna be mad!" He rubbed his head weakly. The two mares were about to pounce on the young prince, but he exploded into a large purple cloud.

Battle of the Canterlot Streets
Winner: Mane Six 

LUNA 

The lunar princess swerved wildly, dodging fireballs as she did. Bowser chucked Discord in her direction. "Take your idiot!" He bellowed loudly. Discord grinned as he snapped his talons, the earth opened like a mouth. The Koopa King barely had time to leap as the street opened up beneath him. Bowser swung wildly as his large claws buried up to his knuckles slowing his decent. The Tyrant dug deep earthy walls. His muscles tightened as he made a powerful jump. Bowser watched the two walls collapse inward; he was reaching towards the dark clouds. He gave one last mighty roar before the earth silenced him.

"That's got to stop him." Discord looked up at the princess. "Milady!" He bowed to her.

"Thou art as powerful as ever." Luna landed beside the chaos god.

"Why thank you!" As Discord began to hover the cobblestone ground blow started melting back into its pristine state.

That's when the two felt it, a small tremor. They watched a small uneven crack in the cobblestone spread. Luna spread her wings wide, Discord shot into the air as series of fireworks crackling brilliantly behind. The centre spot on the earth glow a faint orange before exploding in a molten tower of flames. "ROARRRRRRRR!!" Bowser flew high into the air. With a sharp twist he sent a powerful multi-coloured shockwave towards the lunar princess. 

Luna felt her magic surge through her system as four bright blue beams erupted from her horn. They both went a hundred feet before exploding in a shimmering blue barrier. As the purple wave met the blue barrier a blinding light illuminated the entirety of Canterlot, the power of the lunar princess was felt across the four corners of Equastria. Celestia chest clenched tightly "Luna!" She cried, tears poured down her cheeks as she stare straight at the source. Luigi continued bouncing towards the epicenter of the distorted energy wave. Twilight Sparkle, Sunset Shimmer, and Sonata Dusk stopped their running as the power washed through them. The unconscious Pegasi flinched in her sleep, the four ponies lying down beside the Boomsday Machine stood up. For a split second, Mario and Queen Chrysalis looked towards the light. "So the little sister’s power is finally coming, showing its potential." Chrysalis simply stated.

The air crackled with magic as the light finally died. Princess Luna touched down looking around the streets. Sweat soaked her body, every part of her body ached, from the tip of her tail to her horn. Her eyes drooped with exhaustion. Luna felt her legs wobble under her body. A black cloud appeared in front of blue Alicorn, instantly the princess felt a claw wrap around her throat. Bowser materialized from the cloud, his eyes glowing with anger. A low rumbling growl shook his chest. "Gwahahahaha!" He laughed maniacally. "You thought you could beat the great and powerful Bowser!" He roared right in her face. "I'm just too, awesome too powerful....too BOWSER!!"
Bowser flew back, the pony princess exploded into a glowing blue and black form. "My power..." Her eyes glowed a bright blue wave of pure magic ripped into the unsuspecting Koopa King. "I can't control it!"  

Bowser slid across earth "This one...." Bowser frowned throwing his massive claw in the beams path. Two thunderous steps echoed through the empty street as he pressed foward. "She's more powerful then the sun princess!" Bowser shoulder charged towards the princess, each footfall shaking the city around him. Discord stood up after being knocked senseless from the immense energy wave. He stared between the two titanic beings of power. He could see Luna giving, her power wavering. 'Snap'. Instantly, the two switched locations, Discord cast a glance back at Luna.

"Discord!!" Princess Luna screamed, snapping instantly out of her power reverie. Bowser slammed into the lanky chaos god, his spikes digging into him deeply.

The Koopa King snatched him up by the neck and raised him to his eye level. "You should've stayed out of this!" He began applying pressure to the chaos god’s throat. With a mighty swing Bowser threw Discord into the stone street with a bone shattering force. Bowser leaped high into the air, he stopped abruptly and slammed butt first; his infamous Bowser Bomb. Discord was wide eyed, the heavy weight of the Koopa tyrant crushing his stomach. Discord chuckled to himself, never once knowing this much physical pain. The stone beneath shattered into a million fragments.
Luna's horn crackles with magic as she attempted to drive the Koopa King off Discord. "Not enough magic…" Luna felt the hairs on her back stand up.

The air crackled with electricity. Bowser stood up looking around, aware of the all too familiar signs of the electric current in the air. "Green Cap!" He bellowed.

A blue bolt of electricity erupted from a roof top smashing into Bowser's gut and sending him flying straight through a stoned home. The Alicorn princess and severally injured chaos god looked at Luigi. His body crackled with electricity. "Princess…" His voice low and timid and his posture showing how terrified he was. But Luigi still stood; he was in between the princess and king. "You should go take him with you." Luigi shook as he heard stones and wood shifted from the recently struck Koopa King.

Bowser walked out of the collapsed building. "The Pegasus failed…!" He motioned towards Luigi. Bowser roared loudly "This is not a fight!" He swung his meaty fist into the earth, causing a miniature earthquake. "I am too great to lose to the Green Cap!!"
Luigi raised his fist, his hands shaking "Let's.....a go!"

Battle of West City
Winner: Bowser  

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     The inner sanctions of Canterlot Castle were in outright terrible conditions if not the outside exteriors weren’t a clear sign. Many of its windows have shattered letting in passing breezes that carried the smell of burning fire and tainted smog. The passages of hallways are in need of new reconstruction for its many torn walls that have been punched clean through into other connected rooms. The once pristine flooring is now covered with chunks of debris and fallen parts of the castle in all angles. Canterlot Castle, once a place that is a sight for sore eyes, has become a hollow shell that’s empty of any life form…with the exception for two beings.

Mario slid away from the larger Changeling Queen assaults. "You’re strong, powerful even. I can taste it! Your rage…the righteous fury!" Chrysalis taunted the plumber. "Your strength and your emotions, they feed me." The Crystal Heart glinted in dim light of the destroyed throne room.

Mario frowned deeply; his fist shook as they began circling one another, a predatory glint in Changeling’s eyes being mirrored by the anger in the plumber’s. "I don't care; I made Princess Mi Amore Cadenza a promise!" Mario quickly withdraws and swung his hammer, just as Chrysalis sent a black crystal sized cannon ball straight at him, deflecting the crystal elsewhere. "Nothing you say will change that!" He promised her defiance, evident in his tone.

She chuckled slightly. "You can't win; we're in a super conducting loop."

Mario quirked a questionable eyebrow upward at that statement. "A what?" He asked simply.
Chrysalis replied by slamming her hoof onto the ground. Mario had no time to react as a formalized hoof crystal arm burst from ground. Mario was flung high into the air by the impact, arcing straight into a upper part of the throne room’s wall with a resounding 'Bang' . Mario then looked up just as ten basketball sized crystals hit him like a freight train. The wall caved, flinging the plumber into garden. The red plumber rolled across the ground, groaning slightly as he came to a stop. He shook his head and got to his feet. "You don't understand plumber." He looked up at Chrysalis flying towards him. "The more you fight the stronger your emotions and the more powerful I get."
Suddenly, a ray of light pulsing with magic emitted from the distances caught both their attention. "So the little sister’s power is finally showing its potential." Chrysalis muttered to herself. Taking this advantage, Mario closed the gap, leaping towards his assailant. A shockwave shook the garden when Mario's fist smashed into the thick crystal barrier that the gangly Queen summoned.

Mario then kicked off the shield, fluidly landed on the ground with a handstand, and then springs himself away from the five thick darts of black crystals that Chrysalis formulated and shot at him. He landed on the balls of his feet and parried to left with practiced ease. Mario dove and ducked behind a tree as a large spike skewered through it, the tip only an inch above the mustachio’s head.

LUIGI 

Luigi faced down the tyrant King Bowser, the wind became calm for this moment of tension. He clenched his fist tightly, his knuckles cracklings with electricity. The Koopa King paid no mind to the fallen lunar princess nor the collapsed chaos god. "Green cap." Bowser greeted simply, taking two earth quaking steps towards the plumber. In a bright blue flash Luigi closed the gap. But this time Bowser was prepared with a back hand, sending the green cap bouncing into the street. Sliding to a stop hundreds of feet away in a smoldering mass, Luigi quickly shot up to his feet. Feeling the earth quaking foot falls of Bowser’s approach, Luigi jumped back avoiding a cleaving claw. He then jumped up and placed a solid kick to Bowser’s nose, making him flinched away. The large Koopa roared loudly, sending a river of flames out of his maw.

Luigi cart wheeled behind a stone. Closing his eyes he felt intense heat quickly spreading and the boulder began darkening. Luigi looked around; he saw a beam of stone half hanging out of a damaged building. The youngest brother crossed his arms in front of his face and focused, a pale green bubble formed around his being. He then jumped out from behind the stone, jumping straight at Bowser with purpose, his newly formed barrier protecting him from the blazing flames. Luigi landed a powerful left hook sending the massive Koopa to roll across the street and smashing shell first into a building. "Greenie!" Bowser shouted as he looked up; balancing atop a beam stood Luigi.

Bowser shook himself loose and shot into the air. Luigi reacted and jumped off the beam soaring upwards, his hands crackled with electricity. "Thunderrrr!" Luigi proclaimed. Bowser smashed through the stone at this point, flying straight into the cyan lightning bolt. Bowser was slammed back into the ground violently shaking the surrounding area. A sudden loud snap and creaking emitted. He looked up, just in time to witness the very same house he crashed into slowly collapsed on top of him.

MARIO 

The red cap man ran straight at Chrysalis. He front-flip over a jagged spike and slammed foot first into the thick crystal wall. A sharp kick from Mario sent himself back-flipping away from a series of spires erupting from the crystal barrier being produced by the Changeling. He landed on the soft earth before rolling away twice in session, dodging boulders made of crystals. Mario’s thoughts ran a mile per second as he formulated a plan while keeping his pace to avoid getting speared. He came upon a water filled fountain and jumped over it, the Changeling Queen followed his lightning fast movements. "What are you doing, plumber?" She tauntingly asked the running Mario. The red cap looked back as he long jumped through a broken window leading back inside one of the castle’s corridors. She followed, pursuing the human through the window…only to fly straight into a flying kick sending the Queen into the fountain, destroying it into pieces and rubble, splattering water everywhere. She got up, shaking her drenched long mane and soaking wet body. "That won't work again, plumber!" Chrysalis spat displeasingly.

Mario threw out his hand creating a fire ball in his palm. "Fire!" He chanted loudly. He tossed it across the gap. Chrysalis smiled as she casually batted it back with a large chunk of a crystal. Mario pulled out his hammer and swung into the fireball, sending it back at a faster pace and making it larger in the process. The red hot flame bounced between the two, every retuning hit from Mario got the fireball larger and faster.  In a bright flash of gold, red, and orange Chrysalis was over taken by the massive flaming orb. An explosion shook the foundation.

TWILIGHT, SUNSET, & SONATA 

The Alicorn, Unicorn and the ponified blue Siren galloped through the dungeons of Castle Canterlot. Most of the torches where out, however the remaining few were still lite casting large shadows which danced on the walls and floors. The trio have been travestying for a good while. Fortunately, they haven’t stumble across any invading forces of both Bowser’s and Chrysalis’s armies, making their destination simple with no insignificant distractions. "The book of Tartarus is kept in the deepest dungeon." Sunset Shimmer explained to Sonata Dusk. 

Twilight Sparkle watched dust fly from every crevices of the castle’s underground cavern as a sudden shockwave ripped through it. "We should hurry up." They stumbled as the shockwave shook loose bricks and mortars from the castle. "Sunset, the castle can't survive much more of their battle!" The purple Alicorn voiced her concerns.

Sunset coughed in the clouds of mortar. "We have to trust Mario, he can beat her." Sunset replied confidently.

MARIO 

The red capped plumber dusted himself off as the dust cleared and the miniature fire spread snuffed out. The moment he lowered his guard a fist sized crystal barreled into Mario's belly, flinging him backwards on the dirt ground. He rolled back to his feet instantly, but fell down on a knee and clenched his stomach as he starts to slowly regain his lost breath. He looked up straight into the large black shell of the Queen. Remarkably, she looked almost unfazed. A few noticeable deep scorch marks that almost blended with her exoskeleton, but nothing major of results came from his fire attack.

"I am done toying with you, plumber!" Chrysalis seethed through her teeth. Mario’s eyes lock-on to a incoming funnel cloud of Changelings with a sense of trepidation. Mario felt a tingle travel down his spine and he rose his foot just as Chrysalis screamed her command. "My Changelings, attack!" A Changeling in front of Mario was blasted back by his powerful kick to its head, denting its armor-like exoskeleton.

"Fire!" Mario yelled, knocking back a second Changeling with an explosive flaming palm strike. "Mario.... Tornado!" He then jumped high into air, flying into the centre of the funnel cloud. One by one Changelings flew out of the cloud as Mario beat them with rapid series of kicks and punches. With a sudden punch by one of the swarm members Mario was sent crashing to the earth. Without delay, the plumber was instantly backed on his feet with two balls of flames in his hand. "Mario Finale!" Two swirling streams of flames shot high into the air, the force of the attack pierced through the swarm. Cries and screeches went off like an alarm in Mario’s ears from the unfortunate ones to get caught in the blast and started dropping like flies. But as soon as the fire dispersed a wave of Changelings hit him, pinning the red plumber to the earth beneath him. Laser beams, jabs, kicks, and feral snarls hit Mario in all angles in quick session, his vision so obscured by these blacken bug-horses he was blind. The plumber swung wild hay makers, knocking them back for space, but nothing seems to make the pileup less dense.

Mario swung his fist in front of his face forming a crimson bubble, offering him a slight reprieve from the mass of black assaults. He had very little time to relax, the adrenaline in his veins giving him slight fuel to hold the barrier and he can feel his heartbeat starting to increase. The plumber looked around himself for any weakness in the swarm; their glinting fangs and blue eyes peer at him with all intentions to break through his shield, and they grouped themselves all around the miniature dome, their buzzing insect wings still very audible to hear. With little choice, Mario knew of one possible outcome. He smirked and released the barrier and quickly followed up with a spin. The Changelings took the bait and tried to latch themselves onto the plumber, only to receive painful contacts on their faces as swinging fists and swung kicks flew all around within each Spin Jump. With a twist and a loud, "WaHOOO!", Mario forced himself to spin harder and spun into a small tornado, knocking them back without giving away an opening.

"ENOUGH!" The cloud of Changelings dispersed instantly at the command. Mario stopped the moment the swarm backed away and took deep breaths regain some lost energy. He looked around, the Changelings stood in place awaiting their next orders as they surrounded Mario in a wide circle. "Plumber!" Mario looked up and frowned at what he saw; a crystal ball almost the size of a single house and beneath the ball flew Chrysalis. A simple plus of her magic and slowly the ball began moving.

"Oh no!" Mario swung his hands upwards. The crystal ball slammed into his open palms. His hands shook as he just barely managed to keep it from plugging into the castle grounds, the cracks underneath him stretched far, as the castle foundations struggled to keep the weight of the ball from collapsing the floor beneath Mario.

TWILIGHTS, SUNSET, & SONATA 

The three mares stopped as the castle shook violently, large cracks stretched down the walls and across the ceiling. "What's happening?" Sonata squeaked out.

"Look out!" Twilight Sparkle tackled the frighten Siren as chunk of the ceiling collapsed. The two rolled out of the way in the nick of time. "We need to head up. If the castle collapses we could...."

"No if that Bowser gets the book...." Sunset Shimmer spoke up, her eyes glancing down. "We'll lose more than a couple cities if he frees the creatures in Tartarus." The orange pony finished. She looked down the winding maze like structure of the dungeon knowing full well what she would risk if she kept going. "Go." She said simply. "Take Sonata."

Twilight flinched away from Sunset Shimmer’s words. "Sunset…what about you?"

"I'll keep going, get the book, then hopefully the teleportation block will collapse and go I'll straight to mom." Without another word, Sunset started to galloped.

Twilight Sparkle watched the Unicorn for a split second before she chased after her, with Sonata trailing after them. "I'm not letting you go alone." She told the surprised Unicorn. "I've came face to face with dying too many times to leave a friend because of it."

Sunset Shimmer smiled slightly. "Thank you, Princess Twilight."

The three jumped over a portion of the ceiling which had completely collapsed. Making a left hand turn they came to a long hallway which stretched far down to a single wooden door. The door itself was half opened. A long stream of lights coming from the room was the only light in the hallway. Sunset lite up her horn in cautiousness. "Someone beat us…", she looked at the stone in front of the door. "…Mom once put a wall in front of the door…". Sunset slowly trotted down the hallway. After a quiet two minutes towards the door Sunset squatted down. She crept towards the door slowly, Twilight and Sonata following after her. She moved her head to look through the crack when...

BOOM 

The door exploded, flinging the hapless Unicorn into the Siren, knocking them both aside. Out of the room flew a spinning pink shell. Twilight didn't have time to react as the shell hit her square in the muzzle.

"Oh!" A feminine voice echoed down the hall with disappoint in her voice. "I was hoping for my green capped mustachio…" Twilight looked up at her attacker. The pink princess of the Koopas swung her wand in small circles. She had a pink shell and large golden earrings and bracelets on her wrist, and atop her bald scalp was a large pink bow. She had large pink glossed lips and sharp baby blue eyes. Her red heels clicked against the ground as she walked towards the frozen in place Sonata. The young Alicorn princess spotted a large brown, leather bound book slung under her arm. The Koopaling slapped the Siren viciously. "Daddy won't be happy to hear that you betrayed him!" She looked down on the quivering blue pony. "But he will be happy I brought you back." She reached down towards Sonata. "Really, did you think a Unicorn and a Princess stood a chance against me?" She grabbed the Siren’s mane and dragged her across the cold stone flooring, avoiding cracks as Sonata was powerlessly to protect herself. "Really, that Mario is pushing that Changeling Queen this far!" She sighed loudly. Then the Koopaling’s expression turned dreamy. "Luigi, my green cap…" She casually tossed Sonata down the long passageway before gleefully dancing towards her. "My greenie, how I-" She stopped abruptly, a faint green aura around her body. "The Unicorn!" As if fired from a cannon she was thrown back into the room, shattering the glass case the once held the Book of Tartarus.

Sunset trotted into the large cavernous room. Suddenly the only female Koopaling jumped out from behind the pedestal, swinging her wand with a broad stroke and sending a beam straight at Sunset, but the Unicorn was prepared, creating a bubble of green energy around her body. "Sunset Shimmer!" Twilight stood by her side as the Koopaling landed.

Sunset glared coolly at Wendy O. Koopa. "What's with the face?" Wendy taunted, tapping the ground with her wand, the jeweled tip omitting a glow of magic. Cold air crashed into Sunset and Twilight, making them have to resist the urge to shiver from sudden temperature drop. A layer of ice formed and spread around the room’s floor. "You should've let me go." Ice skates then popped out of Wendy’s heels. "Really, I'm not one for fighting, but it seems fighting is the only way to get my darlings attentions." She skated around the room sending small multi-coloured spells towards the two in the form of pinkish fireballs. "So, I've gotten pretty good...-" She suddenly doubled her speed, casting larger spells and moving along the ices in quicker pace. "-at it!" The two were shocked when she skipped off the wall, twisting as she withdraws into her shell.

Twilight created a barrier in preparation. Wendy smashed into her shielding, the impact produce sparks and shook the ground slightly. Smiling to herself, the Koopaling bounced straight at the unsuspected Sunset Shimmer. "Look out!" Twilight screamed a little too late. Sunset skidded across the ice, flying headfirst into the wall.

The fiery mane pony was dazed for a second before she looked over at the worrying Alicorn. "Twilight!" Sunset shouted back. The pink shell bounced back into the now defenseless purple pony who was momentarily distracted. Twilight was flung in the opposite direction and slid into the wall. Wendy spun in place for a split second. She popped out of her shell and looked at the two ponies on opposite ends of the icy room with a devilish smile.

MARIO 

The ground beneath Mario's feet crumbled away under the combined weight of the massive crystal and his own. He was barely holding up the rapidly growing crystal ball. "Just give up!!" Chrysalis screeched.

"No!" Mario replied defiantly. The soles of his shoes sunk into the ground beneath him.

"Look around you plumber, we're winning!" Chrysalis taunted. 'What the...'  She felt his emotions pour into her body, fueling her magic. 'He isn't giving up!' She flew next to the steadfast plumber until she could meet eyes with him. "Determined?" His bright blue eyes met her own greens, and for the first time in her life she felt a chill rattle her spine. 'He isn't stopping!'  The cracks spread across the garden, uprooting chunks of earth from the sheer pressure of the expanding crystal. The Changelings fell out of formation due to the landscape breaking apart and took to the skies. Mario felt the giant black stone continues to give, his entire feet buried by the stone. 'More crystals. He can carry it, but the castle can't.'  Chrysalis hissed at herself. She flew above the crystal and feed more of here magic into it, forcing Mario to sink a bit more into the earth up above his knees. He felt the crystal expand further underneath his palm.

'Crack' Mario heard it, a ringing fissure broke out from beneath. "Oh NO!" The ground beneath him finally collapsed, swallowing him up. Chrysalis watched the plumber disappear with a smirk of satisfaction on her muzzle.

TWILIGHT & SUNSET 

Sunset slipped and slid across the ice, firing a series of green magic shots. Wendy laughed as she dodged the beams effortlessly with twist and swirls. "Twilight!" She called out. Twilight obliged and skidded behind the Koopaling in order to gain an edge.

"Nope." Wendy slammed her wand into the ground propelling her high into the air and dodging the dark purple flashes coming from Twilight’s horn.  

Sunset found her footing and quickly aimed her horn at the flying Koopaling. "Got you!" Sunset hissed silently. A green beam erupted from her horn heading straight for the female Koopa. Wendy instantly swung her wand and followed the orange pony’s example. Green Unicorn magic collided with multi-coloured Koopa magic, the two beams created shockwaves that cracked the icy ground.
Twilight focus and telekinetically grappled the Koopaling just before she landed back on the ice. Her horn glowing brilliantly a mantegna hue. "I have her Sunset!" Wendy's body became draped a pale cloak of purple as she vigorously fought and yelled to break free. Twilight was straining to keep her hold on the apparently stronger Koopaling and at the last moment has apt to fling her away to disrupt her balance.

Wendy flew across the room and smashed shell first into the wall. She screamed just as a green beam slammed her farther into the wall, leaving big opening. "Is she done?" Twilight cautiously asked as she trotted towards the hole that Wendy was buried in.

Sunset approached  the princess "I think so-"

Wendy burst out of the wall, spinning in her shell aiming directly towards the ponies. Twilight reacted first and threw a shield spell to protect the two. However, Wendy wasn't finished. She skipped across the ice, rebound off a wall, and headed straight for Twilight’s flank. Just as she was about to make impact a green barrier wrapped around Twilight, courtesy of Sunset. Wendy bounced into the air and popped from her shell, wand in hand. "Got you!", she yelled. The two ponies, simultaneously, fired a brilliant magic laser from their horns. Meeting mid flight the three spells clashed into an explosion. Wendy dropped down landing gracefully, glaring at the two through the outburst of smoke created from the collision.

The entire castle shook more violently then before, turning the heated battle into a standstill. The layer of ice collapsed from the walls and ceilings, the ponies and Koopaling stumbled around due to the quaking force. Suddenly the ceiling opened up revealing a crystal ball half the size of the room they were in. Wendy ran to the wall, and both Unicorn and Alicorn instinctively teleported just as a aura collapsed from around the castle. The room was deathly quiet as the dust settled and the thick smoke of debris disappeared.

Twilight looked up to witness an all too familiar tall figure floating towards the crystal. "Chrysalis!" Without a second thought she flew straight at the Changeling Queen.

A segmented chunk of a black rock rocketed off the massive crystal ball, intercepting the Princess of Friendship with a crack. "I'm stronger now, princess!" Chrysalis stated condescendingly as Twilight nose dived back to the ground.

"Twilight!" Sunset teleported straight into the Alicorn and grabbed her before flashing back to her original position.

Twilight rubbed her aching wing tenderly. "Thanks, Sunset."

"No problem. Where's Mario?" Sunset replied quickly. The movement from the crystal ball caught her attention as it began to shift ever so slowly. "What the...?"

"Impossible!" Chrysalis hissed out in disbelief as the ball rose higher.

Twilight met eyes with the plumber; his face beat red and sweat pouring down his body soaking his slightly torn red shirt. "So strong…" The awe stricken princess gasped. She can practically see the pulsing of his muscles from her viewpoint.

"Mario!" Wendy screeched at the plumber upon first sight.

"Wendy!?" Mario grunted under the weight of the crystal.

"Go, Koopaling, I'll finish these three!" Chrysalis commanded quickly.

"But Mario, I should stay and help!" Wendy grumbled.

Mario tossed the large crystal ball, shaking the entire castle as it came crashing down on the ground "Look at him; he's dead on his feet." Chrysalis pointed her hoof at the dead tired plumber taking deep breathes after lifting the giant black crystal off him. "I can beat these three."

Wendy frowned deeply. She kicked the ground before jumping high into the air. "Fine!" She yelled as she wall jumped higher for the opened ground ceiling. "But if you get your butt kicked daddy won't be happy!" The Koopaling disappeared into the castle, her voice echoing down towards them.

Chrysalis focused her attention on her three adversaries, her wings spread out wide. "Ok, now that we're all alone, let's put an end to this fight."

Mario raised his hand. "One second!", he quickly replied.

He jumped over to Twilight Sparkle and Sunset Shimmer, forcing them to into a huddle. He whispered lowly, gesturing to the Changeling Queen. "You want to what!?" Sunset snapped at the plumber.

Mario continued his hushed whispers. "Are you sure that will work?" Twilight asked the plumber, gave a quick nod in reassurance.

The two ponies looked at one another and in unison gave a sharp nod. "Let's a go!" Mario jumped back and pointed at the Changeling. “We're going to beat you", he took his fighting stance. "In one move!" He added confidently.

"Yep!" Sunset aimed her horn towards Chrysalis.

"You shouldn't have forced our hoof." Twilight stated calmly.

"Twilight!" The two smacked her on the head lightly.

"What?! I was just warning her, I don't like fighting!” Twilight defended herself.

"Fair enough!" Mario laughed. Despite being pushed over his limits he found some remaining inner strength thanks to the helping hands from these ponies. He jumped from foot to foot, stretching out some stress from his tired legs. "So, what do we call this? Not ‘Bros Move’ since we're not Bros…" He cast a sideways glance at the two. Suddenly, inspiration struck his mind. "Oh, I know! Since you're ponies; a ‘Brony Move’!"

LUIGI 

Luigi looked at the collapsed building with trepidation, he knew that Bowser wasn't finished by something so, so…small. The green cap kept his fist at chin level in anticipation. The building exploded outwards revealing a charging Bowser. "Green Cap!" He closed the gap with a powerful forward leap.

"Bowser!" The plumber retaliated with a jump of his own into the air. The two met fist mid-flight. For a mere second they looked evenly matched, before Luigi was catapulted backwards by the superior force from Bowser’s strength. The green cap skidded to a stop on his back, but Bowser was instantly on top of him before he can get up, his large size casting a large shadow over the plumber. "Luigi's..." Luigi twisted on spot. "Spin!" A multi-coloured wave erupted from his left arm upon impact with Bowser’s body. The Koopa slid away from Luigi, glaring at him hatefully.

Bowser roared fireballs high into the air before taking two steps towards Luigi. "You…you're just a wannabe hero", the plumber noticed light being cast from above him, "your brother’s shadow." Luigi bounced back as fireballs came raining down upon him.

Princess Luna watched with fascination, everything in the younger human’s body language showed how little he wanted to be here. Every flip, every step, every block and parry; they all ended with a small tremor of fear. "…he needs help." She looked at the battered and bruised chaos god.
Luigi kept dodging and avoiding being narrowly hit by wild strikes. He was being pushed back with ease, occasionally landing a few successful attacks on opened opportunities. "Bowser!" Luigi suddenly exclaimed. He jumped into an uppercut on the Koopa King’s maw, making him stumbled two steps. However, the plumber made the mistake for lingering too open in his attack.

The Koopa King shot straight at Luigi and clothe-lined him. "Got you!" Bowser lifted the plumber up at arm’s length by the throat. "You're finished!!" Bowser threw the helpless human into the ground. He stepped on Luigi's throat, his mouth glowing with flames.

A bright blue bolt of lightning appeared out of nowhere and crashed into the Bowser’s chest, flinging the tyrant away from the plumber. Luigi hyperventilated for a good moment until his eyes settled on a midnight blue color pony.  "Princess!" Luigi jumped to his feet, racing to the exhausted princess side. "You should go, you're too tired."

Discord limped towards two, joining the moon princess’s side. He was too worse for wear, but he’s able to hold himself up. She regarded him with a nod before going back to Luigi. "No, this is my city. The ponies, they're my little ponies. We're finishing this together!" Luna stood tall, her eyes brimming with will power and determination.

"We'll need to end is quickly." Discord began floating slightly. He then giggled like a school girl when an idea came to his mind. "I know, I know; a ‘Bros Move’!" He said proudly. Bowser was steadily moving towards the group, his deep red eyes glint with destructive purpose. However, Discord paid little attention as ponders some more. "Wait, no…not a Bros Move..."

Luigi and Discord smirked at each other. "A ‘Brony Move’!" The two stated in unison.

> Sacrifice
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     The underground chamber was silent as Twilight Sparkle remained on standby in front of Mario and Sunset Shimmer, her horn glowing faintly as she readied herself against whatever the Changeling Queen has in stored. "One move, just look at you!" Chrysalis taunted. "You can barely stand plumber. An Element Bearer without her Element and Celestia's failed student! What can you expect to do?"

Mario simply grinned at the arrogant Changeling. "You're right. Alone we would get flattened by you. But we're not alone, we got each other."

"We're friends." Twilight stood up proudly.

"We have the Magic of Friendship." Sunset added.

Twilight looked back at the two, her eyes brimming with a mixture of confidence and happiness. "Right, and as long as we have our Friendship there's always hope."

"Fire!" Mario ignited a fireball in his palm.

"You've tried that!" Chrysalis began levitating crystals around her body. To her surprise the plumber twisted on his foot and tossed it straight at Sunset Shimmer.  "What!?"

Sunset caught the flaming ball and began swirling it around between them both. Small sparks of her own fire magic mixed with the orb flung by Mario. The plumber kept his focused glued on the small ball of fire and continuously tossing in more fireballs into the ever growing sphere. Chrysalis eyes began to glow with a faint purple energy. Razor blades of crystals materialized and flew straight towards the three. "No! I'll protect my friends!" A purple shockwave slammed into the crystals, flinging them across the room. Twilight was hovering a foot off the ground, her eyes radiant with determination. "I can control it!" Her horn then sharpened and a dark purple aura lengthens her horn by half a foot.

"What!?" Chrysalis dismissed her shock and let a blast of dark green crystals twisted through the energy wave and flew straight at Twilight. A bright purple shield soon erupted from Twilight’s large horn. The castle shook as a shockwave ripped through the entire city. The young Alicorn Princess’s glowing eyes met Changeling’s furious slit iris's, their magic crackling through the air.

LUIGI 

Luigi, Discord, and Princess Luna glared at Bowser as he dangerously made his approach in a steady manner. His gleaming red eyes narrowed at the three. "Let's go, Green Cap!" He roared loudly, charging towards the three.

"Luigi time!" The plumber jumped high into the air and pulled out a hammer as he did. The black headed end smashed Discord against the surface of the ground, the Chaos God bounced back and reshaped into a ball of fur and scales with his large smiling face pasted on. "Thunder!" Suddenly, Discord blasted straight at Bowser, his entire body crackling with brilliantly blue electricity.
The Koopa King laughed at this display. He swung his large claws into the air to block the incoming Chaos God. Without warning Discord swerved to the left, Bowser then turned immediately to follow only for Discord to smash into his gut sending him sliding across the ground. Discord bounced back into position, right into Luigi's waiting hammer only to be slapped towards the tyrant once more. The lightning infused Draconquus ball slammed into Bowser's skull nearly knocking him down. Bowser roared loudly, sending a stream of flames towards the ball of crackling electricity.
Luigi crackled in and out of eye sight, appearing in front of Discord and smacking him towards Bowser. The Koopa King managed to backhand Discord straight into the teleporting lunar princess, who blasted Discord with her magic into his gut. With their combined might, Luigi and Luna were effectively driving Bowser backwards and slowly taking advantage. Discord was gaining speed with each successful hit each time the plumber and princess adding more of their magic to the infused Chaos God every time they hit him back to Bowser.

Luigi suddenly appeared into front Luna. With a loud 'CRACK' Discord slammed into open claws of Bowser. "What are you doing?" Luna asked the smaller plumber.

"An ‘Advanced Technique’!" Luigi proclaimed as he spun on one foot, becoming a blur of green, blue, and black mini twister. "Hit the head of my hammer!" At the peak of his frustration Bowser threw Discord back at them. Luna beamed her magic at Luigi's hammer, increasing his spinning speed. The Discord Ball was hit back into Bowser with twice the speed and glowing even brighter. The Koopa King manages to backhand him straight into Luigi who hit him back with even more force.

"What!?" Bowser growled, hitting Discord back into the ever increasing spin of Luigi’s makeshift tornado thanks to Luna’s helping hand. The entire street was alight with the bright blue electricity. The Plumber, Princess, and Draconquus continue to bash Bowser back. The Koopa King frowned deeply as he struggled to keep up with the team’s combo attack. Luigi laughed as he yelled, "We gotcha!" Hammer met Discord one final time as Luigi was blasted back into Luna’s awaiting hooves. All the power buildup from the spinning exploded Discord straight at Bowser. The Koopa King didn't have time to react. The Chaos God whizzed through the air, passing right in between the meaty claws of the Koopa King. On impact Discord exploded with electricity and Alicorn magic as a large dome of energy burned a ten foot crater into the earth. Bowser's roar of pain echoed across Canterlot. The city shook as a pillar of light shone across the city. Discord rejoined his party shortly afterwards as both Luigi and Luna stumbled away from the intense pillar of light.

As the pillar died out from its intensity, all three of them looked at the destruction with a frown of sadness. A five foot crater was burned into the street. Bowser lay on his back as a smoldering mass. "OUCH!", he grumbled. "How could I get beat by that Green Cap?" He whined as he managed to roll back to his feet.

"Ka ha ha hah!" Luigi and Luna were suddenly blasted away from the crater by a multicoloured multi-shaped spell. While Discord checked on the fallen moon princess the green plumber looked up from his position and saw a familiar face.

"Kamek!" Luigi exclaimed fiercely.

"Hello, handsome~!" Sitting on the opposite side of the crater was Wendy O. Koopa. "Miss me?" She asked, follow by a wink.

Luigi’s face darkened to a faint pink colour. "Wendy…”, he muttered.

"Wendy, what are you doing!?" Bowser growled and jumped out of the crater, only to then fall onto a single knee as he landed.

"Boss, be careful." The flying Magikoopa stated as he flew down.

"Don't worry, daddy," she dug into her shell, "we got the book!" She pulled out and presented a leather bound book to him.

"Book of Tartarus!" Both Princess Luna and Discord immediately recognized the book with a snarl.

MARIO, SUNSET, & TWILIGHT 

Mario and Sunset Shimmer continue pouring fire into the ever growing ball of flames. Twilight Sparkle was blasting back dark crystals and deflected magic beams from attempting to stop the two, by a very frustrated Chrysalis. Mario stopped feeding the flaming sphere and did a double back flip before twisting into a swirling red mass.

"Twilight!" Sunset called out and slowly tossed the large fireball towards the princess.

"Got it!" Twilight felt the weight of the miniature sun. She flinched as the fireball settled just above the tip of her horn. Twilight slowly began to collapse onto forward.

"Mario!" Sunset yelled to the spinning plumber.

"Okie Dokie!" Mario cried out happily. He dipped the head of his hammer down. The earth exploded as Mario was flung high into the air. "Sunset!" Mario exclaimed loudly.

The Unicorn aimed her horn for a split second, before firing a deep green beam towards Mario. Twilight pushed with all her might, slowly raising the hefty fireball to be flush with the high flying Mario. "Sparkle!" Sunset yelled loudly as her magic beam collided with the head of Mario's hammer, instantly doubling his spinning speed as well as adding a green ring of energy around him.
The head of the hammer smashed into the flaming sphere causing a ripple to travel through the fireball. Chrysalis watched helplessly as the large fireball of their magical combination began moving towards her and rapidly began gaining speed. Twilight shot into the air, flying behind the plumber. Mario grinned at her nodding. A dark purple cloak surrounded Mario, and with a shove, the red plumber was flung towards the fireball. Mario smashed the fireball one more time, doubling its speed. "Finale!!" Mario and Twilight yelled together.

Chrysalis was about to take off in flight when a sudden weight landed on her armor like back. "No you don't!" Sonata Dusk growled as she cling the Changeling Queen’s wings together.

"Sonata!" Sunset exclaimed. She desperately closed her eyes and concentrated. Her horn flicked on and off, constantly dispelling as the spell failed to work. "Not enough magic!" Sonata closed her eyes as the ball collided with her the Changeling’s horn. She can feel the powerful intense heat radiating from the orb of fire.

Chrysalis stumbled two steps back, her entire body shaking with the effort to steady herself. "I will not be beaten by you!!" She roared as she pours every ounce of her magic into the flaming ball and began repelling it towards the ponies and plumber.

Mario locked eyes with the blue Siren as he landed beside Sunset with a thump. "Do it, plumber…" She muttered silently as she bit into the thick exoskeleton armor.

"Mario, we need to save her!" Sunset stated hurriedly as their fireball was forcefully being pushed towards them.

Mario felt his knuckles crack from the force he was clenching his hammer with. The look in Sonata’s eyes told him everything. "Sunset, hold the ball I'll-" Twilight began, but was cut off by the plumber quickly front-flipping high into the air, arcing straight towards the fireball. "Mario!" Twilight exclaimed.

"No!" Sunset yelled loudly and helplessly.

'I'll save you', Mario thought sadly, frowning as the head of the hammer made contact with the fireball.

Chrysalis felt her magic failed, her wings were still being held tightly by the pony Siren on her back, and there was no escape. "NO!" Three pillars of crystals burst from the earth rapidly materialized into a hoof she use and caught the fireball. ’Crack!’ Chrysalis flinched as the crystal hoof crumbled away upon contact. Chrysalis closed her eyes as the fireball ploughed straight into her, before exploding with a blinding flash.

Twilight Sparkle and Sunset Shimmer were pinned against the wall by the force of the explosion. "Sonata!" They cried out her name and it drowned in the ringing eruption spreading through the room. The pillar swirled into a tornado of flames before exploding upwards through the hole in the ceiling. Slowly the form of a phoenix took shape, it screeched loudly before piercing through and disappearing within the thick dark clouds and taking them with it. Sunlight has once again reappeared and slowly spread around Canterlot.

In the castle a smolder mass remained in the epicenter of the explosion of flames. Chrysalis couldn't move a muscle. Her magic was all drained and she couldn’t manipulate the Crystal Heart to form black crystals in her condition. "Darn you Siren…" She growled hatefully. She watched the ponies begin galloping straight at her and saw a shadow over head. "Gotta go…" Just as Mario fingertips were about to graze Sonata the two exploded into a deep purple cloud and transported away.

Mario smashed head first into the ground before rolling to a stop in front of the ponies; completely spent, muscles sore, and short out of breath. "I missed…" He growled to himself.

LUIGI 

Bowser frowned as the sunlight seeped through his rapidly dispersing clouds. "The plumber beat the Changeling!" Wendy grumbled after watching the flaming display on the other side of Canterlot.
"Retreat!" Bowser roar shook the entire city. "We've got what we came for!" He grabbed hold of Wendy before sailing high into the air. Kamek swung his wand, materializing a Koopa Clown Car beneath the mighty Koopa King. "Tell your brother I'll crush him later!"

Luigi acted fast and jumped onto a nearby roof, running straight towards Bowser. Luigi long jumped straight at Bowser when saw the trail of teleportation. "Oh no you don't!" Kamek appeared in front of the young plumber with a flourish of his wand.

"Oh no!" With a swing of his staff the elder Magikoopa sent Luigi crashing towards the earth.

"Don't hurt my darling too badly!" Wendy yelled as they flew away.

Kamek flew a circle around the plumber, swinging his wand in an intricate pattern. "Next time plumber." Kamek disappeared in a multi-shaped cloud.

Luigi took two breaths before collapsing in a heat. "So tired…” He sighed weakly.


> Aftermath in a fallen city
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

     A Mournful quite settled on Canterlot as Celestia's sun was replaced by Luna's moon. Small villages of tents were set up around outside the eastern portion of the cities wall. Princess Celestia flew from tent to tent checking in on civilians, many whose homes have been completely demolished as well as the weak and injured soldiers lay for residents after the attack. It lifted the Sun Princess’s worries knowing that they’ll be okay and luckily no fatal causalities. Celestia landed near one last particular larger tent and poke her head inside, her younger sibling spotted her instantly. "How is everypony, sister…?” Princess Luna mumbled weakly.

Celestia trotted straight into the tent. Her younger sister was atop a mountain of pillows and blankets, and both wings were bandaged along around her midsection. "They're fine." Celestia lay beside the injured Alicorn.

"Things could've been worse", Discord appeared floating above the two in a full body cast. "I mean, Bowser could've ruined my face." He gave a broad smile revealing his uneven fangs. One of them dropped loose onto the floor.

"What did Bowser take?" The question came from the entrance of the tent. "What's Tartarus? Sunset Shimmer and Princess Twilight Sparkle looked terrified when Sonata told them what he was after." Standing in the entrance was a battered and bruised Mario, his eye brow quirked questioningly at the two Alicorns and Draconquus God.

Celestia sighed sadly. She had hoped that there would be less of an explanation required once Bowser and his allied forces were defeated. Unfortunately, that wasn’t the case. "…it started with a monster, his name is Tirek."

"Tirek?" Mario looked up at the pony princess.

"Yes, Tirek. Many centuries ago my sister and I once wielded six of our world most powerful artifacts; ‘The Elements of Harmony.’" Celestia continued.

"Elements of Harmony?" Mario repeated, looking at her confused.

"You're a child of the stars correct?" Celestia asked Mario curiously.

"Yes, why?" Mario sat down in a comfortable position as he listened to the large Alicorn.

"The Elements of Harmony are similar to your power, except they choose who wields them." Celestia stated confidently. "But Tirek is different. He was not something magic alone could over power."

"Why not?" Mario quirked his head to the side.

Luna sat up to answered. "He is something of a magic sponge, capable of absorbing then wielding magic like it’s his own."

"We didn't trust the elements," Celestia added. "We didn't know how they would interact with Tirek and considering their main for lack of better term attack is a beam of pure harmonious magic. We deemed it too dangerous to use the elements."

"So with the help of Tirek’s brother we created Tartarus; a prison designed to hold him." Luna finished for her sister.

"But after...after Nightmare Moon we lost sync with the Elements and resorted to using Tartarus as last resort for the worst criminals, the ones who refused to be reformed" Celestia's  gaze fell to the floor. She couldn't meet eyes with the plumber, because of a crippling amount of shame she felt.  "The Book of Tartarus is simply a book, with names, abilities, and recorded crimes of every single pony, griffon, and any other manner of beings put into Tartarus. If Bowser manages to release any potentially dangerous criminal…"

Mario sat still absorbing this new found information. After a silent moment he stared at the Sun Princess "…how do we get to Tartarus?"

"What?" Shocked, Celestia locked her light purple eyes with Mario’s blue.

"My bro and I need to go to Tartarus and wait; it'll take a bit of time for Bowser to find it…" Mario stood up, before falling back onto a knee."

"You're hurt, Mario!" Celestia trotted over to the plumber. "You need to rest."

Mario took a couple of breaths before steadily standing on his feet.  "Yeah you're right, but…but I need to stop Bowser!"

"And what happens when you meet Bowser in conflict? You would be lucky to last ten seconds against him in your current condition." Luna pointed out.

Mario's mind went back to the shrooms have gave to the ponies in the Crystal Empire. "Darn it, I used up my super shrooms at the Crystal Empire…" Mario hissed at himself, knowing had he saved them he could heal his injuries instantly. 

"You saved so many of my little ponies Mario" Celestia placed a hoof on the red caps bruised shoulder. "Just rest Mario Bowser will need to some time to build a portal to Tartarus" She gently eased the tension evident on Mario's face.

With a friendly smile Mario left the tent limping slightly as he made his way across the camp into a large tent. Eleven ponies laid with various degrees of injuries. "Spikey…!" Rarity cried quietly, tears smeared her blue eye shadow. The nurse ponies placed the dragon on a makeshift dragon sized cot. The five humans turned ponies made their way towards the purple dragon and sulking Unicorn mare, each of them wearing a look of shame as they took in the sight of Rarity touching the dark burn on the centre of Spike’s back. The mare galloped to the dragon’s bedside giving her drake the once over. She looked for any out of place scales aside from the burnt ones. Rarity noticed the small scrapes, forcefully ripped off  scales, and large cuts going deep into his thick scales.

The already to strained bed groaned when Rarity jumped to Spike’s side, she gently rubbed her entire body against his. The ponified humans felt deeply intrusive as they watched the mare snuggled up underneath Spike’s large leathery wings. "Oh, what happen to you, Spikey Wikey?" Her tears soaked his scales. She listened to the deep rumbling breaths soothing her frayed nerves somewhat. His heart beat was slow and steady and as she listen to the rhythmic beats. The white Unicorn felt a deep sigh of relief leave her body. 'He'll be ok', was her only thought. She looked around and finally noticing the five mares in front of her.

The teenage Rarity was the first to move forward. She trotted to her equine counterpart, gently placing a hoof on Spike’s wing that covered the pony underneath. "He....he..." She broke down into tears, "He saved us!" Ponified Rarity looked back at her friends, whom shamefully held their tails between their legs.

Rarity looked up at her younger counterpart. "He'll be ok." She simply stated and continues to listen to his deep rumbling breaths, that in turn continuing to supply her with some semblance of strength. She gently rubbed his hard scales carefully to avoid touching any damages. "I know my Spikey." She finished proudly. Her eyes began tracing the line of muscles underneath his scales. Rarity closed her eyes, remembering the days earlier when she spent hours carefully buffing and shining those same scales to gemstone like sheen. With a twitch the powerful wing around her body pulled her flush with Spike’s body.

Across the tent a loud confetti cannon went off. All eyes went to Pinkie Pie doing a trotting dance around Fluttershy. "Oh my goodness…" Fluttershy wrapped herself tightly in a blanket, her face a brilliant shade of scarlet. Pinkie Pie continued her dance and firing off two more confetti cannons. The group of ponified humans looked away when the mare gently placed her lips on the blushing Pegasi.

"My lovely!" Pinkie stated simply with her gazing smoky electric blue eyes.

Princess Twilight Sparkle paced herself over to Mario and sat by his side. "So what your plan?" she quietly asked.

"Me and my bro rest for a bit, then go to Tartarus and wait for Bowser." Mario replied casting a worried glance at the humans turned equines. "You should take them back to the warp pipe in the Crystal Empire. They don't need to fight." He added silently.

"Nope!" The ponified Pinkie Pie suddenly appeared from beneath the red plumber’s seat.

"Pinkie Pie, when did you-" Twilight began, but abruptly stopped to only rub her temple and remembered it was for the best to not questioned it. "You know what, I don't care…"

"Well, it's a little strange seeing myself kissing one of my best friends." Pinkie Pie’s pink fur shifted to bright red as she made that statement. "Yeah, really weird."

"Why do you say nope?" Mario looked at the pink pony questioningly.

"I'm not leaving till we rescue Sonata!" Pinkie stated defiantly, her eyes shimmer in worry.

Outside of the city of tents Luigi walked through the half destroyed city looking up at the moon. The green clad plumber wasn’t in as bad of condition as his brother was and managed to recover a good portion of his strength. He took this opportunity to wonder around and go over today’s unfortunate events. His mind was clouded with thoughts; thoughts of the consequences of losing, the Crystal Empire and its fate, even thoughts of Bowser growing even more in power once he…
"What's on your mind, plumber?" Luigi snapped back to reality to a familiar voice. He spotted Sunset Shimmer across the street. "Mom and I had to move the moon for Luna." She sighed. "It felt good for me to feel mom’s magic again." She trotted up to the plumber. "So, penny for your thoughts?"

"…I hoped we could stop Bowser before he did any more damage", Luigi then frowned deeply, "…but he got away…"

"Yeah…" She looked around herself with a neutral and calm demeanor. "We'll stop him; we know where he's going. Even with the Changeling Queen and the power of the Crystal Heart it'll take some time to create a portal to Tartarus." She added confidently.

"You should take your friends back to the warp pipe. This isn't their fight." Luigi locked eyes with the Unicorn. 

"I could try, but I doubt that ‘they’ would go." She replied easily. "Well, maybe Fluttershy, but even her I'm not too sure about."

"Why wouldn't they want to go home?" Luigi asked sitting atop a piece of rubble.

"They're the type of people who lives to help. Combine that with their hurt pride..."

"Pride?"

"Yeah, well mostly Dash, and AJ. They're stubborn to a fault, and they too had to be rescued like some kind of damsel. It hurt them more then the dragon did, especially how Spike was injured because they weren’t able to help him more. Since Dash and AJ are staying Rarity will stay, she's too loyal to her friends and will want to help keep them safe. Fluttershy will follow suit. Pinkie Pie will stay for cake alone, but add to that Sonata being taken and the others staying…" Sunset monologue to the sitting plumber, she had a faint smile on her lips. "Yeah, my friends will stay no matter how hard I fight for them to go home. I'm kinda glad; I don't want them to be hurt. But it's good to know they'll be beside me for a little while longer."

Luigi nodded his head in understanding and looked back up at Luna’s moon. Both pony and plumber remained silent and watch the twinkling night, the large orb in the sky shone a bit brighter. Luigi doesn’t know why, but thanks to Sunset’s appreciation for her friends made him felt the impending thoughts of failure and consequences soothe away from his head.

Back at the campsite the young Rainbow Dash limped out of the tent, hearing her friend’s pony counterpart, Fluttershy’s faint giggles, as Pinkie Pie danced and joked around her bed. The atmosphere was too sappy for her taste and Rainbow Dash felt the need to spread her wings. "Where you going, Dashie?" She turned to the all too familiar voice. Lying by a small campfire was her counterpart, her eyes half closed.

"Just going to fly, Rainbow." She replied to the natural born Pegasus.

Rainbow stood up, popping her wings out with audible crack. She stretched out like a dog, her backbones cracking, and then stood up on her back legs swinging a few jabs. Her earlier clashes with Gilda, despite how extreme and exhausting the battle was. It wasn't  going to stop her from a good flight session. "Try to keep up, Dashie." She said before rocketing into the air.

"Hey wait!" Dashie shot off after her.

She beat her wings furiously, but she didn't seem to be gaining any ground on the Pegasi. "Slow your wing beats, wider smoother strokes; like swimming." Rainbow Dash called back to her human counterpart.

Suddenly, the Pegasi dropped, then corkscrewed between a collapsed pillars of stones, only to shoot straight back up to eye level with Rainbow Dash. The ponified human smirked and dropped down, only to bounce off the earth and shoot back up to cloud level. "Not just your wings, Dashie!" The cyan pony stated.

Dashie shook the cob webs out of her head trying to grasp an understanding. "What do you mean?" Dashie asked as she slowed down dramatically looking back at the former professional flier turned captain of the royal guard.

Rainbow glided next to her younger counterpart. "You know moving your wings and bending them will alter your flight path. But so does your tail and even moving your hooves will cause some drag making certain turns easier." As if to prove her point Rainbow moved her front right hoof and veered into a lightning fast turn. Dashie mimicked her movements and turned in almost the exact same way. Laughs echoed across the night sky as two rainbow blurs shot all over the city.

Early the next morning Mario was atop a stone spire, watching from a distance between the camp  sites and Canterlot. He spotted an orange Earth Pony wearing a Stetson trotting down the dirt path. It took him a moment, and then the plumber managed to recognize the human who was ponified. Once she was close enough Mario looked down, his eyes met the emeralds of Applejack. "Hello!" He called out, waving down at the young pony mare.

"Howdy!" Applejack waved back at Mario.

Mario flipped and landed atop the stone tower in a sitting position. "Did Sunset Shimmer tell you what Bowser took?"

"Yep!", Applejack tipped her hat to Mario. "That ain't good!"

Mario mimicked her movement tipping his famous red cap to the simple teenage apple farmer. "Yeah, we need to leave soon!" He then winced, his body still aching from his previous fights.

"Me and my friends! We need help; I don't want to be helpless!" Applejack claimed and then she flexed her back leg muscles. "I'm strong, but I'm not…strong!"

Mario leaped from the stone, fell a few feet before landing with a thud in front of the ponified Applejack. "How strong are you?" Mario asked curiously as he poked her flank.  He felt the steel like muscles of her hindlegs underneath the soft fur.

Applejack blushed deeply. And then she felt it; within her she felt the sensation loss of control over her body, as it spazzed out. Without warning Applejack started bucking wildly. "Get back!" She growled thrashing from side to side.

Mario took two steps back avoiding a wild kick that shattered stone into a fine powder with ease. Mario quirked his eyebrow at that and proceeded to act fast. "Got you!" Mario closed the gap, reaching out and instantly grabbed Applejack's long blonde tail. "So long, little pony!" Mario chanted as he flings the mare into a wall.

"Ouch…" Applejack groaned quietly as she slide down the rock wall. The unusual spazzing that caused her pony body to rampage died out.

Shaking her head she looked up to the plumber reaching down to her. "Control, Applejack." Mario tugged her up and dusted her off roughly. "With that strength you'll kill someone. Whatever just happened can't happen with someone who can't defend themselves." Mario scolded the dazed ponified human.  Applejack looked at the red plumber curiously. He has a kind smile on his lips. "I think you're fantastic!" He said joyfully.

Applejack face hardens. She jumped up swinging a surprise wild haymaker. "I'll get you!" The plumber laughed as he dodged the swooping punches.

Mario dodged to the left and got in close. "Got you!" He swung a straight jab sending Applejack flying back ten feet. "You left to many openings." Applejack looked up at the plumber, shaking the cobwebs from her head and thought for a second.

"You're too strong." Applejack growled in conclusion.

Mario chuckled at the remark.  "Strong?" He quirked his head to the side. "Then don't let me hit you. Luigi and I fought many powerful opponents and creatures; Bowser, Cackletta, Fawful, and othermany types of baddies, all of them is stronger than me, and yet, all of them have hints and patterns in their attacks;  I find predicting and reading their movements can even out Amy difference in power. Just dodge and wait till you see an opening!" Mario shot straight at Applejack.  The mare back pedaled away from the plumber narrowly avoiding two punches and a kick. She stood up and swung a punch, only for it to be caught in Mario's waiting hand. She instantly swung her other hoof, but Mario caught that one also. "You're very strong." She was shaking in an effort to break Mario's vice grip on her hooves.

The two locked eyes, slight adjustments of their stance were all they can move. "Kick!" Mario commanded. Instantly the apple pony swung her right hindleg, but Mario mimicked her kick with a swinging leg to defend himself. The two broke apart and skid across the earth a few inches.
Applejack winced and fell back onto all fours. "How did you hurt me?" She asked looking up.

"You can hit hard, so I used that. When you kicked me all I did was raise my foot letting you hit the soles of my shoe." Mario explained to the little pony.

BOWSER

Within the inner sanctums of a dark domain of Bowsers castle the Koopa Troop and Changeling forces began to reorganized and prepare for the next upcoming attack. Their combined teamwork helped to easily build more proper weaponry and equipment ahead of schedule. The Koopa King sat in his throne room nursing a few wounds with light bandages around his arm. Usually he would be more outraged over the failed siege of Canterlot. However his mood was anything but furious as he had acquired the one thing that mattered from the attack; The Book of Tartarus. Across from him sat Queen Chrysalis, patches covered the burns scattered  across her body as well as some bandages on her horn. She may not be showing it, but the over usage of the tainted Crystal Heart put a strain on her magic. A Dark glare formed on her face, only a matter of time before she’ll become fully rejuvenated.

"The plumber", Bowser grumbled as he flicked through the Book of Tartarus, "he knows where we're going." He growled.

"We need to be careful then." Chrysalis commented, motioning towards her burned and battered body. 

"We got the traitorous Siren, he'll go for her. It's in his nature." Bowser stated simply.
> Training
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         The day continues to roll on as the lives of the citizens of Canterlot reside themselves in temporary tent posts as dwellings outside the walls of their once peaceful city. Princess Celestia, with her sister out of commission and still recovering, took it upon herself to oversee the progression of rebuilding her city and organizing a handful of Royal Guards and specialized ponies to help with the process. The amount of destruction the invasion had brought upon was catastrophic, however, within time and with enough helping hands Canterlot shall be at least be livable again by the end of the day. Although, very aware of the power the Koopa King possesses and the known alliance with the Changeling Queen, Celestia recruited some of the guards as scoots and position them in areas around the mountain territory of Canterlot. Since Bowser came and took what he needed, with all hope, he shouldn’t have a reason to return anytime soon.

Out in the open field, a few distances away from the camping site, two figures brawl it out with one another; exchanging strikes after strikes and performing close call evasive maneuvers. Their sparring match came to an end when the equine was countered from a buck and was tossed aside by the slightly pudgy human.

Applejack landed on her back with a resounding thump. She laid stunned for a moment before opening her emerald eyes to the squatting blue eyed man sitting two feet in front of her. "You're getting better, Applejack." Mario stated simply, rubbing a bit of sweat off his brow.

"Couldn't tell…" Applejack huffed slightly as she patted her sore flank.

It’s been a few hours when the ponified teenage farmer confronted the Italian plumber and confessed she was having self-doubt on her strength and not being strong enough to help her friends. With little pep talk and testing out her capabilities, Mario saw some mark improvement. Unlike before Applejack has shown better control over her pony body and learning to properly harness her Earth Pony super strength. This will become helpful in the long run when the time has come to battle against Bowser and his forces once more. Applejack wants to be there for her friends, she’s no good to anyone if she suddenly lost control and will cause more damage and hurt the ones she wants to protect.

Mario grinned and petted the human turned pony on the head. "Well it's true." Mario pulled her back on her feet, the soreness in his body almost completely gone from yesterday’s intense battle. "One more time!"

Applejack gave a quick nod and straighten her Stetson hat before she pounce at the red plumber once more.

Elsewhere among the skies two rainbows streaked by, fading in and out every few seconds. Rainbow Dash effortlessly cut off her fast flying human counterpart, Dashie. "Still too slow!" She barked loudly as she zoomed onwards.

On ground level watching this affair was a small group of Pegasus soldiers. "I'm glad I ain't the one up there with the captain." A Pegasi whispered to his companion. 

Early this morning, Dashie was practically forced by the Captain of the Royal Guards, Rainbow Dash, to get up and fly. Well, not entirely forced, more along the lines of a  “challenge” to start fresh in the day for more flying lessons with the best Rainbow Dash. The end results led into training the amateur Dashie to unlock her more of her potential as a Pegasus. Dashie isn’t one for giving up, more in favouring more her arrogance to prove she’s the best at anything, refusing to admit that accepting this “challenge” by the far superior and expert flyer was more than she can chew. However, this has yet to daunt her spirits as she pushed her limits to keep trying.

The exhausted former ponified human glared at her counterpart. "I'll show you too slow…" She grumbled lowly.  The cyan mare attempted to pick up speed, however, Rainbow suddenly disappeared. Dashie didn't have time to react when she felt a hoof smash in between her wings, sending the former human crashing head first into the ground. "Ow!" Dashie rubbed her temple after pulling her head out of the dirt ground. "Was that really needed?!" She yelled at the hovering Pegasi.

Rainbow grinned down at her. "Quit whining, I know what our bodies can handle." Dashie kicked off the ground and flew straight into the Pegasi leaving a thunderous shockwave that shook the forest below from her takeoff. "Good,"  Rainbow smirked, seeing the results of their training starting to show.  She then turned her attention towards the group of Pegasus guards. "What are you waiting for, Cadets!" Rainbow casually knocked back Dashie before she can even land a blow. "Get up here, training day kiddies!" Instantly thirteen Pegasus took to the sky.

The thirteen Pegasus circled around Rainbow Dash in formation. "Ok," Rainbow looked at the group, "commit to the attack or she'll have our hides!"

"Right!" The group rang out. Dashie gulped. Maybe she did bite off a little than she can chew...

Around the camping grounds, many Ponies, Griffons, and Minotaurs tried to adjust with their temporary shelters and make use of what food and materials they have to continue through the day. Many young foals are at play making sure not to leave the premises and get in the way of construction. Others made use of their time to help support others for comfort and help those that are injured. Most of the remaining Royal Guards are posted around the large campsite as instructed by their princess. The civilians of Canterlot were more or less miserable, but they knew things will get better as long as they pull together and continue to aid one another.

In a particularly large tent remained vacant with the exception of two creatures; a pony and a grown dragon. The teenager Rarity finished scraping the dirty burnt scales off Spike’s back, revealing the gleaming purple scales beneath. "You want to hear something interesting?" Rarity jumped at the all too familiar voice.

"Spikey?!" She gasped loudly, jumping into a hug.

She felt the dragon suck in deeply. "Where's my Rare?" He asked weakly.

"She's helping other ponies, setting up a food and tents I think." Rarity replied to the dragon savior she barely knew. "We had to pry her away from your bed." She added instantly.

"How did you know to scrape the damaged scales away?" He asked, sitting up and spreading out his large wings.

Rarity fell back, only now truly grasping the size difference between the dragon and herself. "Rarity…she was doing it pretty much since the morning after you was brought in…" She explained taking a couple steps back.

"I see…" Spike looked down at his marefriend’s human counterpart.

"I figured when she left I would help her out and scrape some of the scales off…" She told Spike quietly.

She backed off quickly as Spike slunk towards her, his eyes shimmering. 'Fight or flight', her body began twitching as the dragon got closer to her. "Get back!" Her horn exploded with shimmering blue energy.

With a quickness that shocked the young ponified women, Spike pounced. In a blur of blue energy and purple scales Spike rolled into a powerful hug. "Calm down Rarity," His rumbling voice reverberating through her body, "calm down." He whispered his deep voice captivating her. She looked up into the dragons eyes. They held a predatory glint, but that was all but over powered by the kindness in them. "Calm…" She knew he was an alpha predator; claws that could fillet her, teeth that could break bone, and fire to roast her. But for all that, he was holding her gently, stroking her, calming her heart. She felt an intense heat pass through her body. "Calm…" He gently released his grip on her body.

Rarity looked up at the dragon; she could see why the pony Rarity chose a dragon; or at the very least this very special dragon. "Right the interesting thing." He spoke, grinned revealing the set of fangs in his maw, "dragon’s scales grow back strong when they're damaged." As if to prove a point he placed his claw on the recently revealed shimmering purple scale and raked his claw against it.

"Whoa…" She timidly stepped towards the large dragon for a closer look.

"Yeah and considering I spent my youth getting beat up by Twilight and the others incidents my scales are pretty tough." He told the human counterpart with ease. "Your Rainbow Dash packed a punch."

He got up limped his way towards the tent entrance. "SPIKE!" A alabaster blur flew into Spike’s waiting chest, sending Spike falling onto his back. Rarity looked away from the dragon and her unicorn familiar locked in a passionate kiss. "You stupid brute!" She punched him twice before dipping back into a kiss. "Fighting a beasty dragon!" Rarity hit him three more time, falling back into their kiss. "The humans told me what you had their Rainbow Dash do!" She hissed continuing to hit him, her hooves coming down with less force. "A bolt of lightning!" Tears began to pour down her cheeks as she hugged him tightly, bringing him into another kiss. "You could've died!" She sobbed, pulling back into a wet kiss.

Spike pulled back from the kiss. "They needed help!" He kissed her solidly. "The dragon would've killed them!" He said in between gasps for air. "I couldn't let them be hurt when I could help!" Spike rolled over, his body cocooned the mare. "You would've done the same thing!" Ponified Rarity looked back at the purple dragon and felt an intense jolt of jealousy burned through her spine. She didn’t understand why, it was just…there. Spike rolled onto his back revealing the mare sitting atop his chest. Rarity watched the two exchanged a glance, the same glance of pure devotion, pure love that her parents still had. These two weren't dating; they were in it for life. Feeling awkward that her presence may intervene, the former human Rarity quietly left the tent.

"I love you, you stupid dragon." Rarity leaned in to hug Spike.

"I love you my mare." He held her tightly.

Luigi laid on his back snoring as the wind blew through the empty streets, his nose swayed in the breeze. Earlier today, Luigi took it upon himself to help with the production of rebuilding Canterlot since the citizens outside the city are well handled and taken care of. He wanted to be in much help as possible, especially after gaining the knowledge that Bowser’s plan to open Tartarus will be a slow process. He was well rested, nearly at full health and strength; there was little to no reason to laze around and do nothing. What better way to spend time under these circumstances but to help out? Deep down, the green plumber felt this is partially their responsibility. When the Koopa tyrant gets involve with something dastardly it will become him and his brother’s business. That’s one of the very reasons why they are here in this new dimension.

Unfortunately, Luigi’s offer to lend a helping hand went unnecessary for the time being. Pretty understandable as there’s already more than enough volunteers for the muscles and magic users are plentiful, and Luigi isn’t much skilled in architecture to create the blue prints; Mario fits in line with that. However, last he heard his brother was helping one of the high school humans. So during the last few hours Luigi kept himself occupied at a workbench, occasionally striking a conversation or two with any of the workers. One thing led to another and the green clad hero zoned out. The Royal Guards and volunteer workers that came by left him in his peaceful sleep ever since.
That is until Princess Twilight Sparkle came trotting in his direction. The young Alicorn bore a nervous smile as she watched the man snore away, feeling almost a little guilty to disturb someone’s sleep. However, this was an important matter, and after studying the Mario Bros. capabilities she knew that one of them are the best candidate for the job.

Clearing her throat she hesitantly began to speak. "Luigi…?" Twilight tapped his bulbous nose, causing it to twitch. "Luigi?" She then tapped his chin which made him murmur in his Italian accent. She had to suppress a giggled with a hoof. Twilight tried a second time and pressed down on his nose…

Luigi eyes popped open. "Ahhhh!" The plumber bounced off his resting place flailing his arms before landing flat on the dirt ground. He soon lifted his head up and locked eyes with the purple Alicorn who stopped moving like a deer caught in a headlight. "Oh, hello princess."

Twilight shook her head and proceeded to fulfill her intentions."Luigi…" She timidly kicked the ground. "I need your help."

The plumber rose to his feet as he dusted himself off. "With what?"

Again she hesitated. Twilight nearly had to rethink her decision. She had done the tests, saw the results, and seen their power. It’s clear that either one of the Bros. are perfect. The young Princess took a deep breath, slowly exhaled, and met eye to eye with the awaiting plumber. "I…I wanna learn how to fight like you and your brother."

???????

Bowser slid away from a monkey, her long blonde hair burning a brilliant gold. A sudden red and black blur skidded to his left. He swung his large claws just fast enough to block a large scythe from a second primate. "You're strong." Bowser stated to the two monkeys. With a roar he sent the two flying into a wall, stunning them as they slid to the ground. "Why did you find me?"

"Two of our comrades...." The smaller black monkey in a ruby red cloak stood up. "They're in Tartarus."

Bowser looked at the two primates. He had seen this type of duo combination, nearly similar to the Mario Bros.; one is greater than the other in a specific specialty of strength, however, is weak in one particular area that the other strongly favors, making them a powerful duo enemy. "The White and the Black," His red eyes glinted dangerously, "Yellow and Red…" He grinned, his large fangs showing. "I can use your skill set." He stated simply.

Chrysalis watched from the shadows, analyzing the duo monkey’s strength and their faults. There was just one thing about them she couldn’t immediately piece together; just who are they? The scythe wielding monkey locked his eyes over towards her direction. "You could've taken us out at any time?" He questioned as he looked up the large Changeling.

Bowser chuckled. "I didn't need her to beat you." Suddenly the ground around the two erupted encasing them up to their heads in crystal. "And apparently she didn't need me."

The Changeling Queen gave another once over as she stared at the two primates. Her eyes analyzing and making judgment calls for her. Finally, it all made sense; their skills and their tactic of attacks. "Hunters…?" Chrysalis stated simply with a frown.
> Planning
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      Bowser sat in his throne, his demeanor was surprisingly calm even after being beaten not so long ago. The Koopa King looked down; in front of him was a small graying mane Unicorn with wand as a cutie mark, a traitor to his fellow ponies and the princesses. "We have all the materials, Sir." The stallion stated calmly, doing his best to keep his composure in the presence of the hulking tyrant. "It will take seven days to build the portal."

Bowser nodded his head. "Ok, go." He stated simply. The Unicorn bowed in respect before trotting away to further continue the project. Bowser swiveled on his throne looking out to his armada at the lower ground level of the throne room. He observed carefully as a small group of his troops surrounded one of the primate hunters who took upon themselves to ally with him and his growing forces. The blonde white furred monkey wearing a yellow jacket delivered a punch to the centre of an attacking Koopa Troopa's gut, sending him careening into the wall of the fortress.

"Those hunters are dangerous." Queen Chrysalis commented as she trotted up to the tortoise dragon Koopa. "There's a reason why even that soft hearted Celestia rid herself of them."

Bowser slouch further back on his throne, the sharp spikes on his shell dragging down the cushioning metal surface. He then rested his head on his claws. "I know…" He frowned deeply. Somewhere along the line these monkey hunters gave off a sense of suspiciousness all around them; their reasoning being so simple, but at the same time odd. Getting exiled by the nation’s pony monarch for their heinous crimes, for whatever reason that may be, and now the timing seem too perfect for them to just seek his aid… Bowser will admit to himself this wasn’t much of his concern at first until further pondering on the concept made it apparent how oddly suspicious that seems. He jumped off his throne, pushing the thoughts away for the time being as there are far more pressing matters.  "We need a plan!" He strode across the throne room and headed out into the corridor.

The Changeling Queen raised a brow before quickly pursuing afterwards. "We can take them out, you said it yourself." She stated calmly as she pace herself alongside the Koopa King.

"We need them…for now." As they walked Bowser and Chrysalis crossed an opened indoor bridge over a seemingly bottomless pit. This directed them into another passageway filled with architecture statues and portraits of Bowser himself. A few rooms passed along the way and the two mighty monarchs enter a large room. Sitting in a circle around a model fortress was his son and the Koopalings. "Anything?" Bowser asked as he approached the group.

"We can't split our forces again." Jr. stated as he rubbed the large lump on his head. "The ponies are no plumbers, but they're strong!"

"The Unicorn and Alicorn could've beaten me, daddy!" Wendy whined as she added to Jr's statement. 

Bowser massages the temple of his forehead. Sometimes it is hard to be a father and a ruling warlord.

Chrysalis looked over the model with slight fascination of the replicating details of Tartarus itself. However, she did detect one crucial fault in their plan. "Shock and awe won't work." The large Changeling frowned at her own revelation. "The guards in Tartarus won't be as easily frightened as the ones in Canterlot."

Bowser grunted at her comment, his red eyes never leaving the model. "Most of the ones we want are in the outer ring correct?" Bowser touched the lake of lava around the model. The magma sizzled from his touch and warmed the tip of his single claw.

"Yeah, gramps." Ludwig Von Koopa answered. His long blue spiked v shape hair sway for each motion of his head. "So what are you thinking?"

"We set our troops…" He pointed down at the map, "here and here!" He kept moving his claws. "Chrysalis, you have your Changelings storm the fortress, create as much chaos." Bowser then frowned from a sudden afterthought."The Siren will be kept in our fortress; she’ll draw Mario out into the open." Bowser pointed along the large bridge connecting the fortress to the mainland.

"Then we crush him right!?" Iggy Koopa shouted with excitement. He then started laughing loudly with a slight slip of a manic tune. "Crush the plumber, crush the plumber!" He sang. 

"No, Iggy, I need you in the fortress!!"  Bowser snapped. He drew his attention back to the oldest Koopaling. "Ludwig, you lead the charge!" Bowser looked around the table. "Lemmy, Larry, and Roy follow his lead!" 

"What about us, daddy?" Wendy asked from her seat. 

"Each of you will be in a fortress recruiting from the mayhem." Bowser stated. 

"You and I will be on the smaller resource bridges then. While my Changelings drawing out fire, what if one of the plumbers comes out, or both? "Chrysalis locked eyes with the Koopa King. 

"Mario will go for the Siren. The Green Cap, he'll follow his brother or remain in the fortress. Worry more about those ponies. The Koopalings should beat them, but if they fail we'll need to beat them…" Bowser grumbled deeply. 

"I'm going to explain our plan to the Changelings." The queen flew out of the room.

"The monkey’s need to be ready to face Mario." Bowser cast a glance toward Jr. "Show them." He stated simply.

Some time has passed since Bowser left his throne room unattended. During that time the lower base level were reconfigured as a large training ground for speculations and observation. Many troops of Bowser’s Koopa Troop forces are putting the subtle area into good use with the two primate mercenary experts. The small red coated and black furred monkey swung his scythe in wide arcing movements, using the momentum of the heavy weapon to add force behind his attacks. Hammer Bros and Spikes ran away from his strikes as their projectile hammers and spiky balls were redirected and flung back at them. Goombas, however, charged head first without a second thought straight into the rapidly swinging monkey. The small black monkey stumbled two steps back as a Goomba head butted his stomach. "Come one, Red!" Cheered The blonde tall monkey, Yellow, for her fellow partner.  Red clicked his scythe, causing the head to explode into a fiery mass. He twitched his hips shooting straight back avoiding a clump of Goombas. The head of his scythe exploded throwing the lithe monkey into a back flip.

"AHHH!" A Koopa Troopa screamed as the monkey crashed onto the top of his shell. His speed and fluidity rivaled by few, not even his given small stature can warrant his capabilities. Red flipped back and golf swinging his scythe into the shell, catapulting straight into the Koopa at the Goomba that rammed him. 

Red fell into his stance, swinging his scythe high into the air. A stubby spiked green shell flew out from the surrounding Koopa Troops. Sensing something coming his way the red clad monkey nearly buckled when the shell collided with his raised scythe. Out of the shell popped a miniature version of Bowser. "Dad wants me to show you who he wants you to beat." Jr. pointed as looked up at the two. He quickly made his way out of the lower sections of the throne room, prompting the two hunters to follow along as Jr. headed straight into a dark tower. “His name is Mario!”

They walked into a theater. The room was fairly dark save for the emitting light from the entryway. While Red and Yellow got themselves seated, Jr fiddled with the small movie projector aimed at a wide screen on the wall. It only took a moment before the recorded film started playing. Their eyes fell on a video portraying a fast moving red capped plumber; the man leaped-frog over a cannon ball, casually kicked a Koopa Troopa off of what appears to be an air ship, and stomped a Goomba without losing any of his momentum. "He's good…" Yellow commented as the video shifted to Mario spinning into Bowser, sending the Koopa King flying. "Strong…" She then added.

Red got himself comfortable as the video continued. Mario kicked a bulky Boom Boom in the gut, sending it hurtling into the wall of their arena. "He's a brawler, no finesse to how he fights…" The Boom Boom bounced off the wall flying straight into Mario, tossing the plumber into the opposite wall.  Immediately the plumber was back in motion. "Can take hits…" 

The footage continues to showcase more and more of Mario’s capabilities; his jumping prowess, his pyrokinesis Firebrand powers, his agilities and movement patterns, along with so much more information of his fighting style the two hunters studied and feed into their heads. "I'm gonna kick his butt…!" Yellow slammed her fist together, a cruel and toothy grin adorned her face.


> Training 
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     The ponified Pinkie Pie listened to her counterpart humming a tune to Fluttershy. "Where did we go~, what did we do~, I think we made something entirely new~!" The older pink pony sang as she gently changed Fluttershy's bandages. The yellow Pegasus giggled from the slight tickling as the bandages was removed. "Oh, hello!" Pinkie greeted the once human counterpart as she entered the tent. She looked at her strangely. "I thought you found me and Flutters weird…?"

Pinkie Pie blushed slightly. "Oh no!" She shook her head vigorously. "It's just Fluttershy, at least my Fluttershy, is one of my best friends. And you look like...well me." Pinkie Pie explained quickly. "But whatever makes you two happy I guess!" She finished. "How are you Fluttershy?" She asked.

"I'm ok." The Pegasus replied timidly as she remained prone on the cushiony pillows. 

"That's great!" Pinkie Pie cheered happily. "Your AJ sent me to come get you." She added.

"Why?" Pinkie asked her younger counterpart. 

"Don't know!" She giggled in reply. "But she said it was super important.”

Elsewhere in Canterlot, outside of the construction zone within the marketing streets, Twilight Sparkle flew quickly; avoiding bolts of bright blue electricity the best she could. "Where is he?" She questioned aloud to herself. Her eyes went across the maze of half destroyed buildings beneath her. Out of the corner of her eyes she caught a glimpse of blue, before her wings gave out as the electricity coursed through her body. She crashed into the ground but quickly she jumped back up to her hooves…

Only to hear, "Luigi's gotcha!" Luigi jabbed her in the cheek with little warning. Twilight collapsed onto the ground in a heap. "Are you ok, Princess?" Luigi asked worriedly, kneeling down in front of the pony princess.  

Twilight shook vigorously "I'm fine." Twilight assured the worried plumber with a groan, as she got back to her hooves. 

Sunset Shimmer teleported five times in quick succession in a circular pattern. She touched the side of her head feeling numbness and weak from abusing her spell casting. "Your muscles have atrophied with lack of use." Princess Celestia kneeled down and wrapped her wing around the heavily panting Unicorn. "Don't push yourself to hard." She looked down on the pony cocooned in her white fur and feathers.

"They're all working hard, I owe it to them." Sunset replied with determination. 

Celestia spread her wings; she gently tapped her horn against Sunsets smaller horn. Small flames appeared and danced around the two. "It's not always about power…" The flame grew larger before flying straight into the stone. It swirled for five seconds before dispersing, revealing a charged stone glowing from the infused fire. “…control can be just as dangerous." The flame shot straight through the stone causing it to crumble into charred pebbles. "Do you understand my daughter?"

Sunset closed her eyes, her flame ignited brilliantly. She felt the magic course through her body and into the ball of flames. "Feel the flame...", the large Alicorn instructed, "the heat….now my little sun,"  the intensity of the heat increased immediately. "There you go." P

Ponified Fluttershy timidly leaped into the air, with two large strokes with her wings she fluttered awkwardly into the air. Then she spiralled back down to the ground, landing on her head. She laid in a heap. "Need some help, Flutters?" She looked up; Rainbow Dash, at least by appearance her friends pony counterpart Rainbow Dash, smiled down at her. "Your Rainbow Dash is a natural."

"She always is…" Fluttershy timidly tapped the ground with her head low. 'I Could make you....'

"It's not hard." Rainbow started. She then tapped Fluttershy's right wing. The Pegasus flinched away when Rainbow tugged out a feather. "It was broken. You humans don't know how to maintain your wings."

"We don't normally have wings." Fluttershy replied.

Rainbow forced her wings wide to get a better examination. "Your wings are larger than our Fluttershys." She stated simply with a whistle.

"Where's Dashie?" Fluttershy questioned the rainbow maned pegasi stretching her wings out.

"I left her with my soldiers. I swear if most of my soldiers were half the Pegasi she was..." She left her praise hanging in the air. "Wide strokes Flutters!" Rainbow instantly took to the sky.

The young human turned pony dipped low, her face a half inches in from the earth. "Ok, ok, ok!" She jumped high into the air.

"Flap your wings!" Rainbow Dash yelled down.  The butter coloured Pegasi wings beat furiously. "Slow down, control your wide wing beats!" Rainbow Dash instructed the naïve Pegasi. Fluttershy's wing beats slowed down, the former human gained height and gradually becoming level with Rainbow Dash.

"I'm flying!" She gasped loudly. "I'm...." Her cyan eyes dropped down and became wide. "Ahhhhhhh!!" She screamed as her wings locked up in place and her whole body became partially paralyzed. The human turned Pegasi dropped quickly.

The Captain of the Royal Guard took immediate action and shot forward into a dive. Just as the butter mare was about to smash into the earth Rainbow Dash wrapped her hooves around her belly. "Got ya!" Rainbow twisted her body, causing the two to crash back first onto the ground.

Fluttershy groaned weakly, she opened her eyes to the baby blue fur. She looked up to the Pegasus holding her tightly. "Oh my goodness!" She jumped out Rainbow’s grip "Are you ok?" She asked with concern.

Rainbow Dash got up steadily. "Ouch…" She winced and shook off the pain. "I'm fine, I've been through worse." She popped her wings loudly, cracking her neck she looked at Fluttershy. "Again" She quirked her brow towards the former human.

Mario jumped high into the air and he kicked off a wall laughing loudly. "No fair!" Applejack yelled at the red cap. She jumped over a half collapsed food cart and duck under a beam. She was barely keeping up with the hero of the Mushroom Kingdom as he long jumped between two buildings.
Mario leapt off the building straight at the former human, and with a twist sent Applejack flying with a punch. 

"Why don't you jump like me?" Mario asked as he stood before the exhausted pony.

Applejack swiped some sweat off her face and readjusted her hat before speaking. "I can't." She looked at the housing. "…can I?" She cast a glance towards the plumber, her expression stuck between doubt and reassurance.

Mario laughed loudly. "We won't know till you try!" Mario then back-flipped, landing on a ten foot tall scaffolding. "Let's-a go, Applejack!" He encouraged.

The young woman crouched low. "I can do this..." She flicked her tail. "I can do this....." Applejack exploded upwards....and immediately smashed head first into a ceiling. "Ouch...." She groaned loudly.

Mario slapped himself loudly. "Look before you leap!" He groaned as the young woman twitched.

Spike ripped a large chunk of wood out of the pile of rubble that was once the The Canterlot Carousal Boutique. "We'll rebuild it." Rarity gently placed a chunk of stone in a pile. "I wanted to expand." 

She added. The former human Rarity was helping them clean the lot that was once their home. "Sweetie Belle!" She suddenly gasped, finding a cracked picture frame containing a picture of a young white mare. "Was she in the city?" She questioned feeling an immense amount of worry for her little sister.

"No, Sweetie lives in Manehattan." Rarity told her counterpart simply.

"That's good." The ponified  Rarity sighed with some relief touching her chest.

"Yes!" Spikes voice boomed. "Rares!" Spike curled into a tight ball "Rarity!" He yelled.

The Unicorns galloped to the hunched over dragon. "What is it?" Worry evident in her voice.
Spike unfurled excitedly. opened his large claw to reveal an elegant gold necklace, with a large red heart shaped gemstone. "Spikey~!" Tears sprouted in Rarity’s eyes.

The large purple dragon chuckled; he sent a ball of flames into the pile of wood incinerating the broken rubbles for easy cleaning later afterwards. "We'll need to speak to Fleetspeech about buying her land." He used his tail to knock down a half collapsed wall. 

The impact made Spike winced, making him nearly collapsed. "Spikey!" Rarity galloped up to his large purple frame.

Spike stood up slowly as he relaxes his clenched mouth. "I'm ok…" He gently touched the mares face soothing her worried expression.

It has been a long day for everyone; fairly good progress was made with the reconstruction of Canterlot and the Mane Six as well as the Mario Bros. has recovered their strengths. Rainbow Dash, Dashie, the two Rarities and Spike sat around a campfire. They had plates of food, or in Spikes case gems and were eating.

Rainbow Dash threw a raspberry high into the air and it land in her waiting open mouth. Her unit of Royal Guards sat and ate around them. "You guys did good today!" She encouraged the soldiers. Across from her sat Dashie who was nursing bumps and nicks around her body. Her training session with her pony counterpart was intense, especially being outnumbered by the soldiers when they get into the mix.

"AJ!" Dashie waved at the bruised Earth Pony, as she walked up to the camp limping behind Mario.

The high school graduate Applejack groaned. "Hey Dashie…" Applejack’s muscles sore; she practically fell apart when once she joined around the campfire. Her training with the red plumber was no joy ride, but it did help to maintained control of her pony body if things get out of hand.
Mario looked at the food drooling slightly. "You hungry?" Rainbow Dash asked the plumber.

"Yes!" He exclaimed.

"Well go for it!" Rainbow Dash jumped back as the plumber leaped at the food quickly, piling a small mountain of fruit and vegetables onto a single plate as if it’s a buffet.

Twilight Sparkle landed beside the cyan captain Pegasus. She gently picked up a piece of an orange to settle for as a meal. A few seconds later Luigi ran into the camp. He squatted down and panting heavily from the long run. "Oh…you beat me…princess." He panted. 

Twilight giggled. "You could've used your lightning speed." 

Rainbow quirked her eyebrow at the statement. "Lightning speed?" 

Once Luigi caught his breath he smiled at the Pegasus. "I learned it from another Pegasus." The young green plumber cracked a bright blue, and suddenly, he appeared by Mario’s side who was scarfing down food, before returning to his regular position.

"Oh that." Rainbow dismissed the display. "I know how to do that..."

Mario looked up from his mountain plate of food. "But you're faster than lightning?" He quirked his eyebrows at her with interest.

Rainbow Dash chuckled, spreading her wings proudly. "Yeah, the speed of lightning is too slow!"

"Howdy, everypony!" Applejack called from down the road, she was pulling a cart behind her. 

"Hey, everypony!" Pinkie Pie and her human counterpart greeted from beside the farmer pony.  
They, to, had a cart behind them each.

"Ohhhh…" Mario's eyes glazed over at the sight. Applejack's cart was weighed down by all manner of apple goods; pies, cakes, juices, jams, and breads while on the second cart was baked goods; cupcakes, pies, and cookies. Fluttershy was limping behind the three ponies.

"We wanted to treat everypony." Applejack told the group.

Mario shot up from his seated position. "Wahoo!" He exclaimed as he flew into mountain of sweets.

Luigi sighed loudly, shaking his head as his brother scarfed down a pie clean off its tin pan. "Mama Mia…" He groaned feeling almost embarrassed for the both of them.

"Does he do this often?" Twilight giggled, as Mario tossed a cupcake into the air.  He deftly caught the small pastry on his outstretched tongue.

"Yes." Luigi happily ate piece of pineapple while being mildly entertain by his brother.

Mario threw his arms around the two pink ponies. "My name Pinkie Pie!"

"Hello~!" Mario greeted in a singing tone of voice.

"And I am here to say~!" Pinkie Pie sang along and her human counter pulled a guitar out of her mane and began strumming quickly.

"How you doing?" Mario sang loudly.

Fluttershy watched her mare dancing and singing with the plumber around the fire with her human counterpart. The soldiers clapped as Mario broke into a fast paced series of spins and flips. He even spun on one hand. 

"Dance with me princess" Luigi jumped up and offered his hand to the purple Alicorn pony. She hesitated for a second before she placed a hood in his open palm.

"The egghead can't dance!" Rainbow jeered cheerfully.

"Oh...?" Luigi spun her around. "I'll teach you!" 

Sunset Shimmer watched as her friends began dancing and singing with Mario and Pinkie Pie, while the human version of the party pony provided music. Luigi was awkwardly dancing with the youngest Alicorn princess; it was almost as if she had two left feet. "Hey, Sunset, get your flank down here!" Ponified Pinkie’s voice cut over the laughing and singing.

Sunset galloped into the party of ponies and plumbers. "Wahoo!" Luigi spun Twilight with his hand.

The bros and the ponies sat in front of the fire, settling down after a good hour of their fun. It was a well deserved break after so much had happened ever since Bowser’s intrusion in this world. Princess Celestia stepped in for her sister to raise the moon to start the beginning of the night since she is still in recovery. Almost all of the food was eaten and the team of heroes laid before the fire with the glowing moon and stars twinkle above.

"So what's the weirdest thing you ever saw?" Rainbow Dash asked the two plumbers her eyes half closed.

"A Ghost Baby." Stated Luigi with a shiver.

"Paper Me.” Replied Mario with a smirk.

"Ghost baby?" The two Fluttershy's jumped beneath their covers shivering.

"Paper you?" Dashie looked at the plumber.

"Oh yeah." Mario jumped and threw his hands out wide. "He was just like me, but, like, this thin." Mario pinched his pointer finger and thumb together to demonstrate. "Tomorrow we should spar; I wanna see how Dashie can fight." He looked pointedly at Rainbow Dash and her counterpart.

"Hey, Dashie, you wanna fight AJ?" Rainbow looked at her counterpart.

"I guess.” Dashie yawned.

"I wouldn't mind testing myself." Sunset looked at the two brothers.

"Okie Dokie!" Luigi looked around at the twelve ponies.

"All of us", Mario pulled Luigi and Applejack, "versus all of you!" he looked at the eleven ponies.

> Sparring
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

The sun shone bright the next morning as the beginning of a new day began its course. Out in the outskirts of Canterlot, just as promised, the twelve ponies and two plumbers where standing in a small clump getting ready for their sparring match. Despite their success to hold their own against the onslaught of the combined might of Bowser’s and Chrysalis’s forces, much improvement and polishing on their abilities were needed, especially for the human counterparts of the Mane Six; more specifically Applejack and Dashie to hone their pony bodies.

Mario looked at Luigi then turned his gaze to the ponified Applejack by his side. With a firm nod the red plumber stood with his hands on hips and took two side steps towards the high-schooler and clapped a hand on her back. "Just be ready for her to rush you." He advised.
On the other side of the group, Captain Rainbow Dash prep herself with some stretches. Alongside her were her fellow friends and their counterparts as they waited patiently with anticipation to see the outcome of this training session. Once she notice Mario was getting the non-native Applejack ready she walked over to her counterpart. "He probably taught her to counter, so don't rush in blindly." She whispered to Dashie confidently. "Earth Ponies are strong and durable creatures, so don't get hit or it'll will hurt a lot!"

"You can beat her." The plumber and captain stated firmly to their trained pupils.

Mario and Rainbow Dash then locked eyes as bolts flashed between one another. A silent 'My student can beat yours' mentally telegraphic between the two. Mario grinned confidently as Rainbow Dash flicked her mane.

Twilight Sparkle looked between the four with trepidation birthed by having hyper competitive creatures glaring at one another. "Was this a good idea?" She quietly asked Sunset Shimmer.

Mario reached into Pinkie Pie’s mane and pulled out a towel. "Probably not…" The fiery maned Unicorn replied with a sigh.

"Ok, you ready?" Rainbow Dash asked her counterpart.

"I’m always am!" Dashie replied and did a few stretches.

"You got this Applejack!" Mario smiled confidently.

The Earth Pony squared all her hooves as she got into a proper stance. "Wide base, trust my instincts, pull punches…" She muttered to herself as she went over the instructions she learnt from her training. She then looked towards the red plumber. "How long do you want us to go?" Applejack asked as she stepped away from Dashie to create space.

"Until I say stop." Twilight told the two.

The ponies and plumbers formed a large open circle around the two combatants as they all serve as both spectators and participants. Mario sat down and then tossed the towel he was holding at the epicenter of the gathering makeshift ring. Once the cloth touches the ground Applejack trotted towards Dashie as the sparring officially begun.

"This is gonna be interesting." Sunset commented as she sat beside Mario. Since yesterday she was told by both of her high-school friends how they struggled with a specific ability with their pony bodies and the intense training they went through by Mario and Rainbow Dash respectively to help them maintained control. She was proud to learn that her best friends worked so hard and very much looking forward to the end results.

Applejack stomped the ground with all her strength to cause a fissure to spread beneath her front hooves.  Dashie reacted by spreading her wings wide. "Go!" Rainbow Dash yelled. Dashie shot off in a blur of every colour in the rainbow.

The ponified farm girl rolled to left with haste as she felt the pressure of a powerful wind smash against the side of her face. "Fast." She grunted.

Dashie glanced back down once she arched herself high into the air. "She dodged me?" She questioned to herself.

FLASHBACK
After gathering enough magic data from the Nth Metal bands attached to the Mario Bros, Twilight encouraged Mario and Rainbow Dash for one final test. The red plumber and the captain of the royal guard glared at one another in a standoff.

"How long do you want us to go?” Rainbow Dash asked, her voice targeting the Princess of Friendship without removing the human man from her eyesight.

"Until I say stop." Twilight responded as she watched the two carefully.

"Ok." Rainbow Dash stated calmly.

"Let's-a-go!" Mario chanted.

Twilight raised one hoof, both combatants are prep and on edge to make the first move. "Go!" Rainbow Dash shot straight at the plumber. Mario narrowly dodged to the left, a wall of wind slammed into his inspecting face.

"Fast." He grunted after recovering his balance.

Rainbow Dash looked back as she arced high into the air. "He dodged it....”

 CURRENT TIME 

Applejack tracked the Pegasi flying in a circle around her. Mario’s teachings really paid off as the farm girl anticipated the athletic Pegasi’s movement and the training helped with her reflexes and senses. "Come a little lower Dash…" She muttered to herself. Applejack slowly began to squat, she flicked her tail to the left and right as she waited for the proper moment. She watched as Dashie continued to circle around her at a moderate pace slowly descending with each loop. 'Now!' With everything she had Applejack shot high into the air.

 'What!?'  The sight of Applejack rocketing towards her was quite a shock for the naturally gifted ponified human.

 'Gotcha'  With a twist of her hip she kicked Dashie in the chin, sending the Pegasi slamming into the ground.

Dashie bounced off the earth before skidding to halt. The moment Applejack touched the ground she quickly shot after the Pegasi with the thought that she had a much better advantage with a grounded winged pony. Dashie shook her head to regain her sense of surroundings. She felt a tingle of adrenaline pumped throughout her body and detected the approaching force of someone coming after her. Lining her body and leg positions the athletic high-schooler timed for the right moment. "Got her!"  In a flash Dashie clothe lined the Earth Pony with enough force to skid her back five feet.

They grunted as they pushed off one another, although clearly Applejack had the advantage with strength, Dashie used her wings and speed to even the odds. After squaring off the two bounce back and Dashie shot high into the air once more as Applejack reformed position.

"Way to go Applejack!" Mario jumped high into air joyfully.

“Alright, Dashie!” Rainbow Dash cheered. “Show off some more of that speed!”

Various reactions and cheering applaud omitted from the surrounding friends. Both Applejack and Dashie sparring were encouraging enough to have them all try their best. Even the two Fluttershy’s who were against violence understood this would help them strengthen their bond by getting stronger together.

Each of the ponies, former humans, and plumbers took their turn in the ring to show off their skills and fighting prowess. Mario leapt into the fray knocking the Alicorn Princess of Friendship into ground, Luigi bumbled his way into a victory against the native Applejack, and Sunset Shimmer over powered both Rarity's. As the sun moved across the sky laughter, grunts, and gasp filled the air. An explosion shook the field as both plumbers were blown twenty feet back both smouldering masses of deep green and dark purple with swirling dazes in their eyes; Twilight and Sunset stood proudly with their horns smoking.

"Get them!" Both Rainbow Dash’s let out a loud battle cry as they rocketed at the two prodigies in an attempt for a surprise attack.

"Okie dokie!" A sudden claimed came from Pinkie Pie as she slid in front of Dashie.

"No, no, no!" Dashie skidded mid flight as she tried to stop.

"Ready?" Pinkie Pie inquired to her equestrian counterpart.

Quickly the native Pinkie shoved Dashie into the cannon. "Aimed!" She yelled out.

"Pinkie...!" Captain Rainbow uneasily exclaimed at the sight of the canon.

"Fire!!" The two pink party ponies shouted in unison once their ammo was fired.

A rainbow cannonball shot straight into the captain of the royal guard’s jaw sending the two tumbling to the ground. "Our turn!" Mario yelled out of nowhere while he swung Luigi by the feet. He tossed his younger brother straight at the ponified Pinkie.

"Luigi's...”, he flew head first into the former human’s mane and completely disappeared within for a second, "Gotcha!" He finished as he rocketed out of the ponies mane flying twenty feet into air. Mario laughed loudly as his brother let a yowl of fear.

The green cap crashed head first into the ground groaning loudly. "Ouchie…"

 THAT EVENING 

Twilight watched Sunset Shimmer and Princess Celestia from inside of the large infirmary tent, the comfort of the dim lit candle’s heat and an open book helped to relax her muscles. It had been hours during their sparring session since that early morning with her friends, nearly the whole day was dedicated to that activity and despite all the fun a much needed break was indeed required. She doesn’t know exactly what their next move will be for tomorrow, but she’s confident enough to know that they’ll be prepared for the worst. It was time for the day to switch to the night and Twilight was fixated on both magic users.

The large Alicorn princess had a reassuring smile on her muzzle. "Come on my second sun," she whispered into Sunset’s ear. "Slowly now, don't move it closer or further from the planet." Twilight looked upwards, and to her utter shock and amazement the moon moved. Slower then she had ever seen it move, the movements where clearly jagged and unrefined, but the moon made its way towards its resting point.

She could see the pure concentration flowing around the prodigy mare. 'Every ponies magic is unique.'  Celestia had once told her. 'What comes easy to you may be difficult to your counterpart and vice versa.' Twilight frowned at those resurfacing voices from her mentor back during her naïve days. All the pieces are there, but what comes of it? She couldn’t in-point any of it; what exactly does this means for Sunset? What exactly does Celestia see in her that she sees in herself?

"So she's a Celestial Mage." Twilight whipped around at the sudden voice, breaking away from her deep thoughts; the sight of the injured Princess Luna limps towards her. "Greetings, Twilight Sparkle." She waved at her fellow princess with her good hoof.

"Celestial Mage?" Twilight asked the older princess.

"Yes, Celestial." She state in a sage manner as her horn glowed faintly. "They're exceedingly rare breeds of Unicorns. Like your student and yourself are Magical Mages, you pick up and can utilize high level spells as if it's a second nature to you. Sunset Shimmer’s magic enables her to use the magic of the cosmos." Luna explained calmly. "I can see why my sister took her under her wing." Luna smiled fondly as Celestia pulled Sunset into a tight hug, the moon in its proper place shimmering its glow of guidance in the dark void of space.  "I mean, the last Celestial Mage we seen was Starswirl and he never embraced his gifts."

"She took Sunset because she can naturally move the sun?" Twilight frowned, quirking her head to the left.

The midnight Alicorn nodded in response, her sight not budging away from the two. "At the most basic level I imagine so." Celestia's eyes had softened as she proudly hugged the little Unicorn. "But love can change anything. Now I don't imagine Celestia giving her up."

????????

Queen Chrysalis and Bowser watched as twenty Unicorns and Magikoopas fluttering around a high arching stone portal. After their successful invasion of Canterlot and going over their next phase for preparations, the two ruling monarchs set forth to open the portal to Tartarus. A few days prior the hulking tyrant king had demolished and invaded a few neighboring homes and small towns; gathering resources and commanding forces to kidnap as many Unicorns they can possibly catcher as slaves. The ponies of this dimension are quite resilient if running for their lives mean anything, making them hard to catch, but very necessary if Bowser wanted enough power to accomplish his goal. It helped quite a bit with the aid of Chrysalis and her Changelings shape shifting abilities to deceive them into traps. It also helped that a few joined willingly as betrayers of Equestria.

"Unicorns..." Called out the lead Koopa mage, "Combine your magic!" Ten beams of multicoloured of energy flew towards the stone arch. After a few seconds a bubble of energy rippled into existence. "Magikoopas, now!" The lead Koopa called out. The ten Koopas swung their wands in a complicated manner. Beams of shapes and colour mixed with the Unicorn magic pour into the stream, the added fuel only making the concentrated bubble correspond out of control.

"Kamek!" Bowser called out as he looked up and watched the flying Magikoopas firing spells to suppress the chaotic beams of magic.

"Yeah boss?" The Koopa looked down worriedly.

"We need more Magikoopas and Unicorns." Chrysalis told Bowser as she noted the current amount of unsuppressed energy is not significant enough to hold together, making the process a bit more hazardous and dangerous if control wasn’t maintained. Suddenly an energy spike from the central concentrated mass arced straight at Bowser, but a wall of dark purple crystal erupted from ground in front of him. "STOP!!" She screeched over a resounding boom.

Bowser frowned at the displayed before him; runes darkened and smoking etched across the large arch after the channeled energy was suspended. The Koopa King slammed a closed fist on the ground out of anger, causing a crack to stretch across the room. His surrounding forces and allies scramble to balance themselves from the quake

"Calm down my king." Kamek calmly advised. He flew towards the hulking figure in hope to ease his temper.

"More Unicorns, more Magikoopas!" He voice shook the entire chamber.

After some time has pass, the Koopa Troop armada slowly rolled towards a small city hall. Bowser’s airship slowly floated in the back row pushing the baddies forward. Civilians were fleeing from the approaching armada while the local soldiers attempted to push back the invading troops, but they were outnumbered and with the Changelings in their midst the hapless defenders couldn't mount any form of defense.

As they grew closer to the city hall Bowser jumped from his place atop his flying warship. His shadow was cast over head of the defenders. "Look out!" They screamed as Bowser came crashing down in the middle of their lines. Small explosions of magic knocked back the lumbering brute. Bowser dug his feet into cobblestone and soft earth. Slowly, but surely, beams of magic bolts from the Unicorn ponies stopped exploding against his bulky scales. Bowser stood up slowly, his back muscles popped audibly. He slowly made his way towards the general, who in turn stumbled away from the massive figure.

The Mayor of this small town shook behind his makeshift cover. The main entrance of his towns  hall had been upturned; tables had been flipped to create barriers and the door was completely barricaded. Suddenly, the sounds of war had completely stopped. An uneasy silenced permeated the room.  Those  present could hear their own hearts beating loudly into their ears. They all knew that the invading armada had them beat. All of a sudden the silence was shattered as Bowser burst through the wall of the large city hall.  He closed his eyes as burst of magic smashed into his hulking figure. "Chrysalis!" He roared loudly in annoyance.

"Brute…" Chrysalis muttered as she began to feed magic into the corrupted Crystal Heart. Spires of black crystals erupted from the ground knocking back stallion and mare soldiers that were position within the opened room. She calmly trotted into the building and her eyes glance back into the small town.

Bowser leaped towards a singular figure quivering behind an over turned table. With a quick straight kick he destroyed the table with ease. "Mayor Gild", he growled lowly, his boiling breath licking the stallions face, "my armada needs food, we need building supplies, and any magical runes you have." He casually hefted up the stallion by the throat. "Now!" He threw the stallion through the hole in the wall he made towards the chaos outside.

Mayor Gild looked out in horror. His small town was ablaze, his ponies where scattered, and his soldiers injured or worse. Strange creatures that he never seen before alongside the Changelings gradually tore apart his town, he couldn’t bear to watch anymore and shut his eyes tight. "Bring them whatever they ask for.", was his simple command.

Chrysalis watched the ponies scattered across the town trying to desperately evacuate, find a place of hiding, or even fight back. She watched as their attempt went in vain as they were easily overpowered and catcher. She witnessed her Changeling soldiers allied with an elite force that have the power to conquer galaxies beat up a town full of wimps. The reality of the situation has just hit her; why are they wasting this vast amount of power? "Bowser." She announced as she trotted towards the Koopa. "We scattered the pony princess’s army."

"So?" Bowser quirked an eyebrow at her.

"We could’ve rule over Equestria, just look how fast this town bowed." She explained.

Bowser scratched his chin for a brief period. "Mario, as long as he is in Equestria we can't take over."

Chrysalis frowned at the statement she received. "You're scared of the plumber?" She questioned the Koopa inquisitively. Her fight with the human man was still quite fresh in her mind; strong, fast, and  a nuisance. His stubbornness, and willingness to keep fighting did boil her blood…and that brief moment when she saw something unnerving in his eyes…Chrysalis refused to think further on that and instead distracted herself by watching Bowser end a battle the moment he leaped into the fray of opposing pony soldiers.

The Koopa King chuckled lowly. "You fought him once and he was already hurt." He stated simple before staring her sharply in the eyes and continued. "You don't understand. I've seen that plumber topple armies and bring gods to their knees. I've been thrown into a sun by him!" His voice was a low grumble. "We need an army hundred times this size. We need them all to bring down Mario!" Bowser looked away from the queen of the Changelings. "Maybe even more…" He muttered conspiratorially to himself.

Chrysalis could see tribute being made to the Koopa armada, her Changelings began feeding off the fear that they were causing in the towns ponies. Bowser’s words started to ingrain her mind as she thought about it some more. Was one human truly worth this amount of trouble in order to bring all of Equestria to its knees?

"Aren't you a little worried about those ponies joining forces with Mario?" Bowser asked Chrysalis.

"NO, never!!" She hissed turning on the Koopa King viciously. She nearly felt insulted.

"Well you should be, if they wanted to use their magical artifacts. They could wipe the floor with us." Bowser told her. He watched the resident ponies drop food in a small pile in front of the city hall and a small selection of highly skilled pony mages to be enslaved and transported on the airships.

 CANTERLOT 

A shimmering golden glow encased multiple stone blocks as solar plasma painstakingly etched runes along each block. Slowly an arch began to form as the solar princess worked. She fed each rune magic as she made significant progress. A dark purple veil shimmered between the unfinished arches.

She breathed deep calming breaths as she continued to work on the arch. "Doth thou need help sister?" Princess Luna's magic began bolstering Celestia’s own.

"You should be resting." Celestia replied calmly as a piece of stone slid into place.

"I am fine," Luna countered, "I am an Alicorn after all."

"Even our kind have their limits." Celestia and Luna began imbuing the stone with magic.

Luna stood next to her sister. "Yes, and you need help if you wish to complete this project." A fire blazed in her eyes as she argued with her sister. Dark blue aura and golden yellow met slowly, etching the runes in the archway.