//------------------------------// // Chapter Fourteen: The Three Trials // Story: Mario & Luigi: Adventures Through Equestria // by NoGoodUsrNames99 //------------------------------// When the temple door opened, they saw a long, dark hall, leading into pure blackness. "Uhh, Mario, I don't think I want to go in there..." Luigi Mumbled, terrified. "I agree..." Toadlee replied. Mario then looked back at them, "We don't have a choice!" Mario yelled, hearing it echo. He then took a step into the temple, and a torch lit up on both walls, lighting a fraction of the hall up. Mario then took another step, and another lit up. "C'mon guys!" Mario exclaimed as he ran down the hall. Luigi then looked at Toadlee and shrugged before following Mario. After what felt like ages, they got through the seemingly endless hall and into the temple. It was a large room being lit up by nothing but, and sitting on a pedestal in the middle was the Infastar. The only difference it had from the other one is the fact that it's pink, whereas the other one in blue. "There it is!" Mario yelled, pointing at the star. He then looked back and nodded before walking up to the star, and reaching out. Just before he made contact, they heard the voice: "NOT SO FAST!" They then looked in the entrance, and there stood Fawful. "So, you three thought you could get to the star before Fawful?" He asked, before pulling out the gun. "This will be the peanut butter in the sandwich of your DOOM!" He yelled, Before shooting at Mario. Mario jumped out of the way, dodging the bullet. "Fawful, you can't have this star!" Mario yelled, before Mario's entire group jumped at the star. They all hit it at the same time, followed by a flash of light. Mario opened his eyes, feeling very groggy. He stood up and shook his head, noticing that he seems to be in some sort of white dimension. "Ow...where are we?" Mario asked, looking over and seeing Luigi, Toadlee, and Fawful, all collecting their thoughts. "Guys..." "What?" Luigi asked, before realizing where they are, and screaming "AHH!" "Would you shut your face?" Fawful asked giving him an irritated look. "Where are we?" Luigi asked, in shock. "We're in the Infastar's trial dimension, dummy!" Fawful yelled in Luigi's face. "T-Trail dimension?" Luigi asked. Suddenly, they heard a loud click, and on the wall across from them, there was a projection of...the Infastar? it had a face? "H-Hello? Can you dorks read me?" It asked, tapping the screen. "Yes, we can hear you!" Fawful replied, with his arms crossed. "Alright..." It said, before clearing it's throat. "I am Infa, The elder twin of the Infastars!" It said, batting at the eyelashes it apparently has. "Now, my brother, Star, told me you'd, like, be coming soon!" She said, in a teenager attitude, as she pulled out a phone type thing and started typing. "Wait...what's going on?" Mario asked, crossing his arms. "Well, if you, like, want to take me for your own, you've gotta go through the three trials I've set up for you!" She said. "Yes yes, Fawful knows..." Fawful yelled. "Wait, how do you know so much?" Luigi asked Fawful "Because, Fawful's been through this before when he got the Equestrian Infastar!" Fawful scoffed. "So, there will be like, totally three trials for you to endure, each one getting harder than the last!" Infa exclaimed. "So like, tell me when you're ready, or you could drop out!" She then snapped, and a portal appeared behind them. "Alright..." Mario sighed "Toadlee, Luigi, Discord, Starlow, we don't have a choice!" Luigi and Toadlee jumped up. "Wait, where are Discord and Starlow?" Mario asked. "Well..." Infa started to talk, "If you have some freinds that, like, DIDN'T touch me, they wont be here." "HAH! Look who lost some partners!" Fawful exclaimed. "Oh yeah, mister Chrysalis and Dimentio-less!" Luigi exclaimed, before giving Toadlee a high-five. Fawful just rolled his eyes. "Alright, we're ready!" Mario yelled. "Alrighty!" Infa exclaimed, before clapping. They watched as the empty room took shape, with blocks and stuff appearing everywhere. This continued until there was a pit of lava, and Platforms, forming a small path, "Alright, you guys, like, need to totally jump across the platforms and get to the exit! the winnder get's five points! simple enough." She said. "Really, this simple?" Toadlee asked, before everybody shooshed him. "What? I was just thinking it's too easy-" Fawful then covered his mouth. "Shut UP!" Fawful screamed. "Well, alright!" Infa exclaimed "This'll spice it up." She then clapped and the platforms started moving around, and there was fire squirting up. Everybody looked at Toadlee, completely pissed off. Fawful then shoved him into the lava. "Toadlee LOOSES!" Infa yelled. "Alright, c'mon Luigi! Combined we have two lives left!" Mario exclaimed, before he jumped onto one of the platforms. He then jumped onto the next, being followed by Luigi. They continued to jump one at a time. "Pfft, who cares about that?" Fawful asked himself, before opening his cape and pressing a button on his belt, having big springs come from his shoes. He then jumped super high, landing perfectly about half way across the coarse. He then looked back and gave the bros. An evil smile, before charging up another jump. "Luigi, we need to grab onto him..." Mario whispered to Luigi, and Luigi nodded. Just as Fawful was about to jump, the Bros. Lunged at him, and grabbed hold as he sprung in the air. "THAT'S CHEATING!" Fawful screamed, trying to kick the bros. Off. "This coming from the guy who's using gadgets to win?!" Mario replied. Fawful then hit one of the last platforms, and pulled out the tazer gun, and pointed it at Mario, causing him to back up. He then started to charge his boots up again. Mario and Luigi then jumped across the platforms, trying to get to the exit before Fawful. As Mario and Luigi jumped across the last platform and got to the exit. Fawful then jumped and landed right in front of the bros. They then ran across the platform, neck and neck with Fawful. They both ran towards the exit, and both Fawful and Mario grabbed the nob and opened the door at the same time. "IT WAS A TIE!" Infa exclaimed. "Five points for each!" Fawful and Mario then glared at each other, and then walked through the door. They then found themselves in a huge valley full of trees. "Alright, pick up those axes, like, build and AWESOME fort before time runs out! The best fort wins eight points!" She yelled, before clapping twice and having a timer appear, counting down from 30 minutes, "Now...GO!" She screamed. Mario and Luigi both picked up axes, and immediately started chopping trees. Fawful just looked at them, evilly and stood there. "Uhh, Bro? what's Fawful doing?" Luigi asked, looking back at Fawful. "I don't know, but whatever he's thinking is bad!" Mario replied. "Just continue chopping wood!" The Bros. Then continued to chop down trees. They then took one of the stumps from earlier and set a log onto it, and chopped down the middle. Meanwhile Fawful then pulled out some sort of thing, and had an axe grow out of it, much like a lightsaber. "I HAVE POWER!" He yelled as he used it and chopped three or four trees down at a time. Mario and Luigi just stood there, in shock about what's going on. "T-That isn't fair!" Mario exclaimed. "INFA...Fawful's cheating!" Mario screamed. Infa's screen then reappeared. "Well, how is he cheating?" She asked, clapping and having the clock pause. "He's using his gadgets and having an unfair advantage!" Luigi replied. "Not true!" Fawful yelled, looking at them in anger. "Well..." Infa mumbled, "You see, aren't you cheating too?" She asked. "What...us cheating?" Mario asked in pure shock. "Well you two are, like, working together, right?" She asked, with an eyebrow raised. "Well..." Mario mumbled. "So, you two have a totally unfair advantage, so he gets to use his gadgets!" She said, motioning her arm at Fawful, and having him evilly smile back. "Alright, fine!" Mario yelled. "We'll beat him!" "M-Mario...I don't think we can..." Luigi replied. "Well...if he get's to cheat, so do we!" Mario whispered to Luigi. Luigi then nodded back. "Alright, let's get this show back on the road!" Infa screamed, pumping her fist in the air. Luigi then went to his own log, and they both continued to chop wood twice as fast as Fawful. Once they where done chopping wood, they began building the frame of their fort. When it got too high for then to reach, Luigi jumped onto Mario's shoulders and continued to build. "Oh...Oh crap." Fawful mumbled, pulling his spring shoes out and jumping high enough to continue to stack wood. He then started putting the nails in, and pulled out an electric looking hammer. He then started using it to rapidly hammer nails into the wood. "Uhh, Mario...look!" Luigi nervously exclaimed as he pointed towards Fawful. "C'mon, we can't give up!" Mario exclaimed as Luigi jumped off his shoulders and they begun hammering nails. They where going about the same speed as Fawful. "Annnd...TIMES UP!" She yelled. "Now, let me take a look at your forts..." She then begun to examine them. "Hmm..." Mario and Luigi's was a run-down shack, that looked like it was slapped together with no effort what-so-ever. "Hmm, well...Mario and Luigi, you're, like totally, looks like it was thrown together in thirty minutes- oh wait, it was!" She exclaimed, before moving over to Fawful's. It was a lot bigger and more well made. There where wires and gadgets everywhere. "Hmm...looks pretty promising!" She yelled. "Oh, That's not all!" Fawful exclaimed before pulling out a small button, and pressing it. The fort lit up with pink and green lights, and fireworks shot out and exploded, spelling out the words: 'Infa, you rock!' Infa then gasped, "I think it's, like, obvious who won!" She yelled. "Fawful, you get eight points!" "YES!" "Aw...noo..." Mario sighed. "Now, totally go through this door and get to the last trial! This is so exiting!" She screeched, snapping and having a door appear. Mario and Luigi then looked at each other, nervously before walking into the door. They then found themselves in a seemingly empty room, with mild obsticals here and there. "Now, time for trial three...the winner get's ten points!" She exclaimed. "You all must fight...EACH OTHER!" "Wait...WHAT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!" They all screamed. "Umm, yeah...what else?" She asked, sarcastically. "You each have three lives, and whoever is the last team standing wins!" She exclaimed. "Oh man..." Mario grumbled. Infa then pulled out a flag, and lifted it in the air, "Alright...aaaaand...START!" She exclaimed swinging the flag down. Fawful gave them an evil smile bfore pulling out a large gun and pointing it at the Bros. He shot it and they jumped out of the way. Fawful then pulled out a long, electric staff. He charged at Mario, and swung at him. Mario jumped over the staff and landed on Fawful's head, taking away a life. Fawful returned the favor and smacked Mario, causing him to fly away and hit the wall. "Oww..."Mario moaned, as he only had one life left. Fawful then ran up and hit him, taking away his last life. "Luigi...finish him off-" Mario yelled as he dissapeared, much like a glitch in a computer. "NO!" Luigi yelled. "Now...it's just Luigi and Fawful!" Fawful yelled, looking at Luigi evilly. He then charged at Luigi, and he jumped out of the way. He then pulled out his hammer and jumped at Fawful, but Fawful dodged it and Luigi smacked the floor. "Oww..." Luigi moned as Fawful ran up and smacked Luigi's back, taking away a life. Luigi then shot up to his feet and charged at tried to hit Fawful, but he dodged it (again) "This is starting to annoy Fawful..." He mumbled at he pulled out a large gun. "But no more!" He exclaimed, before pointing it at Luigi. Luigi then bit his lip. "W-What does that shoot?" He asked, with fear in his voice. "I'll show you!" Fawful replied, before pulling the trigger. Flames then begun to shoot from the nozzle, and Luigi jumped out of the way, practically doing a cart-wheel. Fawful then moved the flames back at Luigi, and hitting him, taking away another life. "Ow...stop that!" Luigi screamed. "Make...me..." Fawful replied. Luigi then shot to his feet, and charged at Fawful, and jumped into the air. Fawful then pulled out a shield and Luigi landed on it. It then dissapeared and Luigi jumped to the floor. "STOP THAT! Quit cheating!" Luigi screamed. "Fawful's not cheating, he's using his gadgets to his advantage!" He replied. "Besides, you where cheating with your stupid brother!" "Don't...call...my...bro...STUPID!" Luigi yelled in pure rage, shooting to his feet and using his hammer to smack Fawful, sending him to the ground, before Fawful could catch his breath Luigi hit him again, then a third time, finishing him off. Fawful then dissapeared like the others. "And the winner is, LUIGI!" Infa yelled. "Well, I don't see why I announced that but..." She said, scratching the back of her head. "Anyways, enjoy!" She exclaimed, clapping and having a door appear. Luigi then walked into the door, and saw the Infastar waiting foe him. He then picked it up and was warped back into the real world. (you can turn the music off now) He then found himself face first on the floor of the temple. "ugh..." He moaned as he got up to his feet to see Mario, Toadlee, Discord and Starlow, all looking shocked. "Wait, did I do it?" He asked. "Yes, you did bro...that was awesome!" Mario exclaimed, running up and hugging Luigi. The Infastar then came off of the pedestal and and flew into Luigi's hands. "I...I did it..." "Enjoy your victory while you can!" They heard the voice behind them and turned around to see Fawful. "Enjoy your victory, because Fawful will return!" He yelled, before storming off out of the temple. Everybod all hugged Luigi and they where celebrating, before Twilight Sparkle was warped in. "Ug..." She moaned. Everybody looked at her, shocked. "Wait a minute, isn't that..." Starlow mumbled. "Twilight?" Discord asked, warping over to her and holding her head up. "Twilight?" "Discord..." She moaned. "Twilight..." Twilight then groggily staggered to her feet, with clear cuts and bruises on her. "I..." She mumbled. "You what?" Mario asked, looking her in the eyes. "I need to tell you something..."