Chapter 18
Author's Note: A quick shoutout to those of you that have come to this page via the TVTropes MLP Fanfic Recommendation page, which I've just discovered contains this story. Thanks guys, that means a lot to me! Next stop, EQD! Also, I noticed that the story made it onto the "The Fourth Wall Won't Protect You" page, and it seems like a great opportunity to go into that little bit in more detail. Though not here, look for my explanation in the comments section. Anyway, on with the show!
"We're not going to just sit back and watch you two do all the work this time around," Twilight said.
"Yeah," Rainbow Dash agreed. "If that giant bug thinks she's laying her hooves on Ponyville, she's got another thing coming!"
"How quaint," Chrysalis said. "You're saving me the trouble of having to deal with you afterward. I suppose I'll have to even this fight out, though." At that, the six changelings that disguised themselves as the ponies took position before their queen. Then, without warning, the copies of Applejack and Pinkie Pie charged at the brothers, though their efforts to ram them were wasted, with Mario nimbly leaping over "Applejack", and Luigi bouncing off of "Pinkie's" back.
As the Changelings retreated, Rainbow Dash came up behind Mario, and whispered in his ear. After a resounding "Oh yeah!" of approval, Rainbow Dash began flying rapidly around Mario, as he got out his hammer. The wind began to pick up around the red-clad hero, and he was eventually obscured by a tornado. Rainbow then stopped suddenly, and moved behind the miniature twister, which faded, leaving Mario hanging in the air, spinning rapidly with his hammer outstretched. With one last mighty flap of her wings, Dash blew a gust of air at the whirlwind of a plumber, sending him soaring toward Chrysalis, who barely had time to widen her eyes in fear before she received a flurry of hammer blows to the head. Mario finished his assault by kicking off of Chrysalis's head as he slowed down, somersaulting to his original position.
Luigi watched this maneuver with an awestruck expression, and turned to Fluttershy, jabbering excitedly.
"You want me to do that?" Fluttershy said. "Oh no... I couldn't... I'm nowhere near as fast as Rainbow... sorry..."
Luigi hung his head and sighed, turning back to face his opponents. What he didn't expect, though, was a whole squad of Koopa Troopas charging at him. As he ducked down and cowered, though, Fluttershy leapt between him and the five incoming Koopas, and unleashed a Stare that froze them all in there tracks. Luigi saw them standing stock still, and was suddenly inspired. He leapt forward and slammed the ground with his hammer, the resulting tremor launching the five Koopas into the air and startling them into their shells. As they arced toward Luigi, he smacked each shell at the changelings, the projectiles bouncing off the copycat's faces and back to wherever they had come from. Fluttershy gave her head a shake, and saw that the Koopas were gone. "Oh, um... glad I could help..." she said quietly, as she retreaded back behind Luigi with Rarity and Pinkie.
Chrysalis gave her head a shake, still slightly dazed from Mario's assault, and glared at the heroes. "Oh, so that's how you want to play, is it?" There was a flash of green light, and after it faded, in Chrysalis's place stood an exact copy of Mario, though with glowing green eyes and a wicked grin. "Fine. We'll-a play it your way."
Twilight's double moved behind Chrysalis-Mario, and her horn began to glow as the rest of the changelings scattered. The fake Mario grew to massive proportions, and gave a (relatively) short leap, causing a visible shockwave as she came crashing down, which came at the real Mario and Luigi. The brothers were able to avoid it by simply leaping over it, however, causing Chrysalis to glare as she returned to normal.
The battle raged on, with Chrysalis copying more of the team's tactics, before Chrysalis abruptly gave a short laugh, her changeling support whittled down to four.
"It seems that you're a lot hardier than I anticipated," Chrysalis said. "Would you dare attack your own friends, though, I wonder?"
Pinkie gave a giggle. "That's silly, they know that's not really us over there, we're all over here!"
Chrysalis grinned. "Is that right?" Suddenly, Chrysalis's horn flashed, and Pinkie's eyes glazed over, the pink pony staggering a bit.
"Pinkie?" Twilight said, worried, as the seven of them looked to Pinkie, concerned. "What's wrong?"
"Be a good girl, now, and come protect your queen," Chrysalis said, smirking.
"Okie... dokie... lokie..." Pinkie said, as she bounced wearily over, her friends to flabbergasted at what was happening to stop her. The four remaining changelings all changed to look like Pinkie, and crowded around her. When they separated, it was impossible to tell which was the true party pony.
"Wh-what the..." Applejack stammered.
"How dare you!" Rarity shouted. "You let Pinkie go this instant!"
"As much as I hate to say it," Twilight said to Mario and Luigi, "you may have to hit Pinkie to snap her out of Chrysalis's mind control. Just wait, maybe she'll do something to expose herself as the real one."
"Enough talk," Chrysalis said. "Now, charge!"
At Chrysalis's command, the five Pinkies all rushed forward, forcing Mario and Luigi to jump or be trampled. However, the middle Pinkie's eyes flashed green momentarily, and she tripped, failing to reach the brothers. She quickly righted herself, and returned to her position, the other four following suit.
Acting on a hunch, Mario leapt forward, jumping on the center Pinkie's head. Sure enough, Pinkie's eyes re-focused, and she scurried back behind Luigi.
Chrysalis attempted this gambit a few more times as the battle continued, but Mario and Luigi quickly rooted out the real pony each time, especially as the number of changelings fell. Finally, only the Queen stood before them.
Out of desperation, Chrysalis loosed a few bolts from her horn at the brothers, but they were easily avoided. Eventually, Mario and Luigi triumphed over the Changeling Queen.
"Enough! Enough! I surrender!" Chrysalis cried. "Just take him and go! I grant you all safe passage from our hive, just leave me be!" As the changeling queen pleaded, her horn flashed green, and Big Macintosh's eyes re-focused, before rolling upward and closing as he passed out.
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Now, to elaborate on the "Discording", it's actually a planned moment for when (and if) this becomes a game. Basically, following the scene where he discords Bowser and has him taken away, he would disappear from the throne room as described. A few seconds afterward, Discord would appear close to the screen, and begin addressing the player. Eventually, he would "discord" the player, and the game, in whatever format it would be in, would forcibly close (after the game secretly autosaves for you, of course).
When the player re-opens the game and save file, the scene would be at Ponyville, with Mario and Luigi standing in front of the library. However, they would simply stand still, and any button input by the player would yield no results. After about thirty seconds, the ponies would come on screen, and begin questioning why Mario and Luigi were just standing there. Pinkie, however, being fourth-wall savvy, would run down-screen after a moment, and pop up up close, similar to how Discord did. After she tries to snap you out of it, asking you to keep playing the game (at which point rigged question responses would force the player to give negative replies), she would bring Twilight up, and explain what was happening. Twilight, after being slightly confused for a moment, would use the re-harmonizing spell on the user, with several split second snippets from previous Mario and Luigi games, My Little Pony episodes, and the events of Of Ponies and Plumbers leading up to that point serving as the memories regained. After that, the game would become playable again, with Twilight finishing the letter, as if nothing had happened, though Pinkie would be looking at the camera and smiling at the player knowingly.
So yeah, there's my little note on that whole meta bit.
yeay, update
A Mario and Luigi crossover fic? Might want to take a look at this sometime.
1186393 Maybe you should find someone who can make this story into a game! But don't ask me. I'm terrible at making games.
1186393 I like the way that idea sounds, but being honest, it sounds like you're thinking of using it as just a one-off thing. It wouldn't be very interesting if you only had that happen once, so would it be possible for you to have that become important later on, Chekhov's Gun style?
1186393 Nitro, I like your style ! You plan big, all you need to do is find some guys to do the game for you
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Still a good story and still a good game idea (But be careful when shutting people's games off and then forcing them to wait for extended periods of time not doing anything, it tends to upset them and make them lose interest. Not that it can't be done, just be very very very careful when doing it.)
At last! Another update!
This is gonna get better, I can just feel it. dl.dropbox.com/u/31471793/FiMFiction/emoticons/misc_Lyra.png
OH MY GAWD THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS!!
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…Okay.
Excellent chapter! If this ever does become a game, I would totally play it.
Can't wait for more chapters!
having played both mario luigi superstar saga and bower's inside story i have to say this is an interesting story.
This is why the bad guys never win. They never use their resources at maximum efficiency. Crysalis could have just mind-controlled more than one at the same time. I'm not surprised, seeing as she managed to screw up the invasion at Canterlot.
Side note: why didn't Big Mac do anything? A good hit would knock any of the eight out...
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Luigi always seems to have a short attention span in the Mario and Luigi games, so I've tried to capture that here. Glad someone else picked up on it.
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My original plan was to include Big Mac in the battle somehow, but I doubted that any of them would attack Big Macintosh, and it seemed unfair to have an enemy that couldn't be attacked. I also considered having him as some sort of recovery system for Chrysalis (which I actually hinted at in the previous chapter), but again, I couldn't find a way for him to be dealt with, and it seemed unfair. In the end, I chose to simply exclude him outright.
Sorry Big Mac
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Didn't think about that. Enemies that can't be attacked are usually OP anyway.
Ha, now that was some fight, it was almost easy enough for the girls and the pumblers to get through.
Interesting usage of the Changlings and their queen. Please do keep up the good work upon such a great tale like this one.
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Thanks, fixed it
hi I'm new here but fowoll you're story very good like idea how you came mario sub saga mario and luigi With MLP FIM and have suggestion you appear of koopalings and bowser jr conquer of equestria and do you have reference of other games mario or nintendo and serie, and ask you make a mario kart minigame.
sorry for sound very fanatic, thanks.
ps.
I think have said several times, but you should script and send it to Nintendo and the study or the creators of the series to make this a video game.
And can ask if I can make a version translated into Spanish for here or fanfiction again thanks.
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I'd be all for it being translated, though I'd rather have it on my own account if it were, so that I can be sure that nobody else is taking full credit for it. If you'd like to translate the chapters individually and send them to me, I can put the Spanish version up here. I'll be sure to give you credit for the translation.
well and almost complete first chapter
You haven't updated this in a while, what is wrong?
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Sorry for my idleness as far as the story is concerned, I've been reduced to using the library computers and the 90 minute limit they have on them doesn't leave me much time to write after I do everything else. I'll try to work on the story for at least once a week, and rest assured that there is a very important event happening within the next few chapters.
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Fawful turned Peach Castle into a giant robot.
Did Cackletta?
No?
Checkmate.
MUST CONTINUE!!!!!! DO IT OR YOUR HP GOES TO 0!
Queen Chrysalis is like:fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/071/5/f/forgive_dr__wily_by_pixelfreelancer-d3b0iyx.png
504505 hey you're reading this too? Cool!
1186393 why does bowser get possessed at least once in each of the Mario&Luigi games? It's like a staple or something. But that's cool, I just really want to see this be finished.
This reminds me of the M and L boss battle from Bowser's Inside Story, due to Chrysalis copying the bro-ny attacks.
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Not in every game. In TTYD it was Peach who was possessed.
SPM was Luigi's turn for possession/brainwashing.
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That remind of this video:
Skip to 22:24 for the action.
And you can use these videos for more moves ideas.
I would like to see Twilight use a Super Leaf and see Fluttershy in a Tanooki Suit.