WARNING: This story makes no sense canonically. It makes no sense character-wise. In fact, the grammar barely makes sense. I know this and you know this. Don't yell at me about it.

Mario woke up one day. Toad came up to him and asked him to defeat Bowser. "Mah-yo! Ya gotta defeat Bowsah!" he said.

"No way. Ask Luigi or something." Mario said.

"But you gotta!" Toad said.

"I gotta do what I know I gotta do, and this is not something I gotta do. Got it?" Mario said.

"But you gotta!" Toad said.

"Right now, I gotta go. Link asked me to go to Hyrule. We're going to watch BASEBALL." Mario said.

Toad stared at Mario.

"It's a whole cross-series friendship thing, okay?" Mario said as he began to walk out of the door.

"But what about Bowsah?" Toad said to Mario.

"Bowser doesn't matter when compared to THE RED SAWX." Mario said and left. Toad stared at him, but new that he'd have his revenge: Mario was still in pajamas.

(Some people think is the properly way to split between lines. was in fact originally used as a censored swear as an in-joke between Edgar Allan Poe and Socrates. You learn things every day.)

Link, however, had more on his mind than baseball. The thing is, Link loved working with Mario. He loved being in the Smash Bros. Games. Link wanted to be Mario's best friend. Link wanted to work with Mario all the time.

Basically, Link wanted to be Luigi.

So Link had a plan: He'd go to a baseball game with Mario, have a good time, and have Mario sign a contract for season tickets. However, instead of a season ticket contract, it would be a contract to make the Mario and Zelda series, which would combine Nendo's two big game series together. Don't worry: Link called Miyamoto, and he was all over it.

So when Mario walked into Link's castle, Link was really nervous. He greeted Mario and they started to go to the game.

"Where's your car?" Mario asked, for the castle had no garage.

"I don't use cars. I ride on Epona. I thought you'd come in your car." Link responded.

"I don't use cars. I ride on Toad." Mario said back.

"Then it would appear that we are in a pickle." Link said. They waited for a while before Link had an idea. "I'll just use the Triforce of Transportation!" he said.

(Note: The Triforce of Transportation is the Triforce in the middle of the main Triforce. There are also many Triforces outside of the main Triforce, but the game doesn't expand on them because they would make things too easy. For instance, there's a Triforce of Defeat Ganon, and a Triforce of Rescue Zelda. There's also a Triforce of Do Zelda, but that's another story for another fanfic.)

So Link and Mario rode on the Triforce of Transportation and all was right with the world. Or so they thought.

Lurking in the shadows was a major enemy to Link's plan, and one that would become the main villain in the fanfic. However, the villain usually doesn't get introduced until the second or third chapter, which means that he'll just have to be in a cliffhanger for now. You've probably already guessed who it is.