On a rocky cliff stood two royal Koopas. One a king and the other a young prince.
The king was monstrous in nature. He was a reptilian entity that stood to be around ten feet in height and weighed well over a thousand pounds. Two horns stood atop his head, one on each side of a thick, fiery-red orange mane. His face was green with blood red eyes with the same color brows as his mane. His snout was beige with a mouthful of razor sharp teeth. He wore three black spike collars, one around his broad neck and two on each bulky arm. His massive, burly body carried a green shell with many spikes, a beige underbelly, a dinosaurian tail with two spikes, orange-tinted yellow scales on his thick limbs and tail, four clawed fingers on his huge hands, and three clawed toes on his massively padded feet. His name was Bowser.
The prince looked like a miniature version of Bowser, only with lighter versions of the Koopa king's skin tones, hair tied up into a top ponytail, stubby underdeveloped horns, small beady black eyes, a fang-like tooth in the upper left corner of his snout, a white bandana around his neck with a snarling sharp-toothed mouth drawn on the front, and spikeless dark gray metal cuffs around his wrists. His name was Bowser Jr.
"Look down there, son," Bowser said to Bowser Jr., pointing down below the cliff. Black and purple robes were pinned down under a sword, surrounded by a forest of thorns. "Those are the remains of Maleficent, the Mistress of All Evil."
"Yeah, and?" Bowser Jr. rudely asked.
"We're going to resurrect her," Bowser replied. "And I wanted to bring you here to see it since you're my favorite son."
"How are we going to do that, Dad?" Bowser Jr. questioned. "Kamek's not here and Kammy's retired."
"Son, ever since I first took on my Dry Bowser form, and been resurrected after dying as Dry Bowser, I've been studying necromancy," Bowser explained. "It took me a while to get some things right, but I've finally mastered it after resurrecting Ghastly King as a test… and sent him after Donkey Kong's father for good sport. I've also been practicing on my fallen minions that Mario killed since then. Now, I'd like to resurrect Maleficent since she, being the Mistress of All Evil, could perhaps give us some ideas on how to do away with Mario forever."
"Oh, I see, I like that!" Bowser Jr. beamed. The young Koopa then jeered, "Ba-bye, Mario! Game over! Hahahahaha!"
"Bwahaha, that's it son!" Bowser laughed. "There's that evil spirit I raised you in."
"One question though," Bowser Jr. said, prompting his father to groan in annoyance. "What do we make of Green Stache when Mario's gone?"
"Forget about him," Bowser rebuffed. "That bumbling fool's been living in his brother's shadow all this time. Once Mario's gone, Green Stache will be a nobody. And being the coward that he is, he'll be too afraid of facing his brother's fate against us. I'm sure of it. Even if Green Stache DOES try to do something, we have Maleficent on our side."
"Heh, heh, that's true," Bowser Jr. affirmed.
"Now, let's begin," Bowser said. He held his hands together at his belly and bowed his head with closed eyes for one meditational moment as his skin colors changed to glowing, fiery lava colors with molten looking dark in some areas.
"Uh, Dad, what are you doing?" Bowser Jr. nervously inquired.
Ignoring his son, Bowser opened his eyes, which were glowing orange, and blasted an overload of fire breath into the gorge where Maleficent's remains were. Once everything was set ablaze, Bowser raised his burly arms, which caused lightning to strike and the fire to rapidly shoot up into the air.
"WAH!" Bowser Jr. yelped, flinching in fear as he ran and hid behind his father.
"Hail Maleficent, Mistress of All Evil," Bowser spoke in a demonic, echoing tone. "Through fire and lightning I summon thee. By the powers of Hell, I bid thee… COME ALIVE! COME ALIVE!"
Lightning flashed and thunder roared as the flames turned green, and Bowser's colors changed to compliment them. Bowser's voice continued on booming, "REMEMBER FROM WHENCE THOU WERT LAST FALLEN! LET THE FLAME OF THY HEART BURN WITH VENGEANCE AGAIN! HUNGER AND THIRST FOR EVIL! LET IT TAKE FORM OF THEE AGAIN! LET IT RESHAPE AND REVIVE THEE TO THE FULL! COME ALIVE! COME ALIVE!"
Lightning flashed as Maleficent's cloak rose up in the flames and Maleficent herself was thereby transformed in resurrection power. Once Maleficent's revival was complete, the flames went out, Bowser's colors changed back to normal, and Maleficent herself was revealed in her horned, pale green skin, and tall and slender frame under her black and purple garments.
"Is it over, Dad?" Bowser Jr. asked, coming out of hiding. Then, when he noticed Maleficent, he whispered to himself, "Woah… it's her. Maleficent."
Maleficent levitated onto the cliff where Bowser and Bowser Jr. stood, reformed her staff with a glow of her hand, and spoke, saying, "You have raised me back to life, King Bowser. Therefore, I am in debt to both you and your son, Prince Bowser Jr."
"Wow, she even knows our names!" Bowser Jr. exclaimed with delight.
"Now tell me, your majesty, what shall I do for you?" Maleficent asked Bowser.
"Well, since you're the Mistress of All Evil, I have something to ask you," Bowser replied. "You see, there's a wretched man named Mario who always thwarts my plans. I've tried everything I can possibly think of, but I can't seem to get rid of him, so I thought you might be able to help me think of something."
"Tell me, Bowser, why do you and Mario hold enmity against one another?" Maleficent inquired.
"Well, I want Princess Peach's hand in marriage, both out of infatuation toward her and lust for power over the Mushroom Kingdom as an expansion of my own," Bowser explained. "My father and predecessor always wanted to conquer the Mushroom Kingdom before he died, and so I live to carry on his legacy… with Princess Peach at my side once I ultimately succeed. But every time I kidnap the princess, Mario always defeats me and rescues her. I'm SICK of it! I hate that red capped plumber and I want him DEAD! Ahem, sorry… tell me, what should I do?"
"To be brutally honest, I loathe and despise princesses," Maleficent told Bowser, who dropped his jaw in shock and embarrassment. Bowser's face lit up as Maleficent continued, "However, I do quite like the idea of abducting princesses. You see, I once cursed a princess named Aurora out of revenge toward her parents for not inviting me to the celebration of her birth. I determined that before the sun rose on her sixteenth birthday, she would prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and die. A wretched fairy named Merryweather softened the curse to a mere sleeping death that would be awoken by love's first kiss. After Princess Aurora pricked her finger on the spindle and fell asleep, I was fought and defeated by Prince Phillip, who I presume revived Aurora with love's first kiss. I do not know how much time has passed since my death, but I would extract revenge on Aurora if I knew she were still alive."
"I believe she is," Bowser informed.
"Yeah, she's one of those stupid Disney Princesses that some guy named Walt Disney wrote stories and made movies about," Bowser Jr. added. "There's ten others too. Snow White, Cinderella, Ariel, Belle, Jasmine, Pocahontas, Mulan, Tiana, Rapunzel, and Merida. He even made a franchise about them. They're all STUPID! I HATE THEM ALL!"
"Huh, huh, yeah, so much so that he throws daggers at their portraits sometimes," Bowser commented, chuckling.
"I have heard of Snow White and Cinderella, and I am delighted to know that there are more out there," Maleficent commented. "This could work quite well for a sinister plot."
"Very well then, I don't know how this is all gonna work out, but I'll make you a deal, Maleficent," Bowser began. "You help us kill Mario, and then you can do with the Disney princesses as you see fit."
"Ooh, does that mean we're gonna go on a kidnapping spree, Dad?!" Bowser Jr. interjected.
"I shall answer that, dearest Bowser Jr.… yes and no," Maleficent answered. "If we want to do away with Mario, then perhaps we should make him look like the perpetrator. If the belief is perpetuated that he is the one responsible, then the forces of good will work against him, and thus weaken him. Then, when the time is right, we will KILL him! Hahahahahahaha!"
"Bwahahahaha! I like that!" Bowser laughed evilly. "But how are we gonna pull that off?"
"I know what to do," Maleficent assured.
(At Midnight, on Bald Mountain)
Bowser stood before Bald Mountain, with Bowser Jr. and Maleficent at his sides, and a shrieking and squirming, brunette peasant maiden in his arms.
"Huh, huh, huh, you know, I kinda like expanding my kidnapping horizons every now and then," Bowser laughed.
Atop Bald Mountain, a gigantic black demon spread its wings, revealing his ugly face with horns atop his head, glowing yellow eyes, and jagged fangs.
"To thee, Mighty Chernabog, we offer a sacrifice!" Maleficent shouted, raising her staff, as Bowser raised the girl. "Accept our offering, in exchange for our bidding tonight! Thou hatest the innocent, and thou despisest the nice! Therefore, let thy flame of hatred and vengeance ignite!"
Chernabog looked down upon the group of villains, and their sacrificial offering, and smiled. He then raised his muscular arms in the air, causing the peasant girl to dissolve therein by skin, muscle, bone, and blood, with ghastly death screams. Her dissolved remains were then poured into a giant wine glass that Chernabog formed, and the demon drank them. With a clench of his fist, the glass melted and dissolved, and then he spread his arms out wide. Appearing in front of him was an apparition of Mario. A friendly looking stocky Italian man with brown hair, blue eyes, spherical round nose, bushy dark brown handlebar mustache, red cap with an "M" logo in a white circle, red long-sleeve shirt, white gloves, blue overall jeans, and brown working shoes. As friendly looking as this demonic imposter was, it had an eerily stoic face and wide eyes that appeared possessed. With his muscular arms, Chernabog summoned winds, as his much smaller Mario entity followed his gestures.
"This might make good fake news for the internet," Bowser Jr. slyly suggested as he pulled out his camera and started taking pictures.
From their bedroom windows, all eleven Disney Princesses; Snow White, Cinderella, Aurora, Ariel, Belle, Jasmine, Pocahontas, Mulan, Tiana, Rapunzel, and Merida; were swept and carried in the winds as ghostly horse riders appeared to be driving them. Other ghosts and demons flew around them, dancing as nightmares of haunted memories flashed in their sleeping minds. The princesses squirmed, tossed, turned, and moaned in their sleep as the winds carried them. Once they were all in the presence of Chernabog, the giant demon dissolved his colossal form into his Mario entity. The princesses awoke in midair to see the demonic Mario imposter with closed eyes and a meditation like posture. He promptly opened his glaring eyes, which were yellow like Chernabog's and complemented his bared teeth. All the princesses gasped in horror at the sight. Within the next second, the Mario entity began moving his arms around, and the princesses moved in the air with them, violently swinging, jerking, and shuffling. Their screams of horror echoed through the air as the evil Mario imposter flailed his arms. Eventually, he relented and stopped their movement, so that they could see him one last time before he shot his arms out and sent them flying off in different directions with final screams. Still possessing his Mario entity, Chernabog let out echoing evil laughter that sounded much like Mario's.
Meanwhile, the real Mario had yet to face the societal contempt for a crime he did not commit.
***Additional Notes***
1. Bowser first took on his form of Dry Bowser in New Super Mario Bros for the Nintendo DS after falling in lava from his first fight with Mario (Bowser was the boss of World 1). Bowser later fights Mario again as Dry Bowser in World 8, and is defeated, before Bowser Jr. resurrects him in his living form for the final fight.
2. Bowser's admittance to resurrecting Ghastly King, the final boss in Donkey Kong Jungle Beat for the Nintendo GameCube, and sending him after Donkey Kong III's father, Donkey Kong Jr. (whom I merely call "Junior" due to Donkey Kong Sr. now being the elderly Cranky Kong and Donkey Kong III taking on his grandfather's title and simply being known as Donkey Kong), was a connection to my Donkey Kong/Lion King crossover, "Kongs in the Pride Lands."
3. "Green Stache" is what Bowser frequently calls Luigi, due to frequently forgetting his name or perhaps expressing contemptuous sarcasm toward him since he lives in Mario's shadow.
4. Bowser's calling to Maleficent, summoning her through lightning and fire, was derived as an inspiration from a line in the Evil Queen's summoning of the Slave in the Magic Mirror in Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, in which she said, "Through wind and darkness I summon thee." When Bowser said, "By the powers of Hell I bid thee…" as he commanded Maleficent to come alive, it was an inspiration from Maleficent's line upon challenging Prince Phillip at the climax of Disney's Sleeping Beauty, "Now shall you deal with me, O Prince, and all the powers of Hell!"
5. The death of the peasant girl that Bowser, Bowser Jr., and Maleficent sacrificed to Chernabog, in exchange for him doing their bidding, was inspired by the death of Rasputin at the end of Fox Animation Studios' film, Anastasia, which was directed and produced by former Walt Disney animation director, Don Bluth (which also explains why many people think Anastasia is Disney, because the animation style is obviously similar).
6. I did not go into specifics about what was transpiring in the princesses' nightmares, not only because it would drag the chapter on too much (due to there being eleven princesses in the Disney Princess franchise), but I only have vague memories of what most of them have experienced. I am intimately familiar with Snow White, due to her being my favorite Disney Princess since kindergarten, so I know everything she experienced in her movie. I also remember a good bit from the perspectives of Cinderella, Aurora, Belle, Ariel, Jasmine, Merida, and Mulan to an extent, but perhaps not everything (I have not watched their movies nearly as much as Snow White's). I have only seen clips of Pocahontas, The Princess and the Frog, and Tangled, but not the whole movies, so I do not know enough about the negative experiences of Pocahontas, Tiana, and Rapunzel.
7. To piggyback off of my last note, I know there are more Disney Princesses than Snow White, Cinderella, Aurora, Ariel, Belle, Jasmine, Pocahontas, Mulan, Tiana, Rapunzel, and Merida, but I read from Disney that the aforementioned eleven are the only official members of the Disney Princess franchise, so that is why I am only including those ones. Also, I know they all have come from different time periods, many of which were LONG before Princess Peach's time in the Mario franchise, but I will explain how they were all connected and present during Princess Peach and Mario's time within the next two to three chapters (I will admit, not to give off any spoiler alerts, but it is REALLY complex).