At the Nintendo Stadium in the Mushroom Kingdom, crowds were going wild as they waited for the main event to begin. Announcing the event was a lakitu wearing a headset being followed by another lakitu carrying a camera with a fishing rod.

"Good afternoon Kart fans and welcome to the 5th annual Mario Kart Grand Prix. I am your host, Lakilarry. We will now kick things off with a head to head race between fierce rivals."

Lakilarry and the camerlakitu floated down to get a better look at the competitors.

"Introducing first, riding in Red Fire, the Heroes of the Mushroom Kingdom, Mario and Luigi of the Mario Brothers!"

The Mario Bros. tipped their hats and waved at their fans as the crowd cheered their names.

"And their opponents, riding in Brute, the almighty alter-egos, Wario and Waluigi. Give it up for the Wario Brothers."

Wario gave two rock-on symbols and a triumphant laugh to the crowd. They booed him. Waluigi appears to be the only one who noticed and expressed his frustration with an "Oh, come on."

"We'd also like to dedicate this Grand Prix," Lakilarry continued, "to our beloved princess of the Mushroom Kingdom."

The camealakitu moved in close to the princess so that everyone at home would see her face.

"Please give a big hand to our very own, Princess Peach."

Peach was seated at the luxury suite overseeing the entire stadium next to her royal advisor, Toadsworth. Peach waves to the crowd and lets out a giggle.

"Without further ado," Lakilarry said, "let's get this race underway."

The two racers start their engines. Another lakitu carrying a start light appears in front of them to signal the start of the race. The lights start to turn on one by one and once all three were green, the race had begun.

Unfortunately for our heroes, Mario had put too much pedal to the medal and as a result, as soon as the Mario Bros. were ready to start driving the engine exploded in their faces, knocking Luigi out of the car and covering both Mario and the front of the car in ash.

The Wario Bros. however, had no such problem and were able to take a huge lead while laughing at the Mario Bros. misfortune.

"Oh my," Lakilarry announced. "The Mario Bros. appear to have a problem."

Luigi tried to get the engine to work again, first by jumping up and down on it, then by smacking it with a hammer over and over again, then by dancing on it for some reason which urged Mario to shout, "Hurry up already!"

Luigi got an idea. He reached into his overalls to find something useful and pulled out a golden mushroom. He gently tried to put the mushroom on top of the engine before it took off like a rocket leaving behind a trail of fire. They went so fast that they were easily able to pass the Wario Bros. despite the lead they got.

This did not go unnoticed by the Wario Bros. and Wario told Waluigi to do something. So Waluigi reached into his overalls and pulled out a red mushroom and used it on the Brute. This made the Brute become bigger and drive faster.

With this, the Wario Bros. managed to catch up with the Red Fire and started bashing its bumper. But they were still not ahead of it. To fix this, Waluigi pulled out a lightning bolt and the Red Fire and its passengers were struck by lightning, shrinking them to the size of toys.

"Mamma Mia!" Mario said as he realized what just happened.

With their opponents now tiny, the Wario Bros. had no problem catching up to our heroes and flattening them under the Brute's tires.

"Bye-bye!" The Wario Bros. laughed as they made their way to the finish line.

At this point, the lightning bolt's effect had worn off and the Mario Bros. were ready for payback. Luigi dropped a red mushroom of his own into the Red Fire and it started speeding up after the Wario Bros.

"Wow, what an amazing heated race!" Lakilarry exclaimed. "Neither team are showing any signs of slowing down. Both Karts now neck and neck as they approach the finish line."

It's anyone's race! Or at least it was until a giant pink bob-omb fell out of the sky in front of the finish line.

Our competitors were shocked by this sudden turn of events and unable to stop their Karts in time before crashing into it. Both Karts and their passengers were sent flying from the ensuing explosion.

"Mario! Luigi!" Peach exclaimed concerned for her heroes.

While Wario and Waluigi were sent blasting off, our heroes managed to remain inside the stadium, albeit without the most graceful or painless of landings. Mario looked up to the sky and saw a familiar face riding on a Koopa Clown Copter. The bomber leapt from the copter and landed in the middle of the stadium. Then a Magikoopa riding on a broomstick flown next to him and presented him to the audience.

"Presenting," the Magikoopa exclaimed, "the great king of all Koopas and soon to be master of the Mushroom Kingdom, I give you…the amazing Bowser!"

The audience booed at the mention of his name while Bowser just laughed and acted as if they gave him a standing ovation.

"Thank you! Thank you! It's great to be here!" Bowser stepped up to Mario and stared down at his hated nemesis. "Well, hello there Mario. Sorry to "crash" your little "Mario Party", but today, I have a date with destiny."

Lakilarry could tell exactly what was going on. "Oh no! He wants to kidnap the princess!"

"Huh?" Upon hearing this Bowser turned to face Lakilarry. "Hey, cloudboy! How did you know about my plan?"

Considering that kidnapping the princess is Bowser's only plan it wasn't hard to figure out. The fact that Bowser seems to have so little self-awareness caused Mario to faceplant.

"Oh well, no matter. That's only half of my plan. For you," Bowser said directed at Mario, "my dear mushroom munching moron have been a thorn in my side for far too long. So I've decided the only fitting punishment would be to beat the living tar out of you in front of all of your fans."

Mario let out a laugh, sure that this plan would go about as well as Bowser's plan to kidnap the princess.

"Oh? You don't think I can, do ya? Why don't you put your money where your mustache is? It's GO TIME!"

Mario got ready for a fight. Luigi however ran away to cower. Mario tried to convince his brother to fight by his side but he just ran away again.

Bowser laughed at Luigi's cowardice. "Your lousy chicken of a brother always cracks me up. But I'm done talking with you Mario! Let's finish this!"