Super Mario: An Equestrial Adventure

Chapter 10: Access Denied

Yoshi's Perspective:

I lay in Bowser's dungeon. Unable to move. Unable to speak. Until two Koopa guards pick me up aggressively and dragged me out of the cell. Once I got up and out, I was prodded back and forth by their spears, until I was led into a courtyard of Bowser's Castle. It was crowded with everyone. All the guards. All the slaves. Bowser sitting on a grand throne. And I wasn't prepared for what was in the center of the courtyard. A scaffold that held the device that would lead to my own death. A guillotine.

"Welcome!" Bowser's voice echoed throughout the courtyard. "Welcome. Tonight, this is a special night. You all worship me, your King. Save for this foolish Yoshi before you all. Tonight you will see what happens if you dare to rebel against your ruler. Me."

The guards pulled me up the scaffold, the executioner slowly lifted up the blade that will be used to sever my head from the rest of my body. I must do one brave thing to save my skin. I turn to a guard, kick him in the stomach, knocking him off of the scaffold. The other tries to grab me, but I turn to him, and with my hands tied up in a rope, punched him in the face, knocking him also off the edge. I jump into the crowd, to a guard with a spear. The ropes snag onto the tip of the spear, breaking off. I hear Bowser yell,

"He's loose! After him. Now!"

I start running through the crowd, shoving people out of my way. When I reached the wall of the courtyard, I turn to see the guards charging to me. I begin to climb the wall, hopefully to my freedom. The guards try shooting me with crossbows, but, yeah. Their aim is that bad. One of them almost hits me in the shoulder, but I successfully dodged. I had to keep climbing. When I reached the top, I knew I made it. But I still had to run. When I started running across the roofs, a portal in front of me opened. I had no choice, but to jump through. The portal closed behind me, and when I looked up, a bunch of Changelings were staring at me. Just perfect...

Mario's Perspective:

I have been waiting for the train to reach the Crystal Empire but it seemed like forever. Luigi and Fluttershy were both asleep, and laying by each other. Rainbow Dash just laid in the ground looking up at the sky. I try to start up a conversation,

I sigh, "Seems like forever we've been on this train. Right?"

"Yeah," she mumbles. " I thought we could all save Equestria. We just lost twelve team members. Just the four of us now." She stops and is silent, until yelling, "Why does Queen Chrysalis ruin everything?! She can't just come in here, and capture ponies for the fun of it." Tears sprang in her eyes. "These are innocent ponies. These are my friends. What does she want with them? What does she want besides world domination that she could use us for?"

"Slaves," I mutter. "She's gonna use us as slaves."

"What do you mean?"

"Well, I started, " my Kingdom was under attack by the hands of Bowser. He destroyed Peach's Castle using explosive green slime. Similar to the Changeling's slime. I'm sure he is in cahoots with Queen Chrysalis. He used this staff labeled the "DSEPA" and with it, he cast a portal into this world. And for all I know, he's obliterating the Mushroom Kingdom as we speak.

Yoshi's Perspective:

I was immediately taken into a dark room with shackles. They strapped me in the center of the room and when I looked up I couldn't believe it. Twilight was in here too. She mumbled under a blindfold across her mouth but it sounded like, "Yoshi! You're alive."

With the hand closest to her, I tug the blindfold off her head and it hung under her chin.

"I can't believe it. You're back. And still alive." She started laughing and crying tears of joy. "Now the prophecy will be fulfilled-" She stops and blushes a lot.

I couldn't speak without a mouth. I decided to get on my knees, reach for an axe on the ground, and split Twilight's shackles.

"Thank you. I'm sure it was the shackles that prevented my magic. And maybe this room. Don't worry. I'll help you in return." She tried using magic, and sure enough it worked. She recreated the mouth on my face.

I gasp for air, because it's hard to breath with just nostrils, and said to her,

"Thanks Twilight. Bowser took my mouth off to prevent me from speaking." I looked around at where we were then looked back at her. "We should get out of here."

"I agree." She magically destroyed the shackles and we ran out of the room. The hallway was empty, but I felt something with us. We continued down the hall until we reached a room with nothing but technology on all the walls. Computer screens, buttons and switches, and control panels. We snuck in behind a Changeling and I smacked it on the head with a candlestick. He crumpled to the ground and we ran over to the control panel.

"Well that was easy," Twilight smiled.

There were security cameras watching all of the Crystal Empire. We tried to shut down the whole system but everything was written in Changeling. I hit one button to try closing the security program, but in red caps, the screen wrote "ACCESS DENIED." I tried again. "ACCESS DENIED." Again. "ACCESS DENIED". Every button on the keyboard made that appear on the screen. So I snuck behind the whole computer and started pulling all the plugs in the walls. Eventually the whole room went down in darkness. We ran out of the room to escape, when I only just remembered. I had smuggled some of Mario's Star Chips in my shoe. I pulled them out, crafted a Launch Star, aimed it out a window, held on to Twilight, and we flew out the window, away from the Crystal Empire. Twilight looked at me and sighed,

"There is an ancient prophecy stating that years after the division of the Mushroom Kingdom and Equestria, three knights would enter Equestria. One of them was a Yoshi."

"Weird," I said. "These knights might've been me, Mario, and Luigi."

"There's more than that. When the fourth princess of Equestria is crowned, she will meet the Yoshi."

"Well, that happened too." I was curious of this prophecy that Twilight was talking about.

"It also said- Said that-" She sighs and mumbles, "the two of them fell in love with each other."

"What?" I look at her. "Are you serious?"

"Yes. Their love forged their two worlds together again, and they would be together always." She started tearing up. "This might be the only way to save both our dimensions."

Now, while flying through the air towards Ponyville, I see it now, I'm stuck with the thought that me and Twilight will have something for each other. It's pretty obvious already, but now just that will have to save our worlds.