The tornado dropped Megan and Firefly on the ground of a grassy field. The first thing they noticed was it was warm. Megan had to take off her winter gear.

"I wonder where we are?" she asked.

"Wherever it is, it beats Ponyland for right now!" Firefly shouted. "Come on. We'd better look around and find out what this place is called."

"Right, and get back to Ponyland."

Megan climbed onto Firefly's back, and the pink pegasus flew off. As the two flew around, they saw houses that looked like they were made out of mushrooms.

"Looks like some place the Moochick would like to visit," Firefly said. "At least we know someone lives here. Maybe they'll know how to get back to Ponyland."

Firefly was about to land, when she suddenly heard a howling wind. Both she and Megan looked, and saw another tornado heading right for them.

"Oh no!" Firefly shouted. "Not again!"

"Maybe the Rainbow of Light can take care of this," she said.

Megan took the heart-shaped locket off, and was about to open it, when the tornado slammed into her and Firefly, causing Megan to accidentally drop the locket.

"Oh no! The rainbow!" she shouted.

"Look out below!" Firefly shouted, as the tornado dropped her and Megan onto the ground, and flew into the window of a nearby castle.

"Oh great!" Firefly groaned. "Now what do we do?"

"We'd better get the Rainbow back," Megan said. "Can you fly up to that window, Firefly?"

"Sure!" Firefly said. "Hop on!"

Megan climbed aboard, and Firefly flew up to the castle window. Inside the room were two mustachioed men, sleeping. One of them wore a red hat and red overalls, and the other wore a green hat and overalls. The locket was inside the room, still in the tornado, but it had deposited the locket around the man in red's large, bulbous nose. He didn't even notice. He was snoring too loudly.

"Oh brother!" Firefly groaned. "Now what?"

"I guess I'll just have to go get it," Megan said, shrugging.

"Yeah," Firefly said, nodding. "After all, you're the only one of us with hands!"

Megan climbed through the window as Firefly watched. She carefully moved toward the man in red, making sure not to wake him up. She reached for the locket, but the man shifted his position, turning on his side. Megan sighed and tried again. As she was about to slip it over his head, an alarm clock went off. The man in green reached over to shut it off, and saw a strange girl right next to the man in red's bed.

"Ahh!" he screamed.

"Ahh!" Megan screamed.

"Ahh!" Firefly screamed.

"What's with all the screaming?" the man in red asked, yawning.

"Look, kid," the man in green said. "I don't know who you are, or what you're doing here, but this is private property!"

"Yeah," the man in red said. "Don't you know trespassing is against the law?"

"But you don't understand," Megan said. "You're wearing my locket."

"Locket?"

The man in red looked down, but he didn't see anything that even resembled a locket.

"Where?" he asked. "I don't see anything."

"It's around your nose, bro," the man in green said, grabbing the locket, and giving it back to Megan.

"Oh," the man in red said. "Sometimes when I'm asleep, I wish I was awake. Sorry if my brother and I scared you, though."

"Yeah, we don't usually get visitors that sneak in through the bedroom window," the man in green said.

"I'm sorry if I scared you, too," Megan said. "Maybe you can help us."

"Who's us?" the man in red asked.

"Me and my friend, Firefly," Megan said. "She's outside."

Before anybody could say anything else, the bedroom door opened, and in ran a young woman with long red hair, wearing a pink dress and gold crown. She was followed by a little person wearing a red vest, white shorts, and a large white hat with red polka-dots. He looked like a mushroom.

"What was all the screaming?" the mushroom man asked.

"There's a girl in our bedroom," the man in red said. "Somehow or another, I woke up wearing her locket."

"How were you wearing her locket?" the woman asked, confused. Then she turned to look at Megan. "And who are you, and how did you get inside the castle?"

"My name is Megan, and I got in through the window," Megan said.

"Nice to meet you," the man in red said. "I'm Mario, and these are my brother Luigi, and our friends Princess Toadstool, and Toad."

"How could you get in through the window?" Luigi asked. "You must be some climber to get all the way up . . . . YIKES!"

Luigi moved the curtain away from the window, only to reveal Firefly hovering there, flapping her wings. Once Luigi saw her, he practically jumped ten feet.

"A flying horse!" Princess Toadstool shouted.

"Pony," Firefly corrected.

"And a talking one at that!" Toad shouted.

"Yeah, Megan had the same reaction when we first met, too," Firefly said. "Say, mind if I come in? My wings are getting awfully tired!"

"Oh, sure," Mario said, standing aside.

"Thanks!" Firefly shouted, flying inside. "Whew! What a relief!"

"That explains how you managed to get up here," Mario said. "But what are you doing here in the Mushroom Kingdom?"

"It's kind of a long story," Firefly said. "But we have to get back to Ponyland right away!"

"Ponyland?" Luigi repeated.

"Yeah, that's where we came from," Firefly said. "This evil witch wants to make an endless winter back in Ponyland! She needed a baby pony for the plan, so she came to Dream Valley and just took one of the baby ponies!

"She just up and took a defenseless little baby pony?" Luigi asked. "Just like that?"

"Wow, and I thought ol' Koopa Stoopa was low!" Toad shouted.

"Megan and I chased after her," Firefly continued, "and she somehow sent us here. Now we don't know how to get back!"

"Hmm, that's a problem," Mario said. "I'm not even sure how we can get you back there."

"Yeah, we don't even know where Ponyland is," Luigi said.

While the Mario Bros. were trying to figure out how to get to Ponyland, Frostina was sitting on her throne, looking at Megan, Firefly, and their new friends through her crystal orb. Rainbow was watching, as well as Frostina's pet cat.

"Look at those fools," Frostina laughed. "They'll never stop my endless winter!"

"How did you send them away, your highness?" Rainbow asked.

"Simple. I cast a spell! What else? Watch! I'll send them even further away now!"

Frostina began the spell. This time, her cat freaked out when he saw the tornado and clawed at it.

"No!" Frostina shouted. "No, you might bring them back, you stupid flea bag!"

Apparently, she was right. The tornado raced through the castle's window and scooped not only Megan and Firefly, but Mario, Luigi, Princess Toadstool, and Toad as well. All six began twirling around inside the funnel.

"Hey, I'm getting dizzy!" Toad shouted.

"Hang on, everybody!" Firefly shouted.

"To what?!" Luigi shouted.

Thanks to the cat's disruption of the spell, instead of the tornado sending our heroes to another land, it brought them right back to Ponyland. It dropped them off in front of Paradise Estate, and disappeared.

"Now that's what I call a wild ride!" Mario shouted.

"That was kinda fun," Toad said. "Can we do it again?"

"No!" the others shouted in unison.

"Brrr!" Princess Toadstool shouted, shivering. "It's freezing!"

"Welcome to Ponyland," Firefly said. "Sorry about the weather. It's usually so beautiful this time of year. Come on, we'll introduce you guys to the other ponies."

Before they could even open the door, Twilight raced outside, knocking Toad off his feet, and accidentally stepping on him.

"Toad!" Princess Toadstool shouted.

"Did you find her?" Twilight asked.

"Her who?" Luigi asked.

"Ember," Firefly said. "The baby pony we told you about. And no, Twilight, we didn't. We got blown into another dimension and maybe got some help. These are Mario, Luigi, Princess Toadstool, and Toad."

"Or what's left of him, anyway," Luigi said.

"Oh!" Twilight gasped, when she realized she was standing on Toad. "Oh dear, I'm so sorry! Are you okay?"

"No, Mommy! I wanna drive the pink one!" Toad said, dazedly, and fell into the snow face first.

"He'll be okay in a few minutes," Princess Toadstool said.

"Megan and Firefly explained the problem," Mario said. "Now what I suggest to do is go find the castle and fight this Ice Princess or whoever she is."

"My kinda guy!" Gusty shouted.

"That's a good as plan as any," Bow Tie said. "I say a group of you go. Then use the Rainbow of Light."

"Hey, yeah!" Fizzy shouted. "That's a great idea!"

"Okay, then," Mario said. "Luigi and I will go with the group. The princess and Toad should stay here and maybe help keep an eye on the other baby ponies, just in case this witch comes back and takes another one."

"Huh?" Luigi asked. "Wait a minute, Mario! Why do I have to go?!"

"Because we're the Mario Brothers!" Mario shouted. "We do everything together!"

"I was afraid he'd say that," Luigi mumbled under his breath.

Fizzy, Buttons, Gusty, Surprise, Firefly, Ribbon, Cupcake, Locket, Galaxy, and Sundance volunteered to go with the Mario Bros. and Megan, while everyone else stayed behind.

"Wait for me!" Twilight shouted. "I'm coming to!"

"I don't think that's such a good idea, Twilight," Firefly said.

"Why not?" Twilight asked. "My baby's in danger!"

"I hate to get technical," Paradise said. "But Ember's not your baby, Twilight. And I don't think you should go when you're so hysterical."

"Okay, but be careful."

"We will," Firefly said.

Megan climbed onto Sundance, while Mario climbed on Surprise. Luigi stayed standing, for the moment.

"What are you waiting for, bro?" Mario asked.

"I get seasick on horses," Luigi said. "Guess I'll just have to stay here."

"Oh no you don't!" Mario shouted. He climbed off Surprise, grabbed his brother by the overalls, and dragged him over to Buttons.

"Now hop on!" he shouted.

"But . . . . but . . . ." Luigi said.

"No buts!" Mario shouted, practically pushing his brother onto the back of the lavender unicorn. "Now get up there and let's go!"

"Don't I have a choice?" Luigi asked.

"No," Mario said.

"Just checking," Luigi said. Then he heaved a sigh, and climbed onto Cupcake's back.

Once the humans were mounted, the group went off in search of Frostina.

"Be careful!" Princess Toadstool shouted, waving.

"Hurry back!" Twilight shouted.

"I hope they don't have any trouble," Paradise said.

"Don't worry!" Gingerbread shouted. "I'm sure everything will be just fine! After all, they have the Rainbow of Light! What could go wrong?"

"If the Mario Bros are with them?" Toad asked. "Practically everything."