Chapter One: Three make a Trio

„Star Alliance?" Luigi and Mario had hurried up to the balcony Peach and Bowser were standing on, waving at their people, smiling.

„Yeah,we thought we'd make a fresh start, me and Bowser. This is a whole new world and we can't take it on for ourselves."

„Burried our differences, we did." Bowser added.

Something wasn't right about this sudden peace, Mario thought, but he agreed with himself to not say anything.

He only asked „So, we now are friends with Bowser?".

Peach nodded, an utter expression of joy on her face.

Then it hit Mario. He hadn't really thought about this before, but now he couldn't resist spilling it out.

„I-I want to see it!"

„See what"

„This new world! I want to go off exploring right now!"

„Mario, this is a bad idea" Peach disagreed „The first thing we have to care about now is to build up a social structure and-"

„The chubby plumber is right." Bowser said „We should know what we're dealing with before we settle upon this new land."

Alright!" Mario shouted, now enthusiastic.

He dashed up to a pair of ?-Blocks, hit them and two cape feathers glided out of them.

He thrusted on of them onto his chest and slapped the other one on his brothers back.

In an instant,their overalls had sprouted yellow capes on their backs and Mario immediately began to run, pulling his brother behind him.

They jumped in the air.

Their capes magically lifted them upwards, with the brothers now holding unto them.

They flew out of the valley area where they had found themselves and now saw where they were.

This valley actually wasn't a valley, it was the caved-in tip of a large mountain.

They glided it's steep side down, then dived into a forest at the mountains foot.

They flew through trees (Luigi got some twigs stuck in his hair), overs rivers and large rocks, then rose into the air out of the forest again to get a better view of things, then dived down over a huge river again.

As they flew low over the glittering water surface, some Cheep-Cheeps jumped out of the water, over the flying plumbers, apparently just as excited as they were. then dodged some angry Bloopers which were spitting ink at them. They took some more flight, breathed in the fresh, cool air and felt the wind playing around their mustaches, then made a soft landing in a grassy field.

It seemed pretty normal.

The wind was waving throught the gras, the trees had rich green leaves, Birds were flying trough the air and some wild Wigglers were strolling out of the nearby forest.

Mario and Luigi looked around, picking up some Fire Flowers, not expecting anything significant.

However, their expectations were betrayed.

In the distance, they spotted something which seemed like a rocky entrance to a cave.

They ran towards it and as they reached it, the brothers noticed that strange symbols were carved into it.

Mario, adventure-hungry as always immediately pulled himself and the refusing Luigi inside the cave's darkness.

They stepped through some pitch-blackness, when Luigi tripped over something.

Barely being able to make out what it was, Mario recognised it as a switch.

He reached out for it, but Luigi grapped his hand.

„Mario, maybe we don't want to know what this is." He stuttered in fear.

„But we won't be off any better, not knowing." Mario replied and pulled the switch.

A loud rumbling, then a buzzing sound errupted.

The carvings in the stone walls flashed light blue and the entrance to the cave, through which they had entered, closed.

I KNEW THIS WAS A BAD IDEA!" Luigi cried in terror.

As it followed Luigi's words to keep terrorising him, the cave gave another buzzing sound and the floor underneath Mario and Luigi began to sink.

As it descended, Mario understood, it was an elevator.

After a few seconds, the elevator stopped.

Mario and Luigi now found themselves in a dark, circular room, but it didn't stay dark for long.

The walls themselves began emmit brightness, revealing them to be made out of polished, white tiles.

Luigi was now shivering in fear and Mario was sure his brother would die from a heart attack as a robotic voice suddenly lifted itself.

AUTHENTIFICATION."

„Uh...Mario! Mario Mario aka the „Jumpman"!"

„ACCESS DENIED." the voice answered.

„Uhh..." Mario looked around helplessly, not expecting to find something helpful.

However, he did find something.

Under a stone which lay on the elevator platform, he noticed a carving, saying „INSINE Ω Inc..".

„Uhh...INSINE!" Mario said to the voice.

PASSWORD." it answered.

„Hmmm...„Omega!"

„ACCESS GRANTED."

„Good 'ol simple passwords!" Mario said to himself.

„WELCOME TO INSINE OMEGA INC., SYSTEM ACCESS POINT, OUTPOST PROPERTY 91245 DELTA." The voice said.

Some of the white tiles now coloured themselves into resembling a computer desktop.

Mario understood that they were talking to a giant supercomputer.

Mario looked around on the data displayed on the screen and something caught his eyes.

„Property 91245 Delta business plans"

He pointed at the displayed folder and an interface opened, revealing multiple documents.

Mario pointed at the document, named „Property 91245 analisys".

A text opened,with it,a picture of a planet.

The text read:

„Property 91245 Delta „Mushroom Planet

(Written by , Class AAA Scouting Leader)

Analysis:

Classification: Type 3 Planet

Radius: Approx. 3958,76 mi

Proximity to closest Fix Star: Approx. 92957130,36 mi

Mass: Approx. 5,97t x 10^22 t

Age: Approx. 4,543 x 10^9 yrs.

Surface Width: Approx. 196950732,22 square mi

Atmosphere:

-Mass: Approx. 5,13 × 1018 kg

-Gas Combination: Approx. 78 Vol-% Nitrogen, 21 Vol-% Oxygen, 1 Vol-% etc.

-Gas Pressure: Approx: 1013,25 hPa

Special planetary Properties:

-Geodynamo-induced magnetic field

-One satellite, „Moon"

-Fix Star circulation

Scouting Report:

91245 Delta, „Mushroom Planet" is a medium-sized planet, inhabitated by living beings.

These count:

-Animals

-Plants

-An abnormal ammount of Funghi

Unlike most planets, which are mainly dominated by animals or plants, „Mushroom Planet", as the nickname suggests, this planet's dominant species seems to consist of funghi.

In fact, the funghi seem to have build a web of roots through almost the planet's entire outer shell, allowing the funghi to completely infest the above-ground landscapes.

Given the funghi's superiority,it is no surprise that some have evolved quite massively.

We, for ourselves, have encountered humanoid, intelligent type 2-mushroom-like beings that call themselves „Toads".

Toads posess enough intelligence to speak english and various other simple languages, build structures out of primitive material, manufacture primitive technologies and even build up a system of society, similar to our very own.

Despite posessing quite rare ores and interresting creatures, however, Property 91245 Delta, „Mushroom Planet" is not of any particular use.

The company's leading operators have thus agreed to eradicate all interfering life on this planet to use it as a simple storage hangar.

Operation: 91245 Delta Purgement will cost around 1000000000000000000µ

and will begin in T-000 Intergalactic Days, 000 Intergalactic Hours and 005 Intergalactic minutes.

Yerian Bertu Sereno"

„Hmm..." Mario was thinking hard while Luigi had recovered from his shock „Luigi, do you, by any chance, think that this planet, this company guy has written about is our planet? They said, they want to erase all life!"

Luigi tried to open his mouth to give his thoughts, but Mario's question was answered just in that moment by the sound of a massive explosion.

Mario didn't even need to think about what had caused the sound, but instead just grabbed his brother by the wrist, pulled the elevator's switch again and, as soon as they had left the gave, took flight with his cape.

The brothers speeded through the air, back to the mountain which Toad Town sat on and, as they drew closer, noticed clouds of smoke swelling from the caved-in tip.

They boosted ahead and soon got into sight of flames engulfing the town, as well as weird, Toad-ish looking beings with vines making out the growths on their heads, rather than mushroom hats, running around, shooting in every directions with laser guns while Toads and members of Bowser's army were panicking, some fighting the invaders, some freaking out in fear.

The Bros. landed at the outskirts of Toad town and while Luigi was begging his brother to allow him to run away, Mario ignored his pleas.

„We have to get to the Princess!" Mario shouted through the chaos at his brother as he spin-attacked a Toad-ish soldier out of his wits.

„But Mario, there's so many of these-invaders-!" Luigi cried as he saved himselves from a volley of laser shots with a spark shield.

„And if it was Julius Cesar's very own army, I will fight these things!" Mario yelled, dashing through a crowd of confused Toads, Luigi forcing himself to follow Mario through the pieces of broken walls and remains of burning Toad houses, screams and explosions echoing from every direction.

Finally, they made it to the center of Toad Town, to Peach's castle, which was being heavily attacked by the alien soldiers.

Peach was standing on her castle's front balcony, a look of terror and confusion on her face, as she stared at Bowser who was showing the best of his „Koopa Kombat" against the invaders.

„Mario, Greenstache! Do you have a clue of what's going on here?" Bowser asked them as he ground-pounded the everloving soul out of a soldier, using his signature „Bowser Bomb".

„Those guys are from some alien company who own this planet and want to destroy all life on it!" Mario casually answered, kicking a bunch of soldiers into oblivion.

„That explains the weird speech they put out when they arrived!" Bowser yelled back through the bang of another explosion.

„What did they say?" Luigi asked as he tried his best not to be punctured by laser shots.

„They said that they find no use for us „Inferior beings" and want to destroy us, so they can use this planet as a storage hangar." Bowser said.

„Well, we won't let them, right my brother?" Mario said, the look of determination on his face now much biggger.

„Uh-"

„Alright!" Mario interupted Luigi as he crammed two Fire Flowers out of his pockets and passed one of them to his brother.

Mario squeezed his Fire Flower in his left hand and rubbed the remaining flower sap on his chest.

For a brief moment, he blacked out. Everything around him swam out of his senses.

All he felt was a comfortable heat, rising from his chest.

The heat grew stronger and stronger and became a burning sensation, now filling his whole body.

As it became hotter and hotter, it stopped feeling comfortable, but rather aggressive. In fact, it seemd to induce a burst of rage, beyond anything Mario could ever imagine, through his whole body as he started to catch fire.

His clothes burned up and his whole body became covered in flames, but Mario felt no sign of pain, but rather a massive surge of power.

He screwed his body together, quivering, then let out an excited yell as an explosion errupted from his very heart, placing red-and-white clothes on his body and surrounding him in a fiery aura.

He now no longer was Mario, he was FIRE MARIO!

His senses now clearer than ever, his body vibrating with power and noticing that his brother had turned a cool-looking green-and-white, too, Mario had only one thing in mind:

Kill the enemy with all your might!

As soon as he finished this thought, he made a huge backflip and in mid-air, shot massive flames from his hands at the soldiers that had been surrounding him

He landed on his feet, spin-kicked a soldier so hard that he exploded and broke into a run towards a group of soldiers in front of him.

He jumped, jumped again and with his third jump, took a massive leap forwards in a front-flip, charged a fireball from his hands and shot it down at the soldiers, blasting them into all directions with a huge explosion.

A dead, burning alien soldier crashed down next to Mario with Luigi dashing up to him, flames errupting from his swirling feet and kicked the dead soldier like a football right into another one who had just been about to shoot Mario.

They turned to Bowser who seemed to have the castle's area under control as he roasted a dozen aliens with his amazing fire breath and wrecked another dozen aliens which tried to storm in on him by curling up in his shell and flinging himself around in a circle like a spintop, adding some more flames to the tornado he was.

Mario and Luigi nodded to each other and dashed up to the main city, Mario stopping at the start of the main road, charging up a massive fireball.

Luigi, in the meanwhile ran off to the smaller streets to free them from the soldiers as Mario unleashed his gigantic fireball which cleanly blasted everything and everyone on the whole main street into smithereens.

The alien army now almost completely erased, a fleet of weird-looking white fighter jets now appeared in the sky which boosted down to the town, firing lasers and missiles at it.

Mario and Luigi didn't think for long, but ran back to Peach's castle which Bowser, using his „Flying Fortress" attack kept clean of any incoming missiles by the deflecting them back at the jets, but only rarely hitting one.

Mario and Luigi, whose overalls had just turned their normal colors again as their Fire Flowers had run out, could do nothing but watch helplessly as the jets destroyed the town.

They were about to cry, when suddenly, a fleet of golden, star-shaped jets, led by a turqoise one appeared out of thin air which chased and shot down the white jets.

In a matter of not even minutes, the golden jets had destroyed all white jets, using bright shots of energy and fantastic flying maneuvers, like zig-zag courses and barrel rolls.

When there was no more sign of any alien soldiers or white jets and they clouds of smoke had cleared, the fleet of golden jets landed on the remains of Toad Town's main road, the turqoise one landing right in front of Peach's castle.

When all of the jets' engines had been shut of, the turqoise one's front window screen opened and out climbed the last person, anyone who was part of the scene had expected to pilot a fighter jet-Rosalina.

Dressed in a turqoise pilot suit, she swept up to the stunned gang of Mario, Luigi, Bowser and Peach who had just come out of the remains of her castle.

Wiping an expression of cold fury, out of her face, Rosalina put on a cheery smile and gasped in an exhausted tone: „Don't worry love, Cavalry is here!" She winked.

For a second, nobody said anything, then Peach finally managed to stutter, still shaking in fear as Mario put an arm over her shoulder: „W-What's going on here?!"

The heat of chaos had now vanished from the city and despite the sun shining, it was very cold with an icy breeze now sweeping over the place.

„Well, I'm not omniscient. You tell me!" Rosalina answered.

„I don't know a thing of what just happened here and what these creatures were!" Peach shouted, still terrified.

„Excuse me?" Mario mixed himself in „I think I might have an idea of what happened.

You see, when Luigi and I were exploring this new world for a bit, we stumbled across a cave which turned out to be some kind of underground laboratory."

Luigi continued „In there, we found a computer which, after Mario deduced his way through the security systems, showed us some kind of text document about it's owners.

They are a company called „INSINE Ω Incorporation" which, according to the document owns this planet. It gave some information about this planet and also said that the company doesn't have any use for it, so they want to eradicate all interfering life, so they can use it as a storage hangar."

„INISINE Ω, huh? „ Rosalina responded, now thoughtful „Say, have you seen any of their people?

Do they happen to look like Toads with vines on their heads?"

„Yes!" Bowser answered.

ARGH!" Rosalina errupted, her eyes catching fire and a burst of cold fear suddenly filling everyone „It's those ( )(&(&/%$&%$! Sorry for my language, it's just that I hate these guys!"

The cold fear, everyone had now turned into an inexplicible panic and Mario, Luigi, Peach and Bowser now inched close together as Rosalina became so furious, it felt as though she could break the entire planet out of rage.

„I think I should explain a bit more" Rosalina tried to speak out calmly, noticing the terrifying aura of power she was giving off in her rage „So, these beings, „Trads", are a highly evolved alien species.

Almost all of their kind work at the company INSINE Ω Incorporation, they build up.

This company aims to gain control over the whole universe to endlessly profit off it.

Thus, they invade world after world, galaxy after galaxy, system after system and planet after planet.

They have been doing this for a good thousand years now, ever since they inveted hyperspeed travelling.

I depise them for what they do; they act as if all of the universe should be theirs to profit and they relentlessly destroy everything and kill or enslave everyone in their way.

Together with other planet's inhabitants, I've made many attempts to stop these maniacs and I've ever since, been able to free about 34% of their „property".

Guess, it now is time for us to work together against them, then." Rosalina said this last sentence with a tone of finality that Peach couldn't help, but to agree „Yes, of course, we will."

„Wait, does that mean, we're gonna ally with her?" Bowser asked curiously.

„Yeah." All Mario, Luigi, Rosalina and Peach answered at the same time.

„So that means..." Bowser continued thoughtfully „The Star alliance will get a third folk to ally, the Star Folk?"

„Yes." Peach answered.

„Alright, then!" Rosalina said.

The three of Peach, Rosalina, and Bowser shook hands with each other and shouted out loud „We're the Star alliance! The three folks of the Toad Unification, the Koopa Tribe and the Star Folk!

We've come together to fight the Trad Folk and their company, to free the universe!"

End of Chapter One.