Chapter One:
When Spaghetti Goes Missing
[This is a non-profit story meant to be a loving tribute to the Super Mario Glitchy 4/SMG4 series as well as the Mario franchise amongst other pop culture that has been parodied by. I do not own the characters that belong to Nintendo, Glitch Productions, Illumination and other studios. Hats off to Luke and Kevin Lerdwichagul for their efforts. Warning, this story is going to be so nuts, it'll shake your PINGAS! (Just kidding, LOL!) Enjoy!]
The sun rose into the bright blue yonder of a sky and a rooster cried in the distance. It was an undeniably lovely morning in the Mushroom Kingdom and, surely, this morning had no unexpected surprises in store for the land's number one hero/resident/idiot/Avatar (shh), Mario, sound asleep in the warm sheets of his bed in the House of the Mario Brothers.
And he was deep asleep, dreaming of silly things, when the alarm clock blared. Mario's eyes opened and he shot up in bed, the sheets rolling back. He yawned and smiled, then he climbed out of the top bunk of his bed, threw open the window and cried, "GOOD MORNING, MUSHROOM KINGDOM!"
"Good morning, Mushroom Kingdom!" A bird repeated as it flew across the sky.
"Good morning, Mushroom Kingdom!" A Goomba said as it emerged from a rock by the house.
"Hey, mamaf***er! What are you doing near my house?" Mario yelled.
He picked up a pipe and threw it at the Goomba, hitting in the head and knocking him out. A Toad rolled by on a bicycle a second later and said, "Top of the morning, Mushroom Kingdom."
"Good morning, Mario."
The fat Italian turned, seeing his little brother Luigi finally awake and climb out of bed. Mario hugged him, then he headed over to a radio and tapped the 'on' button, followed by the play 'button', and the Super Mario Bros Overworld theme began to play, but not the classic 8-bit version, a special version, which Mario began to dance to as a familiar voice came on the speakers;
'Do the Mario, swing your arms from side-to-side. Come on, it's time to go.
'Take one step and do the other, let's do the Mario. All together now...'
Mario twirled around, swinging his arms left and right as he flossed, then he danced with a step forward and two steps back. Luigi just laughed, then he started to dance too, finding enjoyment from the music as much as his big brother was.
'You got it, that's the Mario.
'Swing your arms from side-to-side, take one step and do the other, do the Mario, just like thaaaaat.'
"That's-a so nice-a." Mario said with glee as the song ended.
"Wait, Mario. What if we did that together, like he said?" Luigi suggested.
"Luigi?"
"C'mon, Mario."
"Okie-dokie."
"That's-a so nice-a." The Mario Brothers said in unison, they high-fived and chuckled together before Mario, despite his dim-witted nature, hugged his little brother again just as his stomach rumbled.
"Mama mia, just in time for breakfast." Luigi remarked, hearing his stomach growl too.
"And its-a time for-a my favorite food of-a the day." Mario said with a grin, "Spaghetti! Wahoo!"
He ran to the kitchen, even as Luigi begged for him to share the spaghetti with him for breakfast. Mario promised that he would do just that, just as he willingly said "that's-a so nice" together with Luigi after they had finished doing the Mario dance. Mario went to the fridgerator, where he kept his spaghetti plates, and opened it...
Only to find nothing, nothing but milk, cheese and vegetables.
"MAMA MIA!" Mario exclaimed.
"What-a is it, Mario?" Luigi asked.
"It's-a awful, it's-a not so good. IT'S-A HORRIBLE! THERE'S-A NO SPAGHETTI IN-A THE FRIDGE!"
Luigi walked over with a laugh. "C'mon, Mario." He remarked, "Your spaghetti should be there, maybe you're... WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! THERE'S-A NO SPAGHETTI!"
Mario shrieked, asking what was going on. He'd put spaghetti in that fridge just last night and, just this morning, it had vanished? Mario didn't eat all of it last night, he didn't try to have a late night snack, not after the last wacky adventure of yesterday. Something had happened somehow and it was not the first time Mario had dealt with a crisis like this.
Just then, the fridge door closed… ON MARIO'S SPAGHETTI NOODLES.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Mario cried, "MY PINGAS! IT'S STUCK AGAIN! AS IF MARIO'S MORNING CAN'T GET CRAZY ENOUGH..."
Luigi watched with wide-eyed dread and began fearing what would happen next. Since Mario got his pingas stuck in a door, then it wouldn't be long before aliens came knocking... just like the first time Mario had a door incident a few years ago and just like when he got himself stuck in a car door only months after Niles' final defeat and the destruction of the God Box.
Then again, the Mario Brothers likely didn't have to worry about the door aliens showing up since Iron Man Smartphone Mario threw a nuke at Mars, decimating the aliens residing there, which wound up opening a door that contained an eldritch monster.
"LUIGI, HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP!" Mario wailed.
Rolling his eyes, Luigi walked over to the fridge and opened the door, freeing his big brother. Mario stumbled backwards, taking a minute to let his groin heal, then he stood up and hugged Luigi happily.
"Luigi, you saved-a Mario! Number one!" He exclaimed, "That's my bro."
"You could have just opened the fridge." Luigi said.
"Oooooooooh." Mario went derp-y eyed.
"Right-a now, we need to take-a care of your missing spaghetti..." Luigi opened a cabinet and looked inside, then he opened another cabinet and looked inside that too. He then looked at Mario, "Your spaghetti's missing and I don't-a know what-a happened to it. Maybe we can go look outside?"
Mario agreed with his brother's suggestion, then the two Italian heroes opened the door and walked out onto the porch. This proved to be a mistake as rope suddenly tightened around their ankles and they were hung upside down as Luigi yelped in surprise. Seconds later, a ray of energy blasted the two brothers, who shrank to a rat-sized level.
"Some paisano must be pranking us!" Mario exclaimed, his angry voice sounding squeaky due to his current size. Luigi groaned, all he wanted was a good morning without any trouble aside from his big brother's usual antics...