In the middle of the night, New York is peaceful and the one watching out of the window is Mario, who is surprisingly still in his red shirt and blue overalls in his bedroom.
He knows why he can't sleep after all things Spike said about him, leading him to think about his past actions.
The more he thinks about it, the more he thought Spike could be right about him being a jerk and a liar.
He then looks at Luigi with worry, knowing that Luigi is asleep.
"Face it, Mario. Get this through your tiny brain. You're a joke, and you always will be. You think you're so goody goody, but deep down inside, you're an even bigger jerk that's only using Luigi to make everyone love you." This is the thing that spooks Mario the most after hearing what Spike told Luigi. "Just because he's a mama's boy, doesn't mean all that is his true nature. You'll soon learn his secret behind you. He doesn't love you, he loves taking credit from you. Face it, Luigi, he's lying to you."
What he fears the most is letting his little brother down after years of admiring Mario himself.
In Mario's mind: Is he really lying to Luigi?
A thudding noise stops him from thinking as it catches his attention, only for him to see Peach looking around the house and tiptoes her way towards the entrance.
This alerts Mario to open the door, seeing as Luigi wakes up in his green shirt and blue overalls under his blanket.
"Luigi? You didn't change too?" Mario asked while staying quiet in order not to wake up Pauline and his mother.
"Mario, I want to know too. If you're going, then I'm going too. Also, I can't sleep." Luigi whispered, knowing that Mario isn't the only one who had trouble sleeping and wanting to go outside.
Mario knows that the only two in this household awake are him and Luigi, leading Mario to be confident as he nods.
"Okay. Let's follow princess. She must be hiding something from us." Mario said while placing his finger on his moustache lips.
"Okie dokie." Luigi nods and then follows Mario while they put on their boots, gloves and caps, preparing to sneak out of their house.
After the door closes, Pauline is watching as she witnesses both Mario and Luigi leaving the house without telling her and their mother.
Despite being in her white pyjama top and trousers with red design, Pauline puts on her red gown, puts on her slippers and then quietly leaves the house without waking the mother up.
In the middle of a city at night, Mario and Luigi are hiding behind the pole, watching Peach pull the manhole lid and then jump down, leading the Mario bros to follow; open the manhole, jump down through and close it.
Where they're at is a sewer, causing Luigi to cover his nose from the stench while Mario turns on the flashlight as he sees heel prints on the ground.
"It seems princess went in there to hide from us. Jokes on her, we're plumbers." Mario chuckles.
"Yeah… Mario, can we go back now?" Luigi asked while still covering his nose.
"Didn't you say you want to follow? Don't be a baby."
"Hmm… Alright, but we'll leave when there's the next hole.
"Sure sure. Let's follow princess and then we'll leave, okay?" Mario offers it to his brother.
"Okay." Luigi reluctantly accepts.
"Good." Mario finally walks forward with Luigi as the duo are seeing less junk and more clear blue water as they're still moving forward.
It's quiet… Too quiet.
To their shock, Peach is jumping from the cliff, even after the stench is no longer a stench, but fragrance.
"What the heck!?" Mario exclaims while rushing towards the cliff that leads to a blue waterfall.
"Did she just…" Luigi stutters as he's equally as shocked as Mario.
"Yeah… I hope there isn't a corpse lying in this place." Mario grunts while using the ladder downwards.
"Mario, don't you think this sewer is strange like it's all reshaped and deeper?" Luigi asks as he notices the structure of the sewer going from rotten to fresh.
"Huh. Now that you say that, you're right. The smell seems nicer and the place looks brighter. Something's not right." Mario then slides down on the ladder in order to get a closer look in a blue light.
"Mario! Wait!" Luigi quickly climbs down while trying not to fall.
At the bottom of this bright blue zone with a bunch of unusual multicoloured pipes all over the circle, Mario was in awe as he saw a place that feels so majestic that he's in some sort of wonderland.
The waterfall is coming through a hole where below is a sea of freshwater that smells like flowers.
"What is this place?" Mario gasps.
"Mario! Wait!" Luigi arrives and then stops, seeing something so beautiful, even Mario was impressed. "Wow… It's magical…"
"I know right? We finally discovered something that was unknown. How did nobody talk about that?" Mario asked.
"Probably because we're the first to see this place." Luigi answered.
What stops Mario is a bunch of unusual multicoloured pipes that are disconnected all over the place.
"Luigi, looks like it's a job for the Super Mario Bros Plumbing Service." Mario pulls out a spanner as he pulls a confident grin.
"Really? I mean, is it really okay for us to do all that?" Luigi asked.
"Of course. We'll improve the water supply and that way, we'll be known as the heroes of the unknown!" Mario laughed.
"Okay then… Let me do the pipes."
"Alright. I'll handle the colouring. Let's-a-go!"
Finally, Mario and Luigi are pulling apart and placing the pipes together as well as putting the junk pipes aside, leading Mario and Luigi to tighten up the pipes that are put together.
Red on red, yellow on yellow, green on green, blue on blue, the pipes go on.
Then, they're done.
"Finally, all done." Mario sighed.
"Hey. Is that Pauline up there?" Luigi points above as Mario and Luigi have caught up, seeing Pauline looking around the bright zone.
"Wow… So beautiful…" Pauline gasps with surprise after seeing what's under the sewers.
"Pauline!?" Mario and Luigi exclaimed.
"Huh? Mario! Luigi! What are you two doing!?" Pauline shouted while climbing down towards her brothers.
"Apparently, princess went out without letting us know. Also Luigi and I are fixing pipes there." Mario explained.
"Wait, Peach went down there? That's crazy! How can a cosplayer go into the sewers at a place like this!?" Pauline is confused about what Mario and Luigi are saying.
Before the conversation continues, a creaking noise has stopped them as Mario, Luigi and Pauline are seeing the pipes bulging and the water level slowly rising.
"Mama mia! Pauline! Climb!" Mario warned, pushed Luigi and dash towards the ladder.
This caused the trio to climb as fast as they could after seeing the water keep going up slowly until…
A splash has smashed the pipes, bursting out water that is quickly increasing the water, leading the trio to go even faster.
But unfortunately a water bursts out of the wall on Pauline, causing her to fall as she screams.
"I gotcha!" Luigi quickly catches Pauline as Mario is caught with his legs underwater.
"Uh, guys! I think we should move right no-"
Unfortunately for the trio, they're being pushed off the ladder as they're put under a whirlpool that is about to put them into a blinding white hole.
All they can do is scream with air bubbles coming out of their mouths, trying to swim upwards from the strongest current.
Finally, they vanish as the pipes are falling apart.
Mario, Luigi and Pauline are no longer seeing the world they're in anymore.
Unknown
The breeze is cooler and everything seems to be weightless as he thought he's dead or something.
Opening his eyes, Mario grunts as he sees the sunshine that is rising in the yellow sky, only for him to wake up in a morning that feels strangely weightless.
But little did he know, Mario is in the sky, leading him to scream and flap his arms.
"Where am I!? Luigi!? Pauline!?" Mario yells as he sees Luigi and Pauline falling from the sky, screaming as they feel the same as Mario.
"M- Mario! What's going on!?" Luigi screamed while grabbing Mario's hands.
"Yeah! Where are we!?" Pauline also grabs Mario and Luigi's hands, making a triangle formation as they're panicking.
"I don't know!" Mario yelled.
"Whatever it is, we're gonna die!" Luigi shrieked.
"THAT'S NOT HELPING, YOU IDIOT!" Pauline snapped.
"Guys! Stop arguing! I don't know what's going on, but princess must've led us to this situation!" Said Mario.
"Peach!? Why!? She was nice and that's what she led us to!?" Pauline couldn't tell if it's by accident or malicious.
With the trio waiting for their last moment of falling to their doom, another one has arrived, leading Mario to let go of Pauline's hand and reach out for another one.
"Yo! I see you humans are new to this world!" A young white haired human boy called while waving.
"G- Grab my hand!" Mario yelled.
"Grab your hand? Ahaha! You're a funny man! I'm not going to die!" The young boy laughed.
What the boy appears in, he is dressed in a white blazer and white shorts, making him look like a foreign elementary to middle schooler, since he appears to be from 11 to 13 years old.
"Oi, kid! Do as Mario says or else you'll fall!" Pauline shouted.
"Like I say, I'm not going to die!" The boy said while sitting on his strange looking cane and crossing his legs, watching Mario, Luigi and Pauline struggling to keep each other from falling.
"Who are you!?" Luigi asked.
"I'm glad you asked, green man! I'm the one who watches the Mushroom Kingdom! I am Kinoko Sennin!" The boy introduces himself while raising his arms with excitement.
"Kino- What!?" Pauline is having a hard time remembering a name so foreign that she'll never understand the meaning.
"How about calling me Kinosen, just to make things easier for you guys to remember!" The boy, Kinosen, introduced himself.
"Okay, Kinosen! Tell me! What's going to happen to us if you don't die!?" Mario asks.
"Easy, you all die!" Kinosen answered.
"YOU'RE NOT HELPING!" Pauline explodes out of anger.
"Why!? Mama mia!" Luigi cried.
"But you'll live! All you have to do is believe!" Kinosen said while pointing at his own head.
"Believe in what!?" Luigi called out.
"Also, what is Mushroom Kingdom!?" Mario shouted.
"Simple… Oh, we don't have much time, but to give you a nutshell, you guys actually met the princess of this kingdom." Kinosen explained as quickly as he could.
Silence as the trio are shocked to hear what Kinosen said.
"WHAT!?" The trio exclaimed, hearing the truth behind Peach herself.
"Yep! Now I must go! Bye-bye!" Kinosen vanishes as Mario misses by trying to catch him.
"Wait!"
"Mario!" Luigi screams as well as Pauline, even Mario screams as the trio are close to death.
Then crash!
Then thud and bounce.
Then crash.
The trio survived the fall by a large mushroom and following other mushrooms, causing Mario, Luigi and Pauline to pant as they almost had a heart attack.
"Welp. Our introduction here is done. Welcome to the Mushroom Kingdom and have fun!" Kinosen bows as he vanishes into thin air as a farewell to his new guests.
Now that the ride is over, the trio are sitting up as they witness the world that is not only strange, but very different to New York which had Mario standing up first.
The world is a field where there's a lot of mushrooms and the mountains are strangely curvy and vertical, even the blocks are floating in the air and many creatures are far from normal as they don't appear to be animals.
"This is… What princess is trying to tell me? I… I don't understand."
"Ugh… Peach has won the bet, but how are we going to get back?" Luigi groaned while picking himself up from the ground.
"Good question." Mario had a feeling that they're now trapped in this world for a while now.
"Good question!? You put us in this world! Now what are we going to do!? I don't wanna be here forever! It's gotta be a dream!" Pauline panics after pulling Mario out of desperation.
Mario thinks that Pauline is right and is trying to pinch himself on the arm.
But that didn't work.
"Oh. This is… Real."
"Wait! That means we're trapped!?" Luigi exclaimed.
"Oh no… No, no! No! No! NOOOOOOOO! WHO'S GONNA SAVE US NOW!?" Pauline let out a howl of fright after realising that she, along with Mario and Luigi, are stuck in another world.
"I- I don't want to be here! It's scary!" Luigi is also panicking after being put in a world that's unknowingly scary, yet bright.
"Guys! Calm down! There's gotta be a way back to Brooklyn. Maybe mama might send out a search party to find us." Said Mario.
"There better be! It's all your fault! Even you, Luigi! If you idiots haven't tampered with the suspicious looking pipes, then none of this would've happened! And my pyjamas are dried!? They were soaked earlier! Grr! Why did you do this!?" Pauline yelled out of rage, causing Mario and Luigi to leap back out of shock.
"S- Sorry, Pauline!" Luigi yelped.
"Sorry, Pauline! Listen, I'll make up for it by getting us out and I'll do as you say!" Mario knows he's guilty for destroying the pipes and will take the punishment.
"Good!" Pauline can tell that Mario is not lying when it comes down to taking punishments, then calms down by thinking of a plan. "Now, all we have to do is to find something to eat and somewhere to camp and that way, we'll get out of this place."
"But how do we find some food?" Luigi asks with curiosity.
"I dunno, maybe mushrooms, I guess." Mario picked up a blue mushroom before opening his mouth.
"Wait. Are they really edible?" Luigi stops Mario, worried that Mario might end up getting poisoned.
"I think so. Relax, if they're not, I'll walk it off." Mario laughed.
"Bad idea. I'd rather not see any of my brothers die of poison." Pauline is worried about what's going to happen to Mario.
"I agree with Pauline, bro. Can't we just find something else?" Luigi said worryingly.
"Pfft! You guys are overreacting, I'll just give it a taste test and prove to you guys that it's edible." Mario opens his mouth, preparing to eat the blue mushroom.
"Wait! Do not eat that!" A high pitched voice called, stopping Mario from eating the mushroom.
"Huh? Luigi? Is that you?" Mario asked.
"No. I bet Pauline called." Said Luigi.
"HII!" Shrieking while falling to her backside and crawling backwards, Pauline has witnessed a short creature that looks like a mushroom wearing clothes and has limbs, leading Pauline to crawl in fear.
"What in the!?" Mario yelps as Luigi jumps behind Mario in fear.
A creature just appeared out of nowhere and what Mario held was a mushroom with eyes which made him shriek and drop the blue mushroom out of shock.
"Phew! That was close… Man, for a second there, you could've shrunk and then we'll have to find a different mushroom to grow you back." A strange creature sighed in relief.
In their eyes, this creature is unusually strange and actually speaks their language, meaning something is wrong and makes them question something they took.
But they never took any drugs.
There's only one option left for the siblings to do.
"RUN!" Luigi yelled, leading the trio to scream and run away from a creature that's been saving them.
"Wait, guys! Geez… Humans. Never seen a toad like me before, huh?" A white toad with red spots sighed.
"Dude, it's natural for humans from the outside world to react that way because they're a homogeneous species." Another toad that is yellow said while explaining about the humans.
"Hm. That is true. Maybe I'll approach them carefully." Said a white toad.
At least Peach isn't the only human in the Mushroom Kingdom as there are more people arriving from the sky.
In the toads' mind: who are these people?