2005 September 16th

The sun has risen and the blue sky has the birds covered on it as they fly below the sunlight early in the morning.

The arena is a large circle as the corner that is 10 feet between the audience seat and the battleground is a long fall to a large sea water.

With the audience being the Kongs, those at the centre are Cranky Kong, Pauline, Peach and Toad, who had the perfect view to see the battle between 2 humans and an ape.

"Ladies and gentlemen! Boys and girls! Kongs and Kongettes! Today, the event begins as a test for these humans to collaborate with us! Here, we have the Mushroom Kingdom vs. The Kong Village!" Cranky Kong announced with a microphone as the Kongs yelled as they cheered.

A billboard screen showcases the stats of Mario and Luigi by showing their names, age, birthday, height, weight and their strength, stamina and agility.

"On one side we have the boys from another world, the children of my worst enemy, the future heroes of the world, Mario and Luigi, The Super Mario Bros!" Cranky Kong announced as the Kongs are cheering as well as Peach, Toad and Pauline that are waiting for the brothers to come out.

Then the Super Mario Bros theme song plays.

"~We're the Mushroom Kingdom's plumbers extraordinaire!

The Super Mario Brothers, what a pair!

Do you have problems with your pipes?

Is your water running right?

Are all the fittings screwed down tight?

If they aren't, don't despair!

The Super Plumbers will be there!

And there's no pipe we can't repair!

'Cause the Super Mario Brothers will be there!~"

Coming out on one side is Mario waving with confidence whereas Luigi is shivering out of fear as they can see the crowds' reaction, giving the Mario bros some support.

"The power ups are allowed to be used as their support devices, especially if they're in peril." Cranky Kong and he then turned his head to his right side. "On the other side-"

"Relax, old man! I got the intro to myself!" A voice called, interrupting Cranky Kong's introduction.

"What the!? Oh no…" Cranky Kong dreaded the time has come.

"Ladies and gentlemen! Here we have the strongest! The smartest! The coolest! The sexiest Kong on this planet!" A voice yelled as he gained so much more cheers from the kongs.

To Mario and Luigi, they're now up against the one who is the strongest of the Kongs.

"FUNKY! START THE BEATS!"

"No problem, Donkey, my bro!" Funky Kong, the Kong in shades, red bandanna, white top and blue shorts, cheers as he plays the DJ set for Donkey Kong's theme song.

Finally DK's rap starts to play.

"Here, here, here we go!

So they're finally here, performing for you

If you know the words, you can join in too

Put your hands together, if you want to clap

As we take you through this monkey rap!

Huh!

DK! Donkey Kong!

He's the leader of the bunch

You know him well

He's finally back to kick some tail

His coconut gun can fire with spurst

If he shoots ya it's gonna hurt

He's bigger, faster and stronger too

He's the first member of the DK Crew!

DK! Donkey Kong!

DK! Donkey Kong is here!"

Diving out of his side and sliding while crushing the barrels by clapping his palms, intimidating Mario and Luigi as Luigi himself jumps onto his brother's arms, even Mario is frightened of a big ape wearing a tie.

"T- That's him!?" Mario exclaimed out of shock while holding Luigi.

"He's s- so big!" Luigi shivers while clinging onto his own brother out of fright.

Even the cheers are ignoring Mario and Luigi's fear as the Kongs cheer as they chant "DK! DONKEY KONG!"

This leads to Cranky Kong groan and facepalm.

"Hey, Pauline!" Donkey Kong waves as Pauline waves back.

"Hi, DK!" Pauline called while staying positive.

"That's Donkey Kong, huh. I wasn't expecting him to showboating." Toad said.

"Dad! Check me out!" Donkey Kong called while dancing and moving his pecks, leading Cranky Kong to rub his face out of disgust.

"Oh for Pete's sake, Donkey, don't do that! Enough with the showboating and start fighting!" Cranky Kong groans while Peach and Pauline giggles and Toad is holding his laughter.

"What do you mean, dad!? No need to be a killjoy! Ah what the heck! Here we have, ladies and gentlemen, DONKEY KONG, BABY!" Donkey Kong introduces himself as the crowd cheers for the ape who dances as he shows himself to be a narcissist. "And my opponents are a couple of scaredy humans? Hahaha! This'll be easy! I can punch 'em no problem."

This results in Mario and Luigi gulping at the same time, witnessing death itself.

"M- Mario…" Luigi stammers while still holding onto his own brother.

"Um… Maybe go a little easy on us…" Mario suggested to Donkey Kong as he's about to have a heart attack.

Donkey Kong laughs continuously as he can see the frightened looks of the twin brothers who are not prepared to face the strongest Kong of the village.

Donkey Kong is massive, muscular and looks like he can 'actually' break as many bones as he could.

"So you're Pauline's little brothers. Hah. I'm going to have a lot of fun with the two of you." Donkey Kong chuckles menacingly while cracking his knuckles.

"Y- You don't scare us!" Mario tries to pull a brave face, until Donkey Kong gets closer to Mario and Luigi.

"Don't I?" Donkey Kong's deep tone is causing Mario and Luigi to shiver in fear.

Before the conversation starts, a bong has created a loud noise as it catches the Mario bros and Donkey Kong's attention.

"Alright! I want a fair fight between the three of you! Mario and Luigi are allowed to have power ups, so make sure you boys give it your all!" Cranky Kong announced. "And Donkey, no funny business!"

"Yeah, yeah. Jeez, you really are a killjoy, old man." Donkey Kong sighs and then stands back to his position on his fists and feet.

The battlefield now has floating platforms that are red beams as there are floating blocks with question marks on them, giving Mario and Luigi flashbacks to how they first saw them when they arrived at the Mushroom Kingdom.

Before the battle begins, Mario lets go of Luigi and stands in his fighting position.

"Luigi, let's-a-tap each other as a way to tag up against this big monkey." Mario quietly says as he's nervously preparing himself.

"Are you sure? This guy is what they made him out to be." Luigi points out.

"I know, but follow my lead. Okay, little bro?"

Luigi reluctantly nods and then stands back as Mario is now going 1v1 against Donkey Kong himself.

"Ready!? FIGHT!" Cranky Kong hits the bong.

Now the fight begins.

Mario and Donkey Kong make a headstart by dashing towards each other, only for Donkey Kong to grab Mario by the face, drop him to the ground and then getting slapped, punched and then uppercut towards Luigi.

Mario then crashes near Luigi by the door, only for him and Luigi to tap each other's hand.

Now it's Luigi's turn as he runs 90 degrees to the left as it surprises Donkey Kong, leading him to chase Luigi down.

"C'mere, green boy!" Donkey Kong shouts while trying to catch Luigi.

"I don't want your banana, big monkey!" Luigi screams while still running at a hasty pace.

As for Mario, he grunts as he stretches himself, witnessing the Kongs to cheer for violence which had Mario cracking his neck and his arms to stand back up and then leap onto a red beam platform as a way to sneak past Donkey Kong.

What stops the Kongs is Mario who was climbing in order to get a question mark block.

They were yelling "Donkey!" "Behind you, Donkey!" "He's about to get a power up!"

This alerted Cranky Kong as Peach, Toad and Pauline are surprised to see what the DK fanboys and fangirls are doing.

"HEY! I said a fair fight! All of you, shut your traps!" Cranky Kong yelled.

To Donkey Kong's surprise, he can see what Mario is doing while climbing onto a platform.

"Oh no you don't!" Donkey Kong slides towards the barrels and chucks them towards Mario.

"Mario!" Luigi yelled, giving Mario the attention he needed to get the warning.

"Mama mia!" Mario exclaims, leading him to duck and jump, seeing as the barrel hits a block as Mario dives and catches the item.

After that, Mario is prepared to face Donkey Kong with a power up that appears to be an orange flower with yellow and white inside with eyes that are similar to the blue mushroom.

"Ngh! You lucky pipsqueak! You may have avoided my barrels, but do you know how to use a power up?" Donkey Kong mockingly asks as he laughs.

"Laugh all you want, monkey, because this'll be your first loss against a couple of outsiders!" Mario replied confidently as he opens his mouth and rips the top part on a flower by biting it and chewing it.

But the taste is something else as it tastes like an actual plant.

"Eurgh! This is nasty."

"Mario! Watch out!" Luigi yelled again, but this time, the barrel is closer as it causes Mario to raise his arm while flinching.

Then BOOM!

Every Kongs cheered like wild animals as Peach, Toad, Pauline and Cranky Kong gasped with surprise, only to see a fog of smoke.

Before Donkey Kong celebrates and finishes Luigi off, he stops as he sees a large orange fireball zooming towards him, leading Donkey Kong himself to dodge.

"What the… Did he just…"

The Kongs are flabbergasted as they witnessed a human man like Mario raising his fire covered right hand as Mario looked determined.

"Mario? Is that you?" Luigi too is left in agape after witnessing his older twin using some sort of fire magic the first time.

Mario is now in white cap and shirt with red overalls which means he's in a similar fashion and material, but looking different at the same time.

Little did he know, fire is still on Mario's hand, causing Mario to shake it out of desperation.

"Ah! Hot! Hot! I'm on fire! Help!" Mario shrieked while trying to get the fire to disappear.

"This is…" Peach gasped.

"He did it! Mario can use the power ups!" Toad cheers with excitement.

"It seems that these two have the potential to defeat Bowser and stop his reign of terror." Cranky Kong chuckles as he can see the potential behind Mario and Luigi.

As the fire disappears from Mario, Donkey Kong is starting to get serious while grabbing Luigi.

"Don't move, plumber! Or else your brother's gonna suffer the pain of fractured bones!" Donkey Kong warned.

"Mario! Do something!" Luigi called while struggling to be free from Donkey Kong's massive hand.

"Hmph." Mario stands at a karate position, clicks his fingers which releases a fireball on his hand as Mario is getting the hang of it.

While leaping as high as he could by getting to the top of a platform, Mario grunts as he covers both of his hands with orange flames and then leaps onto different beams as the Kongs are cheering even louder.

Now the support for the Mario bros and Donkey Kong are equal as Mario kicks the block and grabs a flower.

The barrels are dropping straight towards Mario, causing Mario to burn them all and jump on one of them as well as riding on one in order to go through platform to platform.

Finally at the top, Donkey Kong swings his fists as Mario jumps and dodges as well as leaps under the beam and then leaps onto the same one behind Donkey Kong.

"What the!?" Donkey Kong came to a realisation that Mario is not to be underestimated as his bravery is the thing that lifted him the most.

Mario is the one who never gives up, even in dire situations.

"Luigi! Take this flower!" Mario shoves it onto Luigi's mouth, making Luigi spit it out.

"Bleugh! What did you do- Huh!?" Luigi exclaims as his clothing changes into a blue hat and shirt with green overalls, leading Mario to exclaim as well.

"What the?" Mario then sees a blue flower which explains its coldness, giving Mario the impression that he gave Luigi a different variation of a flower.

Before Donkey Kong swings his punches while moving like a helicopter blade, leading Luigi to create an ice magic that is a large green shield.

"A shield!?" Mario gasped.

"Mario! When he slows down, beat him!" Luigi had a plan after being given an item.

As the ice cracks, Luigi then uses one of his hands to hold a green snowball.

Mario is prepared to finish the fight off as Mario's flaming hands have gotten from orange to crimson red with Mario clenching his fists with confidence.

After the ice smashes, Luigi loses his power as his overalls are back to his normal colour, giving Mario the chance to raise his fist and smash the ice on Donkey Kong's jaws.

"Ow! How the!?" Donkey Kong then receives another fire punch as Mario then kicks him in the face twice and then fires a flaming bullet from both of his hands. "Wh- What are you!?"

"We're the Super Mario Bros! Take-a-this!"

Finally after Mario drop kicks Donkey Kong with his flaming boot, a fire explosion has caused one of the platforms to go 90 degrees downwards on one side as Donkey Kong screams while falling down and then crashes onto his Head on the ground.

To the Kongs' shock, the undefeatable Donkey Kong was defeated for the first time.

But Mario is slipping from the beam which leads him to scream while falling from a higher platform.

Before he falls, Luigi arrives at a hasty pace and crashes along with Mario.

In the end, Luigi has saved Mario from falling to his doom, despite losing his power and his clothes are back to normal.

"Thanks, bro." Mario sighed.

"No problemo, bro." Luigi chuckled.

Peach, Toad, Pauline, especially Cranky Kong are shocked to see the results of this battle.

"Th- THE WINNER IS THE SUPER MARIO BROS!" Cranky Kong yelled, causing the Kongs to cheer far louder than before.

What had Mario and Luigi surprised is that everyone now has the full support for these two, leading Mario and Luigi to wave confidently.

"Oh yeah!" Mario and Luigi cheered while jumping and hi fives after facing the strongest Kongs of the planet.

"Mario! Luigi! You did it!" Peach rushes down towards Mario and Luigi, hugging them as she's worried about what'll happen if they lose.

"That was awesome! You managed to use the power ups for the first time!" Toad cheered as well as hugging Mario and Luigi with joy.

As Mario, Luigi, Peach and Toad are laughing together, Cranky Kong and Pauline are watching the four celebrating the victory for the Mushroom Kingdom.

"It seems that Mario goes offensive while Luigi goes defensive. Quite the strategy there, young Pauline." Cranky Kong admired the brothers' skill after witnessing what Mario and Luigi did against Donkey Kong.

"Yeah." Pauline agreed and was also surprised to see what Mario and Luigi are capable of.

She then approaches Donkey Kong as he lies unconscious after getting his head smashed to the ground.

"Heh. You're one tough guy. You and Mario are alike. Going offensive, being stubborn and never giving up without a fight." Pauline crouches down and rubs Donkey Kong's head as she's soothing the pain he received all over his body. "You're pretty amazing there, DK."

At least the fight is over with Cranky Kong accepting the Mushroom Kingdom's collaboration with his village.

Kinosen is actually right about Mario's potential, especially revealing his true self.