Prologue: Nintendo Universe; Dimento's Defeat?

The Mushroom Kingdom, a humble land that has thrived and prospered in peace, thanks to the help of the legendary Super Mario Bros., Mario and Luigi. Here was where those same two brothers made their stand against Dimento, an interdimensional jester with an insanity streak almost a mile long. For some time now, he had terrorized the fair kingdom with his own brand of minions, spawned in the world known only as Dimension D. But what started off as a simple final duel was only the beginning of something much bigger.

High over the kingdom itself, Mario and Luigi were squaring off against Dimento for what seemed to be the last time. Mario was a portly young man in his 20s, with blue eyes that shone with a passion, brown hair, and a bushy black mustache. He wore blue overalls, a red longsleeve shirt, white gloves, brown workshoes, and a yellow cape. But his most distinguishing feature was a red cap with a similarly-colored 'M' inside a white circle.

Luigi looked very similar to his brother, but his face was leaner and chinless, and his mustache was smoother. His longsleeved shirt and hat were green as opposed to red, and the cap had a green 'L' instead of an 'M'. Luigi also had a yellow cape, but additionally posessed a red vaccuum cleaner on his back, the Polturgust 3000.

And Dimento was a strange sight indeed. His face resembled a stage mask, one half a light purple with the other black, with creasent-slit eyes and an ever-present grin. His pants, gloves, and shoes were also black, while his attire, a fanned collar and jester's hat, was patterned with tannish-whites and light purples, with three yellow bell-like features on the hat. In short, Dimento looked like something straight out of a Pablo Picasso painting...but with a ghastly look about him.

"Don't-a try any more tricks-a, Dimento!" Mario snapped as he held Dimento by the scruff of his collar. "You've-a lost again!"

"Ya, you're game is-a over now!" Luigi nodded.

"Ah-ah-ah, I would not be so sure, plumbers," Dimento grinned.

Having enough of Dimento's seemingly-lighthearted threats, Mario tossed him up into the air. "Luigi!"

"Oh, yeah!" Luigi replied as he took out a hammer along with Mario. As Dimento came down, Luigi batted Dimento up into Mario, who slammed the psycopath down to earth, creating a large crater in the earth. "Mama mia, he sure-a took a beating on that-a one!"

Mario nodded gravely as he and Luigi descended down to earth, landing near the fresh crater. They looked down to see what had happened, but looked back up when something stomped towards them. It was a giant, turtlelike monster with a spikey green shell, bull-like horns on his green face, and a firey orange mane with similarly-colored eyebrows. His snout and underbelly was a fleshy color, while the rest of his scaly hide, including his spiked tail, were tinted with orange. Rounding out this menace's look was a collection of black, spiked wristbands.

"Gwah hah hah hah! Took you tapwater turkeys long enough!" the beast chortled.

"Waaah! It's-a Bowser!" Luigi gulped as he aimed his Poltergust at the demon known as Bowser.

Mario jumped over to Bowser and landed on his head with a stomp, with Luigi timidly jumping after him. "Ooof!" Bowser yelped, rubbing his head gingerly. "What was that for?!"

"For siding with-a Dimento," Mario glared. "Honestly, Bowser, what-a you thinking?!"

"I thought he changed!" Bowser shrugged indifferently. "And he DID offer me the princess if I sided with 'em." Before anything else could be said, something sounding like a zipper being pulled caught everyone's ears; they found Dimento, surrounded by a square! "That little freak's gonna flip himself away!" Bowser roared. "And he didn't even get me the princess!"

"Oh, you and-a the princess-a, Bowser," Luigi sighed.

"Do not be so sure that this has ended, Mario Brothers," Dimento said sinisterly. "For like a boomerang thrown with great precision, I SHALL be back!"

"Not unless I can-a help it," Mario said sternly as he reached back and pulled out a red flower. The flower dissolved into flames and swept across Mario's outfit; now his overalls were red, and his cap and shirt were white (though the red in his 'M' remained). The pudgy plumber reared his arm back, and then slung it forward, releasing a fireball from his grasp. That same fireball nailed Dimento as he was about to flip away, causing a chain reaction to take place.

"No! NO! Like a monkey wrench thrown into the gears of my ingenious plan, you have ruined my dissappearing act!" Dimento wailed as he writhed in pain. The Mario Bros. and Bowser looked on as Dimento struggled within his flip panel; but what started as wails of torture surprisingly turned to fits of laughter, which grew louder and louder before the flip panel finally dissappeared.

Mario, Luigi, and Bowser all looked strangely at where Dimento dissappeared. "That's-a weird," Luigi said, scratching his head. "Why was he laughing-a?"

Mario only shrugged in response.

"Psh, I'm surprised you two didn't kill anyone," Bowser scoffed.

Mario looked to Bowser sternly as he walked around him and grabbed his tail. "W-wait! What're you doing?!" Bowser asked, startled.

"Sending-a you to jail, but-a you no going to Princess Peach's-a dungeons this-a time!" Mario grunted as he heaved Bowser up and started to swing him in a circle. Round and round he went, until Mario sent Bowser flying into the sky like a rocket.

"Wow, where'd-a you send him?" Luigi asked curiously.

"To Rosalina's Observatory," Mario smiled. "He's-a gonna be nice and-a safe up-a there! You go make-a sure he gets-a locked up-a tight; Little Mac and-a Kirby are already up there, okie-dokie?"

"Ahh...okie-dokie," Luigi nodded nervously. The thought of trying to lock up Bowser was frightening enough to him, but since he WAS going to have some help, he felt a little calm about the idea. So he flew off in the same direction Bowser went flying, while Mario went the other way. But little did the two brothers know, Dimento's apparent defeat was only the beginning...