Once upon a time, in the Mushroom Kingdom, Bowser ran over to Princess Peach Toadstool’s castle to try to kidnap her.  If he could just get Peach to marry him, he would be the king of the Mushroom Kingdom!

Meanwhile, Mario and Luigi were cooking breakfast.  They were making mushroom pancakes with mushroom eggs and mushroom bacon.  Suddenly, the phone rang.  Mario answered it.  "It’s-a me, Mario!"

It was Toadsworth, Princess Peach’s aide.  "Master Mario, you must come to the castle at once."

"Mamma-mia!"

"Oh, bring Luigi too," added Toadsworth.  "We need bait."

"Okeydokey!"

Mario ran to the castle as fast as he could.  Meanwhile, Luigi ran right alongside him.

"MARIO!  LUIGI!" Peach yelled from Bowser’s Koopa Cruiser.

"What?!" Mario yelled up.

"Help me!" Peach yelled back.

"Me too!" yelled Luigi.  Bowser also captured him.

"Stop taking my stuff!  Why do you want to kidnap my princess?" asked Mario.

"Because, Stupid Mario Brother, if I marry her, I’ll become the KING OF THE MUSHROOM KINGDOM!"

Mario looked over at Yoshi.  "Let’s-a go!"

"Yoshi!"  Yoshi got an egg and threw it toward the Koopa Cruiser, but he wasn’t nearly strong enough.  Instead, the egg crashed on Peach’s head.

"YOSHI!" Peach scolded Yoshi.  She wanted to smack Yoshi, but she couldn’t reach him from the Koopa Cruiser.

Suddenly, Mario got a fantabulous idea.  He took out the mushroom that he ate for breakfast, and ate it.  Suddenly, Mario grew so tall that his head stuck out in space and he couldn’t breathe.

"Yoshi!" screamed Mario.  But nobody can hear you scream in space.  But Yoshi knew what he had to do.  He threw an egg at Mario, and when Mario gets hurt, he shrinks, so now Mario was smaller.  He could breathe again!

"MARIO!" yelled Peach.  They hadn’t accomplished anything in the last hour.

Bowser began to get impatient.  "Come on, let’s go.  I’m tired of wasting my time with the 'Stupido' Bros."  He threw Luigi out of the Koopa Cruiser, and flew out of sight in less than one-tenth of a second.  Peach screamed.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" said Mario.  This was the worst day.  First, he had hat hair, now this!

"Master Luigi, wake up!" said Toadsworth.  Luigi had fallen quite a ways and wasn't moving.  Luigi looked dead, but he didn’t feel dead.

"Lllllllllluuuuuuuuuuuuiiiiiiiiiiiigggggggggggiiiiiiiiiiii!" Mario shouted.  "Wwwwwwwwwwaaaaaaaaaaaakkkkkkkkkkkkeeeeeeeeeeee uuuuuuuupppppppppp!"

Luigi didn’t stir.

"Master Mario, I’m afraid he's dead," said Toadsworth, solemnly.  "So, when's the funeral, Mario?"

Suddenly the phone rang.  Mario answered it.  "It’s-a me, Mario!"

It was Bowser.  "Mario, I’m never giving the princess back!' Bwa ha ha!"  Click.  He hanged up on Mario!

"Well, that was pointless," said Toadsworth.

"I’ve got an idea!"  Mario took out a 1-Up Mushroom and fed it to Luigi.  Luigi got up and was feeling better, but he was tired a little, but overall he was completely healthy.

The first thing Luigi said was, "Wow!" and then "Oh no, the princess was kidnapped!"

Mario didn’t care.  Oh, wait.  He did.  He had a plan!

"Master Mario, this isn’t getting anywhere," said Toadsworth.

"What?" said Mario, looking up from the picture he was doodling.

Suddenly, a huge explosion exploded.  "WAAA WAAA!"

Suddenly Baby Mario was there!

Russ T., the smartest toad in town, came to explain.  "Hmmm...  Apparently, Mario’s doodle ripped the thin fabric of space and time and it allowed for Baby Mario to coexist with Mario!"

"Wait," said Mario.  "You mean that’s baby me?!"

"Yes," nodded Russ T.

"Ewww…" said Baby Mario.  "Look how fat I’ve gotten.  You need to lay off the mushrooms, buddy!"

Insulted, Mario hit Baby Mario so hard that he died.  Suddenly, Mario disappeared!

"MARIO!" screamed Luigi.

"No!" said Russ T.  "By killing himself as a baby, he ended up killing his future baby self!  It's sort of a paradox... we scientists fear these kind of things!"

"So Mario just killed himself?" asked Toadsworth.

"Yes," confirmed Russ T.

"Well, what do we do?" asked Luigi.

"Well, we must go in time and make sure that Baby Mario doesn’t go forward in time so that his future self kills himself."

"Whoa, this is soooo confusing," said Luigi.  He ran to the Warp Zone and went back in time!

Luigi spiraled back in time.  Whoa!

"Mamma-mia!" Luigi said to himself out loud because there was nobody with him.  "This is my baby nursery!"

Luigi looked around.  Suddenly, he saw Baby Mario, Baby Luigi, and Baby Peach, and Baby Yoshi sitting in a circle playing Duck Duck Goose.

":-o" said Luigi!

"Baby Mario, get over here now!" Luigi said.  Baby Mario began to cry.  Luigi was a stranger to him, and Baby Mario wasn’t supposed to talk to strangers.  "Baby Mario, don't go forward in time!"  He turned around to leave, but then he saw Baby Luigi.  "I love you, Baby Luigi."

Suddenly, Luigi spiraled back forward in time to the present, right in front of Peach’s castle, which is where the battle with Bowser was, if you weren’t paying attention.

Mario was there!  Not dead!  The plan worked!

"Let’s go get Peach back!" said Mario.

Mario and Luigi went over to Bowser’s castle via warp pipe.

"We’re here!" said Mario.

"Funny," said Luigi.  "I remember there being fewer screwdrivers all over the place…"

Mario said, "They’re a trap!  Don’t step on them or else we’ll be warped to the desert!"

"Nooooooooo!" said Luigi.

"Hello, is anyone here?" asked Mario really loudly.

Luigi gave him his usual impatient look.  "SHUT UP!!  DO YOU WANT TO GET CAUGHT???!?!!!?!?" Luigi yelled back.

"MAYBE IF YOU WEREN’T ALWAYS YELLING AT ME, I WOULDN’T HAVE TO RAISE MY VOICE SO THAT I COULD BE HEARD!"

"What was that?" asked Bowser, walking around the room.  Mario and Luigi were hiding behind a statue of Bowser.

"If he sees us, he’ll do something bad!" said Mario.

"Hmm?"  Bowser heard Mario saying that.  He walked over to the statue and saw Mario and Luigi.

"Um, I can’t explain!" screamed Luigi.

"We want to save the princess," yelled Mario really, really loudly.

"SHUT UP!" Luigi shrieked at the top of his lungs.  It was ear piercing.

"BOTH OF YOU SHUT UP!" Bowser roared really loudly.  It was at least 500 decibels.  It was so loud that it completely exploded the castle.  Mario’s plan worked!

Mario and Luigi ran up to the cage, rescued Peach, and returned to the castle.

"Thank you, Mario!" Peach said at her castle.  "If it wasn’t for you, you wouldn’t have rescued me!"  Peach rewarded Mario by giving him a kiss, a Royal Rose, and something else.