There wasn't much to do in times of peace. Granted, peace rarely lasted in the Mushroom Kingdom, so Mario enjoyed his downtime as much as he could. He was an explorer at heart and so he found himself strolling around the kingdom, restlessly looking for new visages. Although the kingdom had been his home for a long time there seemed to be an endless amount of nooks and hidden areas to stumble upon and Mario loved the feeling of finding an untouched glen or a forgotten castle.
As he dashed around aimless he suddenly found a set of brick blocks and almost by reflex he sprinted towards them and banged his fist against the underside of each one until he heard a familiar sound of an item appearing from one of them.
Curiously he flung himself up to check what toy he had managed to unearth and found himself at a loss. It was a mushroom, but not one he had seen before. It was pink and blue, its eyes shut and, most oddly, it wasn't moving at all. Mushrooms usually forced him to hunt them down but this one just sat there. Mario didn't hesitate long before he ran up to it, reached his hand out and touched the mushroom.
He felt an intense tingling which he knew meant that the mushroom's effect was being applied to his body. He was excited to find what it would do to him. Maybe he would be able to fly or jump higher, or maybe he would turn into an animal? Barely a second later the tingling dissipated and Mario noticed that something was indeed very different. He looked down to see what the mushroom had done to him only to discover that his body and clothes had changed, but not in any way he was previously familiar. What he saw was not his own body, nor was he a cat, or a raccoon or even a bee. What he was looking down on was clearly the body of...
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