The Great Fungi War

## **History**

The Great Fungi War was an extremely catastrophic in universe event that occured in the Super Mario series that started off as a small conflict. The Kings and Queens around Mushroom Island were having a meeting at the Mushroom Kingdom about which part of the land should be owned by each leader. However, some conflicts arose and the Kingof Fungustown threw a chicken leg at the King of Pinville and the small conflict soon escalated quickly and war was declared on all parts of the island. The people of the island were notified of the sudden start of a war and battle soon took over. Many lives were lost through the amount of gunfire blasted. However, completely unaware to the other towns and cities, the Mushroom Kingdom secretly built giant machines beneath the kingdom and planned on using them as an intimidation tactic to the other lands. When all the other parts of the island began creating a tactic to take down the Mushroom Kingdom, they decided now was the time for their dirty final trick. They used the machines, reffered to as "Mush Guardians", to easily take out the other arsenal and soldiers. One such mush guardian called "The Final Aether" created a devestating blast that almost destroyed the entire island. Hundreds of homes were immediately obliterated and the others quickly surrendered, quickly forfieting and gave in to call the Mushroom Kingdom the hiearchy of the island. Ever since then, the Mushroom Kingdom has kept its secret arsenal under wraps and has never brought it back to light until the episode, "Odyssey of the Skies". Word of the kingdom's battles soon began to spread around the world via the open rifts made from Dimentio's attempts to reach Earth. A plaque from the war was taken to York, England to remind the other areas of the world who were currently at war not to mess with their battles as an intimidation tactic. However, most people perceived this as merely a joke and didn't believe the Mushroom Kingdom existed, this was only further helped with the fact that the only way to access the kingdom is using the hidden warp pipes. Regardless, this lead to the kingdom garnering a sadistic past, one that has been quietly brushed beneath the rug in the years following to avoid tourist scare.

## **Aftermath**

After the war ended, many lives were lost and many began to lose sight on what the island truly was; a beautiful piece of land that never once saw the sight of war until now. Many parts of the war still lingered after hundreds of years on the island such as the "Half Building" site in the Chucklehuck woods where an entire chunk of the building was blown off from the final aether blast but the bottom part of the building managed to remain intact. The building was also the site of Mr. Midnight taking over unfortunate souls who wandered near the area. There are many different other places and locations that have remnants of the war such as "The Fallen Missile", a missile that was displaced of its use when it unexpectedly did not detonate when it was launched. A large chasm sits in what is now Bowser's castle and the chasm if full of lava that streams down from a nearby volcano. The chasm was caused by a large bomb that was detonated during the war and now instead offered a pretty sweet backdrop for Bowser's realm.