Cake in the oven



Cake in the Oven is a Mario mini-comic created by Monica "Nintendrawer" Rupa on DeviantArt. It follows the story of the primary hero of the Mushroom Kingdom, Mario Mario as he starts a family of twin boys, Peter and Marco Mario Jr., with his wife, Princess Peach Toadstool-Mario. The first page of the comic was published last June 11, 2009 and the last page was published last March 11, 2010.

Symposis
Mario and his wife, Princess Peach learn how to be good parents as they went through the 9 months of her pregnancy.

Plot
One day in the Mushroom Kingdom, its primary hero, Mario Mario, was roaming around the Toadstool Castle, when his wife, Princess Peach Toadstool-Mario came around and told him she was pregnant with his child. However, the Red Plumber was surprised, saying to Peach, "You're messing with me, right?" This reaction caused Princess Peach to tell Luigi's boyfriend and Mario's sister-in-law, Princess Daisy of the Sarasalandish Empire about what he had said to her earlier, with Daisy saying that she would be ripping off Luigi's mustache if he said that way whenever she would be also having their own child, explaining the reason why he didn't joke at her when the Yellow Princess announced the same thing in Hi, I'm Pregnant. Mario, still surprised, told his younger brother that Peach's pregnancy announcement was a joke, with Luigi saying what did his girlfriend said.

Later in their bedroom at night, Mario apologized to the Princess about what happened earlier, explaining to her that he and his brother had been pranksters on each other while growing up and said that the pregnancy announcement was an attempt for Princess Peach to get revenge on the Red Plumber for putting a rubber tarantula in the shower at their bathroom once. Peach told him that if she want to get him back on that, she wouldn't be saying that. On the other hand, Mario said that he is also happy for the news she gave to him, saying that they will have fun of having a little prince or princess roaming around the castle. This reconciled the couple, with Mario wanting to celebrate her pregnancy with some pizza, leaving Peach surprised.

Two months later, Mario and Princess Peach went to the Mushroom Kingdom Hospital for the latter's checkup, in which the Toad Doctor attending them saying that their baby inside the Princess was fine, then he told the couple what they are having. She told him that Peach and her husband had been talked about it lately, so she asked him to tell the gender of the baby, in which the Toad replied, "both boys." At first, Mario was happy when they heard the news, but when they told him what do he meant, the Toad Doctor surprisingly clarified they were having twin boys. This caused Princess Peach to say what did Mario said earlier in the comic and in the process, her husband fainted in surprise.

The next day, at the gardens outside of the Toadstool Castle, Peach told Daisy about the checkup yesterday, telling her best friend that she and Mario are having twin sons, in which the Yellow Princess was surprised. She congratulated and wanted to talk about the "New Super Mario Bros." with Peach, but the Mushroom Princess thanked her instead and hoped that they wouldn't argue as much as the original Super Mario Bros. Meanwhile, Mario was grilling burger patties when Luigi told him what he and his wife are having. At first, the older Mario brother told him that they are having some burger patties, but when the younger Mario brother insisted him saying baby-wise, he told Luigi what Peach said earlier: twin boys. This caused the younger brother to laugh and congratulate him, but Mario refused his congratulatory remarks.

Six months later, Mario realized that their mother, Louise Mario, was correct in foreshadowing after he remembered that when she said to him and Luigi in their childhood years at their house in Brooklyn, New York, scolding them that they were driving her crazy and saying that they will have their own twins someday. Also, he noticed that Princess Peach was craving for some cookies while balancing her plate of food on her eight-month baby bump. The next month, at the Mushroom Kingdom Hospital, the Princess in a wheelchair is shown to be in labor, while being carried by a Toad Nurse to the labor room. Mario approached his wife to help her, but a mood-swung laboring Peach angrily told her husband to stay in the waiting room. The Toad Nurse carrying her, told the Red Plumber that laboring women in the Mushroom Kingdom always said that.

While at the waiting room, Mario dreamed of himself helping Princess Peach(being exhausted from pushing for so long and creating labor noises) give birth to their twin sons in the delivery room; however when he saw their twin sons, Mario was surprised that what his wife gave birth were actually King Bowser Koopa's "twin sons," in which the Koopa King, disguised as a doctor, congratulated himself and laughed mockingly with his "sons" at the unsuspecting Red Plumber. This caused Mario to freak out and be punched in the face by Luigi, in which the latter woke up the older Mario brother. Realizing that it was a horrible dream he had experienced, Mario saw his younger brother, having his overalls burnt by the cup of hot coffee he ordered spilled on Luigi.

After a few hours, Mario and Peach are in the recovery room looking at their newborn twin sons in the Princess's arms (in which she named Peter Mario and Marco Mario Jr. a few minutes after actually giving birth to them earlier), the latter saying that they were so cute with their tiny noses. Mario remarked to his wife that large noses skip one or two generations, in which she agreed. However, when the older Mario brother said that the birth wasn't bad after all, Princess Peach repeated the question twice and shouted, "WASN'T SO BAD?" to Mario so loud that outside of the room, Luigi and Princess Daisy was surprised, with the younger Mario brother saying to a Toad Nurse if it is safe to go in the room.

Once Peach was calmed down, a few hours later in the room, Luigi congratulated Mario, saying when their parents, Marco Sr. and Louise, will come to see his twin sons, the older Mario brother said to him that he will probably pick them up at the weekend and have their parents stay in the castle for a few days. The younger Mario brother gave Mario a chocolate cigarette as a celebration gift of the twins' birth, in which he remarked, "Everything in my life is now perfect. I married a princess, had twin boys, and got a chocolate cigar. Things can get only better from here!" The mini-comic series ends with Marc and Peter crying so loud that Peach and Daisy looked at them in surprise, while Mario and Luigi jumped on the floor.