Chapter 9: The Truth Will Set You Free
Tails was searching the forest from the skies, and couldn't find the Master Emerald anywhere. Then he saw something glowing brightly in the forest. He couldn't tell what it was, so he decided to take a closer look. What he found wasn't as pleasant as he had hoped.
"Eggman!" Tails shouted when he saw the evil madman. "You took the Master Emerald, didn't you?"
"Actually no, but would it really surprise you if I did? Either way, you have to deal with me now for trespassing on my territory! If you think you can stop me, I would gladly put an end to your misrable life!"
"I'm not afraid of you!"
"Oh really? Well then, maybe this will change your mind! Alpha!" Eggman grinned, and a gigantic robot similar to Omega E-123 tore down some of the trees, revealing a path made of his unecological designs. "Tell me, do you honestly expect to stop me all by yourself? An eight-year-old freak of nature against a genius of my caliber? Don't make me laugh! Omega, it seems this incompetent fox refuses to listen to reason, so why not run a weapons check on him? Destroy the pest!"
The giant robot was equipped with laser eyes, machine guns for fingers, rockets for legs, flamethrowers on each of its wrists, and a single use missile launcher on each shoulder.
Tails flew away, and Alpha started to pursue.
"Hold on, Alpha, we know where he's going," Robotnik laughed. "And we'll get him soon enough, but for now we must prepare for our final attack. Shut down weapons and engage in stealth mode! Set a course for the Kastle of Koopa!"
Robotnik opened up a hatch, climbed
into Alpha, and then Alpha turned invisible. Although nothing else could
be seen, the trees continued to fall as Alpha marched his way towards the
castle, invisible nonetheless.
Luigi and Yoshi had reached the Kastle of Koopa, which was surrounded by a moat of lava. Mario wasn't with them, and neither of them was wearing FLUDD.
"Look!" Yoshi shouted as he pointed to the top of the castle. "Bowser!"
"Welcome to your worst nightmare!" Bowser shouted. "How foolish of you to show up! Unfortunately, I won't be able to witness your defeat, since I'm a little busy up here..."
"How many times has he said that before?" Luigi interrupted.
"Never interrupt my monologues!" Bowser yelled as he tried to shoot out his fire breath, narrowly missing Luigi, "Where was I? Ah, that's right! But perhaps you could do me a favor and play with Junior? He's really bored and needs something to help him pass the time!"
"And here I was afraid that we would have to fight someone that actually scared me!" Luigi said with a sigh.
"Junior, would you like to show Mario and his fre- Hey, wait a minute! Where's Mario?" Bowser asked. "But if he's not here, then why are you?"
We're stopping you while Mario takes care of your rodent problem! Yoshi said. We can still win!
"Whatever, I'll just take care of Mario afterwards, then," Bowser said. "Junior, would you like to show these two your new toy?"
"You bet, Papa!" Junior said, although
neither of the heroes could see him. Bowser turned around and went out
of sight. Suddenly, a robot that looked just like Bowser jumped up from
behind the castle walls and landed right in front of the two heroes of
green. The machine roared, releasing flames into the sky all the while.
Back in the Forest of Illusion, Sonic was still searching for the Master Emerald. He heard the sound of a waterfall, saw many trees, and found a few Piranha Plants, but no Emerald.
"Where could that Emerald be?" Sonic asked himself. "It has to be around here somewhere!"
The sound of the waterfall stopped suddenly, so Sonic turned around to see why it had become quiet. Sonic saw Mario with FLUDD strapped to his back, and a Chaos Emerald in hand.
"Maybe you should worry about that later," Mario said. "That's the thing about us plumbers: if we don't get rid of the problem, then you only have to pay more."
"Wow, I've never thought I'd hear a monologue that corny!" Sonic said.
"It's not a monologue, it's a threat," said Mario. "And not even you can out run this! Chaos Control!"
Mario was using the Turbo Nozzle at the time, and Sonic was unarmed, with the exception of the fifteen Power Stars, which he had decided to take from Tails before they split up.
"Time to see what these can do!" Sonic said as he held up the Power Stars. "Chaos- Wait a minute, how am I supposed to use these things?"
Mario, ignoring Sonic, used FLUDD to travel fast enough to keep up with, and even surpass, Sonic's lightning fast speed. Sonic put the Stars away and started to run through the forest, hoping that Mario would run into some trees. Although it helped him to keep Mario off his tail, Mario was still gaining on him nonetheless. Sonic ran up a tree and used the forest canopy as his battlefield, knowing that Mario wouldn't be able to run while up there. Unfortunately for Sonic, it meant that he couldn't use his speed to run either. Mario switched to the Rocket Nozzle and quickly pursued the blue blur. After he was at the top, he switched to the Hover Nozzle.
That's impossible! Sonic thought to himself. No one can keep up with me! Not even with the help of a machine! Eggman's never been able to invent anything that fast, and to make matters worse, I have to deal with Chaos Control, which he learned from Eggman, no doubt!
Sonic quickly jumped from tree to tree, trying to find a weakness in Mario's battle plan. Without knowing it, Sonic had landed in a very special tree, one that only produced a single leaf every few days. It was a Tanooki tree, and Sonic had now found one of Mario's old power-ups. Sonic's tail grew longer, and his ears shrunk a slight bit. Also, his tail was now brown- and black-striped.
"What just happened?" Sonic asked. "This is not natural!"
Mario, noticing what had happened to Sonic, hovered over Sonic and then ground pounded on top of him. Sonic tried to jump away, but he missed the tree tops. Instead, he fell down. But, oddly enough to him, he wasn't falling as fast as he expected to. Instead, he was slowly floating to the ground. He realized that he had been shaking his tail, and used it to guide him to a low tree. He then triangle jumped until he was back up to the tree tops, and right in front of Mario. Sonic quickly kicked Mario, and hit the plumber with his tail. Mario used FLUDD to prevent himself from falling. Mario could see the Kastle of Koopa from the tree tops and noticed Mecha-Bowser, but he couldn't let that distract himself from the battle. He quickly switched to the standard Squirt Nozzle and sprayed at Sonic, but Sonic easily jumped out of the way, since the stream of water was unaffected by Chaos Control after it left FLUDD's tank.
"Mario, perhaps we should retreat," FLUDD suggested. "My tank is near depletion."
"We can't afford to retreat," Mario
said, "but I've got an idea."
Tails was running through the forest, thinking that he was still being persued by Alpha. He ran into Knuckles by accident, knocking them both to the ground.
"Hey! What was that all about?" Knuckles asked. "You could have given me some warning there!"
"Sorry, a huge robot was chasing me," Tails said.
"So Eggman's here, figures!" Knuckles said. "So what exactly are we up against?"
"I couldn't tell much, I only looked back once while I was flying, and it seemed to be based off the designs for Omega, maybe he's the last of the E-100 series," Tails suggested. "Or maybe the first of the E-200? Either way, this thing is huge! It pushed aside trees like one of us would push away a small bush."
"Wait, was it tall enough that you could see it from above the trees?" Knuckles asked in a concerned manner. "Tails, could you see it while you were flying?"
"Yeah, it was pretty big," Tails answered, unaware of why Knuckles would ask that question. "Nothing like the Egg Carrier, and definitely nowhere as huge as the Death Egg, but it was tall enough to see it from the trees."
"We have to find Sonic and fast!" Knuckles said. "There's no telling what Bowser's really up to!"
"What are you talking about?" Tails asked.
"Before you woke up when we first got here, Bowser said that he has guards that can see anything that happens in this forest, and if his troops didn't attack Eggman, then that can only mean one thing!"
"You mean that those two are working together?" Tails asked. "That explains why Mario actually kept his word in his fight against Sonic!"
"Exactly, we've got to figure out a way to break up the fight before Eggman and Bowser can combine their troops!" Knuckles said. "Fighting one army is always a warm-up, but fighting two would mean we would actually have a good chance of losing! And with us out of the way, how long do you think it will take for Eggman to go back to Mobius, put the whole planet under siege, and then fulfill his twisted dreams of world conquest?"
"I don't even want to think about that!" Tails said. "I'll go ahead and fly towards the castle; will you be okay here?"
"An eight-year-old is offering to be my bodyguard; yeah, I really feel good right about now," Knuckles said. "I'll be fine, just make sure that Sonic doesn't fight Mario! They'll both need their full strength if they want to stop two evil overlords. And stay below the trees, that way no one sees you coming!"
"Got it!" Tails said as he flew towards the castle, taking Knuckles's advice.
"Now, where is the Master Emerald? It
has to be here somewhere," Knuckles said as he continued to search.
Mecha-Bowser's cheeks puffed up, as
though its mouth was full of water, and then spit out two Bob-ombs.
Luigi lay on his back and curled up
his legs while signaling Yoshi to jump onto them. When Yoshi did so, Luigi
used his legs to propell Yoshi into the air. Yoshi slurped up one of the
Bob-ombs and spit it back at Mecha-Bowser. Yoshi turned around in an attempt
to do the same to the other Bob-omb. Junior saw this, and immediately launched
a Bullet Bill at Yoshi. Yoshi was knocked to the ground, but was able to
recover nonetheless.
The other Bob-omb was heading for Luigi, who decided to catch it. "Short fuse!" he yelled, and then threw it back at Mecha-Bowser, but it exploded in midair, doing no harm to anyone (except the Bob-omb, of course!).
Yoshi saw a large chunk of rock and swallowed it, making it into an egg. Yoshi immediately threw it at Mecha-Bowser's eyes, blinding Junior to the battle. In an attempt to fix it, Junior tried jamming every button and toggling every switch that he saw. In doing so, Mecha-Bowser fell into the lava moat that surrounded the castle.
"Whaaah!" Junior cried as he escaped
from the machine and into the lava. "I don't wanna take a bath!"
"You won't get away with this!" Sonic said as he swung his tail, knocking Mario to the ground.
Mario got back up, but he had dropped and lost track of the Chaos Emerald in his fall. Mario used FLUDD's Rocket Nozzle to deliver a devestating punch to Sonic, forcing him to relinquish his Raccoon power. Sonic was knocked down, and Mario used the time to retreat.
"I am glad to see you reconsidered," FLUDD said. "Our chances of victory are slim without the Chaos Emerald."
"I've got four more on me, we'll be fine," Mario whispered. "And we're not really retreating, we're trying to find those Shine Sprites, and some water. I've been here before, and there should be a lake that leads to an underwater maze. I should be able to lose him in there, as long as he doesn't swim as fast as he runs!"
"A questionable method, relying on luck," FLUDD pointed out. "However, I don't see any better options, so very well."
"Let's go, Chaos Control!" Mario shouted, now utilizinging the blue Chaos Emerald. (The only Emerald Robotnik had was the white Emerald, not that it mattered which one it was.)
Mario ran towards the lake, hoping that the Chaos Emerald would slow down time enough for him to get to the lake before Sonic, which it did, barely. Mario dove into the lake known in Super Mario World as Forest of Illusion 2, let FLUDD recharge, and used the Turbo Nozzle to navigate the underwater tunnels.
"It had to be water!" Sonic sighed. "I'll have to finish this later... No way that I'm going to follow him under there!"
Sonic ran off towards the castle, hoping
to be able to find his friends there.
Mario, Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles all reached the castle at the same time. Mario and Sonic headed straight for each other, until Knuckles dived into Sonic, knocking him to the ground. Tails did the same to Mario.
"What are you doing, Knuckles? Has Eggman tricked you again?" Sonic asked in a frenzy.
"Get off of me, you evil fox!" Mario shouted. "No one touches the hat!"
"Hold on!" Knuckles said. "I need to tell you something!"
The castle walls fell, revealing a giant metal egg. Everyone stared, wondering what the machine was.
"Gwarharhar!" Bowser laughed as the egg unfolded into something different. "You idiots have played right into our hands!"
"It was all too easy!" Eggman quoted Vader with a sinister smile.
"Still watching too many Star Wars movies, I see!" Sonic laughed. "What is it this time, another Death Egg?"
"Actually no, I decided to go with a new approach this time, basing this work of art on Bowser!" Robotnik continued to laugh.
When the robot was complete, it looked just like Giga-Bowser, except for the fact that it had Eggman's signature mustache on its face.
"What did you do to my beautiful face?" Bowser asked with a growl.
"Please, there's still plenty of room for improvement," Eggman argued. "Besides, now it has better balance and won't just tumble over like your Mecha-Bowser did!"
The six heroes all looked into each other's eyes and realized what had happened.
"You ready to do this?" Sonic asked.
"I'll go for the head," Mario said. "Can you take out his feet?"
"Um, maybe you guys should see this," Tails said as he pointed towards Egga-Bowser.
Eggman and Bowser continued to fight, and the machine seemed to be going haywire in the process, until it finally exploded.
The 135 remaining Power Stars and the single remaining Chaos Emerald were revealed as the power source for the robot.
"What just happened?" Tails asked.
"I'm not sure," said Sonic, "but I don't think that the Chaos Emeralds and the Power Stars can be together. You know, like that matter and anti-matter thing Tails and Eggman were arguing about that one time."
"I said that they would destroy each other, not everything around them," Tails said. "Just take the Chaos Emeralds and give him the Power Stars before Robotnik and Bowser get out of there!"
Mario and Sonic did as he said and shook hands. But as they did, the true masterminds behind this vile plan revealed themselves.
"Your end is near, Mario, and I must say, it's a pleasure to finally be back here in the Mushroom Kingdom after a decade!" Smithy said. "Because nothing would make me happier than to see your grave!"
"As for you, Sonic, you will share Mario's fate," said Metal Sonic, "and I can guarantee that it will be a bleak one!"
Chapter 10: The Final Battle
The night sky grew dark with clouds, and an eerie wind blew. Thunder and lightning began to roll and fate itself hung in the balance.
A bolt of lightning struck one of Tails's tails.
Mario held the Power Stars, and Sonic held the Chaos Emeralds. Bowser and Robotnik tried to sneak away, however, Knuckles, Luigi, Tails, and Yoshi surrounded them.
"Come on!" Bowser said. "I'm done causing trouble for the Mushroom Kingdom this week!"
"No way that we're letting you two try to conquer multiple universes, then get away!" Luigi said.
"It looks like you have your hands full," Eggman tried to divert their attention. "I doubt that Mario and Sonic will be able to stop Metal Sonic after weakening each other, much less Metal Sonic and one that he considers an equal!"
"Not this time, Eggman!" Tails said.
"Need some help?" Mario asked.
"We're fine!" Knuckles said.
Just concentrate on stopping those two! Yoshi grunted. "We be fine!"
"We need to stop Smithy here," Mario explained. "He's even more dangerous then Bowser!"
"Oh, just perfect!" Sonic said. "Well, it's only fair to warn you that Gramps is no easy beast to cage either!"
"Gramps?" Mario said with a confused face. "You mean that's your grandfather? But he's a..."
"Robot, I know," Sonic started. "My uncle created a machine that could replace injured limbs with robotic ones, if the wounds couldn't be healed. Before I was born, Robotnik stole it, and transformed countless helpless animals into evil robots of war. My grandfather tried to stop him for many years. I was named after him, and I can contribute all my knowledge of being a hero to him.
"However, one day, when he was with me..." Sonic started to cry. "It was my fault... Robotnik was attacking my grandfather, who was worried about protecting me... While Gramps was trying to shield me, Eggman stunned him with a laser, captured him, and used the roboticizer at full power. Eventually, Gramps betrayed Robotnik, but the darkness that Eggman put into him is still there.
"Ever since that day, I've been trying to find a way to reverse it, but even with Tails's help, I still don't have any leads as to how to go about reversing the effects of the roboticizer," Sonic explained. "But just because he's my grandfather, doesn't mean I'll let him get away with this!"
With the Power of the Stars, Mario transformed into Metal Mario! (Yes, the Power Stars have done that before, in Mario Party 2 to be exact!) Sonic took the Chaos Emeralds and transformed into a more heroic form as well: Super Sonic!
"Let's fly through with sonic speed!" yelled the gold glowing hedgehog.
"Here we go!" acknowledged the liquid metal plumber.
Smithy was using his first form; however, he and Metal Sonic were ready nonetheless. Metal Sonic wasted no time rushing in with his steel chainsaw spin attack, charging right at Sonic. Sonic moved so fast, he seemed to teleport behind Metal Sonic. Sonic tried a Light Attack on Metal Sonic, but missed completely.
"No way!" Sonic exclaimed. "No one's ever been able to dodge the Light Attack! Not even you can move fast enough!"
"Feeling a bit tired from your battles?" Metal Sonic taunted. "I've come to take what should have been mine long ago!"
Smithy, also seizing the first attack,
pounded his hammer and shouted, "Sword Rain!" With that, Smithy rapidly
forged metal blades and threw them in every direction. Mario had a hard
time dodging them all, and being in metal form didn't help when it came
to dodging them with his agility.
"Face it, Eggman!" Knuckles said. "It's the end of the line!"
"Not likely!" the mad scientist replied. "Behold, the final creation of my E-100 series, E-124 Alpha!"
"Koopalings!" Bowser shouted.
Six of Bowser's children lined up behind him. Ludwig and Junior weren't with them.
"Junior, would you like to play too?" Bowser asked in a playful voice.
"Sure thing, Papa!" Junior said as he climbed out of the lava. "I didn't want to go swimming anyway."
Alpha then appeared as he tore down two of the castle's four remaining towers.
"You can fly and carry people, right?" Luigi asked while looking at Tails.
"Normally yes, but I just got struck by lightning," he reminded Luigi. "Sorry."
"Yoshi, you got a blue shell with you?" Luigi asked.
Yoshi shook his head.
"Can you throw me up on top of that robot?" Luigi asked Knuckles.
"Throwing isn't exactly my specialty," Knuckles said. "Why do you need to get on top of him?"
"I can make the missiles explode. Just trust me, I don't have any time to explain," Luigi said.
"Let's just stop the bad guys," Tails said. "Let's not worry about doing anything fancy."
"Yoshi have idea," Yoshi said as he pointed to the Koopalings.
"Tails, I'm sorry, but you should sit this one out," Knuckles said. "You're only endangering yourself by fighting in your current condition."
"He may be right," Luigi agreed. "You could make the injury permanent!"
"Yoshi say me got plan," Yoshi restated.
"But I can't just let you fight them alone, then you'll be outnumbered three to one!" Tails argued.
"Better then you getting killed!" Knuckles shouted.
"I'll be fine!" Tails yelled back.
"ME GOT REALLY GOOD IDEA!!!" Yoshi shouted at the top of his lungs.
"No need to shout," Knuckles told him.
"Yeah, we're all right here," Luigi concurred.
"Just make Junior hide in shell," Yoshi said while pointing to Junior.
"No problem!" said Knuckles as he rushed towards the youngest of Bowser's children.
Roy jumped in front of Knuckles and said, "You're mine! No one gets to call themselves a punching machine without a challenge from me!"
"I never called myself that," Knuckles said.
"Oh really? Then explain your definition of the word 'knuckle' to me," Roy said.
"Lunch," Knuckles chuckled.
"Lunch? What'cha talkin' about, shrimp?" Roy asked in confusion.
"Allow me to show you!" Knuckles shouted as he delivered an uppercut to Roy's lower jaw.
"Ooof!" Roy grunted as he fell to the ground, and muttered one last sentence before he fainted. "Knuckle sandwiches are more fun to make then they are to eat."
Wendy charged towards Knuckles while spinning in her shell while his back was turned. Luigi saw that Knuckles was in trouble and quickly jumped on Wendy's shell. Wendy was pinned to the ground, and she screamed, "THAT'S NO WAY TO TREAT A LADY!!!"
Then, she pushed Luigi off and swiped her claw at him, giving him some minor cuts on his upper left arm. Luigi sharged up his Thunderhand and punched Wendy in her left arm, knocking her out cold from the shock. As she fell, Luigi taunted, "Well, that wasn't very lady-like."
"Why isn't Alpha firing?" Tails asked his friends.
"Hey, that's a good question," Luigi agreed. "It's not like Bowser would care about his children... Sometimes I feel sorry for them, having such a bad father."
Morton ran over to Luigi and said, "How dare you say that about Daddy King! He's the greatest, most wonderful, most amazing, best, most incred-"
"Shut up!" shouted all of his brothers that were concious.
"But then I see Morton, and realize that Bowser is the one suffering!" Luigi taunted.
"What did you say, exclaim, annonce, convey, utter, express verbal-"
"Shut up!" yelled everyone that was fighting.
Junior stepped forward with his magic paintbrush and shot some goop into his brother's mouth. "You want a slightly used idiot?" Junior asked everyone while holding up his older brother. "I'll give you a thousand coins to take him!"
Lemmy and Iggy attacked the seemingly helpless Tails, who was running away from the so-called "twins".
Mario saw the helpless fox and shouted,
"Miles! Catch!" He immediately threw FLUDD to Tails. Noticing Mario was
distracted, Smithy attacked swiftly with Sledge, one of his most powerful
attacks in his "normal" form. Mario didn't even know what hit him, and
it could have very well killed him if he wasn't in metal form at the time.
Though it injured him greatly, Mario shook it off and went straight at
Smithy, attempting to punch the heartless machine (no, I'm not talking
about the Tin Man). He connected, but Smithy was barely stunned by the
attack, only flinching from it. Smithy hammered at Mario repeatedly, knocking
Mario to the ground and driving him into the dirt. However, Mario had a
plan...
Sonic was having just as much trouble with his grandfather. Metal Sonic quickly grabbed Sonic, putting him in a painful grip.
"Impossible!" Sonic said. "How can you harm me while I'm in Super form?"
"You fool... Do you really think all that matters are the Chaos Emeralds and the Power Stars?" Metal Sonic asked. "The Master Emerald is all I need for now, and the Master Emerald I possess!"
"But you never even touched it!" Sonic said. "It's too big for you to hide!"
"Maybe you should see this, then!" Metal Sonic said as he threw aside his cape, revealing that he had welded broken shards of the Master Emerald into his metalic shell. "The Master Emerald shattered when it made the jump through dimensions, and I collected the shards! With it, not even you can stop me!"
"There's no way I'm leaving the Master Emerald in your hands!"
"You don't have a choice... CHAOS CONTROL!"
Sonic couldn't even see his grandfather,
he was moving way too fast to be caught by light, and was therefore invisible.
Sonic was taking hits from every direction , not getting a moment to recover
from the attacks of his unseen predator. For once, Sonic thought that he
actually might lose...
Tails jumped up and grabbed the waterpack known as the Flash Liquidizing Ultra Dousing Device and it strapped onto him while he was still running from Lemmy and Iggy.
"Now what?" Tails asked himself.
"I'll take care of those two!" said FLUDD as he squirted water in front of the two Koopalings. The two of them ran into each other.
"You can talk?" Tails asked.
"Affirmitive," FLUDD said, "as well as analyze situations, squirt water, allow you to temporarily hover in the air, allow you to keep up with your blue-furred friend, allow you to rocket up into the sky, and theroretically, shoot a laser made of water."
"Thanks," Tails said. "You saved my life back there!"
"I haven't saved you yet," FLUDD corrected. "Until the battle is over, the danger is still there. If I am not mistaken, you still have two Koopas and a giant robot to fight."
"You're right!" Tails said as he ran back to help the rest of the sidekicks.
Yoshi saw that Bowser was staying near Junior at all times, making it dificult for Yoshi to execute his plan. Luigi went after Bowser himself, jumping into the air, landing behind Bowser, and trying to grab the tyrant turtle by the tail as his brother had done so many times before. Bowser didn't allow it to be done so easily, as he quickly turned around and swiped his right claw at Luigi. Luigi ducked down to avoid the attack, and tried a sweeping kick to knock Bowser down. Bowser jumped back and both remained untouched by one another.
Junior took his paintbrush and shot a ball of goop into Luigi's eyes, blinding the plumber for the time being. Luigi blindly batted his fists around until he grabbed one of Junior's horns. Luigi then felt for the bib, tore it off, used it to wipe his eyes, and handed it back to Junior, who was furious at Luigi for ripping his bib. Junior inhaled, then tried to breath fire, but all that came out was smoke.
Luigi then charged up some electricity
and punched at Junior while he yelled, "Thunderhand!" One of Junior's teeth
were chipped, and he ran away crying.
Knuckles tried to climb on top of Alpha,
trying to figure out why the robot wasn't firing. He did so by climbing
one of the two remaining towers and gliding over to Alpha. He easily did
so, and saw a hatch that resembled that of a submarine hatch. He put both
hands firmly on the valve and tried to turn it. Immediately, a huge bolt
of electricity flowed through the hatch, and Knuckles was knocked to the
ground, paralyzed for the time being.
Yoshi saw Junior and attempted to ground pound him. However, Alpha fired his machine guns at Yoshi, hitting the dinosaur several times in the legs. Junior simply continued to run away from the battle, but Bowser stared at Yoshi and smile. Bowser inhaled, and opened his mouth...
Tails saw Yoshi in trouble, ran over to Bowser, and FLUDD sprayed water into Bowser's mouth, right as the flames were coming out. Though Yoshi could still feel the heat, the flames never actually touched him, thanks to FLUDD and Tails.
Bowser stepped towards the fox, and laughed maniacally. Then he growled and said, "You think your water gun can stop me? Oh, this is too rich! Ha! Oh, I'm so sacred, it- it- it's- WATER! Do I look like I'm made of sugar or something?" Bowser regained his composure and then swiped his claws at Tails, one after the other, each time forcing Tails to take a step backwards to avoid the blows. Eventually, Tails tripped over a rock, and fell ontop of FLUDD, damaging the water master.
Bowser grabbed Tails, laughed, and said, "All this fighting has made me really hungry, and you look good enough to eat!"
Bowser was about to swallow Tails whole when he felt a tug on his tail. He turned his head, but it was too late. Bowser dropped Tails, and was being spun around in circles. Luigi spun faster and faster, knowing that his target was going to be heavily armored. He kept on building up speed, until finally, he threw Bowser into Alpha, knocking the robot into the moat of lava. The hatch opened, and out climbed Robotnik and Ludwig. They ran away, as did the rest of the villians.
"We have to go after them!" Tails said.
Knuckles put his arm on his friend's shoulder, and struggled to say, "No, look, Mario and Sonic are in trouble. We have to help them."
Knuckles was still paralyzed for the
most part, and Yoshi clearly couldn't walk, so Luigi stepped into the conversation
and said, "You two wait here, you're in no condition to fight. We'll help
Mario and Sonic."
Mario was knee deep in the mud, and
now in position to execute his plan. He quickly performed a Mario Tornado,
flinging the dirt into Smithy's eyes, giving Mario a chance to attack.
Mario delivered a swift blow to Smithy's head before the monstrous machine
could get the dirt out of his eyes. Smithy then pounded his hammer on the
ground, and a shockwave of energy knocked Mario to the ground. Worst of
all, the Power Stars scattered, making Mario lose his metal form.
Sonic was still being hammered from every direction by Metal Sonic, and with the already near invisible speed of Metal Sonic being amplified by the Master Emerald, Sonic was running out of options. Sonic couldn't hold out any longer... he was knocked to the ground, hitting a rock. The Chaos Emeralds were scattered about, which returned Sonic to his usual self.
"You are weak!" shouted Metal Sonic.
"And the weak have no place in this, or any other world! CHAOS BLAST!"
Smithy stepped forward and raised his hammer for a final blow.
Before he swung, he had one thing left he wanted to say to Mario. "You see what has happened? Hope has failed, you have failed, light has failed! And now, evil shall rule!!!"
Smithy swung down at Mario, but the
hammer never reached its target; Luigi quickly jumped on top of Smithy
and sent a strong jolt of Thunderhand into him. Luigi jumped back, helped
his brother up, and prepared to fight Smithy, whom he had only heard of
in dread tales until that night...
The spikes all over Metal Sonic began to glow brightly, when suddenly, he was hit from behind with what felt like a bullet. It didn't penetrate his armor, but it left a dent in the forehead of the robotic hedgehog. Metal Sonic turned around and saw Tails standing there, with the new nozzle attatched to FLUDD.
"Back-up systems on-line," FLUDD stated. "Secondary power systems check completed, Bomber nozzle field test successful.
"You dare to challenge me?" the villain boasted. "Then you shall die along with my pathetic adversary!"
"Woah!" Sonic shouted. "You were able to stop him while he was using the Master Emerald?"
FLUDD responded, "Five-hundred thousand pounds per square inch of water preassure should be enough to stop just about anythink."
"Half a million PSI?!" Tails shouted. "How is that possible?"
"Hold that thought," Sonic said. "I
have a feeling Gramps isn't too interested in the details."
The Mario Bros. were a team once again, but that didn't even seem to scare Smithy in the least. As a matter of fact, he seemed to be smiling.
"The famed Mario Bros. of the Mushroom Kingdom! I must say, this is a treat!" Smithy laughed, then turned to Luigi and asked, "It's Luigi, isn't it?"
"Yahoo!" Luigi exclaimed in joy. "Someone actually knows me as something other then Mario's brother, or tall Mario, or green Mario, or..."
"It is a shame that you both must share the same fate," Smithy interrupted. "For I now have the one power from this universe that rivals that of the Power Stars!"
"What? Is there such a thing?" Luigi asked.
"Yes," Mario said calmly. "The Shine Sprites."
"Correct," Smithy confirmed. "And now, they are all mine!"
Smithy then swiped his hammer low at both of the Mario Bros. but the plumbers jumped backwards to dodge the attack, doing so with ease.
"Why don't you try on this for size, then?" Smithy asked as he did his Spear Rain attack, rapidly forging tridents and quickly throwing them up in the air. One of them hit Mario in the left arm, pinning him to the ground.
"Get the Power Stars!" Mario told Luigi
while pointing over to the large circle they had landed in. "They're our
only hope!"
"Tails, use that water missile to shatter the shards of the Master Emerald," Sonic started. "If he's missing even a small piece of it, it'll be completely useless to him!"
"Affirmitive," said FLUDD. "However, it is called the Bomber Nozzle, not the water missile."
"Chaos Blast!" Metal Sonic shouted as he shot directly at FLUDD, making a direct hit and badly injuring Tails in the process.
"S-s-syst-t-t-tem f-f-failu-u-u-ure," FLUDD said weakly. "Aux-auxillary-ry-ry p-p-p-power s-s-source de-deplete-ed."
FLUDD shut down, as Metal Sonic turned to Sonic and laughed.
"Did you really think it would be that easy?" he asked. "Did you really think that you could defeat me with such a pathetic weapon?"
"I don't know what to say," Sonic said as he tried to sound as convincing as possible, "but maybe I've finally lost."
"You finally realize it. Now, give me the Chaos Emeralds if you wish to live."
Sonic picked them up, turned to Metal
Sonic, and then handed them out to him. As Metal Sonic reached out to grab
them, Sonic snatched his hand away and ran off towards Mario and Luigi.
Luigi was having trouble dodging all of the tridents that were now focused on him, and they kept coming even faster. But that didn't stop him from gathering up all the Power Stars, as well as some cuts and bruises. When he had them all, he returned to Mario.
"Now what?" Luigi asked.
Sonic appeared out of a blur and pulled the trident out of Mario's arm.
"YEEEOWWIEEE!!!" Mario cried in pain. "You never pull out an item that deep into the skin unless a you're a professional doctor!"
"Um, Bro," Luigi laughed. "Why didn't you just pull it out yourself, then?"
Then, one last trident fell and pinned Luigi's right leg into the ground. Luigi handed the Power Stars to Mario.
Smithy and Metal Sonic were standing in the same spot, awaiting the heroes.
Mario turned to Sonic and said, "Neither of us can do this alone."
"Agreed," Sonic said. "We do this together!"
Then, the Power Stars and the Chaos Emeralds flew up and spun around. Then, a blinding light appeared, and when the light had died down, the two sources of power had merged into one: the Chaos Stars!
"What just happened?" Sonic asked. "I thought that the Power Stars and the Chaos Emeralds couldn't even be near each other, and now they've combined? What's going on here?"
"We can ask questions later," Mario said. "For now, we've got two universes to save!"
Then, the seven Chaos Stars glowed brighlty, and transformed the two heroes into their ultimate forms: Star Mario and Hyper Sonic.
"You ready to do this?" Mario asked.
"Whenever you are!" Sonic agreed as they both ran over to the evil being.
Without saying anything, Mario ran towards Metal Sonic, swiping at his legs. Metal Sonic quickly flew up to dodge the attack. Sonic followed him, using a Light Attack to knock the metallic hedgehog back to the ground.
Smithy used Arrow Rain, hitting Mario
countless times, but doing nothing to the plumber. The arrows simply bounced
off of him. Mario got right next to Smithy, and Smithy pounded Mario directly
on his head with his hammer. The attack left a huge dent... in the hammer!
Mario grabbed Smithy by the feet, and threw him into Metal Sonic. Sonic,
in turn, ripped out the shards of the Master Emerald. Mario took the Shine
Sprites from Smithy, and then the two heroes rushed off to tend to their
wounded friends.
Epilogue: Goodbyes
Toadstool and Amy were found both locked up in one of the remaining towers. After everyone got back, Gadd insisted on showing everyone his newest invention immediately.
"Behold, the time manipulator, the thing that will get Sonic and his friends home, the Coronos Gateway!" Gadd shouted in glee as he unveiled what looked like a normal doorway, except round.
"Does it work?" Sonic asked.
"Yes, but we need the Power Stars," Gadd explained. "Mario, if you would, please."
"Sure thing," the plumber said as he placed the Power Stars in a slot. While they were waiting for the machine to start up, they heard Knuckles chanting.
"The servers are the seven Chaos," he recited the first line. "Chaos is power, power is enriched by the heart. The controller is the one that unifies the Chaos."
The shards of the Master Emerald glowed brightly as they merged together.
"That should just about wrap things up!" Knuckles said.
"Thanks for everthing, guys, it's been real!" Sonic said as he was the first to step through the portal.
"Sonic! Wait for me! You never even proposed!" Amy said as she ran off to catch him.
"Some things never change," Knuckles shrugged.
"I'd still like to know how you got that water pump to let out half a million PSI," Tails said to Gadd. "But we've damaged the time-space continuum by being here, so I'll have to find out some other time."
"I'm glad that's over," Luigi said.
"Although I must say, it was fun... but don't think you're going to drag
me into another adventure any time soon!"
"Is the IDMET ready yet?" Bowser asked Eggman.
"Yes, now prepare to see the proper way to construct a fortress of doom," Robotnik laughed. "To Mobiüs!"
The two of them ran through a portal
similar to that of Gadd's but for the form of energy used to transport
Sonic and his frineds.
"Just as predicted, that leaves one more defeat before our victory, correct?" Metal Sonic asked.
"Yes, just as we were told, Bowser and Robotnik have escaped into Mobiüs," Smithy said. "We'll have to follow them soon."
"Yes, in a few weeks' time, we'll finally be ready to commence phase two of our plan," Metal Sonic agreed, and then thought to himself, And with the Coronus engine and the IDMET combined, even you will bow before me, fool!
The End?
Hello everyone! It's me again, MarioFanaticXV. Let me just explain to you what I'm planning for the sequel, Mario Vs. Sonic: Mobiüs Mania!
· The first appearance (at least
storyline wise) of Boo, James Boo, a spy for... I'm not at liberty to reveal
that information at this time.
· An exciting first chapter:
Bowser Vs. Robotnik!
· Interdimensional battles galore
including Mario Vs. Shadow and Sonic Vs. Wario!
· Continuation of the mysteries
of the Chaos Stars, and maybe even some answers... maybe.
· Mario and Sonic teaming up.
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