Introduction
Hello, and welcome to my second installment of the Mario Vs. Sonic series: Mobiüs Mania! I thank you for reading this, and welcome you to jump right into the story, but let me warn you: if you haven't read the first book, I've included a brief recap, but I strongly suggest you read the whole thing. If you wish to read it, travel over to Lemmy's Land, go to Lemmy's Fun Fiction, click on the hyperlink for M, and look under the author MarioFanaticXV (my screenname). The full title of the first book is Mario Vs. Sonic: Mushroom Kingdom Madness.
Special thanks to:
· Dad- For letting me use his
computer
· Lemmy Koopa- Crowned prince
of the web, visit his castle at Lemmy's Land!
· Mom- For reading through my
stories
· Shigeru Miyamoto- Creator
of the Mario, Donkey Kong, and Zelda series, as well as a major contributor
to the Pikmin, Metroid, and Pokémon series
· Yuji Naka- Creator of the
Sonic
Prologue: Mushroom Kingdom Madness
After Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Eggman, Amy, and a few of Robotnik's inventions were sucked into the Mushroom Kingdom by a wormhole, Eggman and Bowser met and made an alliance.
They quickly made a plan to get rid of the heroes. Bowser told Sonic that Mario was evil, and Robotnik told Mario the same of Sonic. After discussing everything, Mario and Sonic left to search for each other, as well as the Power Stars and the Chaos Emeralds.
The Mario Bros. soon met Sonic and Knuckles, and the four of them got into a quick fight. Sonic and Knukcles were forced to retreat, and prepare for a later battle.
Yoshi, after getting back from vacation, found Gadd tied up in his lab being interrogated by a robotic Yoshi about a machine called an IDMET. Although Roboshi was forced into a retreat, it was the last anyone has seen of him so far. He also left behind a Chaos Emerald.
After getting into a fight with Grodus, Tails was able to find a Power Star, before Sonic and Knuckles met up with him.
Mario fought with Jinx, and found the rest of the Chaos Emeralds. Then Yoshi arrived with a letter for Mario from Bowser. After reading it, the Mario Bros. and Yoshi prepared for battle.
Sonic and his friends went to Monstrotown, and on the way, found Robo-Sonic, who accidently led the three of them to the remaining Power Stars. Afterwards, they proceeded to Monstrotown.
Mario and Sonic agreed to fight one on one, until Sonic noticed that something was wrong with the Chaos Emeralds. After the fight, the three heroes of Mobiüs split up to search for the Master Emerald, believing it to be nearby.
As Luigi and Yoshi went to fight off Bowser, Mario and Sonic fought a third time. They were interrupted by Knuckles and Tails trying to break up the fight, after Knuckles figured out what was going on. Before he could explain, however, Bowser and Robotnik revealed their ultimate weapon, Robo-Giga Bowser, which revealed everything to the heroes. Giga Bowser exploded when the two of them tried to start the machine. Then, the true evil masterminds appeared: Smithy and Metal Sonic.
Smithy used the Shine Sprites and Metal Sonic used the Master Emerald to fight Mario and Sonic in a fierce battle, until both heroes were badly injured, and all hope seemed loss. Then, the Chaos Emeralds and the Power Stars combined, and gave the two heroes the help they needed to vanquish the evil... for the time being.
Bowser and Robotnik escaped into Mobiüs using a machine that was powered by the IDMET, which Robotnik created.
Sonic, Knuckles, Tails, and Amy got
back to Mobiüs with the help of Gadd's newest invention, the Coronos
Gateway, which used the Power Stars to send them home.
Where are Smithy and Metal Sonic now?
Are there any clues I hid in the first book that looked like nothing more
then mere dialogue that really reveals an important twist in the plot?
Just what is the IDMET capable of? And what about the Coronos Engine? How
did Metal Sonic and Smithy meet and form an alliance? Was anyone else sucked
into the Mushroom Kingdom via the wormhole? I can't reveal everything in
this story, and if I do this as planned, it'll actually raise more questions
about the final book then it will answer! Of course, my final book will
clear everything up, although this will answer at least a few questions...
Chapter 1: Bowser vs. Robotnik
It was mid-day in a huge factory, without anyone that could be seen anywhere around. The factory was building robots of all kinds, all with two things in common: they were all made to destroy Sonic, and they all were powered by small helpless animals that anyone's little sister would hug to death if given the chance. There could have been as many as one hundred manufacturing lines in that building, and still not a single operator in sight. Then, as if out of the blue, a blue swirling ring appeared, and a picture seemed to form inside of it.
At first, the picture looked like a whirlpool, then it became clearer, and colors became distinct, until finally, it showed the ruins of Bowser's castle, with Eggman pointing towards the factory. No sound came from the strange picture, but Bowser came running through it, until he and the Koopalings were all inside of the factory. Robotnik soon followed.
Bowser growled as he looked at Eggman, then said, "Okay, start explaining! What was that thing, what are these things, and where are we?"
"That is a rip in the time-space continuum, allowing us to teleport to any point in space in any dimension," Robotnik said, "and this is one of my many factories, which has been building up my army ever since it was first built, which was only a few weeks before I got sucked into the Mushroom Kingdom. You are in the Labyrinth Aquaducts of Mobiüs. Did you understand all of that, or was it too much for your inferior mind?"
"Look who's talking! In case you forgot, it was your plan that failed, not mine!" Bowser snarled. "This whole thing is your fault!"
"I warned you!" Robotnik laughed. "It wouldn't be wise to anger me!"
"And what are you going to do? Invent us to death?" Bowser mocked.
"Who said I was going to do anything?" Robotnik said as he laughed even louder. "I have thousands of robots waiting to be activated, and I'm getting another every ten seconds!"
"Not for long!" Bowser shouted. "Koopalings! Destroy everything in sight!"
Bowser lunged for Robotnik with his
claw, only to destroy a Catakiller that blocked the attack. Ludwig was
sabatoging the maufacturing lines, trying to slow down the robots. Lemmy,
Iggy, and Larry all went after some robots that looked like a rhino's head
with a wheel where the neck should be, and no body at all. The three of
them were pretty much even against the swarm, most of them giving a minor
scratch or two to one of the Koopalings before they destroyed it. Morton
was going after what he considered to be the biggest threat, piranha bots.
Since they weren't in water, they simply remained offline, making them
easy prey for Morton and keeping him out of the way of the rest of his
family. Wendy and Roy fought off the Catakillers (the only "normal" robot
from the Sonic series that I can ever remember the actual name of! By normal,
I mean a generic bad guy, like Goomba or Bob-omb, but not a specific character
like Goombario or King Bob-omb), flying catapillars with flames wherever
a centipede would have legs.
Back at the ruins of Bowser's Castle, Smithy and Metal Sonic were scavenging around.
"How do we know that we haven't already changed things?" Smithy asked. "And besides, we never did ask when Robotnik was supposed to create the Coronos Engine."
"I've a feeling that the Coronos Engine isn't to be created by Eggman at all," Metal Sonic said. "Didn't Roboshi say that the manipulation of mass wasn't in Gadd's expertise?"
"So you're saying that Eggman created the IDMET and Gadd created the Coronos?" Smithy asked. "Why would Gadd create something so dangerous, but not Robotnik?"
"Robotnik had a limited amount of materials, and there's a reason that Gadd needs to manipulate time instead of space," Metal Sonic said. "He wishes to return the time-space continuum to its full integrity; that requires him to send them back to the exact moment they left."
"Only one way to find out," Smithy said as he entered the only remaining tower of Bowser's castle.
There it stood, the teleporter, powered by the might of the IDMET. Metal Sonic carefully shut the machine down, knowing that it manipulated the time-space continuum. Metal Sonic then took the IDMET, and destroyed the rest of the machine.
"Perfect, we have the first piece of the puzzle," Metal Sonic laughed, "and those fools don't even know it exists!"
"Now it is time for us to return to
Mobiüs," said Smithy. "Let's find Exor so we can get out of here!"
The battles fought all seemed pretty even, until a rhino robot popped Lemmy's ball. Iggy and Larry stepped back, and even Ludwig feared the rage in his eyes. Lemmy went into a fighting frenzy, mindlessly clawing at anything that moved, tearing apart hundreds of robots a minute, and he did so for about five minutes, until he fainted from exhaustion. Robotnik's army was already decimated, however, and there weren't any robots close enough to protect him.
"Now, be reasonable," Robotnik said meekly. "You wouldn't hit a man with glasses, would you?"
"Those are glasses?" Bowser said. "I always thought they were goggles!"
"Does this mean you're not going to hit me?" Robotnik asked.
"I would never hit a guy with glasses." Bowser laughed.
Bowser took a deep breath in, and then
prepared to let out a burst of his fire breath. All of a sudden, the portal
they had come through started to close, which puzzled Bowser and the Koopalings
because the portal could only be operated from the other side. In the confusion,
Robotnik managed to get away, but now he was without an army, and the IDMET
was stuck in the Mushroom Kingdom.
Chapter 2: The Name is Boo, James Boo
It was a nice sunny day out. Sonic, Knuckles, and Tails were all relaxing by one of the several lakes around Green Hill after the long adventure they'd just had.
"Half a million PSI!" Tails said as he paced back and forth. "I can't even make a machine to do one percent of that! Can you guys believe that? Five hundred thousand pounds per square inch of water pressure!"
"We get the picture..." Sonic said as he was laying down under a tree. "I'm trying to relax here, and besides, I'm not one who knows much about making machines."
"Give it a rest, Tails," Knuckles said as he practiced his punching technique. "That professor guy looked a lot older then you; he's probably just had a lot more experience."
"Half a million PSIs worth of experience?" Tails asked. "How in the world does he fit that in such a small machine?"
"Let it go, Tails." Knuckles laughed. "It isn't like we really need to use it or anything."
"Oh Sonic!" said a girl from afar. "Are you here, Sonic?"
"Oh great!" Sonic sighed. "Can't I ever get a break from her?"
Amy came out of the woods and ran towards Sonic. "There you are, my darling Sonic!" Amy said. "Didn't you hear me asking you to wait for me?"
"I think everyone on Mobiüs heard that." Sonic laughed as he got back up. "And if there's one thing I don't do, it's wait! See ya later everyone!"
With that, Sonic ran off, with Amy chasing
him as always...
Back at the Pipe House, Mario and Luigi were enjoying breakfast. They had the table set for guests, Peach and Toadsworth to be exact. There was a unique meal consisting of a beverage and an omelette for each of them. At Mario's seat was an omelette that had every ingredient found in lasagna, plus eggs, of course. Luigi's was similar, but he had Swiss cheese in his. Toadsworth's omelette was much more traditional, having cheese, bacon, and sausages in it. Peach's omelette was pretty much plain, with the exception of it having cheese in it. As for the drinks, Mario had some orange juice, Luigi had milk, Toadsworth had coffee, and Toadstool had a Pianta Punch, a special mix of fruit from Delfino Island. The doorbell rang, and Mario ran to greet Princess Toadstool. He opened the door, and to his disappointment, it was Prof. E. Gadd.
"Salutations, Mario! Having a good morning?" Gadd smiled. "I need to talk to Luigi, is he in?"
"Yeah, go right on ahead," Mario said. "He should be in the living room. And a good morning to you, too."
"Thank you," Gadd said as he pulled a large bag through with him.
Luigi quickly flipped the channel on the TV when he heard someone coming in. When he saw it wasn't the princess, he changed it back to his show.
"Good morning, Luigi, anything good on TV?" Gadd asked.
"Just don't tell anyone, but I'm watching Star Quest," Luigi said.
"You're a Questy?" Gadd laughed. "Don't worry, I don't care about that kind of stuff, just don't go talking to me in some language they made just for the show."
"Okay, and don't tell Mario you know. He's upset enough about me being a Questy, and doesn't want the princess to find out." Luigi laughed nervously.
"Don't worry about it," Gadd said. "Besides, maybe you'll like these glasses then, they'll help with ghost hunting."
Gadd pulled out a weird pair of glasses that, other then being tinted red, looked normal.
"And what do they do?" Luigi asked.
"Just put them on, and I'll guide you from there," Gadd said.
Luigi put them on, and everything seemed normal.
"Now, focus on something and wink your right eye," Gadd said.
Luigi looked at the TV and did as Gadd said. When he did so, the glasses displayed some information about the television, such as the manufacturer, the copyright, the number of channels it got, and lots of other information about it.
"So does it work on ghosts?" Luigi asked.
"Just wink your left eye to switch to ghost viewing mode; they won't be able to hide even if they're invisible!" Gadd said.
"Okay, but there aren't any ghosts he- GHOST!" Luigi shouted as he winked his left eye.
"Don't worry, Luigi!" said Bow as she appeared. "You don't know me, but I helped out your brother on an adventure once."
"Join the club," Gadd laughed. "I think Luigi here is president of it."
"Bow!" Luigi said.
"Yes, what is it?" Bow asked.
"Okay, yep, my brother has told me about you," Luigi said.
Bow looked at the TV and laughed. "You're a Questy!" Bow said as she laughed. "Oh, I can't believe the brother of the great Super Mario is a Questy!"
"Would you please keep it down?" Luigi said. "Mario doesn't want anyone to know that I watch it."
"Too late for that," Mario sighed. "Watching your show again, I see."
"Well, here's the Poltergust 3000. Yu don't need a recap, do you?" Gadd asked.
"I remember how to use it," Luigi said nervously. "Why do you ask?"
"Because those no good Boos that give all of us peaceful Boos a bad name are attacking again!" Bow shouted. "Sometimes I wish that they were alive so I could..."
"Lady Bow, please, that is very unbecoming of one such as yourself," said Bootler as he flew through a wall. "Although I must concur, they do give us a bad name."
"Where are they attacking?" Mario asked.
"The castle, and they have a new leader with them," Gadd explained. "We don't know much of anything about him. We do, however, know that he is from Mobiüs, and as such, he needs to be put back into his own dimension, as to restore the integrity of the space-time continuum."
"I thought you said I wouldn't have to fight any ghosts!" Luigi said.
"That adventure of yours was over last night," Gadd said.
"Luigi, come on, I'm going too," Mario said.
"What do you mean 'too'?" Luigi asked. "You can handle Boos."
"But not the Poltergust, and how else are we supposed to carry this ghost until we can put him back into Mobiüs?" Mario said.
"Fine, I'll go," Luigi sighed. "Let's
do this."
Later that night, Tails was having trouble sleeping. He still couldn't get FLUDD's new nozzle off his mind. They were still by the lake, when Tails thought he saw something in the distance coming from the sky. He flew up towards it. After flying a few miles, he could see that it was headed for the Oil Ocean.
"This dream again?" Tails asked himself. "This should be when that sword comes down and sinks into the ocean."
Just as Tails had guessed, a giant sword with a face came down and sank into the Oil Ocean.
"That's it, no more sugar before bed
for me," Tails said as he flew back over to the lake.
Mario and Luigi went into the castle, and saw some Boos flying around in the foyer. All the lights in the castle seemed to be off.
"Hey, is that the ghost killer?" one of the Boos asked. "He looks like he fits the description."
"Yeah right, there's no way he's that Luigi guy, he's shaking in his boots!" said another. "He probably thinks he can fool us by dressing up like Luigi."
"How stupid does he think we are?" asked the first Boo. "That nobody in red probably stands more of a chance against us then that Luigi wannabe!"
"Luigi, are you going to let them mock you like that?" Mario asked.
"Actually, yes," Luigi said as he tried to leave out the front door.
Mario grabbed him by the back of his shirt, and said, "Come on, tell me one evil being that's been able to stop us when we're together? Come on! We're the Super Mario Bros!"
"Wait, what did he just say?" asked a third Boo.
"Don't be so gullible," said the second Boo. "Everyone knows the Mario Bros. are humans and that one wears a red cap with an M on it, and a green cap with an L is on the other one's head."
"These must be the ones that are brain dead," Mario joked. "Ready to show them what we do to evil Boos?"
Luigi got out the Poltergust 3000 and started sucking two of them up. Mario snuck up behind a third and punched it into the ground. There were four others that realized that the plumbers really were the Mario Bros. and decided to get out of there while they still could.
"Where to next?" Luigi asked over the Gameboy Horror.
"The princess' bedroom," Gadd explained. "We have information that the ghost is in there."
They went inside to see a large ghost with a rainbow-colored tongue.
"Hello, and welcome the last moments of your life," said a Boo who was wearing a tuxedo with a red bow tie. "My name is James, and this is my superior, King Boomboo. Where he came from, he's the king of ghosts! And, so long as King Boo isn't here, I don't think anyone is going to argue with him."
"And why doesn't he tell us this himself?" Mario asked.
"He can't speak," James said. "For now, I bid you farewell, my fellow gentlemen; I'm going to make sure the princess is comfy."
James flew out of the rec room and into the princess' main bedroom.
"Get back here!" Mario shouted as he tried the doorknob to Peach's room. "Locked! Why is it that whenever a door is of any importance, it's locked?"
King Boomboo laughed, and then sank into the ground.
"I wonder, can these things see through walls?" Luigi asked as he put on the Poltergaze and winked his left eye. "Hey, he didn't go into the room below us! He turned into a shadow!"
"Great, we're in a dark room with no lights on, and he's a shadow," Mario said. "Try seeing if you can suck him up while he's like that."
Luigi tried to, and although it pulled him out of the ground, King Boomboo didn't bend to fit into the Poltergust like ghosts from his dimension did.
"Mario, I think we have a problem!" Luigi said as King Boomboo broke the Poltergust.
"I've got him!" Mario said as he tried to punch the ghost from behind.
King Boomboo quickly turned around and spit out an ectoplasmic fireball. Mario was knocked down by the attack and had to roll to put out the fire.
"I'm surprised that works with ectoplasmic energy," Luigi said.
"We've got bigger problems right now!" Mario said.
"No you don't!" said a voice as King Boomboo was caught in a glowing net. "Another mission well done. Thanks for distracting him while I got the information."
"Who's there?" Mario asked.
"Just come into the princess' room and I'll explain," said the voice. "I've unlocked it."
The two of them wnet inside to find Peach sitting on her couch and greeting James.
"It's good to see you, Peach," James said as he kissed her hand. "I've found the information that you needed."
"Give me that Poltergust, Luigi!" Mario. "This ghost is mine!"
"It's broke, and don't get envious!" Luigi said. "It's proper for a gentleman to kiss a lady's hand in greeting her."
"I never let anyone kiss me but Peach, and here she's letting this Boo slobber on her hand!" Mario said.
"I'm sorry for the misunderstanding, my good man," James laughed, "but I'm not really interested in her like that. I do that to all the ladies, your brother is correct in his reasoning of etiquette."
"Sure, and I'll bet that you're just smooth-talking to be nice as well," Mario said.
"Please, I'm four hundred years old, I'm old enough to be her great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandfather!" James said. "Let's try this again. Greetings, the name is Boo, James Boo."
"Mine is Mario," Mario sighed,."So what information did you find out?"
"Well, according to the Boos that saw the battle, Bowser and Robotnik did escape into Mobiüs," James said. "They made a machine called an IDMET, which seemed to concern the professor."
"So that was an IDMET that I was picking up with the satelite!" Gadd said. "But that means things are worse then I thought."
"What do you mean?" Luigi asked.
"The IDMET's signal is very powerful, impossible to hide," Gadd explained. "But before the Boos attacked the castle, the signal disappeared. The only way something like that could disappear is if it went into another dimension."
"Why couldn't it have just broke?" Luigi asked.
"Because then there would be a sudden burst of energy that would have created another black hole," Gadd said. "I still don't understand much about it, but it's almost as dangerous as the Coronos Engine would be in the wrong hands!"
"So Eggman and Bowser took it with them, right?" Luigi asked.
"That's what I'm afraid of," Gadd said. "And even worse, Smithy and Metal Sonic were spotted near Vista Hill."
"Please don't say we're going after them," Luigi groaned.
"We can't. If it was just one of them, we'd be fine," Mario said, "but we can't take on both of them. We're going to have to get Sonic to help us again."
"So it's settled then!" Gadd said. "I'll prepare the Coronos Gateway for you! You'll go to Mobiüs, find Sonic, help him stop Bowser and Robotnik, retrieve the IDMET, capture Bowser and bring him back into this dimension, bring Sonic and his friends with you to stop Smithy and Metal Sonic, and send Metal Sonic back to Mobiüs!"
"You say it as though it's easy," Luigi said.
"If you'll excuse me, gentlemen, I'm afraid I can't blow my cover, so farewell, everyone!" James said, then screamed. "The plumbers are too strong! King Boomboo has fallen! Retreat!"
"Just one thing," Luigi said. "If you're at our house, how are you supposed to have the gate ready for us if we're already at the castle?"
"Good point, I'll have the gateway prepared
for you by the time lunch is over!" Gadd said. "Eat up, you're going to
need your energy!"
"Where you been, Tails?" Sonic asked as Tails landed from the trees.
"Been? What do you mean?" Tails asked. "I've been asleep this whole time. I had a weird dream again."
"You sure?" Sonic asked. "I don't remember you being a sleepwalker, or a sleepflyer for that matter."
"Wait, did I head off in the direction of the Oil Ocean?" Tails asked.
"I only saw you get back, I didn't see you leave," Sonic explained. "Besides, you know I'm not good with directions. We've been so many places, I can barely remember being here at Green Hill!"
"Yeah right, you could never forget this one!" Tails said. "Everyone knows about what happened here!"
"Yeah, my first step towards becoming a hero." Sonic sighed. "Robotnik didn't believe it when he saw me. The only other time he had seen me before that was when he took Gramps."
"Did he recognize you?" Tails asked.
"No, but he did know that I was trying to be like my grandfather," Sonic said as he rubbed his eye. "I'm sorry, this place has dust flying everywhere."
"I just wish we knew where your uncle kept the blueprints," Tails said. "If I could see how the roboticizer was designed, even if it was only the version before Robotnik stole it, I could probably make a machine to reverse the effects."
"I've told you before, I don't think he made blueprints." Sonic sighed. "He kept everything in his head."
"There you are, Sonic!" said Amy. "Oh look! You're waiting for me to watch the sunrise with you!"
"Actually, sunrise isn't for another five hours." Tails yawned. "I'm going back to sleep, good night."
"Well, that leaves us alone, Sonic," Amy said as gleefully. "What do you want to do now? Are you finally going to take me on a date?"
"Wait a bit," Sonic said to himself. "Ten, nine, eight, seven..."
"Why are you counting down, Sonic?" Amy asked.
"Three, two, one, zero!" Sonic said.
Amy had fallen asleep when Sonic looked back up.
Right on schedule! Now I can get
some rest, Sonic thought to himself as he quietly stepped away from
her.
Mario, Luigi, Peach, and Toadsworth all gathered in Gadd's lab, awaiting for him to explain how the Coronos Gateway worked.
"Good, everyone is here!" Gadd said. "As you all know, this is the Coronos Gateway."
"Why is it named after a titan?" Luigi asked.
"A what?" Peach said.
"Coronos is a titan, from the Greek myths," Luigi said. "He was the titan of the sky before his son Zeus dethroned him."
"But there is something else he was the titan of, can you remember what?" Gadd asked Luigi.
"Does it matter?" Mario asked. "We should do this as quickly as possible."
"He was also the titan that dethroned his father, Uranus," Luigi explained. "Oh, wait, I know what you mean, he was also the titan of... wait a minute, you're not trying to tell us that the Coronos Gateway is a... well, never mind."
"Go ahead, say it," Gadd said.
"You can't be serious!" Luigi shouted.
"That's impossible! Are you trying to say that this thing is a time machine?"
Chapter 3: Father of Zeus
"Percisely," Gadd said, "and you all surely know just how dangerous that makes this thing, right?"
"Dangerous! Is that all you have to say?" Luigi said. "I think I speak for everyone when I say that we'd rather fight a hundred monsters with Smithy's strength before messing with the time stream!"
"Messing with the time stream is the only way to fix it." Gadd sighed. "As much as I hated to create my greatest acheivement, I had no choice."
"What do you mean you had no choice?" Toadsworth asked frantically. "Next time you want to threaten us all, do something less dangerous, like creating a nuclear missile!"
"I agree, it is more dangerous then anything I ever imagined I'd ever make." Gadd sighed again. "But in order to fix the space-time continuum, I had to send everyone back to the exact moment they got eaten by the wormhole."
"So do we need the Power Stars?" Mario asked.
"No, that was a one time thing," Gadd explained. "It can produce more energy then it takes in. The Power Stars were simply needed to give it its first bit of power, as it still needed to have energy to create more."
"So you'll destroy it after we fix everything, right?" Mario asked.
Gadd gave them a worried look, then sighed and said, "I wish it was that simple, but once a time machine is created, it can't be destroyed without destroying the dimension it's in. So as much as I wish I could, no."
"We'll worry about that later," Peach said. "Mario, I'm going with you."
"What? You could get trapped in that dimension, captured by Bowser, held hostage by some strange criminal from Mobiüs; just about anything could happen!"
"You know very well that I can defend myself, you remember how well I did in the second Smash Bros. tournament!" Toadstool said. "I may not have made it into the final eight, but I did win one of my two fights in my division."
"Who was in your division again?" Luigi asked.
"Link, who made it to the final eight, not to mention the finals, and the one that lost to me was Samus," Peach said. "And there's no way you're convincing me she was a weak opponent."
"You do have a point," Mario said. "It's quite rare that someone fights Samus and emerges victorious."
"I must say, I hated watching that match," Toadsworth said. "It was very unbecoming of you to fight just for the fun of it, and Miss Aran was quite brutal towards you in that match."
"The point is, I can protect myself, and besides, I almost never get to go with Mario on his adventures," Peach said. "Please, Mario, it would mean so much to me."
"Okay, but bring the frying pan," Mario said. "Luigi, are you ready?"
"Yeah, let's go," Luigi sighed.
A time machine? Wario thought to himself as he watched from outside a window high above the basement. This could make me rich! I'll be making millions, no, I'll be making so much money, they'll have to make a new number for it! I'll go back in time, and I'll give myself some investment tips! I can't lose!
Mario went throught the gate first, Peach second, and Luigi followed. Wario ran into the lab as fast as he could, and stared at the Coronos Gateway.
"What are you doing here?" Gadd asked. "You aren't welcome here!"
"Fine then, I think I'll just show myself out!" Wario said as he punched Elvin in the face, knocking the professor unconscious.
"If you want the princess, you'll have to go through me first!" Toadsworth said. "I'm warning you, I've got a black belt!"
Wario laughed and ignored Toadsworth as he stepped through the gateway.
"I do have a black belt, it's just not
the type they use in martial arts." Toadsworth sighed. "How do I always
manage to let the princess down? I guess I'd better make sure Professor
Gadd isn't injured."
"Daddy King!" Ludwig said, "I zink I've found somezing important!"
"It better be!" Bowser growled. "You're interrupting my sleep!"
"Well, it's more of a someone zen a somezing," Ludwig explained, "vut it seems zat ze doctor has left somezing of great importance vehind. If you would just follow me, I zink you will find it most intriguing."
Ludwig led Bowser down into a basement. Inside it was a large, strange capsule, and a control panel next to it. Although they couldn't see through the capsule's window, a familiar figure seemed to be inside.
"Doesn't zat silhoute look familiar, Fazer?" Ludwig asked. "If I didn't know any vetter, I'd say zat it was zat rodent zat is from zis universe!"
"You're right!" Bowser said. "Let's open it!"
"Well, it will take me some time to figure out what ze controls do," Ludwig said, "but I zould ve able to hack into it soon."
"I'll teach you a better way to hack into something!" Bowser laughed.
Bowser lifted up his claws and started hacking at the capsule with them. When he broke the glass, the figure inside started to move. It punched the glass, and jumped out of the capsule. It was Shadow the Hedgehog, a black hedgehog with red markings who is the exact same size as Sonic.
"Which one of you two released me?" Shadow asked.
Oh great! Whenever someone asks something like that, they always want revenge for their sleep being interrupted! Bowser thought to himself, then pointed to Ludwig and said, "He did it!"
Shadow walked up to Ludwig, nodded at him, and said, "Thank you for freeing me. To repay you, you are my master until I fulfill one request for you."
"Well, zere is somezing I've always wanted..." Ludwig smiled.
Then, Bowser held out his index finger and moved it across his neck as a signal to Ludiwg.
"Good point," Ludwig sighed. "On the other hand, I do know a pest that needs to be taken care of. His name is Mario, he's a plumber. I want you to obliterate him."
"Is that all, just a simple assasination?" Shadow laughed. "Are you really going to waste your request on a simple sewage maintainance engineer?"
"Mario isn't a sewage maintainance engineer," Bowser said, "he's a plumber."
Ludwig laughed, which he knew he was about to pay dearly for. "Zey're ze same zing, Fazer!"
"That's it! First of all, it's not father, it's Daddy King! And second of all, I'm not a clown!" Bowser yelled, then spit out a quick fireball at Ludwig.
"I'm sorry Daddy King!" Ludwig said. "You're right, it wasn't funny!"
Shadow started to go after Bowser until Ludwig asked him to stop.
"You see," Ludwig said, "he is my master, just as I am yours, understand?"
"Simple enough, I beg your forgiveness," Shadow said as he turned to Bowser. "Are you sure you want me to destroy a simple plumber? I could do something much more valuable for you."
"Trust me, there is nothing I want more," Bowser said.
"Zat means yes," Ludwig said.
Mario appeared in the Mystic Cavern, a huge cave full of traps that Robotnik had set for Sonic. In a few seconds, Peach appeared behind Mario, and then Luigi.
"I think it's a cave," Mario said. "I see light that way."
"Well, I guess that's a good place to start, then," Peach said. "Lead the way!"
"Whatever happened to ladies first?" Luigi asked.
"I don't have any idea where we're going," Peach explained.
"Neither does Mario," Luigi reminded her. "None of us have ever been here before."
Mario signalled for them to follow him as he walked toward the light. He tripped over a rock, and started to fall into a pit. Luigi caught him before he fell down, and pulled him back up. All three of them looked down the hole and saw that it was filled with spikes.
"Thanks, Bro," Mario said. "I don't want to know what would've happened if you didn't catch me there."
"How many times have you two saved each other?" Peach asked. "It has to be a pretty high number, right?"
"We lost count a long time ago," Mario said. "We're probably even anyways. Just goes to show that there's safety in numbers."
They carefully jumped over the hole, and proceeded outside of the cave. What they saw amazed them: a huge city, which looked like one giant factory.
"Wow!" Peach said. "I guess we'd better start asking around!"
"That thing has to be at least a mile high!" Mario said. "If that thing has as many people as it looks like it does, then there has to be someone there who know where Sonic is, right?"
"Excuse me, but are you new here?" asked a ram-like person. "No one ever knows where Sonic is, he's always on the move! He may be a great hero, but no one can keep track of him."
"Could you tell us where we are?" Luigi asked.
"Megatropolis, largest city on all of Mobiüs!" the ram said. "What planet are you from?"
"Is space travel common in this dimension?" Luigi asked.
These guys are nuts, they think I actually thought they're from a different planet! I'd better get away from these crackpots fast! the ram thought, then said, "Er, yes, quite common, I'm from the moon. Well, I've got to go, I'm about to miss my flight back home!" With that, the ram ran off.
"Let's start looking around," Mario
sighed.
"Where am I?" asked Wario as he appeared in the cave. "Is this what the castle used to look like?"
"Who are you?" asked Eggman as he was traveling through the cave. "Why are you in my hideout?"
"The name is Wario! And I'm trying to find myself now that I'm in the past. Can you tell me what year this is?" Wario asked.
"Wait a minute, you're from the Mushroom Kingdom!" Robotnik said as held a remote and looked at Wario. "You're one of Mario's friends, aren't you?"
"Mario? The pathetic plumber? Yeah right!" Wario laughed. "I wouldn't help him for the world!"
"Well then, would you destroy one of his friends if it meant ruling the world?" Eggman asked.
"Depends, what's in it for me?" Wario asked. "My services don't come cheap!"
"Money is no object," Eggman said.
"Then count me in!" Wario said. "Tell me, who am I supposed to smash to a pulp?"
"His name is Sonic," Robotnik explained, "and I don't even want a pulp to be left of him when you're done, is that understood?"
"Sounds like my kind of job!" Wario laughed. "You got it, Boss!"
