Tails picked it up and it said "Come to Station Square Stadium at noon for a baseball game..."
"Hmm, kind of short notice..." Tails said, "I mean, Im kind of busy picking out new... AHHHH!!!!"
Tails fell to the ground and woke back up quickly.
"Must play baseball..."
Sonic woke up one early morning and headed out into the city. It was a nice sunny day, when he saw a sight that surprised him. Knuckles out in the city on an early morning. Normally the red echnidna was still sleeping or guarding the master emerald.
"Knuckles! Whats up?" Sonic said, about to give him a high five but Knuckles appeared to be in some sort of trance.
"Hi Sonic..." he said "Playing baseball today? You must play baseball with us..."
"Baseball? I didnt know we were playing baseball..." Sonic said.
"Yes... you must come..." Knuckles said, sounding zombiefied "Play baseball at Station Square Stadium... 12 o clock..."
"Wow, he's acting weird" Sonic said, turning around suddenly to bump into Tails "Oh hey Tails, maybe you can tell me why Knuckles is acting so weird..."
"Baseball game..." Tails said, also sounding zombiefied. Just then Cream and Amy crawled out of the woodworks as well, sounding hypnotized too.
"What the heck is going on?" Sonic asked.
Just then, there was a loud announcement over PA speakers.
"The game between the Sega and Nintendo All-Stars is starting in 30 minutes...tickets are available at the front gate of the Station Square stadium..."
"Nintendo All-Stars?!" Sonic gasped "I shouldve known the Mario Bros. were responsible for this somehow!"
"Mama mia..." Mario said, hobbling onto the scene suddenly, sounding a bit zombiefied himself "You guys are-a going down!!"
"NEVER!!" Knuckles shouted, suddenly lunging at Mario, overcome with anger. The others held him back, all the while glaring at the rival Nintendo team.
The team included Mario, Luigi, Toad, Peach, DK, Diddy Kong, Birdo, Yoshi, Wario and Waluigi who all looked at the SEGA team with a smile on their face, seeming confident that they could win.
"You wont beat us, you jerks" Cream said defensively.
"We're a-gonna win!!" Wario sneered, stomping around wildly.
"Just you wait until the game starts, suga!" Rouge said, appearing from nowhere "We're gonna kick some butt!"
The Nintendo all-stars walked off making assorted noises and laughs. The Sega gang, except Sonic, who still had some sanity left, glared after them.
"There's just one problem..." Amy said "We're going to need a pitcher, a good pitcher..."
"Right, can anyone here pitch?" Tails asked.
"Well... I pitched a little in high school..." Sonic said.
"Ah... then YOURE the pitcher!!" Tails said nodding excitedly. Everyone else gave their agreement.
"We're gonna kick some Mario butt!!" Knuckles yelled, putting his hand into a huddle. The rest of them did the same. Sonic was confused but the prospect of kicking Mario's butt was an offer he couldnt refuse so he joined in the cheer.
"GO SEGA!!"
Station Square Stadium
The Nintendo/Sega all-stars take the field on a bright and sunny afternoon on Station Square stadium. The teams are configured as follows:
Nintendo All-Stars:
Pitcher: Mario 1st Baseman: Yoshi 2nd baseman: Birdo Shortstop: Luigi 3rd baseman: Diddy Kong Catcher: Wario Left Fielder: Donkey Kong Center Fielder: Peach Right Fielder: Waluigi
Reserves: Toad SEGA All-Stars
Pitcher: Sonic 1st Baseman: Shadow 2nd baseman: Tails Shortstop: Amy 3rd baseman: Knuckles Catcher: Ericka Left Fielder: Big the cat Center Fielder: Rouge Right fielder: E-102 Gamma
"Where did Big the cat and Gamma come from?" Sonic said, while throwing warm-up tosses. "Didn't Gamma die at the end of Sonic Adventure?"
"Why do we even bother asking things anymore?" Tails said, as he and the rest of the infielders threw around the diamond.
"You guys are a-wasting your time!" Mario laughed, hitting his boots with his bat. "My team is BETTAH! MUUUCH bettah"
"We'll see about that..." Sonic muttered as he gripped the baseball behind his back.
Mario looked at Sonic and nodded to him, signaling he was ready.
"Show-a me what ya got!!" he snickered
"Hit this, you fat idiot!" Sonic yelled and threw a 95 MPH fastball. Mario swung furiously and spun himself into a tornado before falling to the ground from dizziness, having missed the ball by quite a bit.
"Mama mia..." he said, his eyes still spinning from the swing and miss. Sonic laughed as he watched him writh with pain. Mario promptly got up after some time and glared at Sonic. Sonic threw a curveball and Mario pounded it into the ground.
Mario then looked down at the ground, dropped his bat and ran
"I will make it by way of my incredible speed!!" Mario thought to himself, having seen the shortstop field the ball already. "There's no way I'll be out! No way... Im too fast..."
OUT!
"But...but... Im almost there!!" Mario shrieked.
"You're about 10 feet from 1st..." Shadow sighed.
"Yeah, I even rolled the ball to him and got you in plenty of time" Amy said, shrugging.
Mario grumbled as he went back to the dugout.
Sonic then focused on his next batter who was Yoshi. He threw him a pitch that was high but Yoshi floated up into the skies for a few seconds and pounded the ball into center field for a hit. Sonic just watched in disbelief as Yoshi made his way to first on the base hit.
"He... he can't do that..." Sonic said.
"Technically he can" Tails said, having fielded the ball with his Tails. "Anything's legal in video game related baseball... or any sport for that matter..."
"Crap!" Sonic thought. "Guess I'll have to mix up my pitch location then..."
But it wouldnt be that easy, following Birdo slapping a hit into left field with her tail, Donkey Kong, the big hitter on the team took to the batter's box without a bat.
"Wait, how's he going to hit?" Sonic asked, baffled.
DK grunted and punched his fists together.
"Oh thats great, the gorilla's gonna PUNCH the ball..." Sonic sighed and wound up for the pitch. He threw a fastball but DK was faster and punched it. He punched it so hard however it disintegrated into dust.
All the characters stared at each other for several seconds with confusion and weird mario themed grunting noises until Yoshi said quietly... "Home run?"
"Home run!!" Birdo said and they all ran the bases.
Sonic was yelling at them the whole time but they kept going. After that he went on to say how you cant disintegrate a baseball and that you can't not use a bat but according to the stupid rules, it was all legal.
Next up, Wario stepped to the plate.
"HEH HEH!! Im a gonna win!!"
"Is that all you say?!" Sonic asked.
"IM A GONNA WIN!!" he yelled again.
Sonic wound up and threw the pitch. Wario slammed a line drive towards second base. Tails went into flight mode and grabbed it for an out.
"Nice catch Tails!" Sonic said.
"Im a gonna win..." Wario said dissapointed and walked off.
After another out (Knuckles punched the ball to pieces which apparently is an out), Sonic's team batted.
"Okay then..." Sonic chuckled "If we can play by any rules, then let's do it!"
Mario threw a change up and Sonic put his bat in front of him, bunting the ball down the line. He then did a spin dash down the line to get to first in a split second.
"Hey!!" Mario screamed, picking up the ball to realize Sonic was on first already "Thats-a cheap!"
"No, THATS a Cheep!" Sonic said, pointing into the stands to where a Cheep-Cheep fish was sitting watching the game "And you're the cheap team here, Im just using my speed!"
Mario got annoyed when he realized Sonic was right and Tails came up to bat next. He hit a ground ball to the short stop. Sonic ran fast enough to avoid the double play but the short stop threw a short pass to first. The ball wouldnt have made it to first except Yoshi used his tongue to eat the ball.
"Out!" Yoshi said.
"Thats not an out! You cant catch a ball in your mouth!" Tails yelled.
"Yoshi can!" Yoshi smiled, sticking out his tongue with the ball resting on it.
"Ew, thats gross..." Tails groaned and walked back to the dugout.
Shadow was up next and smirked as Mario threw the pitch. He swung and hit the ball into center field. Instead of running however, Shadow said "CHAOS CONTROL!!" and teleported himself around the bases for an inside the park homerun.
"Thats 1 run for us!" Shadow smirked and walked back to the dugout. Sonic laughed uproariously at the sight.
"EEER!!" Mario growled and started jumping up and down. Just then, something profound happened. Fire starting forming in the Italian plumbers eyes, but also a fire formed within his palms and the baseball began transforming into a rotating sphere of flame.
"Huh?" Sonic asked, startled.
"You a-go, Mario!" Luigi shouted, smiling.
Amy stepped up to bat next with a hammer instead of a bat.
Mario wound up and chucked a fireball, literally. The ball was flaming as it reached the plate. Amy ducked out of the way but the catcher, Wario got his hand scorched, dropped the ball and proceeded to run around in circles in foul territory, the ball still rolling to the wall and still on fire.
"Thats a wild pitch!" Tails shouted from the dugout.
"Heh, youre right!" Sonic said and ran all the way around the bases for a run. Noone could throw him out because the ball was too hot to touch from being ignited.
"Thats it!" Luigi said to Mario "We switch the positions, you can no longer pitch!"
"What was that?!" Mario screeched, showing Luigi that his hand was still on fire.
"On second thought, you pitch!" Luigi said nervously, slipping back to his position.
Sonic's team wouldn't score for the rest of the inning and after 1 inning of the faceoff, the score was 3-2 in favor of Mario's team.
The game went on like this for several innings. Then came a crucial moment in the 5th inning. With Sonic's team still down 3-2 in the fifth inning and the bases loaded with 2 outs, tails came up and blooped a single into center field. Sonic tried to score on it because Peach had a weak arm but Yoshi snatched the cut-off throw with his tongue and hurled a bullet to home plate.
"Out!!" Wario laughed, but when he dropped the ball it cracked into pieces.
"This isnt a ball!" Sonic shouted "Its an egg!! You cant throw me out with an egg!!"
It was then everyone realized, Yoshi had eaten the ball and thrown one of his eggs to home plate. Noone knew what the rule was for that but Sonic and Mario started getting into it.
"Eh...go back to the dugout..." Wario said.
Sonic started walking back, muttering profanities at Wario. Suddenly Wario slammed his glove in Sonic's face and the 2 tangled with each other. Players from both sides got into a brawl. Sonic kept screaming and slashing at Wario who kept saying "I'm a gonna win" and Knuckles body slammed birdo into the ground. Luigi and Tails exchanged blows and Peach and Amy went all out in a cat fight for the ages.
"Upon further review of the play..." Toadsworth said, coming from nowhere "Anything is legal in Mario/Sonic baseball, BUT the baseball must somehow get to home plate to make an out, and a baseball did not make it to home plate."
Then Yoshi coughed up the baseball and it rolled onto home plate.
"And now it did, 3 outs!" Toadsworth exclaimed, closing the rule book.
"Wait, you little retard!!" Sonic shouted, picking up the stumpy Toadsworth "I touched home plate about 10 minutes ago! I was safe!"
"Uh... but upon further review..." the nervous toadsworth said "Sonic was safe, Sega team scores a run!!"
It was an ugly situation. Toadsworth had to have 10 stitches put in and DK was ejected. I still dont see why he had to shove a bannana up Toadworth's...
"Hey, lets TRY to keep the rating at G for once!" Tails exclaimed.
Fine.
The score was 3-3 going in the 7th inning but Sonic still couldnt help but notice that both teams seemed zombiefied. Its like all they had on their minds was baseball. In the 7th inning, Sonic got into a jam with the bases loaded and 1 out. Tails came to the mound and said "maybe I should pitch, youve had a good night so far"
"Im doing fine!" Sonic exclaimed, "Just field your position, I can handle it"
"HEY! I was fielding fine!! If you weren't HANGING curveballs, we wouldnt be in this mess, would we?!" Tails shouted.
"Geez. Calm down" Sonic sighed, "Fine, you want to pitch? Have fun... Im sitting out"
Sonic gave Tails the ball and went to the dugout. After Gamma shot a ball out of the air for an out, Sonic decided to head downstairs to the locker room for a second. Maybe he would cool down but he was angry at how seriously everyone was taking this game, like something was really at stake.
"There's a lot at stake here" Sonic could hear a voice laughing. A deep booming laugh.
"Yes, indeed there is..." another voice exclaimed.
Sonic tried to find the source of the voices but was only able to make out 2 shadowy figures from hidden behind a locker. He recognized them well enough however. It was...
BOWSER AND DR. ROBOTNIK!!
"So do you think your team has a chance?!" Bowser chuckled. The 2 were watching the whole game on a TV hidden in the locker room.
"Ha, but of course" Robotnik laughed "It's not even close, as much as I hate them all, they're much better baseball players than your gang of slobs, or should I say MY gang after my team beats them?"
"Huh?" Sonic asked.
"You wish" Bowser laughed "Wario may be a bumbling idiot but he hits for power, you'll see, and yknow that Amy Rose is a cute girl, I'll quite enjoy her if I win..."
"I was just thinking the same thing about Peach..." Robotnik chuckled.
So this was all a ruse, Sonic thought. For some reason Robotnik and Bowser were pitting everyone against one another in a game of baseball, but why? And what were the stakes?
"So..." Bowser continued "If I win, I get control over ALL your characters to do my bidding"
"And if I win," Robotnik said "I get control over all YOUR characters to do my bidding, including that hottie, Princess Peach"
"I get it now..." Sonic whispered "Theyve brain washed us.. well them... Im still thinking fairly clearly, although the thought of Robotnik doing things with Princess Peach has kind of grossed me out...I've got to tell them"
Nintendo's team scored a run on a bloop single by Yoshi to take the lead 4-3 and the game went on to the 8th inning, when Sonic tried to tell everyone in the dugout what was going on.
"You guys!" Sonic exclaimed "This game is a scheme by Robotnik and Bowser...! Its a trick"
"Baseball is not a trick" Tails said in his zombie voice "But we will win"
"We will give them a beating they will not forget!!" Knuckles yelled.
"Gee, that sounds like fun" Cream said.
"Ugh... fine" Sonic sighed, putting a helmet on "If we're gonna go along with this, then I'm game"
Knuckles led off the inning with Mario throwing fire... literally. Wario wore steel gloves so he wouldnt burn himself again but Mario had it dialed in and had been pitching lights out since the first inning. He threw a few hard pitches towards Knuckles and the count was 1-2. He signaled to Wario and then chucked another pitch. Knuckles slammed it as hard as he could and the Sonic gang all got up from the dugout to watch it fly. TIE GAME!
The gang erupted in a fit of excitement as Knuckles rounded the bases after his homerun.
The Sonic gang got a couple runners on when Amy decided to try a risky suicide squeeze bunt. The runner, Sonic wouldve been safe if Diddy Kong hadn't theown a banana peel down the third base line. Sonic slipped halfway to home plate and was eventually thrown out.
"Hey you stupid ape!" Sonic shouted, flailing at Diddy Kong who laughed and danced about.
"Cmon Sonic..." Amy sighed, dragging him off the field "We dont need you getting ejected at this stage in the game"
So it all came down to the ninth inning with the score tied 4-4 and Shadow on the mound now. As it turned out, he could use chaos control on the ball while it was midway to home plate and make it change location at the last minute, something that made striking out batters a breeze, but Luigi surprised everyone when he put a bunt down that rolled along the third base line. He ended up being safe at first but Shadow picked him off the bag by teleporting the ball into Tails hand. Luigi sighed and walked off. The top of the ninth had ended.
It was the bottom of the ninth and it was a classic duel. Sonic vs. Mario.
Mario supercharged the ball in his hand and whipped a fastball at Sonic, almost hitting him. Sonic glared back at Mario as he prepared another pitch. Mario pumped another fastball but this one sailed too high and was ball one. On the benches, both teams watched in anticipation. Everyone could feel the intensity of this at bat.
Mario wound up again and threw a ball in the dirt. It was 2-1. Then he threw a curveball that confused Sonic who swung after it. Wario chuckled as he threw the ball back to Mario. The count was 2-2. Mario threw a super fast ball that was surely going to be strike three so Sonic did all he could and chopped it foul. Mario tried another fast pitch and Sonic chopped this one foul as well, then glared back at Mario. Mario nodded at Wario and threw a splitter but it went into the dirt and Sonic wouldnt chase. It was 3-2 in what had been an epic at-bat between Mario and Sonic. Sonic sliced a couple more pitches foul before Mario wound up once more and tossed a pitch that was 104 MPH. Sonic revved up and swung the bat, then instantly leapt out of the batter's box, filled with euphoria as he watched the ball going going... GONE!!
Sonic rounded the bases as Mario's team slumped off the field. He had done it. Fireworks exploded around the stadium as the crowd erupted into a massive chant of "SONIC! SONIC! SONIC!" The entire SEGA team mobbed Sonic at home plate, and the SEGA ALL-Stars had won 5-4. After the chaos subsided, Sonic found Mario and shook his hand.
"Hey good game, man" Sonic said.
Just then, dark storm clouds filled the stadium. Everyone turned up to the skies and looked to see 2 massive dark forms approaching. It was Bowser in his Koopa Kopter and Robotnik in the Egg-O-Matic. Finally, the trance was lifted because the baseball game had ended but then Sonic remembered the terms of the bet. The Mario team was now property of Robotnik.
"Whats-a going on?" Mario yelled.
"Looks like you win..." Bowser sighed, looking to Robotnik.
"Indeed... and later tonight with princess peach..." Robotnik started.
"G-RATING!" Tails yelled again.
"Okay, fine"
"You cant take them, Robotnik!" Sonic said, with a bat and ball in his hand.
"And what are you gonna do hedgehog?" Robotnik asked.
"THIS!" Sonic said "PLAY BALL!"
Sonic threw the ball into the air and Knuckles smashed it into the center of Robotnik's ship, sending him spiraling towards the stands. Yoshi threw a barrage of eggs at Bowsers ship creating all kinds of small dents in it.
"Ugh..." Robotnik sighed "Im not finished yet! I believe there's still the matter of the entire Mario gang belonging to ME!!"
Robotnik fired a net over them all and scooped them into his ship. Sonic ran along the stands and smashed face first into Robotnik's ship, causing it to explode. Robotnik went flying into Bowser's ship which flew into the scoreboard. Sonic got the Mario gang out of their nets while watching Robotnik and Bowser's replay of the crash on the jumbo-tron.
"Heh, looks like they were the ones to light up the scoreboard" Sonic laughed.
"LAME!" everyone yelled.
"Ugh...anyway..." Sonic sighed, "You guys want to have a friendly game of baseball?"
"YEAH!"
"Im a gonna win!" Wario exclaimed.
"THAT DOES IT!!" Sonic screams, running after Wario with a ton of bats.
"IM A GONNA WIIIIIIIIN!!" Wario yelled while running away from the furious hedgehog.
Cream came over to Tails place one afternoon after school to find him in the backyard.
"Hey Cream" Tails said casually "Did I ever show you my newwest pet, Freddie?"
"Freddie?" Cream asked curiously.
"Yeah, Freddie the fly" Tails explained, and showed Cream a hideous horsefly with bulging green eyes.
"Ew!!" Cream gasped, and backed away.
"Hey, watch where you step!" Tails said, quick to move a shoebox away from Cream's foot, "thats my bug collection down there"
"Uh...bug collection?" Cream asked, frightened at the idea.
"Yeah, ya wanna see?" Tails asked, opening a shoe box up.
"Nooo way!" Cream screamed, pushing the shoe box away "I dont want to see some tiny icky bugs"
"Hey yknow, bugs are people too... well actually no... theyre bugs..." Tails stated, "but they're living beings and deserve our respect as much as any other living things"
"Ick, I dont want to respect bugs... I'll see ya later" Cream cried and ran off, disgusted at the sight of all those bugs. She hated bugs. They were tiny, annoying, icky and sometimes harmful. She wanted nothing to do with them.
That night, she had trouble sleeping and... well, we all saw it coming, no need to dramatize it... Cream woke up the next morning, having been turned into a bug. A small, disgusting horsefly with 2 big bulgy green eyes.
Cream opened her new eyes and immediately noticed a difference.
"Wha?" she thought to herself, no longer being able to talk but only making little buzzy noises "What's happened to me?"
Cream tried to get up and walk but ended up floating instead. Upon further effort, she managed to fly and was able to see her new self in the mirror.
"Oh nooooo!!" she screamed in her head "Im a fly! A mangy, tiny fly!!"
Cream was scared and didn't know what to do, so she decided to find a friend of hers. Tails! Of course! Tails would understand... after all, he was a bug fanatic.
Cream took a while to learn how to fly though and had to learn how to steer in order to avoid hitting things as she slowly worked her way downstairs and out of her open window.
She wobbled every which way once she got outside, quickly finding herself to be a victim of the wind. It was at that moment, she saw Rouge roller blading down the sidewalk. She tried to fly up beside the giant batgirl but ended up swerving so that she was aligned with her eye. Her now giant eye.
"EW! A fly!" Rouge screamed and swatted the bug away with her hand. Her hand felt like a giant fan blade, just tossing the tiny Cream aside like nothing. Cream was insulted and hurt as she tumbled helplessly with no particular direction in mind. She finally regained control of her puny wings that were now slightly clipped from the impact and avoided running into a thorn bush. She ended up coasting towards a window sill.
"Whew!" Cream thought, going slower now that she had made it inside. It wasn't her house though, although it looked familiar. Just then she heard a voice that made her ears rumble.
"EEEEEK!!" she shouted and slapped at Cream with a giant fly swatter. It was Amy Rose! Cream had been swatted into the house of her normally best friend but now exterminator.
"Get out of my house, you nasty bug!" Amy shouted and attempted many times to knock Cream out of the air with a plastic fly swatter, coming closer each time.
Cream was weak from her last hit and was failing to fly so well. She stopped to land on the counter, and then took off again in time to avoid Amy's attacks.
"Amy! No!" Cream shouted, but it only came out as an angry buzz, which only upset Amy further "Please! Dont kill me! Its me Cream!"
Cream flew again but was none too stable as even Amy's misses were affecting her, for the great force of the wind displacement controlled her feeble body to enough of an extent that she had been forced to land many times.
"Oh my god..." Cream thought, flying for her life time and time again "This is so exhauting... this must be how flies feel when you chase them around..."
"DIE YOU STUPID BUG!!" Amy screamed and slapped at the counter really hard, just missing Cream. The proceeding shockwave however caused Cream to forcefully land on Amy's carpet, where she found it harder to get up.
"I have you now, bug" Amy smiled. Cream looked up in fear, knowing that if she couldnt' get her wings to work soon, it could be the end for her. Luckily for her she managed to slip under Amy's couch and away from her giant foot.
She heard the sound of Amy stomp away and thought she had avoided the worst of it. Just then she heard Amy's thunderous voice again.
"Okay, bug, you wanna play?" Amy laughed.
Just then the wind picked up around Cream and a Dirt Devil was turned in. She heard the high pitched whirring and felt as if she were in a tornado as Amy attempted to vaccum her up. Cream tried to fly but the longer she struggled, the more damage her frail wings would take. She finally managed to get out of range of the small vacuum but her wings were worn down so much she could barely fly.
She just barely made it out of the pet door of Amy's house... wait, Amy had a pet...? Cream looked back to see an angry cat chasing after her.
"Oh geez..." Cream thought. If she had been her usual self right now she wouldve cried. She hated being a bug... everyone wanted to kill her... and was more than big enough to do so...!
After escaping Amy's cat, Cream managed to find safety, but still didn't feel safe, being so tiny and vulnerable with barely any wings. Just then, she saw something beautiful. It was a giant buzzing blue lamp hanging from a porch roof.
"Its beautiful..." Cream stammered, hovering towards the glowing, pulsating light in front of her "I must touch it..."
"No!" Tails shouted and pulled the tiny Cream away from the light "You dont want to do that, little buggie"
"TAILS!!" Cream cried in her mind, but it just came out as more buzzing "Thank god... you can help me...! You CAN help me, right?"
Tails just kept staring at the fly in his hand. "C'mon, new bug, you're gonna be part of my collection..."
"What? No!" Cream shouted "Tails, Im not a bug! Please... believe me!"
All her words were simply buzzes as Tails dragged the tiny fly away. She couldnt even fly anymore and so was powerless as Tails put her into a shoe box with other bugs.
"Tails no!!" she screamed "Im not a bug!! Help me, please!! PLEASE!!"
"Cream? Cream? Wake up!" Tails shouted.
Cream woke up and saw Tails was still a giant but her setting was different.
"What happened?" Cream asked, relieved that she could talk again.
"Hey, dont worry, you were just having a dream, you weren't turned into a fly" Tails explained.
"Oh good... but then..." cream asked, still afraid "Why are you so much bigger than me?"
"Well you weren't turned into a fly..." Tails said "But you were turned into an ant"
"WHAT!?" Cream gasped "But then why is it I can talk?"
"I gave you a serum that lets you talk" Tails said "I thought it would be cool to have a talking ant, but had no idea it was really you, Cream"
"Can you change me back?" Cream asked.
"I'm not sure how, honestly, and besides you're much cooler as an ant" Tails said, showing her the ant farm she was in.
"No... Tails please!" Cream gasped.
"Don't worry Cream I'll take good care of you" Tails said.
Shadow was off to the mall one fine Friday evening when he happened to be passing by EB Games. He went inside and saw that the GameCube had finally been marked down--again, to 79.99! It was a dream come true for the electronic loving hedgehog who had wanted a GameCube but didn't feel like spending 99.99. Now he could buy the system and probably even afford a game as Super Smash Bros Melee had been marked down to 19.99.
So that night, Shadow unloaded the new hardware onto his living room table. It looked simply enough, a platinum colored cube was his system with the usual hookups for a home console and a control that looked like a spaceship or something with 2 handles and oversized buttons. He popped open the case for SSBM to find a disk smaller than his own hand. He took the mini disc out and popped it smoothly into the cube.
He then, sat back and turned on the power to begin his first game of SSBM.
"Wow" he thought, soon after starting his first duel with DK, "these graphics are pretty good"
And thus, Shadow became entranced by the mindless violence and the wide variety of Nintendo all stars with which he could pummel, blast, jump and spin his way to ultimate victory.
Unfortunately he had yet to find a warrior worthy of entering the fray with him. A warrior that could continually withstand the heat of battle. In other words, Shadow could never find a character with enough speed, yet still some power to smash his foes. He couldnt find that one character out of the 25 available that he would select on a regular basis, and then he found him...
Upon playing through Adventure mode as Samus Aran, Shadow came face to face with a character possesing blonde hair and wearing mainly green garb with a somewhat silly looking hat but enough agility and power to convince Shadow that his chararacter of choosing would be forever more... LINK!
And thus, Shadow spent the next long while adapting to the style of playing as Link and conquering anyone who dared to challenge him. Soon enough, Shadow became further obsessed with Link as he continued to beat everyone he faced almost every time... then one night, it happened
When Shadow was really tired and the clock tolled midnight, Shadow felt himself drifting off... literally moving off the ground. His eyes suddenly blinked open as he realized he was lifting up and being dragged towards his television screen. He reached out for something to hold onto, something... so that he could resist the pull as it got stronger but there was nothing to save him as the pixels devoured him.
What seemed like hours later, Shadow awoke and saw that he was in a strange new land, but a very familiar one. Surrounding him was water all around and he looked into the distance to see a small village far away. He then heard a loud crush and looked behind him to see a shining sword had pierced the stones.
"LINK!" he said, amazed to see the mere video game character in full reality standing before him. "Hey...whats up?"
The character simply stared at Shadow, a hint of anger and frustrated notable in his eyes as he drew his sword out of the stone yet again and now pointed the edge at Shadow.
"Whoa!" Shadow said, jumping away from Link's sword "Whats the big idea?"
"You think you can control me!" Link shouted, now smashing his sword through the rock, just missing Shadow.
"What are you talking about?" Shadow asked.
"ON and OFF! Continously playing this game... controlling me all the time...well now YOURE in the game and now NOONE tells me what to do and I dont need any button combos to tell me to do this!" Link said. He then jumped into the air and spun around, slashing Shadow across the chest with his sword.
Shadow got onto his feet and glared at Link. It would appear he would have to fight the ultimate SSBM warrior to escape the game.
Shadow balled himself up and smashed into Link. Link recoiled in pain and fell into the water for a second but quickly leapt out to regain his footing. Link then formed a bomb and his hand and whipped it at Shadow who jumped over it and threatened to smack Link.
Unfortunately Shadow didn't count on Link forming a bubble around him for a temporary sheild. Link is bounced back a bit but strikes back with a strong sword slashing manuever that knocks Shadow onto the back of a turtle. Link charges again towards Shadow who knows what to do this time.
He rears back and jumps forward as Link plows his sword into the ground. Then he thrashes Link with his homing attack and knocks him forward and into the screen...no wait, through it!
Link himself, now lands in Shadows house, hit so hard he was knocked out of his own world and into Shadow's. Shadow in the meantime, THINKS he's safe as he sits atop a turtle in Termina Bay, pondering just how he could escape the region of Hyrule.
Just then the screen changed and he noticed Link was outside now, chuckling as he held a remote.
"I'll make sure you never threaten me again!" Link said.
"What are you gonna do to me?" Shadow asked, suddenly realizing he was trapped within a square all his own. He had become sealed inside the character select screen.
"Im gonna turn you into ANOTHER character!" Link said deviously "A character that WONT be a threat to me...like PEACH!"
"WHAT? NOOOoooooooo!"
Shadow gasped as his form changed and he was zapped out of the game. The TV suddenly shorted and Shadow was stuck as Princess Peach. Link in the meantime was never able to return to the game and ran off.
"Well, this sucks" Shadow said, in peach's voice, now a female with a pink dress on and blonde hair. "At least it can't get much worse..."
Just then Mario and Luigi busted into Shadow's house.
"We're here to safe you Princess!" Luigi said "WOOOOAH!"
Luigi trips and falls on the ground, Mario trips over him and breaks a lamp. Shadow sighs and walks off. "Oh well" she thought, "Maybe if I buy Sonic Adventure 2 battle I can become my old self..."