In the fields surrounding toad town Mario and Luigi were taking Princess Peach on a picnic. The arrived near an oak tree and began setting out their food.
Mario walked off to a lake a few meters away and saw a greenish glow beneath the water.
"Luigi!" he yelled.
"What's up Bro?" asked Luigi.
"That glow beneath the water" said Mario "I think I've seen it before."
"I think we better check it out" said Luigi.
The bros quickly donned their frog suits and began to swim down towards the glow.
There was a black warp pipe at the bottom of the lake and the green glow was shining from it.
"That's it" said Mario
They swam closer to it then they began to be pulled closer to it. Mario strained his legs to stop himself being pulled in but to no avail. He was dragged down into the depths of the pipe.
"MARIO!" shouted Luigi.
He gave up trying to swim away and began to swim towards the pipe. As he entered we was enveloped by the green glow and had to close his eyes against the bright light.
When he awoke he was lying in the shallows of a crystal clear lake palm trees either side of him and green grass stretching out in all directions. Mario was no where in sight.
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Sonic was loving the straight out speed run he was doing of Green Hill zone he was doing. The wind in his quills was one of the many things he loved about running, the speed the power the… BEEEEEP, a long sharp sound emanated from the watch/communicator tails had made for him.
It was telling him about chaos energy in the area.
"This could be interesting" he said as he changed direction and headed in the direction the watch was pointing him