David the Writer: Right now I am giving myself a break when it comes to normal fictions and am going to submit a fiction called Tales of SMBZ 1: Sonic's Promise. SMBZ is currently on episode 8. This episode happens right before episode 7 when they're in the Pipe-Lands. They have set up a campfire for the night so that they can rest and Shadow is frustrated at Sonic once again. They are arguing about the idea of stopping to rest right now.

Shadow: You know with what I've been through I would be frustrated as well about that.

David the Writer: For those of you who haven't seen episode 8 of SMBZ, you find out that Shadow is even more frustrated than usual because Rouge was murdered by Mecha-Sonic. The thing is I think there is more behind it than just Rouge. Rouge is his friend on Mobius and here was his friend because she's dead now. E123 Omega wasn't seen in the flashback so Shadow could also be a little frustrated because he doesn't know where E123 Omega is and he's the most loyal and best friend he has. The Tales of SMBZ adds on some new Mobius characters from the Sonic line-up and even revives a few as well. Now I need to stop talking.

Sonic: That was a long ramble.

Mario: Mama-mia, that's a whole a-paragraph.

Luigi: (Spinning around in circles with swirly eyeballs and unbalanced body from all of the words)

Yoshi: (Growls in excitement)

Luigi: (Snaps back to normal) I will do a-the disclaimer. All Mario Character a- Nintendo. All Sonic Characters especially Sonic and Shadow Sega.

David the Writer: Thanks for that disclaimer, Luigi. Background song is Someday by Nickelback.

Shadow: That song matches the Series perfectly.

Sonic: No kidding. I want to know for how long it will match the series.

David the Writer: Anyway... There is a 4th-wall smash in this chapter. Now on with the story.

Tales of SMBZ 1: Sonic's Promise

Sonic looks at the sun of Mushroom Kingdom and sees that they are near sun setting time. He also sees that Mario, Luigi, and Yoshi are tired.

Sonic says "Wow, how the time passes!"

Stuffwell says "Yes, My Time-EgaddularRadulator says that it's nearly sunset time. Maybe we should stop and rest."

Mario, Luigi, and Yoshi sit down from the exhaustion of walking around searching for the Emeralds.

Sonic says "This was so much easier with The Special Stage."

Mario gestures, with a head tilt and his hands moving toward the front of him, "What's that?"

Sonic says "It's a special place in my world that holds all the chaos emeralds when they are hidden from the rest of the world. The reason it's called The Special Stage is, in all of the adventures it's happened in the other places, I am running forward and backward and, in there, I run straight through a tube going in the direct my Spin-Dash form guides me. It was pretty handy because It brought the chaos emeralds to me when I hit the gem in the place."

Stuffwell says "Sounds like a pretty resourceful place."

Shadow says "I never used it because I could sense the emeralds. Some of the items in this world are messing with my power to sense the emeralds so it's hard."

Stuffwell says "Could another item be just as powerful?"

Mario motioned his hands in front moving toward the front of his body to gesture a story about the star-spirits.

Sonic says "The Koopa Brothers mentioned them. What are they?"

Yoshi jumped and points toward Stuffwell, telling them to look at Stuffwell for a video on it.

Stuffwell folds open to reveal a screen that turns into a video screen.

A narrator says as the Seven Star Spirits are shown "You all have wondered what the Legendary star spirits are and now we have found out. The Star Spirits are legendary Stars that guard The Star Rod in Star Haven."

The screen then shows the star rod being wielded by Mario and the same Narrator says "The Star Rod is a rod that turns wishes into reality. The most powerful of wishes turn into Lumas."

It shows a picture of the many types of Lumas and Rosalina on the screen and the same Narrator says "Lumas are Little Star-Shaped creatures raised by Rosalina. Lumas can eventually turn into living Stars to make all new galaxies in our world."

The sky is shown on the screen and the same narrator says "The Star haven has a special place that is higher than our sky which is the first part of The Star Cycle."

Star Road and Geno are shown as the same narrator says "The first part of the cycle is Star Road. Star Road is guarded by the Legendary ? but we just call him Geno since The Smithy Gang was defeated."

The Star spirits are shown around the Star Rod and The Same Narrator says "As long as The Star Spirits are in Star Haven, Wishes are granted and stars are born."

Cases of videos are shown on the screen. The group looks at this, with tilted heads and question marks above their heads.

Then the same narrator says "If you want to know more, Find other videos on Stars. This is the only video included with this case."

Sonic, Mario, Luigi, and Yoshi drop to the ground in the embarrassing situation.

Sonic says "Well that last 2 sentences is advertising their other videos."

Stuffwell unfolds and says :"That certainly was unexpected of them."

Shadow says "We shouldn't stop even if it's nighttime. We can rest after we get the next closest emerald."

Sonic says in a very loud voice and an deepen pitch on his voice "What if we run into Mecha-Sonic? If we're too tired, we won't hold very good against him."

Shadow says "I have gone a long time without sleep and I've been alright in battle."

Sonic says "That's because you're the Ultimate Life-Form. You really don't need much sleep. We need sleep to keep our energy up and at it's best for battling."

Shadow says "That's a pretty good idea for you guys and, since I got to follow alongside you guys, I guess I'll follow along with it too. Just don't expect it too much of the time!"

Sonic runs away from him and sits down near a pipe far away from camp.

Sonic looks at the moon. While thinking about his friends who died to Mecha-Sonic, he sees their faces on the moon.

He says "I promise I'll make things right."

Shadow, in camp, looks at the moon as well and thinks about Rouge and E123 Omega to see their images on it.

Shadow thinks "I will avenge you, Rouge and E123 Omega. You were my best friends of all of Mobius and now you're gone. I must defeat Mecha-Sonic and then I can go back to being my normal self."

Outside camp, Mario walks over to Sonic and says "Sonic."

Sonic says "I know let's get back to camp to eat and rest."

Mario and Sonic do simultaneously one chuckle. They have been working on combos to battle their enemies together and to make themselves even more powerful than before this all started. At camp, the group eats up and takes a rest for the night.

TBC...

David the Writer: It's always good to make a promise to those who have fallen. What do you think?

Sonic: I think what you said is very true and this is proof of it.

Mario: This is a-great fiction when it comes to explanation of so many things. I love a-that 4th-Wall a-Smash.

Sonic: Yeah, that 4th-wall smash was a epic one.

Luigi: It was great.

Shadow: I think your beta-readers will be proud of the story.

David the Writer: Thanks everyone. What did you readers think of the story?