Mario and Sonic: Beijing 2008

Chapter 1

Waiting on the Boat to Adventure

"Why must it be a BOAT!" Sonic shouted, raising his fist in the air. "I HATE the water!"

It was 2 o'clock in the morning. For summer, it was very cold out. Sixteen bodies waited in front of the docks, waiting for a boat to come and pick them up. It was going to bring them to Beijing, China.

There was Sonic, who still had his fist raised high in the air; next to him was Mario, who was bobbing his head up and down. He was slowly falling asleep.

Behind them were their villains. Bowser, who was sitting on the grassy hill just next to the water, and next to him, was an impaction fellow. "We sign a form saying that both Mario and Sonic, along with seven other people of their choice, will compete in a Olympic type tournament for a full month…just to wait. They're LATE!"

Bowser chuckled at the words of his fellow villain, Eggman. "Look who woke up on the wrong side of the bed."

"Woke up? I didn't even sleep." Eggman said, in a much calmer tone.

Over at the pear, sat Tails, and next to him was Luigi. They two were dropping their heads. Peach, along with the other three girls, Amy, Daisy, and Blaze, were all gossiping tiredly on how they were the only ones to get new outfits for the tournament. Farther away, Knuckles was pounding a tree with his sharp knuckles, Yoshi watched in awe. "That is quit amazing!" He said happily.

"Oh…thanks?" Knuckles turned his head to the green dragon like creature. His skin was much darker then normal, because the bright full moon was smuggled by storm clouds.

Vector watched at silver fish swam in the murky water, bobbing his head to the music from his I`Pod. Shadow, however, was skipping stones into the ocean. "It's really boring out here. Ha! Maybe they forgot!" He said jokingly.

Vector turned his head slightly. "Please, don't say that. I could being doing some detective stuff-getting money!" He added quickly.

"Did I hear money?"

Wario was looking from over head, his sidekick, Waluigi standing next to him. "I would like some."

Vector stuck his snout out into the air. "No. It's my money."

Wario turned to his day dreaming companion. "Help me out, will ya?"

Waluigi turned his head to him. "Hmm?"

"Looking at that chick again, eh?" He looked behind Waluigi to see Daisy in clear view. "Yep. Sly dog you."

Waluigi blushed at these words. "Wario! You Dolt!" He kicked him in the shin, making Wario crumble to the ground. "Don't say that out loud! She'll hear you!"

But she didn't. Daisy was talking with the other girls still.

Everyone just sat, waiting. Just then, they heard someone hymn "Do-do-do-do do-do-do. Do-do-do-do DO! Dododododo!"

"Jeopardy?" Bowser looked down at Mario, the maker of the "dos". "What's with Jeopardy?"

"I am externally board! Toad never makes us wait this long when we had to do the Party Tournaments: the Smash Brother's Tournaments? Master Hand makes us wait an even shorter time! So why do we have to wait so long to just go play some sport-related Tournament. I say we are falling into some type of trap!" He looked over at Sonic, whose fist was still up in the air, but slowly falling down. "What are you doing?"

"I'm making a point!" He said, raising it as high as his tied arm could go. "Right Ivo?"

Mario looked around. "Ivo? Who the heck is I" He felt his shoulder get pocked. He turned.

Eggman waved his hand. "My real name is Ivo Robotnik. Sonic here gave me the nickname of Eggman long ago, I can't remember."

Mario nodded. "Where the HECK did your name come from?"

"France. I'm not French at all though." He chuckled.

Just then, a slight horn was heard from far away. "Boat!"

Sonic's arm fell over. "Darn it."

It took a few moments for the large boat to get there, but it managed. Everyone crowded around, trying to be the first to get on the boat. A tall man walked out. He had a waiter suit on, and dark brown hair. He wore a monocle on his right eye, and slick black pants and shoes. "Good evening. My name is Mr. Hue Shinsha. I will be escorting you to Beijing, where you will stay for one month. I, along with my companion, Jany Kitsune." He turned his head to a young woman with curly blond hair. Small pince-nez, similar to the ones that Ivo wore, hid her eyes. She had a dark black jacket on her, and a frilly skirt colored of dark ocean blue. She bowed at her name. "I would like to have, at the moment, Bowser Koppa and Eggman Robotnik, so they can sign some papers." Bowser turned to Mario, who shrugged. "Come along now. We don't want you two taking advantage of the heroes guard being down. I know how tempting it is."

As the two villains walked up, Ivo looked down at Mr. Hue's eyes. "My name is Ivo, Sir. Not Eggman."

Bowser put his arm around Ivo's chest. "Let's go sign the stupid paper. If we don't, they'll think we are up to no good."

Ivo made a low growl like snarled. "I would never…"

"Do not lie in front of me!" Mrs. Jany looked over at Ivo. "I have you know, I am able to tell if people lie. Now, go now. Go now to sign papers."

Mr. Hue led the rest of the group to the rooms of the boat while Mr. Jany, to Ivo and Bowser's dismay, lead them to an empty room, with two chairs, and a table. "Sign here!" She pointed.

Bowser picked up the paper, and started to look at the words. "I'll sign once I read it."

It wrote:

II, _, will not do anything of bad behavior. I will not: Try to steal the Princess, Hedgehogs, and ext., make the harmless games into a war, or cheat in any way shape or form./I Bowser leaned in closer. In very small print, he could only read. "One-insult." There were three pages of signing, and it took longer then the two expected.

They finally made it back with the others. Luigi turned, popped corn in his hand, and greeted them with a smile. "How'd it go you two?"

Bowser sat down next to Mario, and took a bag of popped corn. "Horrible. She wouldn't let us read the fine print. One insult. What does that mean?"

Luigi shrugged, and looked over at Ivo, who was huddled in an odd position. "Getting sea sick?"

Ivo nodded weakly. He opened his mouth, but nothing came out. Finally, he darted to the front of the boat (there was a sliding door that lead to the outside), and leaned his head over the deck. Sonic was close beside him, rubbing his back.

Tails sighed. "He gets horrible motion sickness. Said it he grew up with it."

Peach, who was munching on a peanut, gave a very discussed look. "Must be horrible, getting sick like that-ha wait." She looked over at Bowser. "Doesn't he have something like your clown cart? How does he not get sick on that?"

Shadow looked up. "Because the wind makes him feel a little better. Besides, the presser in the air holds his sickness to a minimum." He looked over at the deck. "He's also claustrophobic."

Daisy chuckled lightly. "Man, double whammy."

The rest of the group nodded slowly.

After a moment of giggles, and jabbering, everyone started to drift of to the sound of the waves. Someone would look up at the sound of Ivo getting sick from over the deck, but quickly fell back to sleep.

But there was one other person, besides Sonic and Ivo (Though Sonic would go into a light sleep when Ivo was not getting sick). He watched as everyone else enjoyed his or her nice sleep, while he suffered from insomnia. The man's eyes, ringed with deep blue stains from his lack of sleep, drifted the room.

He moved himself out the dock. Even Ivo was at ease now, and didn't stir. The insomniac looked out at the vast sea.

"If only…" Waluigi muttered, looking out into the slowly dropping moon.