And THIS is my next idea... For now. This is going to have short, hopefully humorous, stories about Mario and Sonic. This first one is a Halloween one, in which everyone wears lame costumes they think are actually scary. Well, at least, the main male characters from each series do. You're welcome to request an idea, involving either or both series, and possibly another, if you'd like. No guarantees, of course, but I'm still interested either way. There are a few rules, though: Nothing above K+ content; no romance; and absolutely positively NO OCs.

Costume Party

A Halloween party at Princess Peach's castle! And everyone was invited, even their friends from Sonic's world. Even Eggman and Bowser. Why? Mario's idea. No one ever really understood why his interpretation of "keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer" was "Put even more emphasis on inviting our enemies than inviting our friends!" Like that time he forgot to invite Waluigi to kart racing. He'd thrown a fit and taken over the Mushroom Kingdom (yes, the Toads were seriously that incompetent).

It was a simple affair, or at least as simple as a costume party with super-powered beings (half of whom were underage) could be. There was a costume contest, for who could come up with the scariest costume.

First up was Mario, who was wearing black overalls and an orange shirt instead of his normal colors, plus a black helmet and shell on his back.

"FEAR ME, FOR I AM THE HAMMER BRO WITH NO BLOCKS TO STAND ON!" Mario yelled, and started throwing hammers everywhere. "FEAR ME!"

Mario was escorted off of the now-ruined stage, still screaming "YOU CAN JUMP, BUT YOU CAN'T AVOID THE HAMMERS!"

A Boo with a large nose and a mustache wearing a green hat with an 'L' floated onto stage next, caught sight of his reflection, and screamed. He flew straight into a light, instantly transforming back into normal Luigi. He sat up, embarrassed, and went to just sit down and watch everyone else's costumes.

Tails was next. He had a sheet over his head. "WOO!" he said, running around the stage with his arms up. "SCARY GHOST!" He started flying, which ripped the sheet into shreds. "... Crud... Um... that was Sonic's sheet..." Tails flew down to hide next to Luigi.

"... This is a bit of a disaster," Tails whispered.

"... I'm no good at this stuff," Luigi confided to his fox friend.

A bat wearing a yellow hat flew down onto the stage. With a puff of smoke, it transformed into Wario, who had somehow gained fangs and was wearing a black cape. Vampire Wario bowed, before turning into a bat and flying off for the Castle's treasury.

Waluigi, who was up next, didn't wear a costume at all. At the first cry of "LAME!" (Sonic), Waluigi's eyes flashed white, causing the nearest window pane to turn into an eggplant.

"WAA!" Waluigi yelled, as he swam out the now-open window.

Knuckles had painted himself pink and was wearing a red dress, which lasted all of two seconds before the real Amy Rose came on stage and chased him out of the castle with her hammer.

It was lucky for Shadow and Silver that she did, since they'd also dressed up as her. They got into a fight over whose costume was better, and it ended with half the stage blown up and the other half stuck in the ceiling. They were disqualified, for destruction of property and having a stupid costume idea.

Finally, it was down to the last two contestants: Yoshi and Sonic. Yoshi went first, revealing himself to be dressed as... A chili pepper. Why the heck he thought a chili pepper was scary, no one could guess, but Yoshi gave a little bow before coming down.

Sonic smirked. He had this in the bag! His costume was so utterly terrifying, there was no way he could possibly lose! Gripping his plastic trident, and straightening the orange shirt he was wearing, Sonic dashed onto what was left of the stage. He held up his trident in his green gloves, showing off the sheer terrifying power of his costume. The green pants he was wearing shone in the light, and Sonic spoke, in the most terrifying voice he could muster.

Ten minutes later, long after Sonic had left the stage, everyone was still laughing.

In the end, Waluigi, who hadn't even worn a costume, won. But he was too busy terrorizing children to receive his prize of fifty coins, so they gave it to second place: Wario. Or they would've, if he hadn't been caught sneaking out of the castle's vault with twenty times that. Mario had gone to chase after Bowser when the latter kidnapped the princess AGAIN while everyone was focused on the contest. They ended up giving it to Yoshi, who was the only other person besides Sonic who hadn't been left, been disqualified, or lost their costume.

They also informed Sonic that their next choice would've been Luigi, then Tails, then un-disqualifying Silver, Knuckles, and Shadow, before giving it to him.

Apparently, there was absolutely nothing scary about dressing up as Aquaman. Seriously, what wasn't scary about a guy in charge of the ocean?