Mario hugged his friend Sonic as he entered through the portal, it had been almost five years since he had last seen him and he was very happy to hear they were coming to the party that the princess was throwing, Sonic held his thumb up and said," well how has it been Mario?" Mario smiled and said," It's a been a good, Luigi is better now, whatever force that had made him snap was lost a long ago."

Knuckles and Tails were the next through, followed by Metal Sonic, Shadow and Silver arrived right afterwards, Sonic's other friends had come as well to join the festivities. Bowser was standing off by the corner, near him was Bowser Junior, Bowser huffed a ball of smoke and said," can I please go back up to the main room now, it is cold and damp down here and it is starting to bug me!"

Mario nodded his head, ever since the years back when they found out the state of his kingdom, the Mushroom Kingdom and Koopa Kingdom (no longer The Bad Lands) have made a trade route system so both lands could flourish, after some time fields had begun to grow and plants returned to his kingdom. Bowser was proud of the new kingdom and hoped it would stay this time.

After everyone came they all went back up to the main room, Bowser had begun to help out the Toads and was placing some food on the nicely set tables, Mario said," well the great Bowser seems to make a fine waiter wouldn't you agree a Sonic?" Sonic snickered and said," Yah or a chef just put one of those large chef hats on, maybe a mustache and bam, one great chef!"

Bowser smirked and said," well it beats cleaning toilets and becoming a throw rug for the fire place." He roared out in laughter and smiled over to the heroes, both of which who were now annoyed but they laughed as well, Luigi approached them from one of the rooms, he said," Um a Mario what will a Metal Sonic eat at the party, he is a machine shouldn't we bring stuff for him?"

Metal shook his head and said," I do not require such things, I shall merely enjoy the party if that will be acceptable?" Luigi nodded and said," Well of course I was just seeing if we should get you something, who knows what might have a happened if you had not gotten me out of that space rift destroyer thing that they were hurled into."

"Actually it was a space-Time manipulater field, which when you were in it, would use the power of Chaos Emerald, Chaos Heart, and the Power Stars to use your body as a host of dark energy that the two would have used to destroy the kingdoms!" Eggman was floating above them now, his face showed he was upset, there was a lot of concern in his words.

Sonic glared and said," What are you doing here Egg head!" Bowser said," Sup Eggman?" The others glare over at him, he says," hey he is still one of my friends you never said I had to give up evil for good, I still get around now and then." The others just shake there heads, Sonic and Shadow were glaring at Eggman still.

Eggman returned the glare and said," I just thought it would be a grand thing to show you something I've found is all." Eggman lowered down and landed, slowly he climbed out of his floating chair and the retrieved a piece of cloth from a secret compartment, he walked over and placed it on a table, the others slowly approaching.

Eggman says," Tails come over here for a sec, this will be more understandable to you, then anyone else." Tails approached cautiously and glanced at it, he asked," well what is it?" Eggman flipped one of the edges and unwrapped whatever was inside, Tails' eyes grew wide, he said," What…. What is that?" Eggman shook his head and said," I am not quite sure, but from the looks of it I would say it is some form of crystal."

Now in Eggman's hand, the strange crystal was black, but had strange purple coming from the center and flowing through it, Tails said," well it looks to have been forged from the outer reaches of a molecular structure being formed in some unknown area of space." Eggman nodded and said," My thoughts exactly, it seems that some time ago something happened to the space-time field and this was something that was created in the process of energies being split apart, rewounded and being placed together again, some unknown force that still bugs me even now."

Knuckles said agitated," What are you two nerds talking about?" Eggman sighed and said," from what we can tell, some unknown force or forces have been ripped apart and stitched together and as a result this strange crystal was formed from it's creation, a crystal that never existed until only a few years ago." Sonic scratched his head and asked," So what, does it do anything?"

Eggman face-palmed and said," Listen you irritation, this crystal is a source of pure space and time of course it does something, the only problem is that space and time manipulation takes a lot of working force and energy, but this crystal would have to be atleast ten times it's size now if such energy had occurred, so this is merely one shard of the collosal crystal, sort of like when the Master Emerald was shattered, this crystal was shattered as well, meaning there are much more."

Shadow asked," So how did you get this one doctor if I may ask?" Eggman nodded and said," Well I was working on a plan to use the space time field but I found this crystal from were the energy was highest." Sonic shrugged and said," So a few crystals are scattered that isn't such a big deal." Eggman shook his head and said," I don't think you understand the large point here, if this is a powerful crystal then someone is already searching for it's pieces meaning that they want the full collective energy, this being would have to be a powerful foe if they had been created with such force."

Mario shook his hands and said," alright listen we will a look for these a crystal shards, but we shall celebrate first, there will always be time to look, as you said there are probably a ton of these shards so it should be easy enough to find atleast some of them." Eggman nodded and said," very well, I need to be getting back now, I will report if I have found anything new, not that I really want to, but this crystal worries me some."

The party began some time in the evening, tons of guests from both sides of the kingdom arrived each happy to be there, Peach was wearing her festive pink dress with little flowers located around it flowing neatly down the sides, some bands of blue ribbon wrapped around her waist holding the dress tightly against her.

Mario was walking with her like usual, Bowser sat near the buffet, usually he sought to stuff himself, but since it was a festive and uniformly type of party he decided to act his best, but of course even that was limited to it's measure of kindness and cleanliness, Mario approached after kissing the princess' hand, smiling he asked," Why aren't you eating really?"

Bowser glanced over, shrugging he said," Don't want to seem rude at the moment, I can atleast act to be civil once." Mario shrugged and said," suit yourself, more for me then!" Without any delay Mario began to chow down on a plate full of different foods, from cakes, to dinner, to just snacks. Bowser was just staring in disbelief as Mario swallowed food after food.

Luigi approached him, placing his hand and snatching up a glass of punch he said," Yah I was surprised at first too when we saw him stuff his face at his first actual party, if you want you can-" Bowser was snatching up food as quickly as he could, he shouted," no way am I going to let him beat me in this!" Luigi smirked and shook his head as he watched them race to beat eachother in eating.

Shadow approached and said," lets be glad it's not a chili dog eating contest, because Sonic would have joined in and about now I would have thrown up atleast twice….. So how has it been Luigi?" Luigi shrugged and said," It's alright, I mean I find it fun to be at parties, but that one party with Toadsworth when he said I was living in the shadow of Sonic and then he slammed into me and he said-"

"Yah Luigi, I was talking to you, your nothing but a cowardly little shit, who just allows other to fight your battles, I don't even believe it when Master Mario says that you help him in battles, take on Count Bleck, you couldn't even take on a Toad, let alone him!" Luigi and Shadow turn to where the noise came from, a being was standing there, he was atleast seven and a half feet high, he was wearing a white suit with a flowing white cape, he also wore a white hat on his head, but on his back were strange crystal like things coming out, along with on the back of his head he had a mask on that only revealed his eyes which were slanted, each were shades of red and yellow.

Luigi glared at him and said," How did you know he said that?" The being just moved away and left, Luigi could feel the anger rushing to him again, Shadow grabbed him and said," Calm yourself, he was just getting on your nerves, lets go and get the others I am sure they can get him out, normally I would have suggested beating him to a pulp, but that isn't what we need right now." Luigi nodded and they head for Sonic and Mario, who had lost the contest to Bowser.

Bowser was also standing near the group talking to Knuckles about what the Master Emerald was and how powerful it was, the two approached, Luigi said," Hey we need a your help to throw this guy out of the party, he tried to insult me and get me angry so I would go on a rampage." Mario confused asked," But how would he have gotten you mad?"

Luigi answered," He used the same insults Toadsworth did and wouldn't even say anything afterwards, but he was somehow there all those years ago." Mario nodded his head and said," alright we don't want a repeat of what happened lets get this guy out of here." The others followed as Luigi and Shadow led the way over to the strange being now talking with Amy.

Sonic stood forward and said," alright listen up buddy, step away from the girl and get out!" Smirking he backed away from the girl, turning he said," and why should I do that?" His mask was crooked and seemed to be rather purple in color with a crown extending from it, he continued," I'm afraid I will not be doing that, you see I was invited here just as the rest of these people, and I have commited no violant act towards anyone."

He tipped his hat towards them and turned back to Amy, he said," Now then as I was saying, where did such a beautiful flower sprout from, surely your not from either planet?" Leaning down he kissed her hand, she giggled slightly and said," no I am just an extraordinary girl is all!" Sonic growled under his breath, Mario nudged his shoulder and asked," something wrong?"

Sonic glared at the man and said," Can't you tell he is flirting with Amy, we don't even know him and he is already taking shots at one of my friends, it irritates me!" The being walked away after bowing his head towards her and disappeared into the guests, Sonic asked," Amy what was that creep asking you about?"

Amy playfully hit his arm and said," Oh Sonic don't be so hard on him, he was just admiring me and wanted to talk over dinner." Sonic crossed his arms and asked," And exactly what did he want to talk about, what did you say to him?" Amy replied," well I accepted the offer to be nice, and he said…. he didn't say what he wanted to talk about."

Sonic clenched his fist and said," you can't hang with a creep like that he might try something on you, what if he hurts you!" Shadow smirked as Sonic's argument continued, Mario leaned over and asked," what exactly are you so happy about?" Shadow pointed at Sonic and said," He is so totally jealous of that other guy, it's just funny, I mean he never answered her on any of her date requests but as soon as this guy wants a date he instantly gets involved, I just think it's funny how their love works is all."

Luigi and Bowser were also snickering about what was happening, smiling Mario said," well if it's that funny I guess I should let it go for now…." Amused at the sight they didn't notice the being was now talking with Peach, bowing towards her he says," Dear Princess Peach, I want to thank you for allowing me to partake on this joyace occasion."

Peach smiled and said," Well thank you…" He replied," Lord (Bloom-eel) Blumile, dear princess." Nodding she said," Well thank you Lord Blumile, we look forward to your stay in these kingdoms while you are travelling here, how long will you be staying again, I remember something about it but I have been busy lately?"

Lord Blumile said," I will be staying for a little while, I have some things to catch up on and look at, if I might say your heroes are quite impressive, mind walking with me to tell me a bit about them?" Peach nodded and grabbed his extended hand to take a walk, unaware of events that should transpire while they were away.