The Start of a New Adventure
Mario stepped through the interdimensional doorway onto a patch of green grass, Tippi appearing beside him. The door disappeared almost instantly.
The sun shown down brightly onto the landscape, its light reflecting off the nearby sea splashing calmly against rocky shores. Tall fruit trees grew into the skies growing fruit bigger than Mario could have thought possible, their leaves blowing lazily around in the wind. A truly tranquil and relaxing scene...but something about it was almost...familiar.
"Something wrong?" asked Tippi. However her question went un-answered as Mario continued to stare at the surrounding scene seemingly lost in thought.
"Is this...your home?"
Mario snapped to attention and shook his head.
"I see...well, let's get moving. The Pure Heart must be around here somewhere."
Suddenly Mario and Tippi were covered in shade. Mario looked up towards the sun to see something blocking its light, and getting bigger every second. It was big...and black...and coming fast! Mario sprinted full speed away from the falling object. He dived out of the way right before the thing crashed through the ground.
Tippi had flown out of the way even faster than Mario had, now she slowly approached the hole. She gazed down into it. There was no sign of the Chomp, instead the whole was filled with darkness as it stretched down endlessly before her. The wind that had once been a gentle breeze whistled into the cave causing it to echo, calling anyone foolish enough to listen into its bottomless stomach. The ground around the hole was cracked and damaged, ready to crumble into the abyss any second. The monster had been powerful enough to cause this much damage with just a hop, if she and Mario hadn't moved out of the way...
Tippi shivered, "Wha...What WAS that thing?"
Mario didn't answer, instead he only looked off into a different direction, his expression unreadable. Tippi followed his gaze and saw a sign posted in the ground, a picture of the beast and some writing scribbled on it, luckily one ability of being a pixl was the one to read any language.
"Beware of falling Chomps; Yoshi's Island Safety Committee" she read.
Mario still didn't respond.
She looked past the sign and saw what he was staring at. An entire mountain swarmed with barking, drooling Chomps. Hundreds of dark shadows covered the ground as they jumped into the air towards their prey.
"M-..Mario..." Tippi began. "I think now would be a good time to run!"
Mario bolted, Tippi following quickly after.
The very earth shook as the many black orbs crashed into the ground, Mario pushing his speed and agility to its max to avoid the many falling creatures. Mario dived forward and avoided a chomp that crashed behind him. He got to his feet and long-jumped forward to avoid another and skidded to a stop as one crashed in front of him sending dirt and rock into the sky. Mario back-flipped into the air as another crashed into the ground below him.
However on his way down an air-born chomp crashed into him knocking him forward into one of the holes. Mario slided along the wall of the hole and pushed off, wall jumping out just before another chomp crashed into it. Mario back-flipped into the air once again to avoid another, when he landed on top of one of the chomps while it was still in the air. Mario jumped just as the chomp turned its head upwards, the force of both his jump and the chomp moving its body sending him incredibly high into the air.
As Mario fell he threw a fireball into the face of an advancing chomp knocking it off course and sending it plummeting to the ground. Mario saw a shadow below him growing larger and turned mid-air, sending a fireball straight into the mouth of a falling chomp. It exploded from inside the beast, the chomp roared in pain as its eyes rolled back into its head. It fell through the air, smoke streaking out of its open mouth.
Mario landed back on solid ground and continued his run. The flying chomps continued to rain down around him, the peaceful area had been completely destroyed, the many trees being reduced to splinters as chomp after chomp fell from the sky and annihilated the land.
"Mario! Wh-..Where are you?!" Tippi yelled, panic clear in her voice.
Mario had completely forgotten about Tippi, she had been left on her own to avoid the chomps! Mario ran a zig-zag pattern avoiding all the chomps as he reached her.
"Where were you?! You left me all alone!" Tippi screamed.
But Mario wasn't in the mood for a lecture, especially not here. He grabbed her by the wing and ran off, running every pattern imaginable and then some to throw off the assaulting chomps. Mario skidded to a stop as he reached the edge of a cliff.
Mario looked around him, seeing no path available after the chomps had destroyed nearly every surrounding piece of ground. And more were still coming at him! Tippi buzzed all around him panicked by their situation.
"What do we do? What do we do? Ohhhh..."
Mario looked up and saw the last of the chomps flying towards him. Then he looked off the cliff, it was so far down he couldn't see the bottom. Then he looked back at the chomps. Then at the cliff again.
Mario began to crouch.
Tippi stopped fluttering around and stared at Mario. "You can't possibly be thinking..."
Mario leaped off the cliff not seconds before the chomps destroyed the ground he had been on.
Mario landed on his back with a loud thud, his body making a large crater as it landed. Tippi flew down to his face and checked him for breathing, there was no way he would be alive after that fall...
Mario opened his eyes, Tippi let out a small cry and zoomed back from him. "Your alive?! But...but..."
Mario felt the ground he was on. It was yellow...and soft...soft enough to soften his landing and make the fall give him only minimal damage. Instead of actually being on the ground the mass of dirt floated in the air, stretching on in two directions.
Mario heard a loud crunching noise and turned around to see an absolutely massive chomp eating the yellow earth and heading right towards him. He got up and ran as far away from the beast as fast as he could, jumping and bounding over gaps and obstacles that littered the path. He long-jumped over a gap with spikes below it, the chomp somehow flying over the gap and continuing to eat the road. Mario pushed himself to run as fast a his exhausted body would let him, Tippi flapping her wings and doing her best to keep up with the speeding plumber.
Mario finally reached the end of the path and leaped into the mouth of a cave at the end of it. The chomp followed him and crashed against the side of the mountain. Its teeth cracked and broke and the creature fell from the sky into the pit below.
Mario moved over and sat down by a wall, Tippi just laid on the floor exhausted.
"What kind of place is this? I knew there would be dangers here but..."
Mario sighed. If Dinosaur Land was anything like he remembered, this would only be the beginning.
After resting up for a few minutes the pair continued their journey, going deeper into the cave.
"I think...I think I can sense a pure heart...it's this way." Tippi muttered as she flew faster into the cave.
Mario followed her , going deeper into the darkness. The further they went, the darker it got. The only source of illumination was the occasional crystal, which mysteriously gave off some light but they were becoming few and far between. Mario eventually ignited a flame in his hand and carried it with him to illuminate where he was going. He continued to follow Tippi as she flew through the cave and bounce over lava pits and even the occasional shyguy that popped out of a pipe in the ground. After what seemed like a few hours of exploring they reached a large room.
The room's size was amazing, it was so tall the roof of the cavern wasn't even visible, although a few stalagmites could be seen hanging from the darkness above. It was roughly half the size of a football field. A gigantic stone door stood at the end of the room, a few beams of light streaking through the cracks in it barely illuminating the massive room. Bones littered the floor in every area, the actual floor of the cavern was barely even visible past them. The bones were gigantic, most of them bigger than Mario. Whatever creature these belonged to, Mario was glad he had gotten here after its game had ended.
Tippi fluttered close to Mario. "I can sense the Pure Heart closer now...we should get out of this cave."
Mario jumped as far as he could, but even then he was only able to get about a fourth of the way across the room, and Mario could jump pretty darn far. Mario continued towards the door when a figure appeared in the air before him.
The floating being chuckled darkly. He was about the size of Mario, and dressed like a jester. He wore a weird jester hat and strange colorful clothing. He also wore pitch black pants, shoes, and gloves which contrasted greatly with the rest of his clown like attire. But the most outstanding feature was the mask he wore over his face. One half was white with a black slit for an eye, the other was darkest black with a yellow glowing eye-hole. A sick grin was plastered across both sides.
"Master of dimensions...pleaser of crowds...I am Dimentio!" he yelled before pointing at Mario, "And you, destined hero, are interfering with things beyond your mortal comprehension. It is time for me to end your game..." The magician lifted his hands into the air and red lightning began to circle around him.
Mario crouched and got ready to jump.
"...but I shall not be the one to end it." Finished Dimentio. He shot the red lightning onto a pile of bones and they began to shake. The shaking traveled to more of the bones and before long all of them were shaking, slowly rising into the air and combining with each other to take shape. All of the bones in the cavern joined into one massive creature made of nothing but solid bone. It had a large body, jagged spikes lining its spine all the way down to its mighty tail and a pair of skeletal bat wings on its back. It had three incredibly long necks stretching up to the ceiling. On each neck was a massive dragon skull, their eye sockets glowing a deep blood red and embers crackling out of their flame-holding mouths.
"I'd like you to meet...the Bonedragon. I'd love to stay and play, but alas, I must be on my way, much like a tornado that vanishes into thin air after causing mass damage to a trailer park. Ciao!" Dimentio snapped his fingers and vanished.
All three Bonedragon heads stared at Mario, studying him intently. Then they all suddenly opened their mouths and breathed a stream of magma at the hero.
It seems Mario has returned to the lovely Yoshi's Island, but it shall be no vacation. The trickster Dimentio has resurrected the mighty Bonedragon, a foul beast indeed. Can Mario defeat this mighty foe? And if he can, what other dangers await him?
A/N: My my...where does time fly? I'm sorry for the long delay, I'll do my best to update faster from now on. For those of you less familiar with Yoshi games, I'll explain some of this chapter's contents...
In some parts of Yoshi's Island, Chomps will jump into the air and try to land on anything nearby. When they did this they created large craters in the ground. There were also some parts when Yoshi would walk around on yellow rock/dirt, and a chain chomp would chase after him.
Bonedragon is an optional enemy/boss in the game Yoshi's Story.
Review Responses:
Nintendolover222: I wouldn't mind you doing a parody of my fic at all! In fact I'd be kinda honored...I'm glad I could inspire you!
pieandchips666: Thanks for the review, I'm glad your looking forward to what happens. Although not every Smasher will appear in the story...I'm doing my best to make most of them appear.
Yoshizilla-Rhedosaurus: Yeah, Super Paper Mario is awesome. That's why I did this story. :P
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Mikure: I'll have most of the ones currently announced appear, but not all of the Brawlers will appear.
P.J. Williams: Wow, I'm surprised someone else had thought of doing a PM/SSB cross-over as well...and here I thought I was being original! D: And since you mentioned all the text in SPM, I guess now is a good time to say the story won't be quite as text-heavy as SPM is. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not, but I guess we'll see how it turns out.
Ri2: I honestly don't know what kind of paper they are...whatever kind Paper Mario is I suppose...which is some kind of paper that can swim underwater, get cut and stay in one piece, and get set on fire and not burn away...or maybe the fire is just made of paper? o.o I don't think anyone knows how the whole 'paper-physics' work, I suggest you don't think about it too much.
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