Location: Dimple Wood

"Help me, Mario!" The princess's screams echoed throughout the forest as she was being kidnapped by the evil Koopa King Bowser in his Koopa Clown Car. Her blond hair was flowing out the Clown Car, her blue eyes filled with fright.

"Ha ha ha! No one will save you this time, Princess!" The evil king Bowser shouted, "Especially not those annoying Mario Brothers! And if they do come…"

His Koopa Clown Car suddenly opened the big mouth painted on the front and a cannon with three barrels came out of it.

Just then, two figures jumped from the edge of the forest. They both wore overalls and hats. One of the figures' hats was red with a white circle and an M in the center, while the other's was green with an L. The hero in green was a bit taller than his partner and his black mustache was smoother.

"Mario! Luigi!" the Princess yelled with delight.

"Well, it's good to see you, Mario and Green 'Stache! Now then, take this!"

Bowser pressed a button on his clown car, and the cannon shot out 3 Bullet Bills. Thinking fast, Mario and Luigi dodged out of the way of two of them, but the third exploded and knocked Luigi to the ground.

Luigi slowly got up from the explosion and brushed himself off. "I'm okay, Mario! Go rescue the princess!"

"Okay, Luigi! I'm coming to save you, Peach!" Mario shouted.

Bowser continued firing Bullet Bills in Mario's direction, but the nimble plumber was too quick for Bowser to get a lock on him. Mario then brought out his trusty hammer and slammed the Bill cannon which exploded the Koopa Clown Car! Bowser fell on his face with a thud, but he slowly got back up and was ready to face Mario.

Luigi took this opportunity to get Peach out of danger. "Come on, Princess. Mario will take care of Bowser."

As soon as Peach was a safe distance away, Luigi turned around and threw a flower towards Mario. "Mario, catch!"

Mario saw the Flower coming and caught it in both hands. He then started to absorb the fire powers in the flower. He started to glow with a fiery aura and his overalls turned red, while his shirt and hat turned white. Thanks to the Fire Flower, Mario had turned into his Fire Mario form.

"Your puny fireballs won't stop me, Mario!" Bowser yelled as he breathed a huge column of fire in Mario's direction. Jumping out of the way, Mario shot multiple fireballs at the Koopa King, but they all bounced off his green scaly skin and hard spiky shell. Bowser then swatted Mario out of the sky with his claws, and Mario fell down to the ground.

He's too tough, Mario thought. How do I beat him? He then looked down at Bowser's tail poking out from his shell and had an idea. He dove straight for Bowser's tail and held on tight.

"Ha! You really think I'll fall for that again, Mushroom Breath?!" Bowser chided. He then threw his weight around in a big circle and flung Mario straight into a green pipe in the ground.

"Mario!" Luigi shouted. Mario lay on the ground unconscious, his Fire form dissolved in the fight. Bowser walked over to him, his mouth open wide preparing to incinerate the red-clad hero.

"You have interfered in my plans for the last time, Mario!" Bowser shouted, "I may have lost the Princess, but it'll feel just as good when I vaporize you right where you stand!"

Suddenly, when all hope seemed lost for Mario, a strange black light appeared above them, and a speeding blue projectile slammed square onto Bowser's shell!

Where the impact crater was made, a blue hedgehog stood on Bowser's back. "Ouch! Talk about hard landings. Where am I anyways?"

Mario took this chance to grab Bowser's tail and flung him straight towards his castle. "So long, gay Bowser!" he shouted as Bowser careened out of sight.

Peach ran right up to Mario and gave him a kiss. "My hero!"

"Hey! What about me?!" Luigi yelled with frustrated.

Peach then came over to Luigi and hugged him. "Thank you too, Luigi." She then approached the hedgehog as well. "Thank you as well, strange creature. Mario would have been cooked if it weren't for you."

The blue creature straightened up in front of the Princess. "Well, I do those kinds of things. Fighting bad guys is what I do best!"

"Please tell us…" Peach asked, "What is your name?"

"I'm Sonic, Sonic the Hedgehog!"


Notes: As if anyone else hasn't noticed yet, this story is pretty much my way of expressing everything I love about Mario and Sonic. Even makes those little shout outs to Mario 64, with the "So long, gay Bowser!" line (I'm not sure if this is what he actually says, but that's how I interpret the line, and I'm pretty sure most of you do too). Surprisingly, this is the only true time Peach gets kiddnapped in this fanfic (I finished this fanfic LONG before I joined FF, so yeah).

Overall, I've been a big Sonic fan since 2004 and a huge nintendo fan since 2006. Before that, I was more interested in Microsoft's Xbox, which I've had since age 6 (I might do a Blinx fanfic someday, but for now it is Mario and Sonic time). Anywho, that's enough of my ramblings. See yall next chapter.