Chapter 3: Trouble Boils

AN: Chapter three! You get to see Banjo coming into the story, and the all-important TV commercials are here! Also present is a large group of OC's! Again, questions/comments/concerns appreciated! NOTE: I do NOT own any character (except the OC's here.) Mario and all other characters belonging to his group are property of Nintendo or Square Enix. (For the most part, if you don't know them and you're a Mario fan, they probably belong to Square) Sonic and all related characters belong to Sega, and Banjo and his lot are property of Rareware.

After practicing, the large villain found out that he could breathe fire in seven colors, with each having a different effect. The red burned and the yellow blinded. The green poisoned, and the blue confused. The purple was extra-powerful, and the black tore things apart atom by atom. The brown stank and the orange shrank things. He could also fire them all at once in a lethal blast.

While all this was happening, Luigi explained to everyone that Kamek was talking to Bowser about getting items with large quantities of power in them. E. Gadd then relayed the info over to Tails, whom he knew from the AMIESG (Annual Meeting of Interdimensional Extreme Science Geeks). During the conversation, it was decided that the Treasures of Power needed to be saved. These included all things which had vast quantities of power, and were usually threatened during evil attacks. They usually came in sets of seven, but there were a few variations. There were 35 total, and the score was 2-1. Baby Knuckles swallowed a Chaos Emerald, Knuckles had the Master Emerald, (but didn't find out it was stolen until later) and Bowser had the Cobalt star.

It was also concluded that everone would split up and control, to the best of their ability, four of the artifacts remaining. Mario and Luigi would protect the 7 Star Spirits and the Star Rod. Rouge and Knuckles would keep track of the six remaining Chaos Emeralds, and two Sol Emeralds. Blaze and Amy would go after the remaining Sol emeralds and find three of the Crystal Stars in the Mario dimension. Sonic would be left to gather the four Black Chests that had powerful magical residue. Meanwhile, Tails and E. Gadd prepared to stall the spoiled prince and bumbling Eggman in any way, shape, or form they could.

While this was going on, two pals were relaxing at home until they got an unexpected visitor-their annoying helper from the past, Bozzeye. Banjo and Kazooie were practically retired heroes, long missing from any action whatsoever. Their last encounter with their archnemisis, Grunty, was over twelve years ago. Her lair, however, was still spick and span, and someone had repaired all the damage from when she got buried underground. Bozzeye told them about a most peculiar encounter he had while he was extending his molehill locations. "Well, I was just digging, and then I fell onto a hard floor up in that giant hag-head. Some spirits floated in, so I hurried over under an oversized bed. One fat ghost shared a bit about 'taking over the universe at the top of my tower', whatever that meant." He then collapsed on the ground, and Mumbo-Jumbo, the resident witch-doctor and person-who-watches-villainesses-make-their-comeback-and-always-live-to-tell-the-tale, came running and repeated the tale almost exactly the way Bozzeye described it, but he set it in Grunty's own triple-story mansion, which is linked to her lair.

Suddenly, a large time hole opened up and a giant vacuum nozzle appeared, which sucked up Banjo, Kazooie, and Mumbo. A similar thing happened to Humba-Wumba, the magical helper on the Isle-O'-Hags, and Jamjars, a military mole. They were all sucked down through a thin tube, and only Banjo benefitted from it, as he got MUCH slimmer. They landed in an oversized vacuum bag and were released by none other than E. Gadd. "Good day, everyone. You have now landed in another dimension." He sniggered for a moment. "You've been brought here for a reason, and that's because one of your...acquaintances, Bottles referred you to me. He also noted that we will need a silk coushin to carry a Kazooie on..."

"Awesome!" squawked Kazooie, who plopped down on it.

"...filled with fleas, ticks, and other such nasty creatures." At this Kazooie leaped up off of it. "We brought you all here because not only are most af you are familiar, but because of a Humba-Wumba's research with the 'reset theory'. That's you, right?"

"Yes, I Humba-Wumba. Old tale says there's reset button somewhere. Resets anything to what it was earlier. But button so powerful, it hidden. Button looks like remote. Humba-Wumba feels this situation is good for button. Tale also says a black hole sucked up button one day and button was never seen again."

WE'LL BE BACK AFTER THIS COMMERCIAL BREAK!

several members from PETA are hiding behind a flaming car
Member 1: Okay, when he comes out, we give him a hug. Agreed?
Members 2 + 3: Agreed!
Member 1: Shhh...I can hear him now!
Shadow walks in, unaware of the PETA members
Shadow: glowing red Death to all who oppose me! Chaos Blast! explosion

Announcer:
Crouching Hedgehog Activists Overhear Shadow Emerge Muttering Enchantments Releasing A Ludicrously Destructive Scene.

CHAOS EMERALDS

Even Shadow loves Chaos Emeralds!

Shadow is seen taking two emeralds

Chaos Emeralds are placed on a table against a wall
Shadow: At last, I've got ALL the Chaos Emeralds!
Sonic: Aren't you worried that someone will steal them?
Shadow: Nope. Check this out! pulls lever
wall behind table rotates the table out of view, which is replaced by an empty table on the other side
Sonic: Nice. Secret revolving wall.
Camera pans to other side of wall
Black arms in adjacent apartment: Guys, hurry! The magic table is back! begins grabbing emeralds
Other black arms: chanting Magic table...magic table...

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"Welcome back to 'The Planet's Dumbest Supervillians'! At number two in the countdown is Black Doom, who..." The TV changed through several channels.

Black Doom was furious, but he had been that way for weeks. He was watching an undamaged TV in Westopolis, waiting patiently for the day after next: the day he would help to destroy the universe and take revenge on that pathetic hedgehog and his pathetic friends and dominate their pathetic planet full of pathetic people, who were now rebiulding their pathetic cities with pathetic tools. But he and his gasses would take over the world in two days. He got so bored, he was prepared to watch all the little-kid shows for a whole day just to be ruler of the universe.

Meanwhile, in the far future, twelve animals were preparing for a voyage into the past. This event concerned them directly, because if someone died, at least one of them would vanish, or at the very least change drastically. The only thing they had to wait for was their time machine, which was built to look like a Chaos Emerald. The machine was supposed to have arrived with their good friend, Dr. Kintobor a few minutes ago. There were five hedgehogs, a bat, a rabbit, a fox, two echidnas, and two cats. The blue hedgehog was Summer, and her pink brother and white sister were Speedy and Snowball. The purple ones were named Ruby and Sapphire. Kneepads was always making sure her brother, Elbows, was okay. Inferno and Little were also brother and sister. Sugar and Spice were siblings, but they were different animals. Ebony was the sleek black bat in the shadowy corner, perfectly blending in.

Finally, Kintobor came with the machine. He reminded them, "Remember: your mission is only to help your parents' past selves, not to do anything beneficial for you. Who knows what could happen? But I do sincerely hope all goes as planned." Everyone touched another, so they wouldn't get left behind, and then, they vanished...