Mario & Sonic: Crossover Chaos!
Author Notes: I do not claim ownership over any characters mentioned in this story! The only things that I claim ownership over are N.O.A.H. and the Heart Crystals. Any other characters and items mentioned in this story are either owned by Nintendo or SEGA, and this story is for entertainment purposes only! Hello readers! It's me again, and this time, I'm bringing the heat with Chapter 4! After I posted the previous chapter, due to all of the e-mails that I got, I was beginning to notice that this story is starting to gain a lot of popularity. That makes me feel great, and I want thank everyone who wrote me a review and put this story under their favorites. I've also noticed that my chapters are starting to get ridiculously long, so to shorten the length of the chapter, I've decided to have this chapter focus on only one of the two worlds. I hope this doesn't disappoint you, but on the other hand, there is going to be more action in future chapters, so I really hope that evens it out. Well, before the author notes get any longer, I present to you Chapter 4!
Chapter 4: Green Hill Zone
As the adventure finally begins, we continue the story still on the peculiar planet known as Mobius. The time is nearly 10:15 am, and the location is just on the outskirts of Green Hill. Oh yes, despite the chaos that had occurred roughly two hours prior, it still looked just as beautiful, and just as pleasant. The golden sun's mighty rays were still raining down from the sky and bathing the trees and plants of the area. The emerald green grass, the towering palm trees, and the checkered patterned rocks still remained intact and were thriving in the caring warmth of the sun. The river, although large and mighty, delicately flowed the water down the stream, in the same manner a neutering mother would carry her young child. It is here that Mobius's newest hero makes his grand debut.
Outside of Green Hill, a mysterious blur was rapidly making it's way to the area. The blur was red with a touch of blue in it. The blur was moving at a rate that only a sonic boom could follow. On the very outskirts of Green Hill, the speedy blur came to a halt. As it halted, a loud screech could be heard in it's wake. Once the blur stopped, it began to take a form. It was none other than the new king of speed, Super Mario. When Mario stopped, he lost his balance from the skid, and almost fell over. He was able to maintain his stance, and let out a sigh. He was still trying to get the hang of his new ability.
As Mario stood there, he scanned the perimeter with his eyes. As far as he could see, there was no sign of Dr. Robotnik. If he just stood there, the doctor could easily get away, so he felt that he couldn't waste any more time. Mario backed up a few paces so that he could get a good start, when suddenly, he heard a faint voice calling out to him from behind.
"HEY MARIO, STOP!", the voice yelled. Mario turned around and saw his new companion, Miles "Tails" Prower flying up to him at full speed. As he approached his target, the young fox slowed down his pace, and landed a few feet in front of Mario. "Phew, I finally caught ya!", Tails said, "Listen, before I forget, I just realized that you have never been to Mobius before! I don't know how you did things in the Mushroom Kingdom, but I bet it was probably a lot different than how things are taken care of here. You must not know a thing about surviving here yet, so let me give you a brief tutorial on the things that are here, and what to do with them.", Tails lifted up the wrist of his right glove, revealing what looked like some sort of high tech wrist watch. Tails pressed a button on his wrist, and it began to light up. Suddenly, to Mario's surprise, a holographic image appeared from it. It was an image of three spinning golden rings. Tails began.
"First, and most importantly, these are rings. They may look like ordinary rings to you, but here on Mobius, they are necessary for survival. You'll need as many of these rings as possible to stay alive. If you get hit by an enemy, you'll probably drop all of your rings, so try to get back as many as possible before they disappear. If an enemy hits you when you don't have any of these rings, there's a huge possibility that you'll die, so keep your eyes peeled for these.", Mario gulped at the thought of dying. Tails pressed another button on his wrist. The image of the rings disappeared, and in it's place, an image of what looked like a t.v. screen appeared. "Next, these are called monitors. Monitors are scattered all throughout Mobius. If you smash one open, you'll get some sort of prize, such as rings, a speed boost, temporary invincibility, or more commonly, a force shield." Tails pressed a button on his wrist, and the monitor image vanished. Now, there was a image of Tails surrounded by an odd transparent field of energy. Tails continued, "If you get a force shield, you will be able to get hit by an enemy without losing your rings. However, if you get hit once, the shield will vanish, so be careful. There are many unique force shields. Some can let you breath underwater, and others can magnetically attract rings to you!", Tails pressed the button again. The image of Tails in the shield was replaced by the image of a spring. "This is a spring", said Tails, "You'll see these numerous times during our mission. If you step on these, they will send you up really high to places you couldn't normally reach. It's great for getting onto different paths or finding hidden treasures like monitors or rings." Tails pressed one more button on his wrist. The spring image disappeared, and in it's place, several images of creepy looking robots appeared on the hologram. "Last, but not least, these are a few of Dr. Eggman's creations. Eggman is known as one of the most intelligent scientists in the entire world, with an IQ of 300! Instead of fighting himself, Eggman usually sends out an army of robots that he builds himself. In the Green Hill zone, my scans have shown that Eggman has several of his earlier models running amuck in this area. They are the badniks.", Tails pointed at a black wasp-like robot, a purple caterpillar-like robot with spikes, a red crab-like robot, a ladybug-like robot on wheels, and a red pirana-like robot. He named them in that order, "These are Buzzbomber, Caterkiller, Crabmeat, Moto Bug, and Jaws. These are the most common enemies that you'll see in this area. They are actually pretty weak, and if you hit them at the right speed, you can destroy them like nothing!", Tails pressed the button on his wrist one more time, and the holographic image vanished. He pulled his glove's wrist back down and looked up at Mario, who was just soaking in all of the information that he just heard.
"Now that you know about the way things are done here on Mobius, you know what to do, right?", Tails asked. Mario stared at him for the longest time, then slowly, he nodded. A grand smile spread across the young fox's face. "Great, then let's do this!", he shouted. Mario nodded, looked ahead of him, and officially began his adventure! (Cue Green Hill Zone Theme)
With Tails following behind him, Mario started out at a slight jog, and then gradually brought himself up to sonic speed. Up ahead, he could three rings floating in between two palm trees. He jumped up and grabbed them without slowing down. Not far away was a large checker-stoned outcrop with a monitor on it. He flipped onto the outcrop and smashed the monitor, gaining ten more rings. As Mario and Tails continued, they were confronted by a Buzzbomber. This badnik kept firing lasers at them, but Mario was quickly able to dodge them, and slammed himself right into the machine, destroying it with a mighty explosion. In front of them, Mario noticed that there was a spring hiding on top of the palm tree up ahead. Mario leaped from the stone outcrop, and landed on the spring, sending him skyward, which led him to six more rings. Moving upward on the spring for the first time was a marvelous sensation to Mario; up above he felt like he was really soaring. The force of the spring propelled him for quiet a few meters, and he landed feet first in front of a wooden bridge.
Ahead, Mario grew sight of a Jaws badnik jumping up and over the bridge to try to get a piece of the Italian plumber. Mario thought he could outrun it, but unfortunately, the Jaws was able to get a bite out of him! This caused Mario to panic, and he dropped all of his rings. Luckily, he was able to pick them all back up before they disappeared. Mario continued ahead with his fast pace down a steady slope, but suddenly, the trail made a sharp slope up, like a skating ramp. Mario dashed up this ramp, and grabbed the rings that were on it. The trail Mario and Tails were on began to ascend, as a bunch of checker-stoned ledges laid ahead of them. Without hesitating, Mario leaped up onto and ahead of these, destroying the two Crabmeats that got in their way. This brought Mario to another wooden bridge that was guarded by not just one, but two more Jaws. Nervous, Mario looked back at Tails, whom gave him a nod of reassurance. Mustering his courage, Mario crouched into a little ball, and performed his first spin dash across the bridge. With perfect timing, the spin dash cut right through the Jaws, destroying them both when they jumped up to the bridge.
The path began to travel upward even more. Mario jumped onto a white boulder to grab two more rings, and then leaped onto the ledge of the heightening path. It was there, that Sonic and Tails were greeted by two more Buzzbombers. Luckily, they were able to destroy both of them before they fired their weapons. The path lead Mario up a very gradual hill, which gave him five rings. Mario and Tails had to stop, because the path had been interrupted by a big gap. It looked like a long way down, so Mario didn't want to risk jumping over it. To his luck, Mario found a spring in front of him. He could use this to get past the gap. Without any more hesitation, Mario jumped onto the spring, and flew right over the gap. He landed hard on the ledge on the other side, grabbing two more rings. However, before Mario could take a step, he could feel the ground becoming very uneasy. Suddenly, before he knew it, the whole ledge he was standing on gave out and collapsed under his feet! As Mario fell down the cliff, Tails called out Mario's name in shock. To cushion the fall, Mario curled himself in a little ball, and waited to feel the hard ground against his bones. Fortunately, Mario was able to land, in the gap feet first. Mario was a bit shaken up about this, but only for half a second. He just kept on moving. Tails chuckled to himself. With that will to keep moving, this Mario guy kind of reminded him of Sonic the Hedgehog.
Continuing on his way, Mario jumped over a set of spikes, and landed on a conveniently placed spring, which sprung him up to three more rings. The spring got him over another set of spikes that was right in front of him. Ahead of him, Mario could see three more sets of spikes, which he all quickly jumped over. He landed on a checker-stoned outcrop in front of him, and was surprised to see four monitors lined up next to each other all in a row. Mario smashed the first three monitors and got ten rings from each of them. However, when he smashed the fourth monitor, something different happened. He was suddenly surrounded by sparkling stars. Confused, he looked back at Tails, but then remembered what he previously said to him. Some containers could also make you temporally invincible! Mario assumed that's what happened to him, and got a mischievous smirk on his face. Things suddenly got a bit more interesting.
Jumping up onto the ledge ahead of him, the temporarily invincible Mario continued on his merry way. Not far away, Mario could clearly see a Moto Bug charging right at him with his pincers exposed for a strong offence. Unfortunately for the Moto Bug, Mario's defense was stronger, so the plumber simply ran right through him, destroying the robot without lifting a finger. As the ledge he was on came to an end, Mario saw that over his left shoulder, there was a higher ledge that could get him back onto the main trail. With the help of Tails, Mario got back onto the main trail, which led Mario to his first (and certainly not last) loop. Mario was nervous at first, but was easily able to put his newfound speed to use, as he flipped through the loop with no problem, grabbing himself five more rings.
Past the loop, Mario now saw that the trail was coming to a dead end, as there was a giant wall of checkered stone in front of him. However, Tails noticed that there was a hole in the wall for them to go through. It wasn't a very large hole, so Mario and Tails curled themselves into tiny balls, and went through. Surprisingly to Mario, it felt like the hole was sucking him in like a vacuum. The trail dropped them lower in an extremely curvy fashion. Mario and Tails were released from the vacuum, but before they could take form, they couldn't stop rolling, which caused them to get sucked into another vacuum hole in the checker stoned wall ahead of them. This trail was just as curvy, and wasn't exactly Mario's favorite part of Green Hill.
Like the last one, Mario and Tails were shot from the hole with a lot of force. With all of the excitement, and still curled into a ball, Mario didn't notice that he was heading towards a giant ramp-like structure. He and Tails rolled right through the ramp, which sent them literally soaring into the air. Higher and higher Mario rose, and more and more his adrenalin began to pump. This was one the most exciting experiences he had all day! At the peak of Mario's flight, there was a huge hoard of rings clumped together, simply floating in the air without a care. Before their decent, Mario and Tails were able to grab about twenty-six of the floating rings, and smash open a Buzzbomber that was floating around where it shouldn't have been. After a brief fall, Mario safely landed in between two palm trees. It was now, that Mario's invincibility finally wore of. The circling stars vanished from him, and he was vulnerable once again.
Jumping over two ledges, and a marble outcrop, Mario made his way to yet another wooden bridge, guarded by two more Jaws. In one bountiful flip, he was able to slice open both of the Jaws that jumped up to get him, and grab the five rings that were suspended on it. It was at this point, that Tails noticed that the chaos signal was getting a little stronger. Mario and Tails leaped down from the ledge, grabbed five more rings, and crossed paths with another checker-stoned outcrop. Mario noticed there was a monitor on top of it, so he leaped onto it, smashed it open, collected ten rings, and daintily leaped down. Up ahead, Mario saw that the trail mysteriously ended, and at the end of it, there was a platform. The platform had the same rich emerald green grass that the rest of Green Hill had growing, and it looked just large enough to fit both Mario and Tails. They both stepped onto the tiny platform. As soon as they stepped on, they noticed that it was slowly starting to decent from the ledge they were previously on. When the platform made it to the bottom of the ledged, Mario and Tails leaped off, and continued down a steady slope of a hill, collecting a final ten rings. Everything after that was a long stretch of palm trees and nothingness.
"Okay Mario, I think we can stop here for now. The chaos radar is acting much stronger than before!", Tails shouted ahead to Mario. Mario obligely stopped, but tapped his foot impatiently. Tails outstretched the chaos radar ahead of himself, trying to get a clear reading of where Dr. Robotnik might be. Suddenly, after a few circles, the chaos radar began to beep and vibrate harder than louder! Tails silently pointed his finger to the East and instructed Mario to go in that direction. Mario and Tails jogged for a few yards in that direction, crossing a wooden bridge in the process. They brought themselves to an open area of Green Hill, with nothing in sight but the palm trees, the river behind them, and two grassy platforms floating in midair. It was here that Tails's chaos radar was going absolutely crazy! As it violently shook, Tails instructed out to Mario.
"Oh yeah, we're definitely close by! My best guess would be a few meters that way!" Suddenly, a low voice cackled out of no where to Tails.
"Or better yet, why don't you try behind you!", Tails and Mario quickly turned around, only to see the menacing Dr. Robotnik come towards them in his Egg Mobile. "Well, well, well, if it isn't the fox boy! What brings you here? Trying to play super hero again? If I were you Tails, I'd go play somewhere else. These parts can be very... dangerous sometimes." Anger began to flow through Tails
"Eggman!", shouted Tails, "Hand over the Chaos Emerald you took! We've been hunting you down all day!", Normally, Robotnik would have gotten mad at such defiance, especially if that crack came from a certain blue hedgehog, however, Robotnik seemed quite amused by this.
"My, my, such sharp words for lad such as yourself. I guess I could say the same for you. I saw what you did to my lovely robots all over this zone. And who is this we your talking about? Surly you're not talking about that ragtag hedgehog, Sonic, especially in light of the situation that he's currently in!" Tails seemed really taken back by this comment. It was true that Sonic didn't answer his communicator earlier that day. Did Eggman know something that Tails didn't?
"Sonic... what do you mean by that Eggman? Did you do something to him?! I swear, if you did...", Robotnik wasn't paying attention to the two-tailed fox. He scanned his eyes across the field, and landed them on a certain Italian plumber. Robotnik's eyes dilated behind his glasses.
"You again?!", Dr. Eggman shouted, "Hmph, you're pretty persistent aren't you? I didn't actually think you would have survived our first meeting! So, I see that you've teamed up with the fox boy. Well that's fine with me, the joke's on you! I still have your little heart-shaped gem, and with this Chaos Emerald with me, I can't lose!"
"That's what you said the other twenty-eight times!", Tails shot back at the scientist. This hit a soft nerve for Dr. Robotnik. He slammed his fist on his control panel, and his wrecking ball dropped down once again.
"Why you ungrateful pest! I'm aught to crush you right now for saying that!", Tails gasped and stepped back one step. Seeing his distress, Mario ran in front of Tails, and outstretched his arms, glaring at Eggman. Tails whispered into Mario's ear.
"Mario, that's Eggman's wreaking ball. My friend Sonic told me about it once or twice. Defeating it is fairly simple. All you have to do is jump and move. Make sure to hit Eggman in his cockpit. I know you had difficulty earlier, but with the sneakers I gave you, you should be fine. I know you can do it!", Mario's glaring eyes never left Dr. Robotnik's. Robotnik casually laid himself back in his seat.
"So, that's the way it's going to be huh? I see that you have chosen the side you want to fight for. Very well then, as a miserable rodent once said, you want this emerald so badly? You'll have to fight me for it! Robotnik charged at Mario, swing the wreaking ball as he went. Mario and Tails looked back at each other and nodded. They knew what must be done. Just as Eggman was about to attack them, Mario and Tails both dived out of the way in opposite directions. Thinking fast, while Robotnik's backside was facing, Mario flipped onto one of the platforms, and slammed right into him. Robotnik jerked and let out a grunt, and Mario let himself hit the ground. Mario didn't have much time to think as Robotnik changed direction and swung his ball again. He spin dashed under the ball just as it was about to hit him; he barely felt the ball scrape against his back. Mario jumped up onto the opposite platform and slammed himself into Dr. Robotnik's Egg Mobile yet again. The Egg Mobile took a decent amount of damage.
Getting angry, Robotnik swung his wreaking ball a little harder. As Mario landed on the ground, he didn't have time to dive out of the way. WHAM! The ball hit Mario square in the chest, making him fly soaring across the field. Dr. Eggman laughed lowly as Mario dropped every last one of his rings. Luckily, Mario was able to retain consciousness this time, much to the shock of Eggman, but if he didn't get his rings back, and fast, his game would be over! (Pun intended) Mario zoomed across the field, dodging the wrecking ball in the process, and was able to recover twenty of his rings. Now, it was personal! Letting determination brew up inside of him, Mario leaped up without the help of the platform, curled into a ball, and slammed himself into the Egg Mobile yet again. Tails cheered Mario on, as Robotnik continued to swing his ball. Mario rolled under the ball again, jumped onto the platform, and hit Eggman once more. As Robotnik floated there, dread began to secretly fill his body, as he noticed that he was gradually losing control of the Egg Mobile, due to all of the damage. As Eggman continued to swing, he eventually hit Mario again, sending him across the field. Mario recovered twelve of his rings, and slammed himself into Dr. Robotnik a fifth time.
This battle went on for another minute or so. As Robotnik swung the ball, Mario just ducked under it again, and hit Robotnik's craft. Bit by bit, Robotnik could feel his Egg Mobile failing, and he didn't know how much longer he could keep up with it. Eggman managed to hit Mario once more, buying him some time. Mario grabbed eight of his rings, jumped onto the platform again, and flipped his body into Eggman again. As this battle became dragged out long enough, Mario heard Tails shout out to him.
"Mario! You're almost there! Just one more hit should do it!", Hearing this, Dr. Eggman tried to swing his ball more rapidly, but it did no good for him. As Mario spin dashed under the ball, he leaped up onto the grassy platform, and with all of his might, he slammed into Dr. Robotnik as hard as he could. This left a substantial dent on the Egg Mobile. Suddenly, sparks began to fly from Eggman's craft. Much to Robotnik's fright, the hull suddenly burst into flames! The flames ran down the craft, and burnt right through the chain that supported the wreaking ball. The ball fell to the ground and smashed into little pieces, leaving the poor doctor wide open and defenseless.
"GAH!! RETREAT!", Dr. Eggman shouted as the whole craft began to fill with smoke. As Robotnik began to fly away to escape, an electronic voice came from the craft's control board.
"I told you that you should have brought something more deadly, but noooooooooo! You had to be Mr. Overconfident AS USUAL and bring the stupid wreaking ball! This is the third time that it's failed! Why can't you learn from your mistakes?!", the voice of N.O.A.H. scolded the doctor.
"Oh just shut up and fly N.O.A.H., we have to keep the emerald secure before... oh no!", Dr. Eggman looked behind him only to see that he was behind followed by none other than Miles "Tails" Prower! As the brave fox spun his helicopter-like tails harder, he made his way up to the Egg Mobile, until Tails was shoulder to shoulder with the doctor. As Eggman stared nervously at the two-tailed fox, Tails balled his hand into a fist, cracked his knuckles, and shouted to Robotnik.
"Eggman! Give us that Chaos Emerald!", and without any hesitation, he punched Dr. Eggman right across the face, sending the Egg Mobile spinning out of control. As Robotnik screamed like a little girl, the force of the spinning craft flung Dr. Robotnik's gray Chaos Emerald out of his reach, sending it plummeting to the ground. Luckily, the speedy Italian plumber was tailing the bunch not too far behind, and was able to dive out, and catch the Chaos Emerald in his cupped hands before it hit the ground. As Mario lied there on the ground, Tails landed himself beside him, and together, they watched Dr. Robotnik disappear into the horizon.
Tails outstretched his hand and helped Mario up onto his feet. As Mario held the grey emerald up to the sun, it glistened beautifully, like everything else around them. Mario could feel the power coming from the Chaos Emerald. It was warm, yet somewhat comforting. Strangely enough, it felt almost identical to the power he felt drawn from the Heart Crystal back at Princess Peach's castle in the Mushroom Kingdom.
"Well, it's not your Heart Crystal, but it'll do for now.", said Tails, "One down six to go, then you get to go back home!", Mario nodded, but Tails continued, "But still... what Eggman said before... about my friend Sonic... just what did he mean be that? 'In light of the situation he's currently in.' Could something of happened to him?", Mario gave Tails a pat of reassurance on the shoulder and said something to him, "What? Your right Mario. I'm sure I'll see Sonic again too. Now then, on to more important matters, where to find the next Chaos Emerald.", Tails pulled out the Chaos radar and pushed a few buttons on it, reconfiguring it. After a few minutes of scanning, Tails found a location.
"Hmmmm, according to the radar signal, the closest energy reading is a long way up North. I'd say a couple hundred miles.", Tails looked up at Mario, "Whaddya say Mario? Are you up for a little work out?", Mario stood there for a few seconds. He stowed the Chaos Emerald into his overall pocket, and a smile came across his face. He backed up a few feet, and sprinted away, up to sonic speed, until he was nothing but a blur yet again. As Tails watched Mario's figure fade northward off in the distance, he couldn't help but smirk to himself. In fact, he ended up bursting into laughter.
"Oh yeah," Tails said chuckling, " This guy is definitely like Sonic!", Finishing up his joyful recollection, Miles Prower rapidly spun his twin tails, and chased after his new friend.
With one of the seven Chaos Emeralds in their possession, Mario and Tails make their way over the vastly region of Mobius to their next grand adventure. However, there are still some things that are left unsaid. Is this the last we'll see of Dr. Eggman? Where exactly are Mario and Tails headed? Will Tails ever learn the sad truth of Sonic's fate? Those questions, among others, will be answered in the future. Be sure to come back next chapter, where we take a look on the adventures of Luigi and Sonic the Hedgehog as they hunt down the first Heart Crystal in the Mushroom World. All this and more next time, on Chapter 5 of Mario & Sonic: Crossover Chaos! Okay so what did you guys think? Personally, I think I could've done better, but it's really all up to what you guys think. If you hadn't already guessed, this was basically an exact retelling of Green Hill Zone Act 1, and the boss battle, from the original Sonic the Hedgehog video game. I had to watch a lot of videos, and it took me a while to try to describe the level in a way that did it justice. This chapter was my tribute to the older Sonic games. Also, I'm aware that I didn't meet my two month deadline that I set for myself last chapter. There are no excuses this time, I was just lazy, sue me! On that note, I'm guessing that Chapter 5 should be out in about two or three months. I know that sounds long, so please bear with me! I'll work on it whenever I get enough time, and I'll see if I can get it out before then. I really appreciate everybody who has enjoyed the series thus far! As always, please leave lots of honest reviews! I'm open to any suggestions or questions you may have. Until next chapter, bye for now!