I said things would be picking up in this chapter… The reason is because I'm finally getting into the levels. Not all of the levels will be included, just the ones that seem to fit. They won't be labeled, either, and they may not be in the same order as in the game. Act 1 of each world, at the very least, will be included. This is the first chapter beta-read by my sister.

Super Mario Colors

Chapter 3: An invitation to the Tropical Resort?

Princess Peach sighed as she went through her mail. With Bowser having mysteriously vanished after Mario and Luigi beat him at the center of the universe a few weeks ago, things had been pretty boring. She never thought that she'd miss being kidnapped, but she did, and it had only gotten worse when Rosalina called the Mario Brothers for a mission last night.

"Is something wrong, Princess?" inquired an elderly voice with an English accent.

"Oh, Toadsworth, It's just so… Boring, I guess, without Bowser-"

Toadsworth looked shocked. "Your Highness! Are you saying you... miss being kidnapped every other week?"

"Well, not really, but it is a bit of an adventure. I wish – hey, what's this?" Peach had noticed that the letter she was holding was an invitation.

Come one, come all, to Eggman's incredible interstellar amusement park! We have attractions like no other, like the Free Money ride, It's an All-You-Can-Eat World, and Pick a Car, Any Car. We consider ourselves the universe's first fully green amusement park. All visitors to the park are entitled to a free blue hedgehog if they manage to catch one.

Please feel free to fill out a survey after you visit, your opinion matters to us.

Foiling evil plots, plans, or schemes is strictly prohibited.

V. I. P.: You are entitled to a free room at the Tropical Resort, for being hand-picked by Dr. Eggman. Dr. Eggman is also required to treat you with a free candlelit dinner for two.

"An amusement park! How fun! Let's go, Toadsworth!"

"Absolutely not! I forbid it!"

"Oh, then I suppose I should call someone to come kidnap-"

"ABSOLUTELY NOT! When did you become so stubborn, Princess? Well, if you MUST have one or the other, I suppose we can go to this amusement park. Don't expect me to have fun, though."

"Yay! I'll go pack!" Princess Peach ran off to her room.

Sonic started running down the path, Tails flying next to him. Luigi focused his power on his legs, and took off in a powerful dash to keep up. After a short while, they reached some rings.

"What are these?" Luigi asked, skidding to a stop as Sonic ran on ahead.

"They're Power Rings," Tails explained, "You can collect them by running through them, and they protect you from getting hurt." Tails demonstrated by flying through the rings, collecting them.

"Sort of like the Coins where I come from," Luigi noted, and ran to catch up with Tails. After a few hundred feet, they came along a rail floating inside a tunnel, with plenty of rings on top of it. Sonic was standing in the tunnel, looking up at the rail.

"Hey guys. You two got any ideas on how to reach this thing?"

"Well, I could fly you up, Sonic."

"I can reach it," Luigi said, "I'm very good at jumping, and, anyway, I'm new to this. I have to get experienced with these things. How exactly do you stay on that tiny strip of metal?"

"It's a rail," Tails explained, "You can 'grind' it like with a skateboard, except with your shoes."

"Ah," Luigi said, jumping up and landing nimbly on top of the rail. He was surprised by how slippery it was when he immediately started gaining speed, sliding down to the end of the rail in a couple of seconds. He surprised himself when he landed on the ground without tripping or losing speed, and continued running. Being faster than him, Sonic and Tails caught up quickly, and they kept running on the straight path until they reached a tall wall with a spring. Sonic didn't lose any time in doing a homing attack on the spring, Luigi simply jumped up, and Tails flew next to Luigi while he jumped.

Next came a couple of ledges, which they could each jump easily, but the robots after the second ledge surprised them. Luigi managed to bring the first Egg Pawn down with a powerful kick to the head, Tails sliced the second with his tails, and Sonic homing-attacked the third.

"These things are kind of weak, aren't they?" Luigi asked, not completely happy with the silence.

"Yeah," Sonic said, "just like all of the junk the Eggster builds," and then proceeded to do a light-dash through the winding path of rings that came up.

They had only run a couple of hundred feet when they came across another gap, with some flying robots in the air above it. Luigi kept running towards the gap, but, at the last second, crouched down and made an astonishingly long jump, managing to kick the Egg Pawn that was guarding the other side into pieces as he came down.

Sonic once again used his trusty Homing-Attack to reach the other side, and Tails flew across. Sonic ran straight onto the rail over the next gap, which, unlike the others, was open straight into space. As Sonic ran by, he knocked Luigi down, and Tails had to pick Luigi up as he flew by, carrying him over the abyss to the other side. Luigi then jumped down and started running next to Sonic again.

Within a few seconds, the three had come across a huge line of robots. Luigi avoided them, but Sonic and Tails both stopped, crouched down, and started rolling in place in what is known as the Spin-Dash. The shot forward at the same moment, tearing straight through all of the robots, and overtaking Luigi, who reacted by exclaiming "Wow! Think you could teach me that sometime?"

"Sure," Tails said, as he picked Sonic up to carry him across the large gap that had came up, "but not now."

Luigi simply jumped the gap again, "Of course not now, but it seems pretty useful."

"Less talking! More running!" Sonic said as Tails set him down, impatient as ever. About a hundred feet down the path, they came across a huge area of soil that looked rather soft, like it could be used to plant a garden.

Luigi skidded to a stop, and inspected the dirt. "Hey," he said, "I think I can dig through this"

"How would that work, Mr. Green?" Sonic asked as he ran back to see what was keeping Luigi.

Luigi reached his hand out and grabbed a large toy mallet out of nowhere, "With this. I call it my Squeaky Mallet. I can use it to drill into the ground."

"Oh…am I the only one who can't pull a random object out of nowhere here?" Sonic asked exasperatedly, and got no answer, as Luigi had already drilled through the ground, and Tails had flown ahead to 'see how balloons react when you jump on top of them.' After a few seconds, Sonic decided to follow Tails, who was bouncing off of the balloons, laughing childishly. Sonic decided that it would be a good idea to lie down and rest until Luigi came back up.

Luigi was rather surprised when robots started coming at him from all directions from the interior of the dirt, and quickly drilled down to reach an underground room full of rings. He spent quite some time down there to collect them all, and had to smash a few robots while he was there. After that, he jumped up a ledge and started running along the path, going around a loop. After that registered, he skidded to a stop, turned around, and looked at the loop.

"Who designed this place? Seriously, someone with no super-speed at all, like most people, wouldn't be able to run around that… Come to think of it, it would have taken them hours to get this far, even. I didn't see any cars on the way in." He walked a little further along the path, and came across some more dirt, which he used to drill back up. When he got to the top, he came out right next to Sonic, waking him up.

"Finally," Sonic said impatiently, "Let's get this show on the road. C'mon Tails!" He started running, and Luigi and Tails followed him. It didn't take very long for them to reach another rail, which all three jumped on. Soon, two more rails appeared on either side. Luigi took the left one, and Tails took the right, leaving Sonic in the middle. Up ahead, they could see a giant rainbow hoop, as well as the planet as the rail was going off into space. While they were going through a hoop, Sonic saw a glass cage with a strange-looking alien in it, and broke it open. The alien seemed to take a liking to Tails, and started flying next to him as he rode the rail.

"Aww… this little alien's pretty cute," Luigi commented, "I think Rosalina told me about them – the Wisps, I think. They're supposed to have an insanely powerful energy source or something like that, don't remember the details."

"Ha! I knew it was a good idea to come trash the place!"

"Sonic, just because it seems like an evil scheme may be going on, doesn't mean we need to trash the place."

"Oh look, a loop-thingy," Luigi said as they went around the loop, "Seriously, how is someone without super-speed supposed to use these?"

"You know," Sonic said as all three of them jumped off the rails and landed on the ground running, "I'm so used to running fast, that I never even thought of that. It's like Eggman's begging me to come in and trash the place."

"Sonic," Tails began, "Could we please stop talking about trashing the place? I kind of want to-"

"No way! It's an evil scheme, we need to trash the place!"

"You know," Luigi said, "Maybe we shouldn't. It's an amusement park, and Tails is-"

"No, we're totally gonna trash the place," Sonic interrupted Luigi. "Nothing good can come of one of Egghead's evil schemes." Sonic then proceeded to speed ahead of the other two.

"…He doesn't listen well, does he?" Luigi said, trying to catch up.

"Not really," Tails said, flying off after Sonic, with the alien following him.

Wow… writing adaptations to the levels is tedious. This is only Act 1 of the Tropical Resort, and I ended it early. If you're wondering, the alien Sonic frees is, in fact, Yacker. Also, this isn't just a straight adaptation of Sonic Colors, it's also an expansion. There are going to be a few side events going on throughout the story, for instance, Mario is still eating the cookies in Sweet Mountain. Again, suggestions are welcome, but be aware that pairings are going to stay with the status quo, that is, Amy's in love with Sonic, Bowser with Peach, Eggman's a bit of a romantic, and Mario and Peach have an unusual relationship.

Note from CLSG, the author's Beta - I want to see some serious Amy and Peach interaction here. Maybe some jealousy or arguing over their heroes. Make it happen!

Jakeroo123 - Maybe some arguing, but the two are going to end up as friends.