Here's the chapter that shows the very first "big" thing!

Enjoy! ;)

Chapter 10: Dreamy Sandstorm

Previously, the group of heroes just defeated Torkscrew and saved Britta. Now upon catching sight of some ruins up ahead where the Dream Stone is, they wasted no time in heading there.

Unfortunately, upon going up the stairs… They found no sight of the Dream Stone; just a lonely pedestal with another dark gem on it.

"Huh? What?! There's nothing here!" Starlow exclaimed.

"What's going on?" Kirby asked.

"And there's another Chaos Emerald corrupted into nightmare." Sonic picks up the petrified Emerald. "So another one of my friends is here…"

"GWAHAHAHA!" just then, they heard Bowser's laugh.

"What the… BOWSER!" Mario growled as Bowser and Antasma descended down.

"Hold on, don't tell me…" Jewel started.

"Yup! You're too late, chumps!" Bowser finished. He then pulls out the Dream Stone with his claw.

"No! That's…the Dream Stone!" Dreambert said in unbelief.

"SCREEE! Vee meet again, Dreambert… And you, Princess Jewel, daughter of the king of this island… How much you've changed…" Antasma eyed at Dreambert and Jewel. "Vell, I could not steal the Dark Stone… So this Dream Stone vill have to do! I vill not be defeated again! SCRAAAEEK!"

Bowser grabs onto Antasma again and both took off.

"Antasma! You coward!" Dreambert hissed, shaking his fist angrily. "GAH!"

"Gotta hand it to 'em—they know how to make an exit!" Starlow remarked.

"Hurry! We must pursue!"

"Cool it, princey! No one likes a hot pillow. We don't even know where they ran off to!"

"Hmm… Fair enough…"

"Yeah, we need to look for clues. That's how we find them." Mario said.

Eventually, the entire ruins began to shine in an aura like a bright morning sun.

"Is this place…shining?" Ribbon Girl looked around.

"Hmmm…" Dreambert pondered. "Could this be…a Dreampoint?"

"Dreampoint?" Sonic tilted his head.

"Yes, look—this is where the Dream Stone rested. This place is a Dreampoint! It's a place where dreamers can be one with their dreams. There are multiple Dreampoints scattered throughout the island."

"Wait… That fancy bed at the collection room of my castle and Brickle's bed also had similar auras like this one! So those beds were also Dreampoints?" Jewel wondered.

"Possibly. And remember that Antasma casted a spell that traps anyone in the Chaos Emeralds when they're next to a Dreampoint?"

"Oh… So my friends are all trapped in those Dreampoints… That explains why this Emerald was left here!" Sonic concluded.

"Correct. Sleeping on this Dreampoint may give us what we need… The whereabouts of the Dream Stone!"

"So I'll sleep here and we all search the dream world for clues?" Luigi guessed.

"Indeed. You heard the man, Luigi! Rest your head upon me, and enter the world of dreams! But please try not to drool…"

"Um…okay."

Dreambert turns into his pillow form and lands on the pedestal, which was now working as a frame, and Luigi rests his head on the pillow, creating a dream portal, with Sonic placing the Emerald at the left side right next to Luigi. Jewel then watches her Magical Pillow turning white.

"That Emerald used to be white before getting encased in nightmare!" she informed.

"White? Oh! Now I remember! I gave this Emerald to Silver!" Sonic told. "So he's the next one we'll find trapped in this dream world!"

Jewel then rests on her pillow before Mario and his crew jumped into the portal.

"Good luck, everyone!" Starlow said.

Upon arriving at the dream world, they were greeted once again by Dreamy Luigi and Dreamy Jewel, but also heard a voice afterwards:

"Sonic?"

Everyone saw a silver-white hedgehog approaching them. It was Silver!

"Wow! I can't believe you actually found me here!" he exclaimed. "I was starting to get worried."

"Heh, it's all thanks to Luigi that we managed to come here and find you!" Sonic gave thumbs up.

"Luigi? Oh, the Mario Brothers are here!"

"Close enough." Mario responded. "That Luigi over there is not physically here. Same goes to Jewel."

"You see, Silver, we're all inside my dreams." Dreamy Luigi added. "We came here not just to save you, but to search for clues about a wish-granting stone called the Dream Stone."

"Bowser happened to come to it first and stole it, and now we need to find out where he took off to." Sonic finished.

"I see. Well, since I'm trapped here, let me join you!" Silver said.

"Sure!"

They all moved forward to explore this part of Dreamy Dozing Sands. After getting rid of some Skipdrills and moving to the other side with the Luiginary Cylinder, they encountered a sleeping being above a platform.

"Is that…?" Yoshi started.

"Yes! This is the Dream Stone's spirit!" Dreambert exclaimed.

"Its spirit? The dream Stone has a mind of its own?" Ribbon Girl asked.

"Indeed. This is the spot in the dream world where the Dream Stone used to be!"

"Oh! I see! The Dream Stone was stolen physically, but not mentally!" Dreamy Jewel concluded. "Because this is the Dream World, its spirit is still here! Its spirit stayed in the same spot in the dream world!"

"Perhaps we can ask it where the Dream Stone is!" Kirby said.

Just then, the Dream Stone's spirit woke up by itself.

"Oh, great. Great! Who are these jokers?!" it grumbled. "You came from the real world, did you?"

"We did." Mario nodded. "You see…"

He explains everything to the Dream Stone's spirit. After he finished, the spirit speaks:

"Well whoopity-doo! You wanna know where the Dream Stone is?" everyone nodded. "OK. So I'd be happy to… NOT TELL YOU!" everyone face-faulted by this.

"And WHY?!" Sonic asked bitterly.

"Someone moved the Dream Stone in the real world. Which makes me really drowsy and cranky. And I gotta sleep all the time to stay moisturized. So EXCUUUUSE me if I don't have time to help you. So I'd be happy to… NOT TELL YOU!"

"But Pi'illo Island is in grave danger!" Dreamy Jewel cried out as she took a step forward. "If we never know the location of the Dream Stone, imagine what will happen!"

"Yeah, right." The spirit rolled its eyes. "And don't even think about following me! I won't talk!" it flew all the way down to another spot and fell asleep.

"Well, that went poorly." Dreambert spoke.

"Did it seriously not believe Jewel at all?! What a jerk!" Sonic grumbled.

"And throughout this whole adventure, Sonic keeps calling any harsh person a jerk…" Ribbon Girl thought while sweatdropping.

"We have no other leads. We need to get it to talk!" Dreambert said.

They moved on. After moving around with the Luiginary Cylinder, they came upon with the Luiginoid Formation once again, activating blue and red switches, which made their corresponding colored platforms to rise up, to progress.

Soon, they finally reached the spirit.

"Hey! Wake up!" Mario called out, and the spirit woke up again, looking annoyed:

"Great… Uncle Mustache, El Beardo and a bunch of other people I don't care for are back. Don't you have anything better to do?!"

"Uncle Mustache?" Mario raised an eyebrow.

"I never grew a beard…" Dreamy Luigi muttered.

"So…no names for us? How lame…" Sonic rolled his eyes.

"Then again, I'd probably call you Blue Rat or something." The spirit said.

"ANOTHER ONE?! ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!" Sonic yelled so loud that it caused the rest of the group to cover their ears.

"Whoa! Why would Sonic yell so loud?" Ribbon Girl asked.

"He always explodes when anyone calls him a rat…" Mario sweatdropped.

"You're lucky I can't turn Dark in here! Or else you'd be dead!" Sonic growled.

"Whatever. Anyway, I'm tired. And my skin is all dry and flaky from stress!" the spirit replied.

"You don't look like you have skin to me…" Silver commented.

"Look, just tell us where the Dream Stone is and we'll leave, okay?" Mario offered.

"Ah, I get what you're saying… That's REALLY complicated…" the spirit pondered. "Fine… So I'd be happy to… NOT TELL YOU!" everyone face-faulted again.

"OH COME ON!" Sonic yelled. "First, you call me a rat, and now you refuse to tell us AGAIN?! You jerk!"

"Shaddup! Shaddup! You! Slap a cork in it!"

"I don't NEED a cork!"

"Ugh… You're the one who's the most annoying between all of you, you know that?" the spirit then lets out a yawn: "Yaaawn. So…sleepy. Mmmmm, g'night." It then flies away to another portion of the area and drifts off to sleep again.

"I'm the most annoying?! I swear…" Sonic muttered.

"Please, Sonic, cool it off a bit. I'm sure we'll find a way for the spirit to tell us." Dreamy Jewel assured.

"Anyway, we need to break these rocks somehow in order to reach the spirit." Mario looked down at the rocks. "I'm pretty sure a single Ground Pound won't work."

"Hmm… Shall we try breaking them with the Luiginoids?" Dreamy Jewel invited.

"Okey-Dokey!" Dreamy Luigi nodded before zooming into the constellation and the stack of Luiginoids was back.

The Luiginoids jumped up simultaneously before they all did a ground pound, diving all the way down while breaking all of the rocks. Once all of the Luiginoids landed hard on the ground, the impact was so loud that it even woke up the spirit.

"Come ON! Relentless!" it growled. "And now there's more of you clowns?!"

"Just shut up and tell us already! Or else we'll kick your butt!" Sonic demanded.

"Gaaaah! All right, fine! OK. I give up. You got me. Enough already. Geez… I'll tell you where the Dream Stone is."

"Well?"

"It's in SHADDUPVILLE! NOT TELL YOU!"

The whole group of top of the stack face-faulted, while some Luiginoids facepalmed.

Dreambert couldn't take it anymore; his eye twitched and then he screamed:

"INSOLENCE!"

"Ooooooh. You mad?" the spirit mocked. "Is da wittle piwwo mad?" it spoke in a babyish voice. "'Insolence!' Adorable. Ha hah! Aha ha ha! 'INSOLENCE!' Priceless!" it then flew all the way up.

"THAT IS NOT FUNNY!" Dreambert yelled. "YOU WILL PAY FOR—No. Hooo… Deep breath." He calms himself down.

"Okay… We need to teach this spirit a lesson!" Sonic demanded bitterly. "Because I'm just as mad as you are, Dreambert!"

"Yeah! Let's make that spirit talk!"

"One problem: it's way too high." Ribbon Girl spoke up. "How are we going to get all the way up there?"

"Hmm… Oh! I know!" Dreamy Jewel beamed. "Luiginoids, could you all crouch?"

The Luiginoids nodded and they all crouched low enough.

"Now let's see what happens if you release your crouching!" Dreamy Jewel then turns to the heroes. "Guys, get ready for a ride!"

With that, the Luiginoids released their crouching…and what was the result? They all sprung up REALLY high into the air in a fast speed.

"WOOOOHOOOOOO!" Baby Mario was the only one having fun, while the others were holding on for dear life until the Luiginoids landed on solid ground, right next to the sleeping spirit.

"Golly… That was a fast trip…" Baby Luigi remarked, feeling a bit woozy.

"But it was fun!" Baby Mario chirped.

"Glad you enjoyed it… Because I'm feeling quite nauseous right here…" Silver spoke queasily.

"Well, looks like we landed right next to the spirit!" Dreamy Jewel pointed down at the sleeping spirit. Dreamy Luigi then disables the Luiginoid Formation to get everyone down.

"Leave that jerk to me!" Sonic immediately walked next to the spirit. "Sorry, dude. You have been annoying me a lot, so I'll have to wake you up in the harshest way possible!"

Sonic jumps up in the air and did a very powerful Homing Attack at the spirit.

"WOWCH!" it winced from the impact and bounced all around the area before falling upside down on the sand. "You insolent rat are REALLY annoying…" it then got back up.

"YOU are the one who annoyed me! And stop calling me a rat! I'm a hedgehog!" Sonic growled.

"All right. Think you can annoy a spirit? Time to pay the price. Too late for apologies!" the spirit growled back. It flies into the background where many gears were floating. "DRILLDIGGER ON!" it yelled.

All of a sudden, the spirit glowed brightly as all of these gears flew into it. As more gears and machines coalesced into the spirit, it began to form a mechanical being, getting larger and larger by the second.

"Something tells me that we've made a huge mistake…" Yoshi gulped.

Just then, once the transformation was complete, the machine dropped down, but it was massive; almost measuring 50 ft.: the size of a T-rex.

"ACTIVATE!" the machine, known as Robo-Drilldigger spoke, glaring at the heroes, with some of them now freaking out.

"MAMA MIA!" Mario panicked.

"OH MY GOD!" Ribbon Girl yelled in shock.

"Nice going, Sonic…" Silver glared at Sonic.

"Hey! It's not my fault!" Sonic glared back.

"Guys! This is NOT the perfect time to argue! We have a dangerous problem in our hands!" Dreamy Jewel warned.

"TIME TO PAY!" Robo-Drilldigger yelled and shoulder-tackles the wall, causing it to shake and parts of it to break and fall down. At the same time, Luigi at the real world moans in fear as he cowers with his cap, and the 'L' on it began to glow. Dreamy Luigi did the same thing and his body begins to glow green.

"AAAAH! THIS IS BAD!" Kirby screamed.

"WHAT TO DO NOW?!" Yoshi cried out.

"Dreamy Luigi! Stay strong!" Dreambert flew to Dreamy Luigi, still cowering in fear and crouched down on the ground. "Huh? What is that? Dreamy Luigi's body is…shining?"

"Oh… I sense something big is about to happen!" Dreamy Jewel suspected.

"Are you OK?! DREAMY LUIGI!" Dreambert tries to call for him, but no response.

*CRASH!*

Robo-Drilldigger tackles the wall again.

"Hmm… We might need some help from the real world! That's our best bet, Dreambert!" Dreamy Jewel told.

"*CRASH!* I'LL CRUSH YOU! *CRASH!* INTO PIECES! *CRASH!*" Robo-Drilldigger growled as it tackles the wall more.

"YIKES!" Baby Luigi yelped.

"Uh oh! Hurry, Jewel!" Dreambert warned.

"I'm on it!" Dreamy Jewel quickly pulls out her Calling Moonstone and calls for Starlow. "Starlow! Starlow!"

At the real world, Starlow noticed Luigi's cowering before Dreamy Jewel gave her call:

"Hey! I think something's wrong with Luigi!"

"Starlow! Starlow!" Dreamy Jewel's voice came into Starlow's head.

"Jewel?! What is it this time?"

"We're in grave danger here at the dream world! Do something! Quick!"

"Ehh?! I need to do something? I don't know what to do!"

"Umm… Try touching Luigi! Anywhere on his head!"

"I should just touch Luigi? Errr…"

"Oh! I almost forgot! Is there anything that's sparkling on him?"

"Huh? Uh… Hold on! The 'L' on his cap is glowing!"

"The 'L' on his cap? That's it! Touch it, Starlow! Hurry!"

Starlow then does a quick touch on the 'L' insignia on the cap. Just then, at the dream world, two Luiginoids merged within Dreamy Luigi while speaking:

Big bro and friends are in danger!

"Whoa, what's that?" Dreambert asked.

"His glow became intense… Oh, right!" Dreamy Jewel calls for Starlow again: "Starlow! Can you do that again?"

"Eh?! So I should just touch the 'L' on Luigi's cap?!" Starlow questioned.

"Yes! But this time, hold it down!"

Starlow does that, and more and more Luiginoids merged within Dreamy Luigi.

I gotta help my bro and friends!

I'll protect my bro and my friends!

"Starlow! That's enough!" Dreamy Jewel warned once an endless shower of Luiginoids were merging automatically. "Dreamy Luigi is…"

Suddenly, Dreamy Luigi began to grow bigger and bigger, ending up in the same size as Robo-Drilldigger.

"Huh?! What the-?!" Dreamy Luigi wasn't expecting that. "AH! I'm huge?!"

He looked at Robo-Drilldigger, glaring madly at him.

"YOU DARE CHALLENGE ME?!" Robo-Drilldigger threatened Giant Luigi, shaking its left drill at him like a clenched fist.

"Well, I…" Giant Luigi hesitated; he didn't feel quite safe fighting Robo-Drilldigger all by himself.

"Luigi! That was amazing!" he then heard Sonic's voice coming from below. He looked down and saw all of his friends safe and sound.

"You guys! *deep sigh* I am so glad you're still okay!" Giant Luigi let out a sigh of relief.

The group ran towards Giant Luigi and jumped all the way to the top of his cap.

"You can do this, Luigi. Remember, we're all here for you." Mario encouraged him.

"That should even things!" Dreamy Jewel winked.

Giant Luigi felt confident and stood in his fighting stance, ready to take out Robo-Drilldigger. He starts by stomping it, sending it a few feet away. Robo-Drilldigger then surrounds itself with a large tornado and sends out small tornadoes at Giant Luigi, but he jumped over to avoid them.

Robo-Drilldigger sends out the tornado at the distance, giving the chance for Giant Luigi to whack it into the tornado with a Hammer Chop. The tornado caused Robo-Drilldigger to fling into the air and land hard on the ground, taking more damage. Robo-Drilldigger then takes on a tank-like form and charges straight for Giant Luigi, but he engaged it with his hammer, sending it far away into the mountains, demolishing them.

Robo-Drilldigger came back, still in its tank-like form, so Giant Luigi had to use Hammer Chop on it since its drills are pointing upwards above its head. Robo-Drilldigger then takes on a helicopter-like form and shoots out drills at Giant Luigi, but he uses his hammer to hit them away. He proceeds to stomp Robo-Drilldigger afterwards since it was on the air. Robo-Drilldigger tries to ram into Giant Luigi in this form, only for him to engage it with his hammer.

Robo-Drilldigger returns to its regular form, goes back a few feet away to charge up an electric orb from its mouth, and send it at Giant Luigi. Since he didn't know what to do, Giant Luigi was hit by the orb and was flung back.

"OUCH! That really hurt!" he cried in pain.

"You OK, Dreamy Luigi?!" Dreamy Jewel asked. "It seems that you took a lot of damage!"

"Don't worry, bro! I've got a few Healing Mushrooms with me!" Mario assured.

Giant Luigi lets Mario land on his palm as the latter began to throw the mushrooms rhythmically. Giant Luigi followed the rhythm by swallowing the mushrooms until he started to feel better. Giant Luigi then lets Mario jump back on his cap.

"Oof… Doing that is sort of tiring…" Mario panted as he lies down on the cap to rest.

"How can throwing mushrooms in rhythm be tiring?" Silver tilted his head in confusion.

"Logic from the original game…" Dreamy Jewel shrugged. "Sorry if I had to break the Fourth Wall again…"

Robo-Drilldigger next spins rapidly to envelop itself into a large tornado in front of Giant Luigi. It then teleports up, down and middle rapidly, and Giant Luigi had to guess which position it was. He guessed it was down and hit it with his hammer, sending it at the background again.

Robo-Drilldigger digs into the ground and comes back in front of Giant Luigi by emerging out of the sand. The giant mech now looked damaged, with cracks all over its body. Enraged, Robo-Drilldigger fired the same electric orb attack again at Giant Luigi.

"Uh oh, what do I do?!" he panicked.

"Use the hammer this time!" Dreamy Jewel called out.

Giant Luigi quickly pulled out his hammer and slid back when the hammer's head made contact with the orb. After struggling long enough, Giant Luigi managed to send the orb right back at Robo-Drilldigger, causing it to short-circuit from being hit by its own attack and was now dazed.

"It is time! The foe is weak and ripe for defeat!" Dreambert warned.

"Let's finish it off with the Finishing Team!" Dreamy Jewel fist pumped.

Giant Luigi crouches close to the ground before doing a very high jump into the air, where he reached a starry sky and grabbed a large Power Star. Mario and his crew jumped on the Power Star, and Giant Luigi threw it downwards like if he's throwing a Frisbee.

"You know, this almost feels like I'm riding my Warp Star again!" Kirby exclaimed.

"If that's the case, could you steer it for us, Kirby?" Mario requested.

"Sure!"

Thanks to his amazing star-driving skills, Kirby flew the Power Star right through Robo-Drilldigger, causing it to explode. Upon everyone celebrated their victory, Giant Luigi started to glow green as all the Luiginoids that merged within him flew out, and he slowly started to shrink back to normal.

Mario and co. landed back on the ground safely.

"Well, that was fun!" Baby Mario beamed.

"Yep! But…where's dreamy older me?" Baby Luigi asked, looking around.

"…AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!" everyone heard Dreamy Luigi's scream coming from above. He ends up faceplanting into the sand.

"Ouch… That's gotta hurt." Ribbon Girl winced as Luigi got his face out of the sand.

"Why did I have to shrink in midair…?" Dreamy Luigi groaned.

Then, everyone saw the Dream Stone's spirit flying towards them.

"Alright, you got your butt kicked. What else do you have for us?!" Sonic growled, with the rest of the group also glaring at the spirit.

"Hey, big green!" the spirit called cheerfully for Dreamy Luigi. "You're the man!"

"Of course I am! …Wait, what?" Dreamy Luigi raised an eyebrow.

"I thought all you real-world types were small fries! But you're a big fry! So I'll go ahead and… TELL YOU!"

"YES! FINALLY!" Sonic yelled while raising both fists in the air.

"But only to big green! It'll be our little secret."

"Well, okay then." Dreamy Luigi nodded.

The spirit makes a cloud pop out, and a tall mountain appeared in it.

"C-clouds… Rocks…a cliff… A mountain. Definitely a mountain." The spirit spoke.

"A mountain? It must be Mount Pajamaja!" Dreamy Jewel snapped her fingers.

"Hey! What's your deal?! This is an A-and-B conversation, so SHADDUP!" the spirit growled at her.

"Okay! Okay! Sheesh, it's not like I'm trying to interfere!" Dreamy Jewel rolled her eyes.

"Whatever…"

"Mount Pajamaja… It's a huge mountain on the north side of the island." Dreamy Jewel explained. "Only the most courageous tourists have the will to climb it."

"Are you happy now? I'm going back to bed." The spirit said. It turned back to Dreamy Luigi. "Oh, and big green… Here's something I found while escaping from you and the others." It hands Dreamy Luigi a nightmare chunk. "Hope to see ya around! I haven't had a fight like that in ages. Maybe next time I can take on big red and the others. Bye." It then flies away.

"Maybe this nightmare chunk belongs to the Chaos Emerald!" Sonic guessed. "We can finally free Silver from the dream world!"

"All right!" Silver fist pumped.

"Great! Let's break it and get back to the real world! Our next stop is Mount Pajamaja!" Mario hollered.

Everyone nodded before Dreamy Luigi broke the nightmare chunk with his hammer, and a Dreamy White Chaos Emerald came out of it. He grabs it and it glowed brightly enveloping everything in white as the dark Emerald at the real world wiggled and emitted colorful sparkles.

The heroes were back at the real world. Once Luigi and Jewel woke up, the petrified Emerald floats up and sends out Silver, before regaining its white color.

"Phew… Glad I'm finally out of all that!" Silver sighed as he got back up. "Still, the dream world wasn't that bad."

"We recovered three Emeralds so far." Sonic picks up the White Chaos Emerald. "Just three more remaining."

"So?! Spill it! What did you find out?" Starlow interfered, flying next to the heroes.

"The Dream Stone is at Mount Pajamaja!" Dreambert answered.

"Mount Pajawhatsa? Where's that?"

"It's on the north side of the island. Behind Pi'illo Castle." Jewel responded.

"Gotcha! Let's hurry to Mount Pajamaja!"

Everyone nodded and proceeded to exit the desert.

To be continued…

I LOVED the Giant Battles in this game! They felt so cinematic and intense than the ones from Bowser's Inside Story for me. I'm glad that I at least experienced them in Dream Team, since I never played Bowser's Inside Story.

So the Dream Stone is at Mount Pajamaja! But getting there isn't going to be easy... They must go into another area first! Until then! Please review.