On the beach of a seemingly uninhabited island filled with jungle surrounding a large volcano, Shadow stands alone. His mind wanders to days long past, as he gazes upon the thick vegetation in front of him. He pulls out a locket with a small heart on it and thinks about the closest thing he's had to a friend in over 50 years. Shadow sighs as he considers whether or not she would approve his decision.

"Rouge," Shadow says, "was it right of me to leave the others like I did?"

He clenches his fist and tries to push down the doubt.

"No! I can't go back on my decision now! What's done is done!" Sonic can take care of himself! I need to concentrate on what's more important. And that's finding the Chaos Emeralds and destroying Mecha Sonic once and for all! He'll pay dearly for what he's done. For what he did to me! I swear it! I know the sixth Emerald is around here somewhere. I must find it quickly."

Shadow closed his eyes and focused on pinpointing the location of the sixth Chaos Emerald. But then he heard the unmistakable whistle of a missile coming right at him. Shadow dodged just in time, before the missile hit where he was standing and exploded.

Shadow looked back and saw the source of the missile, the unmistakable visage of Turbo Mecha Sonic. Mecha Sonic let out an evil laugh before speaking to the black and red hedgehog.

"Hello there, Shadow." Mecha Sonic greeted. "Fancy meeting you out here in the middle of nowhere all by your lonesome. Finally decided to ditch your worthless friends to look for the last few Chaos Emeralds?"

"That's none of your business!" Shadow shouted. "Regardless, you saved me the trouble of looking for you. Now it's payback time, Mecha Sonic!"

"I would love to play games with you, Shadow, but I am on a tight schedule right now. So how about we cut to the part where you tell me where Sonic and my Chaos Emeralds are?

Instead of saying anything, Shadow charged himself with Chaos Energy and gave Mecha Sonic a death glare.

"In a loyal mood, are we? No matter. I'll just beat the information out of you instead. Show me what you've got, "Ultimate Life Form!"

Back on the Omega Doomship, Basilisx was one claw swipe away from finishing Mario.

"Ssssso Mario," Basilisx hissed, "any lassssst wordsssss before I banish you to the Underwhere?"

Mario was too ill to say anything, but Basilisx troops of Koopatroopas had plenty to say.

"WOO!"

"Yeah!"

"You da man...I mean Koopa, Captain Basilisx!"

"Finish him off, Captain!"

"You rock haaaardcoooore, Captain!"

Bowser and Peach also watched Basilisx preparing to kill Mario from the comfort of Bowser's throne room. Well, comfortable for Bowser, Peach was still tied up. Though they didn't share the soldiers' enthusiasm.

"What's the hold up, Basilisx!?" Bowser asked. "Stop hesitating and finish him off!"

"NO!" Peach yelled. "I can't watch!"

Peach shut her eyes, hoping that someone or something will save her hero.

"At lassssst," Basilisx hissed, "with one ssssswift ssssstrike, my comradesssss thirssssst for vengeanccccce shall be sssssated. Farewell, Sssssuper Mario!

As soon as hesaid that, Basilisx was knocked away by a hammer to the side of his face. Basilisx was hit with enough force, it sent him plowing through his troops like a bowling ball. The Koopatroopas had little time to do anything other than panic as their leader crashed into them.

Bowser: WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT!?

The assailant was revealed to be Luigi, not stone, but alive and well in his Tanuki suit. Luigi turned to his brother and pulled a 1-up mushroom out of his suit. Mario opened his mouth wide and swallowed it and in a matter of seconds, he was back to full strength.

"Thanks, bro," Mario said. "That was just what I needed."

"Not a problem." Luigi replied.

"IMPOSSSSSIBLE!" Basilisx shouted. The mutant super-Koopa had recovered and was more angry than before. "How did you break free from your petrified prissssson!?

Wait a minute. That sssssily cossssstume. Ssssso that'sssss how you did it. You usssssed the powersssss of the Tanuki Sssssuit to free yourself. Pure dumb luck!"

"That's what you get for using me to hurt my brother!" Luigi shouted.

"Don't think you're in the clear yet. All your little ssssstunt did wasssss buy the two of you a few more minutesssss amongssssst the living! KOOPATROLSSSSS! ATTACK!"

About time I got this out of the way. This is the bit that Mark Haynes himself had for episode 9 before scrapping the whole show and starting over. From this I'll build an outline, not just for this episode but for the entire season as well. At least now I'll have an excuse for keeping you all waiting for so long.

I feel like I should point out that I'm still new to this, and while I'm trying to stay in touch with Mark Haynes vision, I'll still be putting in my own ideas. But this project isn't about just me, it's about all of us who loved Mark's work and wanted to see how it'd end. So if any of you have any ideas where this story should go, please tell me about them in the comment section and I will happily look it over.

Until next time!