I feel like all of those chapters are getting quite short... Maybe it's because of the Star mission that's short. I hope you guys don't bother that much.

Anyways, enjoy! ;)

Chapter 25: Head in the Clouds

Once they were done resting, the Galaxy Heroes decided to tackle the galaxy on the lower path this time before proceeding further. The galaxy from the lower path was: Cloudy Court Galaxy.

This galaxy looked like a ruined castle gardens in the sky and gusts of winds were blowing everywhere. The heroes landed on a planet that looks like the entrance to a fancy garden. Sonic looked around, and saw that this place reminded him of Sky Sanctuary combined with Kingdom Valley.

They first defeated a Flaptack before approaching the Cloud Flower.

"It's a Cloud Flower!" both said at the same time. "Huh?"

"You've already used that-a Power-Up, Sonic?" Mario asked.

"I did! The first time I've used it was at Fluffy Bluff Galaxy." Sonic answered.

"Hey! I've used it for the first time at that galaxy too! I guess we didn't know that because we were still separated…" Mario guessed.

"You're right. Let's just touch it and use it together this time!"

"Okey-Dokey!"

They touched the Cloud Flower at the same time, becoming Cloud Mario and Cloud Sonic.

"Now let's-a reach those platforms up ahead by using our clouds-a!" Cloud Mario demanded.

"You got it!" Cloud Sonic grinned.

They did long jumps and created cloud platforms, making sure to grab the other Cloud Flowers on the platforms to restore their clouds. Once they reached the other side, there was a wooden altar and a windmill blowing gusts of winds from the right.

"Hmm, maybe we can ride the wind current!" Cloud Mario said

"Like a magic cloud wind ride? Sweet!" Cloud Sonic exclaimed. Cloud Mario laughed a bit at Sonic's joke.

They jumped and summoned a cloud platform and they both rode the wind current blowing in the direction where the windmill was pointing at. On the other side, there were giant drums and a drum plate at the top. They jumped on the drums to reach the drum plate, where the Launch Star was.

On the next planet were more wind currents. They summoned a cloud platform for each to ride the wind pointing upwards while avoiding getting caught by the obstacles. At the top, they defeated a Goomba and an Elite Octoomba before riding the wind pointing to the right by jumping out of a spring. Then, they defeated a Goomba, an Elite Octoomba and a Paragoomba on the next platform before taking the Launch Star.

They were at the towers part. They had to ride the winds while also avoiding flying thorns. There was also a part where they had to wall jump and time the use of a cloud to escape two crushing walls. At the top of the walls was a Launch Star.

The Launch Star took them to a large bowl-shaped planet filled with poison and there were cloud platforms over it.

"I can see Silver Stars over there. You already know that five Silver Stars make a full Power Star, right?" Cloud Sonic asked.

"Yes, I've already collected Silver Stars while we were still separated." Cloud Mario answered. "Looks like we have to hop from cloud to cloud to reach the Silver Stars-a."

"You're right. Let's make sure we don't fall into that poison swamp!"

They began to slowly hop from cloud to cloud. Thanks to their light weight, they were easily able to reach each cloud platform very steadily.

But suddenly, as soon as Cloud Mario grabbed the first Silver Star, a strange noise was heard; a dark wine-red cloud showed up behind them. Out of it came out a Cosmic Clone of Mario and Sonic!

"Oh great, those guys again!" Cloud Sonic cursed.

"We better act fast then-a!" Cloud Mario warned.

The heroes kept jumping as their Cosmic Clones chased after them while copying their movements. For each Silver Star they collected, another Cosmic Clone of them would show up. There were also some Paragoombas in the way, but the heroes didn't want to waste time in defeating them.

They collected four of five of the Silver Stars so far, and there were eight Cosmic Clones in total if we count both Mario and Sonic's Clones. Once the heroes finally got their hands on the final Silver Star, the Power Star was created from the Silver Stars as all of Mario and Sonic's Cosmic Clones vanished, crying in defeat.

The Power Star flew all the way to the beginning of the course. The heroes made all the way back from where they started to get their hands on their prize.

To be continued…

When I began to involve into the Sonic series, I looked at Cloudy Court Galaxy and it made me remind of Sky Sanctuary and Kingdom Valley together at the same time, so that's why I've put this part in here.

This is actually the first time we've seen Mario and Sonic's Cloud forms at the same time! I also decided to add the hidden Star mission because it would make this chapter too short, and I kinda don't like very short chapters because I feel like most people won't pay much of attention to it.

Both Heroes are almost about to find out who is one of the mysterious people at the snowy galaxy in about two more chapters! See you then! Please review.