"Oh, hold on, Mr. Wario. I want to see something real quick."

Wario moaned as Cream managed to delay his journey... again. She had constantly stopped him before to pick some flowers, and Wario was getting really frustrated. Realizing that pounding the little kid into the ground was not a very good idea since she knew Sonic, who kicked his butt the last time he met him, Wario keep his anger to himself and simply began talking to her in his normal cranky way.

"What is it now? Not that I care..."

"Well," Cream began, "I'm not about to go on an adventure with someone I hardly know without telling my mom first, and since my house is right over there, it'll be quick, I promise."

"Grumble... Fine. But if you're still in there after five minutes, I'm going on my own!"

"Ok. Thanks, Mr. Wario!"

Wario watched in disgust as Cream pranced over to her house, which looked like something out of a child's picture book and made him want to puke. The house was a quaint cottage with a garden out front, and was painted an obnoxiously bright yellow. In fact, it looked kind of like Mario's house, only even more cute. This caused Wario to complain to himself even more about why he was letting Cream accompany him on his trip.

"Grr... Stupid kid..." Wario grumbled, "Why am I letting her join me? 'I wanna go on an adventure!' Bleh... Stupid rabbit, trips are for grownups! Why, I oughta..."

"Chao?"

Wario whirled around and noticed that Cheese hadn't gone inside the house with Cream, and was eavesdropping on Wario!

"Wah! I thought you were... I mean... What do you want, punk?"

Cheese tried to talk to Wario, but since Wario couldn't understand anything said by animals that only say variations of their own name, Cheese couldn't get through to him.

"Chao, chao chao, chao, CHAO!" Cheese cried.

"Eh, what? I don't understand Pokemon, you freak! Try talking in normal English!"

"Chao chao, chao, chao chao, CHAO!"

Wario was beginning to fume at Cheese's attempt at talking. Running out of patience, Wario grabbed Cheese by his big blue head, and stuffed him in a garbage can conveniently located right next to Wario (apparently, the garbage man came all the way out here to collect trash). Wario slammed the lid on the can and watched with pleasure as Cheese began banging against the sides of the trash can trying to get out. Wario's joy ended abruptly, however, when he turned around and noticed a rather upset Cream!

"Oh! Um, heh... Hiya there, Cream!" Wario muttered nervously, "Nice day isn't it?... gulp..."

Cream keep looking at Wario with giant, cute, "puppy-dog" eyes that were on the verge of breaking down in tears. They were so cute, in fact, that they even caused Wario to give in.

"Aw, geez... Ok! I admit it!" Wario shouted, throwing the lid off the garbage can, "Your pet was getting on my nerves, so I stuffed it in the can! Gimme a break, it was annoying!"

Cheese flew out of the garbage can and hugged Cream. Aggravating to Wario was the fact that Cream immediately cheered up when she hugged Cheese, making him feel like a world-class loser for giving in so quickly.

"So, Mr. Wario," Cream began like nothing ever happened, "I said goodbye to my mom, shall we try to find your way home?"

Wario began mumbling some untypeable words, and reluctantly let Cream to continue following him.

"Yo, kid! How much longer till we get somewhere remotely civilized?"

Cream looked back to see Wario taking up the rear... again. It was kind of ironic that the guy who was trying to get home was lagging behind but, then again, Wario isn't the fittest of people. Glancing at the map her mom gave her, Cream discovered they weren't far from Station Square.

"Don't worry, Mr. Wario!" Cream shouted back, "We're almost there! Station Square is a huge city. I'm sure you can find your way home from there!"

The reply didn't perk Wario up much. He was still fuming over the "Pokemon Reject", Cheese, nagging him.

"Heck," Wario grumbled to himself, "It ain't even worth a Pokemon status. It's more like one of the knockoff brands, like Digimon or Yu-Gi-Oh! or..."

"Chao!"

Wario looked up to see Cheese flying over him, just as happy, and annoying, as ever.

"Oh, get out of my face... Um... Neopet reject!"

"Chao?"

"Don't you get it!? I said beat it! Geez, you're more annoying than even those 'pocket monster' games! You're more like... Hmm... What's more annoying than Freakachu? I know! You're like that stupid fairy in Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time! So there!"

Cheese, not knowing the difference between anything Wario was saying, simply decided to fly up to Cream and hang out with her, since she didn't yell at him as often (or at all, really).

"Chao, chao?"

"What's the matter, Cheese?" Cream asked, "Is Mr. Wario being mean to you again?"

"STOP CALLING ME 'MR. WARIO'!" Wario shouted, "I swear, if you weren't, like, only twelve years old, I'd sue your freakin' butt off!"

"Actually, Mr. Wario," Cream corrected, "I'm six."

"Whatever... Are we there yet?"

"Why, yes we are! Look, Mr. Wario! It's Station Square!"

When Wario caught up with Cream, he noticed that they were on a hill looking over a massive costal city. Skyscrapers towered over the harbor which, much to Wario's delight, was full of ships from small sailboats to large cruse ships.

"Hmm..." Wario mused to himself, "That Eggman dude directed me over an ocean when he wanted me to steal those emeralds, so if I hitch a ride on one of those boats..."

"What are talking about?" Cream interrupted, "You work for Eggman!?"

"Yikes! Uh..." Wario stuttered, unaware that Cream was listening to him, "I-I mean... He made me do it unwillingly! Yeah! He knew I was a treasure hunter, so he forced me to do his dirty work!"

"Uh-huh..." Cream replied sarcastically, knowing it was her duty to blow the lid off of whatever Wario was hiding, "So, should we go look for a boat, Mr. Wario?"

"Sure... I'll go look for a boat, you'll just sit somewhere and look cute, ok?"

So Wario, Cream, and Cheese walked down to Station Square and began looking for a boat to cross the vast ocean between Mobius and the Mushroom Kingdom.

Wario's first attempt to get a boat was to walk right up to a dock and demand a boat from the first guy he met.

"Yo, you!" Wario shouted to the man, "You work here?"

"Woah!" The man shouted, "It's Eggman's twin! Everybody run!"

Wario slapped himself in the face as everyone on the dock fled for their lives.

"Well, you do look a lot like Eggman, Mr. Wario..." Cream suggested.

"Ok, look..." Wario grumbled as he pulled a huge bag of gold coins from seemingly nowhere, "You're cute. I'm not. People will listen to you. Sweet talk your way into getting a boat and, if all else fails..."

Wario tossed the bag of coins at Cream's feet, nearly wiping out Cheese.

"Bribe 'em."

"You want me to bribe them?" Cream questioned, "Isn't that wrong?"

"Mr. Wario?"

"Get to work. Now. Before I shove that bag down your throat."

Cream obliged and Wario sat on the pier and waited for Cream to return. Five minutes later, Cream returned.

"Well?" Wario asked.

"They told me that these gold coins aren't an acceptable form of currency."

"WHAT!?"

"They said they'd only accept rings."

"Groan... Fine. Where's the nearest bank?"

"Down the street. Do you want me to do the exchange so they don't think you're a robber?"

"Mr. Wario?"

"YES!!!" Wario shouted, on the verge of strangling Cream with her own ears.

"Ok!" Cream cheerfully replied.

Cream pranced off with Cheese flying close behind, and Wario continued to sit there, plotting various ways to murder the cute little rabbit.

"Let's see... Feed her to a Chain-Chomp, push her under a Thwomp, hand her a bob-omb..." Wario pondered when he suddenly noticed Cream returning, "Oh, hey, Cream! How's it going? Did you exchange the coins?"

"You bet, Mr. Wario!" Cream replied, blissfully unaware of Wario's oh-so-pleasant thoughts, "Not only that, but I bought a ship, too!"

"Woah, hey! You did!?" Wario exclaimed, honestly shocked, "Well, where is it?"

"Chao! Chao! Chao!" Cheese replied for Cream, pointing towards the dock.

Wario took one look at where Cheese was pointing and nearly threw up.

"It's PINK!?" Wario screamed, "You bought a boat that was PINK!? WHY!?!?"

"I thought you'd like the color. After all, you're wearing purple overalls..."

"Alright, fine! It's ok! But if you screw up one more time, I'm feeding you to a Piranha Plant and using your Jigglypuss as a breath mint!"

"Well, we'll be sure not to mess up again, Mr. Wario!"

"You better not..."

Although Wario didn't know the first thing about sailing, he declared himself captain and sailed out of the harbor and on they were on their way to the Mushroom Kingdom! Well... They hoped...

Editor's Note: Seeing how my note in the last chapter got such a good response (a whole one reply! Yeah! Not), I'll ask again: Should I include the Freedom Fighters? Don't worry if you don't know a thing about them, I only know what I do about them from AnT (by the way, thanks, AnT), so I'll go easy on them and make sure to include ONLY the IMPORTANT info (none of the extra stuff). Even if you don't normally send reviews... SEND ONE IN!!! I NEED INPUT!!! Ok, I'm done.