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Chapter 37: Breaking into Bowser's Castle

When the heroes returned with Amy at Starship Mario, Tails and Knuckles came in and were happy that Amy was safe and they shared a group hug. Yoshi decided to join the party too. Mario and Sonic looked beyond and saw the enemy base.

"Ready to take down the enemy base, Sonic?" Mario asked.

"You bet I am!" Sonic grinned.

They then were launched towards the enemy base of this world: Bowser's Gravity Gauntlet.

All of the planets were lava with some platforms over it. Upon their landing, they avoided fireballs, rotating fire bars and a Dry Bones. They also defeated some annoying Magikoopas.

They now reached in an indoors castle part with more fireballs coming out of the lava ponds, rotating fire bars and also some points where the gravity changes counterclockwise and then back to clockwise.

After that, there was an underwater part in which there were rotating fire bars to avoid and Cheep Cheeps to defeat. Upon exiting the water portion of the area, they encountered Whomps.

There was another area where the gravity changes. There were Goombas, Dry Bones and fire bars. Once the heroes reached a series of rotating platforms with fire bars in the middle, they found a Launch Star from below.

They reached the area with the huge door leading the way to Bowser. It had three locks on it. There was a meteor right above the heroes. They used their ground pound and stomp to break the locks and the door opens, revealing a dark void inside. They go through it and prepared to face Mario's archenemy again.

They landed on the area where Bowser's huge throne stands beside them. The heroes glared at the throne, waiting for Bowser to come. Strangely enough, he didn't show up.

"Huh?" Mario was confused.

"Hey! Where's that Turtle Guy?" Sonic questioned.

"Wait… Hmm, I can feel that he's close…" Mario said and slowly walks a few steps with a serious expression in his face.

The white and blue Lumas flew towards the throne, shifting directions. The white Luma did a little wave. But then, all of a sudden, the whole place starts to shake as the Lumas looked around. Then, Bowser finally came, landing on the platform where the heroes were standing on. The Lumas flew back to their owners.

"WHAA-?! IT'S YOU?!" Bowser glared at the heroes.

"About time you showed up your face, Turtlezilla!" Sonic said while tapping his foot.

"Don't CALL me a TURTLEZILLA, filthy blue rat!" Bowser roared. "Hmph, well, I'd expect as much from my archenemies. Your time is up, Mario and Sonic! Now it's smooshin' time… And time for my huge fist to meet your puny faces!"

Mario and Sonic were still glaring at the huge Bowser while both of their Lumas were shrieking in fear from behind them. Bowser does his mighty roar and gravity lifted Mario and Sonic from the ground.

The heroes landed on a planetoid that looked the same as from their previous match with Bowser. Bowser raises his fist in the air, but this time, his fist had a purple aura surrounding it. The heroes avoided Bowser's punch, in which it created a purple shockwave.

After doing his punch for the second time, Bowser roars and two meteors fall from the sky. Noticing the meteors, the heroes knew exactly what to do. But they didn't expect the meteors to have shockwaves too when they hit the ground, and both heroes were caught by the shockwaves.

"UGH! Even the meteors have shockwaves?!" Sonic complained upon getting hit.

"Look! Bowser is about to chase after us with his punch! Let's-a do the same thing from earlier!" Mario demanded as they were running away from Bowser.

Once Bowser punches the ground creating a shockwave again, his fist gets stuck in the ground. Mario quickly hopped on the meteor and ground pounds it to strike Bowser.

Bowser did his punch again, and the heroes avoided it and the shockwaves too, but they had a hard time for dodging the meteors' shockwaves. Once Bowser gets his fist stuck in the ground again, Mario was too far away from the meteors, but Sonic, using his speed, reached one of the meteors and stomped it towards Bowser.

Bowser gets furious and roars. He summons the meteors, and once they landed, he begins to breathe fire and chased after the heroes. He then gets his fist stuck in the ground again and Mario was close enough to the meteors this time, so he ground pounds one of them, hitting Bowser for the third time. They only had one more hit left.

Bowser repeated his attack pattern from before, and once his fist gets stuck again, Sonic decided to do the finishing blow.

"Goodnight, ex-Bowserzilla!" he teased as he stomps the meteor and knocks out Bowser.

The knockout made another Grand Star and the White Chaos Emerald come out of Bowser's mouth. He once again shrinks back to normal as he tried to reach both objects, and falls on the ground below by his belly. The heroes landed back too.

"WHAT?! HOW…" Bowser didn't believe that. "Whatever… My master plan is too far along now, Mario and Sonic! You can't stop me!"

Bowser then points to the incomplete merged worlds, and the heroes watched their worlds delve deeper. Now they only have a few hours before their worlds gets destroyed.

"GWAHAHAAH!" Bowser laughed evilly before disappearing in a purple flash of light.

"And we STILL didn't defeat Bowser yet again. Great." Sonic rolled his eyes.

"This is quite bad; our worlds' halves are touching each other creating a single merged planet…" Mario said.

"Yeah, we only have fewer hours left before they get destroyed."

"We better hurry and grab the Grand Star and Chaos Emerald."

After the Grand Star and White Chaos Emerald slowly descended towards the heroes, they each grabbed each object. But they were still quite worried of what could happen to their worlds…

To be continued…

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