Mario and Sonic: Heroes Unite!

Chapter 49: Evil Reawakened!


Emerald Town, Tails's House

Sonic stared at the broken, empty glass case in the laboratory. This was bad news for him and his friends. The body of Metal Sonic inside the case was no more. All that was left was the scattered glass shards that laid across the floor.

"Did Metal Sonic...escape?" Amy asked in a nervous voice. She held her hands together, desperate to know what the others might say.

"He...he couldn't have!" Tails said in a panicked voice. He held both hands to his head, shaking it in disbelief. "The glass is supposed to be indestructible. And Metal Sonic didn't even show signs of reactivating! How could this all go wrong?"

"Don't be too hard on yourself, Tails." Sonic comforted his friend. "Every great genius makes a few errors once in awhile." He took a closer look at the broken glass case. It definitely showed signs of escape, as the glass shards were outside the case. "Where could he have gone to?"

Suddenly, the three heard a loud screeching noise outside. It sounded like the abrupt braking of a car. Sensing trouble, the heroes rushed out of the laboratory and ran to the source of the screech. A few blocks away from them, near the fountain park, were overturned cars that began to pile up near the intersection.

"Oh no! How could this happen?" Amy gasped in horror. The three quickly ran up to the car pile up and began helping to bring the citizens away from the wreckage. All of a sudden, a loud, devilish laugh was heard in the sky.

"Pathetic! All of you are pathetic!" the deep robotic voice began to speak. Sonic and the others looked up to the voice and were shocked to see that Metal Sonic was reactivated once again. He floated above the car pile-up and stared at the heroes with his intimidating, red eyes.

"You!" Sonic pointed at him angrily. "So you've finally woken up from your beauty sleep. How was it?"

"It was indeed fine." Metal Sonic answered him. He made a fist with one of his hands. "I am feeling re-energized and refueled from my emergency Standby mode. I have more than enough energy to finally destroy you, my loathsome copy!"

Metal Sonic's eyes began to glow brighter as he initiated Attack mode. A bright, blue laser beam began to charge up near his stomach. He quickly shot the laser beam towards Sonic. The hedgehog quickly dodged the attack, causing the laser beam to leave a hole in the concrete street.

"Tails! Make sure you and Amy find a safe place to hide! I'll deal with Metal Sonic myself!" Sonic shouted to the fox. Tails nodded and quickly hovered into the air, bringing along Amy with him. Sonic turned back to Metal Sonic and waved his finger at him. "You gotta shoot faster, buddy. I am the fastest thing alive after all!"

"That won't stop me from destroying you!" Metal Sonic suddenly surrounded himself in a large ball of yellow sparks. He was about to do the Ring Spark Field. He floated towards Sonic and began charging up the attack. Sonic fore saw the attack and began to run away from him. Metal Sonic was amused by this. "Run while you can, hedgehog!"

Sonic began running at supersonic speeds throughout the streets of Emerald Town. Metal Sonic began chasing after him. He caught up to Sonic and shot out the Ring Spark Field. It spread throughout the general area around Metal Sonic. Unfortunately, it wasn't fast enough to catch Sonic as he quickly accelerated forward, out of the attack's range.

"Still not fast enough!" Sonic taunted as he quickly made a U-turn and shot a Homing Attack towards Metal Sonic. It hit the robot, causing him to fly back and crash into the streets. The robot quickly floated back into the air, shaking off attack.

"Give up!" Metal Sonic scowled. He surrounded himself again in yellow sparks, but this time he shot himself towards Sonic. The hedgehog swiftly jumped over Metal Sonic and started running throught the streets again. Metal Sonic quickly turned around, still initiating the V. Maximum Overdrive Attack and began to give chase.

The two chased each other throughout the streets of Emerald Town. Sonic swerved around the oncoming traffic, while Metal Sonic carelessly crashed through vehicles and street lamps. Eventually, they came upon a tall business building in Emerald Town. Sonic began to run up the side of the building, while Metal Sonic flew up by it.

"You won't escape from me!" Metal Sonic warned. Sonic looked back and grinned at him. As he reached the top of the building, he jumped upwards off the rooftop and high into the air. As Metal Sonic reached him, he began to feel his power draining from him. He had used too much energy on his V. Maximum Overdrive Attack, causing an emergency shutdown to the attack.

"What! No!" Metal Sonic yelled in panic as the sparks around him disappeared. With no protection around him, this left him open to an attack. Sonic took the opportunity. Still in the air, he dove himself down towards Metal Sonic and delivered a powerful downward kick on Metal Sonic's head. The robot was sent flying down into the streets, crashing into the concrete.

"Alright!" Sonic exclaimed in victory. He quickly realized he began falling towards the ground. He panicked. "Uhoh! Should've thought this part through!" He began to scream and flail his arms around as he began falling towards the street below. Suddenly, something caught him in the air. He gave a sigh of relief. "Nice catch, Tails!"

"Heheh! No problem, Sonic!" Tails responded. He slowly hovered them both onto the ground. Amy was watching them, along with a small crowd of people. She ran up to the both of them and quickly hugged Sonic.

"Oh, Sonic! I'm so glad you're alright!" Amy said, continuing to hug him. Sonic simply rolled his eyes

"Sonic! Look!" Tails said as he pointed to the fallen Metal Sonic. The robot was slowly getting up from where he landed. Small sparks were electrocuting around him. Metal Sonic had sustained serious damage, but he wasn't about to give up just yet. He gave an intimidating look to Sonic. "You may be the fastest thing alive, but that certainly doesn't mean you can't die!"

Suddenly, a small, red energy orb appeared in Metal Sonic's stomach. The robot suddenly crossed his hands in front of him and shot them forward, releasing a large, powerful red energy blast around him. The blast caused everything around him to fly back from the force, including vehicles, stop signs and street lamps. Unfortunately, Sonic, Tails and Amy were caught in the blast, knocking them back into the concrete streets.

"It seems this attack works quite well, even if it has been awhile since I've copied his lifeform data." Metal Sonic said, impressed by the Chaos Blast attack. He walked up to the fallen heroes, who were seriously injured from the attack. Metal Sonic laughed at them. He quickly charged a laser attack on Sonic.

"Sonic!" somebody shouted in the distance. The heroes looked up to a building, seeing a figure standing on the rooftop. The figure was none other than Mario. In his hand, he held the Red Chaos Emerald. He quickly threw it towards the heroes. "Catch!"

The Red Chaos Emerald flew through the air. Sonic quickly raised his hand and caught the emerald. He stared at it for a moment, surprised to see the emerald in his world when he thought it was still in Mario's world. He looked back to Mario and grinned. "Thanks!"

"What! The Chaos Emerald? But if it's here, then that must mean-" Metal Sonic looked up to Mario, who was still on the building. "The Star Child is also here! The koopaling must have done the ritual! But why did it bring them to this world instead of the Negative Dimension?" Metal Sonic was too shocked from what was happening that he let his guard down, stopping the laser beam attack.

"It's time to finish this!" Sonic exclaimed. He quickly got up and began to harness the energy of the Red Chaos Emerald, preparing to deliver one final blow to Metal Sonic. Suddenly, something strange happened. Sonic felt a familiar power coming back into his body. The chaos energy was beginning to transform his body. His body was suddenly surrounded in white light and his body began to flash in different colors.

Sonic was now Rainbow Sonic!

"Huh! What the?" Sonic said, confused. He looked at his body. There was no doubt he returned to his Rainbow form he'd received from Mario's world. Tails, Amy and Mario stared in surprise. How was he able to regain his power-up?

"Might as well take this opportunity!" Sonic shrugged to himself. He quickly charged a Rainbow Spin-Dash attack and shot himself towards Metal Sonic. The attack dug deep into Metal Sonic. The force from it caused him to get knocked back and rocket into the sky. It caused the robot to fly out of Emerald Town and shoot him off Westside Island. Who knew where Metal Sonic would land next.

"That was...amazing!" Tails spoke as he and Amy slowly got up. He looked to Rainbow Sonic. "How were you able to regain your transformation all of sudden?"

"I don't know." Sonic answered. He looked to the Red Chaos Emerald still in his hand. "I gues it must've had something to do with me harnessing the energy of the Chaos Emerald."

Mario had jumped off the building and rushed up towards the heroes. They were all happy to see him and thanked the plumber for coming to their aid. "Hey, it was no problemo!"

"How did you get hold of a Chaos Emerald, Mario?" Amy asked him. Mario explained how Cheese found the emerald near the area where Cream and Vanilla found him. He assumed it was brought along with him when he somehow entered Sonic's world.

"Then that must mean the other Chaos Emeralds were brought back into our world as well." Sonic assumed. "Along with the rest of Mario's friends, and the real Jeweled Scepter and Master Emerald. There's no doubt about it."

"Still, none of this explains how Sonic was able to regain his Rainbow form." Tails said. He thought of an idea. "Hey, what if we go back to my laboratory so I can do some tests on Sonic to see what exactly triggered his transformation."

"Tests? Uhm...that sounds painful, but sure." Sonic said, reluctantly. "And while we're there, we can finally sort things out on what to do to find Mario's friends."

Now that the heroes were somewhat sure that both Mario's friends and the emeralds were in Sonic's world, they needed to figure out a plan to find them. The heroes headed their way back to Tails's House.


Dark Land, Outside Bowser's Volcano

It was a gloomy day in Dark Land. Well, it seemed really gloomy for the koopa king himself. After spending a good two weeks searching for his son around the boiling wasteland, he'd finally gave up and decided to spend the rest of his days mourning outside the area where he had lost everything.

"I have absolutely nothing..." Bowser said to himself as he sat near the volcano's rim. He looked across into the volcano, seeing the ruins of his castle. He remembered the epic battle he fought against the heroes. From that battle, the heroes had not only destroyed his castle, but his whole army seemed to have abandoned him. Plus, his newly-created Doomsday machine was sunken into the bottom of the volcano, along with Eggman.

I swear, when I get my hands on those heroes, I'm going to make them suffer like they've never felt it before! Bowser thought to himself. He clenched both his fists in anger, thinking of the cruel actions he'd do to him. But then he thought to himself.

Would torturing his enemies rebuild his castle? Would it bring back his army? And more importantly, would it bring back his son?

"I can't just sit around here and sulk all day." Bowser realized. "I need to take action! I need to empower myself with motivation to get what I want! It's what a true king would do anyway."

Suddenly, Bowser noticed something happening inside the volcano. In the lava, there seemed to be bubbles coming out of the surface. Bowser stared at it for a good few minutes before something shot out of the lava and crashed on the ground near Bowser.

"Great goomba! What the heck is that?" Bowser yelled in surprise. He stared at what popped out of the volcano. It seemed to be some sort of mobile hovercraft. The glass was still covered in lava, preventing him from seeing what was inside. As he neared the hovercraft, the glass opened up, revealing who was inside.

"Finally! I'm free! Hohoho!" Eggman announced as he stumbled out of the Doomsday machine's ejected cockpit. He looked around him, noticing Bowser staring at him with a look of shock. "What's with the look on your face? It's like you've just witnessed birth for the first time."

"You're...alive?" Bowser finally spoke. He walked up to the doctor and began poking him to see if he was real' even feelijg his moustache. Obviously, Eggman was quickly annoyed by this and demanded Bowser to stop. "Sorry. It's just that, under the dire consequences, I assumed you were dead."

"Hohoho! You think that a little lava can stop me? Nonsense!" Eggman began to explain his brilliant plan to save himself from the seemingly inevitable demise at the time. He found a way to use all the energy of the "trapping" mechanism to create a shield around the cockpit to prevent it from melting in the lava. After, he took the time to fix the "ejecting" function with only his bare hands. It luckily took the doctor only two weeks.

"So, what have we've accomplished so far during my absence?" Eggman asked.

"Nothing." Bowser answered in a depressed voice. He explained of the tragic loss he faced when the heroes destroyed his castle. "We've not only accomplished nothing, but we also have nothing!" He growled in despair, lowering his head.

"Hmph! Nothing grinds my gears as much as the heroes always ruining our evil plans." Eggman thought for a moment. What were they supposed to do next? They couldn't waste time rebuilding a castle when they could be planning spend it on more important things. But they needed a much better laboratory than what Bowser had offered to create evil inventions.

"If only we were at my laboratory..." Eggman whispered to himself. He quickly realized their answer to their problems was what he just mentioned. "That's it! Why haven't I've thought of it in the beginning? We'll just use my laboratory to come up with more devious plans! After all, it is supplied with much better resources than this dump!"

"Hey!" Bowser complained, offended by Eggman's comment. He quickly questioned the doctor. "Eggman, if you haven't realized this, your laboratory is nowhere near here! In fact, it's in another freakin' dimension! How do you plan on going there?"

"Well, I haven't mentioned this to you yet," Eggman began explaining. "but back in my world, I was working on this machine to teleport into other dimensions. But I wasn't able to get it to work due to unable to find a compatible source of energy. But if I'm able to rebuild that machine again, and find the right power source, we'll be able to return to my world with much better gadgets!"

"Hmph, I doubt you'll be able to rebuild your dimension machine." Bowser said, crossing his arms. At the moment, it was hard to take the doctor seriously. After all, he was cramped inside a cockpit for two whole weeks. Being cramped in a small space for a very long time should drive anyone crazy.

"Not with that grumpy attitude of yours." Eggman complained to him. "Face it, koopa. You said you have absolutely nothing left. Why not give this plan a chance? Who knows, maybe it will be our only plan at the moment into defeating the heroes!"

Bowser thought for a moment. Maybe Eggman was right. What if Bowser was letting his mournful emotions get to him into believing nothing will make things better for him? He was a king, darnit! A king has to show leadership even at the worst of times. Bowser rose his chin high into the air with pride. "Alright! You better hope this plan of yours works, doctor!"

"Hoho! That's the evil spirt!" Eggman exclaimed. He started whispering the plans to Bowser. "First, we're going to need to gather resources to build the machine. Here's what we need..."


Emerald Town, Tails's House

The heroes were already watching as Tails began scanning Sonic's DNA in his laboratory. He was standing in a large, glass tube that was connected to a huge computer. The hedgehog was surprisingly still in his Rainbow form. He waited impatiently for the scanning test to be over.

"How long is it until we're done scanning my body!" Sonic asked. He had his arms crossed and was quickly tapping his foot.

"Uhm...I didn't even start yet, Sonic." Tails told him. He began readying the DNA scan on his computer. "Alright, Sonic. All you have to do is stand still. A green light will flash inside the tube, which will scan the DNA of your body. Once that's done, you can come out of the tube."

Tails reached over to an orange lever on the computer's control panel and pulled it down, initiating the scanning process. Sonic stood still as a green light flashed in the tube. Tails nodded to him, signalling he could climb out of the tube.

"Gee, I gotta tell you, that was way too long for me to be stuck in that thing!" Sonic whispered to Mario, pointing at the glass tube. Mario simply shrugged to him.

"But you were only there for a few seconds." Mario responded.

"What's your point?"

Mario rolled his eyes. "Mamamia, you must really not like standing still so often."

"So what does it say about Sonic's DNA?" Amy asked Tails. She was concerned about Sonic's well-being. "Is there something wrong with him? Will he be alright?"

"Hmm...well," Tails started as he was looking over the data of Sonic's DNA. "according to these readings, there appears to be some sort of special energy that was fused together with the chaos energy Sonic harnessed during the battle with Metal Sonic. That caused a reaction to transform Sonic back into his Rainbow form."

"So the special energy fusing together with the chaos energy is what made Sonic transform?" Mario asked. Tails nodded. He thought about this. "Well, what exactly is this special energy inside him?"

"My guess is the special energy has something to do with when we used the power-ups in your world." Tails explained. He took off his glove, showing the Fire Flower mark. "When these marks appeared, it meant the special energy of the power-up we took in was stored in our DNA. I'm assuming this allows us to use the energy of that power-up as we please."

"So we can use our power-ups whenever we want? Cool!" Sonic exclaimed in excitement.

"Not exactly," Tails continued. "To activate the energy stored inside us, we need another source of energy to release it. In our case, it's the energy of the Chaos Emerald." He motioned Sonic to hand him the emerald. Tails took the moment to harness the energy of the Chaos Emerald. Suddenly, his fur changed to an orange-reddish color. Tails had regained his Fire Flower abilities!

"That's amazing! Can I try?" Amy asked. Tails handed her the Chaos Emerald. Amy did her best to harness the energy of the emerald, as she had never done it before. Suddenly, her cherry red dress and boots turned into a baby blue color. Amy had regained her Ice abilities!

"Haha! Sweet! This can totally help us alot in battles!" Sonic exclaimed. A thought came into his head. "But wait, what if we don't want to be in our power-up forms? How do we, you know, turn it off?"

"I'm not sure." Tails replied. He turned to Mario. "You're an expert with these power-ups. What do you do when you want to deactivate these powers?"

"Well, one way that always seems to work is when I get hit by an enemy!" Mario explained.

"Uhm...one problem though, my power-up doesn't let me get hurt. I'm practically invincible!" Sonic reminded. "Is there any other, less painful way for us to remove these powers?"

"Why not just try thinking about it?" Mario suggested. Sonic and the others decided to take a shot at it. They thought about deactivating their power-ups, but surprisingly, it had only worked for Amy. Her dress reverted back to the cherry red color and she lost her Ice abilities.

"Why did it only work on me?" Amy asked in confusion.

"Maybe it's because you have the Chaos Emerald in your hand!" Tails exclaimed. He was glad he was finding out how their power-ups were working. Amy handed him the Chaos Emerald, allowing him to change back and lose his Fire abilities. "I'm guessing the chaos energy not only acts as an activation for the power-ups, but a deactivation as well."

"So it's like you're turning on and off a light switch?" Sonic said as Tails handed him the Chaos Emerald, allowing him to deactivate his Rainbow power-up. Tails nodded to him. "Well, it's a good thing we've finally figured out this whole power-up problem!"

"Yeah! Hopefully if we happen to explain this to some people, they won't confused by this!" Mario said. He suddenly gave a sad look. "But we still need to find my friends. And the rest of the Chaos Emeralds...and the Jeweled Scepter...and the...Master Emerald...mamamia." The number of objects they had to collect overwhelmed the plumber.

"That's awfully a lot of things to find across our world," Sonic said. He grinned to Mario. "But don't worry, we'll be able to find all of them! And as I've said before, it wouldn't be an adventure if it were easy."

Suddenly, the phone call in Tail's bedroom began to ring again. The fox quickly rushed up to it and answered it. He rushed back down to the others. "Guys, that was Cream again. She told me she and her mother saw something on the news channel."

"What was it? Did they come up with this awesome new recipe for chili dogs that make them have half the fat of regular ones?" Sonic asked as he patted his belly. "I swear, my stomach is starting to get bigger the more I eat them."

"No. It's serious. They say there were some sightings of a pink comet crashing down near the islands of Apotos. The news coptors checked where that comet landed. They identified that a princess came out of that comet."

"Princess?" Mario repeated. He suddenly gave a shocked look, realizing who came out of the comet. "Oh no! Peach!"

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To be continued!


It looks like Princess Peach has made a landing in Sonic's world! But is she okay? And it seems like Sonic and his friends have regained the ability to use Mario power-ups! But now, it seems like Bowser and Eggman are up to no good once again! What will happen next? Tune in next week for the next chapter of Mario and Sonic: Heroes Unite!


Author Notes: Chapter complete! Alright, it looks like Princess Peach has appeared in Sonic's world. More specifically Apotos. Speaking of the level, I thought it was the perfect first level for Sonic Unleashed. Man, the scenery in the game was so gorgeous to look at.

This chapter finally explains the reason Sonic and his friends have those power-up markings on their hands. To make things clear, the energy of the power-up has been stored inside the character;s DNA permanently, which is the reason why Sonic and his friends could only use one power-up.

For Sonic and his friends to activate the stored power-up energy, they need another type of energy to activate it, in this case, is the chaos energy in the Chaos Emeralds. No, the energy from the Chaos Heart is not the same as the Chaos Emeralds. It could be a different KIND of chaos energy.

Have any complaints about this? Well sorry... I kind of get sick and tired of trying to explain these plot holes for the Mario power-ups. It's really weird to see some people take this kind of information seriously. It's only a story after all. This kind of thing is supposed to be something that's fun to read, it's not like trying to figure out a math equation. So just accept my explanation and let's move on.

Heheh, sorry about the sudden rant. It's not really like me to do this kind of thing.

Seems like Eggman is alive. And Bowser must have been in some sort of depressed mood ever since he has lost everything. This shows even though he is an evil king who dreams of dominating the world, he still has a heart just like the rest of us. :)

Anyway, I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. Thanks for the support everyone has given me. Make sure to check my profile for updates and such on my stories, but be careful, there might be TINY spoilers. I've also added a DAILY VLOG section on my profile, which gives you insight about my daily life! Although, not much effort has been put into it...

Bye for now! :D

-Azurixx

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