Mario and Sonic: Heroes Unite!

Chapter 50: Rousing Reunions!


Westside Island, Cream's House

It was becoming sunset near the area of Cream's house. Right now, Cream and Cheese were sitting outside their bedroom balcony, admiring the beautiful sunset in the horizon.

"I wonder how Mr. Sonic and the others are doing now that I've called them about the comet in the news report." Cream wondered. Cheese nodded back to her. They both wondered if it was another friend of Mr. Mario, since he had come into their world as a comet.

Suddenly, the two heard a voice calling them. Looking below, Cream and Cheese saw who was calling them. Standing in front of the house, waving up to them, was none other than Knuckles.

"Oh, hello there Mr. Knuckles!" Cream greeted him. She noticed that he had a person standing with him, who was unfamiliar to Cream. "Would you mind introducing me to your friend over there?"

"You mean Yoshi?" Knuckles said, pointing at the dinosaur. "Yeah, uhm, he's a friend of mine." Yoshi looked up to Cream and happily waved up to her.

"Aww, he's so adorable!" Cream commented on Yoshi. The dinosaur grinned in embarrassment. She turned back to Knuckles. "Anyway, what brings you both here, Mr. Knuckles."

"I was wondering if you knew where Sonic was," Knuckles asked her. "I knocked at Tails's House, but no one seems to be answering. I even checked around Emerald Town and I couldn't find them."

"Hmm...they must be headed to Apotos." Cream answered. Knuckles was puzzled, and asked her what they'd be doing there. "Well, I told them I saw a news report that explained a pink comet landed there. I suggested it may have been another friend of Mr. Mario."

"Mr. Mario?" Yoshi repeated. He didn't believe her at first. "Are you saying you know Mario?"

"Yes," Cream nodded back to him. "Why? Are you also friends with Mr. Mario as well?"

"Yeah! He's one of my best friends! And I can't believe he's also here in this world!" Yoshi exclaimed in glee. He quickly did a Flutter Jump in joy and danced around for a bit.

"So Mario and the others really did land in this world." Knuckles said to himself. This gave him a little hope, knowing that also the Master Emerald really was somewhere lost in their world. He thanked Cream for the information. Knuckles and Yoshi began heading back to Emerald Town.

"How are we supposed to reach Mario and the others?" Yoshi asked Knuckles. The echidna told him not to worry, saying he knew where to get them both a ride.

Tails wouldn't mind if I borrowed one of his planes.


Above the skies of Apotos

It was a peaceful evening near the city of Apotos. The sunset was glowing over the ocean landmark. Apotos was made up entirely out of islands located off the peninsula of a humongous continent. The city had beautifully constructed buildings, flourishing field of flowers and hills, and big windmills.

At the moment, our heroes were flying over the islands, trying to find a place to land. Tails was piloting the new Tornado 2, after the old one had exploded in their fight with Eggman in Empire City. Amy sat in the passanger seat right behind Tails. Sonic and Mario both stood on opposite wings of the Tornado 2, although Mario was holding onto the wing for his dear life.

"How do you not get scared of falling off this thing, Sonic?" Mario called out to him, crouching on the plane's wings and holding on the edges with both arms. Sonic shrugged and said it never came to his mind up until now.

"Look! I think that's where Princess Peach landed!" Amy said, pointing to one of Apotos's islands. Near the center of the grassy hills of the island was a huge crater. Tails took the time to land the Tornado 2 near the area. The heroes got off the plane, which was a relief to Mario, and inspected the crater.

"This seems like the place." Sonic said, looking down into the crater. He quickly noticed something inside it. "Hey! It's her crown." The hedgehog jumped down and picked it up from the ground, dusting off the dirt. The crown was encrusted with red and blue jewels. Sonic handed the crown to Mario.

"I hope Peach is alright." Mario said. He couldn't live with himself if something terrible had happened to Peach. "Where do you think she is right now?"

"I'm sure the residence here took her to the nearest clinic, just to make sure she is alright." Tails told him. "Come on, we should ask some of the people around here."

The heroes walked through the grassy hill of the island and over a white bridge connecting the hills to the town of Apotos. The sidewalks were a not much crowded with people, allowing the heroes to walk through the town quickly. They admired the gorgeous scenery around them and the amazing view of the ocean. The heroes started asking the residents if they knew anything about a princess landing near the city.

A boy in a red stripped shirt and blue shorts directed the heroes to the "Flower Clinic". The clinic building was was located deep inside of the town. It was fairly large and was surrounded by pots of flowers. A flight of red stairs led to the doors.

"Well, this must be it." Sonic said. He and the others climbed up the stairs and knocked on the door. A tall, elderly man with a long, grey beard, wearing a black robe and cap along with circular glasses answered the door.

"Good evening, young ones!" the old man greeted them. "My name is Gregorios. I am the owner of this clinic. How may I help you?"

"Hey, I remember you!" Sonic said, pointing at Gregorios. "You're that old man who gave me some pretty helpful advice the last time I was here." Sonic remembered the adventure he had when Eggman broke the planet into pieces to release a powerful creature from it. Gregorios also seemed to remember Sonic and was glad to meet him again.

"I was wondering if you knew about a princess crash landing near here." Mario asked. Gregorios nodded to him and asked if they knew her. Mario showed him the crown they had found. "She's a very good friend of ours. Please let us see her."

"As you wish." Gregorios invited them into the Flower Clinic. He led them into a large room in the upper level. There, lying down on a bed in the middle of the room, was Princess Peach. She was sleeping with a white blanket over her body. A window was located above the bed, causing the sunset light to glow over her body.

"Peach!" Mario called out to her. He quickly ran up to her side, happy to see her. "Peach! It's-a me! Mario!" Strangely, Peach did not answer him, and continued to lie down in the bed, still asleep.

"I'm afraid that won't work." Gregorios began to explain. "You see, the girl is suffering through a terrible coma." The heroes were shocked to hear the news.

"No...no...she can't be...please tell me you didn't say she is in a coma!" Mario pleaded in desperation. Gregorios could only shake his head to Mario. The plumber gave a sorrow look. He turned to the princess in bed and gently held onto her hand. Seeing his distress, Sonic and the others tried to comfort him.

"Don't worry, Mario. I'm sure that Peach will soon wake up from her coma." Amy said as she put her hand to his shoulder. But her comfort still didn't cheer Mario up. Suddenly, he had an idea pop into his head.

"Sonic, do you still have the Chaos Emerald with you?" Mario asked him. Sonic took the emerald out of his pocket and showed it to him, puzzled to what Mario was thinking of. "Can't we use the power of the emerald to wake Peach from her coma?"

"I'm not sure that will work." Tails spoke. "I mean, I've never seen them being used to heal somebody from a serious injury."

"Why not?" Mario questioned him. "Didn't you also say the emeralds are able to enchance a person's strength? Why can't we use it to enhance the health of Peach so she'll wake up from her coma? Can't we atleast try?"

"Mario does have a point," Sonic said as he walked up to the bed. "Chaos Emeralds do give people strength to survive, I should know! It couldn't hurt to try." Tails began to think about what they said. He agreed to try and use the emerald's energy to wake Peach from her coma.

Sonic handed the Chaos Emerald to Mario. At first, he didn't know exactly how to use it's power, but Sonic explained to him the emerald uses people's thoughts and turned it into power. Mario understood and tried it. He began to think of using the energy to wake Peach from her coma.

All of a sudden, a red ball of light flashed out of the Chaos Emerald. It slowly floated toward's Peach's body. It flashed into her body, causing it to glow white for a second. Suddenly, Peach began to move.

"Ooh..." she silently moaned and suddenly went back into her coma. The heroes were confused.

"Why didn't it work?" Amy pondered to them. "I mean, it did kind of work, but only for a few seconds. It's like she only had enough energy to wake up for a short period of time."

"That's probably what we need. More energy." Tails assumed. He pointed to the Chaos Emerald in Mario's hand. "I don't think one Chaos Emerald is enough to heal Peach. We might need to get another emerald for the healing process to work."

"Then I guess you guys know what that means. We need to go out and search for another Chaos Emerald!" Sonic exclaimed.

Mario was disappointed the energy of the Choas Emerald wasn't enough to heal Peach. But he was glad to know they had hope to saving her. He looked down to the princess. She seemed so defenseless and innocent when she was asleep.

Don't worry, Peach. We'll wake you up, whatever it takes.

The heroes soon left the Flower Clinic, bidding Gregorios farewell for now. They wandered through the narrow streets of Apotos. Sonic and his friends noticed that Mario was still a little depressed.

"Hey, Mario. I know what will definitely cheer you up," Sonic said. "A Chocolate Chipped Cream Sundae Supreme!" The hedgehog went up to the nearest ice cream vendor, who gave him an ice cream cone topped with a variety of sweets. Sonic gave the cone to Mario, who gave it a small taste test.

"Mmmm, not bad!" Mario said as he continued to eat the dessert. It seemed to cheer up the plumber. He continued eating it as the heroes headed their way back to the Tornado 2. At that time, the ice cream filled Mario's belly. "Gee, that was really good!"

"Glad to see that cheered you up." Sonic said, happy to see Mario feeling a little better. He hopped onto the Tornado 2's wing. "Alright, so now we know we gotta find the Chaos Emerald. How exactly are we going to do that?"

"I have the perfect solution," Tails spoke as he climbed into the Tornado 2's driving seat. "I have an old Emerald Radar that I have lying around in my laboratory. We can use it to find the rest of the Chaos Emeralds."

"That will make things easier on us." Amy stated. She remembered something. "Hey, what happened to that gadget Professer E. Gadd gave to you? You know, the 3DS Horror?"

"Oh yeah," Tails remembered about the gadget. "It should be in the shelves, along with the rest of my gadgets I made. I'm thinking of transferring all the features from the device onto my Miles Electric."

"That's pretty clever." Sonic remarked. He began to stretch on the wing of the plane, waiting for Tails to start the engine. Suddenly, the hedgehog heard something in the sky. He quickly looked up and couldn't believe what he saw. "No way...isn't that the Tornado 1?"

The others looked up and were surprised as well. Up in the sky, was the Tornado 1 flying towards them. The Tornado 1 looked exactly like the Tornado 2, only it was painted orange.

As it got closer, the heroes realized who was piloting the plane. It was Knuckles! He was struggling to fly the plane, but only succeeded in making wide turns and flying in circles. In the back seat, was Yoshi! He was keeping his eyes closed, panicking from Knuckles's terrible flying.

"Knuckles? And Yoshi!" Mario gasped. He was pleasantly surprised to see his dinosaur friend was okay. But he wondered what he was doing in the plane, along with Knuckles. "What are they doing here?"

"The more important question is, how did they get my plane!" Tails shouted in bewilderment.

"Whatsup guys!" Knuckles yelled down to them. He let go of the plane's steering stick to wave down to them. Unfortunately, it wasn't the smartest move he could've done. The Tornado 1 quickly swerved down towards the ocean. Knuckles tried to regain control, but accidently broke the steering stick. "Oh great, just what we needed..."

"You knucklehead!" Yoshi yelled to him. He slapped himself in the forehead. Knuckles gave the dinosaur an embarrassed grin.

The Tornado 1 swoop down towards the ocean. Just as it hit the water, it quickly swooped back up into the sky. It began to do these crazy loops and twirls, before crashing into another island of Apotos.

"Oh no! We have to see if they're alright!" Amy told the others.

Tails quickly started the engine of the Tornado 2. The plane quickly flew off the island they were on and quickly landed to the island that Knuckles and Yoshi crashed on.

Where did you see them crash at?" Sonic asked. Mario told them he saw them crash near the big bell tower near the middle of the island. The heroes rushed through the town and headed to the Bell Tower Square.

There, the Tornado 1 had crashed landed right in the middle of the Bell Tower Square. It crashed through a few tables and chairs, but luckily no one was hurt. Well, except for maybe Knuckles and Yoshi, who laid near the wreckage of the Tornado 1.

"Ohh...my head." Yoshi moaned as he slowly sat up. He rubbed his head, a bit dazed from the fall. He turned to Knuckles, who was still laying face-flat on the ground. "What the heck was that? You told me you knew how to drive a plane!"

"Yeah...I sorta lied on that part." Knuckles groaned as he slowly stood up. He looked at the the wreckage the caused to the Tornado 1. "Aww man! Tails is gonna kill me when he knows about this!" He turned to Yoshi and begged him. "Please, make sure you don't tell Tails about this!"

"Oh, you don't have to." Tails spoke out to him. The fox clearly had an angry look on his face. His hands were on the side of his hips. Knuckles moaned and put both his hands on his face.

"Tails!" Yoshi suddenly exclaimed and hugged the fox. Tails's anger suddenly died down and turned to joy as he realized he was embraced in Yoshi's arms. It had been a long time since the two friends had seen each other.

"Yoshi! It's so great to see you again!" Tails said as he patted the dinosaur's head. The dinosaur licked his face in delight, then proceeded to the others.

"Sonic! Amy!" Yoshi exclaimed as he hugged the both of them. The two hedgehogs were happy to see the dinosaur was still as cheerful as ever. After talking to each other for a few minutes, Yoshi turned to Mario, who was relieved the dinosaur was okay.

"How did you get here, Yoshi?" Mario asked as he hugged the dinosaur. Yoshi explained how he landed on Angel Island and how Knuckles helped him get to Apotos. "I see. Did you happen to find the others?"

"No." Yoshi answered as he shook his head. "I hope they're alright. How about you? Did you find any of the others?" Mario nodded. He explained how he and the others found Peach in Apotos, but she happened to be in a coma. "That's horrible! How long is she going to be like that?"

"I don't know." Mario said. He assured Yoshi that Peach was going to be alright. He told him all they had to do was find another Chaos Emerald. Mario suddenly remembered that Yoshi was with him the day they were suddenly transported to Sonic's world. He asked him what happened after Junior knocked him out.

"It was awful," Yoshi began explaining. "After Junior knocked both you and Luigi, a huge, bright portal appeared in the sky and suddenly sucked in all of us. It sucked in the Master Emerald first, then all the Chaos Emeralds. Then it sucked in you and Luigi. When it sucked in the princess, I tried to rescue her, but I ended up getting sucked in as well. I'm not sure what happened to the others."

"Most likely they got sucked up into the portal as well." Tails assumed. After hearing how Mario and his friends really entered Sonic world, it was all clear to Mario, Sonic and the others.

"So what's the plan?" Knuckles asked them. "What are we going to do?"

"What do you think? We're going to find them of course!" Sonic said. "So are all of you guys in for another adventure?" The others agreed with Sonic. He grinned and gave them a thumbs-up. "Alright! If we work together like we did back in Mario's world, we'll find all the Chaos Emeralds, retrieve both the Master Emerald and the Jeweled Scepter, and rescue Mario's friends in no time!"

The heroes cheered. Nothing was going to stop them. They were all determined to go on another adventure. They knew it was going to be much challenging than last time, but the heroes knew they'd be able to handle it.

Their first goal of course, was to find another Chaos Emerald in order to heal Peach from her coma.

"I just wish my Tornado 1 didn't have to broken in the process..." Tails sighed as he looked back to the badly damaged plane. Knuckles assured him he could fix it again, just like the Tornado 2. Tails suddenly blew his top off at him. "I wouldn't have to fix it if you weren't being a knucklehead!"

"Geez, I'm sorry!" Knuckles apologized. "It was just an accident! You're lucky I didn't happen to accidently break anything else when I had to enter your house by punching through a window."

Tails simply glared at Knuckles and rolled his eyes in annoyance. No wonder Eggman was able to fool him so many times. He is so ignorant!


South Island, Green Hill Zone

It was a calm evening in the land of the Green Hill Zone. The sunset covered the green fields and checkered soil hills and mountains in a soothing glow. The huge, blue lakes glistened in the sunset. The palm trees and colorful flowers swayed slowly in the breeze.

Green Hill Zone was located near the coast of South Island, which was the place where Sonic began his very first adventure into foiling Eggman's plan. South Island was located a few miles south of Westside Island.

At the moment, Metal Sonic was lying down on one of the hills. Apparently, in their fight back in Emerald Town, Sonic's Rainbow Spin Dash attack was so powerful, it was enough to send the robot flying into Green Hill.

"How did this all happen?" Metal Sonic said to himself. He regarded how he found himself back in his own world and how the Star Children and the Chaos Emeralds were also in his world. Metal Sonic remembered the last thing that happened before he was knocked out. He had been rescuing Mario and Sonic from their doom in the hands of Bowser and Eggman.

But this still does not make sense. Metal Sonic thought. It didn't explain exactly how they were transported from the Star Children's world back to his world. If only he had been active at the time.

"Hold on...what if the koopaling actually did it?" Metal Sonic was closing on the possibility that Junior had done the "ritual" without him. Metal Sonic was impressed the koopaling was capable of doing it by himself. But it did not explain why they ended up in Sonic's world.

"The only other explanation is that it was not successful. The ritual." Metal Sonic knew if the ritual had worked, they would have been in the "Negative Dimension". But they weren't. He began to wonder what flaws Junior may have done. Did he say the summoning correctly? Did he arrange the Star Children and the artifacts in the correct formation? Or was it because they didn't actually have all seven Star Children?

"I'm going to have to talk to the young koopaling to know what he did exactly during the ritual." Metal Sonic planned to himself. The robot knew that no matter if the ritual was successful or not, all the participants of the ritual and the artifacts would be teleported to another dimension. In this case, it was Sonic's world.

"I know that the red plumber and his Chaos Emerald is here, but where could the others have been teleported to?" Metal Sonic began to ponder to himself. Suddenly, Metal Sonic saw something soaring through the sky. He stared at it for a moment, realizing it was a green comet. It was careening rapidly towards Green Hill Zone!

Metal Sonic watched as the green comet soared past the hills and palm trees of the area, crash into the lower side of a huge mountain in the area. Curious, Metal Sonic used his jet-pack to rocket to where the comet landed. The robot was shocked to see what had came out of it.

Wiggling out of the hole it made in the side of the mountain, was a familiar plumber who wore dark blue overalls, a green hat and a very sleek moustache. Metal Sonic quickly recognized the person. It was none other than one of the Star Children, Luigi.

"Where am I?" Luigi said as he looked aeound the area. He rubbed his head in pain. "Geez, that was a rough landing!" He looked up, seeing Metal Sonic staring down at him. Surprisingly, Luigi wasn't scared from his presence and instead kindly greeted the robot. "Oh, hello sir. Do you know where I am?"

"You...aren't afraid of me?" Metal Sonic asked. He was confused from Luigi's kind gesture towards him. "Even after the cruel actions I've acted upon you in the past?"

"...what cruel actions? What are you talking about?" Luigi asked him, hardly knowing what Metal Sonic was talking about. "All I remember is..." A panicked look rushed onto his face. "Oh no! I don't remember anything at all! What's my name? Where do I come from? What am I doing here!"

Hmm. It seems the Star Child is suffering from amnesia. Metal Sonic assumed as he watched Luigi rocking back and forth on the ground in panick. Suddenly, something caught Metal Sonic's eye. On the ground, a few feet from Luigi, was the Blue Chaos Emerald.

"The Chaos Emerald!" Metal Sonic exclaimed. It seemed that Luigi must've had it this whole time, but it happened to fall out of his pocket. Luigi noticed the emerald and picked it up.

"A Chaos Emerald?" Luigi repeated. He stared at the glowing emerald in his hand. He was amazed at it's mysterious powers.

Metal Sonic suddenly came up with an idea. It was an opportunity he couldn't miss. With Luigi knowing nothing of the past events, Metal Sonic could manipulate his mind for his own plans. He walked up to Luigi and spoke to him in a kind manner. "I cannot believe you do not remember who I am, dear friend."

"Y-you're my friend?" Luigi asked, raising an eyebrow. Metal Sonic nodded to him. Luigi fell for the lie. "Oh...okay. Then if you're my friend, you should know who I am."

"Indeed I do," Metal Sonic began. "In fact, I know a whole lot about you. You're name is Luigi. You and I have been friends for a long time." He put a hand on Luigi's shoulder. "Allow me to explain to you what has been going on..."

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To be continued!


Peach has fallen in a terrible predicament! Will Mario, Sonic and the rest of the heroes be able to find another Chaos Emerald and heal her from her coma? And what does Metal Sonic have in plan with the amnesiac Luigi? Tune in next week for the next chapter of Mario and Sonic: Heroes Unite!


Author Notes: Chapter complete! Whoa! Did any of you guys realize this story has reached 50 chapters already? What an accomplishment! There aren't that many stories like this that get up to 50 chapters! And we're only half finished this story. As I've promised, this story will have a total of 100 chapters altogether. I can assure you the further we get through this story, there will be more action, more humor and more drama!

Green Hill Zone was the first ever level in the Sonic series. South Island is the name of the area that Sonic The Hedgehog took place. There's a reason that Metal Sonic landed on the island, which will be explained next chapter.

I'm going to make these Author Notes shorter from now on. I feel like I'm re-telling what's happening in the story, taking away information that you guys can tell yourselves in reviews.

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