"Well this-a battle shouldn't take long" Mari said confidently. "If we could defeat you while injured, we can definitely beat you with full strength!"

Pac-man frowned in annoyance. "Well that was because I was toying around with you two. Now you pissed me off!"

"Excuses, excuses" Sonic wagged his finger. Prepared to end this quickly, the hedgehog curled up and spin dashed toward the round and yellow man.

Pac-man, however, had different plans. Briefly running in place, Pac-man soon charged forward and bonked into the oncoming hedgehog.

"Ouch" says Sonic. "What the heck was that?"

Pac-man laughs. "That was a Rev Roll attack. Impressive, eh?"

"Not really-a" Mario said sincerely. "But this-a is!"

The plumber jumps in the air to give his foe a taste of shoes. Aware of what was going to happen next, Pac-man counter attacked by hopping on his rear end and tackling the assailant in mid-air.

"Nice try, but you'll have to overcome my Butt Bounce next time!" said Pac-man.

"Mama mia!" exclaims Mario "he has his own moves that are similar to ours!"

"And that's not all! I can even SWALLOW YOU WHOLE!" To prove his point, Pac-man ate a randomly placed pile of bricks as if they were like cotton candy/

Sonic groans "this is not good. Hey, Mario, I got an idea."

"What?"

"RUN!"

Before Mario or Pac-Man could react, Sonic grabbed his friend by the arm and skedaddled.

"Ah crap" groaned Pac-Man. "Looks like I have to hunt them down. AGAIN!"

The yellow sphere charged after his prey, making 'waka' sounds as he constantly munched the air.

Meanwhile, our heroes were running through the empty corridors of the ninja base.

"What do we do, Mario?" asked the hedgehog. "Its obvious our abilities are nearly useless against his own, and I sure as heck don't want to get close to that big mouth of his! What's your plan?"

"STOP RUNNING-A!" cried the Italian as he was dragged along the floor.

Realizing what he was doing to his plumber pal, Sonic stopped. Mario got up and dusted himself off.

"Now-a about our killer friend-a… I believe-a I have an idea how to beat-a him."

"You do? Well I'm open for suggestions!"

"All we need-a to do is use gimmicky items against-a him!"

The hedgehog was puzzled. "Umm… what?"

"You know, magic objects-a to power us up and give us super powers. Like my-a mushrooms or your-a Chaos Emeralds."

"Oh. But how do we know there is anything like that around here?"

"Let's check-a the storage room. There's bound to be a couple of potions or something-a."

"Alright, lets go!" Sonic once again grabs Mario and accidentally drags him around again to find some power ups.

Back to Pac-man, he decided to drop his traditional tactics and go for a ninja approach. If he can't get his prey head on then he'll get them from behind. To make his job easier, the yellow guy took a detour to get a pistol and poison-tipped bullets.

As he crept quietly in the shadows, Pac-man heard a faint noise of doors opening. He quickly tracked down the source of the noise. His hunt led him to the mystic storage room. That area contained a couple of artifacts the ninja clan obtained over the years. Due to the amount of power contained in the artifacts, admittance was so restricted even Pac-man couldn't enter. And with those irritating cowards inside…

The one that was named Waku shook off the thought. No, its just a bunch of old relics. The rumors heard from the ninja apprentices couldn't be true… could they? It didn't matter anyway, there was only one entrance into that room, and Pac-man would make sure to turn into a tomb for two.

"SURPRISE!" Pac-man shouts as he blindly fires in hopes of hitting somebody. Of course, all he did was miss and startle the heroes to go seek protection.

Mario frantically tried figuring out the gizmo in his hands. "Come on, work you stupid-a thing!"

"Forget it, Mario" Sonic said to his human friend. "Let's just throw things at the guy!"

So they did just that. Pac-man used his ninja acrobatics to dodge the various objects as he reloading his gun. Sonic and Mario used the items around them to shield themselves from bullets. And this pattern goes around for like three minutes or so. Until Mario threw a cupboard full of jars and released a group of spirits trapped inside the jars.

Pac-man panicked at the poltergeists. "GHOSTS! I HATE GHOSTS!"

One ghost flew right over the yellow man's head, dropping his gun in fright. The gun went off and shot Pac-man right in the leg.

"CRAP! Why did I use the bullets lanced with poison?"

Pac-man grabbed a nearby scroll and used it to cover up his wound. He limped his way out in agony.

"Don't let him get away!" shouts Sonic.

"Hold-a on. I just take these along just in-a case." Mario picked up a pair of staffs before chasing after Pac-man.

Sonic didn't even need to use his speed to catch up to the wounded enemy. The hedgehog kicked the yellow sphere face first on the ground.

"End of the line for your crazy revenge" said Sonic. "Now its off to jail for you!"

The blue blur jumped back when Pac-man put his head up from the floor. His skin was all scaly and he had thousands of sharp teeth. Confused at the hedgehog's emotion, Pac-man looked at his hands and saw claws in their place.

"What- what the hell is happening to me?!"

Mario came in puffing and hands Sonic one of the staffs. Upon looking at their enemy he shouts "WOAH! He's-a all freaky and that-a scroll is-a glowing!"

As the plumber said, the scroll was indeed glowing. Pac-man opened the scroll and read the contents.

"The venom of a snake, a piece of lead, and lots of blood. Combined all three near this scroll to transform into…"

His sentence was interrupted as he screamed in pain. Pac-man's body shook as he grew into tremendous size. He fell to the floor when his arms and legs became horns. His perfectly round body morphed into a serpent form. When the transformation stopped, Pac-man looked at himself and laughed manically.

He had become a yellow Eastern Dragon!

"Oh…"

"…crap."

Mario and Sonic quickly got out of the way as the area they just stood became a charred crater. Pac-Dragon breathed fire everywhere, incinerating everything in the way.

"He's-a too strong for-a us!" cried Mario.

Sonic shouts "if only we had a miracle to defeat him!"

Then the ceiling fell on both of them. Pac-Dragon thought it was all over, but then came a bright light from beneath the rubble. The rubble was suddenly disintegrated, and the source of the light was revealed to be the two staffs.

But that wasn't all! Mario and Sonic were pulsating with power. Their entire body was completely silver, save for their rainbow glowing eyes and the Ying Yang symbol printed on their foreheads. Yes, they had become super-powered as Zen Mario and Zen Sonic!

"Didn't see this coming" echoed Zen Sonic as he looked at awe of his new form.

"We-a have other things to worry about-a" echoed Zen Mario, pointing at Pac-Dragon.

"You're right. Let's end this madness once and for all!"

"And we'll do it… TOGETHER-A!"

The dragon roared, accepting their challenge. The two heroes charged at the beast and…

DUE TO THE LAZINESS OF THE AUTHOR WRITING AN ACTION-PACKED PARAGRAPH, THE FOLLOWING EPIC SCENE WILL BE DUMBED DOWN BY A GAZILLION TIMES.

pow fists punching fire breath ouch building is on fire fighting continues super speed super jump grind bop building collapses battle on the clouds chomp choke oh no they are losing teamwork attack dragon weaken staffs impaled into eyeballs

WE NOW RETURN TO REGULAR TYPING. SORRY FOR THE DISAPPOINTMENT.

Pac-Dragon screamed it's body exploded piece by piece. He slowly morphed back into the normal Pac-man. He fell before the feet of the now-normal Sonic and Mario.

With a gasp of pain, Pac-man's last words were "tell Ms. Pac-man I love her." Then he made his arcade death noise and melted into nothingness.

The plumber wiped the sweat from his brow. "Mama mia, that-a was the toughest battle-a I ever had-a!"

"You said it" panted the hedgehog. "This kind of fight is something we'll never see ever again!"

Now that the corrupted hero has been slain, and his minions fled for their lives, all that was left to do was find a way back to the Olympics. Thus our two legends walked side by side.

"Hey, Mario. Do you think everyone else is all right?"

"I'm sure they are perfectly fine-a."