Me: This chapter gives insight to both sets of heroes in this story. Starting with Clay and the gang, then moving on to Ash and his friends in the Pokemon world.
Zane: This chapter also introduces the item that causes me, Clay, and some of the others to warp to Ash's world.
Me: Not much else to say, so let's get started!
Chapter 1: Peaceful Days
Following the recent victory over Bowser, Clayton Mario and some of his closest friends decided to take a vacation to the lovely Isle Delfino. Vivian, Clay's girlfriend was enjoying the atmosphere as the young plumber had expected. A while back, he and his brothers saved the island from a terrible darkness caused by Bowser, his kids, and a nasty string of pollution and graffiti. As a result, the people of Isle Delfino wanted to make sure that if the Mario brothers were to come back that they'd have the most enjoyable experiance on the island. Of course, the heroic plumbers could care less about a reward for their acts, but an all expense payed vacation was too good to pass up.
The previous adventure they had shared involved some unique robots and their former caretakers as well as a couple of old friends who had somehow warped into the Mushroom Kingdom from the Real World. After the adventure, the robots and their friends wished to stay in the Mushroom Kingdom instead of returning to their world. This place was a lot more fun than the Real World, and everyone found great oppritunities not found in the real world.
Joel is now working as an assistant to Professor E. Gadd, and is learning a lot about building new machines with E. Gadd's help. E. Gadd himself is also learning some new things too..
Mike is working at Club 64 at the Toad Town docks as a bartender. His stories of travelling with the Mario brothers, and his time in space proved to make him very popular.
Gypsy and the Nanites are working alongside Joel and E. Gadd. their collective knowledge of mechanis and engineering has helped improve the overall design of Gadd's Ghost Portrificationizer, and are working on new projects to astound the world with.
Tom Servo became a song writer. During his days on board the Satilite of Love, he wrote some incredible songs to help keep everyone's spirits up. He's now making a bundle selling his old works, and making new ones. Of course, his friends helped contribute to his success, and he's made sure the record companies saw that too.
Crow T. Robot is now a novelist. With people's intrest in the stories of the SOL, Crow wrote a book explaining how they handled their stressfull lives called, 'How We Survived Hell, and How You Can Too'. The book's subject matter was some brief explainations of the lives of the SOL crew, and how they handled being subjected to terrible movies. It also offers people insight on how to spot a bad movie, and how to cope with the situation in case something like what happened to Joel and Mike happens to anyone else.
Cambot is working for the Toad Town news as a photographer obviously. He also provides live news feeds with his Cam Corder Mode. He's also dug into his memory banks and sold every recorded memory of his days on board the SOL to television stations around the country so people can enjoy the wackiness that the crew underwent to contain their sanity. As the old saying goes, 'You'll look back on this later in life, and laugh'.
Bobo, the half man-half ape, is now living peacefully at Congo Bongo Island. Back when he first met Mike and the robots, he was a professor. But his intellect took a dive when he joined Pearl Forrester's mad plot of world domination. Cranky Kong is helping Bobo get his mind back in shape.
Finally, we have Observer, AKA Brain Guy. He's content simply observing the world around him. In an attempt to enlighten the younger generation, he decided to become a teacher.
At this point in time, the robots, Joel, Mike, Bobo, and even Brain Guy suprisingly were at Isle Delfino with some of Clay's other friends, and enjoying the calm tropical climate. Clay turned to his girlfriend, and said, "As much as I love this island, nothing beats Toad Town." Vivian smiled, and said, "I can see why both this island and Toad Town are so special to you."
They then heard the voice of their friend Zane, a matial artist Toad from Toad Town, say, "Guys, they're about to announce the winners of the Giant Watermelon competition!" Clay and Vivian got up, and ran to the juice hut on the other end of Gelato Beach. Following shortly behind them were Meriee, Cambot, Servo, Crow, Bobo, Yoshi, Kooper, and Goombario. The others with them didn't really have any intrest in food competitions, plus they were playing vollyball with a couple of Piantas.
There were about twenty people with watermelons of various sizes. Clay said to Yoshi, "I know you love watermelon, so you'd better behave and not eat any of these entries." Yoshi nodded, and just watched. As the judges measured the watermelons, they saw some rather unusually sized melons. Some were as big as some of the Piantas there.
That's when everyone heard a voice say, "WAIT! Sorry I'm late! I had trouble getting this thing down here..." Everyone looked and saw what would arguibly be the biggest watermelon on Earth! It was so big, the size of this thing didn't go unoticed by the players on the vollyball court. Brain Guy said, "My god, that thing is as big as a truck!" Joel then said, "What fertilizer was used on that thing?"
Back at the contest, Clay saw the person who was pushing the watermelon through the sand. It looked like a Shyguy, but it had what looked liked insect wings, and carried a small spear. Clay then said, "A Beezo? Hadn't seen one of those in a while." The Beezo looked at Clay, and with a panicked expression yelled, "AAAAAHH!!!! THE MARIO BROTHERS AGAIN! I didn't do anything wrong, please don't hurt me!!!!!!"
The group was confused, and the onlookers looked at Clay wondering about what was going on. Clay then said, "Um, have we met?" The Beezo then said, "How can you not remember me? I was the one who was Valintina's little pawn! The one who made that beautiful flower you and your brothers ripped to shreds with the help of a turtle dragon, a toy, the real prince of Nimbus Land, and some prissy blonde!"
Clay then snapped to attention at what the Beezo said, and then replied with, "Shy Away!? Ok, two things: Never, EVER call Princess Peach Toadstool a prissy blonde unless you want to spend the rest of your life eating from a tube. Second, that so-called 'flower' tried to eat us, and it was in our way! Anyway I'm not here to beat you up, I didn't even know you were here. I'm here on vacation with my friends."
Shy Away then said, "Oh, sorry about that. Anyway, whaddaya think? This is the best thing I've ever grown, and I hope this wins the contest!" The other contestants looked at the oversized melon, then back at theirs. They knew they had lost. The judges were convinced of this and gave Shy Away the blue ribbon, and held a trophy with a watermelon placed on the top. The second and third place ribbons were also handed out. Cambot decided to take a picture of Shy Away's moment of victory, then spat out a picture of the scene he just photographed.
Yoshi was so happy for Shy Away, he began eating the watermelons despite everyone's objections. Clay then said, "I'm very, very sorry everyone... We all know of how a Yoshi's appitite can get out of hand." Yoshi then said, "Ewww, something not good in last watermelon!" He then spat out a brass flute. Zane then said, "How did a flute get stuck inside a watermelon?" Clay then said, "Your asking me?" Goombario walked up to it. As he looked at it, his eyes widened. "Guys, this is a Warp Whistle!"
Zane then said, "A what?" Clay then said, "A Warp Whistle: It's a magic flute that has the power to send anyone who plays it to another location. I hadn't seen one of these in years! Not since the time Bowser's kids invaded the seven lands of the Mushroom Kingdom, and turned each king into some random animal."
Clay took the whistle and put it safely in his backpack. Then he said, "Let's mess around with it later." Shy Away then said, "Well, I guess it's ok for you to have it. I don't kow how that got in there either. If someone were to have taken a bite out of my watermelon, he or she could have chipped a tooth on that thing."
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At this very time, in another universe, a group of kids and odd animals were relaxing in a small clearing in a dense forest. There were three boys and one girl. One boy wore a blue jacket, a black shirt, and a hat which was colored red, green, and black. He had black spikey hair, and had a calm smile on his face.
Another boy was a bit older than the first. He had dark skin, and his eyes looked to be closed at all times. He also had black spiky hair, and his clothes looked similar to that of what a mountain climber would wear. The final boy wore glasses, a green shirt, and khaki shorts. The girl had brown hair, which went into pigtails that hang down the sides of her head. She wore a red bandana on her head and wore a matching shirt and short black shorts. The oldest boy said to the others, "Ok, food's ready!" The three younger kids and the animals swarmed the large cooking pot the older individual was readying a stew of some sort.
The girl said, "Brock, this batch of stew seems to be the best yet!" The youngest boy then said, "That's what you say every time he makes it May..." The girl, May, then said, "Quiet Max!" The boy known as Brock then said, "Knock it off you two." The remaining boy then said, "After we get done eating, we'll practice for the next Frontier Symbol Pikachu!" This boy was Ash Ketchum, a famous Pokemon Trainer from the town of Pallet. Within his short trainer career, he's been in the most tournaments, both local and national, over the last eight years.
His collection of pokemon is quite modest compared to most trainers, but he does allright despite this. He's a very kind and caring person who never turns down a challenge or plea for help. These two elements in his personality has earned him many a friend, rival, and enemy in his life. When it came to friends, there was May, an aspiring Pokemon Coordinator, Max, a brainy kid who's May's little brother, Brock, a former pokemon gym leader who's studying to become a pokemon breeder. But Ash's closest friend is a small mouse pokemon named Pikachu. Then there's a former travel companion who left to continue running her gym in her hometown. Her name is Misty. A lot of people speculate the two share deep feelings for each other, but no one knows for sure.
Most of Ash's other friends also happen to be his rivals who are also looking for the same dream he's chasing: To be a Pokemon Master. His greatest rival is the grandson to world reknowned pokemon expert, Sam Oak. Other rivals include people he met all over the different regions he and his friends traveled through over the years.
When it comes to enemies, his most common foes are a group of evil trainers bent on world domination called Team Rocket. Most of the time they deal with three incompetants named Jessie, James, and Meowth. But even those three are too much in his oppinion. Some of the trainers Ash met have an overwhelming resentment towards Ash since the said trainers were too immature to be proper pokemon trainers, and have mistreated their pokemon as a result. Ash's kindness convinced these pokemon to leave their old trainers to join up with someone who'd give them the respect they deserve, or live free in the wild. Some of them even joined Ash's team as a way of trying to repay him the kindness he shown them.
Ash's current challenge is the Battle Frontier: An incredible challenge for trainers who have to travel the Kanto region to collect symbols after defeating an incredibly tough trainer calleda Frontier Brain. Since Ash hopes to become the greatest Pokemon Master in all of recorded history, the Battle Frontier is a challenge he wanted to take without question. Needless to say, despite some complications in his past, he's become quite the icon amongst trainers. Especially ones in Kanto where Ash first started his journey many years ago.
Ash began to reflect the many challenges he's had up to this point. He realized he'd come a long way since the day he first got Pikachu. The little electric mouse wouldn't even listen to him when they first started out. But after a near death experiance with a flock of angry bird pokemon known as Spearow, Pikachu saw how much his trainer cared and as a result never acted up like that again.
Ash looked back towards many of his greatest battles: His first pokemon capture, his first evolved pokemon, his first gym battle, as well as his first loss. He remembered the first legendary pokemon he saw, though he had no clue as to what it was until he first went to Johto two years after his first day as a trainer. He then remembered his first big step at stardom when he won the Orange League, which defenately was no easy task. Then the day he finally beat his old rival Gary Oak in a battle, which one would argue would be possibly one of the most memorible matches in pokemon training history, seeing as how a Charizard, a fire type, had beaten a Blastoise, a water type.
Ash had only one Frontier Symbol left, and he wondered what lay next for him once he won the final symbol. He figured he'd try to find a new land to explore, and find new pokemon to train. Little did the boy know, one of his greatest adventures would soon unfold.
To be continued...
Servo: Despite Ash's faults, one can't say he's a bad trainer.
Zane: Yeah, it's too bad people always gotta focus on the negative. Come on people, it's just a show! If your gonna whine over something so small, whine over how those complementory bags of peanuts on airlines are to friggin' small instead of whining over an anime cartoon!
Me: Couldn't agree more. Plus there are more important concernes in the world than worrying over the show's script. Anyway, R&R!!!