Chapter 4

Fight for Power

Part 2

Mario, Sonic, Yoshi, Luigi, Lucario, Link and Mega Man were all battling an army of Primids. However they had some trouble defeating them, so they called for help from the tower. Pretty soon, Bowser, Charizard and Fox all arrived on the scene.

Mario set about punching out a Primid that tried to attack him from behind before Luigi tossed another one into an oncoming group of them. He ducked out the way of an attacking Sword Primid, kicking the sword out of it's hand and punching it away. Sonic spin dashed his way through several Boom Primids, using the wind from his speed to knock their weapons out of their grips. He then picked up a boomerang and tossed it at them, slicing them all in half horizontally.

Yoshi used his powers to take on a Big Primid, evading it's strong attacks and countering with a midair tail whip to the face, knocking it onto a Scope Primid, thus crushing it. A Primid jumped on him from behind, and suddenly more Primids began piling on top of him, attempting to overwhelm him, but he used his super strength to launch them off of him. Raising up his tail and gathering his strength, Yoshi slammed his tail on the ground with brute force, triggering a shockwave which took out most of the Primid army.

Bowser and Charizard held off some more Primids with fire attacks. Bowser burned most of them with his fire breath while Charizard knocked the rest away with his Flamethrower. He then blew away a group of Primids with his wings. Link and Mega Man were currently occupied with some Scope Primids. Link sliced up most down the middle while Mega Man dodged their blasts and countered with his own, blowing them to bits.

Lucario and Fox were having an easier advantage against the rest of them, using their superior fighting skills to overpower them. A Primid tried to attack Fox from the side, but he easily outwitted it and performed a split kick, all before throwing a second one to Lucario, who followed up by kicking it into a group of Fire Primids, then he fired an Aura Sphere which knocked them out in an instant.

Pretty soon, the heroes had defeated the entire army.

"So far so good." said Sonic.

"Fox, you Link head back to the tower with the others, Bowser, Sonic, Luigi, Yoshi and I will remain here to investigate." commanded Mario.

"No problem." said Fox.

With that, the rest of the heroes left while the five smashers stayed behind. But soon they were alerted by the sound of clapping coming from somewhere in the park.

"Look, up on that tree branch." said Bowser.

The other Smashers all looked up in a tree to see Shadow Mario standing on a tree branch, clapping slowly. He then jumped down and landed in front of them.

"You guys may have taken down a bunch of mindless soldiers, now let's see who's the better Mario." said Shadow Mario.

"You're soon gonna wish you hadn't said that!" exclaimed Mario.

Soon, Mario and the others all charged at Shadow Mario. Sonic came at him first with a spin dash attack, but Shadow Mario blocked the attack and kicked him away like a soccer ball. Bowser rushed at him and tried to attack him with a punch, only to get his fist caught by him and recieve a punch in the face which knocked him backwards into a rock.

"You call yourself a villain, you can't do one simple thing right Bowser." taunted Shadow Mario.

Yoshi dashed at Shadow Mario and lashed his tail at him, but the evil doppleganger grabbed his tail and swung him around, throwing him into Sonic.

"You may be have more strength and speed, but you're still not good enough rex boy."

Mario and Luigi both came at him and began trying to double team him, but Shadow Mario blocked all of their attacks without any effort. He punched Mario in the face and kicked Luigi in the chest, knocking them both away.

"Double teaming me, that's the oldest trick in the book Mario."

"You won't be taunting us for long." said Yoshi.

"Alright Yoshi, time for the Blue Comet." said Sonic.

Yoshi and Sonic took a running start and then jumped high up into the air. Sonic went into a midair spin, then Yoshi grabbed him and tossed him down at Shadow Mario with great speed. But shockingly, Shadow Mario caught Sonic, spinned him around and tossed him back up at Yoshi with greater speed and force, hitting Yoshi on direct contact, causing both heroes to crash down from the sky and onto the ground, the force of the impact nearly crippling them, but it was enough to make them unconcious for the moment.

"That attack was the same as you guys, incredibly weak." said Shadow Mario.

"Oh yeah, then how about this." said Mario.

Mario and Luigi then began charging up their fireballs to full power. They soon merged them together into a large and powerful fireball. With great force, Mario punched it towards Shadow Mario.

"Try and stop our "Super Fireball" Shadow Mario." said Luigi.

"Gladly."

Lighting his fist on fire, Shadow Mario punched the fireball right back at the Mario Bros, hitting them both.

"Face it, you fools are completely useless against me."

Bowser soon charged forward again, blasting three fireballs at Shadow Mario, who effortlessly dodged them right before proceeding to beat down on Bowser with reckless abandon. Bowser tried all he could to block his attacks, but failed miserably. He was suddenly tossed right through a landed on the ground, falling unconcious due to the force of the impact. The other four Smashers recovered and attacked Shadow Mario all at once. However, they were fighting a losing battle, as no matter how hard they tried, Shadow Mario overpowered them all without trouble. Pretty soon, all of them were savagely beaten up and laying on the ground while Shadow Mario laughed at them evilly.

"Honestly, after fighting all of you losers, I can safely say that this fight was nothing more than a childish game. I was hoping for a real challenge, because the truth is, I wasn't even trying to fight you." taunted Shadow Mario as he turned and walked away.

"You think...ugh...you can just walk away, well think again." said Yoshi as he rose up off the ground and rushed at Shadow Mario. But right as he tried to punch him, Shadow Mario turned around and punched Yoshi in the gut, causing him to double over in pain. Then Shadow Mario performed an uppercut punch, which knocked Yoshi back through a rock.

"Hmph, how pathetic."

After that, he soon left through a portal.

Later back at the tower...

"Grrrr, that Shadow Mario really burns me up. I can't believe he beat us all at once, even when we had him outnumbered." said Yoshi angrily.

"No matter what we did, he just countered every one of our attacks, including our fusions." said Sonic.

"He sure was formidable." said Luigi.

"However, that doesn't matter, whatever those goons are planning, we're gonna put a stop to it." said Mario.

"Wait, I sense something." said Mewtwo.

"What is it?" asked Link.

"The villains are planning to travel to a far away island in order to obtain some kind of ancient jewel located within a sacred temple. It is said that the jewel will transfer it's power to anyone it deems worthy."

"So what you mean is that it the jewel chooses the person it wants to give it's power to!" exclaimed Young Link.

"Knowing those villains, they may try to siphon it's power for themselves." said Roy.

Let's head to the briefing center, it's mission time." said Sonic

"Right." said Kirby.

The heroes all gathered up in the briefing center in order to go over the mission details. They were all viewing a large screen which showed them a large which is where the villains were headed.

"Pay close attention everyone, thanks to Mewtwo's knowledge, we now know that Shadow Mario and his cronies are up to no good. The mission screen shows where we need to go in order to stop them. It seems that they're after a jewel that is said to contain unimaginable power." explained Mario.

"This map on the screen shows that they're heading off for some island, which is called "Tramkoff Island". We need to tail them and get to the island before they do, so that way, we can stop them. If they do happen to arrive on the island before us, be ready, there's no telling what they might do." said Sonic.

"Which is why some of us will be going in separate teams in order to cover more ground. Team Red will be consist of me, Fox, Link, Ness and Captain Falcon. Team Blue will consist of Sonic, Bowser, Marth, Shiida and Meta Knight. And finally, Team Green will consist of Yoshi, Samus, Blaze, Charizard and Lucario."

"Hold up a minute, how come Yoshi over here gets to lead a team!" exclaimed Falco.

" 1. Because Mario trusts me to do a good job, and 2. Mario said so." said Yoshi.

"And why does Mario give the orders around here?"

"Because I'm the leader, and Sonic is second-in-command. You have any problems, you take it up with us or Yoshi, who's also third-in-command." said Mario.

"So that means the three of us are in charge here." said Sonic.

"Alright, let's get going, we don't have time to waste."

Later...

The heroes were now on their way to the island. Mario's team rode in Captain Falcon's ship, Sonic's team rode in the Great Fox while Yoshi's team rode in Samus's ship. However, Yoshi himself had chosen to travel across the water with his Super Speed.

"Uh Yoshi, are you sure that you wouldn't rather ride in the ship with us, you are the leader of Team Green you know!" exclaimed Blaze over Yoshi's communicator.

"I know that, but I just decided to try a different mode of transportation." replied Yoshi.

A few seconds later, the heroes eventually came across a massive island in the distance. The island was enormous with several mountains, a massive jungle and a wide beach area, as well as a tropical valley with a waterfall.

"Alright, we're coming close to our destination. Once we land, we'll get to work on finding the temple and retrieving that jewel." said Mario.

"The sooner we get there, the better." said Fox.

"So far, there aren't any enemy sightings on my radar." said Falcon.

"Good, that makes it safe for us to land on the island." said Ness.

Pretty soon, the ships all came in for a landing, at the same time that Yoshi arrived on the island. The heroes exited the ships altogether. The three teams all quickly got assembled.

"Okay, let's split up and search the island for the temple. If any of us happen to find it, we'll contact each other and meet up at that point." said Mario.

"If you happen to come across some villains on the island, you must stop them and fast, don't hold anything back." said Sonic.

"And if my "Super Sense" is just right, I can tell that our "buddies" are somewhere on the other side of the island trying to locate the temple as well. I just hope that they don't know that we're here too." said Yoshi.

"We'll head around the mountains, Sonic's team will head into the Jungle, and Yoshi's team shall go through the valley."

"Affirmative Mario."

"Okay, let's get moving."

Team Red then headed off for the mountains.

"You heard him Team Blue, "Let's do it to it." said Sonic as he took off into the jungle, with his team following after him.

"Well team, we have to give it all we've got, so let's head out." said Yoshi.

With that, Yoshi and his group took off for the valley. But as they rushed across the beach, suddenly Yoshi got struck from the side by a blast of water, which erupted from the ocean. The force of the attack was enough to knock him across the sand before he came to a stop.

"Whoa, what was that?" asked Samus helping Yoshi up.

"I don't understand, why would that happen!"

But Yoshi then came to the realization of who was responsible.

"Wait, there's only being who could do something like that."

"Who?"

"It looks like we're about to find out."

A massive portion of the water rose up in the air and suddenly began to take the physical shape of a giant human.

"Hydra!" exclaimed Yoshi.

"Now I've got you right where I want you, you won't stop me this time." said Hydra.

"You wanna bet!"

Not so likely dino." said Hyperfire who appeared in the air behind the five heroes.

"So we meet again Hyperfire, shouldn't you be roasting marshallows?"

"The only thing I'm gonna roast is you. You've humiliated me for the last time."

"Aw what's wrong, did I make you mad!" teased Yoshi.

"Grrr, take this!"

Hyperfire tried shooting a massive fireball at Yoshi, who effortlessly dodged it.

"If you had more target practice, you'd be able to shoot better."

"Why you little pest."

"Pest, I don't see any insects around here."

"SHUT UP ALREADY."

Hyperfire unleashed two dangerous blasts of fire from his hands. Yoshi simply balanced himself on the tip of his tail, letting the fire go right pass him underneath.

"How did you even get the name Hyperfire? I'm guessing that the names Hotshot and Sir Burns-a-lot were both unavailable, not to mention the name Fire Tron."

"I'll burn you into a pile of ashes."

"Ooh, the big scary Hyperfire wants to roast me alive, don't you ever get tired of trying to do something that's completely impossible!"

"THAT'S IT, I'VE HAD ABOUT ENOUGH OF YOUR STUPID JOKING, IT'S TIME TO END IT."

"Oh yeah, bring it on torchy boy."

Hyperfire then let loose with a powerful wave of fire, but the heroes all moved out of the way, all the while Hydra attacked by shooting dangerous bursts of water from her body. Yoshi, Blaze and Charizard battled with Hyperfire while Lucario and Samus contended with Hydra.

Meanwhile in the jungle...

"Alright, so far everything's normal, for the moment that is." said Sonic as he led his team through the area.

"How do you know your way through a jungle?" asked Shiida.

"Because I've been through plenty of jungles to know my way around them."

"What if there's a possible chance of an ambush?"

"Don't worry Shiida, Sonic knows what he's doing." said Marth.

"Mario to Sonic, come in!" said Mario over Sonic's communicator.

"Loud and clear Mario!"

"How are things on your side of the island?"

"Everything's going fine at the moment."

"Good, my team and I are in the mountains area, we haven't found the temple yet, but we're still searching."

"Same here, if we manage to find it, we'll let you know, Sonic out."

"That's only if you live long enough Sonic, too bad that's not gonna happen." said a familiar evil voice.

Sonic's facial expression changed into a look of anger as he instantly reconized the voice of none other than his eternal nemesis, Doctor Eggman, who was blocking the way with his army of Egg Gunner and Egg Lancer robots.

"So you're in on this evil scheme, huh Eggman?"

"Correct Sonic, you and your friends shall not go any further. Once we reach the temple, the jewel will be ours for the taking." said Eggman.

"What makes you so sure that these tin heads of yours can stop us?"

"Don't worry, there's more where that came from."

"Why don't you come down here and fight like a man!" said Bowser.

"I have no time for these foolish games, so long weaklings."

Eggman then flew away in his hovercraft, leaving his minions to deal with their enemies.

"There's so many of them." said Shiida."

"Come on Shiida, this is nothing. I've taken down Eggman's robots countless times single-handedly in the past, so they shouldn't be too hard to take down as a team" said Sonic.

Sonic started things off by breaking several robots to pieces with a homing attack. Pretty soon, the others joined in on the fray. Bowser burned ten robots to ashes with his flame breath before proceeding to spin inside his shell, shredding up a multitude of robots. Marth, Shiida and Meta Knight slashed the robots apart with their swords, blocking their missiles and lasers by deflecting them back. An Egg Lancer tried to blast Shiida with a laser blast, but Sonic dashed into it and attacked it with a sliding kick, breaking off its legs.

"Get ready guys, I'm about to do something drastic." said Sonic.

Sonic pulled out a golden ring from his quills and squeezed it. Suddenly, with a new burst of power, Sonic charged through the robots with blinding speed, breaking them apart in an instant with spin dashes. The others watched with astonishment at how fast Sonic was moving, almost to the point where they could barely see him at all. Pretty soon in a mere second, all the robots were nothing but scraps on the ground.

"H-h-h-h-how did you do that?" asked the others in unison.

"See, I told you that it would be drastic didn't I. It's all thanks to this golden ring."

"Sometimes you never cease to surprise me." said Bowser.

"Ain't that the truth, well anyways, now that these metal heads are out of the way, let's keep moving until we find the temple."

Currently...

Yoshi and his team were still busy fighting with Hyperfire and Hydra. Hyperfire tried shooting a large blast of fire at Charizard, who countered with his Flamethrower at the same time. The blasts locked together, pushing one another back and forth. However, Charizard was able to overpower the villain with ease, knocking him back a few inches. Recovering, Hyperfire let loose with creating a fire shockwave which completely knocked back Yoshi into Blaze. Blaze responded by hitting Hyperfire in the chest with a flaming punch, following it up with a kick to the face. Yoshi dodged an oncoming fire wave and attack with a powerful tail whip to the head, followed by Charizard ramming Hyperfire from the side in midair.

"You ready to give up yet torchy boy!" exclaimed Yoshi.

"Never, I shall not surrender to a filthy little reptile like you." retorted Hyperfire.

"In that case, how about a drink of water!"

"That doesn't make sense." said Blaze.

"Don't worry Blaze, I know what I'm doing."

He then shifted his attention to Hydra, who was battling Samus and Lucario. Hydra tried hitting Lucario with a blast of water from her body, but he moved out the way and countered with an Aura Sphere. Samus tried shooting charge beams, but her blasts went through Hydra's body. Raising her arms in the air, Hydra launched jets of water up from the ocean and shot them forward, hitting Samus with great force as well as Lucario.

"Give it up heroes, you're no match for me and my water powers." said Hydra.

"You keep saying that Hydra, but I for one know that you're just gloating for nothing." said Yoshi.

"What!"

"I mean come on, you think just because you made yourself into a giant by merging with the ocean that you're unstoppable. If you ask me, you're just weak."

"HOW DARE YOU, I'M MORE POWERFUL THAN YOU CAN IMAGINE."

"Face facts, you are by far the weakest, lamest and stupidest supervillain I've ever seen. You're so weak that you even make ice cubes look smart."

"OH YEAH, I'LL SHOW YOU WHO'S WEAK!"

Unleashing her full power, Hydra summoned a powerful wave of water behind her and launched it towards Yoshi, with the intention of drowning him. At the same time, Hyperfire charged up for a powerful blast of fire, attempting to attack Yoshi while he was distracted.

"Ha, this time I will definitely roast you." said Hyperfire.

"Not if your lights are out." said Yoshi.

"What are you babbling about now!"

"You're gonna find out."

Yoshi dashed out of the way just as Hydra's wave completely drenched Hyperfire, putting out his flames, all the while knocking him unconcious.

"That worked out perfectly as I planned it."

"Hyperfire you idiot, you got in the way." said Hydra.

"Gee Hydra, you look a little too hot, how's about you chill out. Samus, your Ice Beam please!"

"Gladly." said Samus.

Charging up her Arm Cannon, Samus soon let loose with a powerful Ice Beam, which hit Hydra instantly, turning her to ice.

"Well , I can safely say that things have "cooled" down a little."

"Sheesh Yoshi, whenever you make jokes like that, you sound more like Sonic." commented Blaze.

"Hey, don't insult me."

"Well, you guys did well here." said an unknown voice.

"Who said that?"

"I did."

Suddenly, a mysterious man appeared out nowhere from behind a palm tree.

"Who are you?" asked Charizard.

"I'm a bounty hunter here on a mission." said the man.

"Whoa, who said anything about another bounty hunter being here? asked Samus.

"These villains right here are wanted in several places. There's a big reward up for their capture, and I'm gonna collect it."

"Slow down there Mr. Bigshot, these are some dangerous villains you're talking about. You can't just walk right in and take them for yourself, it's unprofessional." said Yoshi.

"The lord said I'm saved, but you're screwed."

"I don't understand what you just said, to us it sounded like nothing."

"Look, regardless, these criminals are coming with me."

"Oh no they're not, there's no way you're gonna take credit for our work." said Charizard.

"Oh please, you guys barely put up a good fight against these two, I know because I was watching the fight. You won by the use of trickery, not skill."

"Keep on talking and I just might have to get rough with you."

"You wanna go dragon boy!"

"Bring it."

They were just about to fight until Yoshi stepped in between them.

"Whoa, break it up, that doesn't solve anything. Besides, we're here on a mission, and we're not gonna let this crazy bounty hunter delay our progress."

"Yoshi's right, we should be heading for the valley, we might find the temple there." said Lucario.

"Good choice, let's get going." said the bounty hunter.

"Time out, who said you were coming with us?" questioned Samus.

"It may not look like it, but you're gonna need my help."

"Why on Earth should we trust you?" asked Blaze.

"Believe it or not, but I think my assistance will do you some good."

"You can forget it, we don't help someone we mistrust." said Charizard.

"Actually guys, he may have a point." said Yoshi.

"WHAT!" yelled the other heroes.

"Look, it's not as easy as it seems okay, sure he may be kinda crazy and whatnot, but regardless he offered to help out and I'm willing to give him a chance."

"Why should you get to decide that?" asked Lucario.

"Because, incase you forgot, I'm Mario's third-in-command. Mario's the main leader and Sonic is second-in-command. Plus, I'm the leader of Team Green, so I've decided to have this guy join our cause."

"Well, as much as I can't stand him, I guess we'll have to let him tag along." said Charizard reluctantly.

"Finally, at least I get to help out for a change." said the bounty hunter.

"Now hold on, I'm only letting you help because you offered, but this doesn't mean I fully trust you. This is a serious matter, and you better act right, because if you do anything out of line, you're finished, which means we'll all deal with you personally, okay."

"Alright, no need to threaten me."

"Now let's get going."

As they all took off towards, the rest of the Team Green members casted glares at the bounty hunter.

"You got lucky this time. But remember what Yoshi said, if you screw up even once, you're history." said Charizard.

"I have a memory, you don't need to remind me. I may be crazy, but I'm not completely insane. Once this is all over, and I get that reward for those wanted villains, you can just forget that I ever existed."

"For your sake, I highly doubt it."

To Be Continued

Chapter 4 is up and running.

Don't worry, I'll make sure that Team Red appears in the next chapter. The rest of the scenario will continue in Part 3. Plus there will be even more better fights than before.

Will the heroes be able to find the temple in time before the villains do?

Who is the mysterious bounty hunter?

That remains a mystery until next time.

Later everybody.