CHAPTER 18-2
-Through the Green Hills-
"…And another important thing is that you don't want to end up small as I am," Ortorain rambled as he began to talk about what happened to him as a dimension creator. "Trust me, I've had my disadvantages throughout the years and I was almost like a bowling pin to those who've seen me! It's horrible! Horrible, I say!"
"Ummmmmm… Interesting story, Ortorain." Sonic sweat dropped as they stopped for a bit and looked at the area they were in. It was a flat ground, as usual, but there were a couple of small trees around this place that had pink leaves, as if spring just started. There were even a couple of fruit on the trees as well.
"Hey, what are those fruit over there?" Chopper asked, pointing to the fruit on the tree. He noticed an apple was on there, but a banana suddenly appeared on there, forcing him to shake the tree to get it down.
"Chopper! Don't shake the tree!" Blade shouted as he pulled Chopper away. "Seriously! That's unnecessary!"
"It's all right, Blade," assured Ortorain. "You can have some of the fruit from there if you wish. Besides, you guys look like you've been in a rough situation with someone…or more than just one person."
Mario: I could use some recovery!
Chopper went back to the tree and bashed it to make a couple of fruit fall to the ground. Of course, he took the bananas because of his love of that fruit (though, probably not as much as pizza). Kirby ate some fruit himself, barely leaving anything for everyone else.
"Kirby! You left only one fruit left!" Luigi gaped. "And it's a fruit I don't like! A durian!"
"A dur-ain?" Chopper gaped.
"It's dur-ian, not dur-ain," Blade corrected. "Get you words straight, Chopper!"
"I think 'durain' sounds better than durian, so I'm gonna call it a durain," Chopper declared as everyone face palmed. He even took the time to eat the 'durain' as well, making Kirby sulk.
"Right, now let me show you something," Ortorain summoned a couple of glowing yellow portals that led over to a door up ahead. "You might be interested in what you see through this door."
Everyone shrugged and jumped up the platforms to follow the small alien into an area where a large mirror appeared in the center of the room. Ortorain was floating beside it while his scepter leaned on the mirror.
"What's this large mirror?" Sonic asked. "It looks like it could give you more than seven years of bad luck…"
"This is my Time Mirror. With it, I can look back in the past and see what happened back then. I can even show you guys your past."
"I bet your bluffing," Blade stated. "How is that even possible?"
"As the creator of dimensions, many things are possible for me," Ortorain smirked. "I can show you your past if you want."
He used his scepter's power to show a vision of Blade's past, especially the scene where he was training with his sensei…with how to do his laundry. Blade gaped at Ortorain, as if he was an alien.
"Are you some kind of stalker?!"
"Heh heh heh… No, I'm not a stalker. If you'd like, I'll go to someone else." Ortorain shrugged, but stopped. "Hmmmmmm… Maybe showing the scene wouldn't be the best idea…"
"Yeah, I don't want to see mine," Chopper spoke, remembering the traumatizing moment of his birth planet's doom. "I don't want to recall those…events."
"Well, the best I can say is that you lived on a planet called Clara for six years and have been trying to stop Maquano from destroying the planet. Ever since he lost to you the first time, he became your sworn enemy… But, five months ago, you were able to destroy him once again."
"And he's no longer around for now, too!"
"And Sonic… I know for sure you didn't do anything to get that speed. You were born with it, isn't that correct?"
"He-Hey! He knew it!" Sonic grinned. "A lot of people ask me if something happened to me to get this speed or not!"
"Mario, Luigi… You were being taken to your parents with the help of a stork, but you, Mario… You were lost in the woods, while Baby Bowser managed to capture Luigi and the stork. With the help of the Yoshis, you were able to stop Baby Bowser once and for all and get back to your parents."
Mario: Yeah, that's correct!
"Uh huh! I know that for sure!" Luigi nodded.
"Kirby… How did you get to Dream Land, if I may ask? No need to tell me, because you crashed on Pop Star in a spaceship! Unfortunately, King Dedede wanted you to get out, but his plans didn't work out too well. You were also responsible for ridding Nightmare once and for all."
"Poyo! (Yay! He knows!)" Kirby cheered. "Poyo! (I think he does know a lot about us!"
"Indeed…"
"Can you also predict the future too?" Chopper asked.
"Well… Not exactly…" Ortorain sweat dropped. "However, from something I've seen from the past, I fear that you might discover something that you'll find very…shocking, Chopper…"
"Shocking? Why not tell me it right now?"
"No, I cannot tell you a thing like that. That's something you'll have to discover on your own."
"What? Come on! You can tell me! I can handle it!" Chopper cried.
"It's better that I don't tell you, but the only thing I can say about it is that you'll find out much, much later," Ortorain stated. "Plus, I'm not the right person to tell you..."
"Oh… OK, I'll be patient." Chopper frowned. At this point, he wasn't so sure how he would feel. Just what the heck was Ortorain talking about?
"Well, now that we've got that covered, I think now's the time for us to use that Sammer's Kingdom Card and take you to the next world to find another card."
"There's more than just one?" Luigi gaped.
"Yes, and they will be needed for you to reach the Pure Heart. Come now, heroes! I'll take you to the portal!"
"Where will the portal lead us anyway?" Sonic asked.
"You'll find out. Now come along!" Ortorain made a door appear with the power of his scepter and revealed a door with a pink portal inside. Everyone followed the little alien through the portal into an area with a steep hill up ahead that led to a couple of glowing yellow platforms.
"A steep hill? Well, this shouldn't be much of a problem." Sonic assured as he ran up the hill, but soon tumbled down when he felt the violent tremor of The Void growing bigger in the background.
"Oh, dear… The Void has grown once again… We must make haste, heroes, before The Void grows big enough to destroy my precious world!"
Everyone managed to make their way up the hill and reached the platforms. There, they saw a large purple platform up ahead with a globe. They could also see a couple of portals in the background as well.
"Wow, looks at this place!" Sonic gaped. "It's like we reached an area full of portals! This is insane!"
"Indeed it is," Ortorain chuckled as he placed his scepter on the pedestal on the platform after the heroes jumped over the platforms. They all gaped as they saw a blue laser fire out of the scepter and strike the globe.
"Poyo? (What are you doing?)" Kirby asked.
"You'll see…"
"Poyo! (Hey! He understands me!)" the pink puffball gaped. "Poyo! (He's one of the very few people I know that can understand a word I'm saying!)"
"Mmmm hmmmm hmmm hmmm!" chuckled Ortorain. "As the creator of dimensions, I can understand many different languages! Anyway, you might be surprised to see where your next destination is…"
Mario: Is it the Cragnon world?
"Oh, no, not that place. I know you people already seen some Cragnons, so I highly doubt you'll be seeing that. Anyway, to reach the Pure Heart, you must get one of the cards in this world."
When a portal revealed itself, they noticed what the world looked like. It had a lot of green with a couple of light brown and dark brown checkered rocks below the green grass. There were even a couple of loops around as well.
"It's Mobius!" Sonic gaped. "I'm going back home!"
"Uhhhh… You mean 'WE'?" Blade corrected.
"You know, I've never been to your world, Sonic," Chopper pondered. "The only worlds that I know I've been to for sure are Mario and Kirby's. I'm actually curious to see what yours is like. In fact, I wonder what your friends are like too!"
"Well, we'll probably get a chance to see 'em!" Sonic assured. "I think you'll like some of my friends, especially Tails! He's like a brother to me!"
"I bet Bang and Night are back there," Blade pondered. "And let's hope Bang didn't do anything stupid. I find it a little funny that he hasn't even called me in a LONG time too!"
"And by the way, there is a chance that you will all be exploring your own worlds to find those coupons," Ortorain explained, making everyone gape in surprise. "But, you must be quick…"
"Well, we're gonna go now, I guess," Chopper declared as he and his friends jumped into the portal after tossing a rainbow ball.
Mobius-
After everything got drawn and colored, our heroes fell out of the portal and landed on the green, grassy ground. After getting up, they looked around at the world they were in. It had the hills, the loops, the trees, and even the ocean in the back. What was most important about this world was the blue sky.
That was being blocked by The Void.
"Oh, no…" Sonic's eyes widened in fear as he noticed the size of The Void in Mobius. "This… This can't be right! The Void's already enormous here! Why on earth would my home world be one of the first to go?!"
"You're serious?!" Blade looked up at the sky, making his eyes widen in fear. "N-No… This world is close to being destroyed, almost like Dimensional X. But the only difference is that this place might go first!"
Kirby gulped and looked around him. "Poyo? (Was Tipral planning to make our worlds go first? Was this some kind of way to hurt us?)"
"I'm not so sure…" Chopper trailed. Everyone stopped when they felt another tremor and noticed The Void grew bigger in the sky. "Oh, man… The sky's already starting to disappear!"
"Ortorain, where is the next card?" Luigi asked as he turned around and noticed Ortorain was no longer around. "…Huh? Where did he go? Did that guy even come with us? Because I don't see him…"
Mario turned around and noticed Ortorain wasn't with them. He pondered before deducing that he probably wanted them to find the card themselves. They ARE heroes, after all…
"Well, the only thing we can do right now is simply move on," Sonic looked ahead and saw a climbable ledge up ahead past a couple of trees. This was just like the beginning of Green Hill Zone, except the Motobug and Buzz Bomber were corrupted with dark power.
"Are those Corrupted Badniks?" Blade questioned.
"Maybe The Void's power was able to corrupt some of these Badniks…" Sonic trailed as he ran over to the Motobug, which tried to use its sharp blade-like arms to slice at Sonic, who jumped back and hit it with a Homing Attack.
"They're certainly deadlier than before," Chopper pointed out as he charged up a rainbow ball and tossed it at the Corrupted Buzz Bomber above them, while Kirby inhaled it and spat it at the Corrupted Motobug, destroying them.
With that, they found a bridge up ahead. They noticed a Chopper jumping onto the bridge and actually making its way toward the ground…on land.
"The enemy with my name can move on land too?" Chopper gawked as he bashed it with his hammer. Sadly, the Corrupted Chopper managed to bite his foot, making him yelp as Mario jumped on it to destroy it.
Mario: Was it that bad?
"Bad? They have sharp, metallic teeth! Of course it hurts!"
After crossing the bridge, they found a hill going down up ahead. Sonic thought this place would feel the same, but this area felt a little different than he usually imagined it before.
"OK… Why don't we see what we can find around here?" Sonic suggested as he ran down the hill. Chopper followed him down and found a small curve going upward to a high ledge.
Chopper helped Mario up, while the rest managed to find their way up the ledge. Afterward, they found a large gap between them with a waterfall. Down below, there was a spinning log with a couple of spikes rolling with it. However, they could also take the platforms that looked as if they would fall if you stepped on them.
"Ummmmmm… What path should we take?" Luigi pondered.
Mario decided to jump on the platform, but barely had any time to jump to the next, leading the platform he was on to plummet. Everyone sighed as they jumped down to Mario, knowing they couldn't take the upper path.
"OK, be careful with these spikes," Sonic warned. "Chances are we'd get skewered by 'em if we're not careful."
"Uhh… Ya think?" Blade stated the obvious as he tried to get past the rotating spike log. Thankfully, he made his way across and defeated the Corrupted Motobug in front of him to find a door down a small hill.
They hurried down the hill and entered the door into an area where they saw a rock over by a high ledge ahead. There appeared to be something behind the rock, however. On the other hand, the ledge could lead them up somewhere else.
"Well, we can always take the upper path," Luigi shrugged. "I think I have a good enough jump to reach there."
Luigi used his Super Jump and managed to grab a hold of the ledge above. Sonic shrugged and used his Bounce Attack in order to reach up, but sadly, that didn't seem to work too well for him.
"Dang… Well, I'm not taking this part." Sonic sighed.
"Hold on… Is there something behind this rock?" When Chopper jumped on it, it broke into a couple of small pieces. He gaped as he noticed that there was a tunnel that appeared to be his size through the wall.
"Hey! Maybe I could fit through here!"
"Let me go first," declared Sonic as he rolled in a ball and went through the hole. Chopper decided to follow him through, as well as Mario, who tried to crawl through the hole but ended up tumbling down.
Mario: This is great…
After a little while, they eventually met with each other. The path below led to a small hill going down to a palm tree with a yellow spring, and the upper path led to some platforms that brought them down by the palm tree.
"So, how was the upper path?" Chopper asked.
"Poyo, (Nothing special,)" Kirby replied.
"Anyway, moving on," Sonic declared as he found two loops ahead. He and Chopper helped the rest of the group through the loop and reached a slope on the high ledge ahead to bring them up to the higher ledge.
"Any sign of a door?" Luigi asked.
Mario: I can see one off at the distance!
"Let's hope my friends are all right…" Sonic trailed as he Spin Dashed his way through a couple of Corrupted Motobugs and Corrupted Crabmeats. Luigi took care of the Corrupted Buzz Bombers with his Super Jump.
"I'll admit, this world actually looks nice!" Luigi smiled as he found a box on a small climbable ledge nearby. When Sonic hit it, fifty rings popped out and helped them recover 50 HP.
"Wait… What was that? Did I just see rings pop out?"
"Yeah, in my world, rings represent HP," Sonic explained. "During my adventures, I would always have to collect rings in order to survive. If I had at least one ring with me the whole time, I wouldn't die!"
"You know, I don't think you told us that before," Chopper recalled. "But, if we collect rings, we might be able to recover our HP! We better start finding rings, then!"
Up ahead by a palm tree, there was a yellow spring with a row of rings above it. Luigi jumped on the spring and let it launch him up to the rings, recovering some HP as well.
"This isn't too bad!" Luigi smiled.
"Too bad The Void is probably going to destroy this world soon…" Blade trailed.
"Blade… Don't bring that up, please…" Sonic suggested, looking at the large size of The Void. He had a glum look as he imagined what he would be without his home world.
Nevertheless, they carried on to the door ahead on the path. They knew for a fact that they needed to find that Mobius Card soon, or else they wouldn't be able to find the nineteenth Pure Heart.
Somewhere else in Green Hill Zone-
"Man… I've searched for literally MONTHS and I've found so sign of Sonic…" an orange fox with two tails groaned as he searched the area while flying with his two tails. "Not only that, but there's a giant swirling vortex in the sky that's nearly covered up the entire sky!"
He flew to the ground to allow himself to rest. He pulled out a large gadget that had a small screen. "I've been trying to get a location of Sonic with this, but it couldn't find anything…"
But that's when the fox, known as Tails, noticed the radar blinking.
"Wh-What? It's actually working!" Tails gasped. "What happened to this thing? Was it broken or something?"
"Hey, Tails! Over here!"
"Huh?" Tails looked off at the distance and saw a blue hedgehog waving to him over by a bush. Tails rubbed his eyes to make sure that that was him. When he noticed he wasn't dreaming, he hurried over to Sonic.
"Sonic! I… I don't believe it! You're safe!"
"Of course I am! I'm Sonic the Hedgehog!" Sonic declared, grinning. "So, how's it been so far? Did you see the sky lately? The Void sure is growing bigger every ten minutes, isn't it?"
"Yeah, that thing has grown quite big lately…" Tails trailed. "I was trying to investigate this thing, but I didn't… Wait, did you say that it's called The Void?"
"Golly, did I just say that? I mean… Yeah! I've been traveling around the world and discovered from an old man that it's called The Void!"
"That's funny… Since when do you ever say 'golly'? I don't think I've EVER heard you say something like that. Not only that… But your voice sounds a little funny? Are you having a cold?"
"Uhhhhh… Yeah! I…achoo!...have one heck of a cold! It's been bugging me for weeks!"
"Weeks? I'd suspect you to have a running nose, but it doesn't really seem like you have one, as far as I can see." Tails noticed. He looked at the radar on his gadget and noticed it wasn't blinking at a fast pace. "Hold on a minute! Sonic's DNA was meant to help track him down! This thing would be blinking faster by now!"
"Uhhhhhh… Look over there!" Sonic shouted. Tails looked around with a confused look before getting knocked out by a single fist.
Back to the heroes-
When they walked out of the door, they noticed a corkscrew up ahead. That's one of the few things that Green Hill Zone lacked before. But now, it appears that one has appeared here.
Not only that, but there were some robot monkeys corrupted with dark power called Corrupted Coconuts throwing, well, coconuts down at the group. Kirby managed to take care of one of them with his Final Cutter.
"Poyo! (Well that takes care of them!)" Kirby declared as he hurried ahead over to the corkscrew. Unfortunately, he was forced to stop there because he couldn't run through it. "Poyo? (How do we get through this?)"
"Kirby… You can float over it if you want." Chopper informed as Kirby noticed a bridge down below and a ledge just up ahead that the corkscrew was leading to. With a smug look, Kirby took in some air and floated over to the ledge.
Mario: How are we going to get across?
"There's a bridge down below," Luigi noticed as he looked down. There were only two Corrupted Crabmeats down there shooting small dark particles out of its metallic claws. Two Corrupted Choppers were down there as well.
"Oh, we've got this," Blade assured as he jumped down onto the bridge and began to slice at the Badniks with his katana. Mario joined him and attacked a Crabmeat on its head while avoiding the claws.
Meanwhile, Chopper and Sonic ran across the corkscrew and reached the ledge where Kirby was. A hill led down to the lower level where the rest of the group was, allowing them to follow them down another hill leading to a loop.
"There's so much running around here!" Luigi gaped. "How do you manage to do this stuff, Sonic?"
"Well, how are you able to jump to incredible heights?" Sonic asked.
"Oh… Well, you've got a point."
With that, they managed to make their way through both loops and reach a high ledge that had a platform moving up and down. Sonic tried to brake, but the yellow spring facing him pushed him back over to the loop.
"Ack! Not these kinds of springs! I hate them!"
After Sonic got back to the group, he noticed they all took the platform up to the ledge, where there were two palm trees with yellow springs. Three rings were nearby as well, and so were two Corrupted Motobugs.
"I've got them!" Chopper declared as he bashed one with his hammer and attacked one with an upward thrust of his hammer with rainbow energy to send it flying in the air. Luigi finished off the other with his jumping.
"OK, that wraps that up! Now let's move on!" Blade declared as he grabbed the three rings to recover 3 HP. After going down a small hill, they encountered a yellow spring leading up to another ledge where a door was.
They used the spring to launch themselves up to the ledge and looked at the two palm trees that had two Corrupted Coconuts. They continued to throw explosive coconuts to the ground, which reminded Kirby of the coconuts back at his world.
So, Kirby inhaled one and spat it at the Corrupted Coconuts. Sonic finished off both with his Homing Attack before landing by the door and entering it. When they all walked out of the door, they saw a flat area with a couple of climbable ledges, Corrupted Motobugs, Buzz Bombers, Crabmeats, and Choppers around. One thing for sure was that there was a lot.
However, they noticed a box right beside them. It had a couple of stars on it, so Blade simply broke it with his katana before feeling power surge into him, as if he got a Mega Star.
"Uhhh… What's happening to me?" Blade gawked.
"I think you're becoming bigger!" Chopper gaped. "Maybe that box did something to you like the Mega Star did!"
"Really?" the blue ninja looked at himself and realized he was 8-bit. "Hey… You're right! I've transformed into a giant 8-bit version of myself! Yeah! Now to trample all these guys!"
Blade went off on his merry way as he trampled the enemies in his path and destroying some of the climbable ledges around as well, which didn't make it look too nice when it was destroyed.
"You know… Sometimes I wonder if that's even a good thing for your world…" Luigi trailed as he looked at Sonic.
"Well, Eggman tends to destroy Green Hill a lot, so this isn't any different," Sonic shrugged as he ran after Blade, who ended up turning to normal size when he reached the door up ahead.
"Aw, man! It's already finished?!" Blade pouted.
Mario: I guess so…
"Poyo? (Why not check through this door?)" Kirby suggested as they walked through the door into another flat area.
"Huh… Nobody's here…" Sonic trailed. "What happened to the hills in this area? All I see are the palm trees."
"Sonic!" the blue hedgehog's ears sprang up as he saw a familiar two-tailed fox coming his way. "I've been looking for you for quite a while! Where've you been!"
"Yo, Tails! Long time no see!" he greeted back.
"Did you look at the sky lately?! That thing's grown so big now!"
"Yeah…" Sonic trailed as he looked back at the sky sadly. "I can't believe this world is going to get destroyed soon… Where are we going to stay from here? It's so hard to make me think with that thing in the sky…"
"Well, I did some research and discovered something that'll help you stop this thing," Tails assured.
"You know about this thing?" Chopper gawked.
"Of course! I did my research on it anyway! I placed the thing you need in a chest over there! You can't miss it!"
"I see it over there!" Blade spotted a chest just up ahead.
Mario: Let's go get it!
Without even thinking, they all rushed to the chest and opened it. Unfortunately, they did not see a single thing inside.
"What's this?" Chopper gawked.
The chest transformed into a bomb and blew up in front of them. "Oh, come on! We've fallen for the same trick as before! That's seriously low for us!"
But what surprised them was that they weren't even injured from the bomb.
"Hey, wait a minute… You should be black with soot right now!" Tails whined, his voice changing a bit. "What kind of idea was that to place a bomb that wouldn't even harm your enemies in the first place?!"
Tails teleported over to the group with a black outlined box. "So, you thought you could waltz in through this world and find the Pure Heart? Well, when I'm around, there's not going to be a chance! Mimimimimimi!"
"Poyo… (Oh, great…)" Kirby groaned as Mimi transformed into herself. She was wearing a white kimono, which didn't really seem to fit this world too much.
"Surprise! I'm back again, dummy-heads!" Mimi greeted in a snobby tone. "We're having some wonderful weather today, aren't we? Too bad this world is going to go bye bye soon!"
"What have you done with Tails?!" Sonic asked in a serious tone. "Did you hurt him by any chance?!"
"…Maybe! But, it wasn't too serious. That fox is probably sleeping while making cute li'l noises as he doesn't get to witness the end of his life and this world!"
"Mimi, we don't want to fight you," Chopper warned. "We have NO time to get through this place! That means you have to get out of the way!"
"Well why should I listen to someone who went through my diary?" Mimi growled, putting her hands on her hips. "Oh, yeah! I know it was you, meanie-head! Those are where I keep my secrets in!"
"It's not like I was telling everyone about it… In fact, I was pretty much cringing through the whole thing."
"Well, it doesn't matter right now! …And besides, it's not like I'm here to actually defeat you. All I'm here for is to stop you. Nothing more, nothing less."
"Then maybe you might want a haircut," Blade suggested as he unsheathed his katana. "We could actually fix those pigtails of yours."
"EEEEEEK! Not my precious pigtails!" the psychotic girl shrieked as she covered her pigtails. "That's it! If you're asking for a fight, then you're getting one! NYAAAAAH!"
"Good going, Blade…" Sonic groaned.
Mimi started off by charging straight at Blade, knocking him back. She tried to get a hold of his katana to stab him with it, but Blade managed to kick the green girl away and get himself back up.
"Geez… What are you, a psycho?" Blade gawked as he clenched his katana tightly and got in a defensive position. "You just charged at me and attempted to take my katana! That was unnecessary…"
"Well how about this?!" Mimi cried as she fired a flaming Rubee at Blade, who gulped and jumped out of its way. Kirby inhaled the Rubee and spat it at her, making her cry in pain.
"You big meanie! Why would you hurt me like that?!"
"Poyo! (You're the one who's trying to attack us!)" Kirby replied as he readied his Final Cutter and attempted to bring it down on her. Sadly, his attack missed when Mimi teleported behind him and threw some Rubees down at him.
Chopper noticed that she had 400 HP, an Attack of 16, and a Defense of 5, which was surprising, considering that she never had defense before. He noticed she was flinging some Rubees at him too.
"Whoa!" Chopper inhaled one of the Rubees and spat it back at her. Because of that, she put up a shield of flaming Rubees to protect herself. Afterward, she dove down to the rest of the group to burn them with her Rubees.
"Uh oh… Those Rubees are on fire!" Luigi gaped.
Mario: You know what Rubees are?
"Well… I've heard her speak about them before. I guess it's an obvious thing for me." Luigi threw Bonjourang at the flaming Rubees to knock them away. Bonjourang also hit Mimi, making her stop as she tried to toss a flaming Rubee down at Luigi.
Luckily, he managed to jump out of the way and strike Mimi with a Super Jump before she surrounded herself in another shield of flaming Rubees. That's when Mario grabbed a flaming Rubee and threw it at her. Thankfully, the heat of the Rubee didn't seem to harm him as he touched it.
Mario: That was surprising…
Mimi grumbled to herself as she flipped into 3-D and made a couple of flaming Rubees fall from the sky. Chopper and Sonic got hurt by some and had a nasty burn left on them. Since they couldn't reach her in 3-D (with the exception of Chopper), they avoided her Rubee attacks.
"You know, this is just like the previous fight we had with her in the desert place," Sonic recalled.
"Well, don't think that that'll help you!" Mimi shouted as she flipped back into 2-D and tried to attack. All she could really do was try to use her Rubee shield to at least cut one of them.
Blade used Barry to create a spiky barrier around himself and stop Mimi's Rubee shield, leaving her vulnerable for an attack. He grinned as he threw Hommissile at her, sending her flying back.
"For a little girl, you're pretty easy to hit," Blade pointed out.
Mimi sneered as she summoned ice Rubees to fall from the sky and home in on him. What made it worse was that Blade was frozen solid. After Chopper managed to hit her with a rainbow ball, he ran over to Blade and unfroze him with a fireball.
"Whew… Thanks for that, Chopper."
"Anytime," Chopper gave a thumbs up while Mimi began to whine about the group having new abilities. Sonic even used his Sonic Wind to send her flying in the air, with Luigi attacking her with a Super Jump afterward.
Once Mimi plummeted to the ground, Mario shrugged and attacked her with a Super Ground Pound. She screeched in anger as she pulled out a bat made of Rubees and bashed it on Mario's head.
Mario: What the heck?!
"I've brought some weapons with me just to be on the safe side, dummies!" Mimi shouted as she tried to hit Mario with it again until it got sliced by Blade's katana. "No fair! You can't use swords!"
"It's a katana! Not a sword!" Blade growled as he did a cartwheel while spinning his katana and striking her with style. Mimi whined again as she surrounded herself in a shield of ice Rubees.
"Poyo! (Those will freeze you if you touch them!)" Kirby alarmed. "Poyo! (Don't get frozen, please!)"
"Then I have an idea!" Chopper conjured up a fireball and tossed it at Mimi. The ice Rubees heated up and even left the psychotic girl with a nasty burn. She squealed in horror as she tried to get the flames off her.
Afterward, she tackled Chopper to the ground and transformed into Bow. Since she had all of her moves, she was able to smack Chopper around with her fan, leaving a couple of marks on his face.
"H-Hey! Don't you dare copy one of my partners!" Chopper growled as he tried defending himself. Mimi cackled as she turned invisible when Chopper was about to kick her. "Dang it! I've never fought against my own friends…"
When Mimi made herself visible, Sonic instantly struck her with a Homing Attack, leaving her dazed. This allowed Kirby to use his Final Cutter and strike the psychotic girl.
"Though I kinda hate hitting girls, I really had no other choice…" Sonic trailed.
Mimi grumbled as she tried to smack Sonic with her fan, but Blade was able to land a combo on her with his katana by slashing her a couple of time and doing a flip over her to land one last slash.
"About time you were using stylish attacks with that katana!" Chopper noticed.
Mimi disappeared and appeared behind Blade, smacking him a couple of times with her fan before transforming into C-2 Choppor and firing a couple of blasts from her arm gun at Mario.
Mario: Uh oh…
Mario jumped over the blasts Mimi fired at him and managed to bash her with his hammer. Unfortunately, that didn't stop her from firing a couple of missiles to send him flying.
Mimi turned to Chopper and fired missiles at him. He tried to dodge them, but one missile hit him and knocked him to the ground while in the air. However, that didn't stop him from using Starbow to make shooting stars fall on Mimi.
"What's with all of these stars?!" Mimi whined. "Quit it already!"
That's when Kirby attacked her with a Cartwheel while she was vulnerable. She tried to paralyze him with a Stun Shot, which left the pink puffball paralyzed. That didn't stop Luigi from hitting her with a Cyclone, however.
"All right, this robot body's not helping me," Mimi frowned as she turned into Parakarry and sent Luigi flying with a Shell Shot. But, since she was a Paratroopa, this left her vulnerable to Chopper's jump, which made her wings detach and fall to the ground.
"Well, looks like you can't do much in that body!" Chopper laughed.
Mimi growled as she got in her shell and tossed herself at Chopper, knocking him to the ground. Afterward, she transformed into Vivian and hid in the shadows. Everyone's eyes widened and tried to search the area.
"Cripes! She turned into that shadow girl!" Blade gaped. "I think we might be screwed… I mean, she has fire!"
When Mimi rose up from the shadows, she rose her finger as it sparkled and everyone was scorched by a Fiery Jinx. Chopper jumped over to Mimi and tried to bash her with his hammer, but he ended up stopping.
"What's the matter? Can't hurt one of your girlfriends?" Mimi grinned.
"I don't HAVE a girlfriend!" Chopper retorted as he threw a rainbow ball at Mimi. He tried to remember that this wasn't the real Vivian and tried to think of her as the actual Mimi instead.
However, Mimi had another tactic up her sleeve. She managed to conjure up a fireball and hurl it straight at Chopper, who tried to counter it with another fireball, creating an explosion between them. He was able to freeze her afterward with a charged ice ball.
"There we go! Frozen solid now!"
Unfortunately, that plan didn't work out too well when Mimi was able to unfreeze herself with her fire. Kirby grumbled and attacked her with a Final Cutter, followed by kicking her in the face.
"Poyo, (I managed to beat you with those transformations, so I bet I'll beat you again,)" Kirby declared as he prepared to attack her again.
"Then watch me transform again!" Mimi changed into Berry and bashed Kirby in the head with her Ruby Hammer.
"Oh… She transformed into Chopper's girlfriend!" Blade noticed.
"Berry isn't my girlfriend, Blade," Chopper informed as he tried to hit Mimi with his hammer. However, Mimi got to him first and managed to strike him with her hammer first and then kick him in the face.
"Let's see how you feel when you get beaten by her!" Mimi smirked before getting hit by a Spin Dash.
"Sorry, Mimi, but we're not going to let that happen," declared Sonic as he attacked her with a Homing Attack afterward. Mimi growled and used her hammer to bash Sonic in the head before using a Hammer Tornado to summon a pink tornado toward him and Luigi.
"I didn't know she could summon a tornado…" Luigi gulped.
The tornado sucked in the two and sent them flying. Mimi giggled as she managed to swing her hammer straight at Chopper's face, leaving a red mark on his face along with a heart.
"Oh, come on! Now there's a heart mark on my face!" Chopper grumbled.
"Actually, I think I might know what could weaken you," the shape-shifting girl smirked as she blew a kiss with her Refreshing Love attack. Knowing what this ability does, let himself get hit by the attack.
"Wait… Why did you let yourself get hit by that?!"
"Because it can slowly recover my HP! What else?"
Mimi gaped as she got slashed by Blade's katana. After he spun it vertically at her, she transformed into Flyer and paralyzed him with his arm gun device. Chopper tried to get a hold of her, but she flew in the air and dove at him, knocking him back.
"Poyo, (I know how to handle this,)" Kirby smiled as he struck Mimi with his Final Cutter and a Cartwheel afterward. Mimi screamed as she fell to the ground, using a tornado to blow Kirby back.
"I think I'm going to end your game first!" she screeched as she tried to punch Kirby. To her surprise, the punch didn't seem to do too much.
"Wait… Why didn't I deal much damage?!"
"Maybe because Flyer's not physically strong," Sonic shrugged as Mimi growled and transformed back into herself. She teleported up into the air and made poison Rubees fall down before them.
"Poyo! (Aaah! Poison Rubees!)" Kirby cried.
"Poison Rubees?" Chopper gawked.
"Poyo! (They'll poison you!)"
After Chopper explained to everyone what would happen, their eyes widened, and they began to avoid the Rubees. Kirby, on the other hand, inhaled one of them and spat it at the poison Rubee shield Mimi had around her, harming her and getting rid of her shield as well.
Mimi created another Rubee shield and dove down at Luigi with it. He got poisoned, but with the help of Piccolo, he was able to cure himself.
"Stupid-head… Why do you have to have those stupid floating things with you?" Mimi grumbled.
"Stupid? We're certainly not stupid." Starbow replied with a glare.
Kirby threw Crystaline at the Rubee shield to freeze all the Rubees and even froze Mimi while in the air. This gave Luigi the opportunity to attack by using his Super Jump to break her out of her frozen prison and knock her to the ground.
Mario: Looks like I'm up now!
The red plumber jumped in the air and stomped on Mimi's head while performing a stylish move. He then proceeded to attack her with a Super Ground Pound, making her flip into 3-D afterward.
"If I can avoid getting hurt, then I'm definitely going to stay in 3-D!" Mimi cackled. "Let's see you hit me now! Mimimimimimimi!"
"Ugh… I hate that cackle…" Sonic groaned.
"Well, what do we do now?" Blade asked.
Chopper instantly flipped into 3-D and threw a normal Rubee Mimi sent flying down at him at her. While the shield was gone, he used Starbow to make shooting stars rain on her, forcing her back into 2-D.
"Ooh! So you got her back into 2-D!" Sonic smiled. "Good work!"
Mario readied his hammer and bashed the girl in the head with his hammer. However, she was able to make another Rubee bat and hit Mario in the face with it. She even managed to hit Blade with it before he sliced it in half.
"All in a day's work," Blade stated as he put his katana away.
"Blade, she's not defeated yet," Sonic pointed out.
"Wait, really?" Blade gawked before getting hit by a poison Rubee. He let out a cough as he got hurt by the poison before using Piccolo's singing to cure him of the status ailment. Overall, they seemed to be winning the battle against her, with her HP rather low right now.
"Give up, Mimi!" Chopper called out. "It's six against one and you're already beat!"
Mimi stuck her tongue out as she froze Chopper with an ice Rubee. Sonic jumped over him and dodged her poison Rubee before hitting her with a Homing Attack.
"When I'm through with you, I'm going to turn you into Rubee statues!" Mimi declared as she fired a fire Rubee at Luigi before getting stomped on by the plumber. "I think Tippy would be pleased with that!"
"Poyo? (You still call her 'Tippy'?)" Kirby gawked.
"Of course I do! It's such a good nickname for him!"
"Ugh… Typical girl stuff." Chopper face palmed as Blade unfroze him. "Let's just end this once and for all, all right?"
"I hear ya!" Sonic agreed.
When Mimi hurled a poison Rubee at Chopper, he tossed a charged rainbow ball at it instead, making it bounce away and hit the green girl instead. Kirby inhaled the Rubee and finished her off by spitting it at her.
"OUCHIE!"
When she floated to the ground, she brushed herself. "What kind of respect do you stupid boys have, hitting a cute little girl such as myself? I thought boys would never normally hit girls! Looks like I'm wrong…"
"Hey, I don't like hurting ANYONE," Chopper corrected. "I only went on this quest so people wouldn't get hurt. We practically had no other choice!"
"Poyo, (We don't like it, but we know we have to,)" Kirby added.
"Well, it doesn't really matter anyway! Just look up at the sky!" Mimi giggled as everyone noticed The Void grew bigger as they had their battle. Sonic and Blade's eyes were widened in complete fear.
"Oh, no…" Sonic gulped.
"This is BAD…" Blade trailed.
"Yeah! I sure got you guys! I was originally going to wait at some other world for you guys, but since this one was closer to destruction, I thought it would be the better idea!"
"And you did a good job with distracting us…" Luigi trailed.
"I sure did! It didn't matter whether I lost or not! Later, meanies! I hope you enjoy the rest of your life dead!"
After teleporting away, they heard a moan from the bush. Sonic ran over to it and saw an unconscious Tails slowly regaining his conscience.
"Tails! Buddy! Are you all right?!" Sonic gaped.
"Ungh… Wh… What happened…?" Tails moaned as he slowly opened his eyes. "S-Sonic…? Is that you? For real?"
"Of course it's me, buddy! We found some girl that turned into you and tried to fight us. She's gone now."
"Oh… Well, that's good." the two-tailed fox sighed in relief as Sonic helped him up. "Where have you been all the time?!"
"Saving the world. What else? Although, this time, this is a serious issue, unlike the other times…"
"Yeah, I can tell. Say… Who are those people behind you?"
"Guys, why don't you introduce yourselves?" Sonic suggested as he turned to his friends.
"I'm Chopper!" Chopper introduced, raising his arm.
"Poyo! (I'm Kirby!)" Kirby cheered.
"I'm Blade the Cat," Blade greeted. "I'm from this world, but I don't think you've ever seen me."
"No, I sure haven't…" Tails trailed.
Mario: It's-a me, Mario!
"I'm his brother Luigi!" Luigi said as he jumped.
"Hold on, I think Sonic told me about some of you guys five months ago," Tails recalled. "I think it had to do something with a treasure hunt. Were you looking for something called Crystal Stars?"
"Uh huh!" Chopper nodded. "I thought we were in trouble when I figured out what they did at first, but then we managed to beat who was responsible for that. …But now his grandson is trying to destroy all worlds."
"Oh, man… That's bad. Knuckles and Amy were also wondering where you were and what that thing in the sky is. I think they should be around here, so let's try to find them, all right?"
"Yeah, we better find them, and fast!" Sonic suggested as they hurried on to the door ahead into an area with a loop up ahead and a small hill leading to a yellow spring.
Knowing what they had to do, they went through the loop and used the spring to go over the spiky pit and reach a ledge just up ahead. They ran on the path ahead to find a bridge with two Corrupted Choppers leaping up.
"Tails, you have any idea what happened to those Choppers?" Sonic asked.
"I don't know… But if I'm correct, then that darkness in the sky might have to do something with it…" Tails trailed. "I'm not so sure, because I haven't seen these things become like this."
"I think it might," Chopper pondered as he destroyed one with a rainbow ball. "Let's just not waste our time and get a move on."
When they went down the hill up ahead, they found a small ledge with a box with fifty rings in it. Sonic managed to hit it with a Spin Jump and recover 50 HP for everyone before reaching a door with two Corrupted Coconuts.
Blade unsheathed his katana and sliced both Corrupted Coconuts with his katana before venturing into the next area, which had a flat ground with a spiky pit up ahead. Thankfully, there were bobbing platforms to help them jump.
"I can't believe you're able to fly through all of this," Luigi gaped as he watched Tails fly over the spike pit.
"Don't think I can fly forever," Tails informed. "My tails will eventually get tired, and I'll be forced to come back down!"
"Oh… Well I guess that's a drawback."
When they crossed the spiky pit, they noticed a pink hedgehog wearing a red dress and red go-go boots smashing a couple of corrupted Badniks with her Piko Piko Hammer. She didn't seem to be having much of a problem, but she was getting frustrated.
"What has gotten in to these Badniks?" the pink hedgehog groaned as she smashed a Corrupted Crabmeat. "Ever since that dark thing appeared in the sky, these guys have been getting corrupted!"
"There's Amy!" Tails alerted as he flew in the air. After Amy smashed the last Badnik, she sighed and wiped her forehead.
"If only Sonic were here… He was always helpful." Amy sighed until she turned around and saw Sonic. Her sad face changed to a cheerful one as she began to run toward the hedgehog of her dreams.
"All right, so we just need to search for a Mobius Card that should be somewhere around here…" Chopper trailed as he looked at the ground. However, when he looked up, he saw Amy coming his way.
And that led him to be knocked out of the way by her.
"Hey! That wasn't very nice!"
"Sonic! I missed you so much!" Amy cried as she caught Sonic in a hug, who looked like he couldn't breathe. "You have no idea how long I was looking for you. It's been, I don't know, almost a MONTH?!"
"Gcccccccccccck!" Sonic choked.
"Amy, you might want to let go of Sonic," Tails informed. "He can't breathe!"
"Oh… Whoops!" Amy let go of Sonic, who began to breathe heavily. "So, where have you been this whole time?"
"I was saving the world…" wheezed Sonic. "You know, the stuff a hero usually does."
"Or maybe it was an excuse to miss our date?"
"Wait, what? You never said anything about a date! And besides, I never said yes to it anyway!"
"And here comes the argument," Blade said as he counted from three to one.
"And that's what you say all those other times," Amy frowned. "Honestly, sometimes I wonder why I even consider you my boyfriend in the first place."
"That thing in the sky is why I was out for about a month," Sonic explained. "It's going to destroy all worlds if we don't do anything about it."
"Wait… That thing in the sky is going to destroy all worlds?! Then we shouldn't be arguing about this! Sonic, we need to do something about that right now, and fast!"
"Yeah, we were actually looking for you and Knuckles," Tails nodded. "Do you know where he is?"
"I think he's somewhere close by…" Amy trailed. "Sorry, but I don't think I remember where he went."
"Well, we'll try to look," Sonic assured. "…Oh, and I should introduce some friends I met from other worlds!"
"Poyo! (I'm Kirby!)" Kirby jumped cheerfully.
"Blade's my name," Blade said.
Mario: I'm Mario!
"I'm his bro, Luigi!" Luigi waved.
"And I'm Chopper…" moaned Chopper as he got up.
"Well, it's nice to meet you guys," Amy smiled. "My name is Amy Rose. I'm Sonic's girlfriend, if you want to know."
"Actually, don't listen to that last part," Sonic suggested.
The Mario brothers exchanged glances and shrugged.
"Well, anyway, we better go find Knuckles real fast!" Tails suggested. "He can probably help us find that card quickly!"
"Right!" Everyone agreed as they hurried to the door ahead into an area with a large hill that looped like a lump on the ground. Thankfully, Chopper was able to run over it with his Speed Dash.
"Wait, he can do that?" Amy gawked.
"I don't remember how he could do that, but I guess it's helpful," Sonic shrugged as he managed to get over the hill by helping Mario through. The rest of the group found their way over it and found a spring over by the wall ahead that was being guarded by a Corrupted Motobug.
"Allow me," Chopper said as he stomped on the Motobug and destroyed it with a rainbow smash. Afterward, he used the yellow spring to move to his left where a curve leading up to a ledge was. Sonic followed up, while Tails grabbed Mario and helped him up.
"Geez, you're a heavy one!" Tails winced as he tried to fly.
Mario: Thanks…
"I have a better solution," Amy stated as she brought her hammer down on the ground, which launched the rest of the group up to the ledge. She simply went into a ball and used a Spin Dash to go up.
"Phew! That didn't turn out to be too bad!" Luigi sighed.
"It was better than carrying you. …No offense." Tails said as he looked at Mario.
Mario: None taken.
They noticed up ahead, a red echidna was pulling a large, green emerald called the Master Emerald away from two Corrupted Crabmeats, who were trying to pull it away from him.
"You're not taking away the Master Emerald!" he grunted. "I'm not going to make the same mistake as last time."
"Well, Knucklehead… You sure are having a nice day, aren't you?"
"Sonic, how many times do I have to tell you to NOT bother me when I'm trying to save the emerald! …Wait, Sonic?" Knuckles managed to pry the emerald away from the two Badniks and turned to Sonic and his group.
"Sonic! Man, whoever thought I'd see you… And who are those new people anyway?"
Everyone let out a sigh as they introduced themselves. "Chopper, Kirby, Blade, Mario, and Luigi? Huh… Well, I'm kinda busy at the moment. These guys are giving me a little…"
When he whirled around, the two Corrupted Crabmeats were gone. Instead, a black robot with light blue eyes, gray arms and hands, a yellow hue and black feet appeared instead holding up a Corrupted Crabmeat's claw.
"It's all right, they're gone," he assured.
"Hmmmm… It's you again…" Knuckles trailed. "What are you doing here?"
"Well, I did say before that I should've returned back to Mobius after my failed attempts to get the Crystal Stars. That's all in the past now. While I may not be exactly 'evil', I'm still not on friendly terms…"
"Yeah, I know that."
"Hold on… Crystal Stars?" Chopper gawked.
"Wait a minute… Did I just hear a voice I know?" the robot flew over knuckles and landed right in front of Chopper. "Well, I never expected you to be here, Chopper…"
"Same with you, Gemerl!"
"You know him?" Tails gaped.
"Of course I do," Gemerl said as he stepped back. "Five months ago, we were bitter enemies. We've even had a couple of battles. Four of them, to be exact. Unfortunately, I ended up losing those fights."
"But didn't you say you got over being evil?" Chopper asked.
"Yes, I did. But I'm not technically 'good' either. Personally, I don't really care what anyone else does. But, seeing you here reminds me of those awful times where you destroyed my entire Phi army!"
"Hey, they were trying to hurt me! I had to defend myself!"
"Guys! Stop arguing!" Amy snapped, getting in between. "We've got bigger problems now!"
"Oh, yes… That thing in the sky." Gemerl sighed. "I don't know what that is, but it doesn't look good."
"Then you're going to help us find that Mobius Card," Sonic declared.
"Help you? Why should I? I know you were involved in the Crystal Star quest with Chopper, who I wouldn't want to be traveling with. He still disgusts me."
"Well, do you want the world to be destroyed?" Chopper asked.
"Well, not exactly…"
"Then help us, or this world is probably doomed."
"…Fine. Looks like I have no other choice. But that doesn't mean we're allies, Chopper."
"Fine!" Chopper shouted as he and Gemerl exchanged glares.
They looked up ahead and saw a hill leading down to a loop. However, a Corrupted Motobug appeared to be in the way. That didn't stop Gemerl from firing a couple of missiles at it.
Afterward, they went down the hill and through the loop to find two small ledges to jump onto. Of course, that's where they found a pit of spikes up ahead. Chopper even checked in 3-D for any hidden platforms, but sadly, there weren't any.
"Poyo? (Maybe Carrie can help us?)" Kirby suggested.
Kirby jumped on Carrie and allowed her to carry him across the spike pit. Gemerl gawked at the Pixls around the group.
"What are those supposed to be?" Gemerl asked.
Mario: They're Pixls.
"And what do Pixls do?"
Mario: They help us get to the Pure Heart.
"Hmmmm… All right, and what is this Pure Heart that you speak of? Is it needed in order to stop that thing in the sky?"
"Yeah, that's what it is," Luigi nodded.
While they had their discussion, they made their way across the spike pit and carried on to the hill up ahead. Two Corrupted Crabmeats were firing dark particles from their claws at them.
"Oh, boy… This should be easy for me!" Knuckles grinned as he cracked his knuckles. With two punches, he was able to wipe out one of the Badniks. Amy smashed the other with her hammer.
They used a rock by the ledge to jump on the ledge and take a small hill down to another loop. When they ran through it, they were launched up to a ledge with the help of a spring to a door.
"All right, we still haven't found any sign of a Mobius Card…" Sonic sighed. "I REALLY hope we can find one…"
"Say, Chopper…" Gemerl began as he looked over at Chopper. "Don't those Crystal Stars, well, protect the universe from destruction? Because from what I'm seeing, that thing in the sky might cause harm to this place."
"Yeah, that's something I remember," Chopper recalled. "Did Tipral find a way through this?"
"Who's Tipral, if I may ask?"
"Someone who apparently looks like me, just like a certain robot. Anyway, I don't want to discuss this right now when we're in a hurry." Chopper opened the door and found a flat area with a box that resembled the invincibility box like the other one they saw before.
"This time, I'm getting it," Sonic declared as he Spin Jumped on the box and felt a strange power flow through him. Everyone but the heroes gaped as they saw the large 8-bit Sonic towering over them.
"Sonic… What happened to you?!" Amy exclaimed.
"Yahoo! Now it's time for me to smash my way through these guys!" Sonic smirked as he trampled all of the Badniks in his way. Knuckles grumbled to himself as he followed, while Chopper and Gemerl glared.
"Poyo? (Why are you glaring at him?)" Kirby asked.
"I don't know why, but I'm suspecting that he'll try to attack…" Chopper trailed. "Sure, I know Flyer said you 'got over' evil, but you don't seem to be acting good anyway."
"And is that such a big deal? Maybe I should have the right to blast you after leaving me in that dark world."
"Better than being a head like Grodus, that's for sure."
After Sonic turned back into his normal self, he saw a door up ahead being blocked by a stronger version of a Buzz Bomber called a Corrupted Buzzer. Luigi was able to take care of it for sure.
When they entered through the door, they came up to a flat area with a large rock with a crack blocking their way. Amy tried to smash it with her hammer, but it didn't seem to work and only knocked her over.
"Smashing it isn't going to work…" Amy moaned.
"Oh, really?" Knuckles cracked his knuckles and gave the rock a punch. Sadly, not even that worked. "Really? My punches don't work?!"
"I think I might know what to do," Blade declared before his communicator went off. "…Great. Well, there goes my communicator."
"I think I have an idea," Gemerl declared as he grabbed Chopper and threw him at the rock. "Oh… Well looks like that didn't work. Oh well."
"You did that on purpose!" Chopper growled.
"Maybe…"
While they got in an argument, Blade took out his communicator. "All right, who's calling me?"
"Hey, Blade! I haven't spoken to you in a while!"
"Bang… Why do I hear your voice somewhere in this area?"
"Really? I can hear your voice somewhere in this area too!" Bang realized. Blade suddenly realized something and tossed Hommissile at the rock, blowing it up. He noticed Bang and Night were behind the wall. "And now I just heard an explosion… Did you hear it too?"
"Bang, I'm right in front of you," Blade face palmed as Bang looked up at his friend, while Night gestured him to look the right way. He was holding a Corrupted Motobug's head.
"Wha…? How'd you get here?!" Bang gawked.
"We went into a portal, idiot."
"A portal makes sense," Night agreed as he noticed Bang continued to speak through the communicator. "Blade's right in front of us, you know."
"And… Who are you guys?" Knuckles asked.
"I'm Night. If you could tell, I'm an undead mouse. However, this Chihuahua… He's a bit of an idiot."
"I'm Bang. You know, when you fire a gun?" Bang grinned, imitating the sound of a gun firing, while Blade face palmed.
"You don't look like you're from around this area," Amy noticed. "Are you guys new?"
"We came here to find Blade," Night explained. "Ever since that one event where that weird dark dude that looked like that kid over there appeared, Bang ran out of the castle like a coward."
"I, uh… I was just gettin' some help from some chicks!" Bang declared as he bit his lip.
"Really? Got any proof?" Blade asked, crossing his arms.
"Ummmmm… Guys? I don't think this is a good idea to discuss this…" Tails trailed as he looked at the sky. "When that thing's in the sky, we don't have time to discuss this stuff!"
Mario: Yeah, we should go.
"Poyo? (How much time do we have?)" Kirby asked.
Unfortunately, Kirby's question led to the ground to tremor violently as The Void began to grow bigger.
"We… We don't have much time…" Sonic trailed.
"Of course you don't."
"Another new voice?" Amy gawked. "Are we running into more people all the time?"
"Well, I think I know who that voice belongs to…" Luigi trailed.
Above the group, Tipral appeared. Gemerl looked at him and then down at Chopper. "Wait… So there are TWO Choppers?"
"I told you there was a faker," Chopper boasted. "Now you owe me a soda!"
"No I don't," Gemerl retorted as he smacked Chopper across the face.
"Enough already. There is no faker anymore." Tipral said coldly. "It's obvious that there are many others that resemble us now, so I see no point in those petty insults."
"Insults? I didn't think you were created a thousand years ago!" Chopper shouted before getting back on topic. "Look, Tipral. There HAS to be a better way to settle this without destroying every world. Why can't we be mature and talk this out?"
"Things will be better when you're out of my sight. And besides… I highly doubt you'll even manage to escape this world in time. According to the sky, The Void is surely going to destroy it soon. And you're not going to stop me, no matter WHAT you do!"
"Oh, so he just ticked you off and now you're trying to destroy our world?!" Knuckles gaped. "What'd we ever do to you?!"
"Shut it, echidna," Tipral snapped. "I'm not changing my plans. I already made my decision, and that's how I'm going to stick with it!"
"Not if I stop you!" he growled as he jumped in the air and attempted to punch him, who proceeded to teleport to dodge his attack and teleport behind Bang and Night.
"And you two… If I could recall, you were at the 'party' Blade took you to, isn't that right?"
"Uhhhhhh… No. I was in the bathroom." Bang sweat dropped. "Errr… Actually, I had to go to the bathroom, hence why I left the castle in a hurry."
"I left to make sure Bang wouldn't get himself in any trouble," Night sighed while crossing his arms. "What a pain he can be."
"Well, it doesn't matter. While you weren't considered a hero of the prophecy, I won't mind destroying you, as well as everyone else here." Tipral scoffed.
"Well… Hit us with your best shot!" Tails growled, despite trembling.
"Who said I was going to do it right now? I'm already going to destroy you with The Void, which should surely destroy this place any minute! Have a nice afterlife, heroes, because this is it for you!"
"Hold on, wait a…" Chopper was too late. Tipral teleported out of Mobius, leaving everyone in silence.
Until…
"He's going to let us die from this thing?" Bang whined. "That's stupid!"
"Bang... Not now." Blade groaned.
"Well, it is dumb-"
"Hey, guys?" Chopper asked, forcing everyone's attention to him. "I know that The Void is close to destroying this place, but I have a feeling we're getting close to the card."
"How do you know?" Luigi asked.
"My antennae are sensing…something," Everyone look at Chopper's antennae and noticed that were twitching. "When they twitch, there's obviously something I'm sensing up ahead."
"Could it be… The Mobius Card!" Sonic gasped. "We're not too far from it! Now's our chance to move!"
Everyone agreed and hurried on ahead, tearing through a couple of Corrupted Motobugs and Buzzers on their way. Bang simply fired at a couple with his assault rifle, while Night smashed and cut with his axe hammer.
Afterward, they hurried over to the door ahead to find a hill leading over to the end of the path. Up ahead was the ocean, which made Sonic gulp.
"Water… Not good." Sonic gulped.
"Well, we're going to have to get you through this water somehow," Amy declared. "Of course, I'll stay by you, because I don't want my darling Sonic to drown."
"On second thought, drowning would be a better idea…"
"Well, if the item you're seeking is somewhere on land, then it's definitely not in the water," Tails said as he searched the ground carefully. "But, I'm not having any luck with this hunt…"
"We never tried digging underground," Knuckles informed as he began to dig. "I'll be right back! This shouldn't take a while!"
It only took about ten seconds for Knuckles to come back up. "…Nope. I didn't find anything."
"Well, that's great. So what do we do now?" Luigi groaned.
Mario: Did we even look in that bush?
"Let me see," Gemerl said as he flew over to the bush. After searching thoroughly, he found a Mobius Card. "Ah! Here it is! This is what you need, correct?"
"Yeah, we need it," Chopper nodded. "Can you give it to us?"
"Hmmmmmm… You know, that is a tough decision for me to make… After all, you were a pain on my side big time five months ago… And, this could be my last opportunity to get revenge on you."
"Gemerl… Don't do this. This is serious." Sonic warned as a small, violent tremor shook the ground a bit.
"Just give it to us please," Chopper suggested. "It's important that we get that."
"If you want it so much, then why don't you fight me for it, Chopper?" Gemerl suggested, changing his right arm to a gun. "I've been waiting a long time for this moment…"
"You traitor!" Knuckles growled.
"You better stay out of this, Knuckles, because I only want to exact my revenge against him. Now then…" Gemerl began to fire bullets straight at Chopper, who gasped and jumped out of the bullets' way.
"Seriously, Gemerl! There's no time for a fight!" Chopper cried.
"That may be, but this is my only opportunity to settle this once and for all," Gemerl flew toward Chopper after he finished firing and tackled him to the ground. The pale green boy managed to kick him with a rainbow kick and jump back up.
"Poyo, (Here, Chopper, let me give you a hand,)" Kirby suggested as he readied his Final Cutter.
"No, Kirby… Let me handle this. He wants to settle this with me…" Chopper stated.
Gemerl flew up in the air and began to curl up in a ball as he threw himself down at Chopper, sending him flying back. He also fired a couple of missiles that came his way, but he was able to inhale some and spit them back at the Gizoid.
"Is this really necessary?" Amy asked.
"Yeah, just give us the card already!" Bang barked.
Gemerl ignored Amy and Bang while he charged at Chopper with full speed using his jetpack, ramming straight into him and knocking him back. At this point, Chopper needed to use some Pixls and used Starbow to make shooting stars rain down on him.
"I think the best thing to do is to get that card out of his hands," Chopper thought as he tried to throw a rainbow ball at Gemerl's hand, who moved it away and scanned Chopper for an ability.
"You forgot that I could copy abilities?" Gemerl smirked as he tossed a rainbow ball at Chopper. It knocked him over and allowed Gemerl to fly back up and dash in the air, firing a couple of missiles down as well.
Mario: He sure was a tough guy to fight five months ago…
Chopper recoiled and bashed Gemerl in the head while he was left open. Unfortunately, it didn't do too much when Gemerl pushed him away and kicked him, sending him in the air.
"Hold on a minute," Gemerl scanned Luigi and used his Super Jump to strike Chopper while he was in the air. "Now this fight is in the bag for me!"
"You know I'm not trying to destroy you," Chopper informed as he dove for the ground and landed on the grass. "Even if you tried to beat us before, you're not really evil right now. You're just trying to get revenge against me."
Gemerl knelt down and touched the small blue button on his yellow fin-like object on his head. His arm turned into a laser cannon and aimed it at Chopper. He wanted to have time to avoid the attack, but Gemerl already blasted him with the attack.
"Well this is pathetic," Gemerl scoffed as he lowered his weapon. "I thought you would be much stronger than this. Oh well, I guess I've already won this fight."
He held the Mobius card in between his two fingers. "Too bad, honestly. You could've had this card with you to get what you need. Looks like all of that adventuring went down the drain."
"Gemerl… This fight is completely pointless. I'm going to say this one more time… Give us the card or else I'm going to HAVE to fight for real!" Chopper growled with a bit of seriousness in his voice.
"Just end it," Sonic suggested.
"You might force us to fight you," Blade informed, unsheathing his katana.
"Really? You're not convincing me, people. In fact, I don't really care whether this world gets destroyed or not. I'll be perfectly fine either way." Gemerl stated as he turned back to Chopper. "Now then…"
However, before he could fire his machine gun, he received a quick kick to the face, making him release the Mobius Card. Chopper landed on the ground proudly while Sonic grabbed the card.
"Finally! The Mobius Card!" Sonic grinned.
"Grrrrr! You're going to pay for that!" Gemerl readied his deadlier weapons, such as a giant missile that not even Eggman had in one of his robots. "Wanna know why they call me the 'Gizoid'? Well, this missile just might prove it!"
However, before Gemerl could fire all of his weaponry, they all felt the ground tremor violently again.
"Oh, no… It's happening again!" Amy cried.
When they looked up at the sky, The Void blocked all of the sky. In fact, it was as if The Void was NOW the sky!
White flashes appeared as the ground continued to tremor.
"N-No… Not right now…!" Sonic trembled. "Mobius… Please don't go! Not right now!"
"M-Mobius… H-Home…" Blade trailed as everything began to fade away from a couple of flashes.
"Everything's f-fading away!" Tails cried.
"Sonic! I don't feel safe!" Amy cried.
"The world can't end like this!" Knuckles gaped.
"This is so gay!" Bang cried.
"I can't believe we've failed…" Night trailed.
"So… I guess this world is about to go…" Gemerl trailed as he slowly got back up. "Hear me now, Chopper. While we may die from this, it is your job to finish your quest and stop that Tipral person. Once all worlds are saved, we can finish our fight."
Chopper blinked as everything began to go blank for him and his friends.
"MOBIUS!"
Dimensional X-
The six heroes slowly got back up after being unconscious for about a minute. They noticed they were the only ones around. Everyone else was gone. Everyone seemed to be relieved that they were all fine.
Except for Sonic and Blade.
"No!" Sonic cried, slamming his fist to the ground. "Tails… Amy… Knuckles… Mobius… Gone. All gone. I can't believe it…"
"Where are we going to go from here now?" Blade asked, shedding a tear. "I've already lost the home world I cared for deeply. Bang and Night are gone… Nearly everyone I love is gone too!"
Chopper, Kirby, Mario, and Luigi couldn't find a word to say to them.
Sonic was trying to hold back the tears, but they eventually came out. "Why? Why did Tipral have to do this? Just to harm us emotionally?!"
"Sonic… Blade…" Chopper trailed.
"I fear they've lost a place they cared about greatly…" Ortorain trailed as he appeared in the area and picked up the Mobius Card Sonic dropped. "I am in great sorrow to see you two like this…"
"This was Tipral's doing," Blade growled as he got up and clenched a fist. "We've managed to stop his plans each time, but it looks like he decided to take it even further by destroying our home."
"I want to make sure we get justice upon Tipral," Sonic stated. "It's time we paid him a little visit and get that nineteenth Pure Heart."
"If you wish to do so, go ahead and hit the Star Block up ahead," Ortorain suggested, pointing to the block up ahead.
"I'll get it," Chopper declared, running over to the block and punching it. As it broke, he looked back at Sonic and Blade, who both gave serious looks.
"I might not look at them the same at this moment…"
END OF CHAPTER
With the destruction of Mobius, Sonic and Blade were determined to put an end to Tipral's plans and destroy The Void. The rest of the group were rather shocked at their seriousness. This wasn't something they normally saw from these two. While Ortorain was shocked by this, he was busy guiding the heroes to the next portal. "This way, heroes," he announced, his scepter glowing in the beautiful world. "The way to the next world isn't as easy as you think." What exactly did Ortorain mean by this? Chopper and Co. wondered as they followed.
Yeah, now Sonic and Blade are getting serious. I guess now you see what Chapter 18's going to be like, so I don't need to tell you.
Originally, only Bang and Night were going to appear in this place, but I decided to bring Sonic's friends here as well, as well as Gemerl, who was definitely not fond of Chopper (if you don't know why they were enemies, you obviously haven't read Paper Chopper 2).
Anyway, where the heroes go next is something you'll have to find out on your own. ;)