Author's Note: Well, here's the next chapter (if anybody's reading). :)

Super Mario Sunshine Adventure

Episode 1: Road to the Big Windmill

The Grand Pianta Statue emerged out from underneath the ground of where the whole mess of goop used to be. The archaic statue was unique and brilliant as it rose up gloriously, towering over all who gazed upon its brilliance. However, there was something off about the statue, something that wasn't supposed to be there!

"Princess, look! On the statue's head!" Toadsworth squawked suddenly from beside Princess Peach and Amy while the Toads played with Baby Peach and Baby Daisy. Toadsworth sounded frantic and panicked, like he knew something horrible was about to occur.

Peach, who had been watching the whole ordeal, moved her eyes up to the top of the Grand Pianta Statue, seeing a figure on top of there. "…what?" When she got a closer look, she recognized the shadowy figure she had seen on the advertisement and when they landed on the airstrip. The strange shadowy being looked just like her Mario! Peach's eyes widened and she breathed out, "…Mario?"

"What in the world? That can't be Mario up there, but…but it looks just like him!" yawped Amy as she stared as well, her eyes enlarging. She just couldn't fathom what was happening right now!

"Dat not Hamtaro!" Baby Peach pointed out, folding her little arms as she turned away from the Toads to witness what was currently taking place. Baby Daisy was right beside her, mimicking her actions.

"Yah! Dat not be Hamtaro!" babbled Baby Daisy.

Sonic, who was closest to Mario, was also staring up at the figure, Shadow Mario, on top of the glorious statue of a Pianta and everything. His focus was broken by this scene and the water he had been making float in the air, splashed back into the ground, wetting his shoes.

"That's so a fake…" the blue hedgehog murmured, completely forgetting about his newfound abilities. "Mario, are you seeing this right now? This could be the guy that's framing you!"

Mario nodded, glowering up at the fake. "Yeah!"

Suddenly, without warning, Shadow Mario leapt off of the statue and landed onto the ground easily while gripping a large paintbrush (Magic Paintbrush!). Next, with amazing speed, Shadow Mario sprinted towards Princess Peach and the others silently. Everyone pretty much watched him get to Peach and snag her, putting her up over his shoulder and using his Magic Paintbrush to paint a large "M" on the ground with goop.

"Hey!" snapped Amy, pulling out her hammer and lunging at Shadow Mario. "Let her go!"

Shadow Mario turned to look at her and swiped his Magic Paintbrush across the pink hedgehog's face, causing her to squeal and release her hammer. She howled in a very repulsive manner, truly disgusted. Grinning sinisterly, Shadow Mario also grabbed Amy just because he could and threw her over the same shoulder as Peach so he was now holding both of them! Yes, Shadow Mario was pretty strong, alright! Sheesh! Then, Shadow Mario took off running really fast, leaving everyone behind.

"Mario!" wailed Peach, scared.

"SONIC!" screamed Amy, desperately struggling to get out of Shadow Mario's grasp.

"Oh no!" Sonic exclaimed. "I'm coming!" then, with his supersonic speed, the blue speedster took off at an alarming rate while almost creating a sonic boom. Mario was right behind him, quickly getting rid of all of the goop left behind by Shadow Mario. As he did so, Mario mentally wished he could run as fast as Sonic. By the time the plumber reached the hedgehog, Sonic had gotten Shadow Mario to release the girls and Mario was huffing and puffing, trying to catch his breath.

Shadow Mario was on the ground while throwing a horrible tantrum like an immature child that couldn't watch his favorite cartoon on a beautiful Saturday morning. "Ow ow ow OW!" whined Shadow Mario. "Not fair! Completely unfair! You shouldn't be allowed to use water like that! You're a freaking deformed rat for crying out loud!"

"What did you just call me?!" Sonic was highly offended by Shadow Mario's words and he put his hands on his hips, sending him an aggravated expression. "I'm a HEDGEHOG!"

Shadow Mario released a growl and jumped to his feet, flipping over everyone and then landing on his feet, running back towards Bianco Square. Yep, he was quite the acrobatic. Leaving Amy and Peach behind to get over what just happened, Sonic and Mario both went after Shadow Mario.

"He is heading for the square! Go get him!" FLUDD talked from Mario's back.

"That's what we're doing, FLUDD!" Mario yelled as he sprayed Shadow Mario with water as he chased him. The water seemed to bring the fake some pain.

When the duo reached Bianco Square, Shadow Mario was at the Grand Pianta Statue and was using his Magic Paintbrush to paint a large colorful "M" on the front of it. Afterwards, Shadow Mario materialized into particles before venturing inside the graffiti! Mario and Sonic both thought that that was strange and totally bizarre!

"He escaped through the graffiti!" FLUDD stated the obvious, urgent. "Mario! Try spraying it with water!"

Mario did just that, using FLUDD to spray the graffiti with water and watching as it lit up and began to glow. Right when that happened, Mario and Sonic began to feel weird and they yelled out in fright when their bodies transfigured into miniature particles. Then, without warning, they were thrust into the graffiti, disappearing from sight.

The plumber and hedgehog both reappeared in some kind of tropical place called Bianco Hills! There were towering trees on either side of them, lush green grass, giant windmills up ahead, and a white path that they could follow. Mario stumbled forward a bit, feeling a little dizzy from the unusual transportation. Luckily, Sonic was there to catch his arm and keep him steady.

"You okay, pal?" asked Sonic.

Mario nodded. "Just fine!"

"Anyway, where the heck are we?" Sonic wanted to know, looking around. "And where'd that fake go?"

"We are currently in Bianco Hills," FLUDD explained to the two males.

"Oh," said Sonic.

Mario suddenly remembered something and turned to look at his blue companion. "Sonic, there's something I want to ask you about."

"And what's that?" the blue hedgehog questioned, stretching out his legs and getting ready for a good run.

"When we caught that shadowy image of myself back in Delfino Plaza, why did he mention something about you using water? What kind of water did you use? Last I checked, you were terrified of water!" Mario blared, throwing up his hands while wearing a flabbergasted look.

Sonic snapped his fingers and grinned. "Oh yeah! I have these new freaky abilities! I can control water and use it however way I want! You want to see? Of course you want to see! It's purely awesome!" the blue hedgehog dashed forward and was about to search around for some water, but a blue Pianta started talking from next to a tree.

"Huh? You're back again, are you?" the blue Pianta asked Mario, almost snarling.

"Again?" Mario was totally baffled.

"You seemed like you were in such a hurry last time I saw you," the Pianta finished and started strolling about, muttering under his breath about devious creatures.

"Devious? You?" guffawed Sonic.

Mario twitched. "I know right?"

Anyway, Sonic and Mario followed the path and ventured onwards. However, they slowed down their pace to see a pink Pianta staring at them with confusion crawling around her facial features.

"What's going on?" she asked. "Didn't you just come running through here with a big paintbrush?"

"That wasn't me!" Mario protested, flailing his arms about wildly.

She didn't seem to hear him. "And now you've got that heavy device on your back…Strange…"

"Come on, Mario. She's not listening to you," Sonic told the plumber as he dashed forward, not running too fast. He wanted Mario to be able to keep up with him.

Mario could see water spiraling downwards along the path. He grinned and decided to try something. He leapt forward and then landed on his belly, sliding down the miniature hill and then flipped upwards, landing on a rope and easily keeping his balance. Now he was like and acrobatic!

Sonic avoided stepping on the water and jumped up onto the grass instead, almost hissing at the sight of it. A Pianta beside him was bouncing up and down in joy, as if he were having some kind of fun or something. It kind of looked like he was dancing to Sonic, though…

"You want to try climbing on the ropes?" questioned the Pianta. "It's easy! Never fear! Just get up there and bounce around. You'll be fine."

"I highly doubt that…" Sonic murmured.

"Sonic!" Mario called from on top of the rope. "Show me what you can do with the water! You haven't showed me yet!"

Nodding his head, Sonic turned towards the water that was just continuously spilling down the path. He lifted a hand and willed the water to move. Surprisingly, the water lifted up into the air, towering over Mario who watched in awe. However, Mario let out a wail and shriek of shock when the water came splashing down upon him.

"Oops…!" Sonic chortled.

Mario glared at the blue hedgehog and then used FLUDD to spray him in the face with water. Sonic was caught off guard and he flailed his arms about, sputtering. Mario laughed at that before doing a flip on the rope, jumping up onto a structure. He spun around and did another flip, landing on top of a windowsill of some sort where he found a Blue Coin! He found out that if he collected ten of them, then he'd be able to take them to the boathouse in Delfino Plaza!

"That was so uncool, Mario!" hollered Sonic who was now standing behind him.

Mario almost had a heart attack by his sudden appearance and he placed a hand on his chest, breathing out heavily. "You almost scared me to death!"

"Sorry, Charlie!" Sonic sarcastically said, still miffed about being sprayed in the face with water.

"My name's not Charlie! Did you forget my name already?!"

"Nope! I just felt like calling you Charlie, Charlie!"

Mario rolled his eyes and huffed, jumping off of the windowsill thingamajig and splashing down into a still river of clear water. He swam towards another Blue Coin at the far end of the river and ducked under water, snagging the Blue Coin and putting it into his pocket. When he resurfaced, Sonic was standing on the grass above, staring down at the plumber and shuddering at the sight of water.

"How can you swim in that?" Sonic asked as Mario transformed FLUDD so he could hover up and out of the river with the water that blasted out of FLUDD.

"It's just water!" caterwauled Mario as he started running past the windmills, hurrying over to a wall that had an "M" sprawled across it, obviously done by the Shadow Mario. "Let's take care of this!" Mario used FLUDD once again to get rid of the "M" on the wall.

A Blue Coin popped out, but Sonic jumped up and snatched it out of the air, examining it thoughtfully. "What is this thing? This doesn't look like the regular coins I always see lying around in your world!"

"That's a Blue Coin," Mario took it away from the hedgehog and pocketed it. "I think we get something special if we collect ten of them and take them to the boathouse on Delfino Plaza."

"Awesome," Sonic grinned.

"That's a nice little squirt-tank you got there, sonny!" an old lime green Pianta yawped while sauntering on over to them, wearing a jolly smile. "Why don't you water the flowers a bit? They sure need it."

"Sure thing, old man! I got this!" Sonic boasted and used some water from nearby, watching it float over towards him. Waving his hands towards the closed flowers on the ground, the water in the air dropped down upon them. The flowers sang happily as they blossomed, spitting out Coins. Sonic snagged all of those and put them away, laughing.

While Sonic was busy doing that, Mario hurried over to a large, wooden waterwheel. He jumped onto it and it brought him upwards and onto a structure. Landing on the structure, Mario found another "M" painted on it. He sprayed it with FLUDD and a Blue Coin came out of it, which he took with delight. Soon, Sonic joined him on top of the structure, whistling at the sight that came to him.

"Would you look at that? That's a huge mess that we have to clean up!" Sonic commented, putting a hand over his eyes to block out the harsh sun above as he observed all of the goop covering the beautiful place.

"We?" Mario gave him a flummoxed look.

Sonic turned to look at him. "Yes. We."

"I thought-"

"We're in this together, pal," the blue hedgehog cut him off, giving the plumber a thumbs up.

Mario smiled genuinely and then nodded, grateful for the hedgehog's help. Then, as one, the duo leapt off of the structure and landed onto the ground without receiving any damage. It wasn't even that far, really.

[Back with the others…]

"I can't believe Sonic rescues me and then runs off!" complained Amy as she, Peach, Baby Daisy, Baby Peach, and Toadsworth along with all the other Toads sat around in a restaurant and devoured lunch. "The nerve of him! The nerve!" she threw up her hands dramatically.

"Calm down, Amy," Peach sighed, delicately placing a slice of pineapple into her mouth and chewing on it slowly. "He and Sonic both had to go after that…that fake Mario who tried to kidnap us."

Toadsworth spoke, "That was horrible, I must say! I am glad you both are safe! Who knows where that fiend was taking you both! Huff, I say!"

"What did that creep want with us anyway?" wondered Amy, frowning in contempt.

"It tewwible!" Baby Daisy blubbered, shoving banana pieces into her mouth while using her little hands. Baby Peach was doing the same from beside her.

Peach let out a sigh, feeling quite disappointed that her vacation did not turn out the way she wanted it to be. "I don't know what he wanted with us, Amy, but I'm sure it wasn't good," she talked, resisting the urge to sigh again. That would just make it all the more obvious to everyone there that she was solemn and sad inside. The peachy princess felt so bad for Mario that he had gotten framed for something he didn't do, arrested, and then ordered to clean the ENTIRE island by himself. At least Sonic was there to help him out.

"I thought this was going to be an awesome vacation!" Amy yapped, picking at her lunch which consisted of various types of seafood. "Gosh! I wanted to walk on the beach with Sonic, watch the sunset with Sonic, dine with Sonic, and go swimming with Sonic!"

"You want to do everything with Sonic…"

"Exactly!"

Toadsworth sighed at the two females as they dove into a conversation about how Sonic wouldn't want to do any of those things with Amy in the first place. The old Toad grabbed a fork and stabbed a barbequed Blooper on his plate, tearing off a piece and then putting it into his mouth.

I sure hope Master Mario and Sonic are alright. Toadsworth thought to himself as he chewed on his Blooper.

[Back with Sonic and Mario…]

After Mario and Sonic found and obtained six more Blue Coins, they began to take care of all of the goop that was sprawled out all over the grass and whatnot in the area that they had been observing before.

"Look out for that large gunk ball coming at you, Mario!" called out Sonic as he used some of the nearby water to clear out a path for him. Suddenly, a jelly monster jumped onto him and covered him in the disgusting goop, which made Sonic grimace in a repulsed manner.

Mario leapt out of the way and refilled FLUDD with the nearby water. He then began to spray all of the goop on the ground with it. But, no matter how much goop he cleaned up, those large goopy balls would come rolling down the hill and create a trail of more goop! The plumber tilted his head slightly and saw a Blue Coin floating at the bottom of the clear river beside them. "Sonic, go see where those large goopy balls are coming from! I'll be back!"

Before Sonic could question on where he was going, the red-capped hero was already gone. He dived into the water and began swimming towards the Blue Coin. When he reached it, he went underwater and retrieved it with a large grin spread across his face. As Mario started making his way back to shore, Sonic dashed up the hill of where the balls were coming from. As he did so, he made sure to splash water all over the goop and whatnot with his newfound abilities. Upon reaching his destination, the blue hedgehog found that the large balls were blasting out of a huge glop of goop continuously.

"Sonic, did you find out where those spheres were coming from?" the plumber asked the blue hedgehog as he finally reached shore. As soon as he did, he began slipping and sliding on the goopy mess below, losing a piece of his Life. He groaned, trying to get all of the goop off of himself, but then was slammed unexpectedly by one of the massive spheres that the large glop was spitting out. Mario lost another piece of his Life, leaving him with six pieces.

"I sure did!" Sonic replied.

"You could've warned me about the oncoming assault of a goopy ball!" Mario talked back, getting up and approaching the blue speedster.

Sonic sweat-dropped. "Sorry, dude. I wasn't paying attention that time!"

Mario rolled his eyes and then surveyed the large glop in front of them. "Shouldn't that faker be here? I wonder where he went so fast…"

"Who knows? Let's take care of this first, yeah?" Sonic suggested.

"Okay, okay."

Then, as one, the hedgehog and plumber sprayed the large pile of goop with their water. Mario used FLUDD and Sonic used his illogical abilities. After a couple of sprays, a Polluted Piranha Plant came bursting out with a wicked roar.

"Let me handle this, Sonic, and you can take care of those jelly monsters or whatever they are! They keep trying to jump on me!" yelled Mario as he avoided a jelly monster assault. The thing had attempted to pounce onto his head and get him covered with the nasty goop.

"Right!" Sonic raised his hands and conjured up his new powers, taking a large amount of water from the river and using that water to raise it above everyone and everything. After that, he lowered his hands and the water splashed down on Mario, the Polluted Piranha Plant, the jelly monsters, and the goopy mess beneath their feet. Because Sonic could control the water, he remained untouched by it.

Mario whipped around to give the hedgehog a look while the Polluted Piranha Plant howled in pain as the water was constantly sprayed into its mouth from Sonic's sudden assault. Sonic apologized to the plumber, but didn't sound sorry at all. It kind of sounded like he wanted to laugh.

Anyway, after the disgusting plant was defeated, all of the goop around the place dispersed completely and a large hill rose up where the nasty plant used to be. The hill rose all the way up and connected to the wooden bridge above. After that was through, a Shine Sprite burst out of the hill and floated into the air, waiting for the heroes to grab it.

"Another Shine Sprite!" griped Sonic, zooming over with his supersonic speed. "This would be our second one, right?!" he caterwauled excitedly.

Mario jogged over, trying not to wheeze so much. He was currently soaked with water and was now wringing out his red cap. "Yup! Go ahead and grab that thing so we can get out of here!"

Sonic did so without any more words, grasping the Shine Sprite with both hands and feeling awesome afterwards. He struck a pose and held up the Shine Sprite while cheering out, "YEAH!" that was when the both of them were encased in a bright light and transported back to Bianco Square where everyone was waiting for them.

Mario landed on his feet and smoothed out his hair, putting his cap back on and releasing a satisfied sigh. Sonic bounced down beside him, letting out a whoosh of air. When they returned, everyone was there waiting for them, as what was stated before in the paragraph above this one.

"Welcome back!" Peach exclaimed as she approached the two of them, holding her pink umbrella over her head. She appeared to be relieved. "We're so glad you're safe, Mario, Sonic!"

"SONIC!" before Sonic could run away, Amy attacked him with a hug and sent him to the ground with her on top of him and trying to kiss him like crazy. The blue hedgehog let out a wail of surprise and distaste, pushing the pink hedgehog's face away from his.

"Amy, get off!"

"No! We must share a passionate kiss!"

"UGH!"

As Amy continued to try and give Sonic a smooch, Peach continued speaking to Mario pleasantly. "This vacation's just been a whirlwind of bizarre events, huh? And now the boat to the hotel isn't even running!"

"This island seems to be the victim of a bad turn of fate!" said Toadsworth who was standing beside the blonde haired princess. "Oh my, yes…"

"You're telling me!" Mario yipped, still miffed that he was framed by a faker.

Peach now wore a sullen look, her lips set into a straight and firm line. Now she appeared to be very upset. "I just wish our vacation didn't turn out this way…" she whispered in great disappointment.

"Don't worry, Peach!" Mario told her, not wanting her to be sad. "We'll take care of this! Don't you worry about it!" he promised her.

Peach gave him a smile. "Thanks, Mario."

Suddenly, Baby Daisy and Baby Peach waddled up to Mario, staring up at him with their large eyes. "Baby Daisy and Baby Peach want to go with Hamtaro and Sonica on adventuwe," caterwauled Baby Peach.

"Yeah!" put in Baby Daisy.

"Uh, I don't think so, kiddos," Mario quickly denied their request. "It's too dangerous and you'll get hurt! It's best if you both stay here with Peach, Toadsworth, Amy, and the Toads, okay?"

Immediately the two babies threw a giant fit. Mario sighed dramatically and introduced his face to his palm.

What in the world was he going to do?