Author's Note: Yaaaaaaay, another episode! I get excited updating this story even though nobody is probably reading this. :D
Super Mario Sunshine Adventure
Episode 2: Down with Petey Piranha!
"You guys are going back in there?" questioned Amy Rose as she looked at her blue hero and Mario the plumber. A frown was painting her face and she looked uncertain. "Why do you have to? Can I go with you guys just in case you need some backup or something?"
Sonic quickly shook his head. "Nope! You just stay here in case something happens, Ames. Now, Mario and I have to go back in there because we failed to capture that faker of a Mario! Don't worry, we'll be cool."
"Are you sure?" Amy asked, almost pouting. She really wanted to join the two males.
"We're sure, Amy!" chirped Mario, preparing to go back to Bianco Hills through the strange portal on the Grand Pianta Statue.
Amy released a sigh. "Okay."
"Do be careful, you two," Peach stated, twirling her umbrella over her head while putting on a worried expression. "We don't want you two getting hurt."
"Be caweful!" Baby Daisy and Baby Peach blubbered simultaneously.
Sonic chuckled and walked over to the two babies, using his gloved hands to ruffle their hair gently. "We'll be just fine, Baby D, Baby P."
"Baby D? Baby P?" Mario blinked at Sonic wonderingly.
"Yeah, they're names are too long and are extremely similar to Peach's name and Daisy's name…!" the hedgehog responded with a shake of his large head. "It's too weird!"
"Well, okay…"
Sonic dashed back over to the strange portal on the Grand Pianta Statue, ready for the next part of their adventure. "Come on, Mario! Let's go hunt that punk down!"
"Right!" said Mario, rushing over to join the blue hedgehog.
"Bye, guys!" Amy waved.
"Stay safe!" added Peach.
"Come back in one piece!" Toadsworth input. "Huff, I say!"
Sonic and Mario both waved at everyone before jumping up and getting sucked into the graffiti on the statue. They immediately reappeared back in Bianco Hills. Sonic landed on his feet and Mario also did with a stylish flip.
"Always have to be cool about it, huh?" asked Sonic as he ran a hand through his quills, frowning.
"What? I can't be cool about it?" retorted Mario, hands on his hips.
"Never said that…"
Suddenly, a blue Pianta turned towards them from looking up at the sky with a puzzled expression dancing along his facial features. "There was a pretty big tremor a moment ago, wasn't there? I wonder what's going on the other side of that hill…" he was saying.
"Tremor? I didn't feel anything!" Sonic remarked, getting ready for a run.
"Hey! I think you're in need of a pair of my special sun shades…" a yellow Pianta blurted out suddenly as Sonic and Mario continued on their way.
Sonic sped over to him eagerly. "Sun shades? I've always dreamed of having a pair of those! Give them to me! NOW!" he demanded, excited.
Mario gave him a look. "You've always dreamed of having a pair of sun shades? Why?"
"Look, Knuckles sometimes has shades on and I was jealous because I couldn't have any!" answered Sonic, miffed. "So there!"
"I don't think the shades would be able to fit over your eyes…" muttered Mario, almost snickering. "…look how big they are and everything."
Sonic whipped around to face the plumber. "What did you just say?"
Mario put up his hands in surrender. "Nothing, nothing!"
"Thought so…"
"Ooh, well…Then again, maybe you're not ready," the yellow Pianta broke into their conversation while examining the two individuals. "You need to spend a bit more time here on Isle Delfino. Come on back when you think you're ready for a pair. See ya!"
Sonic kicked a rock into a tree, huffing and folding his arms over his chest. "Man! I really wanted one too! Sheesh! Why do we even have to spend more time here in Isle Delfino just to get some sweet shades?"
The yellow Pianta shrugged nonchalantly. "I have no clue, blue one. You should ask the writers who put the dialogue into this video game."
"Huh?" Sonic quizzed.
Mario grabbed the hedgehog's arm and pulled him away from the yellow Pianta. "Come on, Sonic! We're wasting time here! Let's continue onwards!"
So, Mario and Sonic traveled all the way back to where they fought the Polluted Piranha Plant that time before, but they didn't see Shadow Mario anywhere. The only thing they saw was more goopy mess that they had already cleaned up before! It was very irking because they had to clean the whole thing up again. Gathering water from nearby, Sonic splashed the ground with it, an annoyed expression coloring his face. Mario used FLUDD to get rid of some of the gunk and then started walking up the hill that connected to the bridge, almost slipping and falling into some goop that was on the ground.
"This is so not cool!" Sonic commented as he appeared at Mario's side.
"You're telling me! That faker messed everything up again!" Mario shot back, frowning.
Sonic ran forward suddenly, but then ended up falling through a hole in the bridge and splashing into the water below. The hedgehog howled and yelped, thrashing about in the water while sputtering and calling for help.
"Danger! The bridge is out! Use my hover nozzle to cross large gaps!" FLUDD warned Mario, talking again after a very long time of not doing so.
"NOW YOU SAY THAT?!" the blue hedgehog hollered in a choleric manner from in the water below.
Mario hesitantly walked over and looked down through the gap, seeing Sonic sputtering and flapping about like a fish that couldn't swim. Shocking, right? Anyway, Mario thought it was pretty amusing that Sonic couldn't swim but he could now use water abilities and could control it.
"Sonic, why don't you move the water out of the way so you can get out?" he chortled, still finding this whole ordeal to be rather funny. The red-capped hero was about to laugh some more, but a huge amount of water was sent socking him in the face and causing him to tumble backwards a little. Then, all of a sudden, Sonic used the water to push himself back up on top of the bridge, now dripping with water.
"That's what you get for laughing at me!" Sonic huffed, wringing out his fur with a repulsed expression clawing at his facial features. "UGH!"
Mario spat out some water, narrowing his eyes at the blue hedgehog. "You didn't have to blast me to death with water! Gosh!" the plumber used FLUDD's Hover Nozzle and then floated over the gap with it, safely landing on the other side. Sonic simply jumped to the other side with complete ease.
"I can't believe I didn't see that gap right there," complained Sonic. "Why didn't you warn me sooner, FLUDD? Were you only going to warn Mario?"
"I apologize for my actions," FLUDD robotically said. "It was not my intention to leave you out…"
Sonic looked at the machine on Mario's back, pursing his lips. "Well, okay, I forgive you. However, you can't do that again. We're all friends here and friends look out for each other."
"Friends?" FLUDD queried, sounding flummoxed
Sonic nodded while giving the thing a thumbs up. "Yup! Friends!"
If FLUDD had a mouth, it would've smiled. It was very intrigued and it liked the idea of having friends. It never really had friends before and it was really enjoying Mario and Sonic's company. FLUDD had never experienced something like this before and it was truly something good to remember.
So the three friends resumed their adventure on getting on top of the large hill. Along the path, there was lots of goop and oncoming goopy balls of doom. Mario found a Blue Coin and pocketed with a massive smile glued to his face. Sonic kept slipping in the disgusting gunk and it got all over his shoes.
"Man, this stuff reeks!" the hedgehog held his nose, thrusting out his right hand and summoning water from below. He brought it upwards and then waved his hand down towards his shoes, watching as the water cleared off his footwear. He grinned in satisfaction.
"Geez Louise!" boomed Mario suddenly.
Sonic whipped around to look at the plumber. "What's the matter?!"
"You got some of that goop on my overalls!" whined Mario, grimacing.
"Sorry, Charlie!"
"Don't call me that! Huff, I say!"
"Aaaaaand now you sound like Toadsworth…"
"…let's just keep going."
Sonic chortled and started trekking onwards, clearing the path of the nasty goop. "I wonder what's at the top!" he absentmindedly yawped.
"I have a feeling that it might be something dangerous and unpredictable," FLUDD added its own words to the atmosphere. "Keep your guard up and be prepared, is my advice to you both, Mario, Sonic."
"Thanks, FLUDD, but I doubt it can be too bad!" the hedgehog talked back, jumping over a large ball.
Mario flipped up into the air impressively and used FLUDD's Hover Nozzle to float over the goopy ball that came on by. Then, stylishly, the plumber landed back onto his feet, arms spread out.
"Show off," coughed Sonic.
"I heard that…" Mario muttered, eyes narrowing.
Sonic sweat-dropped.
Mario and Sonic carried on without any more silly conversations and senseless shenanigans. As they got higher and higher and got rid of more of the goop and falling goopy balls, Sonic found a Piranha Plant that was covered in the disgusting goop, but it wasn't like the other Polluted Piranha Plants that they had faced. This was just a regular Piranha Plant. Mario used FLUDD to spray water into the Piranha Plant's mouth and he and Sonic watched as the Piranha Plant's belly got bigger and bigger the more water that was shoved into its mouth. Soon, it got so big that it POPPED and water sprayed everywhere!
"Whoa! I so wasn't expecting that!" Sonic rambled, collecting the coins that came out with the water. Mario totally agreed with the hedgehog as he took care of another Piranha Plant, forcing it to burst with water.
"I wasn't either, but it works!" said Mario.
After that, Sonic and Mario continued with their adventure up the windmill. They jumped over gaps, avoided large and thorny vines, took care of a couple of more Piranha Plants, and found a Pianta dude dancing atop the windmill. There were some platforms spinning slowly around and around on the windmill and Sonic and Mario had the sense to jump onto one of the platforms to get up to the very top of the windmill. Also, Mario found another "M" in graffiti and cleaned it off of the wall with FLUDD, receiving a Blue Coin after that.
As the duo went up and up on the windmill, Sonic whistled in admiration at the view he got from up there. He put a hand over his eyes to block out the sun and enjoyed the beautiful sight. "I can sure get a good view from up here! Bianco Hills is pretty cool!" he complimented.
Mario took a look at the view too, finding it to be rather nice, but he wasn't as into it as his blue companion was. "It is nice," said the plumber. "I wonder why anyone would want to ruin its complexion and amazing scenery with goop and graffiti! It just doesn't make any sense at all!"
"It sure makes sense to that faker!" Sonic talked, shaking his head. "Man, now I'm sounding like Shadow!"
"Is there something wrong with sounding like Shadow?" questioned Mario, raising an eyebrow at his comrade wonderingly.
Sonic nodded quickly. "Yeah! You know how Shadow is!"
"Oh yeah…"
When the two reached the top of the windmill, they were shocked to see a very massive and overgrown Piranha Plant (Petey Piranha!) that was standing on top of the windmill, waving its giant leaves around. It also had large teeth and looked like it was wearing red underwear, which was very odd. Jumping off of the moving platform, Mario and Sonic landed in front of it, staring up at the large thing.
Petey roared at them, almost screeching. Sonic waved a hand in front of his face and coughed, eyes watering. "Whoa!" he gagged. "Toothpaste exists for a reason, pal! Your breath absolutely REEKS!"
"I can't breathe!" complained Mario, holding his nose.
FLUDD thought that the plumber and hedgehog were both overreacting as Petey peered down at the fragile ground beneath his feet. Unfortunately, the ground was cracking. Before Petey, Sonic, and Mario knew it, they were all plummeting downwards to their seeming doom.
"This is it!" howled Sonic as they fell.
"I didn't even get to live a full life!" yowled Mario as they continued downwards.
When they landed, they bounced off of Petey who had crashed into the ground first. Sonic flipped backwards and touched the ground with his feet, letting out a sigh of huge relief and Mario awkwardly landed beside him, surprised that they had lived.
"We lived!" Sonic chirped.
"Obviously," Mario stated and then pointed at the overgrown Piranha Plant that was now getting up from the ground, surrounded by a goopy mess. "Look!"
Petey was flapping his leafy arms about as he growled at them. It kind of looked like he was dancing the way he was moving. Jelly monsters jumped out of the goop and attempted to assault Mario and Sonic as Petey slowly moved towards them, wanting to fight.
"Looks like we got to get rid of this guy!" Sonic announced, searching around for some water to use. "But I don't have any water to use!"
"Who said you had to rely on your water abilities?" retorted Mario. "Aren't you the fastest thing alive?"
Sonic seemed to realize this and he nodded, slapping a palm to his forehead. "Oh, geez! That's right! I just got too caught up in my new abilities! You take care of the goop and the jelly monsters and I'll see if I can do something about this overgrown plant!" the blue hedgehog explained, zooming forward with his supersonic speed. However, right when he did, his feet made contact with the mess on the ground and he ended up slipping and falling down on his behind, sliding along the ground and howling.
"Oh no…!" Mario shouted, resisting the urge to shake his head. He turned his attention back to Petey as Sonic tried to get back to his feet. The plumber used FLUDD to clean up the mess and get rid of the jelly creatures and then decided to take care of Petey himself for the moment. Thinking back to the other Piranha Plants that they had faced on their way up the windmill, Mario assumed that that was the way to go about this fight.
So, using FLUDD once more, Mario sprayed water into Petey's open mouth. Petey gurgled and wriggled about as the water was forced down his throat. Mario watched in fascination as Petey's belly grew. When Petey's belly was large enough, Petey groaned and collapsed back onto the ground, stomach facing upwards.
"Do you see that big belly button sticking up on his tummy?" Sonic questioned Mario as he finally decided to join the fight again. "It's just BEGGING to be squashed!"
"I agree with Sonic," said FLUDD.
Mario nodded his head and ran forward, climbing up onto Petey's belly and doing a Ground Pound move on the plant. Water blasted out of Petey's mouth from the action and his stomach visibly deflated. Mario rapidly jumped back, but Sonic was caught as Petey swung his large head at Sonic.
"WHOA!" Sonic wailed as he flew back, slamming into a wall right after.
"You're really not helping, Sonic…" Mario trailed as he evaded a jelly creature that tried to leap onto him.
"Oh, can it!" the blue hedgehog got to his feet and zipped on over, using his Sonic Wind move on the large plant. The plant was knocked over and it squealed from the force of Sonic's Sonic Wind attack.
Mario leapt into action and used FLUDD once again, spraying water into the plant's mouth and letting his belly get bigger with each spray of water. Like before, Petey stayed on his back and groaned from how much water was just forced into his tummy. This time, Sonic did the Ground Pound move on his stomach.
"Just do that a few more times and this thing should be defeated," came FLUDD's robotic voice.
Suddenly, Petey got to his feet and reeled back his head, spitting out a large amount of goop that almost drenched Sonic and Mario! Immediately, the jelly monsters emerged from the goop, slithering towards the hedgehog and plumber and wanting to jump on them for some unfathomable reason!
"Be careful of that sludge! Spray it!" FLUDD warned Mario and Sonic urgently. "Also, watch out for the Goo Bubbles and the Piranha Plants!"
"So THAT'S what those jelly things are called? Goo Bubbles?" Sonic talked back, kicking a Piranha Plant and ducking when a Goo Bubble attempted to smack into his face. "I was wrong about everything!"
"So was I!" yipped Mario as he cleaned up the mess on the ground, taking care of some Goo Bubbles and Piranha Plants along the way.
Sonic raced around Petey when Petey attempted to vomit out more of that nasty goop stuff. Petey became dizzy from how many times Sonic sprinted around him. When Sonic stopped, Petey was unsteady and looking ready to topple over like a pile of bricks. Mario took advantage of the situation and used FLUDD for the last time for the fight, spraying water into Petey's mouth until he got full and fell over. Mario jumped up and Ground Pounded the baby Piranha Plant.
As soon as he did, Petey flattened and transfigured into a goopy mess on the ground. Then, without warning, the goopy mess dispersed and a Shine Sprite sprouted out from within the ground, floating happily before the two heroes.
"Well, look at that!" Sonic remarked. "It's another Shine Sprite!"
Mario walked over to it, satisfied. He grabbed the Shine Sprite and then did a pose, happy about their new success. "YAHOO!" he cheered.
"We're awesome!" Sonic claimed, throwing up a peace sign and grinning in Mario's direction.
The plumber couldn't agree more.
[Back with the others…]
Amy slowed down to a stop, doubling over and placing her hands onto her knees, trying to catch her breath. A minute ago she had been chasing the two babies, Baby Daisy and Baby Peach, all around Delfino Plaza. She had been chasing them for hours, but they wouldn't listen to her when she told them to come back! The Toads, Peach, and Toadsworth refused to help the poor pink hedgehog.
"GET BACK HERE, YOU TWO!" Amy gasped out in a very vexed manner. She straightened up and then started running after them again, watching as the two infants giggled and ran farther and farther away. They were fast!
Peach watched Amy chase the babies away and sighed, peering at the Grand Pianta Statue in the center of Bianco Square. She was surprised when Mario and Sonic emerged out from the glowing graffiti on the statue. Mario landed on his feet perfectly and Sonic did the same from beside him. They were both smiling like they had accomplished something spectacular.
"Mario! Sonic!" gasped Peach, happy to see that they were back and safe. "Welcome back! I'm so glad you both are here. I was beginning to get worried!"
"So was I!" Toadsworth babbled.
"I heard this was a sun-splashed isle, but is sure is dark!" Purple Toad absentmindedly stated to the other Toads, not really paying any attention to Sonic and Mario.
Mario strolled on over to the peachy princess and smiled. "There's no need to worry, princess!" the red-capped hero revealed. "Sonic and I have everything under control!"
"Yeah, but we still haven't found that faker," put in Sonic as he frowned. "He's still out there roaming about and making this whole island worse."
"That's bad news," Toadsworth remarked, shaking his head. "Whatever are we going to do about this vacation? Everything is awful, I say."
Suddenly, Amy came bounding towards them frantically while holding Baby Daisy and Baby Peach under her arms. She had caught them, finally, but there was something definitely wrong. "GUYS! GUYS!" she screamed.
Sonic was quick to act and he zoomed right over to the female hedgehog. "What, Amy? What?!" he blared.
"Something's happened!" she answered breathlessly. "Something's wrong!"
"What happened?!" Peach and Mario simultaneously caterwauled, worried.
"Just come and see!"
So, without any more words, everyone followed the pink hedgehog to the unknown destination. Immediately, they were met with the sight of a huge glop of black goop decorating the area not too far from Bianco Square. It was right next to the water and Goo Bubbles were roaming about.
"This is what happened!" Amy confessed through a heavy huff, still having the babies underneath her armpits that attempted to get away. They were both whining and kicking their little feet, wanting to get away. "I caught these two right when they were about to jump into that disgusting stuff!"
"Oh my!" gasped Peach, hand over her mouth. "I'm so glad you caught them before they could do so! That would've been so terrible!"
"I agree!" snipped Toadsworth. "Mario, Sonic, why don't you both get rid of that disgusting mess? I shall take the girls to safety while you take care of it!"
Amy seemed a little annoyed at this. "Hey, we aren't helpless, you know," she informed Toadsworth as she desperately tried to get the babies to stay put under her arms. They were now crying and kicking their feet erratically. "Gosh! Maybe we should've just left these two in the past! We could create a time paradox or something!"
"Ames, just go…" trailed Sonic, frowning with his arms folded. He seemed a little bit miffed.
"Fine!" Amy appeared to be a little hurt, but she turned and marched off followed by Peach and everyone else. The babies still whined and wailed.
Sonic then turned to Mario. "Let's get rid of this junk!" he exclaimed as he reached towards the water ahead, lifting it up and then launching it on top of the large goopy mess. Mario was impressed and then used FLUDD to help out. Random Piantas watched from nearby, wondering what they were doing.
After striking the spot of goop multiple times with water and getting rid of Goo Bubbles, the Polluted Piranha Plant emerged from the center of the massive mess, howling and roaring about. It took a few minutes, but Mario and Sonic easily took care of the horrid monster. Once they did, a large hut rose up from the ground and the goop dispersed into nothingness. There was a large "M" painted on the hut, the one similar to the one on the Grand Pianta Statue.
"Hey, this looks familiar," Sonic commented. "Do you think it's possible to be transported to a different area on the island from here like we were transported to Bianco Hills?"
"Probably, but I have a feeling that we aren't finished with Bianco Hills yet…" trailed Mario unsurely.
"Then let's go back there and finish what we started," the hedgehog decided with a loud sigh. "I still think that faker is still in there somewhere."
Mario agreed and found two Blue Coins before he and Sonic met back with everyone else at the Grand Pianta Statue. Baby Daisy and Baby Peach were currently consuming some fruit on a plate and Peach and Amy were in a deep conversation about how their vacation turned out.
"Hey, guys," Mario greeted them as soon as they reached their spot. "We got rid of that mess over there and a new building appeared…looked more like a hut though. We didn't stick around to find out what it was."
"Yeah," added Sonic.
Amy turned her attention away from Peach and put it on the two males, frowning. "Well, that's great."
"What are you two going to do now?" Peach questioned them curiously.
"We're going to head on back to Bianco Hills! We aren't finished yet!" Sonic answered with a thumbs up. "We'll find that fake Mario and kick his butt good for framing Mario!"
"Good luck with that," Amy said.
"We wish you luck," sighed Peach. "We're just going to be here sitting around doing nothing."
"Hey, don't say that," talked Mario while shaking his head. "There's lots to do here even though it's dark and dreary and gloomy and-"
"Alright, alright, we get it…"
Mario sweat-dropped and sheepishly laughed, rubbing his head.
"Anyway, do something fun, guys," yawped Sonic, going over to the glowing M on the statue. "We'll be back as soon as possible!"
"Make sure you find that fiend!" Toadsworth blurted out. "He ruined our vacation!"
Mario waved a hand at him in a dismissive manner. "Sure thing!"
Then, with some more goodbyes, Sonic and Mario were transported back to Bianco Hills…