Author's Note: Thanks for the reviews for the previous episode! Enjoy this one!
Super Mario Sunshine Adventure
Episode 2: The Beach Canon's Secret
"…so that's what happened! Wow! What a story!" Silver blared as he watched Baby Daisy and Baby Peach ride on one of the attractions Pinna Park had, which was the Yoshi-Go-Round ride. Baby Daisy was sitting atop an orange Yoshi and Baby Peach was riding a pink Yoshi, giggling. There were Noki children and Pianta children having fun on the ride as well as the heroes all just stood around.
Sonic, Mario, and Pauline had all been explaining to Silver what was going on and telling them of their adventure so far. Sonic told him about how Mario was framed and how he got arrested and was forced to clean up the entire island. Mario conveyed to Silver about their time in Bianco Hills and their battles with Petey Piranha. Pauline vivaciously informed the hedgehog from the future about their time in Ricco Harbor and what they had been through while they were there.
"I was on vacation too!" Silver announced with a smile as he gave Baby Peach and Baby Daisy a wave as they passed on by on the Yoshi-Go-Round. "At first, Blaze and I had come to Isle Delfino together and had immediately gone to Pinna Park, but she and I got into an argument…" he sighed and visibly deflated. "…so she left and went elsewhere. I think she said something about going to Gelato Beach, but I'm not sure."
Sonic gaped at Silver. "Wait, so Blaze is here too?"
"Yup, she sure is!" replied Silver in a merry chirp. "But she's mad at me and I doubt she wants to be found right now. I really don't understand why she got so mad at me. Darn."
"Odd," talked Sonic.
"Tell me about it!"
Pauline suddenly approached Silver, holding out a hand for him to shake. "Hello," she said. "I'm Pauline. I haven't properly introduced myself yet."
It was then that Silver realized how pretty she was and he immediately took her hand in his and shook it rigorously, grinning widely. "It's really, really, really nice to meet you, pretty lady Pauline!" he exclaimed. "My name is Silver!"
"It's nice to meet you too, Silver!" giggled Pauline as they parted their hands.
Sonic slid over to Silver's side and elbowed him gently to get is attention. "She's also Mario's ex-girlfriend."
"WHAT?!" yawped Silver.
Mario rolled his eyes at that. "Please, would you stop bringing that up, Sonic?! Sheesh!"
"And I also earned the title as the Blooper-surfing legend!" Sonic announced proudly while striking a pose, smirking and all that other good stuff.
Silver glanced at the blue hedgehog. "Huh? What's that supposed to mean?" he was utterly clueless.
Sonic put an arm around Silver's shoulders and shook his head. "Silver, Silver, Silver…you have a lot to learn, buddy!" he stated with a chortle. "Blooper-surfing is, like, the BEST thing ever!"
"Besides running?" Mario put in.
"BESIDES running!" Sonic corrected himself, clearing his throat afterwards. "You know what a Blooper is, right, Silver?" he asked the other male hedgehog.
Silver pondered about it for a moment. "Ummmmmmm…I think I do!"
"Cool, well, you can actually ride Bloopers!" Sonic finished, pulling away from Silver and zooming around everywhere with his amazing speed. "I rode one and I earned the title as the Blooper-surfing legend!"
"And he will never let us forget it…" Pauline trailed, sweat-dropping.
"Greeeaaaat," commented Silver with a crooked smile.
Mario huffed loudly and folded his arms, peering at his companions, including his new one, Silver. "Anyway, back to urgent matters. Bowser has a son! The imposter was actually Bowser's son! And…Bowser's son got away with Peach and Amy and fled to Corona Mountain, which I think we can't access at the moment!"
"Right. We still need more Shine Sprites and I have a feeling there are a lot more to be found here on Pinna Island," Sonic talked with a nod of his head, totally agreeing with the red hero.
"What do we do with these guys?" Silver questioned thoughtfully as he helped Baby Daisy and Baby Peach get off of the ride. They were giggling uncontrollably and holding Silver's hands.
Pauline looked at them. "I guess we just wait until we get back to Delfino Plaza to leave them with Toadsworth and the other Toads."
Suddenly, completely out of the blue, the horrid sound of tremendous commotion was coming from the beach! Wanting to investigate, the group of six ventured out of Pinna Park and went through the gate, arriving back on the beach. The Noki that was there to greet them before was standing around while looking frantic.
"Tarnation!" he yipped. "Tell them to stop that noise!"
Sonic caught sight of the Pianta before that had been in the red canon that he had been working in. You know, the rude one from episode one of Pinna Park? Yup. The blue hedgehog ran over to him to see what was up.
"Dude, what's going down?"
"Out of nowhere, some weird thing took over my place!" the Pianta boomed erratically, furious. "And now, these explosives are flying everywhere!"
"Explosives?" Sonic put on a very puzzled expression. "What explo-"
Suddenly, a Bullet Bill whizzed towards his head and Sonic ducked, releasing a howl of surprise. "Holy macaroni!" he snapped sharply, eyes wide.
"Please! You have to help me!" the Pianta yelled.
"Oh, I'll help you alright!" Sonic exclaimed, turning around and peering at his friends who were now scattered around the beach. Baby Peach and Baby Daisy all stayed behind to not get hurt. "Guys, we have to get rid of that thing in the red canon over there…"
Mario pointed at the red canon where the Bullet Bills, Bullet Missiles, Bob-ombs, and Glorpedoes were coming out of. "Do you mean that canon over there with that Monty Mole sticking out of it?!"
"That's EXACTLY what I mean!" retorted Sonic.
"Oh dear! I'm going to make sure the Sunflower Kids are okay!" Pauline informed them with emergency coloring her voice. Without more words, the dark haired woman took off towards the flowers, evading Bullet Bills on the way over.
"Are those…fireworks? Are they?!" one of the Sunflower Kids questioned. She sounded really excited, which surprised Pauline. She thought the gentle flower would be scared because of all of the horrible commotion currently occurring.
"What is that? What a horrible racket!" the biggest Sunflower Kid bellowed.
Pauline whirled around in a circle as three Bullet Bills approached her and the innocent sunflowers. Not wanting all of them to be harmed, Pauline waved her hands out in front of her and summoned her powers to control the wind. A sharp wind slammed into the oncoming Bullet Bills, sending them to the ground in a fiery explosion.
Meanwhile, Silver was currently stopping the assaults with is psychokinesis, flinging Bullet Bills into the water, stopping Missile Bills from chasing everyone, and making sure that everyone was safe. He was getting tired, but he was managing. Mario and Sonic had already made it to the red canon where the Monty Mole was located.
Picking up a Bob-omb, Mario tossed it at the Monty Mole's head and it squealed loudly. "You need to leave!" Mario caterwauled at it. "You're disrupting the peace and causing a ruckus!"
"For no reason!" added Sonic.
"I can do whatever the heck I want!" Monty Mole hissed at them like a venomous snake about to strike. It launched more Bob-ombs at them, chuckling in delight.
Mario howled in pain as one of them blew up in his face, taking away two pieces of his Life. Sonic was about to ask the plumber if he was okay, but a Bullet Bill smacked into the side of his head, exploding right in his ear. Sonic collapsed to the ground, three pieces of his own Life being taken from him.
Silver hurriedly levitated over to them and landed on the sand below, concern shining in his eyes. "Are you guys okay? Sorry I didn't stop that from happening!"
"No problem…" Sonic muttered out dizzily.
"Yeah…don't worry about it," groaned Mario.
"It's just that I'm getting tired and my powers don't last for too long," Silver tried to explain, feeling guilty as he stopped a Missile Bill from coming their way, obliterating it afterwards.
Pauline, who was still near the sunflowers, was watching Silver in great interest, wondering how he was able to move things with his mind like that. It was amazing to her!
Sonic zipped out of the way of a Bullet Bill and then spun around, kicking it back towards the Monty Mole that was chortling its head off in the red canon. The Bullet Bill soared towards the Monty Mole and easily made contact with its face. Once that happened, Monty Mole squealed for the last time and the whole canon he was in exploded. When the smoke cleared, Monty Mole was gone and the canon wasn't being occupied anymore! Plus, there was a strange light beaming out of the hole in the red canon.
"What is that?" Pauline questioned her friends as she jogged on over.
"Who knows?" answered Silver, trekking over to the red canon and putting his head inside. As soon as he did that foolish act, he was sucked into the hole with a loud yell.
"Silver!" everyone simultaneously called.
There was no reply.
"Looks like we have to go in after him!" Sonic declared, running over and jumping into the canon, disappearing. Mario leapt in after him.
Pauline was about to join them, but then looked over her shoulder at Baby Daisy and Baby Peach who were now stepping onto the beach and building sandcastles. Sighing, the dark haired lady decided to stay behind to watch the infants.
[The boys…]
Once again, Sonic and Mario found themselves in a completely white place and falling into nothingness, this being the very first time for poor Silver.
"HOLY CHEESECAKE! WE'RE DYING!" Silver hollered out frantically, flailing his arms about as they fell. "I SHOULD HAVE NEVER PUT MY HEAD INSIDE THE CANON! I AM SUCH A DOLT!"
Sonic stuck a finger into his ear, grimacing. "I think my eardrums are broken…"
"Mine's too…" Mario muttered worriedly, rubbing his ears because of Silver's harsh and violent hollering.
Silver calmed down a little, but was still freaking out. "B-But…! Where in the world are we?! Are we dying or something because we foolishly got into the canon?!"
"When we're in some kind of weird and illogical place then that means we're heading on to a Secret Stage," Sonic calmly explained to Silver as he put his hands behind his head. "Which means Bowser's kid is gonna come and take FLUDD right about no-"
Suddenly, Shadow Mario appeared and snagged FLUDD right off of Mario's back just like the other times before. He waved at them mockingly before vanishing out of sight. That's when the trio found themselves in the Secret Stage standing on a jungle green platform.
"Wow!" Silver remarked, eyes wide.
"FLUDD is gone…" Mario murmured sadly, feeling naked without FLUDD on his back. How was he going to be able to hover over gaps now? Like before, he'd have to rely on his impressive acrobatic skills.
Sonic took a look at the new obstacles that they'd have to face. "Doesn't look too hard, you guys. We could pass through this stage with ease!"
"Let's-a go!" Mario declared, running forward and jumping onto a large square block that had the color of a Yoshi egg. He was smiling when he made it. "Hey, maybe this WILL be easy!"
"Told you so!" chuckled Sonic as he joined Mario on the Yoshi egg colored block.
"Alright, here goes!" Silver stated as he leapt over, landing between the two individuals. "What next? What do we get when we reach the end?"
"A Shine Sprite!" Mario and Sonic said in perfect sync.
Silver simpered. "That's it, is it?"
"Yup!"
"Then let's get this over with!"
Complying with the future hedgehog's saying, the blue hedgehog and red plumber stepped onto the green blocks that were various shapes. They thought they were just going to walk on through, but they were so wrong!
The blocks started disappearing!
"WHOOOOAAAA!" Sonic yowled as the green block he was standing on disappeared! The blue hedgehog instantly started falling down into the dark abyss below. Luckily, Silver was there to catch him with his psychokinesis. Sonic released a sigh of relief as he began floating upwards, seeing Silver levitating in the air and holding Sonic with his mind. He seemed to be struggling to do both at once.
"I-I've got you, Sonic!" muttered Silver through clenched teeth and all.
"Thanks, pal!"
Mario was currently standing on another Yoshi egg colored block that was floating amongst the disappearing green blocks. When Silver and Sonic joined him on there, Silver breathed out a huge sigh, regaining his strength.
"Man, that really took a toll on me! Be careful next time!" Silver scolded Sonic.
"Sorry, Charlie!" the blue hedgehog snipped.
"I thought you said this was going to be easy, Sonic!" accused Mario, turning his gaze on the speedster, pointing a finger at him while frowning.
Sonic threw his hands up. "Hey, I didn't know, okay?"
Mario huffed and then got across the other green disappearing blocks, stepping foot on a dark grayish block with a sign with an arrow pointing upwards on it. There were some Strollin' Stus up ahead and a couple of crates on the block with him. Silver and Sonic soon made it over with Mario. Sonic destroyed the crates and found some Coins inside, quickly pocketing them.
Silver took care of the Strollin Stus and then came back over, seeing Sonic and Mario bouncing onto trampolines and getting higher and higher. Silver decided to use his psychokinesis, floating upwards to reach where they were currently at. Now they were all on another grayish block with disappearing orange blocks ahead of them.
"How in the world are we going to make it across?" Mario wanted to know from his comrades, eyeing the orange disappearing blocks uneasily. "The blocks are disappearing too fast!"
"Did you forget that you have the fastest thing alive on your side?" Sonic the Hedgehog demanded to know, smiling brightly at the plumber.
"What does that have to do with anything?" Silver wondered, completely clueless.
Sonic sighed dramatically and grabbed Silver's wrist, taking Mario's wrist with his free hand. "Ready…GO!" the blue hedgehog took off rapidly across the disappearing blocks, pulling Mario and Silver to the other side in no time. They reached the other side before the first block even started to disappear!
The three very interesting characters came across more of those orange disappearing blocks, but this time they had to make a sharp left. Still keeping a firm grip on Silver's and Mario's wrists, Sonic took off at full speed, easily making that left turn and hurrying on ahead towards the Shine Sprite that awaited them at the end. Sonic was going so fast, that he passed right by the Shine Sprite and desperately tried to break. However, he was toppling over the edge of the final block with Silver and Mario!
"Oh no!" cried Mario.
"I can't stop!" Sonic panicked.
Silver conjured up his powers and they were all surrounded by a light bluish glow. Using his abilities, Silver brought them back up onto the block and then pulled his wrist out of Sonic's grip, rubbing it gently.
"You have a tight grip there, Sonic! Whew!" Silver's heart was beating really fast in his chest because they had just been about to get a game over!
Mario was rubbing his own wrist as he gazed at the Shine Sprite next to them. "Yes, he does! I can't even feel my wrist anymore! It's numb…"
Sonic rolled his eyes at the two and then grabbed the Shine Sprite. "Beautiful!" he cheered.
"Not bad, all in all."
"Yahoo!"