Author's Note: Wow. This took long. More will be posted again.

Super Mario Sunshine Adventure

Episode 6: Red Coins in the Coral Reef

"Ummmm, mister? You know where the coral reef is, right? There's something sparkling out there…I'm sure of it," the male Pianta informed the group of five, specifically Mario. "That look in your eyes! I've seen it before! Go get'em!"

Turning around to peer at his companions, Mario questioned, "What do you think, guys? Should we go investigate or something? We could earn another Shine Sprite in the end, and we need those Shine Sprites…"

"I ain't goin'!" Sonic blubbered firmly. "You can't make me get into that water!"

"Wow, the Blooper-surfing legend is terrified of water!" chuckled Silver.

"Shut it, Sil!" threatened Sonic, arms folded across his chest in an annoyed manner.

Silver disobeyed and released a few more chuckles, finding it to be very amusing. Sonic sighed loudly and threw up his hands, trekking off elsewhere, probably to go off and find some chili dogs to eat or something.

"Well, it looks like Sonic won't be joining us to investigate the coral reef!" Pauline pointed out, shrugging her shoulders. "How disappointing!"

"Well, we can't force him," Blaze chattered through a soft sigh. "We can take care of this ourselves and without Sonic's help. Can't we?"

Mario nodded instantly. "Sure we can!"

"Good."

"Let's get to it then!" Pauline exclaimed, holding up a fist with a large smile stuck on her facial features.

So the quartet made their way towards the coral reef, finding a Yoshi Egg on the way there. "Hey!" Silver talked while pointing at the Yoshi Egg. "It's a Yoshi Egg! It looks like it wants a pineapple or something!"

"Ignore it!" Mario blared.

"Why?" Silver gave a disappointed look.

"All the Yoshis always seem to be hungry for some unfathomable reason!" replied Mario.

Blaze stared at him. "How so?"

"Well, they keep saying…FEED ME!" Mario answered while throwing up his hands. "Over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and-"

"Okay," Pauline cut him off dryly, seemingly annoyed by Mario's constant rambling. "We get it."

Mario sheepishly laughed.

Anyway, the quartet reached the coral reef and began swimming around for the Red Coins that were scattered about the place. Knowing they'd be getting a Shine Sprite out of it, they started collecting all of the Red Coins. While they did that, Sonic was busy roaming the beach and munching on a chili dog that he had found out of the blue.

"Yup, this sure is the life!" the blue hedgehog caterwauled with a large grin.

Suddenly, dozens and dozens of blue and red Cataquacks started dashing towards him, wanting to flip him up into the air. Using his supersonic speed, Sonic zipped and avoided the Cataquacks with ease.

"Whoa!" Sonic exclaimed through a laugh. "You're not catching me that easily!"

Then, all of a sudden, Sonic ran face first into a blue Cataquack. The Cataquack squawked like the duck it was and then grabbed the blue hedgehog with its beak, flipping the poor thing into the air. Sonic howled the entire time.

[Meanwhile…]

Sinking low into the clear water, Mario found himself surrounded by orange fish. They swam about while carrying a Blue Coin. Mario just needed that Blue Coin! He loved collecting them blue things! Yup!

"Mario!" shouted Silver. "We're supposed be collecting Red Coins, not Blue Coins! Darn!"

"I know, but I really need these Blue Coins!" Mario yelled back as he snagged the Blue Coin.

Blaze managed to retrieve three Red Coins and Pauline grabbed two of them while she swam around in the water. Silver only found one though. Now they had six Red Coins altogether. While Mario continued to look for Blue Coins, the others found the rest of the Red Coins.

When they met back up, they all celebrated and got a Shine Sprite out of it. They danced and frolicked about in a joyous, zealous way!

"We did it!" Silver cheered.

"We did it!" Pauline repeated.

"Yay!" Mario did a little dance.

Blaze didn't dance, but she was smiling while nodding her head in a happy manner. Suddenly, Sonic the Hedgehog approached them while wearing an irked expression. He waved at them halfheartedly and shrugged.

"I take it you guys found all of the Red Coins and got a Shine Sprite out of it?" he questioned them curiously and in a long, slow drawl.

"Yeah," Mario responded. "What happened to you?"

Sonic jabbed a thumb in the direction of the oncoming red and blue fray of Cataquacks. "They happened!"

Everyone looked at the Cataquacks that were sprinting towards them and they scrambled like scrambled eggs!