"Telepoomotion!"
A portal opened as the heroes dropped out, the Mario Bros, Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, and Kirby landed perfectly this time. But same can't be said for Fine, Rein, and the Eds.
"It happened again..." The twins groaned.
"Do we always have to drop into a pile?" Eddy groaned as Double-D felt something on his head.
"Is that Ed's..." He sees that Ed's butt is on his head. "GOOD LORD!"
The sockhead backed away in disgust as Ed's rear fell on Eddy.
"HEY! GET YOUR BUTT OUT OF MY FACE, LUMPY!"
"Not until you get your face out of my butt, Eddy!" Ed said, folding his arms.
"There is the Flame Kingdom Castle-pumo." Poomo pointed at the said castle as the twins stood up an looked in awe.
"It's completely different from the Sunny Kingdom Castle!" Fine said.
"It's amazing!" Rein said.
"Not bad at all." Sonic grinned. "Did you know I met a princess once?"
"You mean Elise?" Tails said.
"Really?" Fine and Rein motioned to him.
"Yeah, and... well I don't want to talk about the rest." Sonic winced. "It was pretty awkward."
"Yeah, and we agreed to never talk about it again." Knuckles said.
"What happened?" Fine asked.
"I'll tell you when you get older." Sonic said, making the twins pout as he put a finger on his chin. "Still, I wonder how Elise is doing."
"Yeah, she was a good person and I'm surprised Amy got along with her." Tails said.
"Well, let's go greet the king without hesitation everybody." Poomo spoke before noticing the twins. "Is there something wrong-pumo?"
"it's gotten a little bit colder since the last time we came here, hasn't it?" Fine said.
"Yeah, it's gotten a bit chilly here." Sonic said, looking at the sky. "There weren't that many clouds either."
"Yeah, I'm freezing here!" Eddy shivered.
"Ooh, I remembered back in Tostarena had the same problem." Mario said. "No thanks to Bowser attacking it."
"It must be because the Blessing of the Sun is weakening." Rein reminded.
"That's right, never forget your mission-pumo." Poomo nodded. "If you do that, you will become wonder princesses."
"Uh, Poomo?" Luigi spoke. "They are gone."
"Pumo?" The little fairy sees blinking outlines of the twin princesses. "Huh? Eh? Pumo!?"
"We took our eyes off of them for a second and they just disappeared!" Eddy said.
"Oh dear, This is going to be a recurring thing, isn't it?" Double-D sighed.
"There they are!" Ed pointed and they see Fine and Rein in front of the gate of the castle calling Lione's name.
"W-Wonderful princesses..." Poomo sighed as Sonic gently patted the little fairy's back.
Later, the group were escorted inside the castle and led to the throne room.
"We have come from the Sunny Kingdom." The twins said simultaneously.
"Princess Fine, and..."
"...Princess Rein. It's an honor." They bowed.
"That was a splendid greeting-pumo." Poomo peaked out of his music box. "They never get nervous-pumo."
"I am King Wohl of the Flame Kingdom." The king introduced himself."I am Queen Nina." The queen introduced herself. "Welcome to the Flame Kingdom."
"It's a pleasure, you majesty." Double-D bowed as Fine and Rein noticed Lione and waved to her.
"Hi, Lione!"
"It's been awhile!"
"Hello!" Ed waved while smiling like a dope.
"Pumo..."
"Hi!" Lione waved back at them.
"Oh, you're Lione's friends?" King Wohl said. "If that is the case, then I must welcome you with all of my might!" King Wohl then let out an epic roar with fire in his eyes. "WELCOME! WELCOME! WELCOME!"
The torches around them blazed, making them jump as Fine and Rein hugged each other in shock.
"Whoa! This guy is full of fire." Knuckles commented.
"This is how the King expresses his excitement." Queen Nina said as the boy that was sitting on a throne hopped off and does a pose with his sword.
"Lo and behold, my name is Tio!" He introduced himself. "I am the renowned prince of the Flame Kingdom."
"Please be careful with that, you might hurt someone!" Double-D said but we went ignored.
"I vow to protect you two, Lione's friends, even at the cost of my own life!" He bowed. "If even in dire need. just call me and I shall come anywhere to aid you without fail!"
"Do you hear that?" Fine said.
"Yeah."
"I like this kid, he looks like he found his flame." Sonic grinned.
"Kinda makes me think of a-Toad almost." Mario said in agreement.
"As expected of my son! Well said!" King Wohl boomed. "INDEED! INDEED! INDEED!"
"Lione, please offer your friends a tour of the castle." Nina turned to her daughter, but she looks like she isn't paying attention. "Lione?"
Lione snapped out of it. "Uh, yes..."
"I wonder what's wrong?" Mario wondered before turning to where Lione was looking. Out of the window was a mountain letting out steam.
Later the ground were outside sitting on the stone stairs.
"Hey, what's that mountain you were looking at earlier, Lione?" Fine asked.
"Yeah, you look-a worried about it." Luigi said.
"That's Bo Mountain." Lione said.
"What kinda name is that?" Eddy asked, only to be elbowed by Double-D.
"Smoke's coming out of it, could that be the reason that this country has started becoming cold?" Rein said.
"No, it's become cold before, but the smoke is causing a greater problem."
"How so?" Tails asked.
"The Blessing of the Sun is being blocked by that smoke. The energy of the Blessed Flame, which warms the entire Mysterious Star, has weakened." Lione explained. "At this rate, the people of this country will be in trouble because they aren't used to the cold..."
"Oh dear, I dare I say I get implications... and it's not pretty." Double-D said worriedly.
"If we don't do something soon..."
"Lione..." Fine spoke.
"I am so moved-pumo!" Poomo suddenly appeared.
"Whoa little fella, why are you so moved for?" Sonic asked.
"You care about your people so much and are so worried! Surely you're a model princess-pumo!"
Lione blinked, seeing the little fairy. "Who... are you?"
"Forgive me, but my name is..."
"He's our pet!" Fine said as she grabbed Poomo.
"Pet!?"
"I wouldn't call him that." Sonic said.
"Bear with it for now, it's too hard to explain." Fine whispered.
"Okay, I get ya." Sonic said, giving an OK gesture.
"Pet... Pumo..." Poomo slumped.
"So cute! Do you have a name?"
Poomo blushed. "My name is Poomo-pumo."
"Poyo!" Kirby spoke.
"Oh my goodness, you're also so cute!" Lione motioned to the pink puffball.
"Oh yeah, that's Kirby." Knuckles said.
"Is he your pet as well?"
"Well, he's-a more of a friend." Mario chuckled.
"Well, I hope to get a pet as cute as him." Lione gently pat Kirby, but then it began to snow.
"Huh, what's happening?" Tails said.
"What's this? It's fluffy and cold." Lione asked as some landed on her hands.
"Why it's snow, Lione." Double-D answered.
"Something tells me this girl never got snow in her kingdom." Eddy said as Ed had his tongue out, making snowflakes land on it.
"This is snow?"
"I see, Lione has never seen snow before." Fine said.
"It's cold!" Eddy shivered before turning to the Bros, Kirby and Team Sonic. "Why aren't you guys cold?"
"Me and Luigi go to-a many cold places." Mario said. "And even Kirby. We've built up a tolerance."
"The cold never bothered me, anyway." Sonic shrugged. "Besides, my speed helps keep me warm."
"What about the rest of us? We haven't brought any winter wear!" Double-D shivered as well.
"It's so cold!" Fine and Rein shivered before doing their I Hate It dance.
"Do they really have to do that?" Knuckles said.
"Lione, join us!"
"Huh?"
"Ed will join too!" Ed said as he joined in on the dance along with Lione.
"Really Ed?" Eddy sighed.
Later, the twins made a snowman.
"Hey Lione, let's make one together!" Fine said.
"Um... okay."
Ed made a snow angel, laughing like a little kid as Eddy decided to do one too. However, when he got up, he saw that he somehow made a snow devil.
"What the?"
"I think the snow's trying to tell you something, Eddy."
"Snow don't know squat!"
"Finally, the worst has happened!" King Wohl said. as he came outside, accompanied by many guards. "Look at this snow! This is the most serious crisis since the beginning of the Flame Kingdom! Our target is the Bo Dragon! Everyone, be careful. Move out!"
Everyone else watched as Wohl, Tio and the guards all marched to the mountain.
"Did they say something about a dragon?" Sonic said.
"What is the Bo Dragon?" Fine asked.
"There was a statue of him by the audience room-pumo." Poomo said.
"The Bo Dragon is the dragon that lives in the crater of Bo Dragon." Lione explained. "He's the one creating the smoke that's coming from the mountain."
"Eh!?"
"Troubling the people of the Flame Kingdom..."
"Making Lione sad..."
"Forgivable!"
"Huh? But..." Lione tried to explain.
"Let's go Rein!"
"Yes, let's go!"
"We must slay the dragon!" Ed said, riding on Eddy like if he was a horse.
"ED!"
"Let's go!" The twins zipped off.
"Wait!" Lione called out, but no avail.
"What's the matter, Lione?" Mario said.
"Let me guess, the dragon isn't evil?" Tails said.
"It isn't, the Bo Dragon is coughing smoke because he caught a cold and is suffering."
"A dragon getting sick?" Double-D said. "How dreadful!"
"And how do you know?" Sonic said.
"Sometimes I can understand the Bo Dragon's feelings through the stone in the castle."
"A stone?" Luigi said.
"The Stone of the Fire Dragon."
"Wait a minute, didn't that suspicious kid mention that before?" Sonic said.
"Yeah, I think he did." Knuckles nodded.
"The Stone of the Fire Dragon is an important crystal made from the Bo Dragon's fire-bag." Lione explained. "It converts the energy from the Blessing of the Sun into the Flame Kingdom's Blessed Flame."
"Woah, that means you have a pyschic connection to the dragon, right?" Sonic said.
"We need to-a find Fine and Rein!" Mario exclaimed.
"And how the heck are we going to reach them?" Eddy said.
"Hello? You're looking at the fastest thing alive here!" Sonic said, pointing a thumb at himself. "I think I should take Lione with me, since she'll explain everything to the twins."
"Well, maybe I should." Lione nodded.
"Get on board, Lione." Sonic said as Lione climbed on his back. "Now hang on tight, gotta go fast!"
Sonic channeled blue lightning into his body as he zipped into the snowy path in fast speeds, cutting a deep trail in the snow from the sheer speed he was going at.
"Holy smokes!" Eddy gasped.
"Oh my! Such acceleration!" Double-D said.
"Sonic is The Flash and Quicksilver combined!" Ed said excitedly.
"Let's-a go, Luigi!"
"Oh yeah!"
Mario pulled out two feathers from his pocket as he and Luigi absorbed them, making yellow capes appear on their backs. They both flew after their hedgehog friend.
"Wait for us!" Tails and Knuckles followed, Tails spinning his two tails like a helicopter while Knuckles jumped and glided among them.
"Hey, what about us!?" Eddy yelled. "We can't follow you in all this snow!"
"Poyo!" They turned to Kirby.
"What can you do?"
"Poyo!" Kirby took out a cellphone as it's star antennae let out a signal.
"Are you phone calling someone?"
But then, a star appeared in front of them.
"A star!? My word!" Double-D went around it.
"Star light, star bright! First star I see tonight!" Ed chanted randomly.
"Poyo!" Kirby climbed on it as he motioned to the three teens.
"You want us to climb it?" Eddy said before shrugging. "Well, better then walking."
The three Eds climb on the star.
"So, now wha-"
"Poyo!" The star than flew off as the Eds screamed, or laughing for Ed, as they held on for dear life.
Meanwhile, Sonic was running among the snowy trail before stopping in front of the mountain.
"Alright, this must be the place, you alright Lione? Lione?" The blue hedgehog turned to see Lione with swirly eyes.
"So fast..."
"Oops, sorry about that." Sonic chuckled before Lione dizzily got off. "Now to look for those twins."
"Lione! Sonic!" They see the said twins running up to them.
"Speak of the devil."
"Lione, we did it!" Fine said.
"What do you mean?"
"We covered the crater, so everything will be okay no matter how much smoke he puffs."
"No, you're mistaken!"
"Oof, that doesn't sound good, you two." Sonic said.
Lione explained everything to the twin princesses.
"Eh!?"
"Yeah, you girls should've listened." The blue blur shook his head, but then rumbling was heard as they see a geyser of smoke shooting out of the mountain and see Wohl and the others crashing to the snowy ground.
"We have to do something."
"We have to do something."
"What should we do?"
"What should we do?"
The twin pondered until Rein spoke.
"I've got it! Let's warm him up from the hot water from the spring!"
"I see!"
"Now that'll make the dragon feel better!" Sonic grinned as Fine and Rein took out their Sunny Luches.
"Fan fan, Fine!"
"Ran ran, Rein!"
"Prominence dress up!"
The twins transformed as they held their scepters and aimed it at nearby hotsprings.
"Was that there the whole time?" Sonic said.
Lione nodded. "Yes. You didn't noticed?"
"Eh, one of the downsides of being so fast."
"Twinkle twinkle bloomish! Bo Dragon, please warm up!"
A giant vacuum appeared and sucks up the hot water and transferred it all the way to the mountain.
"Wait, you shouldn't take a bath when you have a cold-pumo!" Poomo spoke.
"EH!?" The twin gasped. "Oh no!"
"I'll go check it out!" Sonic zipped to the mountain. He sees the place now filled up with the hot water. "Alright, where's that dragon?"
Then the Bo Dragon came out of the water as it lets out a sigh of relief.
"So, did that stuff make you feel better, huh?" Sonic said as the dragon nodded. "Good to know!"
The princesses managed to follow the blue hedgehog all the way to the mountain.
"The crater is now a hotspring!" Fine said.
"And the dragon looks like he feels better!" Rein pointed out.
"Why?"
"I see, Bo Hot Spring's hot water is said to cure all kinds of illnesses." Lione said. "It cured the Bo Dragon's cold!"
"Seriously? Stuff like this could be pretty useful elsewhere." Sonic said. "Now that's a success!"
"Yeah!" The Twins said.
"I wouldn't exactly call it that-pumo." Poomo said.
"Look, the sky is clearing!" Lione said as they looked at the sky to see the clouds disappearing.
"Alright!" Sonic cheered as they got off the mountain.
"Sonic!" They see the other running up to them.
"Hey guys, don't worry everything's been taken care of!"
"Really!? You mean we rode this death trap for nothing!?" Eddy complained as he and the rest of the Eds fell off of the star.
"Again!" Ed cheered.
"NO!" The two Eds exclaimed.
Meanwhile at the hotsprings, the same boy from before sees all the clouds disappear.
"So this is the power of the Prominence? If only I had that kind of power..." He huffed as he left the place.
"Thank you for everything, Princesses of the Sunny Kingdom! And you as well brave heroes!" King Wohly thanked. "It's really to bad you have to go!"
"We'll definitely come back!" Fine waved.
"Promise?" Lione said.
"Of course, Lione!" Mario smiled.
"I, Tio, will come anywhere, at any time, if for you two!" Tio exclaimed.
"Yeah, yeah." Fine and Rein casually said as they all leave.
"I wonder what's next for us?" Sonic said.
"Don't know, but I look forward to it." Knuckles said. "Hopefully it'll have more action!"
"Being on a magical alien planet ain't so bad after all." Eddy shrugged.
"But there's still Bowser and Eggman we have to worry about." Tails said.
"Well, we have-a to keep a look out for them." Luigi said.
As the group continued walking, Fine and Rein became curious about something as they turned to Mario and Luigi
"Can you tell us about your worlds?" Fine asked.
"Yeah, we want to know what they're like." Rein said.
Mario chuckled. "Okay, it all-a started, when me and Luigi fell into a strange pipe..."
