At first there was nothing but a black screen, eventually the lights switched on with a couple of clicks to find a TV studio with an oval table in the middle, on the left stood KT7 and on the right stood RAM.
KT7: Hello and welcome to our first ever Fanfiction Death Battle
RAM: The rules are pretty straight forward; after announcing the two combatants, you have 5 days to vote for a winner, pretty much like DBX, after the end of those five days, the votes will be counted, (excluding any double votes), and the winner will be revealed in a couple of days' time.
KT7: The results will be displayed after the death battle, and, in the event of a draw, the author has the deciding vote represented as 0.5% of a vote. So, without further ado. Me KT7.
RAM: And my name is RAM, and together we will analyse their strengths, weaknesses and popularity to see who would win a Fanfiction Death Battle.
RAM: When it come to different types of media certain characters will come to mind as representing that type of medium. With comics you have Superman, with early films, you have Charlie Chaplin.
KT7: And then there's Mr Video game himself, Mario Mario.
RAM stretched out an arm and grabbed a piece of paper and quickly began reading it.
RAM: Wait is that cannon?
KT7: Wait it isn't?
RAM: Doesn't say so here.
RAM scrunched up the paper and threw it offscreen.
RAM: Let's carry on, shall we?
KT7: While his exact origins are a mystery, the start of his adventuring days are not.
RAM: The most common of their origin stories is that, while he and his brother Luigi were unblocking a drain somewhere in New York they accidentally unblocked a warp pipe which sucked them in and took them to…
KT7: THE MUSHROOM KINGDOM!
RAM: Yes, quite. Having found themselves in a new world, they soon found that they had a big problem on their hands.
KT7: A HUGE TURTLE DRAGON! Wait how is Bowser not a Kaiju? He's large and breathes fire, we could have him fight Godzilla!
RAM: NO! we already have over 15 seasons of death battle to cover, don't give the author any more ideas.
RAM: Regardless of their predicament, the two brothers fought off the koopas and rescued the princess of the Mushroom Kingdom, and so began their turtle stomping days.
KT7: It sure beats plumbing, hey! If master got kidnapped by a turtle dragon, perhaps he will give me a cake…or maybe even-
RAM stretched her arm out and transformed her hand into a large hammer before bringing it down onto KT's head.
KT7: OW!
RAM: Could you stop daydreaming please?
RAM: Having now quit his day job, Mario, and Luigi, took it upon themselves to become the heroes of the Mushroom kingdom.
KT7: Fighting against the world's worst kidnapper every couple of days or so.
RAM: Although the Koopa king's plans have not always been the best, he is still a formidable foe, and as such Mario was going to need a few extra power ups.
KT7: Like the Fire Flower, a flower that can… make him shoot fireballs, or the super mushroom that can turn him big.
RAM: There are quite a lot of powers that Mario uses, although if he is ever in a clinch he can use one of many advanced power ups.
KT7: Like the Super Star, which can turn him invincible for a short period of time.
RAM: In fact, a wide variety of power ups also have an invincible form too, which although rare, have combined the invincibility of a Super Star and said power up in question, like the Invincible Leaf or the Giga Bell.
KT7: And he's needed those power ups on quite a few occasions, like when bowser kidnapped a load of fairies, or that time he nearly destroyed the universe.
RAM: Even though Bowser is not the smartest villain by a long shot, he has proven capable of threatening the world with universal levels of power and Mario's has been tough enough to take him on, universal power or not.
KT7: This is the guy that can, without power ups, casually throw a castle away, dodge a crashing sun and survive a universe ending event akin to the big bang.
RAM: While he does have a good deal of combat experience and a vast array of power ups at his disposal, he has fallen short on a few occasions.
KT7: I mean, it's really hilarious that the world's best hero who has stopped universal ending events, ends up getting captured in a painting.
RAM: That wasn't the first time he's been captured either, having fallen into Bowsers hands in 1993 in-
KT7: NO!
RAM: Huh?
KT7: We DO NOT talk about that, children are still having nightmares from it.
RAM: But even with his minor mishaps, Mario has proven himself strong enough and capable enough to save the world more times than we can count.
KT7: He really is a hero and definitely deserving of the moniker "Mr Videogame".
Mario: Let's-a-go-a
RAM: In the far distant future, the earth as we know it ceases to exist.
KT7: Unless you believe in the two worlds theory where everything is a okay.
RAM facepalmed, gave a sigh and shook her head.
RAM: You're getting ahead of yourself KT, now you've ruined the intro. Basically there's this planet called Mobius.
KT7: An on this planet inhabits cute little creatures known as flickies, as well as some anto, anti, abbi…
RAM: Anthropomorphic
KT7: Yeah, animals, that are just right for being experimented on by a fat man with an unhealthy appetite for eggs.
RAM: This was Dr Ivo Robotnik or Dr Eggman as we all know him as, a brilliant scientist specialising in robotics with his goal being the conquest of the entire world.
KT7: But time and again, this overweight mad scientist wannabe had his butt kicked hard and his plans scattered to the wind by his arch nemesis.
RAM: This was Sonic the Hedgehog.
KT7: Wait why is he so fast, and why is he blue?
RAM: Well, there is no solid backstory for him, apparently, he could always run fast, but as to how he became blue…he broke a giant hamster wheel and got bombarded with the element Cobalt? Which is ridiculous when he doesn't show any signs of Cobalt poisoning so it's still up for debate.
KT7: Well however he came about, this rad feisty hedgehog was not going to take his world being taken over by a madman lightly, and so started the adventure of a lifetime.
RAM: Sonic is fast, like really fast, and his speed alone has been capable of getting him out of many problems.
KT7: And he's faced a few in his adventures: Stopping a death star wannabe, check, save a small planet capable of manipulating time, check, beat several robot replicas of yourself, check.
RAM: And with his speed Sonic has done some awe-inspiring feats.
KT7: He's survived a moon-sized battle station exploding, took down an army of robots and has out-run pretty much everything, including tornados, lasers and a black hole.
RAM: But speed alone doesn't quite cut it, and in dire needs he needs a little bit of a boost.
KT7: BY TURNING SUPER SONIC!
RAM: By using the 7 Chaos Emeralds, sonic can turn into a super form that makes him practically invincible.
KT7: Notice the word "Practically" yes, again his invulnerability has a time limit, usually lasting for a minute at most.
RAM: Not only that but the energy used to power the emeralds has been shown to be drained by technology, as seen in Sonic Unleashed.
KT7: But aside from that little mishap, the super form can let Sonic fly, crash into asteroids and fly into lasers without taking damage, and even use it to perform chaos control.
RAM: Which can be used to teleport, slow down or even stop time and can recreate planets that have been fragmented.
KT7: So it's like a geni-
RAM: NO!
KT7: Huh?
RAM: We don't talk about those games either.
KT7: Regardless of the things that have happened to him and the near catastrophic end of the world scenarios that he has faced, Sonic has shown time and time again that you can't keep a good hedgehog down.
RAM: Well, he is the fastest thing alive.
Sonic: My name's Sonic, Sonic the Hedgehog!
RAM: Okay, the combatants are ready, and all possibilities have been accounted for…
KT7: IT'S TIME FOR A FANFICTION DEATH BATTLE!
It was a beautiful sunny day in the Mushroom kingdom, and Mario was walking towards the castle, in his hand was a letter.
Dear Mario,
Come to the castle later today, I've baked a cake for you,
Peach
As Mario entered the courtyard, imagining how delicious that cake would taste, he spotted an empty platter with nothing but a few crumbs on it, sitting on a chair at the side of the table was Sonic, licking the last of the cream on his fingers, he spotted Mario and gave a coy smirk.
Sonic: What can I say other than…You're too slow!
Mario, infuriated at the fact that he had a cake made by Princess Peach stolen from him in front of his eyes, ran up and uppercut the table sending it flying in the air, Sonic managed to quickly move out of the way before the table came back down again.
Sonic: Whoa, take it easy man, if you want a fight then I'll give you a fight!
Fight!
Sonic rushed forward, missing a punch made by Mario and started running around in circles around him.
Sonic: What's the matter, can't keep up?
Mario tried punching him a few time but couldn't land a hit, instead he picked up an Ice Flower turning into Ice Mario and freezing the ground in front of him, causing Sonic to slip on the ice and skid into the castle wall.
Sonic: Whoa
THUD!
Sonic: Wow, cheap shot there, buddy.
Mario began throwing snowballs at sonic, who was dodging them with ease.
Sonic: Is that the best you've got?
Mario then threw his hat towards Sonic, which Sonic managed to miss with ease, he picked it up and twirled it around his finger.
Sonic: Are you even trying anymore?
Sonic Placed the hat on his head.
Sonic: I mean, you're not going to get you hat ba-
At that moment Mario teleported into Sonic's body.
Sonic: Huh? Wha?
"Sonic" grew a thick black moustache and then began running into the castle walls.
Sonic: Ugh! Get-
THUD
Sonic: Out-
THUD
Sonic: Of-
THUD
Sonic: My-
THUD
"Sonic" then crashed through the castle walls and ran towards a tree, seconds before he was going to collide Mario teleported out of Sonic's body.
THUD
Sonic: Head…urgh…
At that moment Mario ate a Rock Mushroom and turned into Boulder Mario and began rolling towards Sonic, meanwhile sonic was busy recovering from his forced headbutts into stone walls, when he noticed something floating above him.
Sonic: Alright!
Boulder Mario crashed into the tree and turned back to regular Mario, but when he looked down to see where the hedgehog was all he found was a small hole, Mario thought for a moment before he suddenly grabbed his butt and cried out in agony.
Mario: YAHOO!
Behind him a yellow drill hit his backside causing him to jump in the air, the yellow drill stopped spinning to reveal Sonic.
Sonic: You're not the only one who can possess me, you know, Sonic then grabbed a pink wisp that was flying through the air.
Spikes!
Sonic then rolled in a pink spiky ball towards Mario who quickly searched his pockets before taking out a bell, turning him into cat Mario just as Sonic hit him the pair rolled around on the ground before the two fighters pushed each other off, their power ups running out and turning them into regular Mario and regular Sonic. Sonic then ran towards Mario who quickly used a Double Cherry and punched Sonic, only for Sonic to get punched from behind by Mario 2, and so he pinballed between the two Marios until he spun around one of the Marios and kicked him towards the other, the two Marios colliding so hard it sent them flying and knocking the other Mario out of existence, Mario regained his composure when he spotted a Super Star next to him. Suddenly a bright light shone around the area, and there flying in the air was Super Sonic.
Super Sonic: IT'S TIME TO END THIS!
Super sonic then flew towards Mario who used the Super Star as Sonic collided with him, Super Star Mario held off Super Sonic at arm's reach
Super Star Mario: Let's a-go!
The pair flew up into the air, until the two of them reached the outer reaches of the planet and into space. The two of them started hitting each other, punch after punch, kick after kick. Unfortunately, their super forms started to wane before the both of them found themselves without their super forms, in space.
Sonic: Oh, Shoot!
Mario: Mama Mia!
The both of them fell down to the planet, falling towards the ground at top speed. Sonic noticed Mario falling not to far away and rolled up into a ball and flew towards Mario, Mario spotted Sonic coming towards him and grabbed hold of the rapidly spinning hedgehog. Mario quickly began spinning around before launching Sonic towards the ground. There was a gigantic explosion as Mario landed on the ground, weakly managing to stand up and look at his raw hands, before a familiar sneaker with an equally familiar blue leg attached to it fell into his hands. Mario gave a smile and threw the leg away before walking off back towards the castle.
Mario: So long, ay, Hedgehog!
K.O!
RAM: As befitting two of the greatest video game rivals ever, both Mario and Sonic were pretty evenly close in terms of raw stats.
KT7: But Sonic was both faster and stronger than Mario he could dodge attacks from Solaris and the time eater, both of which could send attacks throughout all of time and even able to best those two who would destroy all of reality, how could he lose?
RAM: While that is the case, there are two things to consider here, durability and options. Out of their super forms, Mario was the far more durable of the two being able to survive being at the destruction of the universe. Sonic's best feat of durability was fighting Infinite, who could manipulate reality and create a sun, and while the sun never connected, it would still put him at star levels of power, far lower than the destruction of the universe.
KT7: Mario had far more power ups too, especially those which granted him invincibility, meaning if he ran out of time, he could always find another invincible power up to use instead, while Sonic would have to fight without the chaos emeralds. Even without the invincibility power ups, he still had more options than sonic had.
RAM: Sonic was certainly a difficult opponent, but Mario's greater durability and range of options gave him the win.
KT7: The winner is… Mario!
KT7: Whoa, talk about brutal!
RAM: Don't forget to see the alternate ending in Fanfiction Death Battle: Alternate Endings, until then the next contestants in Fanfiction Death Battle are…
A young genie ran towards a pirate before whipping it with her purple hair.
A knight in blue ran towards a dragon before jumping up and impaling it with a shovel.
Next Fight: Shante (Shante) VS Shovel Knight (Shovel Knight)