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Chapter 5: E. Gadd’s Garage

After their long conversation in the shady woods Tails, Sonic, Mario and Luigi traversed to the outskirts of Toad Town to a garage filled with fascinating inventions and a few unfinished prototypes. The four entered the garage through the front door and resumed to walk through the work place. Because Sonic and Tails had not been in the garage before, they glanced around the workplace in curiosity. However, Tails was much more intrigued at the projects around the lab as Sonic was. As always, machines and engineering has been his greatest skill and most favorite hobby.
;Professor! Hey, Professor are you home?!” Mario called out.
At first there was a short silence, but then he was answered.
“Ah! Mario, Luigi, you’re here! Quickly proceed to the door at the other end of the garage. There’s something I best share with you.”
At the far end of the garage there was a doorway with black curtains hanging in the way of the view to the other room. They proceeded through the doorway into a room with various screens toppling each other on a wall. The room also contained a jet-like aircraft on wooden stands. It looked as if it was still being worked on. Professor E. Gadd was standing in the middle of the room with both hands behind his back while facing his visitors.
“I’m glad to see that you’ve made it back to Toad Town safely. And it looks like you’ve made some new friends.”
“Hey there! I’m Sonic!” The hedgehog made a friendly gesture.
“And I’m Tails. It’s a pleasure to meet you, Mister.” Tails made a small friendly wave.
;Please, you may call me Professor E. Gadd.” He addressed himself.
“Hey… What that you’ve got on that wooden stand over there? Are you working on a new air craft?” Tails pointed to the project to the left of the doorway that resembled a long, sleek, bullet shaped jet with red eyes and the professor’s symbol on the side.
“Ah! Yes! That is the Missile Bill 9000. It was the project I was working on before the castle’s destruction had occurred. You see, that was the reason why I couldn’t come to her majesty’s party this afternoon. But after seeing all what happened, I’m actually quite relieved that I didn’t show up.” E. Gadd chuckled. “The Missile Bill is supposedly capable of flying over nine thousand miles per hour. However, it still remains unfinished at the moment. It’s pretty unstable right now and needs a little reinforcing in able to go at higher speeds and perhaps even survive, um, a few minor crashes…”
;Professor,” Mario began, “The incident at the castle is the reason we came here. We want to find the others who were inside the castle but we don’t know where to look. Could you help us track them down?”
The professor began to walk toward the wall of screens stacked against the wall.
“Ah, yes…. I figured you would come to me for that matter. You see, because of Bowser’s constant invasions on the castle I had installed various security cameras around Peach’s Castle a few months ago to record any daily mishaps in the area. I was working on my latest project when Bowser’s latest invasion began to set in motion.” He pressed a few buttons on the keyboard and it showed Bowser’s Doom Ship crashing into the side of the castle in all of the screens; each at a different perspective. “I guess you could say that this act in Bowser’s behavior does not at all surprise me. But then a few minutes after…” E. Gadd pressed down another button on the keyboard to make the video on the screens fast forward a few minutes. Then he played it again at the moment right when the explosion happened. “The castle blows up in a immense burst of light! I’d call it quite fascinating if it weren’t endangering the lives of others within the building. Heck, even when this took place I could hear it outside and feel the ground rumble harshly.” He paused the screens. “After that, I scrutinized the evidence I had captured very carefully. And although I never found source of the detonation, I was able to identify several people within the burst being scattered in different directions in the Mushroom Kingdom. By calculating the velocities each person was launched in, I’ve marked the areas on the map in where they might be. Although some of them are probably on the move so you might want to spread your searches a little wider. They may not be 100% accurate, but I’ve used my very best judgment on this and it has rarely failed me before…”
The professor printed out a map of the whole Mushroom Kingdom with the said marks of guests’ probable location and handed it to Mario.
“Most of them maybe up and about by now, so I can’t guarantee you’ll find them in these exact spots. They may not be everyone either. But I have tracked down as many people as I could on the cameras.”
“Do you know where Peach is?” Mario asked.
E. Gadd shook his head while looking down.
“I cannot say… I was unable to identify most of the people in the clips because of the lighting. To be honest I was lucky to see anything at all thanks to the new technology I built in the cameras.”
Mario grew a disappointed look on his face. Sonic could see his reaction from the back when he hung his head a little. He placed his gloved hand on his shoulder.
“Hey cheer up Mario! We’ll find her! We just have to track her down on our own!” He encouraged.
“Yeah… You’re right… If we’re going to find anyone then we have to start looking.” He signaled to his three allies. “Come on. Lets start searching. And thanks for the help, professor.”
“Oh, any time you need me I’ll be there to help.”
The four finally left E. Gadd’s Garage upon randomly choosing the first location on the map that was marked on a sandy beach. By flight and quick running, they had approached the area momentarily.

With the mysterious black hedgehog gone, the strange mushroom girl had lingered in the same spot where the evening stars were now illuminating in the night sky. cratching ridiculous images in the sand. Some of which had been makeshift portraits of the creature she encountered earlier.
She then heard four newcomers come nearby from where she was kneeling. When she lifted her head in curiosity she saw what she recognized as Mario and Luigi a few yards away accompanied by a two-tailed yellow fox, and a blue hedgehog glancing around the beach. She waved her arms in the air as she screamed at an unnecessary volume that hurt their ears.
“HEEEEEEEYYYY!!!!!!! MARIOOOO!!!!! WEEEEEGEEEE!!!! OVER HERE!!!”
They all flinched at her call as they covered their ears.
“Oh…Hi there, Bolette…” Luigi said as he twisted a finger in his ear.
“Bolette??” Sonic asked rubbing his head.
“She’s one of the kids who live in Toad Town. She’s kinda weird compared to the other Toads and doesn’t have a lot of common sense. Bolette’s like the misfit of the entire town…” Mario explained.
They all walked up to her as she smiled at them.
“Hi Mario! Hi Weegee! How’s it been?”
“More than I can handle in one lifetime if that’s what you’re asking…” Luigi spoke in a tired tone.
“Bolette, Professor E. Gadd gave us a map marking the possible places where the others from the party could be after the explosion. Did you see any others from the party here earlier?”
Bolette ignored him as she noticed the blue hedgehog that accompanied the Mario Brothers.
“Hey, you almost look just like the other spike-head cat guy that was here a few hours ago.” She said as she pointed at Sonic.
“Who? Me?” He said confused.
“Yeah! Except he was red and black, had a white fluffy chest, and he was so cool that he just left me in the middle of nowhere without even giving me his name!”
“Hey wait a minute! Aren’t you talking about Shadow?” Tails exclaimed.
“Who?”
“Shadow! The hedgehog you just met!”
“I have no idea who you’re talking about, foxy. But if you want see what he looks like I drew a few pictures of him in the sand.” She pointed at the sketches with her drawing stick. Although it was a mere headshot, it was a clear sketch of Shadow the hedgehog.
Sonic and Tails looked down at it in surprise.
“Shadow? What’s he doing here? I thought he said he didn’t want to come with us when we planned the attack on Robotnik’s base.” Sonic stated.
“I thought so too. But he must’ve been watching us in secret to make sure Eggman didn’t get his hands on the other three Chaos Emeralds…”
“Shadow? Who’s Shadow?” Mario said confused.
“Yeah, who is this Shadow person you speak of anyway?” Bolette asked again.
“Bolette, before he took off, did the guy who looked like me say anything to you?” Sonic questioned her.
“Mmmm, yeah! He did! He said ‘What difference would it make if I knew’ after I asked him something. Then, before he left, he said something about fixing what is done here and to atone someone somewhere I think.”
Sonic and Tails looked at each other.
“That’s Shadow alright.” Sonic confirmed.
Tails nodded.
“Uh, Sonic? Tails? I don’t think you should believe what Bolette says. She tends to make a lot of things up, especially when she’s on her own.” Luigi suggested.
“We’re pretty sure she’s telling the truth, Luigi. You see that picture there.” He pointed at the drawing in the sand. “Sonic and I are certain that it’s Shadow. The description fits him perfectly. And it’s pretty unlikely for someone to imagine something to look exactly like someone we know by pure chance.”
“Well, you’ve certainly got me there…” Luigi mumbled as he scratched the back of his head.
“Did you see anyone else while you were here, Bolette?” Mario asked her again.
“Nope! No one else! Just me and the universe!” She answered simply with a big stupid smile.
“Alright then. Come with us, Bolette. We’ll take you back to Toad Town.” Mario took her hand and pulled her up back on her feet.
“Cool!”
Luigi touched Tails’s shoulder
“Hey, Tails could you tell us about this Shadow guy you were talking about?”
“Sure, we’ll tell you both on the way back.”

After hours of walking, Rosalina had led Amy out of the mountains of Frappe Snowland onto the vast sandy plains of the Dry, Dry Desert. Because of the gravity on earth, Rosalina would not be able to control her ship properly in it’s atmosphere and because of it’s size it may cause major some damage if it got out of hand. Amy was thankful that it was nighttime in the Dry, Dry Desert because she was already well exhausted.
“Are we almost there, Rosalina?” Amy mumbled panting, “I don’t know how much longer I can—oof!” She bumped into her as she stopped with her yellow luma friend.
“Hey!”
“Amy, look over there.” She pointed with her wand. In the distance on a sandy mound laid Knuckles and Daisy passed out on top of each other. Her face lit up at the sight of one of her friends.
“Knuckles!” She ran over to him as he slowly awakened from her voice.
“Knuckles are you okay? What happened?”
“What? Amy? Where did you…”
The person beneath him shifted and began to wake up.
“Uugh…” She moaned.
Knuckles finally remembered that he and Daisy had passed out from the heat while fighting each other in the desert.
“YOU!!” He quickly got back on his feet and backed away from her to attack, “YOU’RE GONNA PAY FOR WHAT YOU DID, LADY!!”
“Knuckles!!”
Just when he charged to attack her again Rosalina shifted in front of him to make him stop.
“That’s quite enough!” She scolded, “I do not know what took place here but I detest senseless violence!”
Knuckles growled at her. “Get out of my way!”
“Not until you’ve calmed down, young man!” She said in a motherly tone.
Daisy began to get up off the sandy terrain. Once she got out of her dizzy state she saw Knuckles and recalled the situation that took place.
“Hey it’s you! What’s the matter? Don’t have the guts to come after me anymore?” She taunted him further. Knuckles growled more in frustration.
“Daisy, stop it. You can stop fighting now. Enough is enough.” She chastised her.
“Rosie? Hey, what are doing here? How did you find me?”
“Amy and I happened to find you both here passed out on the desert. Listen you two I don’t know why you are at each other’s throats, but now’s not the time to be fighting! Space has been scrambled and many people are missing.”
“Yeah, but I got an ol’ score to settle with this red pepper over here. Besides, the sun is down and we can fight without passing out.” She cracked her knuckles. “C’mon hot stuff! Show me what you got!”
Knuckles was about to attack again but the Amy intervened by slamming her hammer in front of him.
“Knuckles knock it off! Rosalina’s right! Neither of you should be fighting! All of our friends are missing and instead of killing each other we should be looking for them.”
The both fell silent for a while. Until Knuckles broke the silence.
“Alright then fine. But I’m staying away from her.”
“Hmph, I don’t want to be near you either.” Daisy crossed her arms.
“Fine then. Follow us. I’ll lead us back to the castle.” Rosalina continued. As the to rivals followed them Daisy stuck out her tongue and made an imature “thbbtpthbt” noise at Knuckles as he continue to growl at her furiously.
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Not much here but next chapter should be more exciting. It'll have Shadow and Peach in it and maybe Bowser and Eggman.
And yes I gave E. Gadd a new wardrobe. I thought it would look cool or something. Also, can you spot the pointless cameos? I sure can! :iconimhappyplz:
I still have to cover more things before it gets to the really good part that I'm eager to do. Yoshi, Cream, Shadow, Peach, ect. Anyway Bolette is just a mere OC I made for the sake of the story aka comedy relief. She'll eventually do something really important in the story or something.
I don't know if I should rush to the villains right away in the next chapter. But we'll see.

Everything except for Bolette belongs to Nintendo and SEGA

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Tails has found his nerd buddy ;w;