2nd Fanfiction but I hit such a hard writers block I didn't finish my first! I will try my hardest to finish this one though so stick around!

Chapter 1: Hopes and Ambitions

The all-blue star was looking over the Star Road scouts; he didn't want a repeat of last time. It's not every day a giant sword comes crashing down through your road. Some of the scouts were peering over the edge while others looked up at the sky, there was only a small group of stars higher than they were and it wasn't a lot to look at. The Star Road looked like a stretched 5-edged star with a watch post on 3 sides, one on the left and two on the right, the rest of it was the actual road itself. Star Heaven, which was where the Star Road was placed, looked constantly like a dark, starry night sky. A small town was put below where the road bends down so all emergency protocol stars on call for Earth could be called down without the Star Road. Geno frowned at the Council when they made the decision of putting it there; it was if they didn't trust him. He felt insulted by the idea, even though he saw the logic. But a frown to him was equal to the average person screaming in protest so the council made a note of not talking to him for a month after. This isn't particularly long in star heaven because stars are eternal, though it was long enough to be noticed. But now it has been a year since that council meeting and 2 years since his adventure with Mario and Mallow. Geno was a master of his craft now, a true star warrior, and he now has an apprentice called Shakram, a rare orange shaded star with a kind attitude, chosen from a number of 5 possible candidates, Shakram was over the moon to be Geno's apprentice because he thought he might get a chance to go down to Earth to protect it, just like Geno did, though it had yet to happen for 6 months so far.

"Geno, what was Mario like when you first met him?" asked an eager Shakram.

"He was obviously a heroic figure, fighting only to protect others; however he wasn't so happy that I made him run around so many confusing areas to find me." Geno replied with a smile, he found it easy to be happy, and he broke a grin quite often, just his negative expressions are much extremer emotions than they look.

"Then Bowser must have been raging! How did you deal with him?"

"Um… he wasn't there when I made Mario run around, rumours must have spread wrong." Geno laughed, Shakram was going to react angrily saying he was only testing Geno until a small familiar star rushed towards the all-blue star.

"Hello Geno! You are to immediately leave your post because the star council wants you to attend a meeting!"

"Whoa Twink slow down! What's this meeting about that's so urgent for me to attend." Geno spoke, but the young star wasn't planning on slowing down,

"You need to go now, the meeting is about you, and it's urgent!" The small yellow star sputtered. Twink always seemed in a rush at the best of times, so Geno took little notice of it, however Shakram was bouncing up and down in silence as if in anticipation. Don't get your hopes up apprentice, Geno's eyes seem to speak, but Shakram didn't realise his master was looking at him. Geno sighed and laughed, he looked at the 2 young stars, put up a hand as if it say follow, and he zoomed up the Star Road as if he was shot out a cannon.

A blue star with a sailor cap on his head was waiting for them outside. Muskular, his name, was one of the legendary 7 star spirits, though he never took part in the council because it always bores him, action is his game, so he only goes when called for, which is hardly ever but that is far too often for his liking.

"Hey you three! The rest of the stars are in there already, best get moving." Muskular added, Geno nodded, (well, as best a star can nod), and rushed into the Council room. The inside of the Council room was massive, standing at least 10 times higher than the average floating star. There was a circular table in the middle with no seats; the other six legendary stars surrounded the table except for the part closest to the door, where Geno took his place. There was a map of the 4 known kingdoms, Mushroom, Darklands, Sarasaland and the Beanbean kingdom all rolled into one, in the middle of the table.

"So then…" started Geno, "What seems to be the problem?"

"Well, there seems to be a strange interference with our signal to the Darklands." Eldstar, the leader of the council said glumly, he was a yellow star with a white Italian-cooker style moustache.

"Can't Mario and the others deal with that?" Shakram suddenly pointed out. Everyone in the room looked over to him, everyone knew his lust for Earth but here he was turning down a practically indirect offer to go down there.

"Very true however the council only get interference if a newfound evil ambition has occurred, so it can't be Bowser." Replied Eldstar; though Skolar, the youngest of the council with a pink bowtie above the middle of his yellow body, shook his head,

"Then it could easily be a useless koopa plotting to gain power or one of the koopalings actually finding out they have brains, not something Mario couldn't handle."

"Yes but…" Eldstar began but Skolar snapped back with,

"Do you remember when we sent down 10 scout stars because of an interference which turned out to be a koopa wanting to fight Mario and failed and then when the scouts tried to come back but they couldn't because that was when the Star Road was destroyed?"

"Oh! That's what happened to them." Geno thought aloud, Mamar, a yellow-orange lady star with a pink bow on her head, couldn't help crack a smile and say,

"Well, what did you think happened to your scouts when you were seriously undermanned?"

"Well I thought the scouts got bored and lazy which was why the road was destroyed so easily. I wonder whose idea it was not to tell me this?" Geno asked as he looked over to Eldstar but the truth was, nobody told him because they thought he already knew.

"Hey! Don't look at me it wasn't anyone's idea to not tell you!" Eldstar said extremely quickly as if pinned down to a tight spot. The tension was rising until Kalmar, another yellow star with a brown moustache much like Mario's, raised up his hands and said smoothly,

"Look, calm down people. I thought this council was about Geno's mission, not Geno's life stories." Geno just realised what was going on, and even though he would like to see his friends again, he really liked just hanging around on the Star Road, however he couldn't help but notice his apprentice silently dancing ridiculously on the spot with his fins waving around. Great and I have a feeling I'm going to have to take…

"Look Skolar! This interference is much more obvious and we have experience now! Geno, you are going down there with 3 other scouts." Phew, that must mean I'm not taking… "You will go to the most dangerous area, the Darklands, to see who has these strange ambitions, while the other 3 are going down to the other kingdoms to check for any activity. Your apprentice will also accompany you." Eldstar informed. Oh yes, now he's gone and done it. Shakram couldn't take it anymore; he rushed out pumping his fins out and shouting,

"YES! COME ON! GOING TO EARTH WITH GENO! BOOYAH!"

"Does he really have to come with me?" Geno muttered to himself, he didn't really bother asking it because he knew he would start getting lectured by Eldstar about apprenticeships and Kalmar saying why in the world he took in an apprentice in the first place. Kalmar thought the idea of one was too much work.

As Geno, Shakram, and the 3 scouting stars walked down Star Road to the small town Geno just realised something, "Oh man!"

The scouts turned to him and one replied, "What? What's the matter?"

Geno was not happy and it was written all over his face, "What happened to my doll form when I came back up here! That was the one I used to fight alongside Mario with. I didn't even bother to check where it was after it was left in the forest!"

Shakram was quite calm and told him, "Mario and Luigi saw a miniature version of the doll in an arcade game, but I found out that was still your original body, just made smaller. Bowser then took it and begun making a prototype of you with it and making it life size again, with a lot of help, to make a lot of you for his army, however they realised it was the star spirit that made it so powerful, and so they left the now life-size doll in the sewers in the Darklands." Geno floated there in awe. How did he know that? However as if to answer his question Shakram continued,

"You know how much I liked that doll and while I was bored with nothing to do before I became your apprentice; I used to check up on it once in a while to see if the information would be of any use."

"Well it certainly has! Thank goodness for your obsession!" Geno laughed, though Shakram glared at him,

"Thank goodness for my what? I am not obsessed! Do you see anything else I could possible do when I was young other than grant petty wishes and play with friends?"

"Jeez... Calm down, I was only joking you know."

"No you weren't."

"Anyway!" The second scout shouted who was getting rather annoyed with this now pointless conversation; "Now you have an idea of where to get the body if you need it, you know where to go. I shall make my way to the Beanbean Kingdom to find out some information. Goodbye for now."

"May the stars guide you my friend" prayed Geno. The other scouts nodded, and they made their way down to the planet as well. "Well then, my apprentice, may we finally go and see the Earth you have been so excited to see." Shakram only nodded. Geno couldn't tell if he was being silent because he was about to explode with anticipation or if he was so serious he was militant about the matter, or both. "Well this journey takes about 3 days so you better get ready for a long ride!"

Shakram moaned and grunted while Geno laughed. Haha! I have a feeling this is going to be one heck of a holiday!

A young koopa with a spiked green shell, a bright yellow body and somehow a lime green face waved his magically-enchanted colourful paintbrush in a circular motion while chanting,

"May the rift of time open once more, and let me slip in to the past with awe!" A circular shape was formed and all the colours of the rainbow glistening upon it until it suddenly stopped glowing, to create a purple whirling portal on the floor. The room of the castle he was in was long though thin.

"Yes! Hahaha! I'm now one step closer to finally building my Kingdom… Huh? Who goes there?" The koopa spun his head sharply to see a slightly bent over figure on a flying broomstick. "… Kamek!"

"Of course I'm Kamek you dope! Look at me!" He wore a blue wizard's robes and a blue pointed hat, his usual magikoopa attire, along with an old grumpy koopa face.

"What are you doing here?" Stated the young koopa, his voice was muffled by his white handkerchief he wore on his face, with a larger mouth than his own drawn on the front of it, "no matter what you say I wont change my mind on this!" The magikoopa just looked at him while saying,

"Why would I want to stop you Prince? It is true what you said, the King isn't going to actually conquer anything on his own, and so I assume this plan is to help him?

"Oh no… I'm not helping him, I'm establishing my own Kingdom, and I'm going to use you to do it."

"I shall not help you in anyway in your selfish conquest and you cannot make me!" Exclaimed the blue robed koopa in slight distress at the thought of what his Prince is getting at.

"Of course not you muppet! I am talking about your younger self, and his magikoopa clan."

"What! Your going back in time? You can't bring them back! They could only cause chaos." The magikoopa hissed.

"That's what I was born to do, right? Now that our conversation is over, I'm off to actually succeed for once! Ha, hahahaha!" the young koopa laughed his high pitch laugh, jumped down the portal, and before the blue-robed koopa could follow, the portal was destroyed.

"I'll get you some day for this, my Prince…"