Super Mario Galaxy 2 1/2: Super Koopalings Galaxy
Chapter 4: The Destination
The Airship zoomed out of the planet's atmosphere, its propellers spinning rapidly, and flags flying wildly in the solar wind. Ludwig laughed in exhilaration as he took the wheel, spinning it quickly to turn towards the direction of the Boom Bunker. The engine roared as the Airship took off in a burst of speed. Once the Airship was on a steady course, Ludwig joined his younger siblings below deck.
Iggy had finished installing his Super Koopa Computer in the engine room, and he was speaking to everyone as he nervously petted Chompa.
"Err, ahem, err, right!" he said, "Err, well, you see, speed is the key here. We don't know what kind of trouble Junior could be in, so we need to move fast. Unfortunately, this engine isn't exactly supportive of Warp 10. Even if we could modify it to go faster, we don't have the fuel needed to power it."
Suddenly, there was a series of loud tinkling noises on deck. Everyone went up to see a whole bunch of what appeared to be small shooting stars raining down on them. When they crashed into the deck, the broke apart into small, sparkling lumps of multicolored stardust.
"Ooooooh! It's so pretty!" Wendy gasped.
Larry grabbed one and said, "Junior told me about these. They're called Star Bits. The universe is full of them. There has to be trillions of trillions of them in the whole universe. He said that they tasted really good." Larry popped it into his mouth, and he smiled widely, "These things are good! They taste kinda like honey."
Soon, all of the Koopalings were running around; catching and gobbling up Star Bits.
"There's more than you could ever eat right here!" Lemmy exclaimed as he lay back on his ball, patting his full stomach.
"Huh! That's what you think!" Morton said, and he caught a falling Star Bit cluster with his big mouth.
Ludwig let out a tiny burp and said, "Whoops! Excuse me! Hey, I know these things aren't exactly Power Stars, but I bet I could come up with a formula that can convert these Star Bits into fuel. If there are tons of them throughout the universe, we'll never run out of fuel! As long as Iggy can make an engine that can run on my Star Bit fuel.
Iggy looked up from watching Chompa suck up Star Bits like a spherical, bouncing vacuum cleaner and smiled wildly, "Yeah, yeah! Sure! I could do that! We mad geniuses have to stick together!" Iggy then let out a huge, loud belch.
"Gross!" Wendy exclaimed.
Ludwig wrinkled his snout in disgust and said, "First of all, say excuse me, weather on not you have the sense to burp quietly and discreetly. Second of all, you're the mad genius; I'm just a genius, oh yeah, and a musical genius too! Ha, ha, ha, ha!"
Everyone else, even Chompa, laughed as Iggy sulked, "Err. Excuse me…" he muttered with bright red cheeks of embarrassment.
It took only five hours for Iggy and Ludwig, the two smartest Koopalings, to modify the old engine and create the Star Bit fuel. Pretty soon, the ship was zooming fast through space. After about two days of star gazing, Star Bit collecting, and non-stop space traveling, they finally arrived at the abandoned Boom Bunker.
Iggy was the first on the floating satellite where the Boomsday Device once was, and he was already placing himself where the security camera would have been and observing the stars with a sextant.
As Larry jumped onto the structure with the rest of the Koopalings, shivers raced up his spine. He was frightened by the thought of the terrible "Boomsday Incident" that had occurred here. Larry clenched his claws when he thought of Mario. "He's gonna pay for this!" Larry thought, his tower of blue hair trembling with rage, "Just wait till we find Junior, then Mario's gonna be sorry!"
Iggy quickly wrote down some various values of distance, brightness, and other points of data on a medium sized note pad. "Alright! To the Super Koopa Computer!" he shouted.
Back at the computer, Iggy entered the various bits of information, until a map came up onto the screen, showing a flashing dotted line.
"This shows the path Junior would have most likely taken after being thrown out into space. He should wind up right about… there!" Iggy said as he pointed to the screen.
"According to the Koopa Kingdom Royal Galactic Guidebook, by Kamella Magikoopa," Lemmy said as he flipped through a large book while still balancing on his ball, "The galaxy in that spot of the universe is called the Honey Hop Galaxy. It says it's the home of the Galactic Bees, who are the size of turkeys, and their Queen, who is fifteen times bigger than they are."
Roy snarled viciously and said, "If Junior has just one sting on him, we'll trap those bees in their own honeycombs, and their Queen too!"
"The book says Galactic Bees are virtually harmless and aren't able to use their stingers to sting," Lemmy said. However, Roy had already run up to the deck and had taken the helm. He pointed the Airship in the direction Iggy's computer indicated and switched the engine into full speed.
"Full speed ahead!" Roy shouted, "Don't worry Junior, here we come!"
The massive Queen Bee peered through her telescope at the approaching Airship. She sighed and sadly shook her head. "That ship… it is one of the Airships that the terrible Monster that goes by the name of Bowser uses. I sense big trouble for all of us," she said.
"Yes indeed!" said a group of Soldier Bees, "But what can we do?"
The Queen sighed yet again, "Oh, if only that helpful New Bee was here. I'm sure he could at least distract them until we came up with something, if not drive them away."
"Who needs a Bee when you got me! Distractions are what I do best!" a cocky voice sang out cheekily.
The Queen Bee smiled, but she didn't bother to turn around, "I know that voice very well. Go and get ready to meet and distract them, but be careful!"
"Heeheeheeheehee! Don't worry! The Chimp is untouchable!"