Last time, Bowser took on Stevonnie at the boardwalk. But, in the end it was a distraction. During the fight, Junior and Kamek broke in to the temple, poofed Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl, then kidnapped Peach and Toadsworth. Now, the Koopa trio are in the temple.
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"WOAH!" Junior exclaimed. The Koopas were in the depths of the temple, with all of the bubbled gems. "Kamek, look at all of these cool rock bubbles!"
"Yes, they are really fascinating. But what a weird door." Kamek said, referring to the door with a white star on it.
"I'm gonna take some more! Those four are cool and all but these look cooler!" Junior said. He jumped up and popped some bubbles. Ching, Ching, Ching. The corrupted gems hit the ground. "Hmm," Junior counted, "about seven. Kamek hold these for me!" Kamek use his magic wand and put the gems in his pocket. "Cool. Cmon, let's go see if dads done with the ransom note."
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"Aaaaaand done." Bowser wiped sweat off of his brow, and dropped his pencil. He put the piece of paper on the counter.
"DAD!" Junior yelled. "I got new rocks!" Junior yelled. Bowser smiled.
"That's good Junior." Bowser patted his sons head. "Hm, now that we're here for a little while, where would we build a secret base in this world?" Bowser crossed his arms and thought for a moment.
"Your evilness, I saw something in the basement that talked of a place of nothing but hollow caves, orange sand, and it's in the middle of nowhere!" Kamek explained. "Now that I recall, it was called 'Beta Kindergarden' you get there by that." Kamek pointed to a gray circular thing on the floor.
"Well, before we go anywhere, it'd be dumb to leave Mario and those two brats without any company." Bowser said.
"Well, as I recall, those three ladies disappeared and left those weird rocks behind. So, maybe the ones that were in the bubbles are more dangerous!" Kamek exclaimed.
"That's a good idea. Junior," Bowser turned to his son, "leave one of the weird rocks here." Junior pouted. Kamek reached blindly into his pocket and gave the young Koopa a gem. Junior walked onto the porch and tossed the gem onto the beach. Bowser walked over and picked up an unconscious Peach and Toadsworth and slung them over his shoulder. The evil trio stepped on the warp and disappeared in a white light.
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Mario, Luigi, Steven, and Connie were still unconscious on the boardwalk. Steven groggily opened his eyes, sat up, and looked around.
"Connie!" Steven crawled over to an unconscious girl. No response was uttered. Steven also the Bros unconscious from the ambush by Bowser. He looked at his hometown, he saw smoke and fire coming out of a few buildings. "*gasp* W-What?," He then saw a familiar giant beast knocking down a building with his powerful breath, "they didn't! Oh no, they released the Pufferfish!"
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Next time, Bowser will have an evil idea about gem fusion with his minions. Kamek makes Bowser a new castle. Mario, Luigi, Steven, and Connie will take on the Pufferfish and find 6 gems missing and set to find the rest of them.