The red hues of the sun rising caked the surroundings as the quartet of heroes trudged on sleepily, with the Green Lumas either floating behind them. Apart from Mint, who was starting to doze off on Toad's large mushroom cap. Unfortunately for him, Lime was far from tired, and was trying to rally on the rest of his friends.

"Come ON, guys! We gotta keep going!" Lime yelled, startling Mint, "How are we gonna get find that kidnapee if we walk slower than an elderly Octoomba?"

Mint yawned as he said, "Seriously, Lime. We should… We should really… get some rest. Can't find the…the kidnapee when…we're shuffling like a pack of Dry Bones."

Lime opened his mouth to say something, but stopped when he realised that Mint had a point. He thought before saying, "Well, can't we go little further? We can take a rest when we find an appropriate spot."

Bowser let out a loud groan of annoyance and Toad grumbled, "No way, dude."

Bowser looked over at Mario, who was the least tired out of all them, and asked sleepily, "Hey Mario, how do have so much Grambi damn stamina? Honestly, it's kinda freakish."

"After all the times you've kidnapped Peach, I got used to having to run and jump all the way over to the Darklands," Mario replied.

"Fair enough," Bowser mumbled, a thin wisp of smoke coming out of his mouth as he exhaled.

Peach blinked with realisation and asked, "Where did Lime go? I swear he was right in front of us a moment ago."

"Eh, he's probably gone off to find some place to hit the hay," Mint mumbled his reply, "Once he's been motivated, it's like there's no stop to his energy."

"How do he even do it?" Crocodile questioned, who was feeling quite tired himself.

"Beats me…" Mint's reply was barely audible as he drifted off into sleep on Toad's mushroom cap.

The quartet and three of the Green Lumas continued onwards in slightly awkward silence as they tried not to fall asleep. A few minutes later, Lime came rushing back, excitement written all over him.

"Guys! I found somewhere to camp!" Lime exclaimed with the same amount of excitement that was shown, "Come on!"

He rushed away, leaving the heroes and the Green Lumas to run as fast as their tired feet could take them. Eventually they reached a small forest clearing near a river.

Mario smacked his forehead as he said, "We totally forgot to bring tents."

"I don't even have tents at the castle," Bowser shrugged slightly, "There'd be no way that I'd fit into anyone's."

"I never found the need to get 'em," Toad commented.

"Welp, we're just gonna have to deal with it," Crocodile replied sharply.

Emerald rambled nervously, "But it's cold and dark and the wind is also chilly and—"

"It's cold and dark in space, Emerald," Lime replied.

"Yeah, but we live at the Observatory, where it isn't cold and dark and there's no chilly wind and—"

"WE GET IT!" Crocodile yelled, waking Mint.

"Shhhhhhhhut up," Mint replied sleepily, before drifting back off to sleep again.

"We're gonna tough it. No biggie," Bowser grumbled. He sat down with a thud and withdrew into his shell.

"'Night… Morning… Whatever," he mumbled before going silent, presumably going to sleep. Crocodile floated over to him and landed on his shell, fitting himself in between some spikes before falling asleep, snoring loudly.

"Great, he's a snorer," Mario complained.

"Annyoing – yes," Emerald added before floating over to a tree branch and sat down on it and closed her eyes. "Sleep well."

The rest of the heroes and Green Lumas got themselves ready to sleep in silence, occasionally breaking said silence to say good night to each other. Eventually they were all fast asleep.

Things at the Comet Observatory were going as usual. Lumas were playing games of Tag or Hide-and-Seek with each other, and Polari was keeping a close eye on them as they passed by. Red was where he usually was, above the Bedroom with the Red Star. Everything was going perfectly, but something nagged at Polari. He felt like something, someone, was missing. He decided to look around, just to make sure everything was okay. He floated over to the Terrace and looked over to the green Launch Star. Then he realized it. The Green Lumas weren't there.

He rushed over to the Library, where Rosalina was reading a book.

"Miss Rosalina!" Polari shouted.

Rosalina looked up from her book asked asked, "Yes?"

"It's the Green Lumas! They're not here!" Polari told her, panicking.

Rosalina closed the book, put it down and stood up, immediately floating off the ground a little. She went outside and called the Lumas over to her.

"It has been brought to my attention that the Green Lumas are not here. I want you to search the Observatory and try to find them," Rosalina told the Lumas in her monotone voice.

"They're not here," Red said, causing all the Lumas and Rosalina to look at him. "They went down into the atmosphere."

The Lumas gasped in shock.

"But why…?" Rosalina questioned.

Red did not answer this, instead going back to his spot above the Bedroom.

"Miss Rosalina, I'm getting a strange vibe off Red," Polari told Rosalina, who took in and thought about Polari's words. "He's strange… Maybe…too strange…"