Tenth chapter done! (sorry, I was a bit lazy today...)

Enjoy! ;)

Chapter 10: Search for the Toad Brigade Captain

Mario steered the Starship Mario at the next galaxy: Fluffy Bluff Galaxy.

This quite peaceful galaxy was filled with ponds, water sprays, fluffy clouds and tall trees. The Toad Brigade Captain AKA Toad was indeed somewhere around here.

Mario landed on a circular platform, where he found the same blue Toad wearing glasses.

"We have located our new captain around here. He was homing on the Power Star!" he said.

Mario proceeded to the wooden bridge, defeating a Flaptack. Once he reached a small circular platform, he noticed something different; it looked like a brand new Power-Up.

"Hmm? What's this-a?" Mario wondered.

This new Power-Up looked like a cotton flower with black eyes. But when Mario touched the 'cotton' part of the flower, he realized that wasn't cotton; it was cloud.

"Strange…" he muttered as he reaches his hand to absorb this new Power-Up. Eventually, his body was surrounded in a white sparkle of light, before disappearing in a flash, changing Mario's appearance.

Mario's cap was now a fluffy cloud cap, he had a cloudy collar on his neck, his overalls were made of white cotton and puffier and his shoes changed to short brown boots with red thread sewing shaped like an 'X'. Three friendly little clouds appeared behind him.

Mario was now Cloud Mario!

"Whoa, cloud powers? That's new-a." Cloud Mario commented. "So, how does this work-a?"

A small wooden creature called a Whittle heard Mario's questioning, and said:

"Spin! Make cloud!"

Cloud Mario jumped and spun, as the Whittle said so, and one of the little clouds behind him turned into a big cloud platform. He jumped out of the cloud to the next platform, and noticed that he was descending much slower than before.

"Nice! I'm descending much slower! So that's why I was feeling much lighter!" Cloud Mario exclaimed.

He proceeded forward, but once he jumped over the pond up ahead, the Cloud Power-Up wears off. The Whittle on the pond noticed that, and warned Mario:

"Touch water. Lose clouds. More ahead! Keep going!"

Mario went up ahead, and found another Cloud Flower, becoming Cloud Mario again. He goes on top of the fluffy clouds, jumped and spun to create a cloud platform. He did the same two times and he eventually reached the top of the mount.

Once there, he heard a Toad's voice calling for him right at the distance:

"Ooover heeeere!"

Cloud Mario grabbed another Cloud Flower to respawn the three little clouds. He makes his way to where the Toad called for him. Upon reaching there, the Toad, which was the magenta one, said:

"Our captain is nearby and he's all freaked out! I'm too scared to keep up! There are too many enemies!"

Mario wall jumped the wooden walls and then reached the Launch Star.

It took him to a planet with shallow water. He had to grab all of the five Star Chips while also avoiding Cosmic Clones. Once he grabbed all of the Chips, the Cosmic Clones disappear and the Launch Star shows up.

The Launch Star took him to another planet. There was a freaked out green Toad there.

"Our captain is at the very top! I'm…just…too…scared… So tired…" the green Toad said tiredly.

Mario grabbed another Cloud Flower up ahead, since he had lost it when grabbing the Star Chips, and jumped over some cloud and stone platforms to reach the top. At the top, he went to a swing, leading him to the treetops. After some more cloud platforming on the treetop, he eventually spotted Toad on top of a mountaintop surrounded by a cloud base. He went to the top, which had some yellow flower patches.

"Wow! Mario, it's you! I can't believe that you actually found me here!" Toad exclaimed. "I was so worried about you… I was freaked out once I was sucked inside that dark void!"

"It's okay, Toad. What matters is that you're alright-a." Mario said.

"You're right. But anyway it's good to see you back again. Oh! I've found a Power Star too! Here, take it!" Toad said as he pulls out a Power Star out of his pocket.

"All right!" Mario cheered as he and Toad grabbed the Power Star, and it glows.

It took them back at Starship Mario. Toad saw Yoshi and they both became happy.

"Yoshi! You're here!" Toad cheered.

"Toad!" Yoshi chirped.

"I assume you've found another one of your friends, eh?" Lubba guessed.

"Yes. Now the only one remaining is Luigi, my brother." Mario said. "And Sonic too…"

"Oh, I've got something to show you, Captain." Lubba said as she directed Mario to the Starship's interior, where the source of the engine was.

Inside, there was a Cloud Flower inside one of the seven capsules.

"Lookit that! I see you brought back some kind of, uhh…floaty souvenir." Lubba commented.

"That's a Cloud Flower. I've found it back at the Galaxy I just went." Mario responded.

"It's a Cloud Flower? Wow, there sure is some weird stuff out there, huh?" Lubba replied.

Mario then went outside, seeing the Toad Brigade happy together.

To be continued…

Finally, the Cloud Flower Power-Up is finally introduced! I loved that new Power-Up from Galaxy 2, it helped me so much!

Since I won't put any of The Chimp's stars, I decided to not include him in my story.

Man, those chapters were quite short for me, but that's because most of those Star missions I've selected were too short, but the next chapter will be a little different than the previous ones. You'll soon find out why next time! Please review.