Luigi was not having a particularly good day.

He couldn't help but feel like something was wrong. Something about Mario…

Luigi tried to remind himself that his brother was the Super Mario, nothing bad happened to that guy.

But then he remembered that everything happened to that guy.

He couldn't really talk to his partners about this kind of thing. They weren't really the comforting type.

Ah well. Better head back to the ship-

There was nothing there at the docks. There was no ship. Somehow, while he was trying to rest up before he searched for the next piece of the Marvelous Compass, his ship had burned to the ground. er, waves.

Luigi let his knees fall to the ground as he stared at the burnt wreck that was his ship.

"This looks bad," Blooey, the burnt blooper commented.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Luigi screamed into the sky.

Princess Peach felt her star shaped necklace with a sort of anxiety.

A couple days before, it had started to glow a horrible purple color. That was not a good sign.

Unbeknownst to many people, Peach had given Mario a Lucky Star Pendant that was closely connected with her own pendant. If something very bad happened to Mario, it would alert her, and vice versa.

Mari's pendant tended to glow a lot.

But her pendant… the last time it had started to glow… well, she remembered the events of Vibe Island.

Something was very wrong with Mario, she could tell.

After answering TEC's strange questionnaire, she sent an e-mail to Mario, explaining the horrible news TEC had given her, and how her pendant had started to glow.

Her pendant had yet to stop glowing. Something was still very wrong.

The King of the Koopas was not having a particularly good day.

First, he fell into Cheep Cheep Ocean from his Clown Copter. Then, he had eaten a really gross looking Blooper. And he still hadn't found Mario, or any Crystal Stars!

Ugh…

"Are you all right, your evilness?" Kammy asked.

"I'm fine," he grumbled. "That stupid Blooper I ate just isn't sitting well."

Kammy gave him a curious look. "What did it look like?"

Bowser thought about it for a second. "It looked kind of blue… yeah, all of the ends of its tentacles were blue! And there were blue spots all over it's face… and-"

Kammy was giving him a horrified look.

"What?"

"Your awfulness! Th-That's the description of a Gooper Blooper! It was discovered a while back that they are HIGHLY POISONOUS!"

"WHAAAAAAAAAAT?"

"KOOPAS! GET A DOCTOR!"

"Right away, ma'am!"

"WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME I ATE POISON?" Bowser screamed at her.

"I DIDN'T KNOW! Besides, if I didn't use them in so many potions, I wouldn't have known! The news only just came out yesterday!"

"HOW DID PEOPLE NOT LEARN IT WAS POISONOUS UNTIL YESTERDAY!"

"I DON'T KNOW! PEOPLE ARE IDIOTS! DIDN'T YOU HEAR THAT SOME PEOPLE THINK THE APOCALYPSE IS COMING?"

"YOU STUPID OLD- oooooohhh."

At without another word, he collapsed.

Well, that ends this part of the story.

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