Sorry that it took so long before I finished the chapter. Hopefully, it makes up for the time I used. (Probably not.) This chapter will have a few things changed. The health system for example. Mario's health of 3/3 became 100/100. Bosses will have varying rates though… But this system allows me to go for real combat instead of 'find the weak spot'. (though weak spots will be used for finishers.)

Let's just start.

Disclaimer: I do not own Mario or anything else of his series, Nintendo does. Any music I advise to listen to in this chapter is also not owned by me, but by their respective owners. I only own Rich and the plot.

"… Err, hi?" Rich mutters after half an hour, not recognizing his location before that time In his own room. Poorly enough not his real one, but the one he got on this spaceship/faceship/whatever-you-want-to-call-it-ship. But more importantly than his own room, was the fact that besides him were also a few lumas, hovering around Rich as if he could explode any moment. Which Rich actually would do, if he was alone that is. And a few lumas in his room certainly did not live up to that requirement.

How could his brain have switched off during the theft? A question that Rich wanted an answer to. It was unlike him. Just like it was unlike him to fight, to have a tantrum, heck, to just be here at all. It all felt so unreal for him. But then again, since when were flying mini-cartoons real? And talking mushrooms? Talking turtles was something Rich was used to, but mushrooms? What kind of weird evolution did happen in this… world? (Small note from author: There are both koopas and toads in Rich's world. Explication for this matter may come in future chapters. Just go along for it now.)

Rich prepared to go out of his bed, because he wanted his rucksack, or more importantly, his DS, back. Just when one foot of him reached outside the grey blanket he was under, the lumas put it over him again, thinking he did it accidently. Till his whole left leg showed up. The lumas started to protest, saying that he should rest for now. They did this however in their native language, and as such, Rich did not understand what they are saying.

"I do not understand what you are saying…" Rich looked confused, while trying to get some hints from body language. However, with just two eyes and a star form, there was not much body that could speak. Because he didn't get any form of protest that he could understand, Rich continued with standing up. The lumas now realized their mistake, and now said in English that he should rest. Only to mention that Rich was already out of the room…

"It might be me, but I think I see something coming up." Luigi pointed at what seemed to be a mass of very large buildings, which came closer and closer to the ship. The koopalings' and Kamek's UFO seemed to fly over there, not knowing they were followed by the faceship. Or so Luna hoped.

"I see it too." Luna stated. "The problem though is that that galaxy never existed before."

Mario looked at the now napping Yoshi and baby luma on the red grass (they looked quite cute like that according to Luna), before turning around on his heels to see the new galaxy. "Bowser's army probably built it."

"Can be, but this fast? The big monster attacked the observatory only three days ago, there's no way possible they can built it that fast." Luna said.

"Don't underestimate that army when it comes to building." Mario spoke. "They can make seven small castles in a few days. However, when it comes to fighting, there's no problem with underestimating them." Luna smiled for a second at the joke, but her eyes looked with worry as she saw the UFO arriving on the galaxy.

"And boos can build a mansion in a night, while toads a large castle in a few days… You gotta wonder who's the fastest builder on the Mushroom Kingdom." Luigi added, but because the conversation had already moved on, it missed its effect.

"Anyway, Mario and Luigi, you should explore the next galaxy while we lumas try to figure out what happened to Rich." As if on a clue, Rich opened the door to beneath the decks just as Luna said his name. While he didn't want attention, he immediately got lots of it.

"Aren't you supposed to be resting?"

"What happened to you?"

"Will you join Mario on his quest?" With this question, everyone immediately looked at Toadsworth, wondering if he ever would shut up about that. Then the attention returned to Rich.

"To repeat my question…" Luna started. "Aren't you supposed to rest right now?"

"Err… Maybe… But I feel fine…" Rich said a bit shyly. "I'm only getting my rucksack anyway."

"Luna…" the luma that was currently steering the wheel started. Only Luigi heard it though, who had not the courage to talk. The others remained busy talking with Rich.

"Do you really not remember a thing about what happened?" Mario asked.

"Besides what I've told already, no." Rich answered, nearly saying that he wanted to just pick up his DS and return already. He found it rude though to say it.

"Luna…" Fear was now in the voice of the luma. Luigi was the only one that heard him again, and turned around to see what luma wanted to tell. Luigi's face turned into an expression of 'what the…'

"Not now." Luna replied at the luma, before continuing with her talk with Rich. "Try hard. Maybe there's a hint in your memories…"

"Luna!"

"What? It can't be that important!" Luna shouted furious.

"Look to the galaxy!" As Luna did that (and the others as well), they saw ten, no, fifty cannons preparing to shoot at the faceship. Apparently, Kamek and the koopalings had arrived in the galaxy and ordered to bring down the faceship.

"Enemies preparing to kill you any moment… Nope, absolutely not important." Rich said, before screaming loud and in horror as the cannons started shooting. Most of them missed, though three managed to hit the ship. Nobody got wounded, but the lumas lost control over the ship. The gravity of Bowser Jr.'s galaxy attracted the ship, and as a result, it flew straight into it…

"Everyone's alright?" Mario asked. She immediately got responses from the area.

"Yep."

"Yoshi."

"Fine enough."

"Not wounded too badly."

"Mario!" Upon hearing the terrified voice of his younger brother, Mario looked around. The ship had survived the crash, but was damaged a lot though. Trash piles surrounded it, as well some small flames. Luna, E. Gadd, Yoshi and even Toadsworth laid on the ground, wounded, but tried to stand up again. Mario did so as well, seeing that he had several cuts and bruises, but nothing too majorly. The lack of Luigi in the area alarmed Mario, before seeing one trash pile shaking. He walked to it and took away the trash, revealing the man in green.

"Thanks bro." Luigi said as he stood up. He used his arm to wipe off some black ash. "Where are we?"

"I guess in the galaxy of the evil creatures." Luna said, joining the conversation. "Did you by the way see that sign?" Luna pointed towards a sign, where Mario read: "Welcome to the Bowser zoo! We hope that you will have a great time here!"

"That actually sounds interesting." Luigi said, before seeing a sign beneath the main one. This one read: "In case you're not on the great king's side, leave or else this zoo will get some new species! Namely you!"

"That sounds evil…" Luigi now mentioned.

"Maybe you should investigate…" E. Gadd also joined. "This zoo might have gotten new 'species' since it was build."

"I guess. But how's everyone of the ship doing?" Mario asked, a bit worrying.

"Don't worry. All lumas have survived and are still here." Luna stated.

"And what about all humans?" Luigi asked, making Luna confused. It was then she mentioned that someone was missing…

"Err… One is missing. Again." Luna was a bit annoyed by the disappearance. "I guess you and your brother, that dinosaur and the baby luma should look around. We will search for him around here. I mean, he's not standing in front of the boss door, is he?"

Of course he is, Luna. Rich slowly awakened, looking around in fear and surprise at his surrounding area. Then the memories of the crash started to flow in, how he somehow got launched when the ship hit the ground, the landing… His memory of this event was quite clearly, unlike the previous one. Rich searched for a way to get back, but the only way he could go was through this very big red door, the appearance just spelling: 'Enter and it's game over.'

Rich could do two things. Enter, or just remain stuck here till he got rescued. The latter could possibly result with him being here for all eternity, while the former would probably guide him back to the crew.

"Enter a big red door… What could possibly go wr-…" Rich stopped, and corrected himself. "What could possibly go better?" He said with a big fake smile, before sighing. "That's probably not going to work… Oh well…" Rich said, picking up his rucksack (which somehow survived the crash and somehow blasted together with Rich), and pushed the giant door open.

"Mario!" Mario turned around, seeing a red-spotted toad in a cage. He, along with Luigi, Yoshi and the baby luma had entered the zoo, which looked like a circus of some sorts. An evil, Bowser-themed circus, that is. Mario walked to the cage, seeing an information bullet by the cage.

"Toad." It started. "Homo Fungus. Despite its major strength, this species tends to be cowardly." More information was on it, but Mario returned his attention to the cage.

"Would you mind helping me out of this? I've been stuck for two days in this small cage!" The toad said, before seeing that Mario already used a key that just happened to be around, to open the small area.

"Thank you very much! Can you rescue the other nineteen prisoners?" The toad asked. Mario simply nodded, before telling the others to find the prisoners while Mario guided the toad back to the crash site, as it was the safest spot for now…

"What kind of place is this?" Rich, questioned. His surroundings contained of oversized trees, just as big as whole flats. Red planets seemed to stick to these trees, as if they were red apples. Rich was standing on such 'apple'. Between two threes, at the other side of Rich, was a very large gate that seemed to contain something.

"Hahaha!" The evil laughter came from above Rich, and as he looked to it, he saw the UFO of the koopalings, Kamek absent for some reason. Bowser Jr didn't even look at Rich while he started telling.

"Mario! You got here already? I thought the cannons would get rid of you! Oh well, I've got a surprise for you!" All koopalings started laughing, except for Lemmy. He was the only one that mentioned something odd about this Mario…

"Err, bros and sis? I thought Mario wore red clothes… Did he finally got some other clothes?" All koopalings stopped with laughing, turning around to see Rich shaking in his shoes.

"What? Who are you?" Bowser Jr. asked, only to see Rich still shaking and not reacting at all. "This is kind of awkward…"

"This is no problem, junior." Ludwig started. "Just open the gates so Planetavor can have a snack before facing Mario." Bowser junior thought for a while, before he started laughing again.

"Good plan! Hey, you weakling! Get ready for the feeding show of Planetavor! Only you will be the food!" With one last evil laughter, the koopalings retreated. The gates slowly opened, and a loud roar blared through the whole galaxy. The apple planets shook as what could only be a very large creature moving. A large dark silhouette appeared between the opened gates, and Rich could only manage to say:

"Worst." The creature came closer.

"Prize." Another step.

"Ever." And the monster finally entered the area, roaring very loud.

"Did you hear that?" Luigi asked, shaking in his shoes even worse than what Rich did.

"Yoshi…" Yoshi replied, fearing as well what happened.

"That's no good…" Luigi said, before continuing to search for the last prisoners.

Another thunderous roar, as Rich saw what the creature was. A plain giraffe. An oversized giraffe. The giraffe opened its mouth, its tongue shooting at a planet near Rich, and eating the planet in one gulp. It let out another roar when it saw Rich.

Major boss!

Planetavor: Swallower of planets!

Rich: 130/130

Planetavor: 250/250

(Music: Epic Mickey: Boss captain Hook.)

Rich was still too afraid to fight, so Planetavor started it by shooting out its tongue at Rich's planet. Rich could only watch as the tongue grabbed the planet and dragged it in just a few seconds into the mouth of the beast. Rich was taken in as well, and got chomped on by Planetavor's huge teeth. He was spit out of the mouth though, landing hard on another planet. The whole attack caused a total of 60 damage.

Rich: 70/130

"Ow…" Rich mumbled, trying to stand up again. It was quite hard to do that, but he managed, just in time to see Planetavor using its tongue again to eat the planet. The tongue grabbed the planet and quickly dragged it back to the mouth, but Rich, pure driven by instinct, managed to jump over to another planet. He was not used though with the gravity change from one planet to another, which resulted with him landing face first on the planet.

Planetavor didn't wait for Rich to recover from the landing, but instead of using its tongue, it lifted its forelegs, and crashed them into the planet with Rich on it. Planetavor somehow missed Rich, but the planet shattered in thousand pieces. Those and Rich all got grabbed by the gravity of yet another planet to the right. Rich smacked hard when he landed and got some minor damage.

Rich: 60/130

Seeing as how its foe was close to defeat, Planetavor let out another thunderous roar. While it did so, Rich slowly managed to stand up again. It was game over. There was no way he could defeat this giant creature. As Rich lost the little hope he had over after this whole adventure, Planetavor opened its mouth again.

"I guess… this is it." Rich muttered while he saw the large tongue of Planetavor shooting out towards him.

"I've worked hard for my future…" The tongue came closer and closer.

"For nothing." The tongue hit the planet, and wrapped itself around it. Time slowed down for Rich, while his life started to flash before his eyes like a movie. The tongue slowly (in reality, fast) dragged the planet closer to the mouth. When Rich's life flash neared the present, he saw himself defeating Popple. Just a few hours ago. And why? For his DS. The sole thing that managed to prevent Rich becoming crazy. After all what he has done, he would end it like this? Seriously? He always had tried to ensure that his future would be good, he even went to that blasted star festival for that, and now he would end up as steak?

A roar. Not of angriness like the previous ones, but out of pain. Rich realized what he had done. In a fit of pure rage, he had punched the tongue of the monster. This resulted with the tongue releasing the planet. Planetavor returned his tongue, giving Rich an angry glare while the beast destroyed the planet with its head. Rich didn't even realize till after that he jumped over to another planet, now landing less painfully. Planetavor had gotten 20 damage from Rich's attack, which was not major damage, but still damage nonetheless.

Planetavor: 230/250

"Not on my watch will I die today!" Rich shouted out, showing off his digital watch he still was wearing. Planetavor only let out another roar, and attempted to use its tongue again, forgetting what happened just mere seconds ago. Not that Rich did the same thing. No, instead he focused energy in his right arm, and just before the tongue struck, punched the tongue, reflecting it back to the head. The end of the tongue struck hard, causing a nice 30 damage for the monster.

Planetavor: 200/250

Now the monster got serious. Realizing that another tongue attack could end up painfully, it decided on raising its left foreleg, and then smashed through all planets on Rich's right, including the planet he was standing on. He dodged for the planet on his left…

But that one was swallowed just a few moments ago. Because of the lack of a planet, Rich got attracted the non-love way towards Planetavor, which had its own strong gravity apparently.

"Beep." Was all Rich managed to say before landing on the skin of Planetavor, oddly enough being quite sturdy… Or maybe the pieces, the last remnants of the destroyed planets, were. Probably the latter. In any case, Rich received 20 damage.

Rich: 40/130

Rich stood up, still on the piles of rocks, and looked around. Most planets were destroyed or swallowed, but those trees that surrounded the battlefield were apparently not just for the show; Planets seemed to grow from them?

"… I will question the logic of that later." Rich mumbled, suddenly realizing that the ground beneath him was gone. Then back. Planetavor attempted to shake Rich off, but because of the gravity of the monster attracted Rich back to it, that didn't really work. Maybe Rich could use that for his advantage. He saw how the tail of Planetavor (you know giraffes have tails, right?) got attracted by the gravity of a small, not destroyed, planet, forming some kind of bridge. Rich first decided to use that as a way to get off the body, but then realized he might go for the head…

Planetavor shook heavier as Rich climbed up the neck. He had to cling the body with every step he set, otherwise Planetavor would succeed throwing Rich off. The neck had less gravity, or so it appeared. Do not question it.

In any case, Rich managed to reach the head. For a moment, he wondered what he was planning again, before seeing a symbol that looked like an explosion above the eyes of the monster. However, in Super Mario Galaxy (2), this symbol had a whole different meaning…

Rich charged up his arm, jumped up, and came crashing down on the symbol, hand first. Planetavor shrieked out, receiving major damage. The monster moved its head wildly, finally managing to get rid of Rich. He fell on a now full-grown planet, the first one he had been standing on in the beginning of the fight. He looked over to still wildly shaking Planetavor, which had received 150 damage.

Planetavor: 50/250

Planetavor finally got a hold on itself, and was as angry as Bowser would be after a bad report from his minions. Planetavor attempted to rush into Rich, but he quickly made an escape for it to the planet on his left.

"Sorry, but your target is on another planet!" Rich taunted, before getting surprised by the tongue of Planetavor, used as a whip. Rich didn't manage to dodge, and got smashed off his planet. Brutally falling on yet another one, Rich received a total of 30 damage.

Rich: 10/130

Rich was now standing his last legs. Breathing very heavily and pain all over his body, Rich nearly lost hope again. That is, if he was in control. He wasn't, well sorta. Adrenaline started to pump into Rich's body, and Rich's only thoughts were how to survive. And seeing as how the weak spot was on the head of the monster, and the only no damage way to get there was the tail, Rich started to run, and mostly jump, for it. Planetavor attempted its tongue again as a whip, but the only result was that Rich reflected it back. Planetavor screamed in pain, having got 20 damage.

Planetavor: 30/250

Now Planetavor wanted to get its revenge, but was a little late for that. Rich had already reached the tail, and was now nearing the back. All that Planetavor could do was shake, but it didn't really help. A few moments later, Rich let out a loud battle cry as he used his arm, and landed on the head, dealing the resting damage that was needed.

Planetavor: 0/250

(Stop the music!)

Rich jumped off Planetavor, landing on a random planet. He saw how the neck of the giraffe shrunk back into the body, before the monster started to shine brightly. Rich covered his eyes, and when he opened them again, Planetavor was gone, only a grand star and some yellow energy in the forms of bolls flying around. For some reason, those bolls went to Rich, and he absorbed them. He didn't know what that meant, but watched how the koopalings came back.

"What? You actually destroyed my beloved Planetavor?" Iggy screamed out, tears forming in his eyes.

"I think we have worse matters at the moment…" Larry noticed.

"Junior, this would really call for a strategic retreat." Ludwig advised.

"I think so too. Dad needs to know this…" And with that, Bowser Jr gave the command to Iggy to make haste towards Bowser, leaving Rich and the grand star alone.

Rich was still heavily breathing, while the grand star hovered towards him. It accidently touched Rich, and the grand star started to fly to completely random places, as if dancing.

You got a grand sta-… BONK!

That dancing didn't went well, and the grand star landed painfully on Rich's head, knocking the poor boy out.

Rich: 0/130

Kind of anticlimactic… In any case, the red door Rich entered before the fight, went open again, Mario, Luigi, Yoshi and the baby luma finally finding this area after having rescued all prisoners.

"What!" Bowser's roar shook his whole palace, which was near completion. "You tell me that a random boy defeated Iggy's Planetavor? That's impossible!"

"What's even more impossible, is how fast we managed to get here…" Larry muttered, and all other agreed.

"Great! Another OC! How many are there already?" Bowser stomped in rage on the ground. "This is not helping me to finally defeat Mario for a second time!"

"Dad did it once?" Roy questioned, not believing it at all.

"Paper Mario 64, at the start of the game." Ludwig answered. Roy looked in disbelief at Ludwig, before shrugging it off.

"And what about those prisoners we captured at the star festival! I all trusted them to Bowser Jr. for his Zoo tycoon game!"

"Probably rescued by Mario." Morton answered. This was only worse for the king's temper.

"That's it! Tell my ship to prepare to leave! I will settle this myself! This fanfiction selection will be finally called Bowser, and not Mario! Nobody shall make a idiot out of me again!" Bowser stood up from his throne, and started to walk out of the throne hall, only to be stopped by a question of Ludwig.

"Do you mind me questioning the fact that you know a lot about what's beyond the fourth wall?"

"I do mind, but for your information…" Bowser started, seeing two of his minions laughing about something, standing near a computer.

"I don't believe how good these authors are! And I can't help to stop laughing at Bowser's idiotic reactions!"

"He is indeed a big idiot!" The two minions never saw the flame coming, burning to a crisp in a mere second.

"With minions like I have…" Bowser started, "you're doomed to figure out someday." And with that, Bowser and his children walked off.

(Music: Mission Impossible theme)

"How long have we searched for Bowser's treasure by now?" Waluigi asked at Wario, both still in the donkey costume.

"A few days, I guess…" Wario answered.

"Great! We're not getting any farther!" Waluigi complained. The fact that they haven't eaten anything during that time, didn't seem to stuck to either of them.

"Hush! I see two koopas walking…" Waluigi lifted his eyebrow.

"What has that to do with anything? All previous minions didn't seem to recognize us, for some odd reason…"

"Change of plan. Now keep silent." Waluigi still didn't understand, but did as commanded. They stood still, in a place where they could perfectly ambush the two koopas. And that was exactly what the new plan was. In a few seconds, both jumped out of the donkey costume, and attacked the two poor koopas. They didn't stand any chance, and were quickly wrapped up with a rope like a present. Without their shells on.

"Now wear their shells." Wario shortly commanded, and did so himself. When he looked at Waluigi, he saw something strange…

"Err… Waluigi? Why are you standing in a perfect ninety degree rotation?"

"What do you think!" Waluigi replied, pointing at the donkey costume. "After having walked so long that way, I can't bend back again!"

"Oh, let me fix that." Wario answered, walking towards him. Before Waluigi even realized what Wario was doing, he screamed out in pain. Wario was trying with pure force to get Waluigi standing straight again. It took some minutes, but Wario succeeded.

"Now wear that shell, and hurry, I already wear mine." Wario commanded, only to get a snarky response back.

"I see that. Although, I see that you wore one!" Wario didn't understand it till he looked down. There he saw that the shell had broken up in thousand and one piece.

"Huh? I thought that that koopa wore medium, not small." Waluigi rolled his eyes, before attacking a by-passing sledge bro. A sledge bro is a fat hammer bro. Nothing more needs to be said.

After some refusing from Wario's side, the two thieves wore the two shells. "And what now?" Waluigi asked.

"We can continue our search." Wario simply responded.

"What? But Bowser's army will discover us in no time with just shells!" Just as Waluigi said his complaint, two koopas passed and greeted the thieves like they were just normal koopas.

"See that it works?" Wario asked, before walking away.

"I'm too smart for this universe…" Waluigi muttered, before following Wario.

(End the music)

Meanwhile, in the kingdom where the fair flower princess rules…

"Haha! After years of preparation, I finally come back!" This sentence was said by a small purple alien, who was evilly laughing. "Now princess Daisy and Sarassaland will be mine again! No red plumber that will stop me!"

The alien was driving an odd UFO that had several blasters, towards a huge castle. The people near the castle looked at the UFO, started to panic and scream as they ran back into nearby houses. The alien only laughed harder, as he parked his UFO straight for the gate of the castle. He walked towards it, with each step looking eviler and eviler, and when he reached the entrance… He politely knocked on it. A normal toad walked towards the alien.

"What brings you here?"

"I'm going to kidnap the princess! Now open the gate, or else I will brainwash you to do it!" The alien threatened, only to be surprised by the toad shaking his head.

"I'm sorry sir, but princess Daisy is kidnapped by another evil being." The alien's eyes grew big.

"Noooooooooo!" Last word could be loudly heard over the whole world. Scientists are still researching where the word came from.

And I've finally completed the chapter! Not much to say, besides that world 1 is done! Just five more to go… Next chapter we will skip two galaxies. Simply because I have realized I cannot write them well (try to describe Mario on the starball and rock Mario. Unless you're very good, it's nearly impossible). Meaning there only two galaxies over for world 2. And we will start with the galaxy… where Rich reveals a bit more about his past.

Just one thing to say before I leave. Rich is getting too much spotlight at the moment, I've realized. I will lessen that with world 2. The only major Rich moment is above mentioned thing. In world 3…Gyah hah hah, Rich will take a bigger role again… (Evil laugh is not good… I warn you.)

See you next time…