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Chapter 14: Sinking the Airships

Mario and Sonic were inside the Kitchen, talking with Polari.

"We have discovered an enemy base in the region!" Polari told. "We can only hope they are not misusing the powers of these poor Grand Star and Chaos Emerald…"

"Well, there's only one way to find out. Mario, let's go to that enemy base together!" Sonic said.

"Okey-Dokey!" Mario nodded as they used the Pull Star and were launched into Bowser Jr.'s Airship Armada.

This place was filled with airships. Mario and Sonic landed on the bridge of an airship.

"Man, those airships are everywhere!" Sonic looked around.

"There's a cannon over there. Let's-a go." Mario directed to the cannon.

"Okay. Good thing I brought my Orange Rocket Wisp with me."

The heroes avoided the Octoombas and Red Octoombas. Mario jumped into the cannon and aimed at the next airship. As soon as he took off, Sonic used his Rocket Wisp and followed Mario.

The next airship has two Sentry Beams and a Magikoopa. The heroes avoided the Sentry Beams and defeated the Magikoopa before he teleported. They used the next cannon and Rocket form.

The other airship had Wigglers. The heroes spotted Captain Toad nearby and decided to avoid the Wigglers and talk to him.

"Mario! Sonic! You finally made it! I was starting to worry." Toad said. "Bowser Jr. is right up ahead!"

"Okay, thanks Toad!" Mario thanked and both heroes went to the bridge and flipped a switch, causing the wooden platform they were at to move.

The platform took them to the last airship. They defeated the Magikoopa and used the Sling Star to reach the ship's deck. Eventually, Bowser Jr. shows up in his airship, laughing hysterically. Alarming noises sounded.

"You just don't give up! Fine, then. I guess I'll just whup you myself!" Bowser Jr. said. "You want the Grand Star and Chaos Emerald so bad? You're gonna have to take it from me!"

"Bring it on!" Sonic shouted as he and Mario went into their fighting stances, ready to battle against Bowser Jr.

Random Green Koopa Troopas appear on the deck of the airship as Bowser Jr. shoots cannonballs from his airship's cannons.

"Umm, where did these guys came from?" Sonic said confused, dodging the cannonballs.

"Well, whenever they came from, we could use them to attack Bowser Jr.!" Mario said.

"Great idea! Let's do this!"

Sonic home-attacks one of the Koopas, making it retreat into its shell. Mario grabs the shell, and throws it at Bowser Jr.'s airship.

After the first attack, Bowser Jr. then starts to shoot out Homing Bullet Bills. Mario was holding another Koopa shell, but the Bullet Bills were after him.

"Uh oh!" Sonic muttered and rushes to help Mario.

But before he could even do that, one of the Homing Bullet Bills suddenly homes into Sonic, hitting him.

"UGH!" he groaned from the impact.

He slowly stands up. For his surprise, just as the Bullet Bills were about to hit Mario, a random Magikoopa appears right in front of Mario, and was hit by the Bullet Bills instead of Mario.

"Whoa…that was unintentional… But we'll take it anyways." Sonic shrugged.

With the Bullet Bills out of the way, Mario shot the second Koopa shell at Bowser Jr.'s ship. The ship was starting to smoke. Bowser Jr. becomes pissed off; his ship turned face forward at the heroes, and the eyes of Bowser's face depicted on the ship were glowing red. The Bowser face now shoots out three flaming meteors.

"Now THAT looks piping hot!" Mario said shocked.

"You bet! Quick, take this Koopa shell!" Sonic called as he home-attacks another Koopa Troopa.

Mario quickly rushes to the retreated Koopa and picks its shell. He dodges the flaming meteors and throws the shell at Bowser Jr.'s ship. They needed one more hit to defeat Bowser Jr.

Mario picked another Koopa shell and upon dodging more Bullet Bills and flaming meteors, he shoots the shell at the airship one last time. Eventually, Bowser Jr.'s ship started to explode. Bowser Jr. screamed in defeat and quickly escapes his ship by its platform before it exploded.

When the ship exploded, the Grand Star and the Chaos Emerald, the red one, showed up and floats towards the heroes.

"We did it! But too bad that pesky guy managed to escape…" Sonic growled.

"It doesn't matter now-a. Let's get the Grand Star and Chaos Emerald." Mario said.

"Okay."

Mario grabs the Grand Star and Sonic grabs the Red Chaos Emerald. Both objects glowed.

They were back at the Observatory, where they watched the Grand Star plunge into the beacon, turning it cyan. The Red Chaos Emerald flies and hovers above the Kitchen's entrance. A purple pipe gets lit, opening the door to a new dome. The heroes noticed Rosalina, Polari and Sonic's friends standing before them.

"Thanks to you both, all of the domes on the lower level are working again." Rosalina said. "Once the Engine Room on the upper level has power, the whole observatory will be working. Then the Comet Observatory will fly as a starship once again. And you, Mario, will be able to fly to your special one in the center of the universe…"

Everyone gazed at the map; it showed what the new dome was and what galaxies it has.

"It looks like this new dome is the Bedroom!" Polari exclaimed.

"Let me guess, this is where Rosalina sleeps, right?" Knuckles guessed. Polari nodded.

"Sonic, I can sense only one friend on one of the galaxies the Bedroom has. However, I can also sense something quite unusual too in one of these galaxies as well…" Rosalina pondered.

"What do you mean 'something quite unusual'?" Sonic asked.

"I don't know, the only thing I know is that unusual thing is at Gusty Garden Galaxy, and the only friend in this Dome is at Dusty Dune Galaxy." Rosalina answered.

Sonic just shrugs, but then, when he looked at his friends, he noticed that Tails was missing again.

"Great, did Tails and Luigi get stuck in another place again?" Sonic face palmed.

"What makes you say that-a?" Mario asked.

"Because Tails is missing again!"

"Oh. So that means my brother went with Tails again to look for a Star. But where is the Mailtoad?"

Soon, the Mailtoad came and offers a letter for Mario; it was from Luigi. It was written in the same way as before, but the picture was different: this time, it showed Luigi and Tails trapped inside a wooden cage located under some sort of a steel-looking platform.

"Wait, that place looks familiar…" Sonic thought. After some seconds, he finally remembered the place. "That's it! I can see a barrage at the picture's background!"

"Correct! And the only galaxy that-a has a barrage is…!"

"…Battlerock Galaxy!" Sonic complemented.

"You're right-a! And that platform must be one of those saucers!"

"I guess so. So, what are we waiting for? Let's go save them!"

They then went back to the Fountain dome and launched at Battlerock Galaxy.

There, after passing the Battlerock Barrage, they leaped at the next saucer.

"Okay, judging by the picture, I think this is it." Sonic said.

"Yep, they are under the very first saucer after the barrage." Mario added.

"Someone! Help us!" they heard Luigi and Tails' voices below them.

"Yup, just as we thought." Sonic concluded.

"Since they're trapped in a cage, we have to lure those Bullet Bills to them." Mario said.

The heroes approached the Homing Bullet Bills' cannons. The cannons shoot out two Bullet Bills. Upon noticing the heroes, the Bullet Bills follows them as they guided them under the saucer. One of the Bullet Bills exploded in contact with the saucer's edge, but the other one hit the cage successfully, freeing Luigi and Tails.

"Bwah! I thought I'd go crazy in there!" Luigi cried.

"It's okay, Luigi. You know that Mario and Sonic will always save us!" Tails comforted him.

"You're right-a. Try to save us sooner next time! Yeah, yeah, you want this Power Star, right? Only if you tell Rosalina I found this one!"

"You guys won't believe it: he actually found a Green Star!" Tails exclaimed.

"Really?! Sweet! The second Green Star!" Sonic cheered.

"That-a leaves only one more to find-a!" Mario exclaimed.

"Okay! Here you go!" Luigi said as he reaches his pocket and pulls out the Green Star. "The Power Star is mine!"

They jumped up to the Star, touching it. The Green Star glows in a bright green light.

To be continued…

Just like the previous chapter, I first planned to only have the boss battle in this one, but since it became too short, I once again added the Luigi mission to make it longer.

What's that 'unusual thing'? Find out in the next chapter! Please review.