Music Super Mario Galaxy: The Observatory

Drago's perspective

"Ow, my head..."

I sat up, holding my head. I had the worst headache that I could remember. Except for that time that I head-butted a wall twenty times. That was bad. I looked around and noticed that I was back in my room in the mansion. It was a bit different now. There was a Super Mario Sunshine poster on the wall opposite my bed, depicting the box art for the game. There was a trophy cabinet near my bed, which had many spaces open in it, with the words 'COMPLETED GAMES' carved along the side. I assumed that I would get a trophy each time I finished a game. The top-left space had a trophy depicting Mario carrying King Bob-omb from Super Mario 64, which I safely assumed was for completing Super Mario 64. I noticed that my bed was much comfier than before, which was nice. Last time I had slept in it, I had awoken with a really bad back. I sat there, trying to remember what had happened before, since I couldn't remember. That pirate captain (the name 'Grisola' comes to mind, despite me never hearing it said) had insulted Mizu, and that had caused Darkion to break out. I think he had taken down almost every grunt on-board the pirate ship, and had almost killed Grisola. After that, he had had a sword duel against Blaze, losing and getting transformed back into me. I looked at my arm, which was covered in burns.

"I guess he used a flame sword, then." I said. I stood up and stretched, noting that I was in my general clothes: blue hoodie, black trackie bottoms, red shirt and a pair of white trainers. I looked at my watch, and wondered how it was able to change my arm. It confused me: how could a watch change the atoms that my arm was made up of? "I'll find out at some point, but for now, I think I'm gonna have a look around the mansion.

I opened the door, stepped out of my room, shut the door and walked down the hallway. I took time to look at the hall. There were pictures hung up on the walls. I took a closer look at them. They each had the name of the game and where the picture is from written on the bottom-right. I walked down the hallway, looking at each one.

'Super Mario 64 – Bob-omb Battlefield' showed the view from the summit of the mountain in Bob-omb Battlefield. Mario could be seen making his way across the bridge, with Koopa The Quick not far behind him.

'Super Mario 64 – Cool Cool Mountain' was taken from the bottom of the mountain. The frozen pond could be seen, as could the exit to the hut and the mother penguin, searching for her child.

'Super Mario Sunshine – Delfino Plaza' was taken from the top of the shine tower. The majority of the town could be seen, bar the lighthouse and the far-right of the town. There was a strange light emanating from near the center of the town.

'Super Mario Sunshine – Gelato Beach' was taken from on top of the sandbird egg tower. The majority of the beach could be seen, although the section to the west couldn't be seen. Mario could be seen fighting the giant Wiggler.

'Sonic Adventure 2: Battle – City Escape' was interesting. It showed a city which was built on an incline, and there was a blue hedgehog skating down the steep road on what looked like a long piece of metal.

"Huh...interesting..." I muttered to myself. I went to look at the next picture, but found that it was blank. In fact, all of the other pictures were blank.

"All blank?" I asked myself. "I wonder if they will be filled later on..."

I continued walking down the hall, and came to the main room. Darien could be seen lounging on the sofa, one arm draped over the back and the other looking at a card. He looked up at me as I came in.

"Ah, I see that you are awake!" He said, pulling himself up. "You were only out for half an hour this time."

"That explains the headache then..." I said, holding my head.

"It should die down within...oh, a few hours?" Darien said, smirking.

"Eugh..." I groaned. I walked over to the sofa and sat down. "Is there anything to drink?" I asked.

"Just imagine what you want." Darien said, drinking from a teacup, which he definitely didn't have before.

"Okay..." I said, unsure that it would work. I closed my eyes and imagined a cup of tea in front of, me, lots of milk and no sugar. I opened my eyes and there it was, a cup of tea, lots of milk and no sugar. "Woah...that's amazing."

"Handy, isn't it?" Darien asked. "It is unknown how it came about, but this is the same force that appears to drive the power in your left arm."

"My left arm...wait, how do you know about that?" I asked.

"Do you forget that I keep an eye on everything that is happening?" He asked back.

"Point there." I responded, and began drinking my tea. After a few gulps, I had finished it. "Has there been any other news on the Entrenin Army?"

"Since you...I mean Darkion, sent them packing, there's been no word or sight of them." Darien explained. "It looks like they have left for the time being."

"That's good." I said. I imagined another cup of tea, and began drinking it.

Darien walked around the room for a bit, looking lik e he was thinking about something. He almost walked into the walls a couple of times, but turned around at the last possible second each time. He walked over to me.

"Drago, I need to tell you something." He said. "The Entrenin Army...I know who the leader is."

"Really?" I asked. "Is it someone we know?"

"Well, I do..." He said, sitting down next to me. "It's my brother."

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Music Super Mario Sunshine: Shadow Mario

Blaze's perspective

We were back in Gelato Beach, and had encountered Shadow Mario. It had ran off and made his way up into the hills, in an attempt to escape from us. Mizu was making her way up a cliff-face without even trying, which was amazing. Accelerator was making his way up the section where you can wall-jump up. I, on the other hand, was making my way up the ruins of the stone tower. I swung through the wreckage, jumping up when I had to, and I eventually made it to the highest point on the wreckage. I looked onto the hills and saw Shadow Mario standing in the circular area, looking left and right for us to come from one of those directions. It had it's back to me. I jumped and activated the hover nozzle, gliding over the gap between us. I landed behind Shadow Mario, and ran at it, smashing into it before it could react. We both went tumbling, hitting each other as hard as we could. Mizu and Accelerator made their way into the circular area, and tried to grab Shadow Mario before it could escape. Before they could get near us, however, we rolled onto the slope on the other side, and began tumbling down the hill, while I tried to stop him from escaping. We were gaining speed, and eventually we began falling. I looked around and realized that we had rolled off the hill, and were plummeting towards the beach. I moved quickly and pushed Shadow Mario beneath me, causing it to smash into the beach, while I was only hit by the aftershock. I staggered up and picked Shadow Mario up by the neck, holding it a few feet off of the ground.

"Who are you, and why are you trying to frame me?" I growled. It stayed silent. "ANSWER ME!" I threw it away, causing it to land in the sand. It stood up and looked at me.

"Next time you'll see, I'll make you pay!" It yelled, and disappeared into a group of blobs, and was gone. Mizu and Accelerator made their way down the hill and ran over to me.

"Did you find out anything?" Mizu asked, looking around for Shadow Mario.

"No, it was silent. I got angry and threw it away from me. It said that it would make us pay next time, but I doubt that." I answered, kicking a stone into the ocean.

"I think we need to get moving to the next area." Accelerator said. "Whatever it is up to, we need to put a stop to it." With that, a Shine Sprite appeared from where Shadow Mario had disappeared, and floated over to us. Mizu jumped up and grabbed it, and we were sent back to Delfino Plaza.

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Music Super Mario Sunshine: Delfino Plaza

We landed in Delfino Plaza, and made our way back to the the centre. As we were walking past, one of the shopkeepers noticed me.

"HEY, YOU'RE THE ONE WHO STOLE MY FEZ!" She yelled.

"Blaze, is this true?" Mizu asked.

"...No..." I mumbled.

"GIVE IT BACK!" The shopkeeper yelled, standing up.

"RUUUN!" I yelled, and we high-tailed it out of there. We made it to the Pianta statue and stood there for a minute, panting. We noticed that Princess Peach was missing. I walked over to Toadsworth, who was panicking.

"Where's the Princess?" I asked.

"Sh-shadow Mario kidnapped her, and ran off past the port!" He said, panicking. I turned to Mizu and Accelerator.

"Let's go!" I yelled, and we ran towards the port. We passed the port-house and could see the edge of what appeared to be a submarine parked about twenty five metres away from us. Between us and it was a gap, followed by a short platform, followed by a gap. The second gap had the submarine. I hovered over the first gap using the hover nozzle, Accelerator boosted himself over, and Mizu scampered up the wall of the building next to us, made her way across the rooftops, and dropped down next to us. We looked at the submarine, now that we were closer to it. It was ugly, to say the least. Large, gouging plastic eyes at the front, a green shell of sorts as the back, and the rest was orange. It appeared to be modeled on Bowser, but it was so badly made that we couldn't tell. We went to jump onto it, but Shadow Mario jumped out of it, carrying Princess Peach. It looked at us for a few seconds, while Peach screamed for help. It jumped back in and powered up the submarine, and shot off to a small island in the distance.

"That is Pinna Park." FLUDD piped up. "The villain's lair must be there."

"So how do we get there?" Mizu asked.

"I say we ask the Pianta working next to that cannon." He said, pointing to a red, circular cannon across from where we were. We made our way over the gap and walked over to the Pianta.

"Say no more." He said, wiping sweat from his forehead. "I saw what happened just there. Use the cannon to get to Pinna Park." He stepped away from the cannon.

"Ladies first." Accelerator said. "Yes Blaze, I'm talking to you."

I shook my fist angrily at him and climbed into the cannon, aimed it at the correct angle and direction, fired it, and I was sent flying through the sky towards Pinna Park.

"You know, Drago would hate this." I thought, taking a break from calculating where I would be landing, the angle I would land at, and how far I would slide when I landed.

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Music Super Mario Sunshine: Pinna Park

I landed on a beach outside the main park, and Accelerator landed shortly after, followed by Mizu. We had a good look at the outside of the park. There were a few trees dotted around the beach. The main path was short, and went from a small dock for boats straight to the entrance to the park. The beach had several large sunflowers which were waving around, and had faces. They occasionally made a cute noise. There was another red sphere-cannon at the end of the beach, with a worker inside. We realised that Shadow Mario was running into the park, and followed suit. We chased him through the park, and noticed that it was very much a theme park. There was a merry-go-round which had fake Yoshi's as seats, six clamshells spinning around slowly, two pirate ships which were swinging backwards and forwards in the air, and several other small attractions. The two biggest attractions were the rollercoaster and ferris wheel. We chased Shadow Mario down the left side of the part, passing by the Yoshi merry-go-round, and ended up near a pool. When we got near, Shadow Mario was floating just above the water.

Before we could react, the floor at the bottom of the pool began to split in half and move apart, and very slowly, a humoungus robot began rising out, with Shadow Mario standing on top of it. It was shaped like Bowser, and had more than a passing resemblance to the submarine we had seen earlier. It had several cannons built into it, which appeared to be ready to fire bullet bills. The head span around, and breathed fire out at us, just missing us.

"WOAH!" I yelled, darting back.

"He's really turned up the heat this time." Accelerator said, already away from the range of the flames. Mizu was talking to the park owner, who was nearby. He seemed to think that this was a stunt, and we were the heroes trying to stop the bad guy. Part of which was true, I guess. Mizu walked over.

"Guys, we have been given a way to defeat Shadow Mario..." Mizu said, looking up at the roller-coaster.

"You're kidding me." I said. "How do we fight it from a roller coaster?"

"Apparently there are rockets up there." Mizu explained. "No idea why, but apparently that is part of the attraction."

"Well let's go." Accelerator said. "We need to take that thing down as fast as possible."

We made our way around the park, and got onto a cage-like floor which led up to the position where you could ride on the roller coaster. We sprinted up and found a small, one-person shuttle.

"One person…?" Accelerator said.

"I'll have to go then." I said. "I'm the only one who has a way to fire the missiles effectively." I pointed to FLUDD.

"Just be careful, okay?" Mizu asked. "We don't want another person hurt today."

"I'll be fine." I said. I sat in the shuttle, fastened my seatbelt, and prepared to go. "This time, I'm blowing Shadow Mario out of the sky."

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Back at the mansion…

Leon was walking around the mansion, looking agitated.

"So, I collect Drago and bring him back so that he can recover, and I get forgotten about again?" He asked, to no one in particular. "Well, they'll see. I'll show them that they should never have forgotten me. And they will regret it."

Next time…

Blaze takes on Shadow Mario in a fight to the death! With rockets, fire, and a lot of bullet bills, can Blaze survive the onslaught? And after that, they have to continue working through Pinna Park. What mysteries does the park hold?