After thirty minutes, Chopper got out of the bed and stretched. All of his HP, FP, and Star Energy were restored. The Toad noticed him wake up, as well as his friends. Chopper didn't know, but Bow actually watched him sleep while she was invisible. Maybe she just wanted to see how he looked when he was asleep.

"Did you sleep well?" the Toad asked.

"Well, yeah, I did," Chopper nodded.

"Well that's very nice to know."

"Yeah. I guess that's it?"

"I guess so..." the Toad trailed. "Take care—and go! Good luck, Chopper! Bowser will be no match for you!"

"Hold on a minute. Take this with you." the Toad Guard walked over to Chopper and held out a yo-yo. "I never really found any use for this thing. Maybe you might use it?"

"OK… I guess I will..." Chopper inhaled the yo-yo, and when he swallowed it, he had a backward light blue cap and was holding a typical red and white yo-yo as his weapon. They call him Yo-yo Chopper with this ability.

"This'll be good! All right, let's go, guys!" he used his Speed Dash to leave the room and head back in the main hallway.

"So… What does that yo-yo even do?" Bruce asked.

"Ummm… Not fully sure. Let me test it out." Chopper twirled the yo-yo, and it hit the bars on the staircase going up. The yo-yo came back to him like any typical yo-yo. "Oh! This is pretty nice! It'll come in handy against some of those bad guys!" he went to the left staircase, and his partners followed him to the door.

"Man, I hope we don't run into any annoying puzzles…" Koopla hoped.

"Don't jinx it..." Parakarry warned.

The next room had the blue rug and some colored blocks acting like stairs. There were two blocks that could be raised up if the red ! Switch got hit by something, so Chopper went up the stairs and was above the switch.

"Bruce, I'm going to need you for this part. You'll have to blow up the switch." Chopper said as he jumped down onto the lower block. When Bruce came, he dropped him on to the switch.

"I hope that this works," Parakarry hoped.

"I think it will. Don't worry about it, Parakarry." Once Bruce blew up, the blocks moved up. Chopper used them to cross over to the doorway, which had an Ultra Shroom in the room.

"Ooh! This is good!" Chopper grabbed the Ultra Shroom and he put it away for now. With that, they left the room and went to the door to the right. This time, they saw a staircase going leading to a door and a straight part going to another door.

"Oh, boy… I remember this." Bow recalled. "You have to choose the right door, or else you have to start the area over again."

"Oh, then that's not a good thing. Let's go up." Chopper took the stairs up, and his partners followed into the door. There, they found the blocked stairs like in the other room and a red ! Switch.

"All right, let's do this. Time to blow up the switch!" Chopper picked up Bruce and threw him to the switch. He blew it up, and Chopper saw the floor rise up on where he stood. This allowed him to cross over the blocked wall and go into the doorway, which had a Castle Key.

"Oh, there's a key in here? I guess we needed this for the lower door." he put the key away, and when he turned around, he saw Bow grab the key from him.

"I guess we did need a key before going through a door puzzle," Bow said as she looked at the key. "I'm sure we'll be getting to that shortly. So, we better be prepared."

"Right…" Chopper hurried back into the other room with the two doors and his friends followed to the lower door.

"Are you sure you found something to unlock the door?" Kayzee asked. "Because I didn't know that door would be locked…"

Bow took out the key and unlocked the door. Once they went in, they saw some caged wall with a torch higher up, then low, low, high, low, and high. Parakarry and Bow remembered this.

"Oh, this is the one I was talking about," Bow gasped. "Yes, this puzzle. Look at the blue torches carefully. It should help us through this place."

"And if we choose the wrong one, we gotta start over again," Parakarry added. "So, we better choose the right one, or else we're in some deep trouble."

"Let's just give it a shot! Now… Up, down, down, up, down, up. That's what it is." Chopper remembered as he took the stairs going up and went into the doorway. He and his partners came out of another doorway, and they were in a room that was similar to the other. Chopper remembered the torches and took the doorway that was down the stairs.

They did it right, and they just went through the doors in that order the torches were by going down, up, down, and up. Once they did that, they found themselves in a room with chandeliers with blue torches on them, and a bridge with a blue floor. They knew they were high up in the castle.

"Wow, that was a lot easier than I thought. It was just a piece of cake!" Yosho grinned. "Bowser thought he could've kept us away with that! ?"

They could see some Koopatrols, Magikoopas on broomsticks and Hammer Bros. on the bridge. Some C Robo Elites were flying around, so they had to fight them. It took them a while, but they received some Star Points from them.

After making it to the other side of the bridge, they went into the door and were in a similar small hallway. There was a Heart Block in the room, so Chopper hit it to recover his HP and FP. Walking through the hallway, they saw someone that most people found familiar, but not really to Chopper.

"Umm… Who's that girl in the pink dress standing in front of the door?" Chopper asked.

"That's…Princess Peach? She's here?" Koopla gawked.

"Oh, so THAT'S Princess Peach. I didn't expect her to look like that!"

"What did you expect her to be?" Bow asked.

"I don't know... A young girl, maybe?"

"I can't believe that's what you thought," Bruce snickered. "You thought she'd be a girlfriend for you?"

"No..."

"Anyway, back on topic..." Koopla started. "Who's going to her first?"

"I might as well," Chopper suggested, walking over to Peach, who seemed a bit delighted to see him.

"Are you the one named Chopper?" Peach asked. "I'm so glad you came! Thank you so much!"

"Hold on a minute, how did you get here? I thought you were in your OWN castle!"

"Oh, me? Oh, I just saw a chance to get away from Bowser and Maquano and I ran! There's no need to fight them because I'm already safe. See? No need to fight. Let's hurry up and go home. I'll be right behind you."

"Home? Don't you mean your home? Meh, let's just go." Chopper began to walk out of the room, but then he heard some snickering. "Hmm?" he turned around and suddenly saw a Duplighost, who ran from him. He walked back to the door and saw Peach again.

"Did you just see that?"

"Yeah, that's not Peach!" Kayzee gaped. "Didn't you see that, guys?"

"I saw it!" Yosho agreed.

"Scanners indicate that it is not Peach, but a Duplighost," C-2 Choppor informed.

"Hey, you're not Peach! Take this!" Chopper shouted as he whacked Peach with his hammer.

"Ouch! Oh, how could you? You're so cruel, Chopper!" Peach cried. "Why do you want to hurt me? I'm going to tell King Bowser you're treating me like this!"

"Because you're not Peach! Have some of this!" he whacked her with his hammer again.

"No! Ow! Stop it! Please don't! Help me, King Bowser!"

Chopper whacked her once again.

"I said, cut that out!" Peach turned into a Duplighost once he whacked her one more time. "Aw, shoot! I wonder how you saw through my disguise… It was perfect… Well, I guess there's nothing I can do about it now… I'll just beat you up instead! Come on out, guys!"

Three other Duplighosts came out, but Chopper used his yo-yo to hit all four of them, and Parakarry used his Air Raid to defeat them easily. Unfortunately, Chopper got no Star Points from the fight.

He wanted to recover that FP that he used up, so after hitting the Heart Block in the beginning of the hallway, he headed into the door the Duplighosts were blocking. They were in another room with another Guard Door.

"Oh, great… Another Bowser door room. This is going to stink." Chopper groaned.

"Bleeeaaaargh! How in the world did you get this far in the castle?!" the Guard Door gasped. "Congratulations…but this is the end of your adventure, I'm afraid. I've got much better defenses than the other Guard Doors do. Your luck has just run out! Come on, boys!"

The Koopa Bros. came down in front of Chopper and flashed their thumbs as they put them up. Needless to say, there were groans coming from at least three people.

"Oh, god… Not them." Koopla groaned.

"WHY does it have to be these guys?" Bruce asked.

"Here come the Koopa Bros.!" Red grinned. "I bet you never thought you'd see us again, huh, Chopper? You do remember who we are, don't you?"

"I don't exactly remember you guys. It's been a while." Chopper shrugged.

"What!? I just said we were the Koopa Bros., Chopper! How can you not remember us?!"

"Now they're going to beat you within an inch of your life!" the Guard Door cackled. "Feel like running away, worm? Tell you what: If you beat them, you can go on through here. Of course, you'll fail…but at least you can try. Geeaarrr har har har…"

"Don't think we're like before! We've increased our power beyond our wildest dreams! After you trounced us, we learned a new technique and trained all day, every day. We're not just the Koopa Bros... We're the Super Ultra Mighty Koopa Bros. the Great! Check out our coolness!"

The Koopa Bros. had their thumbs up once again. But, they didn't notice a yellow stardust behind them. Staris fully appeared, and it made Chopper and his friends jump in surprise.

"Yeah! You fear us, don't you? Well you should be afraid! Because our technique will make you cry for mercy!" Red noticed Chopper was pointing at Staris, who was a lot bigger than the Koopa Bros. "What? What're you pointing at?"

"Behind you…"

"Huh…?" They all turned around, and they got whacked away by Staris's fist. "Dwahhhhhhhhh!"

Staris pulled out Skolar, the third Star Spirit. Everyone gasped as they heard Skolar's cry.

"Chopper! You must help me!" cried Skolar. "Staris is about to absorb some of my power and transform!"

"Oh no! He's got one of the Star Spirits! Don't worry, Skolar! We'll help you!" Chopper ran toward Staris, but Staris began to absorb Skolar's power, creating another big flash.

After the flash was gone, Skolar flew away, but Staris was different. Not only did his chest look more built, but bright white, angelic wings had appeared behind him. Though they lacked feathers, they did make him a bit more godly.

"No… He's changed again!" Bow gasped.

"And he has...wings?" Yosho gawked. "What the heck?!"

"Well, this wasn't according to plan, but it's not bad!" the Guard Door cackled. "I guess this Staris will take care of you! He even got that Star Spirit on his own! Gwar har har har!"

Staris began to walk toward Chopper and his friends, who got in their fighting stances to prepare for battle.

Tattle: Bad news, Chopper... Staris is in his third transformation! Max HP: 70, Attack Power: 8, Defense Power: 2. Those tentacles can really hurt you, and that Star Spirit must've made him take less damage! But… You were able to defeat his last three forms. Though…this one seems pretty dangerous to me. But, you're Chopper. You can handle anything thrown at you!

Chopper started off with a Power Bounce. He wanted to hit his head in order to destroy him. He was only able to stomp his head eight times, unfortunately.

"Choppor, shoot his head!" Chopper cried. "I know your attacks aren't affected by defense!"

C-2 Choppor aimed at Staris and shot a blast at him. It made him explode, but he rose back up from his puddle. Staris aimed one of his wings at Chopper and fired a white projectile, knocking him down. He was able to get back up after taking 8 damage.

"Ouch… OK, he seems tougher than Jr. Troopa. We better take him out fast." Chopper used his Power Bounce and stomped on him nine times this time. C-2 Choppor shot a blast at Staris again, and it left him with 41 HP left. There were still ways to go...

Staris made shooting stars come down on Chopper. He was able to guard the attack, luckily. Afterward, Chopper used his yo-yo to attack Staris, and then Kayzee used her Heat Vision on the Star God, taking 6 away from him.

Staris's wings disappeared and began to whack at Chopper when they appeared in front of him. He guarded four of them, but he got hit by two, each of them doing 3 damage. His Yo-yo ability got removed, unfortunately.

Chopper used his Power Bounce on Staris again, and he managed to stomp on him seven times.

"Man, let's hope he doesn't do anything that'll be bad for us. Because if he does, this fight will get annoying!"

Yosho fluttered over to Staris and attacked with his Ground Pound. It made him explode, but the Star God simply formed back. Staris stretched his arm out, and he attacked both Chopper and Yosho, leaving the Yoshi injured. When his arm returned to him, his wings looked like they were going to attack.

"Oof… That really hurt..." Yosho moaned.

Chopper shot an ice ball at Staris, but it didn't make him freeze. Looks like this transformation really made him tougher…

"We'll leave him with 10 HP soon. Let me just make an attack." C-2 Choppor aimed at Staris and shot a blast at him. Unfortunately, Staris summoned more shooting stars, which came down on him, making him recover 20 HP.

"Oh, crud… He healed himself." Chopper said as his eye twitched. However, that didn't stop him from bashing Staris with his hammer.

"Well this is rather bad… But, we can still get him with a couple of attacks!" Parakarry went into his shell and attacked Staris, leaving him with 20 HP left. Staris fired a star beam from his mouth at Chopper, who luckily managed to guard the attack and take 9 damage instead of 10.

Chopper used his D-Down Pound to hit Staris, and then Kayzee attacked with her kicks and punches. Now Staris 3 had 10 HP left. It didn't stop the Star God from throwing its arm into the ground. The arm managed to whack Chopper when it came to him. C-2 Choppor fired a blast at Staris while trying his best to ignore the argument, while Chopper knew how to finish this off.

"I'll finish this off just like old times!" he began to inhaled some stardust from Staris, and when he noticed him doing this, he tried to do something, but Chopper spat the yellow star out at Staris, making him explode. He brought his thumbs up after the battle and got 34 Star Points.

"Huh?" Chopper saw Staris began to escape. "Great... He escaped. He was one of the important people we needed to stop!"

"Yeah, I don't blame you, Chopper," Bruce agreed. "But… I'm still a little worried about after saving Peach, he'll still be around."

"Gosh!" the Guard Door yelled. "Ummmmmmmmmm… So, since you beat that Star God that beat the Koopa Bros., does that mean you beat the Koopa Bros.? No. You beat that thing, he beat them… But you didn't actually lay a finger on… Arrgaaahhhhhhhhhh! It's too confusing! …OK, fine! I guess there was no big difference between that guy and the Koopa Bros. You can go through. It's not possible for you to beat King Bowser anyway. I'll let you have the honor of being beaten personally by the evil King Bowser. Lucky you!"

"Oh, cool! Let me heal first!" Chopper hit the Heart Block in the other room first, and then he headed through the Guard Door. They found some stairs going up to a small door, so they all headed up those stairs and took a peek at what was through there. "Hey! This is the end of Bowser's Castle! Yes! We made it!"

"Wait, we made it? Woo hoo! Yay! Now we can get into Peach's Castle now!" Kayzee squealed. "That bad evil king will get a good beating!"

"Wow, I can't believe we made it through this whole castle. We're pretty good." Koopla smirked.

"Yes, we did that. But that doesn't mean it's all over yet." Chopper informed. "C'mon, let's just keep going!"

Chopper opened the door, and they all headed through. One thing for sure was that Bowser was definitely not in his own castle. If he's not there, then where could he be?

And was Maquano waiting with him as well?


This is the end of Bowser's Castle! ...Wait, it's not over yet. That's right, there's still more! Well, it may not be A LOT, but you'll see what I mean.

And I also thought it would've been a better idea to have Staris be fought before the end of the castle in this fic, simply because it works much better. ;)