Been having some minor Writer's Block while trying to post this chapter... Ugh, sorry about that.
Enjoy! ;)
Chapter 11: Rehash Galaxies
[BGM: Memory 3 – Super Paper Mario]
"The kitchen will go here, and the library will go over there…" I said busily to myself as I and Luma were constructing a dome made out of bricks on the comet. "We'll put the gate here."
Ever since I took Luma under my care, I'd been bustling about at a feverish pace. "It's a lot of work, but it's worth it to make a happy home." I said. It turned out that Star Bits weren't the only things we found buried in the ice: conveniently, there happened to be tools and furniture unlike any we had ever seen, and I decided to use them to build a home.
Soon, our new house was completed. Luma looked around and remarked, "Don't you think it's awfully big for just the two of us?"
It was certainly a spacious house. With a library, bedroom, kitchen, fountain, and gate; all of which are some of the domes from the Observatory as of today. Still, I felt that something seemed to be missing.
"If only my father, sister, and mother were here…" I said wistfully. Indeed; the Comet Observatory from back then was too large for just the two of us, and not to mention that it felt quite lonely despite having us keeping each other company.
Later at night, clutching my favorite stuffed bunny close to my heart, I fell asleep in the starship, tired after the hard work I've done to build this whole place up.
[BGM End]
Rosalina looked around the place, after having that memory flashback play in her head. "I still can't believe that I was the one who built all of this…" she awed.
"Talking to yourself there, aunt Rosie?" Melissa asked, startling Rosalina as she turned around abruptly.
"Melissa! Don't startle me like that!" she scolded.
Melissa laughed. "Sorry about that. Anyways, I came to let you know that… your other niece is finally coming here."
Rosalina gasped. "Really?!"
"Yes, and she was saved by her own Bodyguards themselves."
"Oh, that's such great news!" Rosalina clasped her hands in delight. "And perfect timing too, because Trifle's ankle is fixed back up!"
"Then it looks like we'll be having quite a heartwarming reunion, then." Melissa chuckled, and then looked up at the sky. "Oh, look! Here they come!"
[BGM: To the Observatory Grounds 2 – Super Mario Galaxy]
Everyone watched as Jewel and the Loyal Bodyguards were flying back towards the Observatory with the Grand Star, as it then plunged into the beacon, turning it blue. The lights on the upper portion of the Observatory were finally lit back up again and a green pipe gets lit, activating a Warp Pad up to the next Dome, as this one appeared to be metallic-looking.
[BGM End]
"Look! The top of the Observatory is lit again!" Inkling Boy pointed up.
Polari nodded. "At last, all of the lights are back on!" he exclaimed. "And it's all thanks to those Heroes, and… Wait, that one with them… Could she be…?!"
[BGM: A Heart-Rending Reunion – Dragon Quest XI S]
Jewel immediately took notice of Melissa and Rosalina in front of her, and a smile spread across her face. "Sis! Aunt Rosie!" she ran up to them with her arms spread out and hugged them, as they retuned the hug.
"My other niece…" Rosalina whispered, crying tears of joy. "I'm so happy to see you safe and sound!"
"I missed you so much, aunt Rosie…" Jewel whispered back. "Same to you, sis."
"The celestial family is back together again after so long…" Melissa said, as the Lumas around them chirped happily while the rest of the gang looked at the trio with warm smiles.
"Yes, and I'm glad that it happened again." Rosalina added. "Given the catastrophe that happened this year, I thought this wouldn't be possible…"
"But it happened, didn't it?" Jewel winked at them as they laughed, before they parted from this family hug.
"My princess!" Trifle called out, catching Jewel's attention as she looked over at Trifle running up to her.
"Oh, Trifle!" Jewel beamed, running up to him as she was then lifted up into the air by Trifle grabbing her hips while spinning her around, before she was put back on the ground as the two embraced. "It's been quite a while since our last date, isn't it, my love?" she smiled.
"It sure has been." Trifle replied, and then they parted. "I'm just glad that you're safe."
"Same to you." Jewel nodded, lovingly gazing into Trifle's eyes as he was doing the same.
Rosalina watched their moment together with interest. "So Trifle really is dating one of my nieces… I'm happy for them. They sure make a great couple." she thought.
[BGM: Rosalina in the Observatory 3 – Super Mario Galaxy]
"Ahem." Polari came over. "I hate to cut this reunion short, but we have a task to complete."
"Indeed." Rosalina added. "We have also ascertained the location of Mario and Trifle's special ones. Please take a look at the circle by your feet." everyone did it so, and it showed the number 61 in the middle. "That number represents the Power Stars you need to reach the center of the universe. That number will decrease with each Power Star you recover."
"And when it reaches zero, the Comet Observatory will regain full power and fly as a starship again. And then we will be able to reach the center of the universe." Melissa finished.
"So we need 61 more… We're almost halfway there!" Mario exclaimed.
"You're right! It went by so fast!" Kirby chirped.
"Then the remaining domes must have the rest of the Power Stars we need, right?" Shulk guessed.
"Possibly." Cloud nodded.
"We have come so far, so we can't stop now." Ren said as everyone agreed with him. "Any new galaxies, Polari?" he asked the Luma elder.
"Let's see…" Polari looked at the map. "We have Gold Leaf and Sea Slide, so far. And there's also a Hungry Luma near the Engine Room, a Daredevil Comet over Gusty Garden and a Cosmic Comet over Freezeflame."
"I'll handle the comet on Gusty Garden!" Daisy volunteered while grinning confidently.
"You sure about that? Don't you remember what did that giant mole do to your arms?" Luigi asked. "Also, you'll be reduced to very low health, so you can't make any mistakes!"
"Oh, don't worry, sweetie! I'll be fine!" Daisy replied cheerfully, kissing Luigi on the cheek before running off to the Bedroom dome, along with Eira who had volunteered to go tackle the Cosmic Comet.
"Daisy…" Luigi whispered, rubbing the kissed spot.
"Well, my brother sure is lucky to have his lover on his side right now…" Mario thought, sighing sadly on the inside since Peach wasn't around.
"Uh… Well, anyways…" Luigi quickly changed the subject. "I think I'll go for Gold Leaf."
"Me too!" Kirby offered.
"Hmm… What do you say we head there too, Solo?" Eleven asked.
Solo just shrugged. "Well, sure." he turned to Eight and Arusu. "And what about you two?"
"I'll be going for the Hungry Luma." Arusu replied.
"And I've already settled for Sea Slide along with Jewel and Neri." Eight said.
With that, the gang made their way up to the upper floor of the Observatory to reach the Engine Room dome. On the way up, Jewel remembered back when Eight referred her as his 'best friend' once he unleashed his anger at Splutterton, and she wondered why he called her that. So before she could forget, she decided to ask him about that.
[BGM End]
"Hey, Eight?"
"Hmm?" Eight looked down at her.
"So… As you promised back then, is there a reason why you referred me as 'best friend'?"
"Oh, right! I nearly forgot about it." he took a deep breath, and spoke, "You see… Back when we had our first chat together outside of Peach's Castle, I started to feel attached to you. In fact, when I arrived back at my home, the first person I ever thought about…was you."
Jewel's eyes perked up. "…Is that so?"
"Well, yeah…" Eight started to blush a little. "And although you and Mario were the new people I've first met upon arriving in this world, you were the first one I've physically interacted with… though in a way I'd never thought it would turn out." he chuckled at the last sentence.
Jewel giggled. "I know, we just collided into each other." she then placed a finger under her chin in thought. "So that explains why back at Isle Delfino, you would always find an opportunity to talk to me…"
"Exactly." Eight nodded. "You, Jewel, are definitely the nicest and kindest person I've ever met in my life, and even though my wife is this too, I honestly believe she now comes a close second. If there's a person I need to talk to… I would talk to you. And that's why I consider you as a close friend to me."
Jewel was astonished at what Eight just told her, but at the same time, she felt extremely happy on the inside. When this happiness became stronger, it proceeded to take over her outside as she gave out a warm smile.
"Funny, that's what all of my team members think of me being so nice and kind, and it was due to those two things I have that they became my team members in the first place. And now that you're part of my special team, I can't say I'm not surprised about this." Jewel said. "But… I'm really happy that you see me as your closest friend, and to be perfectly honest, I think I'm seeing this in you as well. You are just so sweet and especially so caring to me."
Now it was Eight's turn to giggle. "Gee, thanks…" It was at this moment that they and the others have stopped right in front of the Engine Room, while Arusu kept going until he found the Hungry Luma and fed it 1000 Star Bits before flying off to Sand Spiral Galaxy. The pair gave one final glance to each other, with Eight saying, "I'm so glad to have met you, Jewel."
"Same to you, Eight." Jewel replied, and inside the dome they all went.
[BGM: Observation Dome – Super Mario Galaxy]
The interior of this dome had walls and ceiling made out of steel, with purple, orange, and blue pipes leading up from a steel mesh floor. There was also a wandering robot, a Gearmo, wandering slowly around the room in circles.
"Uh, hi? Who are you?" Neri asked.
"Oh, hello. I'm just a simple Gearmo." the Gearmo said. "I heard that you'll be going into the galaxies in this dome. It might get a little rough from here on out, but just do your best and you'll be OK!"
"We will. Thanks!" Kirby replied cheerfully before the groups used the Pull Star above to see the galaxies around them, and then they blasted off.
[BGM End]
At Gold Leaf Galaxy…
[BGM: The Honeyhive – Super Mario Galaxy]
This galaxy was essentially a mirrored Honeyhive Galaxy, though it has an autumn environment and some changes, such as the absence of a cave behind the waterfall, the watch tower being relocated and now functions as an observatory, and the addition of Cataquacks and unique planets and areas. The group consisting of Luigi, Kirby, Eleven and Solo soon landed on the starting planet in which, amusingly, was known as the Reverse Kingdom planet.
"Wait… Isn't this Honeyhive Galaxy?" Kirby wondered, immediately noticing the starting planet's similarities. "Everything around here looks the same, except mirrored!"
"Must be a sister galaxy, then." Solo guessed with a shrug as they split up to walk around the place, where Solo noticed Blue Star Chips scattered about and went to go collect them while Luigi spotted the roaming Cataquacks at the area above the slope on the right.
"Are these things the Cataquacks that Mario told me about when he went off to Isle Delfino?" Luigi wondered and ran around the place to find a way to get up there. Kirby also noticed the Cataquacks and floated up the slope, but then he noticed a bell on the big tree.
"Oh, what's that?" Kirby wondered and floated up to it in curiosity to ring the bell, causing Music Notes to appear and create a path that Kirby followed by floating. By collecting all the Music Notes, Kirby made a Power Star appear right in front of him. "Score!" he exclaimed, taking it before flying off back to the Observatory.
Solo, meanwhile, found all of the Blue Star Chips, making Pull Stars materialize all the way back at the starting point, so he decided to cast Zoom to quickly warp back there and use the Pull Stars to reach the Launch Star, taking off to the Bump Appear planet where a Star Bunny was waiting for him.
[BGM: Chase the Bunnies! – Super Mario Galaxy]
"Think you can catch me, boiyoing?" the Star Bunny said and bounced off while Solo just stood there, smirking… and in just a few seconds, the Star Bunny was suddenly grabbed by Solo.
*record scratch*
"How did you catch me so quickly?!" the Star Bunny asked. The reason? Solo was under the effect of Acceleratle, so he basically did the same strategy that Arusu did previously at Gusty Garden.
"I'll never tell you." Solo chuckled as he put the Bunny down.
"All right then, take this Star!" the Star Bunny hands a Power Star to Solo as he took it, and then flew off.
Heading back to the starting planet…
[Resume "The Honeyhive" BGM]
"WAAAAH!" Luigi screamed as he was launched up in the air by the Cataquack and right into a Sling Star, as that took him to the area with the big tree. "Well, that's one way to get over here…" Luigi remarked as he got up and looked over at a Lilypad to see a Bee Mushroom on it. "Oh, hello!" he exclaimed and went over to get the Bee Mushroom and eat it. His bee outfit was exactly the same as Mario's, only that it had a reversed color scheme (parts that were brown are yellow instead and vice-versa). "Oh, yeah! Looking good!" he said while looking at his reflection in the water before he ran towards the two sleeping Cataquacks in a fence up ahead.
Meanwhile, Eleven was walking over some floating wooden walkways while slashing away the Mandibugs on the way and passing by some rainclouds that strangely showed up around the planet all of a sudden, and then after casting Kaswoosh to get up to the path leading to the observation deck, he met up with a panicking Honeybee. "Hey, are you okay?" Eleven asked.
"Oh, no! Whatever will we do?! A mean mole took over our observation deck!" the Honeybee panicked, pointing over to the observation deck. "It's also attacking us for no good reason and it's going to make a rainstorm on our planet!"
"Oh, so that explains why all of these rainclouds suddenly showed up out of nowhere…" Eleven thought, and assured the Honeybee, "Don't worry, I'll take care of it!" he crossed the thinner wooden walkways with more patrolling Mandibugs and casted Swoosh to reach the bottom of the observation deck, where he proceeded to do some more climbing.
Moving back to Luigi, he had finally reached the Flower planet after being launched up to many other planets by the use of Cataquacks, and looked up at the floating large purple flowers to see a Power Star on top of the largest one. He first used another Cataquack to get on top of a tower that highly resembles a Jenga tower before flying over to the next tower in order to reach the flowers, where he easily navigated them to get to the one with the Power Star.
"Gotcha!" he cheered while grabbing the Star as the Bee suit on him changed back to his normal clothes, and then he flew off back to the Observatory.
[BGM: Major Burrows – Super Mario Galaxy]
Cutting back to Eleven, as soon as he got on top of the observation deck and looked up ahead, he could see a Undergrunt Gunner on a small pedestal elevated from the ground and it was shooting water bubbles from its cannon everywhere, some of them trapping the Honeybees around.
"Hey, you!" Eleven called out the Undergrunt Gunner's attention. "You shall stop making a mess of things for these poor bees right now!"
The Undergrunt Gunner wasn't fazed at all by what Eleven just said to it, and proceeded to fire electric balls at the Luminary Hero with the cannon after turning around to face him, but he easily dodged them and quickly used Swoosh to reach over to the top of the cockpit, as that caught the Undergrunt Gunner by such surprise that it began to panic… and in the midst of that…
"MAGIC BURST!" Eleven yelled after concentrating long enough, and a huge explosion of magic covered the entire field while severely damaging the Undergrunt Gunner's cannon.
[BGM End]
Once Magic Burst ended, Eleven quickly hopped away from the cannon as beams of light shot out of it before exploding, sending the Undergrunt Gunner flying away. A Power Star was left standing over the platform, and all the Honeybees in the area stopped cowering and looked at Eleven in awe.
"You're all welcome." he smiled to them before making his way to the Power Star.
"…Whoa." one Honeybee breathed.
"Huh? Wha? What happened? I think that explosion made me blind!" another Honeybee exclaimed frantically as Eleven grabbed the Star and flew off.
Next, Sea Slide Galaxy…
[BGM: Beach Bowl Galaxy – Super Mario Galaxy]
This was a torus-shaped, beach-themed galaxy that consists of a ring of water encircling an oblong central planet. The ring of water is barricaded by a blue barrier around the galaxy to prevent any accidental falls, while the land is represented by small islands dotted across. There are a few similarities with Beach Bowl in this galaxy as you can imagine, mainly being the fact that it's also inhabited by penguins.
Neri was the first to land on the starting island, and the first thing she saw was the penguins flipping out. "Hey, what's wrong, little guys?" she asked.
"Well, this place is one awesome loop of ocean, but that big hooligan is causing trouble and keeping us out of it!" one penguin said, pointing over to the stone arch at the distance, where below it stood a large orca with sharp teeth.
"Oh my! That orca over there?" Neri gasped, and the next thing she heard were the rest of the surrounding penguins complaining:
"That big bully's ruining all our fun!"
"That guy's faster than a torpedo! It's crazy!"
"I wanna go swim!"
Neri felt bad for them, especially considering that she had already helped out penguins before, and so she wouldn't let them down like this again. "Don't worry, you all. I'll go have a word or two with that big mean orca for you!"
"You will? We'd appreciate it, miss!" the green penguin said. "Are you gonna try swimmin' with a shell?"
"Oh, that won't be necessary! Watch this!" Neri went over to the boardwalk, where she wished for her mermaid tail and dived into the water as the penguins watched that in amazement.
"Wow! She's not a landwalker!" the red penguin exclaimed. "What are you?!"
Neri winked. "I'm a mermaid! Well, see you soon!" she did a wave salute and swam over to the orca, Guppy.
"Now, who do we have here? You're not a penguin… but you're not a landwalker either!" Guppy exclaimed. "Well, whatever. You some friend of those penguins?"
"Um, yes. I am." Neri replied firmly. "Who do you think you are, bullying those poor creatures like that?" she said sternly.
"Let's get something clear here, fish lady. This sea's mine, see?"
"Oh yeah? And who said it was yours to begin with?"
"I did! But if you want it back, show some gills and make it through eight rings! If you pass this challenge, I'll hand the sea back. But if you don't, then the sea will be mine forever!"
"Challenge accepted!" Neri nodded, still keeping her eyebrows furrowed. Guppy then turns around and swims ahead, creating the first ring in the water as Neri immediately followed behind and swam through the ring.
Meanwhile, Jewel and Eight had arrived at the starting island and they both looked around the place. "Huh… I wonder where Neri went?" Eight wondered.
"She's probably down there somewhere in the water, as always." Jewel playfully rolled her eyes at the last sentence. "Let's go explore around!" she said as they split up, with Jewel collecting Star Bits that were hidden in the flowers while Eight eyed at the small island up ahead close to the stone arch, and saw something that piqued his interest.
"Oh?" he wondered and jumped into the water to swim over to the island, and when he climbed on it, he picked up the object he just saw, which turned out to be a Bee Mushroom. "A new Power-Up? Wonder what it does." he ate it, and then his appearance changed. His bandana turned yellow with brown antennae sticking out on top, his jacket remained yellow, but now sported black horizontal stripes over it, his shirt turned brown, his boots were black, and bee wings popped out of his back along with a stinger popping out of his rump.
"…Tasted like honey." Eight said, unaware of his transformation until he looked down, seeing his now black-striped jacket. "Wha-?" his eyes widened, before he decided to take a look at his reflection in the water. "It… turned me into a bee?" he asked, glancing back at his wings and stinger.
It was then that Jewel came over to the island by swimming, and she instantly saw Eight under the effect of the Bee Mushroom. "Oh my goodness! I never thought you would look cute as a bee!" she squealed.
"I…wh-what?!" Eight flinched, a blush forming on his face. "Y-You think I'm c-cute like this?"
Jewel giggled at his reaction. "Why, of course!" she exclaimed, causing Eight's blush to darken. "You're too funny when you blush." Jewel giggled again.
"W-Well, then…" Eight quickly changes the subject so that the blush on his face would go away. "Do you know what's the name of the Power-Up that changed me…into this?" he asked, albeit a bit awkwardly.
"I do. It was the Bee Mushroom." Jewel replied. "As you already know, it gives you the appearance of a bee and you're able to buzz around in the air like all bees do. However, you must avoid touching water, as that will get rid of the Power-Up." she paused for a bit after Eight nodded in understanding before adding, "Say, since you already got the Bee Power-Up, why don't you go for this galaxy's Silver Stars?"
"Silver Stars?" Eight asked, and then Jewel pointed to the top of the stone arch, where a Silver Star was trapped in a bubble. "Oh."
"You just need to collect five of those scattered around the place, and they'll combine into a Power Star!" Jewel explained. "Now, I'm gonna go collect Star Bits to get to another Power Star!" she then jumped back into the water.
"Okay…" Eight said.
Turning around to look up at the first Silver Star, Eight proceeded to flap his bee wings and fly up to it, where he poked the bubble to pop it up and free the Silver Star as it chirped happily before it proceeded to accompany him.
"One down, four more to go." he said and took off flying to search for the rest.
Back at the starting island, Neri and Guppy had just completed a full lap around the sea after the mermaid had beaten the challenge easily, and Guppy crawled up the shore looking defeated.
"Not bad, for a fish lady. Well, I'm a fish of my word. The sea's all yours, lady." Guppy said and released a Power Star, as Neri changed back into human form to go claim the Star, while she heard all of the penguins praising her:
"Yeah, way to go!"
"Thanks a bunch!"
"Surf's up again!"
"Now we can play!"
"Nice work, fish lady!"
Neri giggled. "No problem, you guys!" she then took the Star and put it away, and then the penguin coach approached her. "Oh, what is it?" she asked.
"Hey, since we are all free to swim again, we've got a penguin race starting here soon! Want in?" the coach asked. "Plus, we want to see how fast you are!"
"Sure! You're on!"
"All right, this race is on!"
Moving over to Jewel…
"That's it… I'm stuffed!" a Hungry Luma exclaimed after Jewel had fed it 40 Star Bits. "Here we go! TRANSFOOOORM!" the Hungry Luma flies up and transforms into a planet that was extremely identical to the Hurry-Scurry planet from Hurry-Scurry Galaxy.
"Alright, I'm ready for it." Jewel said and launched herself towards the planet by using a nearby cannon, and landed on the first Shrinking Tile while collecting the first Music Note. She then proceeded to run around the planet to collect all the Music Notes while the Shrinking Tiles would…well, shrink, and disappear behind her. She kept her cool, and eventually, she was able to snag all Music Notes, which caused the black hole in the middle to disappear and reveal a Power Star in its place.
"Yes!" she cheered and fell into the planet to get the Star, and then she flew off back to the Observatory.
Heading back to Eight, he had already gathered four of the five Silver Stars so he was only missing one, and this last one was at the Ocean Pudding planet, the planet at the very middle of the massive ring of water.
"What does this do?" he wondered as he was looking down at a green valve at the area behind the large tree, before he proceeds to turn it. Suddenly, a large serpentine water slide burst out from behind him, catching him by surprise. "Whoa!" he exclaimed.
He noticed that the water slide led directly to the Ocean Pudding planet. "If the last Silver Star is over there, then I'll have to get rid of my Power-Up anyways." he thought and jumped into the water slide, immediately ridding him out of his Bee form as the slide was dragging him all the way to the planet. There, he just made his way to the topside of the planet to free the last Silver Star, and then they all combined into a Power Star.
"Got it!" he smiled. "I can't wait to tell my comrades about what I found!" he exclaimed and flew off.
Going back to Neri one more time, after the race…
"Aww…" the purple penguin pouted, as Neri easily beat the penguins in the race. "Fine, you beat us. How are you such a fast swimmer, anyways?"
"Mermaids are natural born swimmers." Neri grinned.
The coach walked up to her. "Alright, here's your Gold Medal, champ!" he handed her a Power Star.
"Thank you so much!" Neri smiled and then took off back to the Observatory.
[BGM End]
Meanwhile, at Gusty Garden's Daredevil Comet…
"HIYAH!" Daisy yelled, uppercutting Major Burrows to knock him up in the air. He fell to the ground KO'd, and then a Power Star appeared while Daisy collapsed on her butt to the ground. "Man… when did he get so tough?" she sighed. "Luigi was right about what a Daredevil Comet was like." she got back up to grab the Power Star, and then flew off.
Freezeflame Galaxy's Cosmic Comet…
"You can't catch me! I'm a better ice skater than you!" Eira taunted her own Cosmic self as they were both ice skating to the Power Star at the end, only that Eira was doing it more gracefully and smoothly than Cosmic Eira as the latter was trying to catch up.
In the end, the effort for Cosmic Eira was to no avail as Eira got to the Power Star first. "Ha! I win!" she grinned as Cosmic Eira cresfalled in defeat, and then Eira took off.
And finally, at Sand Spiral Galaxy…
[BGM: Space Athletic – Super Mario Galaxy]
This galaxy is a large barrel with a rapid flowing sand river, and was inhabited by Boos and Bats. Upon arriving at the Sinking Sand planet after using a Sling Star from the Wrecked Airship, Arusu found himself in the middle of choosing one of the two Power-Ups in front of him: the Bee Mushroom or the Boo Mushroom.
"Hmm…" he mused, and then glanced at the Boo Mushroom. "I think I'll go for the Boo Mushroom. I might not know what the other one does, but I can just easily float around with the one I know anyways." he went over to the side with the Boo Mushroom where he picked it up and ate it. After transforming, the ghostly Legendary Hero proceeded to float ahead, making sure to avoid touching the light beam.
"Heh, this is too easy!" Arusu grinned… ooonly to find himself in front of two infatuated Boos shortly after. "…I spoke too soon." he muttered, quickly turning himself invisible to fly past the two Boos as they looked around confused, and after turning visible again, he had to get past two more light beams and a blockade with Water Shooters that were shooting out water bubbles.
Then, he ignored the Sling Star at the end of the path and instead floated up the wall to reach the final section, which had a small and bright moon with platforms revolving swiftly around it. Taking advantage of the Power-Up still active on him, Arusu proceeded to just float over to the moon where the Power Star awaited him.
"Got it!" he grinned as the Boo Power-Up on him disappeared, and then he flew off.
[BGM End]
Somewhere else unknown…
"Finally… It's done!" Chuckole announced, as he had just finished building something that was hiding in the shadows right now. "This time, I'm gonna play rough on the Inklings with this!"
"Isn't that just a replica of the second machine that your father used?" Guffawin questioned. "How is that going to help if it works the same way?"
"Ohohoho, let's just say that I made sure to make a few improvements thanks to the Grand Star powering it up. So I won't be going down easily this time!"
"Well, if you say so."
"And, what about you? What do you have in store?"
Guffawin chuckled evilly. "Oh, let's just say… I'll be using my ability of creation to revive a certain scary shark that's been reduced to bones… Anyone who comes over to his home planet shall become fish food!"
Both Guffawin and Chuckole laughed evilly together.
To be continued…
Oh boy, what exactly are Guffawin and Chuckole planning? Find out next time!
Trivia for this chapter:
1. In the original game, if Boo Mario tries to fly up the wall in Sand Spiral Galaxy instead of taking the Sling Star, his ability will disappear before landing on the platform. This might be due to how bright the moon is, as noted by a purple Toad.