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"I'm sorry… I can't stay here anymore…" Junior said, looking at his Clown Car. "If I wanted to fight Mario and Team RWBY, I would have done it with dad, not them…"
He wiped his tears away. "I just hope I'm doing the right thing here."
A gentle hand was placed on his shoulder as he turned around to see Bowsette and Rei looking at him sympathetically. "We don't blame you, sweetie…" Bowsette said gently. "If you want to leave and head for the Observatory, that's fine…"
"Just stay safe, okay?" Rei asked.
"I will…" Junior nodded as both of his aunts kissed him on the cheeks while hugging him. "Love you."
"Love you too, honey… I have a feeling we'll be right behind you." Bowsette smiled as Junior climbed into the Clown Car and set in the coordinates for the Observatory. "Rei, you might want to give him the extra edge."
"Of course." Rei nodded, placing her hands on the Clown Car and making it go invisible. "This should make you fly under this ship's radar."
"Thanks." Junior nodded as the Clown Car started to hover before flying out and away from the ship. He took one last look, staring at his aunts before heading off for the Observatory.
At the Observatory…
The Observatory, Starship Mario and Hat Kid's ship flew into the next area, but as they stopped… they weren't even paying attention to the scenery before them.
BGM: Starship Mario B (Super Mario Galaxy 2)
"Alright!" Nora was drawing on a white board. "So basically, from what we've seen so far… most of the Koopa Troop that we've seen have been corrupted by Phazon! However, a select few haven't been corrupted… yet." She said. "Kamek, General Guy, Junior, Bowsette, Rei, Marnie, Piers and, surprisingly… the Goomba Squad. The big question marks are Captain Slime and Neo. Have any of us made contact with them recently?"
"No, but we've made contact with Cinder." Akira said. "Based on our interaction, it seems she had just been poisoned considering her entire right forearm has been covered in it. She was screaming for us to cut it off."
"Wait, she's part of the Koopa Troop now?!" Ruby said in shock.
"Well, we did work with them for a while." Emerald spoke up. "Cinder was planning to get the Koopa Troop on Salem's side, so she had Roman and Neo work with the big guy and would hope to egg him to join Salem. Of course, thankfully, that never happened."
"Indeed. I couldn't bring myself to bring that big lug to Cinder… and neither did Neo." Roman spoke up.
"And, of course, I'm part of the Winter Ops now so there's no way I'd know that the fire hag was in there." Emerald said.
"Do you know where Mercury is at?" Weiss asked.
"Unfortunately, no, he's not answering my texts. I'm worried about him." Emerald sighed. "I just hope he didn't wind up with any bad eggs. If he did, I'm dragging him out myself."
"Nyx was saying the next time we come into contact with one of them, we pull a Bowser and kidnap them." Yang said.
Nora's eyes sparkled. "Yes! That's exactly what we're gonna do!" She wrote on the white board. "It's Operation: Kidnap the Bad Guys! We find one of them and we hightail it out of there before Ridley and Dark Samus realize what the heck happened!"
"Would Marnie even be considered a bad guy here?" Sora wondered.
"I think it'd be more "Anti-Hero" or something." Claude shrugged.
"She's best friends with Neo and she works for Bowser, but she's not downright rotten compared to the others." Luigi said. "Plus, I'm also great friends with Marnie so of course, she's not completely evil."
"Well yeah, but Operation: Kidnap the Bad Guys/Lesser Bad Guys is a mouthful." Nora pointed out. "Anyway…"
"Mind if we put Cinder on that list?" Akechi asked. "We can kidnap her too."
"Eeeeh… do we really want to kidnap her?" Yang folded her arms.
"I've seen the Koopa Troop infected with Phazon." Aqua spoke up. "Their body language, the way some of them are hunched over, not to mention how erratic their movement can be…" She shuddered. "It's a fate worse than death… they're practically zombies. I'd say the best course of action is to "kidnap" Cinder and cure her. No one needs to deal with something so horrid…"
"My thoughts exactly." Akechi said.
"Wait wait wait wait, time out!" Umber spoke up. "Cinder who?"
Ruby looked at him in confusion. "Ya know… Cinder Fall?"
"Never heard of her."
"Ruby, Pit and I fought her when she tried to escape! She planned to destroy Beacon!" Yang said.
"Not ringing any bells…"
"Eggman revealed that and more all over Remnant." Rosalina reminded.
"Wow, Eggman did all that? The things you miss when you take a nap, am I right?"
"YOU SLEPT THROUGH ALL THAT?!" They all yelled.
"What? I had a big Alolan pizza for dinner… that made me a bit sleepy." He shrugged.
"Why am I not surprised…" Guzma facepalmed.
"Okay, so… I vote JINXY takes care of Junior. Poor kid was terrified the last time we saw him." Nyx said.
"I'll go ahead and kidnap Marnie." Umber said.
"I think we should do that too." Gloria said with Hop and Bede nodding.
"Hey, maybe we can take care of the Goomba Squad." Captain Toad said with his team nodding.
"Well, in any case… we have to be on the lookout for them." Nora said. "Even if it means kidnapping Cinder, of all people. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to stare out in awe over our new scenery." She took off running. "Wooooooow! It's so pretty!"
"If it means sticking it to Dark Samus and Ridley, I'm all for kidnapping the Koopa Troop." Hiyoko smirked.
"My thoughts exactly." Samus agreed.
In the Terrace Dome…
"My word…" Eirin whispered as she witnessed Aphrodite using Heal Pulse on Sun along with Mikan using her Kritzreig on him as well, as the Phazon was slowly starting to sizzle out.
"Aaaah… this hits the spot." Sun smiled.
Eirin immediately looked at the cure she was making. "Two Grand Stars gave it an edge… but if I had that Healing Pulse and your machine's healing beam…" She clapped her hands together. "We might just have this cure all figured out!" She smiled.
With Polari…
"Two galaxies are currently available right now… Tall Trunk Galaxy and Cloudy Court to be exact."
"Tall Trunk?" Palutena approached him. "Rosalina's been mentioning that the leaves in this particular galaxy has a special kind of substance that when grinded, it turns into aloe."
"Mhm. Rosalina has several jars full of 'em." Polari nodded. "Of course, now we know we can buy aloe plants or small tubes filled with them at the store."
"Yup!" Palutena smiled as a Warp Star was made as the two groups headed off for Tall Trunk Galaxy and Cloudy Court. "…Hmm, speaking of which, I wonder where Rosie is?"
Tall Trunk Galaxy Power Star #1 - The Flotacious Blimp Fruit - Ibuki, Gloria, Yoshi, Mario, Hat Kid, Ruby, Cardin
BGM: Tall Trunk Galaxy (Super Mario Galaxy 2)
The group landed on the ground, seeing the large tree in front of them. "Woooow… that tree's big!" Ruby said.
"I think I've seen bigger." Mario said as they wandered around the planet until they came across a large blue fruit.
"What's that?" Ruby wondered.
"That is Blimp Fruit." A Whittle said. "Tastes good. Turns you into balloon. Safely float."
"That turns us into WHAT?!" Gloria exclaimed as they all stared at it, slowly backing away from it.
"I know a few sickos at Beacon who would get a kick out of this…" Cardin sweatdropped as Ibuki walked over to the Blimp Fruit and picked it up, licked her lips and went to eat it… but stopped herself and looked at the camera with a deadpan expression.
"Really, did you really expect Ibuki to have this for herself?" She said before shoving it into Yoshi's mouth.
"Mmph!" Yoshi gulped in surprise before turning blue and turning into a balloon-sized Yoshi.
"Mama mia!" Mario exclaimed.
"Yup, this is how I pictured it too." Cardin said.
"I could be adventurous and see if I can turn into a Drifblim… but…" Gloria looked at Yoshi as Mario and Ruby tried to get Yoshi down. "I ain't takin' any chances!"
"Hmm…" Hat Kid took the Blimp Fruit and ate it up, where her hat was changed into a helmet, her clothing changed into overralls and two balloon were inflated and attached to her helmet. "Whoooooa!" Hat Kid yelped as she saw a Sprangler coming down to get a better look at her before she batted him away with her umbrella. "Ya know what? Just call me the Balloon Fighter!" Hat Kid grinned.
Cardin looked at some swinging vines. "Ya know what, I'll take the scenic route."
"Agreed." Gloria nodded, going into her Latias form and picking up Ruby and Ibuki as they flew over to a Launch Star with Mario and Yoshi catching up.
"Weeeee!" Hat Kid giggled as she hopped into the Launch Star and blasted away, while Cardin swung around and got caught into a different Launch Star.
"Hey wait, this isn't where everyone else WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENT!"
Everyone else landed on the Wood Drum Planet. "How do you feel, Yoshi-chan?" Ibuki asked.
"Yo Yo…" Yoshi responded, feeling a bit weird.
"She thought as much." Ibuki nodded before getting an idea as they were jumping down. "Hey Gloria-chan!"
"Hmm?"
"This might be a good time for you to try out your Dash Pepper!"
"Good thinking!" Gloria smiled as she pulled it out and popped the whole thing in her mouth as she glowed brightly. Her hair got longer up to her lower back as it turned bright orange with red highlights as if it was on fire. Her hat disappeared while a unicorn horn appeared on her forehead. Her eyes turned into a fiery orange. Her clothing turn into a cream track suit with fire painted on it with black tennis shoes.
"Well, would you look at that! You turned into a Rapidash!" Ibuki smiled as Gloria turned to the curved wall next to her as she got into position and started running up the wall, leaving a trail of fire behind her while everyone else traversed through the planet as Yoshi would eat another Blimp Fruit and floated up with Mario and Ruby on top of him, noticing they were headed for a spiky plant.
"Um, lean to the left!" Ruby said but then Gloria ran by and torched the spiky plants. "Never mind!" She said as Hat Kid floated up with her balloons to meet up with them as Ibuki went into her Arcanine form to meet up with Gloriaas they snagged all the Star Chips.
"Woo! Got it in one!" Ibuki said, high fiving Gloria.
"Hell yeah!" She grined as they went into the Launch Star and flew off to the Wood Circle Cut Planet where they would slide down, Gloria unleashing Fire Blast on the spiky plants as they landed on the ground and then worked their way up with Yoshi eating Blimp Fruits as Gloria and Ibuki also hopped on, Hat Kid blasting away Paragoombas and Spranglers while happily floating up as Ibuki and Gloria would burn away the plants until they got to the Power Star where Mario and Ruby jumped up and grabbed it.
"Got it!" Ruby grinned, high fiving Mario as they were all taken back to the Observatory.
Tall Trunk Galaxy Power Star #2 - Tall Trunk's Big Slide - Cardin
Cardin, meanwhile, landed on a different planet. "Huh… wonder what this is all about…" He wondered as he walked up the steps and noticed the large slide in front of him. "Whoa…" He whispered as he backed up before getting an idea, pulling something out of his pocket and pressed a button, as the object quickly transformed into a light brown skateboard with Sea5ons decals on it. "Heh, takes me back to my skateboarding days…"
Meanwhile, in the Bedroom Dome at the Observatory…
"Why did you take me in here…?" Blake asked as Kokoro had taken her inside.
"I asked Rosie if she could turn one of the domes into a music room and she happily did so in the bedroom." Kokoro explained, pressing a switch as a karaoke machine, several stereo systems and a flat screen TV appeared on the wall.
"Whoa…"
"Music helps me relax, Blake." She smiled. "Maybe it can get your mind off things with that X-Para… whatever it is."
"Are you sure…?"
"Positive!" Kokoro smiled as she handed the remote and microphone to Blake. "It'll be fun!"
Blake hesitated for a moment before nodding, flipping through the songs before finding one. "Oh hey, this one might be good."
Back with Cardin…
Cardin got on his skateboard. "Let's rock." He said as he skateboarded over before jumping over the small ledge right as Blake pressed play.
BGM: Sk8er Boi (Avril Lavigne)
Cardin's skateboard touched the trunk and immediately started to gain momentum as he skateboarded down the trunk, weaving his way around a Spiny while collecting a few coins. He would immediately see a balloon as he jumped up and punched it as several Star Bits came out and went to him while Cardin landed on the skateboard and kept going. "Oh yeah, feel the adrenaline!" He said as he went into the log and found himself about to come into contact with Spiky plants.
Cardin immediately weaved his way around the plants, collecting some coins on the path as a Wiggler walked in his path, unaware of what was going on as Cardin crouched down and then jumped up, his skateboard barely grazing the Wiggler. "Wah?!" The Wiggler yelped.
"Sorry!" Cardin said as he popped a blue balloon as more Star Bits flew to him while slaloming over two spiky plants and then jumped on a railing, grinding his way across as he jumped off and over a patch of spiky plants as he jumped on another railing and grinded on it before jumping off and did a 360 spin before landing on the trunk, where he would spot a Spiny as he knelt down and picked it up, causing it to yelp in surprise.
"Don't mind if I do!" He said as he placed it on his head while the Spiny tried to get off, but found himself glued to his hair while having a terrified expression on his face. "Oh, you'll be fine!" He said as he went into the log and popped another balloon with the Spiny's spikes as he weaved around the holes before jumping over a gap and landing perfectly as he weaved his way around an angry Wiggler as he jumped on a railing and alternated to a different railing while jumping over a Wiggler as he landed on the trunk and skateboarded down and popping another balloon before jumping over a gap.
Once he crossed the gap, he weaved through three angry Wigglers running full steam ahead behind him. "Huh, what's got them riled up?" He wondered as he went inside another log and jumped over two gaps while popping a balloon, then would ride his way into the last log when he would spot something that caught his attention. A Purple Comet was entering Tall Trunk's atmosphere.
"Why is that comet purple?" Cardin wondered as he went inside and dodged the spiky plants and angry Wigglers as he would make it toward the end… until a worm hole opened up as he and the Spiny went inside it and found themselves back on top of the slide, this time with Purple Coins scattering around the slide.
"Ooooh, I see!" Cardin smirked as he skateboarded down again while the Spiny had a "Not again!" expression on his face, where Cardin freestyled his way down while collecting the Purple Coins and weaved through the plants, and when he went inside a log, he would see a patch of purple coins as he would moved over to them and collected them with both of his hands before jumping across a gap and dodged the Wigglers while the Spiny was desperately hanging on for dear life, shaking like a leaf.
"You'll be fine!" He said as he went over to collect another patch of purple coins but would realize he was at a weird angle so he jumped, barely hitting the railing as he grinded against it before hopping off and gracefully landed on the trunk. "Nailed it!" He said but the Spiny wasn't sure it'd last much longer as Cardin glided across the trunks while jumping over the gaps and collecting the purple coins, going into the final log and snagging the Purple Coins while weaving through the spiky plants and angry Wigglers as Cardin would jump off after collecting the last Purple Coin, landing in front of a few Whittles.
"Skillful Warrior. Two Stars." The Whittle said, handing over a regular Power Star and a Purple One.
"Thanks." Cardin said, taking the Power Stars while setting the Spiny down, where it was shaking uncontrollably before passing out.
End BGM
"I had no idea you were a good skateboarder. Those were some impressive moves!"
"Eh, what can I say? I dabbled with it when I was younger."
Palutena giggled. "I see you still got it."
"Pretty much." Cardin chuckled as he was surrounded by light and disappeared.
Back with Blake and Kokoro…
Blake smiled, turning to Kokoro who's eyes were sparkling. "You're right, it did help me relax."
"Told you!" Kokoro smiled, happily hugging the Faunus.
Cloudy Court Galaxy Power Star #1 - Head in the Clouds - Umber, Lillie, Hau, Hop, Bede, Sora, Aqua, Namine, Zinnia
BGM: Fluffy Bluff Galaxy (Super Mario Galaxy 2)
The group landed on the ground. "Woooow! It's gorgeous here!" Namine gushed.
"Tell me about it!" Hau grinned as Lillie pulled out her phone and took a few pictures while Namine sketched in her sketchbook.
"It's pretty." Aqua smiled.
"Alriiiight, let's go find those Power Stars!" Umber exclaimed as he would find a Cloud Flower and applied it to his staff, making cloud platforms for the others, although Sora simply glided his way across while Zinnia simply called out her Salamence to fly across.
"What took you slowpokes so long?" Zinnia teased as they climbed on the drum planets, only for them to bounce off.
"Whooooooa!" Hop yelped.
"Ack!" Hau yelped.
"Yaaaah!" Lillie cried.
"Hmm, interesting… Page 394 shows off a werewolf." Umber mused, casually reading a book as he was bouncing along the drums.
"Wahoooo!" Sora did a front flip.
"Cannonbaaaaaall!" Zinnia exclaimed while laughing as they made their way onto some cymbal planets.
"Now we're on cymbals?" Aqua asked in surprise.
"This galaxy is weird… and I mean that in a good way!" Sora said, as suddenly some a few Crescendo Heartless showed up.
"Huh, the locals are even weirder." Zinnia said.
"Heartless!" Sora summoned his Keyblade.
"Okay, that's a bit rude to call the locals, don't you think?"
"No no no, see the symbol on them? That's a Heartless."
"Looks more like a tribal tattoo." Zinnia said, causing Sora to sweatdrop.
"No no, she's got a point!" Hau said as one Crescendo fired musical notes at them but Umber flicked his staff as a cloud popped up as the musical notes went back and smacked into the Heartless, quickly destroying it as a heart flew up into the sky.
"Eh? You call 'em Heartless but I just saw a heart flying away." Zinnia tilted her head.
"They steal hearts." Namine told her.
"Well, they're stealing mine because they look so cute!" Zinnia said, causing the other two Crescendos to blush only to get eradicated by Aqua.
"Cute or not, they're still dangerous."
"Eh, if you say so." Zinnia shrugged.
"Hold on, are we just gonna ignore the fact that Umber's cloud reflected those projectile… musical notes?" Bede pointed out.
"I mean, it's a mirror staff so I don't think a reflecting mirror in the shape of a cloud would be too weird." Hau shrugged as they shot up to the different cymbal planets from Sling Stars while collecting the coins, then they found the Launch Star and flew away to the Ruined Towers Planets.
As they landed, they would spot a Hungry Luma. "Hey cutie!" Zinnia waved.
"Hey there! I need thirty coins in order to transform!"
"Well, we got a boatload of them so here you go." Zinnia said as they handed over the coins as the Hungry Luma's eyes sparkled before eating them all. "What the?!"
"Oh, I'm so full... I think I'm gonna TRANSFOOOOORM!" He yelled, flying away and transforming into another planet.
"He just... ate all the coins..." Zinnia stared off in bewilderment.
"That can't even be healthy. How can you eat coins like that?" Hop wondered.
"No idea." Bede shrugged.
"Oh!" Zinnia snapped out of it and pulled out another coin she had. "These coins are probably chocolate coins dipped in solid gold to prevent them from melting."
"You think so?" Hop asked.
"It's worth a theory. Bottoms up!" She said, taking a bite out of the coin, but her teeth didn't sink through it.
"Well?" Bede looked at her.
"Nope... noth chocolath... ith juth thothid golph." She spat out the coin and tossed it behind her. "These Lumas are odd..." She said as the three of them flew off to the planet while the others went their own way.
Cloudy Court Galaxy Power Star #3 - Silver Stars in the Purple Pond - Zinnia, Hop, Bede
"Oooh, I don't like the looks of that liquid." Hop said.
"Silver Stars above those clouds..." Zinnia rubbed her chin before calling out her Altaria. "Can you collect those Silver Stars for us? We'll hang around here."
"Tari!" The Altaria flew off.
"Yeah, we'll just hang around here and-"
"Yahahahahaha!"
"...Relax... uh oh." Hop turned around as Cosmic Clones of him, Bede and Zinnia popped up.
"What the heck?!" Zinnia exclaimed in surprise.
"Bede... now would be a good time to use that new power of yours!" Hop said.
Pause BGM
Bede smirked, digging into his pocket and pulling out a pink glove that formed into a gauntlet. "Yang wasn't the only one who was taught by Aerith."He said as materia glowed on his gauntlet.
BGM: Battle! Bede (Pokemon Sword and Shield)
Cosmic Bede rushed over to himself, throwing a punch but Bede ducked as the gauntlet burst into flame and Firaga Punched him in the gut to send him into Cosmic Hop before Bede got into position and unleashed a Firagathrower at him, where a stream of fire hit the two.
Cosmic Zinnia, meanwhile, jumped to the side and rushed at Bede, delivering a knee strike that sent Bede sliding a little, but Zinnia would catch him before he could slide into the purple goo. Once Bede recovered, he planted his hand to the ground as it turned to ice and made the clones slip and slide while Zinnia gracefully ice skates and kicked her cosmic clone in the face.
"Might as well join the fun. Let's go Zamazenta!"
"Griiiieeeeellld!"
"Moonblast!" He ordered as Zamazenta unleashed it on the Cosmic Clones, then Bede snapped his fingers, where a bolt of lightning struck the three of them... and then suddenly, they all turned to Star Bits while Altaria returned with the Power Star.
End BGM
"Tari!" Altaria chirped.
"Hey, right on time!" Zinnia smiled as Bede put his gauntlet away.
"Gloria's got her Pokemon forms, Marnie's got her magic from Hyrule, I've got materia... all that's left is you."
"Naaaah." Hop put his hands over his head. "I'm good. Someone's gotta be the normal one around here."
"So a badass normal? Respect!" Zinnia grinned.
Bede chuckled. "Indeed. Suit yourself then." He said as they were taken away by the heavenly lights.
Back with the others, deep into the Castle Wall Planet...
Resume Fluffy Bluff BGM
"I have to say, this is pretty relaxing." Lillie said, sitting on a cloud platform that Umber had made as it was floating with the wind.
"You said it." Hau smiled, sitting next to Lillie as another cloud containing Aqua, Namine and Umber while Sora simply glided his way across.
They would soon reach the end as a fan would soon have them glide up to the Power Star. The problem was... there were moving walls that would easily squish them, but Sora would swiftly AirStep his way to the Power Star.
End BGM
"Got it!" Sora grinned as they would start to fly off, but something pulled Aqua back.
"Huh...?" Aqua wondered as she looked up and saw a dark shadow comet approaching the Galaxy and she found herself surrounded in a dark light before finding herself at the Cosmic Platforms Planet.
Strange... She thought as she cautiously walked over as the platforms came to her. She summoned her Keyblade as she slowly approached the Star Chips, cautiously picking up each one.
"You seem to be on edge."
Aqua closed her eyes, taking a deep breath before exhaling. "You again."
BGM: Aqua -Dark Dive- (Kingdom Hearts III)
Anti-Aqua smiled. "Yup."
Aqua rolled her eyes. "Whatever, I'm not interested in hearing your lies." She said as she walked off to collect the last Star Chip, where the Launch Star appeared.
"Oh, you don't want to get requainted by old friends?"
"Not interested." Aqua said, walking past her while giving her a glare.
"Because I'm pretty sure you want to meet them."
"More clones of you? Pass."
Anti-Aqua caught her arm. "No, a little more personal."
Aqua pried her away and launched away toward the Castle Wall Planet, making her way to the Power Star as platforms appeared for her at a wall. She started climbing before coming into contact with her anti self at the top.
"You sure you don't want to?" Aqua ignored her and kept walking. "Well, I guess I'll just do this then." She snapped her fingers as a shadowy figure appeared in front of Aqua, almost having her walk into it.
"Oh, now what?" Aqua mumbled as the shadowy figure split into two and then they formed into Ven and Terra... or, more specifically, Terranort and Ventus-Vanitas. The mere sight of them made her gasp.
"Can't run and ignore it forever." Anti-Aqua casually said, appearing on a platform and casually sitting there. "Remember that conversation you had in Radiant Garden? Where you wanted to bring Terra back but it didn't go the way you wanted, you got a bit snippy and then of course, Ven calls you awful, and of course, that caused a rift between your friendship?"
"Xehanort made that happen." Aqua said.
"Yeah, he might have had a hand in it. But who was responsible for kick-starting this rift in friendship? Eraqus's teachings really blinded you... and look what happened. Terra lost himself and Xehanort made it easy to merge with him. As for Ven... poor kid got tangled up with Vanitas and looked what happened. Two friends merged with the darkness. Too much of it, to be exact."
"No... they're back to normal!" Aqua exclaimed. "None of this is real! Not you, not these two... you're just a horrid memory!"
"Oh Aqua!" Anti-Aqua rolled her eyes. "I'm more than just a mere memory. You can't run from your inner self. If you would just embrace it, you wouldn't be in this mess. There's a thing called Yin and Yang, a balance between light and darkness. Too much light, there won't be enough shade. Too much darkness, plants won't grow. There has to be a balance. You, of all people, should know this... or, you would... if you weren't a hypocrite."
"Hypocri- i'm not!"
"Maybe you ought to take a good look in the mirror. You hate the darkness, yet you're good friends with Terra and Riku who's embraced it. You get a little antsy when they use the darkness... and really, Eraqus is to blame. Yeah, he's a good teacher but he wasn't the best in understanding the light and dark. Imagine if he had just let Terra cut loose and you weren't so afraid... I'm sure all of you would have been in a better place. Maybe... I dunno, Vanitas and Xehanort were the oddballs there."
Terranort and Ventus-Vanitas would reach over to Aqua. "Aqua..." Both of them would say, both of them sounding disappointingly hurt.
"No... no no no!" Aqua ran off toward the Power Star.
Anti-Aqua sighed. "Little by little, I know I'm getting through to you. If only you weren't so stubborn and just... embraced it." She snapped her fingers as Terranort and Ventus-Vanitas disappeared. "You'll understand... and when you come around, I'll be here." She said, watching Aqua snag the Power Star and flew off, while Anti-Aqua disappeared.
End BGM
Back at the Observatory, with Rosalina...
Rosalina was sitting in the grass near the garage, her eyes closed as she was lightly floating on the ground, meditating.
Her face slightly twitched, sensing someone close to her. "What do you want, jester?"
"My my! You could sense me while I was invisible?" Dimentio appeared. "I think I'm starting to lose my grip. Then again, my powers have been slowly returning... thanks for nothing, Contract Demon... either that or your powers are truly extraordinary."
"If you've come to torment Ruby, I can assure you that we-"
"Oh no, this isn't about the Rose. Before I've been rudely blasted into space, I've been meandering about, keeping an eye on things in the Observatory out of boredom, but I've been sensing something in you, Rosalina. Somethinf that came to my attention ever since the previous Galaxies went up in Phazon."
"That being?"
"I can sense that you are angry and it's building up inside of you as we speak."
"Yes, I'm angry, is there a point to this?"
"Yes, actually! It's been a tranquil fury type of deal, but I can tell it's building up. I wonder how long it'll be before the Tranquil Fury disappears and is replaced by blinding rage?"
"I am not that type of person."
"Sure, but as the Space Pirates do their shenanigans, the angrier you're getting and soon, the dam will break, irreparable damage, yadda yadda yadda."
"How bold of you to assume that people won't rebuild."
Dimentio let out a chuckle. "Sure, people can rebuild, but it won't be the same. If someone were to rebuild Chaos Ruby, she won't be the same. Good luck trying though, ahahahahaha..."
Rosalina rolled her eyes. "I can assure you I have my anger under control."
"Oh, do you now?" Dimentio asked with amusement. "People can't hold it in forever, my dear. Surely, you've lost your temper once before, right?"
"Hmph... I wouldn't say I lost it. It was more like Shou Tucker deserved it."
"I see, so he's experienced your tranquil fury." He mused. "Well, I can safely say that this Shou Tucker was one of the lucky ones."
"What do you-"
"It's just a matter of time before you cut loose. Tick tock~!" Dimentio grinned, but then he heard barking as he turned around to see Alexander charging at him with a snarl. "Oh my, someone let the dog out. I wonder who? Ciao for now!" He disappeared right before Alexander could make him his chew toy.
Rosalina chucked, petting Alexander on the head. "Good boy." She smiled as Alexander turned around and licked her face, causing her to giggle.
With Tai...
"I dunno, I think the second area is prettier." Tai said.
"Oh come on, it's definitely the third area." Qrow argued.
"Well, yeah, it is, but... I dunno, something about seeing the sun in the background is-"
"Hey, Tai."
Tai turned his head, spotting Raven approaching him. "Oh! Hey Raven."
"It's been a while..." Raven said as she approached him, standing next to him as they looked off into the horizon.
"Yeah, it's been too long." He agreed.
BGM: Missing You (Kingdom Hearts II)
"...Look, Tai. About what happened a long time ago-"
"You don't have to apologize." He said as Raven looked to him. "Even though you've left, which had definitely crushed me, I knew there had to be a reason why you left. I don't hold it against you."
"Tai... I've wanted to come back In fact, I was going to come back, but then I saw you with Summer, how much she made you happy... and, I just couldn't come back into your life just like that. I... I figured you didn't have it in you to love me anymore, as sappy as that sounds."
"Don't love you...? Rave, you're my teammate and... first wife even. We may not have seen eye to eye at times, but deep down, I still love you."
Raven's eyes widened in surprise. "Tai..." She nearly teared up and instinctively hugged him tightly, where he would return the hug.
End BGM
"Ahem... I think this would be a bad time to mention this, but Tai is-"
"Dating someone else, I know." Raven pulled away.
Tai chuckled. "Sharp as ever. That's our Raven for ya."
Raven chuckled. "So, does Summer know?"
"Weeeeell, I've been trying to-"
"Do I know what?"
The trio would turn to see Summer eating a cookie and drinking some hot chocolate.
"Oh! Summer... well, uh, this is awkward." Tai rubbed his head. "Well, you see, the thing is..."
"Your man is seeing another lady." Qrow spoke up.
"Qrow!"
Summer's eyes widened in surprise. "You're seeing someone?"
"Yeeeah..." Tai rubbed the back of his head. "I've been meaning to tell yo-"
"That would explain why you left home Thursday night and came back home late..." Summer whispered as she put the hot chocolate down as she approached Tai and then to his surprise, she hugged him. "Oh, I'm so proud!"
"Huh?!" Tai said in surprise. "You're not mad?"
"Mad? Why would I be mad? I'm dead! I'm a ghost! Not like you were gonna get that much action anyway. You've finally moved on!"
Tai blushed. "That's... a good point." He said as he would suddenly see a glimmer in her eyes. "Ooooh no, I know that look..."
"Soooo, who's the lucky girl~?" Summer grinned, suddenly climbing all over him. "Tell me tell me tell me tell me!" She said excitedly.
"I can see where Ruby gets it from." Qrow grinned, causing Raven to snicker.
"Sums, you're acting the same way you did back at Beacon whenever I said I was seeing a girl."
"Hey, your teammate's gotta know these things! So tell me, who's the lucky girl~?"
"If I tell you, will you get off of me?"
"Yes!"
Tai grinned cheekily. "I'll tell you back at Remnant."
"Augh! You jerk!" Anime tears ran down her cheeks. "Come on, tell meeeee!"
Tai looked at Raven and Qrow. "A little help?"
"I would but... I'm gonna go see what the runt is doing." Qrow said and walked off. "Enjoy your koala bear!"
"Raven...?"
"Oh, would you look at the time, I've got a sparring session with that Youmu girl. Have fun!" Raven took off running.
"Wha-guys!" Tai exclaimed as he looked down at Summer who was giving him an excitable "Tell me!" look in her eyes. "...Ooooh boy."
With Weiss…
"I didn't know Blake had a good singing voice…" Weiss said, sitting on the couch and scratching Azure behind the head and then chuckled. "It sure attracted ATMC, that's for sure."
"No, I'm telling you, that small object is getting closer!"
"Huh?" Weiss turned her head to see Tucker and Simmons.
"And I'm telling you that we're in space. How could it be getting closer without any momentum?"
"It just needed a push! That said, I can definitely tell it's getting closer."
"No, I'd say it's stationary."
"What are you guys talking about?" Weiss asked as she approached.
"We've been staring out in space, just chattin' and then we see this object getting closer." Tucker said.
"It's stationary. You've just now noticed it."
"If it's stationary, then why is it getting bigger?!"
"It's just your imagination!"
Weiss rolled her eyes, walking away… only to come back with a telescope as she looked into it while the two were arguing.
"It's a meteor coming for us." Tucker said.
"And I say we're just near an asteroid belt and you just now noticed-"
Weiss let out a gasp. "That's Junior!"
"Junior? As in Bowser Junior?" Simmons asked.
"Yes!"
"…Junior is a meteor?" Tucker asked.
"No, dumbass!" Simmons responded as Junior soon landed on the Observatory.
"Wait, Junior?!" Nora exclaimed in surprise when she saw who landed. "We were thinking of kidnapping ya! But apparently you kidnapped yourself… how does that work?"
"Nora…" Ren rolled his eyes.
"I came on my own accord…" Junior said as he saw JINXY and Umber approach him, as did Ruby and Yang accompanying Weiss, then the Mario Bros, Peach and Daisy came up.
"Junior… you came by yourself?" Nyx asked.
"Yeah…" Junior nodded before tearing up as Peach would immediately kneel down.
"Sweetie, what's wrong?" Peach gently asked with concern.
BGM: Luma (Super Mario Galaxy)
"It's… it's awful!" Junior immediately hugged Peach, burying his face into her chest. "Everything's so wrong! Ridley terrifies me, Dark Samus is a lot worse… papa had more phazon dumped onto him… even though I don't like Cinder, she got hit with phazon… papa's not listening to a word I say… I made this awesome mech but the Phazon Lady kicked me out of the project I adored working on and was replaced by someone else… so I ran away and… and… aaaaah!"
"Oh honey…" Peach said softly, gently holding him as he cried into her chest.
"Poor kid… I don't blame him for running…" Yang said somberly.
"Ah geez… this is bad." Xena said.
"If Junior ran away… what's gonna happen now?" Ruby wondered.
"I'll tell you what's gonna happen next!" A voice said as they turned to see a now cured Viridi, holding her scythe. "What's gonna happen next is that Ridley and Dark Samus's days are numbered and they're gonna get their asses kicked!" She declared as Haru and Sun walked out accompanying the Goddess of Nature.
Ibuki: Yay, Junior-chan is safe and Viridi-chan, Haru-chan and Sun-chan are cured!
Yup! And now they're all pissed.