Disclaimer: I do not own any of the material appearing in this story. The OC's belong to their respective owners.

Also to the Guest that's comparing Archie Sonic to this: Apologies if this comes across a bit rougher than I meant to but, where exactly are you going with this? Archie Sonic is nothing compared to the SRS series, IMO.

BGM: A Walk in Andante (Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 ReMix)

Ludwig wandered around the Observatory, humming himself a little tune until he came across the bedroom dome. "Hmm… isn't this where that little Kokoro hangs out in?" He wondered as he walked inside, seeing that no one was inside. Then again, Kokoro and Co headed over to Sweet Mystery Galaxy, thanks to Rosalina handing the Hungry Luma the necessary Star Bits to transform. Yet he couldn't deny that Rosalina did seem completely stressed compared to the other times she fed the Hungry Lumas, despite her masquerading it with a somber smile.

"Could this prove too much for the cosmic woman? Mmm…" Ludwig rubbed his chin before shaking his head. "I'm sure it will all work out." He said as he walked inside, seeing a few musical instruments and the karaoke machine.

"Fascinating, this Bedroom dome has been changed into a Bedroom/Music room." He mused. "Just like how the Terrace has been turned into an impromptu medical bay. The Karaoke machine is a nice touch, but I feel this isn't enough. Perhaps we can give this room a makeover."

"A make over?" A voice spoke up as he turned to see Palutena walking in. "What do you mean by that?"

"As you can tell, it's a bit of a hodge podge in here. Musical instruments are haphazardly scattered about, not to mention the screen and the karaoke machine could use some fine tuning. After all, isn't Rosalina a bit… neater with her domes?"

"Yes, but she does have a lot on her mind right now. I can tell she's not completely focused like she usually is… not to mention that incident with Aperture involving destroying the planet's rotation didn't do her any favors."

"Mmm, yes… I, too, feel as if something grand is about to go down, and frankly, I'd rather not be on the receiving end of that. Where is she now?"

"She's in the Garden, meditating. Samus thinks it's best if she took all the time she needed to recuperate."

"Ah, so SPBRR will be missing one member for the time being should they go on another mission to collect a Power Star."

"Pretty much." Palutena nodded. "Though, I think Samus might get Rundas to be part of SPBRR temporarily, as much as she doesn't like the idea to temporarily replace Rosie."

"Might I suggest some classical/easy listening music to help calm her down? It might help… even though her, shall we say, explosive side is imminent at this rate."

Palutena nodded. "That's a good idea."

Ludwig waved his wand. "Allow me to change a few things in this dome." He said, firing a beam of light as the whole layout of the dome changed.

Rosalina's bed and wallpaper remained the same, including the Pull Star, however the room was much bigger for the musical instruments that were mounted on the walls. Rosalina's guitar was resting on the bedframe while a few electric guitars were placed on the walls, including a bass guitar. A violin was neatly placed on a stand and was near a drum set. On the other side was an electric keyboard and a grand piano.

The Karaoke set was near the flat screen TV and was more organized than it was. "Perfect."

"Wow! I thought you were just a piano expert."

"Please, I know my way around musical instruments." Ludwig chuckled as Palutena would spot a Switch Lite on a nightstand.

"Hmm? Did you put that Switch there?"

"Nope. I assumed it was part of the room." Ludwig said as Palutena picked it up and looked through it.

"I didn't take Rosie to be a gamer." She mused. "Hold on, she only has one game… New Horizons? Of course, it is a relaxing game so I'm pretty su-" She paused for a second. "…I'll be right back. I need to make sure Rosie is very relaxed." She said and warped away.

Ludwig let out a chuckle. "I believe my work here is done." He said and walked off.

Later, in the present…

"Hmhmhmhm~" Kokoro hummed as she walked in and saw the Dome had been drastically changed. "What the…? Where'd all this come from?" She wondered.

Just near the main hub of the Observatory, they would see the Galarians heading into the infirmary with Gloria being carried in. "Gloria's out of commission? How did that happen?" Samus wondered.

"Dark Samus shoved a Poison Mushroom in her throat as an experiment." Ibuki explained. "It was to see if she would either transform or die from it."

Samus pinched the bridge of her nose. "Great. That's wonderful." She grumbled. "And then of course, he shows up." She said, glancing over at Hades who had pulled up a chair and was drinking a smoothie.

"So, remind me why you're helping us?" Yang asked.

"Okay one; I prefer to call it tipping the scales. After all, your sister is part of that." He pointed to Ruby who was admiring Thanatos' scythe, with him a bit unnerved on how much she's squeeing over the sight of another scythe user. "Second of all, ever since those two have caused chaos, I was going to stay neutral and watch the chaos unfold since it's my favorite show because cable sucks, but they had to go and throw in a Phazon bomb into my domain. At that point, they ruined chaos for me like spoiled milk."

Yang sweatdropped. "So… basically, you want to get back at them because they ruined your watch party?"

"Precisely! Only I can mess up the Underworld if I so choose, thank you very much!"

"…Oh for the love of…" Yang walked away while rubbing her temples.

"We're picking up on a Grand Star nearby." Polari said as he was looking into it. "Oh, it's a Gravity Gauntlet, and Bowser's there!"

Peach stood up. "This time, we'll get him out of it for sure. Right, Aphrodite?"

"Kirli!" Aphrodite nodded.

"Let's-a go." Mario said.

"We'll provide back up." Samus approached. "This time, Dark Samus won't get away with harming Bowser even further than she is."

"Sounds good to me." Daisy said. "SPBRR tagging along will be fun."

"Aw, what… like you're gonna count me out?" Marisa walked over. "This'll be fun!"

Samus nodded. "Alright, let's go knock Bowser around for a while." She said as SPBRR went into Samus's ship and flew off while the rest took the Launch Star.

Bowser's Gravity Gauntlet Grand Star - Breaking Into Bowser's Castle - Mario Bros, Peach, Daisy, SPBRR(Rundas), Marisa

"I have to say, I'm surprised you're having me temporarily take Rosalina's place." Rundas admitted.

Samus let out a sigh. "I will admit, I don't like the idea of replacing Rosie, but… I feel like her detoxing for a bit would do her some good."

"Yes, she has been stressed for a long while now." Rundas admitted.

"I just… hope she can keep it together." Blake hoped.

"Pika Pika…" Pikachu agreed.

"Indeed. Dark Samus and Ridley did a number on her, so I don't really blame her for being incredibly upset over this." Adam said. "We must do all we can to help her de-stress over this. Classical music, easy listening, other ways to help her relax… we have to make sure she doesn't implode and take her stress out on all of us."

"I'm genuinely worried about her…" Samus said. "I've been feeling something big about to happen coming from her and I'm hoping it doesn't come to that." Rosie… please, stay strong for all of us. She thought as the ship landed on the ground with the others landing nearby.

BGM: Bowser's Lava Lair (Super Mario Galaxy 2)

"Alright, let's go kick some scaly tail." Marisa smirked as they walked ahead where they would see a few Phazon infused Dry Bones and Knight Errants wandering around but they were quickly taken care of and knocked out by the group as they would hop over a lava pit and toward the next platform where they would find themselves getting a bit disoriented by the gravity change.

"Mmph, you'd think I'd be used to that by now…" Blake said.

"No kidding." Daisy shook it off as they walked off, jumping off lava pits and waiting for Phazon-infused Podoboos to go back into the lava… and it was at this point where Samus picked up on something in her radar.

"Hmm?"

"What is it?" Peach asked.

"We got someone coming in hot, and it's approaching us. Stay on your guard." Samus instructed as they moved past the Phazon Lava traps as they would come into contact with some Space Pirates… or, more like KO'd Space Pirates, and saw a familiar face on top of one.

"What took you guys so long?"

"Ibuki?" Blake blinked.

"Hey." Ibuki smiled. "Hope you don't mind that I crash the party. Thought I'd come by and help, if that's alright with Samus."

"Boop boop." ROB spoke up.

"I agree. Just play along." Samus whispered. "Sure, the more the merrier."

"Awesome. Now let's go take down that big bad Bowser."

Bowser's Gravity Gauntlet Grand Star - Breaking Into Bowser's Castle - Mario Bros, Peach, Daisy, SPBRR(Rundas), Marisa, Ibuki(?)

"Uh-huh…" Mario rolled his eyes as they would see a small underwater section as they would proceed to swim through, including Samus dismissing her armor as they swam across while dodging firebars and Phazon infused Cheep Cheeps while taking out some Phazon infused Squid Kids and Mermen that were swimming around as they popped out from the other side.

"So, Ibuki… what made you decide to come here?" Marisa asked.

"Simple. I was bored. Saw you guys coming here so I thought I'd just… crash." Ibuki smiled. "Anything wrong with that… Marr-isa?"

"Nope, nothing wrong with that." Marisa said. "Aside from you bullshitting us." She mumbled to herself quietly.

"What was that? I didn't catch that."

"Oh, don't worry. Although I could've sworn you had very good hearing." Marisa said.

"Oh that? My ears are clogged up, I forgot to clean them out."

"Ooookay." Marisa said as she walked near Samus. "Master Spark/Charged Shot team attack?"

"Way ahead of you." Samus smirked as they dodged some Phazon-Infused Whomps as they made their way around and took out some Goombas before hopping between platforms and letting the gravity take over as they moved toward the Launch Star while dodging moving platforms and firebars coming their way as they went into the Launch Star and launched away.

As they got to the large door with the three Bowser locks, Samus got into position and Missile Stormed the meteors into the locks to destroy them, and then they made their way to the final area.

End BGM

BGM: Bowser Appears (Super Mario Galaxy)

"So! You've made it! Bwahahahaha! Just what I would have expected!" Bowser roared, as his body had more phazon on him than before.

"My god, they put more phazon on him…" Daisy said in horror. "It's like all the way to his belly now!"

"Bowser! Snap out of this!" Peach pleaded. "We're going to get you out of this one way or another!"

"Are you kidding! This Phazon has made me stronger! And I will make you see what I can do with this awesome power! The King of Awesome will STRIKE YOU DOWN!"

"Just as I thought, it made him dumber than usual." Samus said.

"Perhaps we can freeze him." Rundas suggested.

"Alright, I dunno about y'all, but I'm rarin' to go!" Marisa said.

"Yes. Let's take down this big brute once and for all." Ibuki said, taking out an electric guitar and started strumming the guitar that was way off tune.

"Let's-a go." Mario said as they got in their battle stances as Bowser hopped off of his throne.

"Showtime!"

End BGM

BGM: King Bowser (Super Mario Galaxy)

King of Phazon - Phazon Bowser

Mario jumped toward Bowser and punched him, but Bowser would duck into his shell, forcing Mario to back off as Bowser would then get up and swiped at Mario, but he would block with his hammer as Luigi jumped in and Thunder hammered Bowser on the head. Bowser would respond by headbutting him and then swiped at him, sending the plumber back as he was scratched up pretty bad.

"I got ya!" Peach said, summoning a staff and using Curaga on him as he got back up where Blake would shoot at Bowser. The Koopa King walked toward Blake, soaking in the laser shots and breathed fire, but she rolled out of the way as he would see a storm of Super Missiles come flying toward him as the missiles hit him head on, then Samus came charging through and shoulder bashed him before firing a charged shot at him.

Bowser snarled at her. "Weak!" He said, swiping down at her but she melee countered him as she shot at him in the face before he would retaliate and breathed phazon but she jumped over and landed on his shell where she would blast him with Super Missiles before jumping off and using her Grapple Beam to grab a hold of his tail and swung him to a pillar.

Bowser shook it off and swiped the air as Phazon shockwaves were thrown as they would dodge as ROB would swiftly use an Arm Rotor to send some back at him while Pikachu jumped up in the air and used Thunderbolt on him. Bowser shrugged off the Thunderbolt and let out a massive Phazon fireball at Pikachu but Rundas would come over and snagged him before he got hurt, then Rundas lauched icicle shots at him that pierced Bowser, then Daisy went running in and Crystal Punched him in the face.

"Bwahahahaha… it'll take more than a crystal punch to the face!" Bowser backhanded her away but she recovered. "But what do I know? You always do that!"

"You're right… I always do." Daisy closed her eyes with a smirk. "Or at least, that's what I used to." She said as crystal lances surrounded her as she raised up her arm and thrusted down as the crystal spears launched at him. Bowser would block these with his arms and then Daisy lunged at him, swiftly crystal kicking him as she would then deliver a series of hooks before unleashing a diamond uppercut that knocked him up in the air.

Daisy then got on one knee as crystallic dragon-like wings sprouted out of her back. "Who needs dragons!" She said as she flew up into the air and flipped around before kicking him down to the ground where Marisa would hit him with a Master Spark.

"I thought Dragoons always had a dragon with them." Blake wondered.

"I think she is the dragon." Mario sweatdropped before Bowser jumped up and breathed Phazon fire on the ground but Peach would throw her staff on the ground and created a barrier to protect them from the phazon, and then Ibuki strummed her guitar and fired a small electric shock at Bowser that didn't do much of anything where Pikachu used Iron Tail to smack him in the face.

Mario's fists burst into flame as he jumped in as Bowser readied himself as the two proceeded to slug it out by fire/Phazon punching each other, then Luigi would hop in and threw lightning bolts at him, and then Bowser backhanded the two away as he got into his shell and started charging up a spin attack, however Blake got on one knee and fired a Wave Beam that struck him and knocked him out, then Samus rushed ahead and shoulder bashed him again as ROB fired a laser that also hit him.

"RAAAAAAAAAH!" Bowser roared as he tried to bite down at Samus but she went for a Melee counter and then grabbed him by the snout, firing Ice Missiles into his mouth before throwing in a Crystal Missile, then fired a Plasma Beam into his mouth. "AAAAAAAAARGH!" He grunted before falling on his stomach in defeat.

End BGM

"That went well." Mario said, rolling his shoulder as Peach called Aphrodite out.

"Kirliiiii!" She cried, using Heal Beam on him but Bowser sprang back up and used a Phazon shield to protect himself. "Lia?!"

"Not this time! Bwahahaha… you're too late! The Phazon has already infected the other worlds! As far as I'm concerned, we already won!"

"Buddy, I've already done this song and dance with Dark Samus once. I know how how this goes." Samus said.

"It's gonna be different! Bwahahaha! Later, chumps!" He said, teleporting away and leaving a Phazon field around him. A Grand Star appeared shortly after.

Peach sighed. "I was afraid of that."

"Well… that's one of the loose ends we had to deal with." Samus said.

"What's the other?" Ibuki asked.

Samus charged up her Plasma Beam as Marisa brought out her Mini Hakkero. "This." She swiftly fired a Plasma Shot right as Marisa hit Ibuki with a Master Spark, both of them not even looking.

"GYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!"

The smoke cleared as they would turn to see that it was none other than Gandrayda on her knees.

BGM: Gandrayda Boss Theme (Metroid Prime 3: Corruption)

Electrifying Illusionist - Gandrayda

"How… how were you able to figure it out so quickly, Sammy?!" Gandrayda growled.

"Well, let's see here… one: Ibuki is much more energetic, upbeat, loud and random than what you were doing. Two: Ibuki refers to herself in the third person. Three: She always adds in a -chan honorific to those who she's friends with. I don't really get it, but I'm not questioning that goofball. And four: You pulled this stunt on me before. I wasn't falling for it a second time."

"Tch! Whatever, Sammy… I'm going to continue what I do best… and have fun with messing with all of-" Rundas froze up her legs. "Hnngh! What…?"

"Sorry, this is for your own good."

Samus slowly approached Gandrayda, her Charge Beam activating. "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice; laser beam to the face, bitch." She aimed her arm cannon at Gandrayda, Rundas freezing her up some more… before Samus deactivated the Plasma Beam, curled up into a Morph Ball and rolled around before back handing her in the back of the neck to knock her out.

End BGM

"Well, that was quick." Blake said.

"It was for her own good." Samus responded and then looked up to see a red comet disappearing as a Power Star came down. "Well, that's one way to do a speed run."

"Hmm… ya know, I wonder if this would've been different if Rosie were here instead of Runny." Marisa said.

"Runny?" Rundas quietly mouthed.

"Well, on any other given adventure, she probably would have held her down." Samus said. "However, since she's extraordinarily pissed at the moment, she'd probably do something worse to Gandrayda without even realizing it. After all… you've probably seen what she did to Uncle Cave…"

Marisa grimaced. "Oooh… riiiiight…"

"Hey, I think she dropped something." Daisy said as Samus looked down to see a power up.

"Why, yes she did." Samus reached down to pick it up and absorb it.

Grapple Voltage back online!

"Oh… I forgot about this." Samus said. "…What does it do again?"

Grapple Voltage - Send an electric shock to your opponents to drain their energy!

"Ooooh Ridley~" Samus said in a sing songy voice.

"I'm bringing you back. Hang on." Palutena said and sent them all back to the Observatory with Gandrayda in tow.

Meanwhile, in the infirmary…

"I still don't understand…" Marnie mumbled, sitting right next to Gloria by her bedside. "I… I still don't know why you let me win against you… you were… I could tell you were holding back despite giving it your all." Marnie looked away. "That's not like you… why would you let me win?"

"Dummy…"

Marnie looked up to see Gloria waking up and slowly sitting up. "I did it for a reason." She looked at her. "It was either I get knocked out by ye, or ye lose and that Phazon bitch enhances you with phazon." Marnie's eyes widened. "I could tell ye were frustrated with Dark Samus, like, she probably made you do something you didn't want to do and… yeah." Gloria looked away. "Or, I dunno… I'm just spitballin' here."

"You… did all that…?"

"Wouldn't you do the same if our roles were reversed?"

"I suppose so… or with Hop or Bede."

"Exactly." Gloria nodded as she reached for Marnie's metal arm, gently grabbing a hold of her hand. "And I would've done the exact same thing if you were out there, transformin' into Pokemon and you got fockin' poisoned by that Poison Mushroom. Probably would've said the same thing."

Marnie blushed. "You… you heard that?" She shifted her eyes away. "I… I didn't mean anything by that when I said she took you away from me… I was just so angry and-"

"Hey, it's okay." Gloria smiled, slightly blushing as well.

"How… how are you feelin'?"

"Oh, better."

"How… how was the taste?"

"Well, it burned like hell. Like an acid kind of burn… and yet, I don't know how I'm alive but, I guess it was my sheer willpower that kept me alive."

Marnie gave her a teasing look. "Sheer willpower?"

"I don't know! It was the first thing I thought of…" Gloria mumbled, hearing a snicker from Marnie.

"Um… you're still holding my metal hand, by the way…"

"Oh, uh… sorry-" She tried to pull away but Marnie gently closed it.

"I didn't say to stop…" Marnie said, as both of them blushed as the punk girl closed her eyes and slowly leaned in.

"Well, isn't this a sight!" Hop said as he walked in, as both blushed a deep red as Marnie and Gloria pulled their hands away.

"I… I was just makin' sure her hands were warm!" Marnie lied. "And… her forehead…"

"Wouldn't that have been better with your biological hand? The metal would've made her colder." He grinned.

"Sh-shut it!" Marnie looked away. Way to ruin the moment, dude… She thought.

"Well… I'm feelin' a lot better." Gloria said as she climbed out of bed, but nearly stumbled, however Hop and Marnie caught her. "Mmph, okay, maybe I'm still a little out of it." She chuckled sheepishly.

"Don't worry, we got ya." Marnie smiled as they walked out, unaware of Wendy seeing the whole thing.

"Cute." Wendy said with a smile, then saw SPBRR coming in with Gandrayda, putting her down on the bed.

"There we go." Samus said.

"I'll keep an eye on her." Rundas told her and with a nod, they all walked out as they saw the Grand Star opening up a wormhole… and then the Grand Star and the Power Stars circled around Samus and shot beams of light.

Power Bombs back online!

Flash Shift online!

"…Flash whats-it?" Samus wondered as she took a look.

Flash Shift - A new Aeion ability where you can travel to a certain spot instantaneously! Usable three times before having to recharge.

"…Holy shit." Samus could only say. Oh, I am gonna abuse the HELL out of this.

"What'd you get?" Blake asked.

"Something incredibly broken… that I am so gonna use to my advantage." She chuckled devilishly before dismissing her armor. "Well… on the plus side, we got the bounty hunters back, we have Kraid on our side. I'm pretty sure Ridley and Dark Samus'll have a hell of a time against-"

Suddenly, Kraid roared in distress as everyone turned toward the big guy as he was suddenly being chained up by invisible forces. "What's going on?" Ruby asked as suddenly a large being appeared before them, a little taller than Samus's height. The being in question had armor all over his body and had a cape behind his back. He had an arm cannon and looked directly at Samus, the head of the armor looked very bird like.

BGM: Ferenia (Metroid Dread)

"Who's that?" Blake asked.

"I have no idea." Samus said as she summoned only her arm cannon at him. "Hey buddy! Just what do you think you're doing to our ugly as hell reptile!"

The being said nothing, staring directly at Samus. "Un akka wruta!" (Take it away!) He ordered as Samus let out a gasp as the being turned around and hopped toward Kraid. He turned around to stare at Samus once more. "Eokan lepoira panora." (We shall meet again.)

Before anyone could say anything else, they disappeared into a portal and taking Kraid with them.

End BGM

"What the hell was that! Does anyone speak alien gibberish?" Cave wondered.

"I wish I had a translator." GLaDOS said while Chell shrugged.

"…Samus, are you okay?" Blake asked. "Samus? Samus! Hellooooo? Remnant to Samus?"

Pikachu and Pichu looked at each other and with a nod… "CHUUUUUUUUUUUUU!" Both of them cried, unleashing a Thunderbolt/shock.

"Yagh!" Samus snapped out of it. "I'm fine… I think."

"You okay? You've never been much of a space cadet." Blake said.

"It's… nothing. Really… I'm gonna go check on Rosie real quick." She walked off, looking completely rattled. Was that… was that the Chozo language? Did he speak Chozo? No… I was hearing things. Was I? In any case… what did they want with Kraid? Are they working with the Space Pirates?

All these thoughts came to Samus all at once, her mind racing. She definitely heard the Chozo dialect, but all the Chozo were dead. There was no way any one of them could be alive. As far as she knew, she was the last one.

...Could she?

As she was deep in her thoughts, she walked past the Garden dome, and kept walking. In fact, she wasn't even paying attention to where she was going.

"Ack!" She yelped, falling off the path and sliding down the slope. She activated her jet boots as she tried to fly back up, but they only got her so far as she slipped again, but a gravitational bubble grabbed a hold of her as she was brought back on top courtesy of Rosalina. "Thanks, that was embarrassing..." Samus mumbled.

"You okay? You look distracted."

"Eh, something came up. But that's not important right now. How are you holding up?"

"I've... been better." Rosalina walked back into the Garden dome.

"I was afraid of that." Samus walked after her.

She would see Ibuki sitting on a rock and playing Rosalina's guitar while Alexander was curled up next to her, along with the Cleffa and Snom line.

"What was that, anyway? Kraid has been so quiet since we got him and cured him… so to him being in distress was so… odd."

"Some weirdos took him. I don't know who they were, but I swear they spoke the Chozo language."

"Chozo? I thought you were the last one… technically."

"So did I, but either they're not truly extinct or there's a rogue group somewhere in the universe that learned the Chozo language." Samus said. "Either way, it caught me off-guar- wait, why am I talking about this? I'm more concerned over you."

Rosalina smiled. "How sweet of you, but I'm feeling a lot better. Playing Animal Crossing, petting Alexander and listening to Ibuki's songs helps a bit."

"I see… so why am I still feeling like we're in a world of trouble?"

"Oh good, Ibuki wasn't the only one who was feelin' that." Ibuki spoke up.

"There's nothing to worry about." Rosalina walked off toward a small lake.

"Nothing to worr-… Rosie, are you sure you're okay?" Samus walked after her. "You say one thing, but the tone says something else."

"I'm fine." Rosalina picked up a rock and threw it into the lake, watching it skip across the water.

"You don't have to hide anything from us, Rosie. We know you're upset."

"Upset? Why would I be upset?"

"Well… you're in denial, for one thing. You were pissed earlier but now you're… okay while throwing stones in the water? Either you're faking it or the meditation really put your anger back in control."

"I'm not faking anything." She responded, throwing another rock in the lake as it skipped a few times. "After all, why would I be angry? It's not like we can't destroy them and bring everything back after the Phazon's gone. Not like we can't just sit around and do nothing while they destroy this universe!"

"Rosie…"

Rosalina threw another stone in the lake, which only had one skip. "Not like they deserve to be destroyed or yet, we don't do anything when they storm into the Observatory and taunt us for no good reason! Better YET… not like they won't leave us alone and not take our belongings!"

Another throw, this time there was no skip but instead a majorly big splash happened.

"No… I'm perfectly fine." Rosalina said as she walked off, but Samus grabbed her arm.

"No, no you're not. They're starting to get to you, and trust me, I know what that's like."

"They're not getting to me. If anything, they gave me the perfect opportunity to destroy 'em when they're not looking! Give 'em what they so desire… we'll give 'em hell."

"Okay, what's going on? You're faking it."

"Ibuki went into Rosie-chan's library to get a book for her to read to help calm her but her storybook is gone." Ibuki quietly said.

"Storybook? There's plenty of books in the library."

"No. The storybook."

"What do you-" Samus's eyes widened, realizing what she meant. "Rosie…"

BGM: Luma (Super Mario Galaxy)

"When you went to get that Grand Star… Ibuki came back and told me what happened. I quickly went back there to see if it was just misplaced, but I've looked everywhere. I even went to see if someone was reading it outside, but nobody had it, they weren't in the space ships… nothing. I even braved the airship with that Charizard and yet, it wasn't there."

"Rosie…"

"So, yeah, they stole my storybook… but you know what? It's fine… I'm cool with it. I'll just rip it out of their hands. I don't give a flying nebula about it. In fact, when I confront them myself, I'll gladly tear them into pieces."

"Rosie…"

"So yes! I'm perfectly fine… it'll all work out in the end, so there's nothing to worry about!"

"ROSIE!" Samus put her hands on her shoulders. "Rosie… please, you're scaring me here. I get that they've pissed you off but there's no need to hide your emotions… there's no need to bottle it up."

Rosalina turned to Samus. "Bottle it up? Why should I bottle it up? After all, it's not like I'm a ticking time bomb getting close to exploding and destroying all of you to the point where I'll be the only thing left standing in this universe! I'm not going to let that happen… not again!" She exclaimed, her voice cracking.

Tears swelled in her eyes. "I… I don't want to… I don't want to experience that again… the more they're destroying the universe, the more I'm getting close to going supernova… and… and… considering how close you all are, I'm afraid you'll be evaporated… and it'll just be me because I have a feeling this will be on a grander scale than last time!"

"Rosie…" Samus whispered. "You're terrified of this power, aren't you?"

"Yes…" Rosalina's legs were a bit wobbly and nearly fell but Samus grabbed a hold of her. "Last time it was on a smaller scale but… this time, I… I have a feeling nobody in this universe is safe…"

"Polari told me what's been going on ever since we came back… Palutena and Viridi verified it for me as well." Samus looked her in the eyes. "Rosie…"

"Please… please, do everything in your power to keep me calm… I… I don't think I can hold on much longer…" Rosalina whispered as Samus would immediately hug her as Rosie would quietly sob into her shoulder. Ibuki immediately came over and hugged Rosalina from behind.

"Shhh, it's gonna be okay… we'll help you calm you down. We'll make damn sure you won't go supernova. It won't be easy, but we'll try our damnedest." Samus said gently, sitting down and resting Rosalina's head on her chest with Ibuki stroking her back and Alexander and Rosalina's Pokemon nuzzled against her.

Nearby, the rest of BPR, Ruby, Yang, Tai and Summer looked on, all of them had somber looks on their faces but also were determined to get her to be the calm cosmic woman she used to be.

So, what did y'all get for Christmas? I got Skyward Sword HD, a bunch of T-Shirts, socks, a Luigi's Mansion 3 calendar, Star Wars Monopoly, some books and a boat load of candy that filled up 90% of my stocking. Oh, and my aunt gifted the whole family Harry Potter Clue.

Ibuki: *staring at Gandrayda who copied her* As if she can actually copy the real deal, thank you very much!