I: Artifact Speculation

"After arriving back home from their pyramid expedition, the Mosaic group had notified Team SMBX on what they found and asked them to meet as soon as they could, which they did so the next day, Team S.M.B.X gathered inside of the Mosaic Group's house so that the bunch of them could have a discussion on the object they found."

"Hmm...so for starters, where-a did you guys find-a this object?" Mario asked the Mosaic Group, pacing about the room with the object in his hand, gazing at it as he asked.

"We found it deep inside of a pyramid with Glow and Beryl, inside of some old, dusty chest," Mosaic informed.

"Huh...that's interesting," Mario replied.

"So, was this all you guys found, or was there something else you had to show us?" Link asked.

"Oddly enough, nothing," Rosy explained. "Trust me...we looked, but this is all that we found," Rosy continued.

"Not to mention, it was just when we were about to leave empty handed too," Hoops added.

"That's-a rather peculiar," Mario commented.

Berry then added something in his language.

"What's that Berry?" Hoops asked Berry.

Berry then repeated himself.

"Oh yeah, Berry remembered that while us, Beryl and Glow were there, in that room, we ran into some 8-bits...and Tryclyde," Hoops translated for the others.

"You did?" Toad asked.

"Yep, and apparently they found something in there and took it before we got there, and escaped before we could figure out what it was," Hoops explained.

"I wonder what they had found…" Peach commented.

"Well...whatever it was, I hope it was-a nothing important," Luigi added.

"Well, on a different-a note, I wanted to check one more-a time," Mario began. "Do you-a guys have any idea on what this artifact is or where it's-a from?" Mario asked the group.

"Well, we clearly didn't, otherwise we wouldn't have meet and talked about this," Mosaic answered.

"Nope," Toad answered.

"Not a clue," Link inputted.

Luigi shook his head in response.

"Not really," Peach responded.

"As I-a expected, looks like it'll be a good idea that we ask-a 'him'," Mario then told the group.

"Him?" Link asked Mario.

"Yeah, 'him'," Mario answered. "Bring some-a travel stuff along guys, we're-a going on a trip," Mario explained.

"Oh? Again?" Hoops said. "Where are we going?" he then asked.

Mario then walked over to the door and opened it.

"Follow my-a lead to find out," Mario said as he walked away.

The others shrugged at him suddenly doing this, but decided not to question it and instead to just follow his lead and see where he took them.

II: I'm a Professional!

A bit of time later, and the nine all ended up in a dark forest called The Stumping Woods. As far as could be seen the woods were plastered with trees, darkness and a grassy forest floor with several purple flowers and occasional ? and brick blocks here and there. Despite the forest not feeling like the safest environment, the group continued following Mario's lead through the forest to see who the "Him" he was talking about was.

"So this person lives in this dank place?" Hoops asked.

"Mhmm," Mario replied.

"I never liked this-a forest, I hope we get there-a quick," Luigi retorted.

"Relax Luigi, we'll be there soon," Toad mentioned.

"hopefully this is worth the effort, considering we needed to take a warp pipe all the way at the colorful hills to get here." Peach stated.

"Being honest, I may come back here alone someday, this is actually my first time being here myself," Link mentioned.

"Interesting, this is our first time coming to this forest too," Mosaic stated.

"I'm sure you-a guys have a lot of comments about this place, however, let's-a save those for later, we're on a business trip right now," Mario said.

Berry questioned what Mario meant by this, Hoops, understanding this responded.

"He basically means we have an objective we're trying to fulfill," Hoops replied.

Berry understood, and the group kept moving.

Eventually the group made it to a large clearing, where they see a large building. The walls were dark gray, the roofing was dark blue, and the door brown, with pairs of windows on either side of what appeared to be a laboratory of sorts.

"So...is this the building that the guy lives it?" Hoops asked.

"Well, it's not that he lives-a here. It is his secret laboratory after all. It's more that he has to stay here for awhile while his other place is under renovation. Either way though, hopefully he's in right now," Mario explained.

Just before Mario knocked, Mosaic asked a question.

"Secret laboratory? Who's in it exactly?" he asked.

"Oh-a yeah, you, the rest of your group, and Link haven't met him yet. His name is Prof. E Gadd,"

"Prof. E Gadd huh?" Mosaic commented. "Interesting name, wonder what he's like," he continued.

"Same..." Link replied.

"Well, what do you-a guys say we-a find out?" Mario asked, then knocking on the door, and waiting for an answer.

"Oh! Hello there! Come on in, the doors' open!" a voice inside said.

"Hey, that must mean he's-a in!" Mario said, then opening the door, signaling the others to follow him.

When the group enters the lab, they see someone in the room, this someone looked rather short, wore a white lab coat, had a rounded, bald head minus the swirl of white hair sticking up, and had swirly glasses with a light blue tint on his eyes. This was the person Mario had been referring to, Prof. E Gadd to be exact.

"Mario! What brings you and your other friends here?" Prof. E Gadd questioned, then noticing Link and the Mosaic Group. "And hullabaloo! Who are these fellows with you?" E. Gadd then questioned.

"Oh, they're umm…" Mario started to say. "Actually, how about you-a guys introduce yourselves?" Mario then asked.

"Sure thing, I'll start," Link said, sticking out his hand to give him a handshake. "My name is Link. i'm the newest member of Team S.M.B.X," Link stated.

Rosy then went next. "I'm Rosy! Nice to meet you E. Gadd!" Then shook hands.

Berry introduced himself in his language, which Rosy translated for E. Gadd.

"Oh yeah, his name is Berry," Rosy said.

Hoops then took this as a chance for his turn. "I'm Hoops! You can call me the quickest in the group!" Hoops boasted, then skittering around a bit to show off his agility.

Finally, Mosaic introduced himself. "And I'm Mosaic, I'm the leader of, as we call it, the Mosaic Group," He said, then shaking hands with Prof. E. Gadd.

"I'm Prof. E. Gadd, an inventor who likes to study ghosts, heh," E. Gadd introduced.

"Anyway, nice to meet all you youngsters," Prof. E. Gadd then said.

"Youngsters?" Link said under his breath.

Berry said, "G...Ghosts?" nervously in his language.

"What was it Berry?" E. Gadd questioned.

"Oh, it's just that Berry heard you talking about ghosts when introducing yourself," Rosy explained.

"Heh, so I guess Mario's brother isn't the only one scared of ghosts huh?" Prof. E. Gadd replied, in which Luigi reacted sorta nervously to him saying.

"Would seem so…" Hoops said. "But uh, how did you know that?" Hoops then asked.

"Me and Luigi, we go a while back, heh," Prof E. Gadd responded.

"Oh you guys do?" Mosaic asked Luigi, looking his direction.

"Uh, yeah...it related to this a mansion I won one time, but...i don't-a like to talk about it." Luigi responded nervously.

"I believe he one time let us use his garage for one of our parties too," Peach mentioned.

"Party in a garage?" Hoops asked in shock.

"Oh yeah, it was a lot bigger than your probably imaging," Peach responded.

"Anyway, we've-a chatted enough, I wanted to get to another-a subject," Mario intervened. "So basically E. Gadd, we-a wanted to show you this strange thing we-a found, or more specifically, the-a Mosaic Group found in some old pyramid," Mario then explained, showing him the artifact and handing him it.

Prof. E. Gadd took a look at the object and then gave an answer. "Hmm, I may be able to study this thing's origin," Prof. E. Gadd answered. "However, I'll need a few days to look into it, I'll notify you guys in a few days about any information I find on it," He then explained.

"Honestly, I can live with that, take all the time you need professor," Mosaic replied.

"Agreed," Rosy then said.

"Eh...guess we can wait," Hoops stated.

The others then gave their opinions as well, all saying that it can work in some form.

The group then all give E. Gadd their respective goodbyes as they made their way out of the laboratory and back the way they came to make their way home and enter the warp pipe they took to get there. When they got to the park, the Mosaic Group and Team S.M.B.X wanted to discuss a bit before they went their separate ways.

"You know, at this point I'd prefer to just call a day considering what we've done the last couple days," Mosaic began.

"I agree," Hoops said in response.

"That's not a bad idea," Peach replied.

"Know-a what? I can get behind the idea of-a that," Mario inputted. "Presuming there are no attacks from Bowser or another-a one of those troublemakers out there," Mario then continued.

"I like the sound of-a that...not worrying about anything for a-a bit," Luigi said.

"Not much to say that hasn't been said…" Link stated.

Rosy and Toad then gave agreement as well.

"Well with that, it's time we went about our own business, bye you guys!" Mosaic said, waving as he left with the rest of the Mosaic Group.

"See you next time!" Mario responded, as he left along with Team S.M.B.X.

III: No Worries...Right?

"Mistakes happen, we all make them, regardless of what they are, most wind up a hindrance in one way or another. While some are only a minor hindrance, others have more unthankful outcomes. Today, we see someone make one of those exact kinds of mistakes."

Faraway, in the deep, dark galaxy, a large ship of sorts existed. This ship had many different places on it, too numerous to truly count them. It was fueled up a special source of energy, star power. This place was known as the Comet Observatory.

This observatory was home to several different beings, most of them, rather numerous as well, being small star-like creatures that beared a raindrop shape and came in many different colors such as yellow, red, etc. These beings were known as Lumas.

The one who ruled over them came to the main deck. Her name was Rosalina.

"Mama! How are you today?" One of the Lumas asked.

"I'm doing fine," Rosalina replied to them.

After greeting the other Lumas, Rosalina then began talking to herself about other matters.

"I wonder...how's the mushroom kingdom been?" Rosalina had begun to think to herself. "How has Mario and his special one been?" she continued. "Maybe I should check on them on this digital machine their friend had built for me recently," Rosalina then thought. She then decided to head over to the machine she was referring to.

"Let's see, we'll check on what's been happening the last couple days," Rosalina said, then scrolling through several of the screens, then coming across a peculiar one, reading:

"The King of Koopas Strikes Again!

Just this morning, an air fleet, presumably piloted by the evil King Koopa, or Bowser, opened fire on Vibrant Park and attacked civilians, then continued onward through Colorful Hills and Fluffy Heights, eventually making it's way to Grassland. If it hadn't been for the efforts of nine heroes, their names, Mario, Luigi, Peach, Toad, Link, Mosaic, Hoops, Rosy, and Berry, who knows what casthropic results would have taken place next?

- Reported, The Mushroom Kingdom Press"

"He's still causing trouble even after all he's already done?" Rosalina stated in distastefulness. "I think I know what an appropriate course of action here is," Rosalina said, then making her way to the library room on the comet observatory and over to a desk with paper and pen, then picking up the pen so that she could write the letter to Bowser, which was written out as follows:

"Hello sir, there's no need for me to say your name since you already know who you are, but I'll keep what I have to say short and simple. After the actions you committed the other day. I never want to see a person of...let's just say your color, green, red and yellow ever again. Simply put, your actions have disgusted me beyond words, so it would do us both a favor if you never showed your face to me again."

- Signed, Rosalina

After she had finished writing the letter, she had remembered something else as well.

"I wanted to send a letter to Mosaic as well, didn't I?" Rosalina said to herself. "I should get to doing that as well," She then thought.

After writing Mosaic's letter, Rosalina got two envelopes to put the letters in, writing the addresses on both.

"Alright, now to just put on the area stamps and-" Rosalina began to say as she reached for them where she normally kept them, noticing they weren't there. "Oh dear, it seems I left them somewhere else on the ship, I should go look for them," Rosalina said to herself. Just as she was about to leave, a red Luma came flying into the room.

"Mama! What are you doing?" the Luma asked.

"Oh! Hey there Luma," Rosalina said, patting the Luma in her arms. "I was just writing a couple of letters, but hadn't realized that I forgot the stamp for the postage areas," Rosalina continued. "While I'm looking for those, do you think you can put the letters in the envelope for me?" Rosalina then asked.

"Sure mama!" The Luma replied.

"Thanks," Rosalina responded, then letting go of the Luma to let them go about doing so.

The Luma went over to the table to go about putting the letters in the envelopes. And they had seen that each of the two letters were both next to an envelope right above them, which they presumed were the appropriate envelopes for the two letters, so they put the two letters in the respective ones.

"Greetings Luma. I've returned," Rosalina said as she entered the room. "Unfortunately, I just ran out of stamps for delivering to dark land, and only have the ones for delivering to Mushroom Plains," Rosalina explained. "So while I'll be able to send Mosaic his letter now, Bowser's will need to wait until further notice, probably tomorrow," Rosalina added.

Rosalina then stamped the one with Mosaic's address it, not checking which letter was in it.

"Here Luma, now can you take this letter to one of those places they call a...post office? So that this can be delivered?" Rosalina asked the Luma.

"I will mama!" The luma replied, flying off with the letter, in which Rosalina waved.

The Next Day...

IV: Heartbreak

At the Mosaic Group's house, the Mosaic group had all been downstairs and Rosy and Berry were both about to leave out of the front door.

"See you two later! Have fun at the carnival!" Mosaic said, waving to the two of them.

"Bye!" Rosy said, with Berry waving.

As the two were about to leave Mosaic wanted to mention a couple more things so he got their attention again so he could tell them.

"Oh, what was it Mosaic?" Rosy asked.

"Also i'd like the two of you to stick together, mainly due to your guys' age," Mosaic explained to them. "If you run into any of Team S.M.B.X there, i'd say stay with them," Mosaic continued, then opening the door for them.

"We'll try to remember to do that," Rosy replied. "Bye now!" She then said, as she left with Berry, for real this time around.

After the two had left and were out the door, Hoops began to talk with Mosaic.

"So the two of us are staying here while they head to the carnival, correct?" Hoops reasserted with Mosaic.

"Yeah, I figured this would work out since today isn't the only day that the carnival is going to be up, so we probably can go on another day," Mosaic explained.

"So we're basically just going to kick back here today?" Hoops asked.

"That's the plan. I, and I'm fairly certain, you have been pretty exhausted after what we've dealt with the last few days, so I feel that we'd need at least one to do that," Mosaic answered. "So, what ideas did you have Hoops?" Mosaic then asked.

"Well one of the things I was thinking was that we could play something like Go Fish or Solo," Hoops thought of.

"Don't think I'd want to play that," Mosaic replied.

"Hmm, maybe we could order pizza?" Hoops then suggested as well.

"Maybe we could," Mosaic inputted. "Or we could also play video games," Mosaic then put out as well.

"Hey...thinking about it...why not both pizza AND video games?" Hoops then suggested.

"Now your talking, let's do that!" Mosaic agreed, then along with Hoops made his way over to the TV, but noticed the game console was nowhere to be found.

"Oh, I must have left it upstairs at some point," Hoops mentioned. "I'll go upstairs to find it," Hoops then stated.

"While your doing that, I'll order the pizza." Mosaic said.

After Hoops made his way up the stairs to their room, Mosaic went over to the phone and began to dial in a number, however, as he dialed it he heard a peculiar noise, which seemed to be the sound of the mailbox.

"Mail call!" The mail carrier shouted before leaving.

"Maybe before ordering the pizza, I should check the mail," Mosaic thought to himself, putting down the phone and making his way out the door and to the mailbox, taking the letters out and heading back inside.

"Alright, now let's see what's arrived today," Mosaic said to himself, then starting to look over the letters.

"Bills...Junk mail, more bills, more junk mail…" Mosaic said to himself as he skimmed through the letters, until he noticed a light blue envelope at the bottom of the pile. "Hey, it's a letter addressed to this house…" Mosaic realized. "And based on the handwriting of the address, it's from...Rosalina?" Mosaic continued, then proceeding to tear the envelope open, eager to see what's inside. "Hey...it's a letter...what does it say?" Mosaic then continued.

Mosaic read over the letter to himself...and his eager expression slowly transitioned to a heartbroken one as he read what it said…

Meanwhile, back at the Comet Observatory, Rosalina was now going to deliver her letter to Bowser, having had now gotten the appropriate stamp. "One last thing I need to check," Rosalina said as she talked to herself. "Let's look over that letter again to be sure I said everything I wanted to," Rosalina continued, opening the envelope to look over the letter again.

However, when she took the letter out of the envelope and began looking over it, it seemed rather...positive and forgiving.

"Wait a second...why is this letter so...positive?" Rosalina began to wonder. Upon closer analysis of the letter, she realized the reason for this. "Wait a minute...isn't this the letter that I meant to send to Mosaic?" she realized.

"Mama! Is something wrong?" a red Luma came by and asked, being the same red Luma who put the letters in the envelopes for her the other day.

"Umm, Luma, do you remember how I asked you to put those letters in the envelopes for me yesterday?" Rosalina asked the Luma.

"Yeah Mama, I do…" The Luma replied, sounding a bit puzzled.

"Did you check what each of the envelopes said when I asked you to put the letters in before inserting them?" Rosalina asked them.

"Um, Mama, I'm sorry, but, I sorta put the letters into the envelopes in a hurry so I didn't really get the chance to look at what they said...I'm sorry about that," the Luma explained remorsefully.

Rosalina sighed, and then said, "Try not to do it again, if I hadn't checked this envelope, Bowser would have gotten Mosaic's letter, and I don't intend to send him it because…-" Rosalina began to explain, then cutting herself off mid-sentence because of the awful realization she came to. "Wait a minute...if Mosaic's letter is in Bowser's envelope, and you mixed up the letters, th...then that means…"

"Mama? What does it mean?" The Luma asked.

"It means that...Oh...Oh my...Mosaic probably...received Bowser's letter instead…" Rosalina explained.

"Oh no! Is that bad?" the Luma then asked.

"Very much so," Rosalina answered. "Forget the hate letter for now, I need to get over to Mosaic as soon as I can with the right letter so I can explain what happened to him," Rosalina realized.

"That's terrible!" the Luma exclaimed. "Is there anything I can do to help?" The Luma then asked.

"There is, you can come with me along with another Luma to help me find Mosaic," Rosalina explained to the Luma.

"Thanks mama! I'm on it," The Luma replied, then flying to a different part of the comet observatory to find another Luma to assist themself and Rosalina.

V: Cheer Up

Back at the Mosaic Group's house, Hoops was coming back down from the stairs.

"Hey Mosaic! I found the Wii U!" Hoops said aloud. "So now we can-" Hoops began to continue, before he noticed the saddened look on Mosaic's face. "Hey Mosaic, what's the matter?" Hoops asked him.

"Oh, nothing's wrong Hoops…" Mosaic replied, still not sounding too good.

"Mosaic...I know you well, you look rather down, so I'm presuming there's something you're not telling me, which, assuming there is, there's really no need to hide it," Hoops explained.

Mosaic sighed, then started to explain the issue to him. "So basically, Rosalina sent me a letter just now and...well...just see it for yourself," Mosaic explained, then handing the letter over to Hoops.

Hoops quietly read over the letter to himself, and afterwards placed it on the table next to the couch.

"So essentially, based on what this letter says, Rosalina broke up with you?" Hoops asked.

"That's what I feel like it is based on what it says." Mosaic explained.

"Well, I'm...sorry to hear that…" Hoops stated, feeling bad for Mosaic but also being unsure how to handle this specific thing.

"I didn't think she was still that mad with me over that one time…" Mosaic said to himself.

"Huh? What thing are you talking about?" Hoops questioned, hearing Mosaic.

"So basically, around last week, me and Rosalina had a date of sorts on the Comet Observatory, you know, that large ship we visited one time that travels the cosmos according to her?" Mosaic began to explain, then asking Hoops the question.

"I do remember that place, but carry on?" Hoops replied.

"I had personally cooked dinner for the two of us, however when I came over with the tray of food, I made a horrible accident," Mosaic continued.

"This accident being?" Hoops asked.

"Basically, I accidentally tripped over something, and I ended up dropping it right on top of one of Rosalina's lumas, and they were hurt really bad," Mosaic explained.

"Oof, that doesn't sound good," Hoops responded.

"It wasn't," Mosaic stated.

"What happened after that?" Hoops then asked.

"She sorta seemed like she wanted me to leave in a hurry after I did that, and seemed to be pushing down her anger towards me," Mosaic answered.

"I see…" Hoops replied.

"I can't believe she's still holding that against me considering that it was an accident," Mosaic then remarked.

"That's rather unfortunate, people hold grudges over petty stuff is the thing," Hoops began to explain. "Like for example, remember that one time back when Mario didn't really like me when me and you visited himself and Luigi's house, and how I accidently broke a glass, which he got angry with me about, and due to me snapping back at him too wouldn't let me into his house again for an entire month but eventually got over it?" Hoops then brought up.

"Y...You could be right…" Mosaic said, sounding even more saddened and starting to get teary eyed.

Hoops quickly noticed this, and climbed up into his lap in an attempt that he could comfort him.

Though Mosaic noticed Hoops' concern, he didn't make much note of it.

"Mosaic, I understand that breaking up, especially with someone who you loved is hard to deal with. But you need to remember, there's plenty more cheep cheeps in the sea," Hoops explained to Mosaic. "However, it's alright that your feeling this way, I'll help you through it," Hoops said to Mosaic, then clutching his arms around Mosaic's torso, giving him a comforting hug.

Acknowledging that he's right, Mosaic then puts his own arms around Hoops' body.

"Hoops...I'm glad that your such a good friend to always be there for me and help me through hard things such as this..." Mosaic said.

"Of course I am Mosaic, what are friends for?" Hoops replied.

After the two good friends hugged for awhile longer, the two eventually released their grasp off of one another.

"Are you better now?" Hoops asked.

"A bit I guess…" Mosaic replied.

"That's good, but I think you need a bit more cheering up," Hoops stated. "How about some Mario Kart 8?" Hoops then asked.

"Eh, I don't know if I'd want to stay home right now, I feel it'll just remind me of the letter," Mosaic explained.

"Hmm…then why don't we head to the carnival like everyone else has?" Hoops then suggested. "Maybe they could help you out with how your feeling a bit more," Hoops also added.

"That's a good idea, we should do that," Mosaic said. "Before we do that however, Hoops, do you want to bring your 3-D Glasses?" Mosaic then asked.

"Actually, I do, I heard that at a certain point of the carnival, their going to have a music presentation or concert of sorts there, and it'd be cool to see it in these things," Hoops answered, then running back up the stairs to find them.

"But wait a minute...isn't it already 3-D if it's live action?" Mosaic thought to himself but decided not to question it too deeply.

Hoops then came back down the stairs, wearing his 3-D Glasses.

"Alright, I found them, now are you ready to go Mosaic?" Hoops asked.

"Of course, let's go," Mosaic said, opening the door so that they could leave, and then closing it behind them once the two of them had gotten out.

Afterwards, the two took the same path they took to get to take the warp pipe to Desert Land yesterday, however at the fork in the road, they took the opposite direction as the one they took that day, then made their way up north to Sunbathed Plains, where the carnival was set up.

After traveling north for a bit, the two eventually made their way to the field, and saw a festive looking area surrounded by gates with an entrance in the front where the admission fee for carnival tickets was paid. This seemed to be the carnival, which it indeed was.

"Hey, we made it," Hoops stated. "Now that we're here, let's start by buying tickets at the entrance," Hoops then said.

"That should be simple, especially considering there doesn't seem to be a line right now," Mosaic replied, then along with Hoops walking over to the booth at the entrance to check out tickets.

"Excuse me, we'd like to check out-" Mosaic began to say, however, pausing when he saw who was running the ticket booth.

It was a Toad, this Toad's clothes however were pink and had white spots, and from outside of their hat two pink braids stuck out. He and Hoops recognized the person immediately.

"Toadette?" Mosaic asked.

"Mosaic?" the Toad, indeed being Toadette replied, then noticing Hoops with him as well. "And Hoops?" Toadette then said.

"Indeed it is Toadette, how have you been?" Hoops replied.

"It's been nice, you two?" Toadette responded.

"I've been fine as well, Mosaic however…-" Hoops began to say.

"I'm not in the best mood, so I'm hoping going here will help out a bit," Mosaic, interrupting, explained.

"Oh, that's a bummer, did you want to share why?" Toadette asked.

"I'd prefer to not right now to be honest," Mosaic replied.

"I see," Toadette responded.

"Anyway, I have a question," Hoops said, changing the subject.

"What is it?" Toadette asked.

"Did you see Team S.M.B.X as well as Berry and Rosy purchase any tickets here earlier?" Hoops then asked.

"Well, I remember a purple baby Yoshi and a pink Porcopo coming here and purchasing a couple tickets if you were referring to them?" Toadette answered.

"I was," Hoops replied. "And how about Team S.M.B.X?" Hoops asked next.

"I remember that they definitely did buy some tickets a bit earlier," Toadette began to answer. "I even remember how Toad sounded when he ordered the tickets," Toadette said, then clearing her throat to mimic him. "'We'd like five tickets please!'" Toadette quoted, mimicking Toad's voice as well.

"Thank you for letting us know," Mosaic responded. "Now we'd like to have two tickets ourselves please," he then asked.

Toadette grabbed two tickets for them and asked for admission. "That'll be twenty coins a piece please," Toadette requested, which Mosaic gave to her in exchange for the tickets. "Thank you, now have fun at the carnival!" Toadette said afterwards as Mosaic and Hoops entered the carnival, the two of whom waved at her as they went in.

VI: Festive Atmosphere

The two entered through the carnival gates and looked around, seeing that the atmosphere of the carnival seemed rather festive. All around, there were hundreds of people of different species. There were Yoshis, Toads, Koopas, and even a few Goombas here and there. There were many colorful tents set up where people could go to play minigames for a shot at a prize, or purchase a yummy treat such as cotton candy with people lined up at most of them. There was a rollercoaster that seemed to go around nearly the entire area, a line for a game where the riders go on a minecart ride through a simulated cave, and a ginormous ferries wheel tall enough that it reached over the entire park. From the looks of things, there was many things to do at the carnival in general.

"Hey Mosaic, I realized something," Hoops brought up.

"Oh, what is that Hoops?" Mosaic asked.

"It's about the number of tickets that Team S.M.B.X bought according to Toadette that I find kinda odd," Hoops answered.

"Huh? what about it?" Mosaic replied, somewhat puzzled.

"Well, it got me thinking about the other day when we played that minigame at the Toad's house and I recall that Peach didn't have to pay admission when we played it," Hoops explained to Mosaic.

"Hmm? I don't see where your going with this," Mosaic responded.

"Think about it for a second…" Hoops told him.

Mosaic thought about it for a bit and thought of something. "Wait a moment, I think I see what your saying," Mosaic then stated.

"Yeah, exactly," Hoops answered. "Why would they buy five tickets if Peach didn't need one?" Hoops speculated.

"That's an interesting thing to wonder," Mosaic replied. After a bit more thinking one of them realized an obvious answer. "It's possible they have somebody else with them," Mosaic then deducted.

"Huh...why didn't I think of that, we'll probably find out when we find them," Hoops said. "Anyway, on a different note Mosaic, which ride do you want to go first?" Hoops transitioned to.

"To be honest, I'd rather find the others first before deciding that so that they could possibly help me out with how I'm feeling," Mosaic answered.

"Ah, that's probably a better idea," Hoops replied.

The two looked around the park for awhile and eventually see a peculiar tent sent up in the distance for a game called "Target Blast", where there is a medium sized line. However, even better, they saw that Team S.M.B.X, along with Rosy and Berry were waiting in the back of the line to play it.

"Hey, there they are!" Mosaic stated.

"Let's go over to them!" Hoops then said, in which the two made their way over.

The two go to the back of the line along with the other seven and Mario turned around and noticed them.

"Hey-a guys, look who's-a here!" Mario announced, getting the others' attention and for them to turn around and see Mosaic and Hoops as well.

Along with them however, someone else with the group looked over as well. Mosaic and Hoops immediately recognized that this someone was a green Yoshi.

"I see that you brought Yoshi along with you guys," Mosaic stated. "Well, Yoshi, how have you been lately?" Mosaic then asked, shaking hands with Yoshi.

"Yoshi!" Yoshi replied, speaking in his language.

"Yeah, how've you been Yoshi?" Hoops asked, reaching his hand out for a handshake too. As Yoshi reached however, Hoops pulled his hand away. "Sike! Just kidding, I'm not…" Hoops began to say. "Hey, I'm just kidding," Hoops then said cutting himself off. "I'll give you a real handshake now," Hoops then said, sticking out his hand again, this time giving Yoshi a real one.

"Umm, why did you guys come? Rosy said that you two were staying home to relax," Link questioned, puzzled of them being there.

"Well it's because…" Hoops began to say. "Umm, you're okay with me explaining it to them, right Mosaic?" Hoops then asked them.

"Sure thing Hoops," Mosaic responded.

"Alright," Hoops said. "So basically, Mosaic and I were going to play video games and order some pizza to go along with it," Hoops began explaining. "And I'm guessing while I was looking for the Wii U, Mosaic had gotten the mail from outside. Correct?" Hoops explained, and then asked Mosaic.

"Yep," Mosaic answered.

"And in the mail he had gotten a letter," Hoops continued.

"A letter?!" Toad exclaimed.

"Whom was it from?" Peach asked.

"Patience, I was going to get to that," Hoops responded.

"When I came down the stairs, Mosaic had already read it, and didn't look like he was doing too well with it," Hoops continued explaining. "Also, the letter was from Rosalina," Hoops added.

"Rosalina!?" Mario exclaimed with shock.

"You-a mean...that woman who we meet in space one time with all of little stars with-a them?" Luigi asked.

"Yeah, that Rosalina," Hoops continued. "Anyway, Mosaic showed me the letter, it was rather negative what was written on it, however I'll spare you the details unless Mosaic wanted to go into it later,"

"Alright then," Link replied.

"So I helped him to get better, and well...here we are," Hoops finished.

"Huh, I'm sorry to hear that about Rosalina…" Link inputted. "Maybe some games at the carnival can cheer you up though," he then said.

"Yeah, hopefully it does help out, that is why we came here after all," Hoops replied.

Meanwhile, Rosalina, via means of teleportation, had made her way to Mushroom Plains, and over to the neighborhood in which the Mosaic Group lived in, having knowledge of their place of residence, with his proper letter with her and two Lumas, one red and one yellow.

"Now that we're here, hopefully Mosaic will let me make it up to him," Rosalina stated.

After looking around the neighborhood for awhile, Rosalina found their house via the house number and walked down the path up to the doorsteps and knocked.

"Hello? Mosaic? Are you in there? I wanted to talk," Rosalina spoke through the door, however receiving no answer. "He's not answering…" Rosalina thought to herself. "Maybe he doesn't want to answer me?" Rosalina continued. "Luma, could you look into the windows and see if anyone's in there?"

"Sure Mama!" The red Luma replied, then flying off around the house, looking to see if they saw anyone.

The Luma then flew back to Rosalina and explained to her. "Mama, I checked, and all of the lights appear to be turned off," The Luma explained.

"So they are…" Rosalina said. "He must not be home," Rosalina then said. "Let's go look for him elsewhere," Rosalina then said, leaving, with the Lumas following them.

Back at the carnival, the group had made their way to the front of the line for Target Blast, seeing that it was run by a Koopa, Mario walked up next to the booth and greeted the Koopa.

"Hello!" Mario said to the Koopa. "Could you-a explain to us how this-a game is-a played?" Mario then asked.

"Sure thing," the Koopa Troopa said. "The object of the game is to use this, of course, voluntary venus fire trap to smash as many targets as you can within the span of a minute," The Koopa Troopa explained to them. "Red targets are worth one point, green ones are worth three and blue ones are worth five."

"I-a get it." Mario replied, picking up the potted plant ready to take his turn before Peach intervened.

"Hey Mario, I realized that as Mosaic isn't feeling too well, you wouldn't mind letting him take his turn first correct?" Peach asked him.

"Oh...that's-a good idea Peach." Mario replied. "Here you go Mosaic, you can-a go first!" Mario told Mosaic, handing him the venus fly trap.

"Thank you Mario," Mosaic replied, then raising the fire breathing plant and pointing towards the target area in anticipation of them coming into range.

Once the game started, many targets various in color began to slide into view from the sides of the gallery, in which Mosaic shot with consistency.

Once the game had ended, the Koopa Troopa added up Mosaic's score.

"It seems that you earned a total of...ninety points!" The Koopa stated.

"Wow! Great job Mosaic!" Toad congratulated.

"That earns you a medium prize, which means you can feel free to pick anything from this shelf," The Koopa troopa informed, pointing at the second to top shelf.

Mosaic looks over the prizes to decide which of the options he wants, seeing things such as plush fire flowers, stars and mushrooms, large lollipops, etc. eventually making a decision.

"Yeah um, I'll take the giant rainbow lollipop please," Mosaic asked.

"Here you go!" The Koopa troopa said, handing it to Mosaic.

"Thank you," Mosaic replied.

"You're welcome," the koopa replied courteously.

Afterwards, each of the others took their turns in the order of Mario, Yoshi, Hoops, Peach, Berry, Rosy, Link, Luigi and Toad, each earning a different number of points and a different sized prize.

Berry, Yoshi, Hoops, and Peach each earned over thirty points, earning them small prizes, which the four chose bubbles, a small lollipop, and small plush stars respectively.

Luigi and Link both performed a bit better, both earning over eighty points, netting them each a medium prize, in which they got a large lollipop and lava lamp respectively. Toad and Rosy however were rather out of luck, due to earning less than thirty points each, they walked out of the game empty handed. Mario however had hit the jackpot, having had earned over one hundred points during the game, it netted him any prize from the top shelf, in which he choose a copy of the board game "Rainbow Road". The group then left the tent and went over to the a different part of the carnival.

"Despite me not earning anything, playing that game was pretty fun," Rosy stated. "But what to do now?" Rosy wondered.

"What-a else other than to have a good-a time?" Mario replied. "Race you guys to the- a ferris wheel!" Mario said, then suddenly jumping on top of Yoshi. "Come on Yoshi! Let's-a go!" Mario said, then signaling Yoshi to start running towards it, nearly running others over several times from negligence.

"Mario! Watch where you're going!" Peach shouted to Mario, in which he didn't reply, but figuring he didn't hear, just followed them to the ferris wheel along with the rest of the group.

After the group had ridden on the ferris wheel, they all went on to do multiple different activities while they were there such as ride on many fast paced rides, try good food and overall, have a good time.

VII: We Will Rock You!

Having had been at the carnival nearly all day, the sun was now starting to set. The group had just gotten off of the roller coaster and after doing so, Peach talked with Mosaic.

"So Mosaic, have you been having fun at the carnival today?" Peach asked Mosaic.

"Being honest here, no, I haven't really," Mosaic responded.

"Oh? Y...You haven't?" Peach replied, sounding surprised.

"Yeah, for one, there was the ferris wheel, in which you guys didn't listen to me when I said I didn't want to ride it, considering you know how I am with heights," Mosaic began to rant. "Second off, when we went in line for nearly an hour to get cotton candy, the machine broke as soon as we got to the front, wasting our time," Mosaic continued. "Third, I felt like I nearly vomited when we rode on...what was it called? The gravitron?" Mosaic continued.

"You mean the spinning thing?" Rosy asked.

"Yeah, that thing," Mosaic replied.

"And fourth, we just rode on the roller coaster, and I nearly had a heart attack from the speed that it was going and how high up we were," Mosaic then said.

"I'm sorry to hear that Mosaic," Peach responded, then continuing. "Well, maybe we can-"

"May I have your attention please?" a voice suddenly ran out.

"Hey that sounds like it came from the loudspeaker," Hoops stated.

"Yeah, and that voice sounded like...Toadette!" Toad added.

"Now that I have your attention, let's start by saying, I'm sure you've all been having a good time at the carnival today, am I right?" Toadette said on the speaker.

"Well...not everyone…" Link responded to the speaker.

"But I'm sure a lot of y'all want to see something new right?" Toadette continues.

"Oh, what is-a Toadette referring to?" Luigi questioned.

"Well, you're all in for treat, because I'd like to announce that in ten minutes…" Toadette began to say, then stopping to build suspense. "We'll be starting a concert with a live performance from our sponsor!" Toadette announced. "If you wish to attend it, head to the stage located in the center of carnival!" Toadette then informed.

Much of the crowd seemed excited to hear this, and began to make their way over to the stage where the sponsor would perform.

"Hey guys, I think we should watch the performance too!" Rosy told the others.

"Sounds-a good to me," Mario inputted.

"Why not," Hoops opinionated.

"Alright! Follow that crowd!" Rosy then said, pointing to the crowd and wanting the others to follow her lead.

Meanwhile, Rosalina with her Lumas had ended up making their way to Sunbathed Plains, still searching for Mosaic.

"Oh this is no good, we've been looking for Mosaic the entire day, and haven't been able to find him anywhere." Rosalina stated. "And I'm really tired now, I guess we have no choice but to-"

"Mama! Look at that!" one of the Lumas cried, turning her attention towards the carnival in the distance.

At the carnival, the group, along with the rest of the crowd that they followed waited near a stage set where the curtains were down for the concert to begin.

"Do you guys know who's performing tonight?" Mosaic asked the others.

"Nope," Toad replied.

"Not really," Peach said.

"Not a clue," Hoops inputted.

"Welp, guess we'll just need to wait and find out then," Mosaic then stated.

"Alright ladies and gentleshrooms, boys and girls! Beings of all species!" Toadette began to yell on the loudspeaker. "We are now beginning the concert with the live performance of our sponsor!" Toadette announced.

"Here it-a comes...who's-a it going to-a be?" Mario said in anticipation.

"Give it up for...The Buzzies!" Toadette then finished. In which the crowd gave a loud cheer.

"The Buzzies? Who are they?" Mosaic questioned.

"Yeah, I haven't really heard of them either," Link inputted.

"Hey, I've actually heard of these guys," Hoops mentioned. "I even know each of the stage names they go by, the lead singer I know is named Spinner, and his bandmates Wrecker, Scale and Smasher," Hoops continued to give his knowledge on. "They've also made a lot of great songs such as I Have A Feeling, Resolution, and Fly Away," Hoops continued to explain. "And all of those songs by them were actually pretty good, so I think that we can expect a good performance by them," Hoops finished.

The curtains rose and the stage lights blared on. And onto the stage came "The Buzzies" as they were called, a band consisting fully of Buzzy Beetles. Buzzy Beetles in general were quadpred, stubby legged creatures who bore blue shells encasing the torso of their body, the exposed parts of which were tan or similar in color. Each member of the Buzzies however had something unique to their appearance. The drummer of the band, Wrecker, had a shell with a dark green shade, and they wore a wig in the shape of a mohawk. The guitarist, Smasher, has a shell that beared a purple color and they wore a droopy black wig. The keyboard player, Scale, had a blue color like most other Buzzy Beetles, and though they didn't wear a wig, they wore a pair of star-shaped shades with a golden frame. And finally, the lead singer of the band, Spinner, had a shell that was as red as fire, and they wore a spiked wig on their head.

Spinner then grabbed the microphone on the stage and prepared to say something.

"Tell me! People of the Mushroom Kingdom! How are you all doing tonight!?" Spinner shouted to the crowd, who cheered loudly in response. "Sounds like your doing great! Now, I have a question for you all, are you ready to hear the latest hit of our album!?" Spinner then asked the crowd, whom once again cheered. "Alright then! You want a show! We'll give you one!" Spinner shouted, being met with another cheer.
"I can't hear you! Louder!" Spinner said, urging the audience to be louder, in which they were. "One more time! Louder!" Spinner yelled, the audience being louder than before.

After doing so, the smoke machine on the stage blew, and the band began to start playing their instruments.

"We like to call this song…One Misunderstanding," Spinner told the audience as he prepared to sing it, then starting as the song began to play.

The audience speculated what the song was about as the performance continued, including Mosaic & Co. All of whom which eventually realized, they were singing about love, and a misunderstanding.

"It's interesting that their singing about this specifically huh Hoops?" Mosaic mentioned.

"Indeed it is," Hoops responded.

VIII: Resolution

As the concert continued, Rosalina had at this point checked into the carnival and was searching the carnival along with her Lumas for Mosaic.

"Mama, I don't see him anywhere," One of the Lumas said.

"I don't see him either," Rosalina replied.

After looking around a bit longer, they saw a large crowd gathered at the concert area.

"A large crowd...maybe he's here," Rosalina stated.

As the group continued to enjoy the live performance, a voice rang out.

"Excuse me, has anyone seen someone by the name of Mosaic around here?" Rosalina said aloud, however, though the audience heard them, it's not enough that they hear her question. "Hey, do you mind having the performers stop for a moment so that I can speak?" Rosalina asked the audience, in which they understood, then yelling for the Buzzies to stop for a second. In which the Buzzies indeed do, to them and everyone else's puzzling, and the audience's silence.

"Huh? Is there a problem with the song?" Spinner asked the audience.

"I'd like to repeat my earlier question," Rosalina said aloud. "Has anyone seen someone by the name of Mosaic around here?" Rosalina asked aloud.

"T...that voice...Rosalina?" Mosaic said to himself, recognizing her voice.

"I actually saw them around here!" Someone in the audience nearby said, pointing in the direction of Mosaic. A lot of the audience, being familiar with Mosaic as well, point him out too.

"I have something I need to tell them," Rosalina added.

Upon this fact being revealed, the crowd made way for Rosalina so that she could make her way over to him.

"Rosalina? Why are you here and what did you want to tell me? Aren't you still mad at me for what happened and send me a letter saying you never wanted to see me again?" Mosaic questioned Rosalina.

"About that letter Mosaic, I didn't intend for you to get it and I accidentally got the letters mixed up," Rosalina explained.

"What? What do you mean?" Mosaic asked.

"Basically, I meant to send that letter to Bowser, but a mix up happened where I sent the letters in the wrong envelopes, or more specifically, one of my Lumas did," Rosalina began to further explain. "The letter I meant for you to receive is in my hand, do you still care to read it?" Rosalina then asked, showing it to Mosaic.

Mosaic, though silent, agreed to opening it. As the audience watched this play out, Rosalina handed Mosaic the letter, in which he opened up and read aloud:

"Hello Mosaic, I just wanted to talk to you a bit about the other day, you don't need to beat yourself up it, mistakes happen. I understand one of my Lumas got hurt, however, I understand as well that it was an accident, so I just wanted to let you know, you don't need to worry about what happened that day, all is forgiven and I hope to see you again sometime.

- Love, Rosalina"

"Wow...I'm glad to see that this is the case and it's hard to believe this was all just a big misunderstanding."

"Agreed," the rest of the group said in unison.

Though acknowledging them, Rosalina wanted to ask someone else a question and turned toward the stage.

"Hey, Buzzies, aren't you going to finish your song? Everyone's waiting," Rosalina told them.

"Oh yeah, of course we were mam," Spinner, somewhat nervously said.

As the Buzzies resumed, the crowd got back together, while Mosaic and Rosalina stood side to side to one another, holding hands as they enjoyed the rest of the performance.

"Once again, all things seemed to work out for everyone despite the mix-up. Even though mistakes happen, more often than not, they can be fixed. It is to be remembered however...some mistakes are a bigger hindrance than others…"

Next Time...Chapter 5: Shortage