Shakara woke up and saw a star shaped creature floating above her, trying to get up, she noticed that a piece of her leg was missing, so she made it grow back, "I hate when that happens... Anyways, I should probably wait for mom to come get me..." Shakara thought to herself, "Urgh" Someone behind her said, she turned around and saw Mario also laying on the ground being woken up by the same star creature.
"Where are we?" He asked as he got up to his feet, the star creature spinned around before turning into a bunny, "You want to know? Follow me!" and the bunny started hopping away, "I think we should go" Shakara said as she started following it, "Wait, you're just going like that?" Mario asked as he started following too.
They walked for a while until they reached the bunny, who was along two other star creatures that turned into bunnies too, "If you wanna know where we are, then you have to beat us in hide and seek! Good luck!" The bunny said before vanishing in midair, "I guess we're doing this" Shakara said and that led Mario to ask "Do you just go along with things that happen and hope for the best?", "Yes" Shakara replied.
Mario wanted to ask more, but Shakara already started searching, "This will take some getting used to..." Mario commented and he started searching too, but when he passed next to a pipe near him, he heard something coming from inside it, "...Maybe" He said as he jumped in and came out on the other side of the planet and saw a bunny jump out after him, "There you are!" He exclaimed as he started following it.
Thanks to learning how to sense life energy, Shakara knew precisely where to look, so she went to a crater and thought "Did it really jump down here?" As she jumped in too, but got pulled out along with the bunny which she quickly caught, "And one, the next thing you're going to say is: I knew I should have hidden in the bushes!" Shakara said and the bunny indeed said "I knew I should have hidden in the bushes! ...Wait what?"
Shakara went to said bushes and she found the other bunny which again, she caught with ease, "And two... And Mario still didn't catch the third... I better help him" Shakara said as she started heading to Mario's location, but by the time she got there, Mario managed to catch the bunny, "About time." Shakara commented.
"Stop with the sass and let's look for the other two" Mario said, but Shakara just waved him off "I already caught them." She said making both Mario and the bunny look surprised, "Wow" The bunny said as it turned back into a star, "I guess you two will be able to help mama, wait here a moment, she'll want to see you!" The star said as a tower-like structure appeared in a flash of light.
Mario and Shakara looked at eachother and they climed the small tower, when they reached the top, they found a woman with blonde hair and a blue dress standing in front of a large crystal, just like the one Bowser used to attack, "Good to see that you made it, I have been observing you for a long time, or at least you Mario" The woman said and Shakara frowned a bit at that.
"We're in a predicament where helping eachother is the key to victory here, so before you start you journey, take this Luma here, he willl help you a lot." The woman said as a white star creature appeared in front of her before disappearing into Mario, after that happened, the woman disappeared and a yellow Luma appeared, "I guess I should tell what to do, with the help of that Luma, you'll be able to break these crystals, all you have to do is spin!" The Luma explained.
Having learned what to do with the crystals, Mario proceeded to spin into the one in front of him and shatter it into pieces, "It works!" Mario exclaimed, "It's quite impressive, dad can do something very similar" Shakara said, making the Luma very confused, "Only cosmic entities can do things like this... Anyways! You see that star that came out of the crystal? It's a Launch Star, if Mario spins into it, it will launch him to another planet." The Luma said.
Shakara didn't want to stick around and talk so she grabbed Mario and dragged him to the Launch Star, where he just made a surprised face and spun, launching both him and Shakara to another planet.
A few minutes later.
They arrived on a different planet, which was missing chunks of ground and showed a black hole in the middle, "If mom was here, she'd be able to close that thing, it seems pretty annoying" Shakara commented and Mario looked at her as if she was crazy, "It's a black hole, and you say annoying?" Mario asked, but was ultimately ignored as Shakara grabbed what looked like a piece of a Launch Star.
"I guess you already know what to do" Said a Luma that was right next to Shakara, "Gather all the pieces? On it!" Shakara said as the Luma and Mario shared a confused look, before the latter started searching for the pieces too.
After they found them all, the Launch Star formed and the flew to the next planet, which was completely made of metal, "What's up with this?" Mario asked as he stomped the ground lightly, "What? You don't have metal ground in your world?" Shakara asked only causing Mario to look at her in disbelief, "No... Oh look out for the-!" Mario was about to warn Shakara about a goomba that was running for her, but Shakara kicked it away before it could do anything.
"...How did you kick it?" Mario asked, "I just avoided shoving my foot in it's mouth" Shakara explaind and Mario felt like an idiot, but was distracted by the fact that a key fell from the goomba and then noticed that there was a smaller Launch Star locked in a glass dome, "I guess we can move on with this", Mario said as he brought the key to the dome, which opened with no problem.
Mario used the Launch Star to reach the other metal planet that was beside the first one, "There's a pipe there" Shakara said, pointing to another dome with a pipe inside, "I think I know who has the key..." Mario said while pointing at a giant goomba that was walking on the other side of the planet, "Don't worry, I got this" Shakara said as she walked up to the goomba and punched it, sending it flying.
"...We needed the key." Mario reminded Shakara, "Oh right... Uhh... Let me try this" Shakara responded as her arm turned into a gem like stone and reshaped itself into a key shape, then she broke it off, shocking Mario a bit, but he calmed down when the arm grew back, "Okay it worked." She said as she threw the makeshift key at Mario, "That was weird." Mario commented as he went to open the dome.
When it opened, Shakara looked at the pipe and asked "What do we do now?", "Enter it" Mario replied while he jumped in, Shakara shrugged and followed, this pipe brought them inside the planet where a Luma was waiting for them, "Great, you're here, I need your help" It said before pointing to a large star that was in a forcefield, "That star is one of us! You need to get it out!" The Luma explained, Mario and Shakara both nodded and they started going around searching for a way to get the star out.
Eventually, Mario stepped on a panel that switched from yellow to blue, this made them understand that they needed to turn them all yellow, so they started pressing each panel they found until the forcefield around the star disappeared, this allowed the two to grab the star, and they hold on tight as the star started going somewhere.
The Comet Observatory.
Mario and Shakara reached a space ship of some kind, but it was kind of dark, howeer, when they landed, the star flew into what looked to be the core of the ship, making it light up a bit.
"Thank for bringing back one of our Grand Stars" The woman from before said, "I didn't properly introduce myself before, I'm Rosalina, guardian of the Lumas, and this, is the Comet Oberservatoy, my and the Lumas home, it's a space ship we use to travel through space, however, the one who captured your loved one stole our power source, the Power Stars, I have to ask you to help us get them back, if you do, I can help you rescue your loved one." Rosalina explained.
Hearing this made Mario perk up, "You got a deal!" He explaimed, but Shakara was more interested in the adventure she would have, but she heard a familiar sound behind her which made her turn around.
There was Avaritia who teleported the rest of the group long with Luigi, there is a lot she has to explain.
