Mario, Luigi, Yoshi, and Toad walked out of Big Beast's Belly. They breathed in with a sigh of relief now that they had fresh air.
Luigi: Finally! I hated that place! I hope we NEVER have to go inside someone's body EVER AGAIN!
Mario: I hope so too, bro. (Please don't tell me he just jinxed us for the future!)
The fisherman stepped out and was thrilled to finally be out after so many years.
Fisherman: I'M FREE! I'M FREE! I'M FINALLY FREE!
The fisherman ran away, playfully laughing.
Toad: Well, at least he's happy.
Wario and Waluigi stepped out of the casino with bags full of cash.
Wario: Ah, there you are. You four look like you've had a rough day.
Waluigi: Where have you been?
Yoshi: Ugh… it was disgusting! We were collecting stars inside the belly of a beast! We're lucky we escaped with our LIVES!
Toad: It smelled worse than your FARTS in there!
Wario and Waluigi were shocked of what they heard, but then laughed it off.
Wario: You were EATEN ALIVE?!
Waluigi: Meanwhile, Wario and I were getting SUPER RICH in the casino!
Mario: Please tell me you guys didn't spend all your time gambling, and took some time to search for stars…
Wario: We did, you worrywart. We know our task.
Mario: Thank goodness. Now that we're all back together, let's go to a place where we can ALL be comfortable.
Luigi: How about back here?
Luigi led the group through an open gate, into a giant purple UPS. The entrance led them to their next course.
Colossal Circuit
The moment they stepped inside, they forgot their mission for a moment just to look around the area. Colossal Circuit looked to be the inside of a giant computer. There were lots of motherboards as the main platforms connected to each other by cables and giant UPSs were surrounding this landscape. The black background depicted green binary numbers continuously scrolling downwards. The group were stunningly amazed at the visuals of course.
Toad: Woah…
Luigi: Mamma Mia!
Yoshi: Is this some sort of factory? Never seen one like this before.
Wario: No, stupid! It's the inside of a computer.
Waluigi: Stop being so primitive, and learn about technology!
Mario: I could show you around on how a computer works, Yoshi. But I don't want to sound like some sort of computer geek. Besides, we've got stars to collect!
Star #1: Turn Off the Cooler
Mario: Alright, I can see the first star over by that cooler in the corner. But I don't think we'll be able to get to it until we turn it off.
Luigi: Maybe there's a switch to turn it off.
The six heroes first started by leaving their starting motherboard and crossing a cable leading to a cooler. They jumped off the cooler to two other motherboards.
At the following motherboard, they ran past two capacitators and two PCI Express slots, they stepped on an active cooler which blows them upwards to a PCB and a RAM afterwards. Eventually, they found a yellow switch attached to a UPS to their right.
Yoshi: I guess this is it. I'm probably not going to be all that useful here, because I'm not familiar with computers.
Toad: You could try hitting the button.
Yoshi: Okay.
Yoshi glitter jumps up to the button and hits it, turning the cooler off. Turning back, they encountered a blue electrokoopa. Upon seeing it, Mario had flashbacks.
*flashback*
Mario and Aqua were running after Shadow Mario in Pinna Park, but as they were running, a blue shell came out of nowhere and electrocuted them.
Mario and Aqua: PBPBPBPBPBPB!
Mario: What the?!
They turned to see the source of the shell. A koopa walking on all fours with a pink tuft of hair, and a blue shell with veins of electricity surging through it.
FLUDD: That's an Electrokoopa. A subspecies of Koopa Troopas that throw their electric shells like boomerangs at those who pass them.
The electrokoopa throwed its shell at both heroes again, only for them to step back and Mario sprays the koopa with water, throwing it off balance and getting it electrocuted by its own shell.
Aqua: Serves them right!
*end of flashback*
Mario: (Not these guys again! I don't even have FLUDD this time!)
The electrokoopa spotted them and threw their shell at them. Luigi and the others got electrocuted while Mario long jumped to stomp the koopa.
Waluigi: Wah… Why does Waluigi have the WORST luck? WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?!
Wario: We got electrocuted too, you idiot!
Mario: You guys okay?
Luigi: Yeah, but you could've saved us!
Mario: Let's move on.
They performed a dive to the next motherboard which had four capacitators and a BIOS in the middle. The cooler was just after this motherboard. Because it was now turned off, the four reached the Star with no problems.
Star #2: Climb the Cables
The Star was up at the very top of this course. Waluigi took out his magnet and got to work.
Waluigi: You five stay here. Waluigi's got this!
Luigi: (Showoff…)
Waluigi used his magnet to climb up cables and platforms consistent of EISAs, Chipsets, Microprocessors and pins that come from pin grids, with a Serial ATA as their starting point.
When he was almost at the very top, he jumped on a heat spreader and onto more pins so that he could reach the Star on top of a battery connected to a yellow cable.
Waluigi: Wahahahahaha!
Star #3: Clean the Pipeline
There was a small entrance located in the huge set of green pipes on the other side, which they're actually an old Screen Saver. In order to reach the other side of the course, the heroes have to ride a Data-Bus riding in circles at the far right of where they were standing.
Toad: So, are these buses how data is transferred in computers?
Wario: Probably. Expected it to move a bit faster.
The four hopped on the Bus and rode it to the other motherboard at the opposite side. This one had electric fences that shock the heroes if they touch them. As they were heading to the pipeline, an Electro-Koopa tried to attack them. They defeated it first and started to climb the pipeline.
They found an entrance at the very top. Inside was a small room filled with lava and a couple of platforms. To get the star to appear, the group had to remove all the dust piles. The first one was right in front of them. Toad attended to it.
Mario: I guess we'll have to clean this place up.
Wario took care of the second pile to the left, Yoshi hopped on a platform and dusted the third one, Luigi long jumped to take out a platform in mid air, and Mario got the last one on the other end of the room. The star appeared and Waluigi claimed it despite not having done anything.
Star #4: Antivirus Job
Mario and Co. arrive at the far right UPS, but the monitor was showing a red pixel virus instead of a green star. The computer had been infected by the viruses from Dr. Mario.
Yoshi: Oh God! I'm feeling sick just looking at those things!
Toad: Don't infect me!
Mario: (The Dr. Mario viruses in a computer level? Interesting choice, Kaze.)
First, the Blue Virus jumped down. This was the Virus of Chill and it used a blizzard to attempt to blow the heroes away. But Wario used his shoulder bash to hit the virus behind it's back. It jumped back to the monitor and the Red Virus jumped down. This was the Virus of Fever and attacked the heroes with fire. Luigi dealt a hit to this virus and sent it back to the monitor. The Yellow Virus came down. This virus was the Virus of Swelling. It attacked by blowing up like a balloon. Toad kicked it while it was inflating and caused it to deflate.
Finally, the other two viruses jumped down and it was now six against three. Waluigi finished off the Yellow one while Yoshi took down the Blue one, and Mario finished off the Red one.
With all three viruses defeated, the star appeared.
Toad: Phew. Good thing none of us were infected.
Waluigi: Wah! Waluigi doesn't get sick. You guys were just lucky.
Mario: You caught a fever last week, and I had to cure you in my Dr. Mario persona.
Waluigi: Shut up!
They took the last star and left the computer.