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Space Fantasy (Super Mario Galaxy)
Meanwhile, while everyone is busy collecting Power Stars, a spaceship in the shape of a mushroom is flying though space.
"Okay, they could practically be anywhere in this universe!" Captain Toad exclaimed.
"Have you found them on radar?" Toadette wondered.
"Nope! I'm not picking up on anything." He grumbled.
"Captain! We're picking up on something headed right for us!" Blue Toad exclaimed.
"Oh, please don't let it be a meteor shower!" Captain Toad groaned.
"Actually, it's something else." Green Toad said. "It's a space ship!"
"What kind of ship?"
"Uh… an airship, and it has Bowser's face on it."
"Oh great, we don't even have Bullet Bill Blasters on us!" Captain Toad grumbled as it flew up to them before it came to a stop. "Okay, play it cool." He said and then grabbed the intercom. "Uh, hello fellow space traveler! What can we do for you?"
"Who are you?" A female voice asked from a mic.
"I'm Captain Toad, the leader of the Toad Brigade! Who are you?"
"I am Nitori Kawashiro, I managed to steal this thing from those weirdos that attacked Gensokyo! I'm looking for someone by the name of Marisa Kirisame."
"And we're looking for Mario and Luigi, but we're not finding them anywhere!
"Hmm, come on board the ship, maybe I can help you."
"Alright!" Captain Toad said as the ship floated to the top of the airship and they walked out.
"Wait, no! Captain, you forgot your… space… helmet, wait, seriously?" Yellow Toad wondered. "How can we breathe out here?"
"Sometimes, it's better not to question the logic in our universe." Toadette said as they wandered around the ship and then they saw Nitori walking down the stairs.
End BGM
BGM: Have a Nice Talk (Mario and Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story)
"Huh, I wasn't expecting mushroom people." Nitori said.
"Whoa… we weren't expecting a pretty girl!" Blue Toad said, who got elbowed by Purple Toad. "Ow! I wasn't flirting with her!"
"So, you're looking for this Marisa chick, eh?" Captain Toad asked.
"Yeah, have you seen her?"
"Nope, have you seen Mario and Luigi?"
"Never heard of them."
"WHAT?! You've never heard of THE Mario and Luigi, the heroes of the Mushroom Kingdom?"
"Nope, I don't know anything outside of Gensokyo."
"Huh, that's a new one." Toadette said.
"So, is there anyone else with you?" Green Toad asked.
"Yes. I picked her up before we got out of Gensokyo. Her name's Alice Margatroid." Nitori said. "She was following Marisa after that monster turtle guy attacked, but lost her in space, so she came back to figure out a way to find her, and then I found her. She's taking a nap inside."
"Ah, gotcha! So, is it just you two?" Captain Toad asked.
"Well, there's more of us in the airships, but I've lost contact with them. Don't know where they are." Nitori shrugged.
"Well, that's a shame." He said.
Nitori then looked at the Mushroom ship that the Toad Brigade were riding in as she went to go take a look inside the ship. "Hmm, bigger on the inside." She said and saw the radar. "Oh! I know what to do with that!"
"Hey! HEY! What are you doing?!" Purple Toad asked.
"Sorry, but when I see a machine, I tend to go crazy." Nitori admitted. "I'm an engineer Youkai, so that means I solve problems."
"Okay, that's fai-… what's a Youkai?"
"A Youkai is- Oh hello, we got something pop up on the radar!" Nitori said after fiddling with it.
"What is it?" Captain Toad asked with intrigue as they saw a galaxy pop up. "Oh! We have a planet pop up on our radar!"
Nitori grinned. "Maybe that's where our friends are at!"
"Let's go there!" Captain Toad exclaimed.
"Right!" Nitori nodded and walked out. "On the way, I'll tell you about what Youkai are!" She said and then had the airship take off.
End BGM
Back on the Observatory…
"Alright, let me just do this and… VOILA!" Polari exclaimed, handing Marisa's wand to her. "Now you can aim this bad boy at Star Bits and they will come to you! It was kinda tricky because of how magical it is, but I'm not one to back away from a challenge." He chuckled. "Oh, and you can also fire Star Bits from the wand too."
"So, what about us?" Mario asked.
"Ah yes… for you two, I was able to create these two bad boys!" Polari said, pulling out two white remotes. "Ta-dah!"
"Wii Remotes?" Luigi asked.
Polari blinked. "Wii what now? I was going to call it the Star Bit Attractor." He said. "Anyway, all you do is point at the Star Bits and you press this little button behind the Attractor and you can fire Star Bits from the motion sensor! I've also made cute little straps for it!"
"Sooooo, battery-less Wii Remotes."
"What in the name of a dwarf star is a Wii?" Polari asked.
"I'm asking the same thing." Marisa said.
"We'll tell you later." Mario said as they went into the Pull Star and blasted off to Good Egg Galaxy.
"Wii… Wii… that name isn't going to catch on." Polari said. "Next thing you tell me, they'll slap a U next to the Wii and call it a U Wii, or a Wii U. What next, they call a small tablet a Switch or something? That will NEVER catch on! Next thing you know, they'll do something with cardboard!" He exclaimed and then rubbed his chin in thought. "Hey Rosalina! I need to ask you something!" He said and took off.
BGM: Good Egg Galaxy (Super Mario Galaxy)
The trio landed on the planet, but not before collecting some Star Bits with their Wii Remotes/Wand before they landed. "Alright, so where are headed next?" Luigi asked.
"I noticed a Launch Star on the other side of the planet." Marisa said, to which they nodded and they walked to the other side while collecting the Star Bits as they could, while they knoticed out an Octoomba that was in the way and walked over to a Blue Luma.
"I have a friend up ahead who's a bit hungry. You wouldn't mind sharing your snacks, would you?" He asked before transforming into Pull Stars, which pulled them into the Launch Star and launched them to a pear-shaped planet where they collected more Star Bits by destroying the crystals and also knocking out some unsuspecting Goombas before they got into the next Launch Star and blasted off to the Rock Planet, although Luigi accidentally activated the Launch Star in the middle of their path and took him to the Egg Planet instead.
"AAAAAH! NOT WHAT I MEANT TO DOOOOO!" Luigi yelled while the duo landed.
"Will he be okay?" Marisa asked.
"He'll be fine." Mario replied. I hope. He thought to himself while they collected more Star Bits while Marisa destroyed the rocks with one of her bombs that destroyed everything on the planet while collecting the Star Bits on the planet before they took off in another Launch Star to meet up with Luigi. "You okay, bro?"
"Yeah, I'm fine!" Luigi said. "Just a little shaken up, but I'm okay."
"That's good." Mario grinned as they collected the Star Bits before meeting up with the Hungry Luma.
"Hiyah! Glad you could make it! Listen, I need a few Star Bits before I can transform."
"Okay, how many do you need?" Marisa asked.
"100 Starbits!"
"A HUNDRED?!" Marisa yelled in surprise. "Yowza! Alright, here ya go!" She said as the trio aimed their wand/Wii Remotes at the Hungry Luma and fired, before he had his fill.
"Oh, I'm so full… I can't eat anymore, I think I'm gonna… TRANSFOOOOOOOOORM!" The Hungry Luma yelled and then flew off to the distance, where it transformed into a planet.
"Did that just transform into a planet?!" Marisa asked.
"Apparently, he did!" Luigi exclaimed.
"Okay, so why a hundred Star Bits? I agree that they can be tasty, but you don't see me being obsessed with them." Marisa said. "I get it, Star Bits are like candy to the Lumas, but come on. What's next, you throw two thousand Star Bits at a Luma or something?"
"I doubt it." Mario said as they went into the pink Launch Star and took off to the Tower Planet, where Marisa simply flew up to the top while Mario and Luigi did some climbing with their jumping before they met up with Marisa.
"What took ya boys so long?" Marisa teased.
"We don't have any flying power ups with us." Mario replied back, causing Marisa to chuckle before they took off to the Pill Planet, where they found the right crystal and went inside, and worked their way up while getting thrown around by the changing gravity.
"OW!" Marisa yelled after landing on her head. "The hell is with this planet?"
"These arrows do NOT give enough timing." Luigi complained while Mario landed on his back.
"Ow." Mario winced as they eventually got to the top and launched to the Star Planet where Marisa went to grab the Power Star when they landed on said planet, and then they took off back to the Observatory.
End BGM
"Good news! You have enough stars to go to another Galaxy!" A Luma exclaimed as they looked at him weirdly. "Sorry, I'm filling in for Polari. He's asking mama about this Wii thing."
"Got it." Mario nodded as they went back into the Pull Star and the galaxy that formed in front of their eyes was none other than Honeyhive Galaxy. "Hmm, how about we split up?" Mario suggested. "I take Good Egg Galaxy and you two take the new Galaxy."
"Sounds like a plan!" Marisa grinned.
"Good idea!" Luigi nodded as he and Marisa took off to Honeyhive Galaxy while Mario went to Good Egg Galaxy.
BGM: The Honeyhive (Super Mario Galaxy)
Luigi and Marisa landed on the planet of the new Galaxy. "Huh, this place looks nice." Marisa said.
"Welcome!" A Honeybee flew up to them.
"Whoa!" Luigi exclaimed.
"Welcome to our humble home! Our fair queen rules this land!" He said.
"A talking honeybee, that's new." Marisa said as they walked ahead. "Hmm, I wouldn't be surprised if I ever came across a honeybee Youkai in Gensokyo." She said to herself as they wandered around the planet with Luigi noticing a Power Star inside a tree.
"Oh? Huh, wonder how I can get across there." He wondered as they waved at the friendly bees, but one Bee in particular took one look at their outfits and groaned in disgust.
"Blegh! That green and blue outfit is SO tacky!" The Bee exclaimed. "And that dress that the girl is wearing? Nasty. That's the most disgusting thing I've ever seen on a human!"
Marisa's eye twitched. "What did you say?!"
"Ack!" Luigi grabbed a hold of Marisa's shoulder. "Now now! Let's not anger the nice bees."
"Mmph… fine…" Marisa grumbled with Luigi sighing in relief.
"Don't mind him! He just really hates clothing that's not bee related." Another Honeybee said while Luigi noticed a ? Coin floating in the air.
"What's this?" Luigi wondered and touched it, where two Bee Mushrooms popped up in front of their eyes.
"Oh, hello!" Marisa exclaimed and then looked at one of them. "That's a peculiar mushroom." She said, examining it and then started to eat it.
"So anyway, like I was saying, I was watching this cute little show the other day about four teenage girls banding together to take care of these creatures, along with some other teenagers with one of them being really hyper and has a thing for pancakes." A Honeybee said. "Oh, and there's this fire chick that has it out for the school for some reason."
"Nice, nice. What season are you on?"
"They're called volumes, actually. Oh, I hope Volume 3 will be delightfully awesome as the other two. My favorite characters are that robot girl and the girl with magnetism! …I can never remember their names for the life of me, unfortunately. Though, I hope I get to see more of them as the show goes on!"
"Hmm, I might have to give that one a sho- OH MY GOODNESS, THAT IS A CUTE OUTFIT!"
"Huh?! Where?!" He asked and saw Marisa's outfit. "Ooooh, cute!"
"What am I even wearing?" Marisa asked.
"Here ya go!" A Bee pulled out a mirror for the witch.
"WHAT IN THE WORLD?!" Marisa yelled, as her outfit was more bee-like as there were wings sprouted on her back, also a cute little stinger on her butt.
"Huh… well, it's better than the Frog Suits." Luigi admitted, taking a look at himself.
"I'm… just going to go up ahead." Marisa said and took off while Luigi looked at the Power Star at the tree.
"Alright, you're mine!" Luigi said, flying over to the other side and then started to climb the tree where he grabbed the Power Star. "Alright, I gotcha! Now I'll just climb down and-" He saw some Flipbugs glaring at him as he was coming down. "AAAAAH!" He yelled and scrambled up, holding on to the tree for dear life. "Nope nope nope! I'll stay right at this tree where they won't hurt me!"
With Marisa…
"Oh, buzz off!" Marisa said, throwing some danmaku at the Flipbugs to knock them over as she kicked them away and then she jumped down where she slid down on a slope and then went ahead by flying up and landing on a flower that had some coins on it, but she didn't care for them as she made her way over to the Launch Star and launched away to the Flower Planet.
"Hey!" A Honeybee called out to her. "Did you know that if you grab onto a Fling Flower and spin, it'll launch you up to those flowers?"
"Oh?" Marisa went to give it a try and launched her up, landing on a flower. "Woo! That was fun!" Marisa grinned as she flew over to the Launch Star after collecting some Star Bits and then took off to the Queen Bee planet, where she realized that Luigi wasn't with her. "Luigi? Dude?" She turned her head a few times. "I could've sworn he was right here with me. Eh, he'll be fine." She said and then looked at the honeycomb in front of her, where she noticed the Honeybees climbing on it, to which she thought she could do the same and found herself climbing on the honeycomb.
"This is so weird… yet so awesome!" She grinned and climbed around, jumping from one spot to another if she needed to and then found herself at the top where she saw the Honey Queen floating there, grumbling to herself and trying to scratch herself, but then noticed Marisa.
"Oh? Who might you be, New Bee?"
…Did you just seriously call me a newbie? Marisa thought. "I'm Marisa Kirisame, the badass witch of Gensokyo, thank you very much!"
"Hmm… you don't look like a witch to me. You look like an average bee that seems to have a mouth on her."
Marisa sweatdropped, forgotten that she had the Bee Mushroom power up on her. Crap, how did I forget that?
"Mmph, maybe you can be of assistance! There is a serious itchiness on my body and I can't quite reach those spots! Could you scratch those itches for me, New Bee?"
Quit calling me a newbie! Marisa thought. "Uh… sure." She said and flew over, latching herself on the Honey Queen which caught her by surprise. "Ugh, you have your own gravity field?!" She asked and found a Star Chip. "…How did she even…?" She wondered and grabbed it where she then crawled around the Honey Queen's body to collect the others.
"Ohohohohoho! That tickles!" The Honey Queen giggled before Marisa grabbed the last Star Chip. "Ooooh! Thank you so much! New Bee, if there is something else that we require, we will call you for our aid."
"Got it…" Marisa said, her eye twitching at the thought of the Honey Queen calling her a newbie as she flew over to the Launch Star and flew off.
"Farewell, New Bee!"
"I AM NOT A NEWBIE!" Marisa yelled.
The Honey Queen sweatdropped. "Was it something I said?" She wondered.
End BGM
At the Main Planet…
"Sweet! We found a Power Star!" Captain Toad exclaimed.
"Hey, what's that?" Toadette wondered as they saw Marisa coming down and then landed in front of them.
BGM: Captain Toad Goes Forth! (Super Mario 3D World)
"AAAAUGH! IT'S A BEE!" Captain Toad yelled.
"Whoa whoa whoa, calm down! I'm not a bee!" Marisa exclaimed.
"Oh yeah? Then what are you?" Yellow Toad asked.
"I'm a human… dressed in a bee costume, unfortunately."
"HA! That's what they all say!" Captain Toad exclaimed.
"Marisa!" A voice called out as Marisa looked up to see Nitori coming down.
"Hey Nitori!"
"Wait, this is Marisa?" Toadette asked.
"Yeah, she's cool!" Nitori said. "Though, what's with the bee getup?"
"A Bee Mushroom." Marisa said. "I don't know how to get it off!"
"Ah, a power up! Allow me." Captain Toad brought out his axe and then swung it at Marisa's leg.
"OW!" Marisa yelled, her Bee outfit disappearing. "What was that for?!"
"Power-Ups in our world disappear by being hit with a strong blow. You're welcome." Captain Toad grinned.
Marisa then looked at the airship. "Is that Bowser guy here?"
"Nope, I hijacked it." Nitori said. "Alice is with us too, but she went to do something real quick."
Down below…
"I AM NOT GETTING DOWN FROM HERE. NOPE!" Luigi yelled.
"…You can't be serious." Alice sighed before she had her dolls fire lasers at the Flipbugs. "Hey! You can come down here!"
"Nope! I like my new spot!"
Alice looked at Shanghai, who just facepalmed at Luigi's cowardice as Alice summoned the Goliath Doll who kicked the tree and knocked Luigi down.
"AAAAH!" Luigi yelled and fell on his back. "Ow…"
"Gotcha." Alice said, picking up the dazed plumber and flew back to the airship.
With Marisa…
"Come on, we can talk on our way back to… wherever you were originally." Nitori said.
"The Comet Observatory. The Power Star will take us there." Marisa said.
"Lead the way, Power Star!" Captain Toad grinned as the Power Star guided them back to the Observatory.
Meanwhile, with Mario…
BGM: A Tense Moment (Super Mario Galaxy)
"Hiyah!" Mario yelled, launching two coconuts at the Octopus enemies, knocking them out and opening the bridge for the plumber as he ran over to the other side, jumping on the steps and knocking out the Octoombas and then destroyed the crystal containing the Launch Star and then launched to the planet above, then he ran to the other side of the planet filled with lava.
End BGM
"This looks suspicious…" Mario mused, and then right on cue, a fiery octopus emerged from the lava and glared at the plumber. It was none other than King Kaliente.
BGM: King Kaliente (Super Mario Galaxy)
King Kaliente spat out a coconut to Mario, to which he shot it back to him and knocked it on his head, to which he recovered and spat out three fireballs at him, but Mario jumped over them with ease while spin attacking the coconut, but King Kaliente deflected it back, then Mario hit it harder and smacked King Kaliente on the head, knocking his crown in the lava.
"Gotcha!" Mario grinned, only for King Kaliente roared at him and then dove into the lava where blue Lava Bubbles popped out of the lava and chased after Mario, but Mario quickly avoided them since they weren't really fast while King Kaliente returned and spat out a few fireballs before spitting out a coconut where the two of them began a game of tennis until Mario hit it hard enough and smacked King Kaliente in the head to knock him back into the lava, KO'ing the octopus.
End BGM
"…Huh, so that's how it felt for Link." Mario said, grabbing the Power Star that appeared and took off back to the Observatory.
Meanwhile…
"Mistress! We have found what caused those creatures to appear in our world!" Ran said to Yukari.
"Oh? What did you find?"
"It turns out that you accidentally left a gap open near Fairy Lake, which caused the invasion to happen."
"What! That is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. I would never be so careless."
"To be fair, you opened up a gap when you woke up from your 4-week nap."
"I did…?" Yukari wondered.
Flashback!
Yukari woke up, stretching. "Mmm, that felt great. What do we got today?" She asked, yawning a bit and rubbing her eyes as she opened up a gap and opened it up to see Star Bits raining down from the Mushroom Kingdom. "Hmm?" She wondered and looked around, seeing that the Toads were going about their carefree days and not noticing the Youkai. "Where am I?" She wondered and walked to a Toad. "Excuse me, do you know where I am?"
"Why, you're in the Mushroom Kingdom! It's a good thing you came, because the Star Festival is beginning to start!"
"Star Festival?"
"It happens once every century! Come by and party at Toad Town!" He said and took off.
"Star Festival… interesting…" Yukari said, getting an idea and opening up a gap while yawning, seeming to still be a bit sleepy. "I must inform Reimu about this." She said and walked into the gap, accidentally leaving it open long enough for Kamek to come by and notice it.
"Oh?" Kamek mused and looked inside. "Ooooh! It's another world!" He said, watching Cirno and Daiyousei fly by. "I must inform his highness!"
End flashback!
Yukari paled. "Oh no… I am so stupid!"
"Something wrong, mistress?"
"Nothing… I just need to go vent my frustrations out on something." She said, opening up a gap and walking in, closing it behind her, muttering something about 'throwing a train at Tenshi'.
"Hope everything will be alright." Ran quietly said.
Nothin' like referencing Touhou 3D World by showing off how Bowser and Kamek invaded Gensokyo.
Moral of the story: Never open up a gap when you're drowsy.