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BGM: Rosalina in the Observatory (Super Mario Galaxy)
The gang landed on the ground with the Grand Star and then the Grand Star flew over to the Beacon, causing it to expand just a little bit while the Fountain dome opened up to them all. "Thank you." Rosalina said as they approached her. "This beacon lights up the Cosmic Observatory and helps us travel across the universe. If we have enough Star Power, we can travel to the center of the universe, which is most likely where your friends are held."
"How many Stars did you have in total?" Nitori asked.
"120. Technically, we need sixty of them to travel to the Center of the Universe, but I wouldn't actually mind if you got them all." Rosalina explained. "The more star power we have, the better. I am willing to bet that the last Grand Star is being held at the center of the universe."
"Alright, we'll gather up the remaining 119 Stars! Shouldn't be too complicated." Marisa said.
"Right." Mario nodded. "If we can get 150 Power Stars from when Bowser took over Peach's castle, then 120 should be no problem!"
"Remind me why Wario wanted to come to that again?" Luigi sweatdropped.
"So, out of curiosity, what's with that dark purple Luma over there?" Alice asked, pointing to it.
"Oh, if he's here than that must mean there are Prankster Comets going about." Rosalina sighed. "If you want more information, he's your guy."
"Got it." Marisa nodded, and then they heard the sound of a Toad ship coming in as they landed at the garage while the Toads ran out screaming.
"WE'RE BEING CHASED BY A MONSTER! HEEEEELP!" Blue Toad yelled while Yuyuko landed near them.
Luigi raised an eyebrow. "She looks rather cute for a monster."
"I'm telling Daisy you said that." Mario teased.
"ACK! No no no no!" Luigi pleaded.
Mario laughed. "Too easy."
"I hate it when you do that." Luigi sighed.
"SHE ATE A GALAXY!" Captain Toad yelled. "SWEET SWEET GALAXY TO BE EXACT!"
"What? I get hungry when I see sweets." Yuyuko shrugged.
Marisa rolled her eyes. "Oh, Yuyuko." She sighed and then walked over to her before turning to the people who don't know about her. "Everyone, meet Yuyuko Saigyouji. She's a Ghost Youkai and a rather carefree individual."
"So, what does she manipulate?" Mario asked.
"Oh, I manipulate death. I can end someone's life just like that." Yuyuko said carefreely, and right on cue, Luigi lost all color to his body while Mario and Rosalina looked completely unnerved by this, even Polari hid behind Rosalina. "Oh, don't worry, I won't end your lives. I rarely ever do it anyway." She said, giving everyone a cute smile.
"Uh… riiiiiight…" Luigi said.
"Marisa forgot to mention she tends to get hungry often." Nitori said.
"I just love to eat." Yuyuko giggled.
"So she's like Kirby… huh, wonder if those two will get along?" Mario wondered to himself.
"Knowing Kirby, he most likely will." Luigi said with a nod while Marisa brought Yuyuko up to speed.
"I see… I'll be happy to help you!" Yuyuko smiled before they walked over to the Luma.
"Hello there! I assume you want to know more about Prankster Comets?" The Luma asked to which they all nodded. "Excellent! These Prankster Comets will take you to an alternate version of that galaxy. The original galaxy will have no idea what has happened. Everything will go back to normal as soon as you beat these Prankster Comets. The first one is the Speedy Comet, which will put you under a time limit to see how fast you can beat a galaxy. A Speed Run, if you will. The second one is the Daredevil Comet, which powers up the galaxies by eleven to the point where if anything hits you, you'll be knocked out or possibly die." He said, causing their eyes to widen in surprise. "Bring extra 1-Ups just in case!"
"Oh my!" Marisa exclaimed.
"Cosmic Comets pits you against a cosmic version of yourself. What the cosmic clones will do is a mystery. Racing, finding an item, Settling it In Smash, the possibilities are endless." He said. "The Fast Foe Comets speeds up enemies and obstacles tremendously. Luckily, this one is a rarity. A Purple Comet scatters Purple coins everywhere throughout the Galaxy, ranging from a hundred to a hundred and fifty. There are some other rare ones that you might not see but I'll tell ya anyway. A Clone Comet is like the Cosmic Comet, but instead of one cosmic version, it's an endless amount of clones that follow your every move and they hurt you if you touch them for some strange reason. It makes getting a Power Star difficult… in fact, I've heard several complaints from Chompworks Galaxy whenever the Clone Comet shows up."
"That's… that's unreal." Alice said.
"The Romp Comet pits you in an arena against tons of enemies that also puts you in a time limit for about a minute. If time is up and there's an enemy left, you have to start over from the very beginning. The Double Time Comet is like the Fast Foe Comet, but instead of enemies moving faster, it's obstacles going ballistic! Finally, there's the ultra rare Green Comet that throws Green Stars all over the galaxies. Think of it like a scavenger hunt… and those are just the comets that I'm aware about. Who knows what kind of other comets there are!"
"Uh… did someone write that down?" Captain Toad asked.
"I think we can manage." Mario said. "Let's just get more Stars!"
"Agreed." Marisa nodded as they split up into the different domes, while Marisa and Nitori found the Rolling Green Galaxy and took off.
End BGM
Marisa and Nitori landed on the ground. "Where are we?" Marisa wondered.
"I dunno, but look!" Nitori said, pointing to a glass ball with the Power Star inside it.
"Score!" Marisa grinned. "…But why is it in the ball?" She wondered.
"Not only that, but look!" Nitori said, pointing to a stand that contained Golf Clubs.
"What in the world is… that?" Marisa asked.
"This is a Golf Course!" A voice said as they saw a Luma flying over.
"A what?" Marisa asked.
"Golf! …Do you know what golf is?"
"We don't have golf in Gensokyo. We've never heard of it." Nitori said.
"We have soccer." Marisa pointed out. "We're pretty skilled at that."
Nitori chuckled. "Ooooh yeah, we are!"
"Well, this is different. All you have to do is take this golf club and hit the ball!" Luma said, handing the two a golf club.
Marisa studied the Golf Club, looking at the 9-Iron. "…Sooooo, do you hit people on the head with this or what?" Marisa wondered.
"I think you throw it." Nitori said. "And… maaaaaybe it'll come back?"
"I wonder if you can dig a hole with this…"
"Ai yai yai, what do they teach you in Gensokyo?" The Luma sweatdropped. "Here, watch this video of mama playing golf." He said where they watched the video of Rosalina playing golf.
"FOOOOORE!" She yelled and swung the club, where the ball went flying through the air and landed near the flagpole.
"That's how you play golf!" Luma said. "Mama is the best golfer in the whole galaxy, in fact, there are several galaxies where mama frequently visits when she travels the cosmos. A time to unwind and relax!"
"Oh, is that right? Well, I'll give it a shot." Marisa said. "Not sure what Rosie was doing yelling the number four, but whatever." She said and then got into position, raising the golf club in the air. "THREE!" She yelled, swinging the golf club… and accidentally letting go, where the golf club had flown off and into the abyss. "Whoops." She said and then looked down, noticing she whiffed the ball too. "Seriously?"
"No one says three in golf. It's fore! And it's not even a number!" Luma said.
"Oh yeah, because I'm totally a golfing expert after watching one video!"
"Hmm…" Nitori rubbed her chin in thought. "…Hey Marisa, remember when we had our own spin in soccer where the rule was we couldn't kick the ball?"
"Yeah, and Wriggle, Aya, Mokou and Ran were being spoil sports." Marisa said.
"Well, how about we put our own spin into golf as well? The only rule is-" Nitori walked over to the golf clubs, picked them up and threw them into the abyss.
"ACK! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" Luma yelled.
"-We can't use golf clubs?"
Marisa grinned. "That's brilliant!"
"How did you guys do soccer…?" Luma wondered.
"Oh, we got creative and unleashed our spell cards on the ball." Marisa said. "In fact, we got so creative that we might have sacrificed audience members a few times."
"Or a whole city when Mima unleashed Twilight Spark." Nitori chimed in.
"YOU DID WHAT?!" Luma yelled as Nitori put her backpack down and then dug in her backpack, making a contraption and then put the ball inside the contraption.
BGM: Lakitu Valley (Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour)
"Let 'er rip!" Nitori grinned as she pressed a button as the rocket flew up into the air, and when it was high enough, she had it explode in a watery explosion where Nitori manipulated the water into a rocket fist and then punched the ball away, where she had the water fly ahead of the ball as she turned it into various platforms where the ball bounced off of them with ease until it bounced on the final platform and rolled toward the hole before it came to a gentle stop just right on the edge of the hole. "…Aww, I was hoping for a hole in one!"
"My turn!" Marisa said, grabbing a regular golf ball and putting it on the tee, then she flew off on her broom to a distance. "Alright, here we go!" She said and then flew to the golf ball, where she activated Blazing Star where she hit the ball with the broom and kept going, but then she stopped and pulled the broom up with her hands and swung her broom like a bat to hit the golf ball, sending it flying into the air where it landed on the final planet, hitting the glass ball and bouncing off of it, where it rolled onto the grass… aaaaand fell into the abyss. "Awww!" Marisa pouted a bit, but thanks to Marisa's ball, it caused the glass ball to roll into the hole and break, releasing the Power Star.
"YES! HOLE IN ONE!" Nitori cheered.
End BGM
"Lucky son of a…" Marisa grumbled as they flew over to the Power Star and flew off to the Observatory, while the Luma looked on in shock.
"I… I'm scared to think what they do in soccer…"
With Mario…
BGM: Space Junk Road (Super Mario Galaxy)
Mario landed on the planet. "So this is Space Junk Galaxy?" He wondered to himself as he walked around the quiet and peaceful galaxy where he then noticed some Pull Stars where he jumped up where the Pull Stars grabbed him and took him for a little journey, where Mario collected Star Bits along the way as the Pull Stars pulled him around some asteroids before ending up on some Lava Transparent Planets. He then went to collect the Star Chips while avoiding the Amps on the planet, then he got into the Launch Star and flew off, going around the galaxy and slamming into a crystal that contained Star Bits before he landed on a rocket planet.
Olimar? Mario wondered, looking around the ship but saw no captain or Pikmin, then went onward where more Pull Stars took him on another journey, this time taking him through a small asteroid obstacle course before he landed on a T-Shaped Planet where he ran through the planet and taking out the Scuttlebugs and then got to the top of the planet and saw the Toad Brigade trapped in crystals. "Oh, they came here too?" He wondered as he destroyed the crystals.
"Eugh! Way to leave us high and dry, captain!" Yellow Toad yelled as Captain Toad came down on the ship.
"You know very well I have a fear of Scuttlebugs!" Captain Toad exclaimed.
"No, you don't!" Toadette called out while Mario rolled his eyes and then used the ship as a boost to get into the sling star and go into the final area where platforms assembled themselves for Mario as he went about to collect the Silver Stars surrounding the black hole underneath before the Silver Stars formed into the Power Star, where he took off back to the Observatory.
With Luigi…
BGM: Egg Planet (Super Mario Galaxy)
Luigi found himself on the roof on the starting planet. "Well, that takes care of that Power Star!" He said, after having broken into the house since he had a feeling something was in it after he came to the Galaxy a few times and he managed to get inside. "Heh, alright, time to-" Something caught his attention as he looked up to the sky to see a red comet. "What in the world…?" He wondered and found himself being taken into the comet. "Whoa! WHOA! WAAAAAAAAAAAAH! HEEEEEEELP!" He yelled, but it was no use as no one came to help him.
Luigi closed his eyes as he was pulled into the comet, screaming and wanting Mario or someone else to come save him, but to his dismay, no one came.
End BGM
The next thing he felt was the soft grass on his back as he opened his eyes and looked around, seeing that he was still alive. "What in the…?" He wondered as he stood up. "Am I dead or alive?" He wondered as he noticed a sign.
"Welcome to the Speedy Comet! Here you will do a speed run on the first mission you did in this galaxy. Can you go through the Galaxy and defeat Dino Piranha as fast as you can? World Record: Four Minutes."
"So I'm in an alternate version of the galaxy." Luigi mused and then noticed a reflective barrier in front of him, having a red tinge. Luigi assumed that as soon he stepped through the barrier, the trial would begin, and when he stepped through it, he heard the sound of a siren.
BGM: Speedy Comet in Orbit (Super Mario Galaxy)
Luigi quickly ran to the other side of the planet, where he quickly did a few long jumps as he then did a triple jump to get into the Launch Star on the tower where he launched to the Boulder Planet when he noticed that the boulders were replaced by rolling Chain Chomps, where he quickly went to grab the Star Chips, making sure not to get ran over by the Chomps where he wished Marisa were here to destroy the Chomps with ease as he got all the Star Chips and took off to the next planet where he quickly pulled out his Poltergust to suck up a Piranha Plant and spat it out and then he grabbed onto the vine and went to the other planet and then he quickly did several triple jumps over the Chain Chomps and then he hit a Stretch Plant to smack the Spiny Piranha Plant to kill it, then he ran to the vine and went to the Block Climb planet, where he long jumped a few times, plus did a few Triple jumps and then did a spin jump to destroy the crystal and then he flew off and went to the planet where Dino Piranha resided and landed on his egg, cracking it.
"Alright, let's knock you out in a less gruesome way!" Luigi said, hitting the tail and launching it to the egg, where Dino Piranha roared at Luigi and then began their battle where the battle went smoothly as normal and then after knocking Dino Piranha around two times, Luigi had an idea and dove to the side, bringing out his Poltergust and sucking up the tail, surprising the Dino Piranha as it yelped in pain… before Luigi hit the reverse button where it knocked Dino Piranha silly before it fell to the ground in defeat, coughing out a Power Star in the process where Luigi quickly grabbed it.
End BGM
A billboard landed on the ground near Luigi where he checked the time. "Two minutes and thirty seconds. New record!"
"Wahoo!" Luigi grinned as he took off.
With Alice…
"This is Hurry-Scurry Galaxy?" Alice wondered to herself after she landed, looking at the only planet in front of her after she landed. "Doesn't really seem eye-catching." She said, as she looked at the platforms in front of her as she touched it out of curiosity as it shrunk and disappeared. "Boring." She said as she flew over to the Launch Star and landed on one of the tiles, having noticed musical notes as she flew over to collect them all and after she did so, the Power Star emerged from inside the planet where she flew inside and grabbed it. "This was… an uneventful Galaxy." She said and flew off.
With Yuyuko…
BGM: Battlerock Galaxy (Super Mario Galaxy)
Yuyuko landed on a small flying saucer where she had seen some blue Star Chips, but the one that caught her attention was the space station itself. "What is that thing?" She wondered to herself as she ignored the Star Chips and flew up to the space station herself, unaware that she just tripped a silent alarm to activate the station. "Curious… I have to ask Rosalina on this later." She said and then cannonballs and Bullet Bills started firing everywhere at her. "Oh my goodness!" She exclaimed as she quickly flew out of the way. "Fascinating… did I trip the alarm or something?" She wondered to herself before going around the entire space station, but not finding an entrance to the place as she returned to her original spot.
"I'm not finding anything unusual." She mused. "I must know its secrets!" She said as she noticed a Power Star way in the distance in front of the barrage of cannonballs and Bullet Bills. "But first, the Power Star." She said as she flew over, avoiding the oncoming cannon fire with ease as she guided a Bullet Bill over to the caged Power Star and had it explode on the cage, where she grabbed the Power Star and took off with it, but then looked at the Battle Station one last time. "I'll come back for you!" She declared before taking off.
End BGM
Back at Space Junk Galaxy…
"Do you think we'll find anything here at all?" Blue Toad asked after they reunited with Captain Toad.
"I doubt it. This Galaxy might be a bust." Captain Toad said and then something popped up on radar. "Eh?" He wondered. "Something's approaching us!" He exclaimed as they looked outside to see Airships approaching them. "Oh boy! We got company!"
"Alert the Observatory!" Toadette yelled.
At the Observatory…
"Wonder if we have enough power to check our email?" Polari wondered, looking at the screen in front of the Core. "I want to know what's going on in my Galactic Power Monthly!"
"Hmm… I think we need another Grand Star." Rosalina said.
"Can anyone hear us!" Captain Toad's voice called out.
"Oh! We have enough power for radio transmission." Polari said, as Marisa and Nitori had walked up.
"We hear you loud and clear." Rosalina said.
"We need back up! Airships have shown up out of nowhere in Space Junk Galaxy, I repeat, Airships have shown up out of nowhere in Space Junk Galaxy! I don't know if Bowser is leading this or not, but we need assistance!"
"I'll be right there!" Marisa said and took off to the Fountain, nearly knocking down Mario and Alice who had returned as she quickly launched off to Space Junk Galaxy.
"Marisa is on her way!" Rosalina said.
"On her way to where?" Mario wondered.
"Airships are in Space Junk Galaxy and Marisa went to go check it out." Polari replied, to which Mario turned his head back to the Fountain.
"I'll go after her!" Mario said and ran off.
Back at Space Junk…
BGM: Bowser Jr's Airship Armada (Super Mario Galaxy)
Marisa landed on the Toad ship, then seeing the Airships in front of her. "One of them is probably holding Reimu!" She said and then flew toward the airships.
"Intruder!" A Goomba exclaimed.
"Take 'er down!" A Hammer Bro yelled as Marisa found herself in a barrage of attacks, but she quickly unleashed an Earthlight Ray on the attackers and kept going.
"Where is she!" Marisa yelled.
"Who's she?" A Shy Guy asked.
"Reimu! WHERE IS SHE?!"
"Uh… you have to be more specific." A Rocky Wrench said.
"YOU KNOW WHO I'M TALKING ABOUT! She wears red, kinda grumpy at times, a lazy bones, a brunette, wears a red ribbon on her head?"
"Ooooh, that Reimu!" A Boomerang Bro said. "She's not here."
"Good, then I get to blow up this ship!" Marisa said, and then running inside the ship.
"…You just HAD to say something." A Hammer Bro groaned as the ship started blowing up while Marisa tore through the airship and went to the next one and then the next airship while all the minions quickly flew away in escape pods back to Bowser's Space Castle while Mario landed on the Toad ship and saw the wreckage.
"What in the world?" Mario wondered.
"It's Marisa! She's acting like an angry Wiggler in a China Shop!" A Green Toad exclaimed.
"I'll calm her down." Mario said, pulling out a Cape Feather and then quickly flying to catch up to the raging witch. "Hey! Marisa!"
Marisa turned her head. "Mario?"
"Oh thank the stars! It's Mario!" A Koopa exclaimed.
"How is THAT supposed to make me feel better?" A Goomba asked.
"You have to calm down. I know you want to rescue your best friend, but you need to do it in a calm manner." Mario advised, putting his hand on her shoulder. "Flying around recklessly is only going to get you killed."
Marisa sighed. "You're right… when I heard that there were airships here in this galaxy, I just… lost myself because I thought Reimu would be here, but… now I'm not so sure."
"If it helps, I know what you're going through." Mario said. "When Peach first got kidnapped by Bowser, I tore through everything to try and save her. In fact, I lost myself one time and destroyed everything in my path. The only thing that stopped me from losing myself completely was my brother. He had snapped me out of it and talked me out of doing something reckless that I might end up regretting."
"So, what did you do?"
"Ever since that talk, I started to save Peach with a clear head. That's what actually helped me take down Bowser for the first time."
"Yeah… and some of us get massive headaches." A Shy Guy grumbled.
Marisa nodded. "That sounds like a smart thing to do." She said. "You're right… I might do something I might regret that'd make me… well, not me." She said and then looked at the final airship. "So, you want to help me destroy whoever's on that airship?"
"Nah. Leave this airship for me." Mario said. "You can't have all the fun." He said with a wink.
"Ah crud." A Koopa grumbled.
"I'll go write my will." A Goomba said.
"You got it!" Marisa grinned, high fiving the plumber as the two of them split up, where Mario proceeded to go to town on Bowser's Minions while Marisa landed on the final airship.
End BGM
"I thought I heard someone making a mess with my troops!" A voice said.
"Who are you? Show yourself!" Marisa ordered.
BGM: Kamella (Super Mario Galaxy)
A female Magikoopa appeared before her. "I am the most powerful magician in Bowser's army! I am Kamella!"
"And I am Marisa Kirisame, the badass magician of Gensokyo! You call yourself a powerful magician? We'll just see about that!"
Kamella laughed. "You'll regret it!" She said as she and Marisa quickly began their duel by firing lasers at each other with their wands, both of them colliding into a small explosion before Kamella swung her wand to launch a fire spell at her, but Marisa flew out of the way and fired a Non-Directional Laser, hitting Kamella but she shrugged it off. "Lucky hit, but you shall not land another!"
"Oh gee, like I haven't heard that a million times." Marisa sarcastically said.
"BLIZZAGA!"
"Whoa!" Marisa yelled, dodging the ice spell where it froze one of the masts of the ship. "Orreries Solar System!" She yelled, launching the orbs at Kamella but she flew out of the way and launched a Thunder spell that struck Marisa. "Nnngh! That all you got? Event Horizon!"
Kamella quickly formed a protection spell from the danmaku, but Marisa quickly flew around while she was being barraged by the bullethell and found that she was only protecting herself in the front, where Marisa quickly launched Starlight Typhoon on her. "Yagh!" She yelped before summoning two Magikoopas to come assist her.
"Henchmen, eh?" Marisa pulled out a Deep Ecological Bomb and threw it, to which a Magikoopa fired right at it, but with the added power with the Luma, it knocked the Magikoopas out of the Airship while it stunned Kamella, which Marisa smirked and flew off before unleashing Sungrazer on her.
"AAAAAAAGH!" Kamella yelled as the explosion sent her wand up in the air and released the Power Star in it while Kamella had disappeared.
End BGM
"Most powerful magician, my foot." Marisa chuckled as she walked over to the Power Star, but before she touched it, a fireball came right for her to which she saw this in her peripheral vision as she quickly jumped back.
"So, you're actually able to dodge one of my spells." A voice said as Marisa turned to see Kamek approaching her.
"Remind me who you are again?" Marisa asked.
"The name's Kamek. The most powerful Magikoopa out there, not that weak old bat you call Kamella." Kamek said.
"Tch, so you want a fight, eh?"
"Yes. I want to see how strong you actually are." Kamek said, aiming his wand at Marisa. "Do you accept?"
"Do I accept? HA! I never back down from a challenge." Marisa said. "Bring it on, old man!"
"Old? I'll have you know that I'm quite young!" Kamek exclaimed.
"Oh, whatever. Let's just do this!"
BGM: Love Colored Master Spark (Touhou 8: Imperishable Night)
"Magic Cross: Grand Cross!" Marisa yelled but Kamek quickly teleported behind her and quickly fired magic at her from behind. "Yagh!" She yelped before turning around and using Meteonic Shower to strike Kamek, knocking him back while Kamek retaliated by firing a laser at her, where Marisa fired a laser from her wand as well, both of them colliding and causing an explosion while Marisa flew up in the air and unleashed Eccentric Asteroid.
Kamek quickly formed a protective spell around him before teleporting and firing a fire spell right beside her, knocking her to the side as Marisa glared at him and quickly used Gravity Beat to knock Kamek to the ground, but he quickly teleported and fired a spell at the ground to which an Elastic-Piranha was summoned and then bit Marisa on the leg. "YOW!" She yelled and glared at him. "Get off of me!" She yelled, quickly using Mysterious Beam to destroy him before turning around to have a spell hit her on the head.
Kamek then smirked and split himself up where Marisa turned her head around a few times before unleashing a Double Spark to try and strike him, but the real Kamek appeared above her and shot a homing spell at her, knocking her back a little before Kamek appeared in front of her and smacked her in the head with his wand, and then fired a magic spell at her head. "AAAGH!" She yelled before unleashing Escape Velocity on him, but Kamek disappeared.
"This match is over!" Kamek declared, firing a spell at Marisa that struck her in the back.
"Nngh… why do I feel…" She wondered before she fell to the ground and couldn't get up, but she was conscious.
End BGM
"I fired a spell that disabled your ability to function for a short time." Kamek explain. "You are still conscious and are still able to talk… but as far as I'm concerned, you're already finished. You call yourself the most powerful magician in Gensokyo, but I've yet to actually see that." He said as he walked away before turning around. "Now, this is where we part ways!" He said, raising his wand in the air. "This is where you part from this life!"
BGM: Shaded Truths (Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep)
"Wh-what…?" Marisa asked. "You're just going to… finish me off?!"
"Why of course! I don't see you as a worthy opponent. You might as well be yesterday's garbage." Kamek said, charging up a spell.
"KAMEK!" Mario's voice was heard, flying directly at Kamek.
"Don't interfere, plumber!" Kamek shouted, firing a barrier spell that had Mario smack into it face first. "And now… this is farewell!" He yelled, firing a powerful spell at Marisa.
"NO!" Mario yelled as Marisa's eyes widened, begging her body to move but it was to no avail, the magic got closer and closer with Kamek smirking… and then there was an explosion.
"EHEEHEEHEEHEEHEE!" Kamek cackled evilly. "So much for her." He said and then when the smoke started to clear, he noticed something. "Hmm?"
End BGM
"Who are you to attack a defenseless magician?" A voice asked before the smoke cleared to reveal the time stopping maiden herself, Sakuya Izayoi, and she was holding one of her knives that stopped the attack.
BGM: Flowering Night (Touhou 10.5: Scarlet Weather Rhapsody)
"What?!" Kamek yelled.
"Sakuya?!" Marisa exclaimed.
Another friend of Marisa? Mario wondered.
"Who are you!" Kamek yelled.
"A friend of Marisa." Sakuya said, aiming her knife at Kamek. "Now, you would do well to stand down."
"That's what you think!" Kamek exclaimed, firing magic at Sakuya, but she quickly stopped time and grabbed Marisa to safety as she quickly ran behind Kamek and then quickly planted knives all around Kamek before time resumed, and in Kamek's eyes, Sakuya and Marisa had disappeared from thin air, and knives were replaced in their stead. "WHAT?!" He yelled as Sakuya snapped her fingers and the knives impaled him. "YOOOOOOW!" He yelled and then turned to Sakuya. "What ARE you?"
"Your worst nightmare." Sakuya said. "Now, leave before I turn you into a pincushion some more." She warned.
"Tch. So what! Marisa ain't that tough!"
"That is where you are wrong. She had simply underestimated you. Now that she knows what you're capable of, she will knock you senseless the next time you cross paths."
"Hmph! We'll see about that!" Kamek scowled. "Till then!" He said and then disappeared.
End BGM
"Glad I got here in time." Sakuya said.
"Where'd you come from?" Mario asked as he landed.
"I can stop time." Sakuya explained. "I came across this galaxy after having being separated from my family." She said. "During my exploration, I heard quite the battle going on and then I found Marisa in danger." She said and then picked up Marisa and the Power Star. "I'll explain more on the way. Let's go." She said as Mario nodded and the Power Star guided Sakuya back to the Observatory.
My brain on Friday night before I got to writing this chapter: Hey, why don't you binge Detective Pikachu? It'll be fun!
Sure, I have issues with the pacing, but I thought binging the game would've been fun. And then Chapter 8 happened. UGH! I just... lost all motivation for everything after playing through Chapter 8. And then the following day, I finished up the last chapter and then I went to go watch Robin Hood, and then I finally got around to writing some of it last night before finishing it up tonight.
Honestly, I think Detective Pikachu is a fun game... but honestly, if they just added better pacing to the story, my mind wouldn't have wandered all too often and... OKAY, WHO THOUGHT CHAPTER 8 WAS A GOOD IDEA?! Seriously, why not split it in half! Come on! Ugh...
If Detective Pikachu ever gets a sequel, I might as well just watch it on YouTube since i'm Detective Pikachu'd out for now. Ugh... binging Detective Pikachu was a mistake.
Anyway, rambling over!
In the meantime, there's been tons of rumors going around that Halo, Gears of War, Cuphead and Ori might come to the Switch...