Off Wario ran as the sky rained down on him. His surroundings were bleak. The sky was black, no question blocks in sight. Just him, and the castle were all that meant something to him. "Im'a never get there at this rate!" Wario disagreed with his pace. "I'll be there by one more day. I knew I shouldn't have built the mansion so far out ther—"Wario said as he realized he stood on the grass before the castle. Shaking off mystery, Wario walked across the giant doorway.

Even the perpetually happy castle wasn't smug that day. It seemed to have a gray essence. Wario turned his head back and forth, looking for any helper toads. None in sight, he walked in. "This doesn't look so good." He quivered. But he really wasn't here for the mystery.

"Where's that vault?" Wario whispered, readying his hands into fists. He turned a corner, and was directed to a post, with directions to all places in and around the Mushroom Kingdom. He searched for words like "vault" or "money" or even "lots of money" but nothing came up. "This is gonna take fore-" as he realized the words "front hall" pointing to the right was peeling off. "Rah!" Wario's hand ripped the sign off to reveal the new words "Star Bank".

"Yeah!" Wario grunted as he ran over to the right. A bend in to the left and a curve to the right, and there it was, The Star Bank. It was amazing, with a height of twenty-five feet. It had a gray, steel covering with a golden glow from the inside. The door was facing Wario, with a six-digit code lock. Above it, scrawled in with an axe of some sort, was a piece of music. "Ugh. Why can't Peach just put the code on a piece of paper on the back of the vault or something? I hate puzzles!" Wario raged with a kick to the vault. "Aah! Why I oughta-" Wario silenced as he heard a familiar tune from the distance. Deh deh-deh, doh deh, dah*. "Hey- I have an idea!" Wario said, as he ran over to the code lock.

4-4-4-2-4-6. That was the code. Wario knew little about music, but what he did know was fixated inside him. The musical staff refers to how notes are supposed to be played. And the numbers refer to the notes being played in comparison to the note C being 1. It made perfect sense. The lock jumbled open, and the door swung open. Wario looked inside. The entire room was filled to the brim with stars and coins. It all glowed with golden intensity. Wario started to drool, unaware of the eyes glaring at his back.

"Freeze! By order of the royal guards of Bowser's castle!" a demanding voice barked at the yellow clad hero. He turned around slowly to see three Koopatrol, fully armored Koopas that support Bowser as his right hand men. "We don't want to hurt you. Just leave the vault alon- waah!" the guard squealed as his shell slammed into the wall, hurdled by Wario's arm.

"Who's next?"

The second Koopatrol snapped his finger to reveal some Bullet Bill launchers from the shadows. Bwoosh! The missiles fired. "Wah!" Wario yelled as he grabbed one of the Bullets by the face and threw it at the Second Koopatrol. It exploded on impact, and knocked out the guard. Whoosh, Wario dodged the second Bullet Bill. It turned around to hit again, as the Koopatrol fired another Bullet Bill from one of the cannons. Wario ducked in-between the two. They exploded above him. Quickly, Wario rushed in, grabbed the last Koopatrol by the shell. "Please! Stop! Don't-" were his last words, as Wario slipped him out of his shell and threw him at the wall to join his friend. He put the shell in his inventory, and turned to get a Bullet Bill to the face. "Wah!" Wario said as he flew into the air. He flipped back, and landed on his feet, skidding back a bit. The second guard had gotten up and fired one at the yellow clad figure. Wario dodged, and ran towards the Koopatrol. Fear in his eyes, he threw a punch at Wario, only to get sidestepped, and punched upwards. "Oof!" He yelped, helplessly being airborne. Wario jumped up, grabbed the Koopatrol's head, and sky-dived for the floor. The Bullet Bill advanced towards them. "Hmph!" Wario used the guard as a post, as he jumped off of him. The Koopa fell towards the Bullet, and exploded with it.

Wario flew down to the ground, holding his hat in case it flew off. "Well, looks like this is gonna be a little bit harder than I thought." Wario yelped as he looked back at the vault, with rage. Only fifty coins were left, and one star, in the giant cube. Again a note was posted next to them. "Not again." Wario's face saddened. He ripped the note from the vault side.

Hey,
Nice job with those Koopatrols.

Quickly, Wario looked around for anyone looking for him. No one in sight, he kept reading.

Hey,
Nice job with those Koopatrols. But not the greatest intent. Solve the mystery, we'll see what we can do to get you this money.

Solve it,
Anonymous

Wario realized he was supposed to be searching for anyone who could be ruling the castle. "Psh! I'm Wario! Im'a do whatever I want!"

With that, a note seemed to appear in the air before Wario. He jumped back, and ran forward to read the scrawled note that read:

I know.