"Alright, soldiers! Your training is now officially complete!" Captain Toad said to the soldiers, as they saluted him.

Captain Toad was heading towards the conference room, since they have planned a meeting.

In the meeting, everyone was already already around the table.

"Even if we freed every slave in the Mushroom Kingdom, we still couldn't beat the Koopas", Luigi said.

"But there has to be some way! We can't just let the Koopas win!" Peach yelled.

"There is one way, but it's extremely dangerous", Mario said his first words in the whole meeting.

"The Eternal Star"

Everyone in the room was silent. For a moment, nobody saod anything, until Captain Toad opened his mouth.

"Mario, the Eternal Star was made up. It was nothing but just a statue in the courtyard of the Mushroom Castle", He said.

"No, it isn't! When Koopa cursed the Castle and trapped everyone inside it, I went to the dimension he created with star power and fought him, and saw the Eternal Star to give me magic to flee me back home and free everyone in the Castle!" Mario said angrily.

"It's true! I was one of the people to be saved from the Castle, and even though I didn't see it, I felt a very strong powerful presence while landing. A presence too strong to be from a regular Power Star", Peach added.

"But how do we get it and it's power?" Luigi asked.

"We have to summon it in the right place", Mario said.

"There are only two places in the world with enough power to summon it. The another one being the Comet Observatory, which is too far away. The another one is in here, the Mushroom Kingdom", he added.

"There must be another way! If the second location exists, the Koopas probably have security forces around it", Captain Toad said.

"No, I'm 100% sure the Koopas don't even know about it, and yes, there is another way to summon it, but it's currently unknown, so trying it out might be worthless", Mario added.

"Then why aren't we already heading to there?" Captain Toad added.

It was midnight. The sky was clear, with only the moon in sight. The ground was otherwise clear, except one tank soaring towards the horizon. It was a regular Dreadnought-class Koopa attack tank, except it has been heavily modified.

The turret has been modified to have space for two gunners instead of one, since a rear minigun has been added into it. It also had a lot of design changes. It was coloured green and yellow, and it had a bunch of custom emblems, including a Toad's arm squeezing a Koopa's skull, and a big Mushroom Kingdom flag.

Inside the tank, there were two lonely drivers talking to each other.

"So it's called the Power Star Temple?" Captain Toad asked.

"Yes. It was built during the very first Star Festival with the power of the Eternal Star", Mario answered.

"If you're sure that the Koopas don't know about us, then why did you tell me to bring this assault rifle with me?" Captain Toad asked.

"I never said that they don't know about us, I said that they don't know about the temple", Mario said.

Mario climbed up to the gunner's seat to observe around the area, but then he saw something horrifying.

"Stop the tank! Now!" Mario yelled.

"Why?" Captain Toad asked.

"NOW!" Mario yelled.

Captain Toad stopped the tank as Mario hopped off it and started running towards some ruins next to the tank.

"Why did we stop here?" Captain Toad asked.

"You don't understand! This is the Power Star Temple!" Mario said.

"It's gone! It's useless! We can't summon it!" Mario added.

BOOM!

Something hit the tank, and exploded it.

Mario went to check it out. It was the remains of a B1 LL Combustible Rocket, or Bullet Bill, as the Resistance called it.

There were many variations of the B1 LL rocket, but only one faction used it.

The Koopas.

"Oh no", Mario said as he ran towards the ruins again.

It was 1 AM, and only the moon was visible.

Mario was standing on the ruins of what used to be the Power Star Temple, as he looked towards the horizon, where Koopa Cruisers came from dropping off more troops.