Author's Note: For anyone who reads this, I'm sorry it took me so long to get this up! I was being lazy…

V.

As Luigi entered the smallish dome, he looked around the interior. There was nothing of interest, except for a blue star machine floating in midair above his and Rosalina's heads – Pull Star, his subconscious said. He was getting used to these odd premonitions by now, but still found them unsettling. Had he been here before? He couldn't remember it if he had been. Even if he had somehow had previous knowledge of these ingenious machines and Grand Power Stars, and then forgotten it all, why had he reacted so strongly to the Grand Star? As he thought about this, a dim memory kindled in the depths of his brain – a black something, a gold something, and something in between them. Well, he thought wryly to himself, even if I wanted to remember I couldn't make heads or tails of that memory. And I'm not even sure if I want to. He looked over at Rosalina, and saw her watching him expectantly. He must have looked confused, because she sighed, and pointed toward the Pull Star. "Make as if to grab it," she explained, "and it will drag you into the visible galaxies map. There is only one galaxy open at this time, I believe. The Good Egg Galaxy. It should not prove too hard. Retrieve all the stars you can, and once you defeat your enemy, or your enemy's son for a Grand Star, another dome will open, and so on, through all the Observatory's domes. After you have retrieved every star that was stolen from us, I will be able to take you to your enemy's headquarters at the center of the universe. If you defeat him there, you will save everyone that has been taken by him, and the universe will be rescued from the brink of destruction. Are you up to the task?" Luigi hesitated…

But just for a moment.

"Yes."

And with that, he floated up to the Pull Star, and blasted off to the Good Egg Galaxy, beginning an amazing adventure that would take him throughout the universe to get back the lost Power Stars of the Comet Observatory.

Author's Note: How are you liking the story so far? Remember, if you like it, or have a criticism that's not just flames, please review the chapter involved.

Anyway, just a quick note on the story here. I am not going to describe Luigi getting every Star for obvious reasons, and I made alterations to Nintendo's version of the story for my own purposes. Sorry if that annoys you. I am going to skip ahead three months to the moment when Luigi gets the final Power Star (we'll just say that it's the Matter Splatter Galaxy Star, as that is the last oneshot galaxy.) (Oh, btw, I don't own any of this stuff except new elements of the plot. It's all Nintendo's.)

Three Months Later

Luigi jumped, careful to avoid the black emptiness on either side of the thin path he was walking on, and grabbed the final Star of the Comet Observatory.

"YES!!!" he said, elated, and long-jumped out of the Garden, and down to the main galaxy map, where Rosalina and Polari were waiting, expectant and excited.

"I've got it! I've got the last Power Star!" Luigi sang. He snatched Polari out of the air, and hugged him. He heard Rosalina cough behind him, though not too coldly, and Luigi let Polari go, apologizing to the Luma as he did so. " Are you prepared to go to the center of the universe?" said Rosalina solemnly, looking straight at him. "Yes!" said Luigi eagerly. "Then prepare to hold on tight." Rosalina advised with a militant gleam in her eye. Luigi caught the gleam, and grimaced. Something unpleasantly bumpy was about to happen, if he knew Rosalina well enough. Which he did, by now. He had found out a lot about her and the Comet Observatory during his ventures into deep space, with which he had the sparse help of the Toad Brigade, who Luigi personally did not think much of. However, beggars couldn't be choosers. The Toad Brigade had certainly found some Stars, but they had not been the only ones. When Luigi had come to the Ghostly Galaxy, he had found a small painting after defeating Bouldergeist. Of Mario. Banging his fists and trying to get out of the picture. Just like old times, Luigi had thought to himself. He had luckily found Professor Elvin Gadd on a nearby planetoid, and he had set Mario to rights. Mario had helped a little, but he had been too exhausted by his fall through space to find more than three stars Luigi had missed. He jerked his mind away from these recollections, and remembered too late why he had wanted to hang on. The Observatory was transformed into a great starship, surrounded by a glimmering blue force field, and began to speed through the great open space of the cosmos, toward the center of the universe.

And naturally, Luigi was plastered against the galaxies map, rather uncomfortably. He could see Rosalina smirking and beginning to giggle at him, and he let out a muffled expletive. This was not going to help his chances of gaining any sort of respect from her. She was irritating sometimes, but she really was worth having the respect of. He thought of Mario hamming up all his adventures during dinner with her and Polari, and then grinned sourly. Rosalina had acquired quite a high opinion of Mario during their first dinner after Luigi saved him, and Mario had conveniently forgotten to include Luigi's part in all his adventures – he could never control himself around an attractive woman. Unfortunately for Mario, one of the Toads who had been helping Luigi when he had won that mansion was the leader of the Toad Brigade, and he had been invited to dinner as deference to his help to Luigi. To Mario's dismay, he remarked loudly, "Wait, Mario, are you forgetting that time that Luigi saved you from King Boo in the haunted mansion? Boy, you sure blew it that time! I think that was the only time one of you had to rescue the other!" As anyone could imagine, Mario's prestige in Rosalina's eyes had decreased rather rapidly after that. She had gained more respect for Luigi as well.

Not enough, of course, to stop from bursting out laughing at Luigi pasted comically to the galaxies map.

Luigi scowled as Rosalina wiped tears of laughter from her eyes, and asked rather shortly, "Are you done now?"

"Ye-he-hes," panted Rosalina, trying to keep a lid on her mirth, "it's just you look so amusing while you are thrown across the ma-ha-ha –" She broke off again, physically unable to control her laughter. She finally got control of herself, and turned to Luigi, who had finally managed to get himself down off the map. "Well?" he asked, a little irritably.

Rosalina regained her solemn composure, though a trace of her smile remained on her face as she said, "Now you must enter the castle. There is a warp field within; it should take you to Bowser's and your brother's special one's location. Now, go! For the fate of the living universe rests in your hands."

"I understand."

She smiled, and waved her wand, summoning stardust to construct bridge pieces so that Luigi could cross to the conquered Peach's Castle, which would, if Bowser was not stopped, house a twisted galaxy inside it. Luigi hesitated for a moment – and then Mario came hurtling out of nowhere. "Bro!" yelled Mario in Luigi's face. "I'm coming with you! I need save Peach!" Luigi agreed, and just like that night so long ago when they set out for the Star Festival together, the two siblings walked side by side into the battered fortress that had once been Princess Peach's Castle.