Something rather different in comparison with the main game will happen here!

Enjoy! ;)


Chapter 4: The Windy Cavi Cape

The area they went in was the Funny Bone, located probably in Bowser's spinal cord. The ground was mostly bones and nerves, possibly the bones from the vertebral column. Because our heroes were so small, we could even see the spongy bone tissue in these bones.

"This place…" Starlow pondered, until something came into her mind and she told them: "Will you wait a moment?"

"Huh?" Mario was confused. Starlow flew up ahead and she caught glimpse of something:

"What the… This can't be… Yeah! It must be!" she then came back.

"It must be what?" Donkey Kong asked.

"Sorry for the wait. I found something up ahead that bugs me." Starlow answered.

"Really?" the heroes were surprised.

"It's faster to show you than to bother explaining. Head in there!"

"Mmhm." Mario nodded.

The group went on ahead, and they came upon a large yellow Nubbin at the end, connected to Bowser's major nerve.

"This! This is the thing!" Starlow exclaimed. "This sticking-out part seems to be connected to Bowser's major nerve. If we can stimulate this thing, we might be able to wake up Bowser…"

"Just leave it to me." Mario approaches the Nubbin and takes out his hammer. "Sorry, Bowser. This is going to hurt."

He hits the Nubbin with his hammer, and eventually, a nervous reaction happened and Bowser felt like he was electrocuted:

"WOWCH!"

This ended up waking Bowser. He gets up and looks around. Then, Mario hits the Nubbin again.

"YAAAARGH!" Bowser screamed in pain again. "Whoa, what did I eat?! That's some serious pain going on down there!" Mario once again hits the Nubbin. "YAAAARGH!"

"I could do this all day." Mario grinned.

"Mario, that's enough." Luigi said sternly. "He's already up."

"Fine…" Mario pouted.

"HEY! HEAR ME?" Starlow shouted as loud as she could to call Bowser's attention.

"What the—HEY! Is somebody there?!" Bowser searched left and right. Nothing. "Who is that?! Where am I?!"

"Don't bother looking! We're actually down here! Inside your body!" Donkey Kong interfered.

"You gotta be kidding! It's in my BODY?!" Bowser said in unbelief. That is, until he remembered the voice he just heard. "Hold on! Did I just hear that oversized ape's voice?!"

"Uh oh…" Donkey Kong sweatdropped.

"Way for you to open up your big mouth, DK…" Mario rolled his eyes.

"Yeah…" Luigi threw in.

"…A-And Mario and Green 'Stache's voices too?!" Bowser added once he heard Mario and Luigi's voices echoing inside his body.

"Oops…" Luigi flinched.

"Does that mean Mario, Green 'Stache, that oversized ape, Peach…and everyone else I can't think of at the moment are inside my body?!" Bowser questioned, but then smirked: "HA! This is awesome! But I am NOT liking the idea you guys are walking INSIDE OF MY BODY!" he yelled while looking down at his stomach.

"Don't you remember? At Peach's Castle…?" Starlow asked.

"Peach's Castle? Hmm…" Bowser pondered. "Mario pounded me at Peach's… I got chucked into a forest… I ate a weird mushroom from some weirdo in the forest… And I just started inhaling everything. That's all I remember."

"So that's how it happened…" Starlow confirmed.

"Now look at you, losers! Partying in my body like you own it. How dare you?!" Bowser growled.

"It's not our fault! YOU were the one who sucked us in!" Mario growled back. "Plus, we were trying to wake you up!"

"Hmph! Very funny, Mario!" Bowser scoffed. "Wait… WHY AM I EVEN TALKING TO YOU?!"

"Look, Bowser, I also hate you as much as you hate me, but don't you have an even bigger problem to take care of?" Mario said sternly while folding his arms.

"Yeah!" Starlow threw in.

"Hey, wait! You! I've heard your voice before…" Bowser suspected.

"Maybe I should explain who I am later…" Starlow sweatdropped. "It's a long story…"

"Whoa, hold it! Long? I hate boring stories…"

"Ugh… Now what should we do?" Mario asked.

"Maybe it's best for us to join forces with Bowser until we figure out this blorb situation." Starlow answered.

"SAY WHAT?!"

"WHAT?! You're saying I have to team up with Mario?!" Bowser yelled in shock. "Ugh, what a nightmare…" he muttered.

"Same to you." Mario muttered, still not liking the idea to team up with his own archenemy.

"Please, get over it, you two…" Starlow said coyly. "After all, we're all stuck here. We don't have another choice."

"Fine…" Mario and Bowser grumbled at the same time.

"Good." Starlow nodded. She then flew up and said to Bowser: "Now listen, to change the subject, uh, where are you right now?"

"Oh yeah, right! Where am I?" Bowser questioned to himself before looking at his surroundings.

He seemed to be located in some sort of cave with deep pink walls and purple ground, filled with many boulders and stalagmites.

"Kind of a dim, dank cave." Bowser responded.

"A cave?" Luigi tilted his head.

"Yeah… What in the world am I doing in a dim, dank cave?!"

"Maybe you were sleepwalking." Donkey Kong guessed.

"I don't sleep walk, oversized ape!" Bowser replied sternly. "If I did, I'd kidnap Peach in my sleep, but I don't."

"I'd return Peach and destroy you in my sleep…" Mario muttered.

"I heard that, Mario! And remember, I'm just being nice now just because that other unknown person forced us to work together, but once you get out of me, I swear I WILL beat you in person!" Bowser growled.

"We'll see about that!" Mario growled back. "Now back to the main thing, aren't you supposed to find a way out of that cave?"

"Hrmph! I was gonna do that anyway, genius!" Bowser scolded.

"Let's let Bowser do his thing for a while." Starlow told.

"Alright." Mario nodded as Bowser began to move on.


After punching through boulders blocking his path, Bowser soon came upon some dead trees blocking the way out of the cave.

"Look at this flimsy thing! Time for some burnage!" Bowser exclaimed. He opens his mouth, ready to breathe fire and…nothing happened. "Wait, what happened? HEY! Why did no flames come out?!"

"You're saying that you cannot breathe fire? That's odd." Mario said from inside Bowser.

"Huh, yeah, right! You probably messed something up in there!"

"We did NOTHING! We woke up like…FIFTEEN MINUTES AGO, and we're nowhere NEAR your flame pipe!"

"Hey, jerky, I never had any trouble until you got in there! I was a burning MACHINE! And now you broke me! SO FIRE ME BACK UP!"

"Now, just hang on a sec!" Starlow interfered. "What would we have to gain by disabling your flame system?"

"Do I look like I need logic? Listen, I NEED to breathe fire!" Bowser insisted.

"I'm sure you do! And we're also sure we didn't disable it! So have a good time trying to fight back without your fire and all. YELLO GOOD-BYE!"

"Hey! HEY! GRAAAARGH! This is complete garbage! I've gotta get my fire back!" Bowser growled, and then sighed. "Guess I better take the long way then…"


Later on, he managed to get out of the cave. Where was he, anyway? He was in Cavi Cape; a cape filled with plains in brown and green in color and is filled with many dead trees. Not sure about the origin of the name 'Cavi', but its other names in different languages are derived from 'burp' and 'belch'.

As soon as he was outside, he spotted someone at the distance hovering on a platform. That someone was actually Fawful and he went close to Bowser and was now hovering a few feet from the ground.

"Hey! Hold up! Quit hovering!" Bowser hissed.

"What is your surprise face? Was there forgetting about me?" Fawful teased.

"Wait, I know you! You're the weirdo who tricked me into eating that mushroom!"

"You are the one who is correct! Wasn't it full of delicious?! Such a special treat called a Vacuum Shroom! I, Fawful, invented it to make you inhale everything you see! And I, Fawful, am betting that you are remembering nothing. You inhaled like a hungry syrup pig at the free pancake buffet. And then you had the napping. And then I put you in the cave!"

"WHAAAAT?!" Bowser roared. "What's your problem, pal? What's your beef with me?"

"Beef? I am lacking in beef. Fawful is beefless. But I am having a goal! MUSHROOM KINGDOM… WILL BE MINE!"

"Huh?!"

"All of Mushroom Kingdom spread for Fawful like power brunch! First, the appetizer of making Toads round with blorbs! Then, the side order of using Vacuum-Shroomed Bowser! Fawful is gorging on his plan of win! And still he has hunger!"

"You're nuts!"

"No hunger for nuts. Just to conquer Mushroom Kingdom… First, the emptying of the castle of Peach! AND THEN! Andthenandthenandthenandthenandthen! The castles of Bowser and Melissa for me! I will be powering them up into the castles of Fawful!"

"Whoa, hold up, champ! What about my castle?!"


At Bowser's Castle…

Some Fawful-like UFOs invaded the castle and shot out lasers, knocking down towers, minions, windows, doors and walls. It seems that Bowser's Castle is being destroyed…


Back at Cavi Cape…

"Pffffft. Please! Get over yourself!" Bowser scoffed. "My castle's gonna be just fine, pal."

"Hmm… We will be seeing…" Fawful smirked. "Anyway, I thought you would be sleeping long, like a lazy bear. And I am thinking you should be sleeping more! COME! MIDBUS AND VIVERNA!" he then left.

"Hey! HEY! COME BACK! I'm not done with you!" Bowser yelled, but Fawful was already gone.

He rushed after the Beanish genius, until someone stopped him and he was pushed backwards. Who did that was a large pig-like creature who appears to be a combination of a boar and an armadillo with a pink body, a yellow shell and black horns, spikes and fangs. He was probably Midbus.

Soon, at the side of Midbus came in a fairy with the appearance of a 20 year old woman with white transparent wings, an oval face, green skin, pink eyes with black eyeshadow, dark red lips and long straight black hair that reached below her waist. Her outfit is a top and a miniskirt both made out of leaves that turned dry on the bottom. She was barefoot, had vines wrapped on her left arm and her legs, a shoulder-length necklace made out of rose thorns, and a hairpiece made out of leaves fixed in a golden hairclip. She also often carries a black rose with her. She was Viverna, an evil fairy with the power to manipulate dangerous plants of all sorts, mostly the poisonous ones. So she pretty much possesses the same powers as Poison Ivy.

"HRRRGH!" Midbus snarled. "You. No longer needed. Here, you taste defeat."

"Hm. I'm going with Midbus all the way." Viverna smirked.

"Taste defeat? You're gonna taste my fist, you little piglet and insect!" Bowser growled.

"Taste your fist? Ha ha. I think not. I HAVE NO TASTE!" Midbus mocked.

"That doesn't even make sense!"

"Ah ah ah. Sense is for the weak!" Viverna teased. "You listen, big baby, Peach is no more. Lord Fawful is the new ruler! So we have no need for you. Lord Fawful wants sweet dreams to you!"

"Yeah. NOW YOU SLEEP!" Midbus shouted.

"GAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Bowser yelled. "What is WRONG with you?! Nothing you say makes sense! And now you made me mad! And once I get mad, I need to punch something! C'MERE!"

"If you say so! Come here, my babies!" Viverna summons dozens of vines around her and sends them to strap Bowser's arms.

"GRAAAARGH!" Bowser roared, as he broke free from the vines with all of his might. "Taste my punch, woman!" he delivers a powerful punch at Viverna.

"UGH!" she groaned from the impact. "Midbus! Get him!"

Midbus curls into a ball and rolls towards Bowser, but he countered with his punch, sending Midbus back at Viverna, knocking her out.

"Viverna!" Midbus cried out. "Guess I have deal by myself."

"Not so fast!" Bowser came in while charging his punch. He punches Midbus, sending him sliding backwards a few feet away from Bowser.

Midbus came back and does a body slam at Bowser, and suddenly the Koopa King started to feel weird:

"Haah… Gaah… Haaah… That weird mushroom is making me feel cruddy… Can't win like this…" he then collapses from exhaustion.

"Muh muh muh." Midbus teased. "You are weak. Most weak."

"What… How…" Bowser groaned.

"It does not end here. Work on your skills. Come, Viverna."

"Yes, Midbus." Viverna recovered from the knockout and she and Midbus left.

Bowser slowly stands up and calls to the heroes inside his body:

"Hey! You all in the gut! Are you listening?!"

"Of course we can hear you, duh!" Mario sassed.

"Shut up. Anyway, did you all catch of what happened?"

"We did! Sounds like Fawful is taking over!" Starlow said.

"I'm heading for my castle!"

"What? Why to your castle?! I don't think that's a good idea!" Luigi protested.

"Yeah! You should go to Peach's Castle instead!" Donkey Kong suggested. "We really HAVE to go to Peach's Castle!"

"What am I, a taxi? Want a coffee too? Maybe a massage? Look, my castle's in danger!"

"So is Peach's Castle!" Mario added.

"Whatever! We gotta head to MY castle right now! That weirdo can't have it!"

"…OK, we understand. Do as you must." Starlow sighed in defeat.


Inside Bowser…

"Great, he's much worried about his castle than Peach's Castle as always…" Mario rolled his eyes.

"Well, there's nothing we can do right now…but Bowser's in bad shape." Starlow told. "It's possible some changes will take place in his body…"

"Where did you get this point?" Donkey Kong asked.

"Um… I'm not sure, but we better keep our eyes opened."


Back outside…

Bowser ventured on the plains, fighting Chuboombas on the way. He then spotted a sign showing Blubble Lake to the north and Plack Beach to the east. Since there was no way to head north, Bowser took the path to Plack Beach instead, hoping that's the way back to his castle.

To be continued…


Now that's something rather different! Unlike in the game, where Bowser is completely unaware of Mario and Luigi being inside his body, I decided to make the opposite of it so that not only will make the storyline quite interesting, but also to incorporate better the meaning of my story's title, The Star Children. After all, who doesn't want to see Bowser once again teaming up with the heroes for real? Boy, will Mario and Bowser EVER learn to get along just for once? ;)

For the first time in my stories, the other OC I'm adding is a villain! It's the fairy of poison, Viverna! Don't worry; I'll make sure to add a backstory for her at a much later chapter so that it won't make it look like she just appeared out of nowhere.

What will happen next? Find out in the next chapter! Please review.