Time: ?
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I am the seventh sage; the one that not even the others, except for Dustie, knows about. I am in charge of the rest of the Cosmos, and making sure the powers of the other six flows in harmony with one another.
Recently, the Cosmos have been a dangerous place, and even I feel like this is going to be a tough one to stop. I just feel so powerless right now…
BOOM! I watch a planet suddenly explode, releasing huge clouds of dust into the space surrounding it. This is supposed to be MY lair; MY backyard; MY farmland, and it is getting abused by a beast. A dark, wicked, grotesque beast.
The year is 13,045,016,917 in space terms, and along that time, NOTHING of this magnitude happened…
All of this 'war' started in the year 13,045,014,950, when a shadowy figure has been cast out into space by some rebels on the planet Plit. Ever since then, chaos broke loose all over the area, and she constantly is trying to take over the area.
I am the strongest sage, but even then I am still losing to this beast, whose name is "Jabrael" apparently. Jabrael has taken over – and is probably in the process of destroying- Atroba, Madoso and Earth. At this rate, she will reach Plit in just a few days.
Back to the recent planet exploding, it's found out that Jabrael has destroyed it because the planet was just a giant asteroid with absolutely no value. Whatever, as long as nobody is on it.
Well, I guess I should go to Plit, these people need m-
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
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Time- 1:18am, Monday, October 15, 2001 – Somewhere in the Mushroom Kingdom
Groups 1 and 3 are heading back towards Dark Land, so that Group 3 can have access to the Klown Khopper that was left at Bowser's Castle.
"How much farther?" Iggy asked, the doomship going at way faster speeds now. According to the speedometer, thanks to E. Gadd's inventions, the doomship's going at a rapid 1,000 miles per hour.
"About five minutes," Bowser simply says as their four hour trip turns into an hour.
"Okay," Iggy says as he relaxes back into his seat. By his side, the other characters, even Nature, are sleeping, extremely exhausted from the day's travels, 'they'll need it,' Iggy thought. Iggy himself isn't asleep because he's on a caffeine hype, and he's unable to fall asleep.
"We should get some anti-sleep pills," Bowser stated as he gazes back at the sleeping figures, "We will need them for our long travels.
"Yeah. We don't want to fall asleep while we're driving," Iggy repeated as he pulls out a vial from his shell, "Oh, speaking of sleeping, Ludwig gave me three of his four Knockout Potions. Here's one just in case you need it. It'll take you to the Star Spirits."
"Thanks Iggy. We'll need it definitely. Going to Serenity Isle will be tough; my team will need the Star Spirits' help on that."
"You're welcome!"
"Hang on tight, Iggs, we're landing!" Bowser instructed as the doomship slows down its speed, circles the Dark Land castle a few times, hovers in the air then slowly drops to the ground, the giant wheels once again connecting to the ground.
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Time: 1:29am, Monday, October 15, 2001 – Somewhere in the Mushroom Kingdom.
Unlike Groups 1 and 3, Group 2 is lost.
"Where do we go? We don't know where the place in Ice Land is!" Larry starts to freak out.
"I have an idea. Jasper isn't too far from here, so ve can stop zere for ze night. I know all of us, including moi, are tired."
"Are you sure we should? I mean, isn't the world going to end soon?" Wendy asked.
"No, ze vorld is not going to end, Vendy. Ve vill prevent it from doing so, ziz. But ve have until Thursday. It's Monday morning."
With Ludwig's navigation skills, Alex pilots the carpet towards Jasper, which is about half an hour northwest of Metallic City. In the sheltered dome on the carpet, Alex and Larry start talking to each other.
"Hey Larry," Alex greeted.
"Hi Alex. How are you?"
"Going great, y'know, since I'm talking to you," Alex flirted, her face turning red after. Larry, instead of blushing, simply laughs.
"Yeah, I'm flirtable. I get it a lot."
"Is Flirtable even a word?" Alex asked.
Larry just simply shrugs, "Don't know. I always use words that I'm not sure even exist."
"Like what?"
"Well, like Flirtable."
"Haha, cute!" Alex complimented, "You're awesome. I'm glad I got to know you."
"You too! Does your family know you're with us?"
Alex immediately stops smiling at the family comment.
"… Oh. Are you…"
"No, I'm not an orphan. My parents are just separated. They are separated due to work, they aren't divorced. But I'm supposed to be attending my cousin's wedding on Thursday!"
"And do your parents know?"
"Larry, if my parents knew about this, I wouldn't be here with you guys. My mom's the one that lives in Desert Land, while my dad lives… Oh no…" Alex paused.
"Oh no what?" Larry asks in curiosity.
"… My dad lives in Jasper, Pipe Land…" Alex slowly says, facepalming herself afterwards.
"Don't worry," Larry attempts to comfort Alex, "We might avoid him."
"I hope so, Larry… Mom will kill me if she finds out. All she knows, I'm at a friend's house, because I was heading to her house before you guys found me. Gosh, she's probably freaking out right now."
"It's going to be alright, Alex. They'll forgive you once the find out you helped us."
"Geez, I hope so, Larry."
Alex was glad she got that burden off of her shoulders. What Larry said was correct; her parents should be forgiving- and even honored- that their daughter is among the heroes that saved Plit for the third time in its written history.
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Both Group 1 and Group 3 are right outside of Bowser's castle, getting some last minute supplies before they go on their journey.
"Iggy, you know where Ludwig's laboratory is. See if he has some anti-sleep potions in there. He should, that guy invents in there 39 hours a day!" Bowser suggested.
"Dad, there's 24 hours in a day," Iggy corrected.
"I don't care. Just find them!"
"Okay okay! No need to get so feisty!"
Iggy enters into the creepy, dark castle. Fiddling his hand around on the wall, the Koopaling finds a light switch, illuminating the whole hallway for Iggy. However, instead of venturing down the endless hallway, Iggy eventually walks up a staircase, displaying another dark hallway. Carefully and quietly as he can, Iggy sojourns down the hallway, his soft, slender steps barely rustling the comforting, crimson carpet. Eventually, Iggy comes across a door; a cold, metallic door that requires the fourth Koopaling to pull the door open. Iggy then flips the lights on.
Dozens of test tubes sputter from multiple chemical reactions, with several chocolate wrappers littered on the floor. Numerous computers are spread out across the room, all of them displaying static on their screens. Not only is this a pigsty and a potentially curious surprise to the inhabitants of Earth, but this is Ludwig's laboratory, where every day, Ludwig tests out his inventive, scientific abilities.
Iggy searches the shelves, carefully reading labels of countless vials. Thankfully for the Koopaling, Ludwig, instead of writing the labels in his terrible handwriting, previously typed up the vial's contents, as long as its main-effect and side-effects. "Hmm, I'm looking for an anti-sleep potion! Not this whole shelf full of romance potions!"
Yes, Ludwig has brewed up a few Romance potions. The reason is because Iggy and the other Koopalings always gave the oldest Koopaling crap for not having a girlfriend. To prove them wrong, he brewed a few romance potions and consumed one of them before testing it out at the mall. Let's just say, girls, specifically Koopa girls, do not like the raging hormones of Koopa males, especially of those they don't know.
Iggy laughs at the memory; he can still see Ludwig stumbling through the front door, with several bite marks, two black eyes and a spike missing from his shell. Oh yeah, and the gash marks that the girl made on Ludwig's scales with his own spike! Ahh, those were the days. But now, Violent shows an extreme interest in Ludwig, so he shouldn't need these anymore… right?
"Anyway, I'm being sidetracked. The potions I'm looking for isn't on his Romance shelf… Hehe," Iggy laughed to himself, "Let's check this side."
Ludwig must have his shelves categorized by their purpose. Now, on this shelf, are multiple potions dedicated to Ludwig's favorite sibling, Larry. Several tree-hugging potions, such as special liquid fertilizer and plant cure, are on the shelf.
"Woo, these potions here stink! How the heck do plants enjoy this stuff?" Iggy complained, "I need to interview them one day!"
Iggy, however, prevents himself from gazing at the plant potions for too long. He needs to find that potion QUICK, before his dad freaks out at him. Like Ludwig, Iggy is taking time a little too light; they still have four more days until this whole shadowy-figure-apocalypse stuff occurs!
The search on the third shelf reveals anti-violence potions Ludwig tried to sneak into Roy's beverages; it never really worked out. Luckily, throughout the years, Roy mellowed a little bit, eventually not beating up his siblings as much or as seriously. The fourth shelf displays potions that will make an alchemist's eyes bulge: a chemical compound that can isolate gold nuggets from almost anything. Here in the Mushroom Kingdom, and Plit in general, almost everything has gold in it. The hard thing is just isolating the gold from the other metals. Finally, the fifth shelf displays potions that Iggy has been looking for this whole time: A whole shelf dedicated to sleep.
Doing a silent cheer, Iggy reads the label on every vial. Tonique de endormi? No, that's not it. We want to STAY awake, not fall asleep in less than a minute. Tonique de rêves? Is that the fantasy version of the Knockout Potion he made? Interesting. Tonique de l'insomnie? This one MUST be it! And there's about 15 of them!
Iggy, thankful that he understands at least SOME French, takes all the available potions and puts them into his shell. Iggy turns off the lights to the laboratory as he pushes open the metal door. He then ventures the same path that he took to get to the laboratory, all the way until he gets to the front door. There, Bowser was waiting for him.
"Geez, that took awhile, son! I made all these sandwiches faster than you!"
Iggy looks down and sees two coolers in Bowser's hands, one red and one green. Bowser gives Iggy the green one, while saving red for himself, "What kind of sandwiches are these?" Iggy asked.
"I can't do meat because it's dangerous for meat to sit out without being refrigerated. So I just made PB&J's. Oh, and there's a third cooler in the back just in case."
Iggy nodded, "Alright. Thanks dad! Oh, and here's some of these potions."
As Iggy hands Bowser ten vials of tonique de l'insomnie, Bowser looks at the label in an odd way.
"Since when did Ludwig write his labels in French? He's Austrian!" Bowser yelps in surprise.
"No clue dad. I'm just thankful it wasn't in any language like German. Even though it'll be easier to understand, I guess…"
"… Well, thanks a ton Iggy! Oh, and the coolers have water bottles in them too! I guess we should separate now," Bowser reminded.
"Yeah, let's get this journey on!" Iggy shouts with excitement as he joins the rest of Group 3 in the Klown Khopper.
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Time: 1:50am, Monday, October 15, 2001 – Bowser's Castle
Bowser, instead of going straight to Serenity Isle, decides to stop by some place. First of all, he needs a map in order to GET to Serenity Isle. Secondly, He hasn't even heard anything about the mysterious island; its climate, its residents, its rulers- absolutely nothing. The kingdom's not in any kind of alliance, war or board of nations. Serenity Isle is just an isolated island in Bowser's eyes.
"Bowser, where are we going?" Peach asked as she woke up from her sleep, "Oh my! I'm tired!"
"Keep sleeping if you must, Peach. We're just going to a place where we can learn more about Serenity Isle."
"Yeah, that's a great idea!" Peach agreed, "I rarely heard of that place before. However, some people at the Pipe Maze should be knowledgeable enough to help. They usually know tidbits about every country in the world."
"Even though NO warp pipes are in Serenity Isle, according to Nature?" Bowser questioned.
Peach simply shrugged, "Not sure. But it's worth a try, isn't it?"
"… Yeah I guess," Bowser muttered as Peach once again falls asleep. He would love to do the same thing as Peach, Mario, Toad and Roy, but he's too hyped up on a dose of tonique de l'insomnie, plus he's the designated driver of the group, "Time to go to the Pipe Maze. Jasper, Pipe Land, we're coming for ya!"