Mario Party: Pretty Cure Edition is back, and better than ever!

(We know the drill, I don't own anything)


The Smile characters introduce the DokiDoki characters into the minigame, music and board history rooms. All the characters were now in the minigame room, looking at the minigames that have been seen so far.

"I still can't believe that there are still so many minigames that haven't been seen yet." Miyuki said out loud. "Including the minigames that the fairies played, we've probably reached the 30-40 range."

"Y'know," Akane started,"some of us haven't even played some of the minigames from Grand Canal. Hey Star, can we showcase the minigames that half of us haven't seen yet?"

"Of course, this is what this room is made for." Star replied "Which minigame do you guys wanna start with?"

"Miyuki and I wanna prove that we can actually win Dungeon Duos, we were so close to winning against Akaoni and Wolfrun that I feel we can actually do it." Yayoi announced it so that everyone could hear it.

"Um, what is Dungeon Duos?" Aguri inquired.

"Don't worry, we will explain it." Wolfrun replied. With that, the Smile characters explained how the minigame worked to the DokiDoki characters. After the explanation, Mana and Rikka both are intrigued by the minigames concept.

"Alright, " Mana said, "me and Rikka will challenge you in the minigame."

Both sides enter the machine and, on screen, emerge from pipes. Miyuki and Yayoi were, once again, team red and Mana and Rikka were team blue.

Play Hurry! Hurry! (Mario Party 4)

Start

With the minigames start, both sides came across the first barrier: the Bowser marked pillars blocking Yayoi and Rikka. Miyuki and Mana quickly lifted up the switches to allow their teammates to progress through and Yayoi and Rikka quickly did the same when it was their turn.

After doing it again, the players come across the spinning platforms portion, Yayoi and Mana volunteer to spin the platform for their teammate. When Miyuki and Rikka managed to jump onto the platform, they were spun around to the otherside. Yayoi decided to jump to the otherside early and managed to successfully land where she wanted. As Rikka reached the otherside for the blue team, Yayoi began to spin the platform for Miyuki to get on. When both pairs reached the otherside, Yayoi got into position while Miyuki spun the platform with the broken end around.

Meanwhile, Mana did the same on the blue team's side, Rikka got on and waited as her childhood friend spun the platform to the next portion. With team red, Yayoi had made it across and discovered for the first time that if both players are spinning the platform, the speed increases.

After Miyuki made it across, it came time for the luck based portion of the minigame: the pipes. As Mana made it across, Yayoi jumped into the top pipe and Miyuki entered the top right pipe. Miyuki emerged from the bottom left pipe and, remembering which pipe Yayoi entered, jumped inside the top pipe.

Meanwhile, on the side of team blue, Rikka and Mana decided on solidarity and both entered the bottom right pipe. Lucky for them, madam luck smiled upon them both as they (and Miyuki and Yayoi) saw 9 pipes for them to choose from. With a much smaller chance for their strategy to work, Mana and Rikka made the internal decision to split up.

Miyuki and Yayoi on team red, and Mana and Rikka on team blue each enter a different pipe. With the pink's entering top-right, Yayoi middle-middle and Rikka Rikka emerges from the top-left pipe, Mana doesn't come out, meaning that she picked the correct pipe. As Rikka followed suit, on team red it turned out that Yayoi had entered the right pipe.

After Miyuki emerged from the middle-right pipe, she quickly entered the pipe Yayoi entered. Now, both teams had reached the balloon pumping portion of the minigame. Miyuki and Yayoi, having played the minigame before, knew the pace that they had to reach to win the minigame. As for Mana and Rikka, while it was brief to figure out the pace, they eventually got it and it was a race to see which hot-air balloon would finish first.

As the viewers watched the inflation, no one noticed Star begin to back away as he looked at his phone, thinking of which cure team to bring over next and for another reason entirely. Star caught a glance at the screen as everyone saw Miyuki and Yayoi's hot-air balloon pumped to completion.

Finish

"That was extremely close," Makoto said as she and the DokiDoki cures clapped for the winning side, who ended up breaking the previously set record at 1 minute and 31 seconds, "had Mana and Rikka known about the fact that if both players spin the platform it goes faster, they probably would've won."

"Yes, that might've happened but that was something that we didn't see the first time." Nao said as the Smile and DokiDoki players were placed back in the crimson room, with the fairies and cures giving cheer on how the minigame went.

"Any other minigames you guys want to try?" Star inquired and Akane was quick to raise her hand.

"Nao and I want to face Makoto and Alice in anothe minigame." She said as Star showcased the list of all the minigames of that type. Akane skimmed through the list and knew which minigame she wanted to play. "Would you mind setting up King of the Thrill?"

"No problem, I can do that for you." Star replied. He then turned to the challenged duo and explained the minigame. After he finished the explanation, Makoto had a question to ask.

"Based on what you just described, are we supposed to fight in our standard attire?" Was the purple girls question.

Star shook his head negatively and said: "No. In fact, back when we did this minigame on Grand Canal, Miyuki and Yayoi transformed into their cure forms, Happy and Peace respectively. So, you and Alice are allowed to become Cures Sword and Rosetta against Sunny and March."

Upon hearing that, Davi and Lance transformed into their transformation trinket forms as both girls got ready to face Akane and Nao. The 4 enter the machine with Alice and Makoto being the red team and Akane and Nao the blue team. All four cures had transformed into their magical girl forms. As all four players climbed up the team specific ladder, the matchups were determined. One match was Sword vs March and the other was Rosetta vs Sunny.

As competitive fervor began to start, so did the associating track for the minigame.

Play Proceed Without Fear (Mario Party 8)

Start

In the match between Sword and March, Sword started by trying to land a punch but March dodged out of the way and landed a kick, temporarily stunning Sword. After she recovered, and with parts of the platform beginning to collapse, Sword tried bating March into attacking her and then dodging out of the way.

"I hope Nao falls for this, otherwise I just gave her a free shot at me." Sword thought as she stood in a spot on the collapsing platform. March, seeing this, decided to go for a diving wind kick, however it would prove costly. Because when she went for the attack, Sword managed to get out of the way and give her a punch of the platform.

Sword started to climb the green ladder and softly said: "Let's hope Alice can defeat Akane, we can make up for Dungeon Duos if so." Upon reaching the top, she waited.

Meanwhile, Sunny and Rosetta's fight was very combative. Neither side was giving an inch. Sunny tried to nail flame punches to knock off Rosetta, but she would either dodge or counter with a kick or punch of her own. Sunny jumped for a kick that Rosetta reflected, disorienting Sunny and nearly causing her to fall.

"Now's my chance!" Rosetta said as she kicked Sunny off the platform. Afterwards, she climbed up the green ladder and when she saw Sword after reaching the top, she knew they won.

Finish

As the two celebrated on top of the bigger platform, in the background silhouettes of Akane and Nao were being carried by Fly Guy's. Nao was very skittish as the heights got to her, while Akane's arms were crossed, annoyed at how she was taken out.

When the 4 players are returned to the viewing room, the cures and fairies, like last time, compliment the players success.


Before the next minigame, let's take a trip to Japan and look at a new team.

A couple of school girls were hard at work making cakes, chocolates and other assorted sweets dishes. These girls were led by Cure Whip, better known in her civilian form as Ichika Usami, and she was hard at work making a dish along with her friends.

"Okay girls, I know it's taken a while to create this dish, but all our hard work has finally been rewarded!" Ichika announced as the girls looked at the finished product.

One of Ichika's friends and teammates, Cure Custard a.k.a Himari Arisugawa said, "That looks and smells pretty good, whoever receives that will have a lot of fun going through it." Next to her, Cure Gelato a.k.a Aoi Tategami positively shook her head up and down in agreement.

On the other side of Ichika were the remaining three cures. These cures being the tomboy Cure Chocolat a.k.a Akira Kenjou, the effeminate Cure Macaron a.k.a Yukari Kotozume and one of the more famous sweets makers in town Cure Parfait a.k.a Ciel Kirahoshi. Ciel held a secret as well, she was the fairy Kirarin waiting to hone her craft at making sweets. Anyway, the dish that they were looking at was a strawberry shortcake.

"It's done - peko?" asked one of the fairies also present. This came from a dog-like fairy named Pekorin. There were two other fairies in the room as well: one was a more ghostly fairy named Chourou and the other one was Pikario, who could turn into a human named Julio. He was also Kirarin's younger brother.

"Yep, it's complete," Ichika replied,"can't wait to see who purchases it."

While everyone conversated, Ichika started to think to herself. "Why do I get the feeling that today will be weirder than normal?" She struggled off the thought and went back to conversation.


Back to Star's Domain

Having already playe 3's (those being Look Away with Pop as the solo player against Ira, Mamo and Bel, won by Pop in the 5th round after knocking out Bel in round 2, Ira in round 4 and Mamo in the final round, and Pix Fix with Aguri as the solo player versus Joker, Majorina and Akaoni, Aguri managing to fix the picture the fastest.), there was much debate over what the 3rd and final 1 vs 3 should be.

"I think we should do Flash and Dash next - kuru. Trying to find someone hidden in the darkness can be fun- kuru." Candy announced, but Yayoi disagreed.

"I'd rather not, especially if I'm the one again." Yayoi explained, "I'd much rather do Squared Away. Rolling around trying to avoid being crushed by the bigger cubes is way more competitive. Plus, it's not cleaning a room with a feather duster."

"Well that is a good point," Akaoni stated, "I don't think any other person would want to clean a dusty room with a feather duster."

"Should we know what you guys are talking about?" Mana asked and Miyuki replied with "We're discussing which minigame to play, we just need to explain to you guys how these minigames work."

After the Smile characters explained how the remaining 1 vs 3 minigames worked, Star had an idea: to vote on the minigame.

For the Smile characters: Yayoi, Pop, Akane, Nao, Joker, Majorina and Akaoni picked Squared Away while Candy, Miyuki, Reika and Wolfrun chose Flash and Dash.

As for the DokiDoki cast, since none of them had seen either minigame, they just decided on a whim. Mana, Rikka and Makoto went with Squared Away while Alice and Aguri chose Flash and Dash. Lance and Davi went with Squared Away and Rachel and Charle picked Flash and Dash. Lastly Ira and Bel picked Squared Away, while Regina and Mamo went with Flash and Dash.

"Alright, we will play Squared Away. Now, we have to determine who will be the 1 and who will be the three." Star stated as Mamo stepped up.

"I'll volunteer as the solo player and as for who I'll face, how about Wolfun, Ira and Miyuki." Mamo said determined.

The 4 entered the machine and when the screen illuminated, Mamo stood on a white block and watched as blocks fell from the sky and created a 12x12 heart. Also dropping in was 4 extra blocks, 3 big ones that had the team on its sides. Miyuki in front of her, Ira in the bottom left and Wolfrun in a diagonal across from her.

Mamo looked at the block infront of her and said "Let's just get this over with," and jumped inside the block. Now it was a test to see if she could survive.

Play In Great Fear (Mario Party 5)

Start

Mamo quickly rolled on the heart-shaped block formation, as the team moved into position to try and crush her. Since the team couldn't talk, the best they could do is try to cut off Mamo's escape routes. However, unlike when Miyuki was the solo player, Mamo inexplicably rolled right into Wolfrun. This allowed the wolf to crush her, giving the team the victory.

Finish

The team now stood on three golden thwomp statues. As the team celebrated in the background, Mamo ran for her life from a bunch of stampeding Thowmps. She suddenly tripped and the Thwomps had caught up to her but the screen cut away before anything bad happened.

Bel and Regina both stared in horror at the implications of what was going to happen to Mamo. "Were the Thwomps about to do something to Mamo?" Bel asked, still horrified.

"I think so, yeah." Mana replied, equally stunted as the 4 players were brought back to the room. Almost immediately, Mamo stared at Ira with a look that clearly said 'you and me have to talk soon' that Ira returned with a 'what reason do we have to talk about.'

Meanwhile, both Miyuki and Wolfrun were conglaturated by their respective groups.

"Okay, so now that we've played 1-vs.-3's and 2-vs-2's, that just leave's the last major minigame type: 4-Player minigames. Which one are we going to start with?" Star inquired as all of the minigames of that type appeared on screen.

"'Pizza Me, Mario'? That sounds intriguing, Rikka, Alice, Makoto and I want to try that." Mana stated as the aforementioned girls shook their heads positively. Star gave them a brief explanation of the miniagame before allowing them to enter the game.

The screen turned on to showcase the completed pizza with all of the toppings on it,

"That looks amazing, I can't believe we didn't see that while we played Miyuki," Yayoi stated as Miyuki agreed. The screen moved to the players each with a color and topping. Specifically Mana red and pepperoni, Rikka blue and cheese wedges, Alice green and broccoli florets, and Makoto yellow and mushrooms.

Holding the first topping, the minigame started NOW!

Play Can You Do It? (Mario Party 9)

Start

All four girls tossed on the first topping and then grabbed the next topping in their crates. Since concentration was necessary, there wasn't much chatter from the in-game players. With each throw, a topping was either accepted or rejected, because they already had a topping there.

Mana and Makoto quickly managed to get the timing down as both were one away from completing the pizza, in contrast Alice and Rikka were both 2 away from completion. Though that quickly changed for both of them, because it was all knotted up.

Ironically enough, all four players shared the final slice they needed to win. As the spinning pizza rounded, they each threw their respective topping and while 3 were swiftly rejected, one was allowed.

Finish

The DokiDoki fairies watched as the pizza came to a stop on the spinning rack, trying to see which of the four partners won the minigame. Lance and Davi groaned upon seeing that neither Alice nor Makoto had won the minigame. Charle was similarly disappointed that Mana didn't win either. Rachel, on the other hand, was ecstatic, and he had good reason to be.

"Every single slice has a cheese wedge which means that Rikka wins -keru!" He excitedly exclaimed as the topping glowed on every slice.

Like all Mario Party 9 minigames, the 4 cures were now in front of the minigame faded in the background, each one reacting based on placement. Rikka smiled with a cheerful knowing look on her face, meanwhile Mana angrily stomped the ground twice before collapsing, heart-broken, Alice covered her face in disgrace and Makoto covered her eyes and fell to her knees, ashamed.

As the cures were brought back and were conglaturated for the minigame. Star knew which team he would bring over.


Now back to Japan

As the girls were still chattering over the strawberry shortcake, a new girl opened the front door. This girl was named Bibury, a former member of The Servants of Noir, the main villain group of the KiraKira girls. She flipped sides after the KiraKira girls managed to reform her.

Anyway, she was extremely panicked for some reason, obviously someone had to pitch the obvious question.

"Bibury, what's wrong?" Ichika asked, being the one to ask the question on everyone's mind.

"Glaive, Erisio and Diable have all chosen to attack at the same time!" Bibury replied, still panicked.

"WHAT!" Everyone else responded, with Pekorin and Chourou saying their respective verbal tics.

"You mean to tell us that they choose today, of all days, to attack?" Aoi asked.

"I did notice that it was very quiet, I honestly thought they had given up." Ichika said softly to herself before turning to the girls and saying "Well girls, you know what we have to do now!"

The other cures nodded and transformed into their Cure forms. They all walked out and flew to where the villains were. When they arrived, they saw the bad guy coming to face them head on. It was an all out brawl between the two sides.

All the while, Bibury and the fairies watched the battle from a safe distance and while most of the viewers were watching the battle, only Pekorin noticed the green pipe sprouting from the location of the fight.


Back to Star's Domain

The Smile and DokiDoki characters had played 3 other minigames as we looked at what was happening in Japan. The minigames were 6's version of What Goes Up… during the day. The participants being Bel, Majorina, Yayoi and Reika. Since the daytime version is different compared to the night time variant, the rules and advice were showcased before the minigame. Here's what was seen:

Rules: Jump on Koopa Paratroopas to reach breathtaking heights! Whoever reaches the highest altitude wins!

Advice: Watch the moving Koopa Paratroopas and time your jumps carefully!

This also played the track Jazzy from the same game. Bel would end up winning by reaching 150 yards, setting a new record in the process. By comparison, Yayoi reached 76 yards, Majorina 112 and Reika 135.

The second minigame played was Social Climbers from Super Mario Party. The players were Rikka, Rachel, Makoto and Davi. Even with neutered flying, Davi won the minigame, with Rikka placing second, Makoto 3rd and Rachel last.

Lastly was Xylophone Home from Island Tour. The players were Mamo, Regina, Joker and Candy. Regina won with 43 points, Joker 41, Candy 40 and Mamo 39.

"Alright, this is the final minigame. Afterwards, the new team gets brought in, what minigame do you want to play?" Star inquired

"I volunteer Akane, Nao, Yayoi and myself for Pushy Penguins - kuru!" Candy declared and Star gave the all clear.

After explaining the minigame to the DokiDoki cast, the 4 players were brought to the location that saw Wolfrun and Akaoni fall into the water by a barrage of blue flightless birds.

When the initial penguin emerged from its igloo and jumped into the icy, watery depths, the assembled four knew that the minigame had started.

Play Bustling Noisily (Mario Party 5)

Start

As the platoon of penguins dashed to the sea, the players struggled to bypass them. Since Yayoi had experience, she was avoiding the penguins like they were nothing and abusing any gaps in the penguins formation. Candy wasn't doing too poorly herself, having already passed by multiple smaller ones. Akane and Nao, meanwhile, were barely scraping by in order to avoid falling off.

When the bigger penguins started heading out to mix in with the smaller ones, while things seemed bleak for Akane and Nao, luck shined on them yet again as they managed to avoid yet more penguins. In fact, when the final penguin jumped in, all four were still on the slippery ice meaning that no one lost.

Finish

When the four were brought back, Pop, Miyuki and Reika clapped for all of them surviving. Then, Star got everyone's attention.

"It's officially time to bring over the next Pretty Cure squad! Don't worry, I've already decided which minigame I will have them play." Star announced and Woflrun inquired:

"Which one?"

"'Strawberry Shortfuse.'" Star replied before turning to the DokiDoki fairies "Do you guys mind explaining how to play the minigame for the new girls?"

"You can count on us -ransu!" Lance replied.

"Alright, I'm sending you all to the secret room." Star said as he snapped his fingers and the Smile and DokiDoki characters were sent there. Before he brought over the next team, he decided to do something.

Star snapped his fingers and in an instant, he was transformed. No longer human, he now had an all green design with black scales on his back, purple eyes and eyeshadow and a black bow to top it off. He was now a Birdo.

"This is better," Star said in a now more higher pitched voice as he ogled the ring on his claw-finger, "now, let's La Mix it up!" Star stated, having returned to the emerald room and imputing the names of the people he wanted in his domain.


Back to Japan

The KiraKira Pretty Cures and Servants of Noir's battle was coming to a close. It was clear, even with the villain's powers combined, the cures were still too strong. So Erisio was about to teleport away when he spotted the pipe.

Erisio floated down to it, not noticing that Cure Whip was about to attack him. He turned around and caught a punch, knocking him into the pipe. Ichika then noticed the pipe and quickly cleared her throat.

"Glaive, Diable, is this pipe Noir's doing? Because I just saw Erisio vanish from entering it." Ichika asked as everyone noticed the pipe.

"No? I mean Noir is a lot of things, but I don't think this is Noir's doing." Glaive replied and everyone turned to Diable.

"This is not Noir's work, trust me, I'd know. Now if you excuse me, I'm going to report back to him." he declared, but before he could, the pipe began to suck in everyone in the area.

Ichika was the first cure to be sucked in and Diable was next to go. The remaining cures and Glavive were all sucked into the pipe as well.

Julio, upon seeing that, reverted back to Pikario form and willingly allowed himself to be sucked in. Bibury was taken next and so was Pekorin and Chourou. As the last character was sucked in the pipe disappeared and time literally stopped in the area.


Back to Star's Domain

The blue realm between minigames had a new pipe open up and out came the first four members of the KiraKira girls who were in a heap on the flooring.

Aoi was the first to stand up and the other 3 girls followed suit. Ichika did a headcount and noticed something.

"Girls, where are Akira and Ciel?" was the question she asked.

Himari, nervous, replied, "I don't know, but something tells me we aren't in Japan anymore."

Meanwhile, Star watched as a second pipe shot up and the remaining characters emerged from the pipe. As he did the finger movement to take away any of the villain's abilities to make monsters. Diable got up and tried to teleport away but nothing happened.

"Okay, who made it so that I can't report to Noir, I need to be able to do that so that he knows what is going on!"

"It was me!" Star replied as everyone turned to look at him.

"What is that, it doesn't look like any of the known living species that I'm aware of." Akira said as she and Ciel walked over to have a closer look.

"I think because of the bow it's a female, but I don't exactly know." Ciel replied, while staring at the purple eyes and eyeshadow.

"Whatever it is, it's responsible for making it so that I can't teleport. Why would you do that?" Diable stated furious.

"Well, first off, I'm a guy and I'm currently a Birdo, a fictional character. Secondly, the original bio for this body is that it's a guy who thinks he's a girl," Star explained as both girls stared at each other upon hearing that, "Lastly, because I don't want anyone to leave because I brought all of you here for a purpose. Also because I know you guys."

"You know us? How do we know you're being truthful, you could just be lying." Akira replied and Star chuckled.

"Of course I know you guys, like I know that your Cure Chocolat." Star revealed and Akira's resulting expression was a mix of a jaw drop and a sheepish back. "Oh and Pekorin, Chourou, don't try to hide, I'm not trying to hurt you, you can trust me on that."

Pekorin slowly floated up upon hearing her name called and skittishly asked "W-where's Ichika, Himari, Aoi and Yukari - peko?"

"Take your seats and see for yourself." Star said, pointing at the seats. Everyone sat in a chair, and Pikario turned back into his human disguise, and saw the four missing cures standing on 4 different triangles looking at each other. Above were the words 'Strawberry Shortfuse' and next to that was footage from the last time the minigame was played.

Below were the rules of the minigame and the 3 villains all wondered if they could steal the kirukirau of the pastries.

Meanwhile, the loudspeaker that allowed Candy and Pop to speak to the DokiDoki girls before Control Shtick turned on yet again.

"Hello there - keru! Can you hear us okay -keru?" Rachel's voice rang out from the loudspeaker.

"Yeah, we can hear you. May we know what your name is?" Ichika responded while Aoi and Yukari searched high and low for where the speaker was and Himari just listened to the audio intently.

"I'll reveal my name to you later - keru. However, for now I need to explain a concept to you girls- keru." Rachel replied.

"Oh really," Aoi said, "what concept?"

"The concept of a minigame - keru." was Rachel's response. Before going into an explanation of what a minigame is. After the explanation, the four cures turned players were interested.

"Alright, so what minigame are we playing?" Aoi inquired.

"'Strawberry Shortfuse' -keru" Rachel replied and Ichika became ecstatic.

"Is this a minigame where we make a cake? Because if it is, I'd do exceptionally well! Of course, we all have experience making one." Ichika said elated.

"Unfortunately, no, though that does sound good -keru. This minigame will challenge your memorization skills -keru." Rachel stated.

While Ichika deflated, Himari inquired "What exactly do you mean by that?"

"Basically, there will be 10 monkeys, 5 will have cakes and 5 will have bombs," Rachel explained as the cures listed and Himari in particular trembled at the mention of bombs, "they will run around the area and stop in a new alignment and the contained objects will be covered -keru. Then, one at a time, you will pick a monkey -keru. If you pick a monkey with a cake, you're safe, if you pick a bomb, you're out -keru."

"I assume this is the last player standing rules, right?" Yukari asked.

"Yes, exactly -keru! Okay, I'll leave you to it -keru." Rachel stated before the speaker cut off.

The girls looked at one another and they knew that while they may be teammates, for now they are enemies.

Meanwhile, in the green room, Ciel had read the rules for the minigame and looked over at her brother, who had done the same. Both knew that Himari was probably going to win the minigame, but at the same time, neither knew if it was a guarantee.

On screen, the players ran into the kitchen and saw a lot of monkeys making a variety of pastries or just goofing around. In the center of the room were the 10 monkeys, 5 held cakes and 5 held bombs. The minigame was about to begin. Oh, and by the way, the order was Aoi, Yukari, Himari and finally Ichika.

Play Fast and Furious (Mario Party 6)

Start

Silver tins dropped on the holders as the monkeys dashed around the area. Some of them entered and exited drawers and some were blocked by two monkeys pushing a giant cake. Eventually, they stopped moving and Aoi ran up to pick a monkey.

"Okay I paid as close attention as I possibly could, I know that one of the cake monkeys is right in front of me." Aoi thought as she chose that monkey. She revealed the cake underneath and walked to the back of the line and Yukari moved into position. Meanwhile, Ichika was internally screaming because that was the only monkey she followed.

"Hey, would monkey 1 in the back row come up here please?" Yukari asked as that monkey came over. She took the top off and revealed a cake. Yukari walked to the back and Himari took her spot.

Himari stared at the options in front of her. Not worried at all, she picked the 5th monkey in the front row. She lifted the tin to reveal the third cake, which meant that there were 2 cakes left.

Ichika had taken Himari's place by this point and she was really scared by this point. With Aoi unknowingly taking the only monkey she followed, she covered her eyes and chose monkey 4 in the back row. Ichika gulped audibly and took the top off to uncover… a bomb!

While Aoi, Himari and Yukari ducked their heads down, Ichika only had enough time to think "IF THIS WAS CAKE MAKING, I WOULD"VE DONE WELL!" before the bomb exploded.

An off-screen green pipe showed up and sucked in Ichika and took her to the emerald green watch room. As she was dropped off, both Diable and Glavive laughed at her misfortune, while Pekorin floated up to her.

"Ichika, are you okay -peko? You just took an explosion to your body -peko." Pekorin stated worried.

Ichika went to respond, but before she could, the green Birdo stepped in for the inquiry.

"That would be the fact that any physical ailments that someone could receive, end up becoming minor inconveniences." Star explained, "I've so far seen someone get burned and someone else get squished, and they simply walk it off as if nothing happened."

Ichika, having seen Star for the first time, goes to ask a question, but Pekorin quickly fills her in on what Star is and Ichika's curiosity is assuaged.

As Ichika walked over to the seats and sat down, Aoi walked up to choose a monkey. She thought over it and, having memorized 2 of them and with the other one nor chosen, selected the 2nd monkey in the back row. She lifted the tin and a cake was unveiled, which meant there was one cake left.

Yukari looked over the remaining monkeys and selected the 5th monkey in the back row. She lifted the tin and, to her dismay, uncovered a bomb. When the explosion hit and Yukari was taken by the pipe and dropped off, Himari took her place.

Himari overlooked the remaining monkeys, while thinking over where the last cake monkey was, she heard Aoi say "If you get this right, I think you'll be okay." Himari then picked the 3rd monkey in the back row, she waited as it walked over, lifted the top and saw the flashing of the bomb. Aoi ducked down and covered her head as Himari was sent flying into the off screen pipe thanks to the explosion.

With the self proclaimed, sweets professor being taken to the emerald room, the minigame had come to a close.

Finish

While Aoi flipped and gave thumbs up, the contents of the remaining monkeys were revealed. If both Yukari and Himari wanted to stay in the game, it turns out they needed to pick the 1st monkey in the front row.

The screen turned off and the rocker, and secret rich kid, of the KiraKira girls was brought into the green room for the first time. Star then cleared his throat to get everyone's attention.

"Well, well, well, now that we've all been reunited, let me introduce myself." Star stated before explaining who he is and why he brought everyone here. "Now, does anyone have any questions? Aside from me letting you report back to Noir, Diable."

While the 100 year servant of Noir shot a glare that would've incinerated Star if it was effective, Ciel had a question.

"You said that you've seen others get burned, does that mean that others have been brought here as well?"

"Yes, in fact," Star then snapped his fingers and the Smile and DokiDoki casts were brought over, "why don't you guys intermingle with them."

The KiraKira cures walked over to chat with the already assembled cures, Pekorin, Pikario in his human disguise, Chourou and Bibury spoke with the fairies and the Servants of Noir interacted with the Smile and DokiDoki villain groups.

"Wow, I didn't know that there were more cures! I wonder how many cure teams exist." Ichika said awed.

"Y'know that's a question, I've always wondered. But would you girls mind introducing yourselves?" Akane inquired.

"Oh right, I'm Ichika Usami and these are my friends/teammates," as Ichika introduced each member, they each waved, "Himari Arisugawa, Aoi Tategami, Yukari Kotozume, Akira Kenjou and Ciel Kirahoshi."

"Well, hello to you 6. It's always great to have more cures fighting the good fight." Makoto stated, but her tone quickly became inquisitive when she asked "However, we do need to know what your cure names are."

Ichika and the other 5 became nervous after she said this. Sure, they were also cures, but weren't they supposed to keep it a secret? Then again, Pekorin is out in the open, so they already knew and they seem to be nice people.

"Okay, we'll tell you. I'm Cure Whip, and something we should tell you is that each of us are partially linked to an animal. Mine's the bunny rabbit." Ichika revealed

"Cure Custard is my cure name and my animal is a squirrel." Himari said next.

"As for me, my animal is the lion and my Cure name is Gelato." Aoi stated and all of the cures turned to the last 3 KiraKira Cures.

"My Cure name is Choclat and I'm linked to the dog." Akira stated

"Cure Macron is mine and my animal is a cat." Yukari said

"As for me, I'm Cure Parfait and my animal is the pegasus," Ciel stated as the Smile and DokiDoki girls took in the information, but she wasn't done yet, "and I can also do THIS!"

Ciel then transformed into her fairy form: Kirarin. While all of the Smile cures were shocked, though not as much because they each spent some time as a fairy, 3 of the 5 DokiDoki cures were shocked. The ones who weren't shocked were Makoto and Aguri.

"Pretty cool, huh -kira?" Kirarin said before transforming back to her human form. All of the cures gave her pretty cool responses.

Meanwhile, the fairies were speaking about what they've been through so far and the villains were speaking about plains for the future.

"Alright everyone, would you mind sitting down in those theater chairs?" Star asked as everyone did, though Diable continued to glare at the dino-like creature. "I'm about to show you another Mario Party intro, last time was 2 and now we are doing 3."

As the Smile and DokiDoki casts spoke about what they saw in the last intro, the KiraKira characters were all confused, but luckily for them, Candy and Lance were quick to explain it.

After the explanation, everyone turned to the screen, which was in space and a box appears saying.

In the center of the vast universe, a remarkably bright star was born.

When the star was created, while the cures and fairies were intrigued by its design, the villains weren't initially interested, that was until the next line.

It was a star that is born only once in a thousand years, the Millennium Star.

"Only once in a thousand years? That would mean it's extremely valuable." Ichika said, not noticing Wolfrun considering what he would do with it.

According to legend, whoever possessed this mystical star was destined to become the Superstar of the universe.

When this appeared, 5 of the 6 KiraKira girls were intrigued.

"If I owned that star, not only would I be as great Passter as Ciel, but I'd be seen as the world's Superstar. Yeah, I'd so want that!" Ichika thought as Aoi, Akira, Yukari and, to a lesser level, Himari agreed. Ciel wasn't as intrigued, especially not to spite her brother, who she felt would get it instead.

However, since the Millennium Star was but a newborn…

Everyone was confused when that line showed up, sure, it's a newborn but what does that have anything to do with it. Their query was answered when the Millennium Star dropped from space.

it fell from the starry sky.

"So, you mean to tell me that the star can fall?" Miyuki said, stunned.

"Apparently it can. Let's hope that people don't get hurt because of this." Mana replied.

The screen flashed to Japan, specifically, outside Miyuki's house. The girl was relaxing in a lawn chair and drinking water.

The watching Miyuki's eyes widened, realizing what's about to happen.

Around that time, Miyuki and her friends were all happily relaxing, when…

The remaining Smile Cures, Pop and Candy realized the same thing that Miyuki did. In fact, everyone realized what would happen.

There was a whistling noise as the Millennium Star landed, next to her sending the on screen Miyuki flying with a yelp.

"Oh, good, it didn't crush her. That could've been much worse." Yayoi said.

On screen, all of the cures, with Miyuki rubbing the back of her head, walked up to the Millennium Star.

suddenly the Millennium Star came crashing down…

With the exception of Yayoi, Himari and Rikka, the remaining on screen cures began arguing over who should claim the Millennium Star.

Miyuki and her friends soon began arguing over who should keep the Millennium Star.

The Smile and DokiDoki cures all groaned at the on screen argument, while the KiraKira girls were shocked at what was transpiring.

Seeing this, Pekorin came flying in, holding a toy box in her hands.

"Um, when did Pekorin get her hands on a toy box?" Ichika asked.

"I don't know,-peko. But, it looks like I'm coming to help out -peko!" Pekorin replied, ecstatic at the situation.

The on screen Pekorin dropped off the toy box and Miyuki reached into the box to reveal Mario Party on a box. At the same time, Mana pulled out a blue dice block.

That's right! They could play "Mario Party" to see who the biggest Superstar was!

"Well, at least they have come up with some sort of solution for who gets the Millennium Star." Makoto said.

However, the Millennium Star shined and then the 16 girls were teleported inside the toy box!

Suddenly, the Millennium Star gave off a brilliantly bright flash of light! And with that bright flash, Miyuki and her friends were transported inside the toy box!

"My sister is in a toybox!," Rio said,"Pekorin, where did your on screen self get that toy box?"

"It wasn't me -peko! It was the Millennium Star who teleported the cures -peko!" Pekorin replied, equally shocked.

To shock everyone more. The blue dice block that Mana pulled out, transformed itself in front of everyone's eyes. Becoming a humanoid figure, it teleported the 16 cures with a yellow color behind him.

Then it showed the layout of Miyuki's home and other home's could be seen in the background, having the same toy-like look.

The Millennium Star had its back to the viewers before turning around to reveal a face.

"Greetings! I am the Millennium Star!"

You must pass my test to prove yourself worthy of possessing me.

Follow me!

"I guess that means when we have to play Mario Party 3, technically we are doing his test -ransu." Lance said and everyone else agreed.

The intro ended right then and there and Star moved to set up a new game. He chose Mario Party 2 from the list of boards. Then he chose Horror Land.

"I'm gonna need volunteers for this board. Who wants to play?" Star inquired.

Akane bravely stepped up and volutered, entering the first pod in the room. Aguri debated over what she wanted to do and figured, why not and volunteered.

Regina got up next and silently entered the 3rd pod. With one spot left, everyone looked around for a volunteer and then:

"I'll go!" Aoi announced as she got in the last pod.

The four went into the machine and then they noticed Toad on a broomstick and a wizard get-up.

Toad flew off and the 4 players ran after him in the direction Toad was going. When Toad flew the other way, the players popped back on screen and now they all wore a witches outfit. With the exception of Akane, they were all shocked as they looked down.

"What are we wearing? What happened to our standard outfits?" Regina asked.

"I don't know, but," Aoi looked at her outfit and the witch's hat on her head, all in blue btw, "I kinda like it."

As for the rest, all red for Aguri, all orange for Akane and black with hints of red for Regina.

"I guess we will have to play wearing these outfits. We can get through this." Aguri said as the 4 ran off to catch up with Toad.

Star turned to the non-players and secretly snapped his fingers to give everyone, himself included, witch or wizard attire.

Miyuki was to first to realize that her attire was now all pink and she also had a witches hat, she looked over a notice that, with the exception of Majorina, everyone was either a witch or a wizard.

While all the cures now had on a witch outfit, based off of each cure's color, since some cures shared a color, a few of them had multiple colors. For example, Mana's outfit contained bits of goldish yellow, similar to her hair color when in Cure Heart mode, meanwhile, all of the KiraKira girls, and yes even Aoi in the game, had their animal on the front of the outfit.

The fairies outfits were all colored by their respective coloration. Candy's was white with elements of yellow, Pop's was two shades of orange, all of the DokiDoki fairies shared a color with their respective partner and Ai-chan's matched Aguri's. Pekorin's was beige, with hints of blue, Chourou's was white and Rio was now a wizard in light blue with hints of yellow.

Even the villains were wearing the wizard slash witch costumes as well. In the dead center, was Star. His outfit was a wizard's with a green base and elements of black surrounding it.

"Why are we wearing this," Bibury asked, "Star, what did you do?"

"Would you accept the fact that 2's gimmick was costumes?" Star responded, sheepishly.

Diable, now wearing a purple, with shades of black wizard outfit, glared again and said "Or, more likely, you did this. No one wanted this."

"I'm fine with it actually," Majorina said, "Even if it's temporary, not being the only witch or wizard is a major help, I could think of a lot of things we could do when we return home."

Diable went to reply, but the screen updated to showcase a Koopa Troopa walk around during the day and then become petrified at the switch to night. The camera panned down to the starting area.

A pipe opened up and the players and Toad exited the pipe. The girls landed and turned to Toad who began to speak.

"We're here, everyone! This is Horror Land! In this haunted forest, witches' cottages line the paths, and ghosts gather after nightfall. Wield the magic of truth and justice when venturing through the forest!" Toad said as everyone both watching and participating took in the information.

"Your objective this time," Toad continued before moving to show what the players were up against, two bats came in and showcased Bowser wearing a cloak. While Akane and the DokiDoki characters glared at the Koopa King, Aoi stared in confusion, but Akane gave her a motion that they'll explain. "is to defeat the Wizard Bowser, a resident of the haunted forest. Defeat Bowser to become the Super Star of Horror Land!"

As the bats flew away, Toad had one last thing to say: "Now, before this adventure begins, we must determine turn order."

The players ran up and above their heads, were dice blocks. Akane, eager to kick this off, hit the die and received an 8. The other 3 followed suit with Aguri getting a 3, Regina a 2 and Aoi a 5.

"Turn order has been decided. Akane is First,' Toad began as Akane's turn indicator appeared in the top left corner of the screen, with the others taking the remaining corners,"Aoi is Second, Aguri is Third, and Regina is Fourth."

"And lastly, a present! I'll give you each 10 Coins. Please use them wisely." Toad said as each player received 10 coins to start off. "Good luck becoming the Super Star of this land! Well then, let's get started!"

The camera panned over to the location of the first star, being placed in between one of the happening spaces and a space that looked like a chest. "Here's the first Star. Give 20 coins to Toadette to get the Star." Toad said as the viewers and players looked at the spot.

The camera panned down again to reveal a Koopa Kid, standing in front of a black star between two blue spaces. "By the way, Koopa Kid is over here. He may take coins from you, so beware."

With that, board #3 was about to begin!


GAME: Mario Party 2

BOARD: Horror Land

TURN COUNT: 1/20

MINIGAMES PLAYED: N/A

PLACEMENT: 1st All (10 coins)

ITEMS HELD N/A

Horror Land, the first board to have a day/night cycle, before MP6 became a thing. I'm gonna try to utilize at least one minigame from each game. For now, predict who will win and review the past chapters.

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