Prepare for liftoff! -Transmission 16
The story starts out simple enough. We are going to be told another story that begins with stardust. (I think this Rosalina telling the story-due to the slight bit of voice and the blue text). This time around, Mushroom Kingdom is being showered with stardust. While a mixture of Star Festival and Gusty Garden music plays, we see Peach's letter to Mario, inviting him to eat cake while watching shooting stars. (We now know why Mario is fat and Luigi is skinny: Mario gets invited over for cake and Luigi doesn't.) The story unfolds like pages from a picture book. Mario appears from a pipe with the castle in the background. It's a sidescrolling area where Mario can pick up Star Bits and practice moving around. At the end of the page, the page automatically turns. Mario finds a Luma in the shrubs. He startles the Luma, who speaks in triangles and Xs. He likes Mario and holds his hat while spinning on Mario's head. He hides under Mario's hat and Mario gets the ability to spin. Mario breaks crystals, two of which contain Lumas. The second one rains down from the sky in the castle courtyards. This one asks Mario where the ship is, but Mario has no clue.
It's pandemonium in the courtyards. The same music plays from the prequel's kidnapping. Toads are yelling. Mario looks up and sees an enormous Bowser stomping around and jumping on the castle. (It's the Year of the Giant Bowser: We saw the same thing happen in Mario and Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story and New Super Mario Bros. Wii, but this puts both of them to shame.) Bowser approaches Mario, saying he's too late and that he has the power of the stars. He opens his right hand to reveal Peach, who is tiny in comparison. In his words, "I'm huuuuge!" and is even scarier upclose. He also wants Peach to bake him something for a change. (But this will make him extremely fat, causing him to fall through and get stuck in a planet, or collapse upon himself like his last plan for galatical domination.) Peach screams for Mario (the volume has been appropriately adjusted from the final battle of the prequel). Bowser says he wants a galaxy-sized slice of cake. He says that he is too huge for this puny planet and wants an empire more his size. He says he'll put his empire in the center of the universe (Again? But at least we know where he's going). He taunts us and jumps into the sky.
With the princess kidnapped, (Red Toad, you've got some 'splaining to do!) Mario approaches the castle where the two Lumas he freed await. They wonder where the monster came from and tell Mario that he must save the princess. The Luma hiding under Mario's hat appears, and the Lumas refer to him as Young Master Luma. They also explain that they were thrown overboard from their ship. They have the power of the stars and say that Master Luma should be safe with Mario and that they'll help a little, too. One of them transforms into a Launch Star, and since Mario can't go into the castle, he accepts their offer and is launched most ungracefully into space.
So once again, Mario is called in as a plainclothes member of Her Majesty's Secret Service: Princess Rescue Division. (When was the last time you saw Mario do any plumbing?) A new adventure begins!
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