Superstar Saga

## **Plot**

*Beanbean Kingdom - 90 miles east of the Mushroom Kingdom*

The villagers and tourists of the Beanbean Kingdom are happily going about their daily lives. A coronation is taking place at Beanbean Castle. Just before the newly crowned queen can make her grand appearance, two cloaked figures emerge from the shadows and steal the Beanstar, breaking its safe and infiltrating the castle. The kingdom goes into a panic and the two quickly escape.

Peach runs out towards the balcony looking uneasy and about to vomit. Luigi gives her a bag to which she upchucks. She reveals she ended up vomiting after the immense stress of hearing what is going to happen to the world if they don't find out how to stop the evil. Luigi also mentions that he would have told Daisy about the danger too but she left on a trip out to Fungi City for a month. Mario tries his best to comfort her and lets her know of Rosalina who will now be camping out behind the castle in her comet observatory. Peach inquires the bros on how exactly they stop the evil to which they both admit they themselves don't know and are really just relying on Rosalina for more wisdom and advice. Just before they could dwell on the matter any further, someone knocks at the door. Once opened, they find the two cloaked figures from earlier offering Peach a gift in honor of her bravery and monarch image. She confusingly takes the gift but before she could remain more suspicious, the box opens and a little jack-in-the-box pops out and sprays Peach in the face, stealing her voice in the process. The figures reveal themselves to be Cackletta and Fawful. The bros attempt to save Peach but are taken captive by unseen minions with Fawful-shaped smiles and faces.

Luigi awakes to find himself near an unconscious Mario and attempts to wake him up by kicking him. He bites him which immediately awakens him and they both realize they are being held in an underground bunker prison. The bros yell out for help but do not have any luck. Mario then suddenly remembers he has a monkey wrench in his back pocket but since they are unable to use their arms, Mario resorts to concentrating his hands to become so hot that they would begin to melt the metal. This works and he uses his wrench to break Luigi free. The duo escape but quickly realize they are in another place entirely. They meet Queen Bean, her son Prince Peasley and the Queen's ambassador Lady Lima. The bros immediately inquire them of their whereabouts and Lady Lima assumes that they are spies from another territory and becomes suspicious, threatening to throw them back to the dungeon. Queen Bean disapproves of her behavior and confronts Lima about her threats, instead going to comfort the bros and tell them they are in the Beanbean Kingdom. Once they tell the queen about what happened to Peach, who is a former good friend and closest partner in trade to Bean, she becomes stunned and lets the bros know that they have just been ambushed by Cackletta and her trusty minion Fawful. She explains that their kingdom has been ruthlessly invaded by her countless times in the past, due to her obsession with the kingdom's most precious artifact: the Beanstar. She goes on to say that Cackletta has always been obsessed with gaining a beautiful voice since the one she currently has is considered hagly and unpleasant. Her being a witch, however, fits the part ironically. Mario points out that she has already succeeded in stealing her voice and is more than likely on her way back. After hearing this, the queen demands that the kingdom go into lockdown, and block any possible entrance.

Back at the Mushroom Kingdom, Peach is voiceless with Toadsworth trying his best to comfort her. Squirt and Mason encourage her to fight back but with no weapons of any kind, they are powerless. Fawful barges in and lets the group know of their plan to take over the Beanbean kingdom and eventually; the entire island. Toadsworth attempts to fight off Fawful but is beaten in the process. He uses his headgear to join Cackletta, who begins monologuing on how her life was a terrible one, filled with anger and obsession with wanting a better one. They make way towards the Beanbean kingdom but find that its borders have been closed off and a force field had been put in place. Unfortunately for the kingdom, Cackletta remembers a secret tunnel network used for miners back when the land was beginning to take form. These tunnels are revealed to actually just be giant hidden green pipes that transport anyone extremely quickly. Warp pipes as they are called, have the ability to transport quickly, faster than any car or plane. Fawful takes note of this and becomes interested.

At the Beanbean kingdom, Mario and Luigi remain vigilant of Cackletta making her appearance despite the kingdom's efforts to stop them from getting in. Just as their thoughts get the upper hand, they both snap into a sense of familiarity, much like how they sensed Rosalina's comet coming towards them at the star festival. Mario recognizes the danger immediately and lets the Queen know but it is too late as Cackletta barges out of the castle's walls along with Fawful. They make their way towards the underground chamber where the Beanstar's confinement remains. Mario and Luigi once again fight her and Fawful off. Despite their best efforts to stop them, Cackletta becomes too big of a distraction and Fawful manages to input the Beanstar back to its home. Cackletta releases Peach's voice into the star which in turn enters a state of the request upon whoever possesses it. Cackletta uses it to give her the most beautiful voice imaginable. However, even after using the star as a wish, it is not granted and Cackletta is still left with her voice. Furious, she becomes angered by this outcome and begins having a fit. So much so, she develops an energy state from the star, turning into a hideous purple manifestation of evil. Unfortunately, the star becomes too enraged from hearing her voice and becomes angry itself, breaking itself into 4 pieces and in turn causing the kingdom to enter a state of pure chaos and destruction, with the castle walls beginning to collapse. Luigi swipes the pieces up and attempts to revive the star with Mario joining in. They become overwhelmed and Queen Bean begins fighting off Fawful and Cackletta with Prince Peasley. Lady Lima escorts the bros to safety and while Fawful attempts to attack, Peach and Toadsworth appear, stopping him in his tracks, revealing they too went through the secret pipes. They fend off the duo and are able to gain the upper hand in the process. Mario and Luigi piece together the star, which begins to reform the kingdom and suddenly blasts Cackletta with a powerful force. It begins to deteriorate her, and she starts to whittle down and weaken. She reverts back to her primal state and Fawful flees, pointing out how difficult it is for him to do so but he sees no profit in the mission for him any longer. Cackletta swears an oath that she will return and destroy the bros before poofing away in a cloud of purple smoke. The star returns Peach's voice and she is able to fully speak as a result. However, she at first warrants a different type of voice, being replaced by an explosive vocabulary, quite literally bombing everything the words touch. Mario realizes the star was on a different setting and Peach is finally back to her normal voice. The Beanbean kingdom thanks the Mushroom kingdom group for their help and bravery. They share a mutual interest before departing back home.

Fawful returns back to the Macroverse, completely wiping any evidence of his presence on earth before meeting with Dimentio who inquires him on his whereabouts. He replies that he went to check on how the other division of the dimension was doing. This answer satisfies Dimentio but it becomes clear he is beginning to become suspicious on just exactly where Fawful goes.