The Legend in the Stars
From Yb Timeline
"This script! MORE prophecies! Haven’t we had enough of prophecies!?"
-Topper, Topmonhit Story (Story 19: The Legend in the Stars; Part 19-1: Was This Scripted!?)
The Legend in the Stars is the 19th Topmonhit Story. It is the only Team TOT story in the teens that isn't in The Dark Perforation Saga. It also features the return of a couple characters and introduces a new one, as well as explains the meaning of the Kastrodoms Saga.
Characters (in order of appearance): Topper Mon Hit, Oshy Gisho, Top Mon Hit, Testube, Princess Apricot Gisho, Power Box, Sunset, Mershin, Professor Oh Gee, Merlon, Mayor Penguin, Mayor Penguin's Wife, Penguin Patrol, Kammy Koopa, Kamek, Bowser
Locations: Star World, Gisho Castle, Toad Town, Shiver City, Bowser's Castle
Time Period: Late May, 2009
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Part 19-1: Was This Scripted!?
At Gisho Castle, Topper was complaining at the number of prophecies that occur in stories, having the script to this one and complaining that there's a prophecy in it. Oshy pointed out that with the script, they know what'll happen anyway. On the roof, Top and Testube were looking out into space with a telescope when Top noticed a spaceship coming towards the planet. Testube checked, then saw that the spaceship was in plain site without it and began to panic. Inside, the castle began to shake; Oshy thought it was an earthquake, but Topper said it was a spaceship about to crash into the castle.
The next day, PB and Sunset came after seeing a streak in the sky the night before and saw the castle was half-destroyed with a rocketship in the rubble. Topper was digging through the rubble, looking for his ship, while Top was talking about the aliens coming to take over the planet (pointing to the rocketship). After being reminded he was an alien technically by Oshy, Top began to panic. Topper found his script and read that Top said his line, and the two began to argue. Apricot bonked them with an egg to stop them, and the rocketship door opened.
Mershin, a shaman like Merlon only similar to Boddle, came out and introduced himself. Mershin said the targeting system went on the fritz, but was surprised at something: "they" said that "it" would take centures, but "it" was only a year. Everyone was confused, and Mershin explained that it was only a year since they sent the rocket into orbit, him along with a baby star. The rocket would then return when the acceptor of the star's power would be ready. According to Top, however, nothing like that had happened in the past year.
They went to Oh Gee to get his opinion, and learned from Mershin that the rocket left on the year "zero". Having been two thousand nine years since then, yet only feeling like a year to Mershin, the rocket would therefore have been going at about 99.9% the speed of light. Therefore, it meant that the shaman who would accept the star's power was in their day and age, and Topper said the script said they needed to go see Merlon first to learn more about what happened.
Part 19-2: Journey to the Center of Not Where They Are Right Now
They went to the Merlon of Toad Town, and Mershin acted as though he knew him while Merlon didn't. After hearing the name Mershin, however, Merlon did recognize the name, and invited them in. Inside Merlon took out a Book of Shamans and explained that each shaman has a specific name because that is their job. The name Mershin meant the deliverer, the one to deliver the baby star to the shaman that would accept it. The problem was, however, there was no specific name for who would accept it. Merlon suggested they go to Starborn Valley and speak with his son, Merle, who would likely be able to help them find the shaman they needed. However, after they left, Merlon wondered if he should have warned them that when a shaman would be ready to accept the star, a great evil would be reawakened.
Team TOT, PB, Sunset and Mershin headed north to Shiver City, and tried to go to Snow Road, but the bumpty refused them and told them to go [s]kill[/s] talk to the mayor. As they went, they trudged into a pointless subplot where they overheard some bumpties trying to kill the mayor so Oshy, PB and Sunset rushed in while Topper complained that they would just take the blame. After they rushed in, they saw a bumpty with a hammer and an unconscious mayor. They chased the bumpty out, but the mayor's wife mistook them for the killers.
Part 19-3: The Koopa Beast
Mayor Penguin's wife brought in the Penguin Patrol and began to explain her side of the story, then Team TOT, PB and Sunset tried to explain what happened when Mayor Penguin woke up. It turned out that the "assassins" were actually trying to get him out so he could sneak off to a concert not far from there. Thus, the stupidest subplot ever ended.
Meanwhile, at Bowser's Castle, Kammy Koopa was looking through some books in the castle library. She noted the books were older than she was, wanting some new materials, then took out a black book. She gasped at what it was, and was about to run out when Kamek came in. Kammy showed Kamek what she had found: The Dark Prognosticus! Kammy was off to tell Bowser, but Kamek suggested they wait, as Bowser may not utilize its full power; he had gone on a whole adventure just to stop its use, after all. Kamek opened the book and read a section:
The stars shall shine in the snowy east,
Unless interrupted by the Koopa beast.
The traveling group will have a star,
But they will not make it very far.
In the wake of the star power that fell,
The world shall be covered in the Koopa shell.
...even though the verses didn't normally rhyme. Either way, there was a star heading east they needed to interrupt, and Kammy knew exactly who to call.
Part 19-4: Not-So Crystal Clear
Character Introductions
Beta Elements
Trivia
- This is the first Topmonhit Story since Wiggly Jr.: Second Journey to take place on Star World and only Star World. It is the first Team TOT story to do so since Designs Revisited.
Connections to Other Stories
- The Dark Prognosticus previously appeared in Icy Heart of Darkness! The Final Story of Sneen!
- Omnia Causa Fiunt is referenced multiple times in this story.
- The Darkost first appeared in Return of FOEA, though it had not yet had a name or a background at this point.
- Wiggly Jr. last appeared in Wiggly Jr.: Second Journey, and he also appeared in Return of FOEA, where Darkost first appeared.
| Preceded by: Ius Mystery | Timeline The Legend in the Stars | Followed by: The Top Plot for Takeover |
| Preceded by: The Million Dollar Romance | Topmonhit Story The Legend in the Stars | Followed by: The Prince and the Spider |
