Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

Story
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is a GameCube video game released in 2004. The sequel to Paper Mario. In this game, Mario is hunting the 7 Crystal Stars to open the Thousand-Year Door, while Princess Peach has been kidnapped by a gang of aliens called X-Nauts.

Prologue: A Rogue's Welcome
As you reach Rogueport, you'll meet up with Goomba named Goombella and she'll join your team. She'll take you to see Prof. Frankly and you'll head to the sewers, where the Thousand-Year Door awaits. When you reach the bottom floor of the sewers, you'll have to learn a new paper ability from a Black Chest Demon to reach the door. After you reach the Thousand-Year Door, stand on the pedestal and hold up the map. The magic will show you the location of one of the Crystal Stars

Chapter 1: Castle and Dragon
The first Crystal Star is found at Hooktail Castle. To get to Hooktail Castle, Mario and Goombella had to find the two stone keys at Shhwonk Fortress and compete with a Thwomp in a Super-Fun Quirk Quiz. After finding the stone keys, you'll have to fight off a Gold Fuzzy. As you leave Petalburg, a koopa troopa named Koops will join your team so he can avenge his father, Koopley's death. When you get to Hooktail Castle, you'll have to avoid Hooktail's traps to reach the tower, and even learn a new paper ability from one of the Black Chest Demons and run into Ms. Mowz, who will give you tips on how to defeat Hooktail. Upon reaching Hooktail's lair, you must fight her to get the Diamond Star, and even free Koops' dad, who was swallowed whole.

After the battle with Hooktail, Peach is kidnapped, as usual. Not by King Bowser, but the X-Nauts and its leader, Grodus. When an X-Naut tells Grodus Mario nabbed the first Crystal Star, Peach knows it was him. Grodus then knows Mario has the map and orders the Shadow Sirens to steal the map from Mario. Peach meets up with the main computer of the X-Naut HQ, TEC-XX, aka TEC.

At Bowser's Castle, Kammy will tell Bowser Mario's hunting the seven Crystal Stars and will also tell him Peach was captured. Bowser is outraged at this and leaves for Rogueport to kidnap her back.

Back in Petalburg, the residents are amazed to see that Koops went from a coward to a brave Koopa and that Hooktail has been slain. As they head for the Thousand-Year Door, they receive an e-mail from Peach. Peach tells him she's been kidnapped and the people who kidnapped her are after the map she sent Mario. Mario and his team stand before the door and present their map to it. The next Star's location has been marked on the team's map and visit Prof. Frankly for details.

Chapter 2: The Great Boggly Tree
The next Crystal Star is found at the Great Tree in Boggly Woods. Upon reaching the entrance to Boggly Woods, Mario, Goombella and Koops meet up with a Puni named Punio. Punio thinks Mario and his team are working for the X-Nauts, who have taken over the Great Tree. Mario and his teammates found out that the X-Nauts were behind Princess Peach's kidnapping and offer to Punio to help drive the X-Nauts out of the tree. When they reach Boggly Woods, they see the Shadow Sirens talking. Vivian is showing Beldam Flurrie's necklace. Marilyn notices Mario is on his way, but Beldam and Vivian ignore her.

As Mario, Goombella, Koops and Punio make it to the Great Tree, they notice the door is locked, so they enlist the help from the cloud spirit Flurrie to help them, only they must defeat the Shadow Sirens to rescue her necklace. After giving the necklace back to Flurrie, she joins the team. As they comb the great tree for the Emerald Star, they must fight off Yuxs, X-Nauts and even the Punies' rivals, the Jabbi Tribe, who have teamed up with Lord Crump, and of course, get the Super Boots to rescue the other Punies after Mario and his team fall into a trap set by Lord Crump. As the team makes it to the basement, they finally reach the Crystal Star, but Lord Crump steals it and activates a 5-minute self-destruct mechanism, which will destroy the Great Tree and its inhabitants! As Mario and his team catch up to Crump, Crump deactivates the detonator and summons Magnus Von Grapple to attack. After Mario and the team defeat Magnus, the X-Nauts are driven out of the tree and Mario and his team are given the Emerald Star as a reward.

At the X-Naut HQ, the X-Nauts tell Grodus Mario took the Emerald Star and TEC has Peach do a little dance in the computer room.

As Bowser and Kammy reach Petal Meadows, Bowser goes through one of the places Mario has visited in Super Mario Bros. and upon reaching Petalburg, they manage to find the Princess, only they discover it's actually a poster.

Back at the Great Tree, the Punies wave good-bye to Mario and his team and tell them to visit the tree anytime. As they move on, they receive another e-mail from Peach. Peach tells him that the X-Nauts are on the search for the Crystal Stars and tell Mario and his team to be careful. Mario and his team stand before the door and present their map to it. The next Star's location has been marked on the team's map and visit Prof. Frankly for details.

Chapter 3: Of Glitz and Glory
Mario and his team learn that the next Crystal Star is located in Glitzville and must locate Don Pianta's daughter Francesca and one of his mobsters, Frankie to get the tickets to the airship. After a little conflict, Francesca and Frankie were engaged and Mario got his ticket.

As Mario and his team reach Glitzville, they visit the Glitz Pit. Only then, Mario and company learn that the champ, Rawk Hawk has the Crystal Star, located on his champ's belt. Their task at getting the Crystal Star: fight their way to the top. Mario heads into Grubba's office and goes under the name "The Great Gonzales". As Mario and his team get up to rank 15, they find an egg being chased by the guy at the Hot Dog Stand. The egg decides to come along and help Mario and company. As Mario and his team get ready to battle the Armored Harriers, two Iron Clefts, they chicken out of the match and then, the egg hatches into a Yoshi Kid, who joins their team! During the rematch with the Iron Clefts, Yoshi manages to put a dent in their defenses by gulping one Iron Cleft and spitting it at its brother.

Mario and his team finally make it to the major league and keep receiving annonymous e-mails from a mysterious person named X, telling them that someone has been making the fighters disappear, and someone keeps sending Mario and his team threatening e-mails saying that Mario and his team shouldn't get their hands on the Crystal Star they're looking for. As Mario and his team rise to rank 8, X tells them to visit the juice bar and Mario will get his Super Hammer and find a Dubious Paper hidden in the minor league locker room.

After Mario and his team defeat an opponent at the Glitz Pit to raise their rank to 5, King Bowser shows up and challenges Mario and his team to fight! After Mario and his team raise the rank to 4, X tells them to go to the phone booth, where they will find the key to the Glitz Pit Storeroom. They'll have to sneak into the vent system to spy on Grubba.

As their rank reaches 1, Mario and his team must remove the Great Gonzales posters in the lobby using Flurrie's wind and find a key to the storeroom on the second floor. There, you'll find two of your fellow fighters, King K and Bandy Andy lying on the ground, injured. When you get ready for the champion match, the security guard will escort you to a minor-league locker room and lock you in there. You must blow away the Princess Peach poster to reach the major league locker room and flush yourself down the toilet to reach the designated major league locker room and visit the ring to face Rawk Hawk, who is responsible for sending security to lock Mario and his team in the minor league locker room and sending that poisoned cake before the rank 2 match.

When the Hawk is defeated, you'll receive an e-mail from X, telling you to find the ghost in the vent, which is actually Grubba. When Grubba goes away, comb his desk for clues to find the paper you found in the minor league locker room. You'll discover the paper is actually a blueprint for a machine powered by the Gold Star. Grubba will enter his room and rush into the ring, where his machine dwells. The machine turns him into Macho Grubba and you'll have to fight him for the Crystal Star. After you defeat him, Jolene will tell Mario and his team she was X all along, and it was because the loss of his younger brother, the first champ of the Glitz Pit, Prince Mush. Prince Mush comes out of Grubba's machine unharmed and Mario and his team are given the Gold Star as a reward.

At the X-Naut base, TEC tells Princess Peach to disguise herself as an X-Naut to find out what Grodus is planning. They learn Grodus is planning to use the treasure behind the Thousand-Year Door to take over the world.

Meanwhile, Bowser is searching for one of the Crystal Stars at the Great Tree in Boggly Woods.

Back at the Glitz Pit, Mario tells the fighters and Jolene he's retiring, but he's sure to make his comeback someday. As they head for the Thousand-Year Door, they receive another message from Peach, telling them that the X-Nauts are planning to use the treasure behind the Thousand-Year Door to conquer the world. Mario and his team stand before the door and present their map to it. The next Star's location has been marked on the team's map and visit Prof. Frankly for details.

Chapter 4: For Pigs the Bell Tolls
Mario and his team learn that the next Crystal Star is located in Twilight Town. They manage to find the gate to Twilight Town, hidden in Rogueport Sewers, but they can't enter. So, they visit the alley, directly behind Merlon's house and meet a resident from Twilight Town, named Darkly. Darkly writes Mario's name on his overalls and they go back to the pipe that leads to Twilight Town.

As the team reaches Twilight Town, Mayor Dour tells the team that the town is cursed and it may be coming from an ancient building called Creepy Steeple. Mario and his team are about to leave Twilight Town after talking to the shopkeeper's wife and hike up to the Steeple via Twilight Trail, but the gatekeeper won't let them leave without Dour's say-so, but of all the horror-- the team notice Mayor Dour turned into a pig due to the bell ringing (The bell's ringing is causing the curse)! After Mario and his team give one of their items (for example, a Life Shroom or a Peachy Peach) to a resident that lives next door to Mayor Dour, they return to the gate to discover the gatekeeper turned into a pig! The team see this as the perfect opportunity to hike up to Creepy Steeple.

While hiking up to the Steeple, they can't go on because a tree was cut down, but they do notice a key which unlocks the storeroom in the shop. Koops gets the key with his Shell Toss and Mario gets a Black Key hidden in the shack at the beginning of the path. The team returns to the shop in Twilight Town and unlock the storeroom and learn a new paper ability from one of the Black Chest Demons: tube mode. Now Mario can get under the tree that was cut down and continue their hike to Creepy Steeple.

Upon reaching Creepy Steeple, Mario and his team must free a Boo's friends to continue on. The Boos are imprisoned in the basement. After freeing them, one of them will ask Mario how many came out of the chest. Mario and his team will tell them 200. Mario and his team will be given an Ultra Shroom and a funny insult. If they talk to the Boo and tell him he's not going to be mean, a bunch of Boos will appear and if Mario and his team stay still too long, they'll be thrown out of the Steeple, (like what happens after a Sentinel catches Mario and his team snooping around Tubba Blubba's castle in Paper Mario) but if Mario and his team hit them with his Super Hammer twice, they'll merge into an Atomic Boo and defeating it will earn them a Lucky Start Badge.

After moving the stairs to the left, Mario and his team go up the stairs and Koops will grab the Steeple Key. After moving the stairs to the right, they'll unlock the door across from where the key was and go up to the tower to face the Boss. As Mario and his team deplete half the Boss' HP, it'll turn himself into a shadow form of Mario. After they defeat him, they'll get the Ruby Star and leave Creepy Steeple, but Mario will get up from the ground and learn the Boss stole his appearance, so Mario must get to the bottom of it all.

Back in Twilight Town, the Shadow Sirens are planning to grab that map from Mario and his team, and as usual, Beldam is blaming Vivian for losing something. The thing they were planning to use against Mario and his comrades was an item called the Superbombomb.

As Mario reaches Twilight Town, he runs into the Boss and will ask Mario to guess his name, but Mario guessed wrong so he had to fight the Boss. He wasn't able to deliver any damage to him, so he had to run away from the battle, but Mario will have to fight him when the Boss ambushes him. As he meets Vivian in Twilight Town, he finds the Superbombomb for her. He tells her not to feel bad about the Superbombomb being broken and Vivian will join the team. As Vivian hides Mario and herself with her Veil, the crows will explain about the Boss' name being hidden under Creepy Steeple.

Mario and Vivian head up to Creepy Steeple and go down the well to the basement. As Mario and Vivian reach the basement, they find The Letter "p" and when Vivian hides Mario with her veil while standing next to the parrot, they learn that the name of the Boss is Doopliss. As Mario and Vivian return to Twilight Town, they guess Doopliss' name and Doopliss will flee back to the Steeple.

As Mario and Vivian confront Doopliss at Creepy Steeple, Doopliss will convince Goombella, Koops, Flurrie and the Yoshi Kid to fight Mario and Vivian. Vivian discovers she was helping Mario and does a little time to think it over. During battle, after being attacked twice by Doopliss and his own teammate, Vivian will join Mario's team for real, because he was a lot nicer than Beldam and/or Marilyn. After Mario and Vivian defeat Doopliss, Mario will be given his appearance back and Doopliss will run off in humiliation. Mario tells his team that he was a lot nicer to Vivian than Beldam and/or Marilyn. Vivian thanks Mario for defending her and gives him the Ruby Star as a token of his kindness and as a reward for ending Doopliss' reign of terror over Twilight Town. Back in Twilight Town, Beldam and Marilyn notice Vivian isn't here and they notice Doopliss running.

At the X-Naut base, Princess Peach is competing with TEC in a Quiz Show and learns the treasure behind the Thousand-Year Door is the spirit of a 1000-year-old demon!

During Bowser's event, Bowser is flying to Glitzville on his Clown Copter, but the copter malfunctions and he lands in the ocean. He goes through the underwater world. He makes it back to Rougeport when he reaches the finish line.

Back in Twilight Town, the residents discover that the Mario wreaking havoc was a fake Mario and apologizes to Mario for the misunderstanding. Mario and his team are about to head for the Thousand-Year Door, until they receive a message from Peach, saying that the treasure is the soul of a 1000-year-old demon. Mario and his team stand before the door and present their map to it. The next Star's location has been marked on the team's map and visit Prof. Frankly for details.

Chapter 5: The Key to Pirates
Mario and his teammates learn that the next Crystal Star is located in Keelhaul Key and they head for the Rogueport Inn and ask Flavio if he could take them to Keelhaul Key. He'll answer "Yes" and when you get to the dock, Flavio tells Mario and his team that they'll need Admiral Bobbery to navigate. Mario and his team head up to the east side of town and go up onto the rooftops of the town. As they reach Bobbery's house, the stubborn Bob-Omb will refuse to travel with Mario and his team. The team heads to the Inn and ask Podley why Bobbery won't travel with them. Podley will tell them Bobbery blames himself for the death of his late wife, Scarlette and will give him the letter. Mario and his team head back to Bobbery's house and give the note to Bobbery. Bobbery agrees to travel with them. As the ship takes off for Keelhaul Key, an X-Naut hides behind a stack of crates and informs a soldier that infiltration was successful-- it's probably because one of Flavio's crewmates is actually/probably/obviously Lord Crump in disguise.

As the ship travels to Keelhaul Key, Embers attack and sink the ship. The ocean washes them up on Keelhaul Key, which is exactly where Mario and the team were heading too. 3 of Flavio's crewmates were missing and after Mario and his team find them on the bridge, they'll force you to flee from the spirits. Mario and his teammates continue across the bridge and take out the Embers circling the tree Bobbery climbed up too. After getting Bobbery down from the tree. He'll ask for some Chuckola Cola. Mario will head up to a deserted island just north of Keelhaul Key to get a coconut and give Flavio a coconut you found in one of the trees and he'll give Mario the Cola. When Mario and his team give Bobbery the cola, he'll die, but hitting him with the hammer will cause him to wake up. The Admiral will then, join Mario's team.

As Mario and his team return to the campsite, Flavio will join the team for a little while. As Mario, Flavio and the team reach the entrance to the Pirate's Grotto, Mario places the Skull Gem onto the hole. As they listen to Flavio's lyrics, they hit the red stone 3 times and the blue stone 4 times, causing a hole leading to the entrance. Mario tosses Bobbery into the hole and the wall blows up, creating an entrance to the Grotto.

Mario and his teammates journey through the Grotto to find the Crystal Star. As Mario and his team trek deeper through the Grotto, they'll hear ghostly voices telling them to turn back. Could it be the ghost of the Pirate King Cortez? I'm thinking so! As they keep going, they learn a new paper ability: boat mode. As they trek through the grotto during boat mode, they manage to rescue dozens of shipwrecked Toads and they also manage to find the don's daughter, Francesca and son-in-law, Frankie. After freeing the Toads and the two Piantas, the team makes it to Cortez's lair and Cortez fights Mario and his teammates, thinking they are after his treasure. After they defeat Cortez, they'll tell him they don't want his treasure, just the Sapphire Star, although Mario and his teammates need to figure out a way to escape the island. After meeting with the Toads, they learn that one of the crewmates, namely Four-Eyes, is actually Lord Crump in disguise!

Mario, Flavio and the team enlist Cortez's help in defeating Lord Crump and the X-Nauts and Cortez will tell the team that the key component to running the Black Skull is the Skull Gem, which was stolen from Cortez by Flavio's ancestors. After the negotiations, the team gets ready to take on Lord Crump. While Cortez's ghostly minions and the stowaways deal with X-Nauts, Mario and his teammates engage into battle with Lord Crump. After they defeat the X-Nauts, Lord Crump is sent off to lick his wounds.

At the X-Naut base, TEC sends Peach into the labs to make a potion that'll make herself invisible and find out what Grodus is planning. The potion order is (from left to right): Red, Blue Orange and Green. After boiling the potion for 30 seconds, Peach drinks it and turns invisible, although she must remove her clothes to avoid getting caught. She heads into Grodus' office and gets information from a disk. TEC analyzes the information and Peach tells Mario about it.

In Twilight Town, Bowser and Kammy Koopa run into Lord Crump, who is searching for the Superbombomb and initiate a face-off between the X-Nauts and the Koopas. When Crump begins to attack the Koopas using the Superbombomb, the item is defective, but Bowser's fiery breath set it off.

Back at Keelhaul Key, Cortez ferries Mario and his teammates back to Rougeport. Mario gets an e-mail from Peach, telling them about what TEC is analyzing. Mario and his team stand before the door and present their map to it. The next Star's location has been marked on the team's map and visit Prof. Frankly for details.

Chapter 6: Three Days of Excess
Mario and his teammates learn that the next Crystal Star is located at the Poshley Sanctum in Poshley Heights and to get the tickets to the Excess Express, they must ask Don Pianta for them, only to find that he's sick and the reason is he misses his daughter. Mario and team return to Keelhaul Key via Black Skull to find them and give Francesca her missing wedding ring. After they return to Rogueport, Don wakes up and announces he's retiring and wants his daughter and son-in-law to run the business and gives Mario and his team the Train Tickets.

After they leave the Don's apartment, Beldam overhears on their conversation on where the next Crystal Star is. Only then, Mario and his team knew they must get to the Crystal Star before the Shadow Sirens do.


 * Day 1: Beginning their train voyage, Mario and his team notice a note lying on the ground telling them not to go to Poshley Heights or a sticky, yummy doom awaits it. Mario and his team had a sneaking suspicion that the Shadow Sirens might be behind it. They show the note to the conductor. Upon returning to their room, a crime is afoot-- The chef's Galley Pot is missing! Pennington, a detective thinks Mario and his team did it, but they manage to find the culprit in cabin 3, and find the Galley Pot in his drawer. Mario and his team return the pot and talk to Pennington about the note they found. Pennington will think Goldbob and his family are behind it all. Mario will go into Cabin 8 and talk to Bub, Goldbob's son, and he'll give Mario and crew a hint on what he wants for his birthday. Pennington thinks its a Gameboy Advance. Bub will give Mario and his team a second hint: it's someone's autograph. Mario and his team go into the engineer's suite to get the engineer's autograph and give it to Bub, then, Mario and his team will visit Pennington for their next assignment. The conductor will tell Mario he's one blanket short and left his in Cabin 4 and will also tell you there's a person without a ticket onboard the train, thinking the unticketed passenger may be the team's perpetrator. As the team visits Cabin 4, Vivian hides them with her Veil ability and a ghost appears and tells you he's looking for his diary, hidden in the baggage car. The ghost tells Mario and company he will give them the blanket in exchange for his ragged diary. The team does so and turn in for the night.
 * Day 2: On Day 2, Mario and his teammates visit Pennington and the Ratooey businessman's briefcase is missing and so is the waitress' shell earrings and Toodles' gold ring! The businessman will tell the team that what was in his briefcase was a formula for Nitro Honey Syrup and if the syrup was mixed together with shells and gold, the results would be explosive. Pennington thinks that the person who stole the briefcase, the shell earrings and the gold ring would be the same person who left that threatening note in Mario's room on day 1. Mario and his comrades comb the train for clues and discover a piece of paper in Cabin 1, Zip T.'s room and show the paper to Pennington and the businessman. Mario and the team return to their room and notice another paper from the businessman's briefcase. Vivian hides the team with her Veil and Zip T. comes out of hiding. The team catches him and Pennington tells Mario and company that their culprit was pretending to be Zip T. Upon reaching the Riverside Station, Mario and the team return the briefcase and the jewelry to their rightful owners, while Pennington and the conductor discover that the person pretending to be Zip T. was none other than Doopliss, who tells them he'll leave the rest of the plans to Shadow Sirens Beldam and Marilyn. While exiting the train, the bridge controller will tell Mario and the team someone lifted the drawbridge and tells Mario and his team to flip the switch and lower the drawbridge. As they enter the station, they must search for the elevator key to gain access to the basement, where the switch lies, also, they have to get the Ultra Boots. As they reach the bridge control room, they see strange black creatures guarding the switch. They fend off the creatures and flip the switch. After that, they board the train and turn in for the night.
 * Day 3: After Mario and his team wake up, they notice something strange is going on, so they visit the engineer to find out what's going on, only they notice the creatures from the Riverside Station are attacking the train! The engineer enlists Mario and the team to check on the passengers while he maintains control of the train. Mario and the team see there aren't any passengers aboard the train, so they check in the baggage car to see that the creatures have boarded the train through the window! Mario and teammates fend off the creatures to rescue the conductor and waitresss and the creatures flee through the window. Mario and his team go through the window and fight off a giant creature called a Smorg to rescue the passengers. After they defeat the Smorg, the team finally makes it to Poshley Heights and upon reaching the Sanctum, they discover that Pennington lives there-- he's the sanctum manager and reveals to the team that his detective thing was a hobby of his. Upon entering the Sanctum, they discover Beldam, Marilyn and Doopliss beat them to the Garnet Star! Pennington tells the team the star he put there was a red herring: a fake! Mario and his team manage to find the real Garnet Star hidden in the painting and return to Rogueport.

At the X-Naut HQ, an X-Naut tells Grodus Mario managed to get the real Crystal Star and tells him TEC is betraying him. TEC tells Princess Peach he has reached a conclusion to the data he analyzed: the X-Nauts plan to sacrifice her to the demon behind the Thousand-Year Door (that part is cut off while TEC talks to Peach) and also tells Peach that she's being held captive on the Moon. Peach tells Mario about it via communicator and gets captured by Grodus, who deletes TEC's memory of Peach.

During Bowser's event, Kammy tells Bowser that she's got the henchmen combing Rogueport Sewers. Bowser dashes through one of the castle courses in the first Mario Bros. game and upon reaching the finish line, he finds one of the Crystal Stars. Rawk Hawk tells Bowser and Kammy that the Great Gonzales (Mario) has the real Star and Bowser realizes he's getting nowhere on his search for Mario, Peach and the Crystal Stars.

Mario and his team return to Rogueport and receive an e-mail from Peach, but the rest is cut off due to TEC being deleted. Mario and his team stand before the door and present their map to it. The next Star's location has been marked on the team's map and visit Prof. Frankly for details.

Chapter 7: Mario Shoots the Moon
Mario and his teammates learn that the last Crystal Star is located on the Moon, which is also where Princess Peach is being held. Prof. Frankly tells the team the only way to get there was to use a cannon at Fahr Outpost. Mario and his team had to obtain an Ultra Hammer to get to Fahr Outpost.

As Mario and his team make it to Fahr Outpost, the Mayor tells them that they must get Goldbob's permission to use the cannon. The team had to return to Poshley Heights to get Goldbob's permission and had to keep saying "yes" to his questions. Mario and company are given Goldbob's permission, and the only thing they must do is search for General White and the mayor tells Mario and company he's in Petalburg.

As they get to Petalburg, they ask the koopa at the gate to Petal Meadows where the general is. He tells them that he's on a deserted island to the south. Mario and his team learn he's on Keelhaul Key and ask Pa-Patch for a clue: He's at some arena. Mario and his team head on up to Glitzville and ask the bartender where he is: he's at some huge tree. Mario and his team head for the Great Tree in Boggly Woods and ask the Puni at the gate where he is: somewhere dark. Mario and his team head to Twilight Town and ask the man at the rest house where he is.

It would seem Mario and his team had no luck searching for the general, until they found him back at Fahr Outpost, sleeping at his house. They manage to wake up the general and tell the mayor they found him. Mario will be led to the cannon and will be blasted into space! As they reach the moon, they manage to find a warp pipe leading to the X-Naut HQ and they manage to fight off two Elite X-Nauts at the front gate. After taking out the X-Nauts, they had to go through many difficult tasks to get to the Crystal Star, like going through electric floors to retrieve items, compete in another Super-Fun Quirk Quiz and even play a crane game after Mario and his team found a cog in the Teleportation room. After getting the keys to the elevators and the card keys to the factory, Mario and his team seem to be ready to face the boss: Magnus Von Grapple 2.0, an upgraded version of Magnus Von Grapple and is a lot tougher than the Magnus Von Grapple Mario and his team battled back at the Great Tree. After Mario and his team defeat Magnus, it will explode, shooting Lord Crump into space. Mario and his team will earn the final Crystal Star.

During Bowser's event, Bowser will arrive at Poshley Heights, searching for one of the Crystal Stars. After he and Kammy break into the Poshley Sanctum, they manage to get one of the Crystal Stars, only Pennington tells them it is a red herring. A Paragoomba will fly into the Sanctum and inform Bowser Mario is heading for the Thousand-Year Door. Because of what the Paragoomba told them, Bowser and Kammy are determined to get their hands/claws on the treasure.

Back at the X-Naut Fortress, Mario and his team notice the doors are locked and they can't get out, so they go to the computer room on Sublevel 4. There, they meet TEC. TEC is running on a backup generator after Grodus deleted his memory and he will tell them Peach was taken to the Palace of Shadow and will start to go haywire. He will unlock the teleportation room on Sublevel 2. After Mario and his team escape the fortress, the fortress will be destroyed.

Chapter 8: The Thousand-Year Door
Now that you have received all 7 Crystal Stars, the time has come to open the Thousand-Year Door and enter the Palace of Shadow to rescue Princess Peach from Grodus.

Chapter 9: The Pit of 100 Trials
If you wish, you can take on the enemies found in the 100 basement floor area known as the Pit of 100 Trials. The enemy located on Level 100 is Bonetail.

Goombella
A female goomba who studied at Goom U. She joins Mario's team after Mario defeats Lord Crump. She has the same ability to uncover an enemy's stats, like Goombario has.

Attacks
 * Headbonk (0 FP)
 * Tattle (0 FP)
 * Multi-bonk (3 FP)
 * Rally Wink (0 FP)

Koops
A timid koopa who lives in Petalburg. To prove to Petalburg he is not a coward, he joins Mario's team to avenge his dad, Koopley's death. He has the same ability Kooper has outside of battle, using his shell toss move to flip switches, grab items and attack enemies.

Attacks
 * Shell Toss (0 FP)
 * Power Shell (3 FP)
 * Shell Shield (4 FP)
 * Shell Slam (6 FP)

Madam Flurrie
She can blow wind at enemies to make them dizzy and blow fake walls away, revealing secret passages. She also dreams of becoming an actress.

Attacks
 * Body Slam (0 FP)
 * Gale Force (4 FP)
 * Lip Lock (3 FP)
 * Dodgy Fog (4 FP)

Yoshi Kid
Call him by any name you wish and people will call him by that name. Press X to ride on his back like most yoshis and hit A to fly briefly over places that have no solid ground, which is the same ability Parakarry possesses in Paper Mario.

Attacks
 * Ground Pound (0 FP)
 * Gulp (4 PF)
 * Mini-Egg (3 PF)
 * Stampede (6 FP)

Vivian
One of the Shadow Sirens. At first, worked for Grodus, but joined Mario's team to help Mario get his name, appearance and teammates back, because Mario treated her a lot nicer than Beldam and/or Marilyn. She can hide Mario from enemy attacks, in which that is the same ability Lady Bow has.

Attacks
 * Shade Fist (0 FP)
 * Veil (1 FP)
 * Fiery Jinx (6 FP)
 * Infatuate (4 HP)

Admiral Bobbery
A retired admiral who refused to help Mario at Keelhaul Key, but decided to help him after Mario gave him his late wife's letter. After Mario saves him from Cortez's underlings and gives him Chuckola Cola, he joins Mario's team. He has the same ability Bombette has outside of battle: with his bomb attack, he can destroy fake walls, flip switches and attack enemies.

Attacks
 * Bomb (0 FP)
 * Bomb Squad (3 FP)
 * Hold Fast (4 FP)
 * Bob-Ombast (9 FP)

Ms. Mowz
A cat burglar/badge hunter and the assistant shopkeeper at the Lovely Howz of Badges. Mario and his teammates encounter her at Hooktail Castle, the Great Boggly Tree, and the Glitz Pit Storeroom. She joins Mario's team after Mario gets the Attack FX B badge in Hooktail's lair and gives it to Ms. Mowz. She can also seek out hidden items and penetrate enemy's defenses like Watt does.

Attacks


 * Slap (0 FP)
 * Kiss Thief (2 FP)
 * Tease (3 FP)
 * Smooch (10 FP)

Diamond Star
The first Crystal Star that Koopley, Koops' father found in Hooktail's belly. This Crystal Star will teach you the move "Earth Tremor".

Emerald Star
The second Crystal Star that was found in The Great Tree. Stolen by Lord Crump, but given to Mario by the Puni Elder after driving the X-Nauts out of the tree. This Crystal Star will teach you the move "Clock Out".

Gold Star
The third Crystal Star. It was used to power Grubba's Strengthening Machine to turn him into Macho Grubba. Was given to Mario by Jolene after defeating Macho Grubba and reuniting her with Prince Mush. This Crystal Star will teach you the move "Power Lift".

Ruby Star
The fourth Crystal Star that Doopliss holds. Was given to Mario after Shadow Siren Vivian joined his team to help him get his name, appearance and teammates back. This Crystal Star will teach you the move "Art Attack".

Sapphire Star
The fifth Crystal Star found in the Pirate's Grotto. Cortez gives this Crystal Star to Mario when Mario tells Cortez he is not interested in his treasure. This Crystal Star will teach you the move "Sweet Feast".

Garnet Star
The sixth Crystal Star found at Detective Pennington's home, the Poshley Sanctum. This was hidden in the painting at the Sanctum while a red herring, a fake one, was put out in the open to fool the Shadow Sirens, King Bowser and Kammy Koopa (only Bowser and Kammy weren't fooled-- Pennington told them the Crystal Star they grabbed was a red herring). This Crystal Star will teach you the move "Showstoppers".

Crystal Star
The final Crystal Star found in X-Naut HQ and is guarded by Lord Crump and the new and improved Magnus Von Grapple robot Magnus 2.0. This Crystal Star will teach you the move "Supernova".

Lord Crump
A high-ranking X-Naut that is second-in-command of the X-Naut Legion.

Stats:


 * Rogueport Battle: HP: 6, Attack: 1, Defense: 0
 * Keelhaul Key Battle: HP: 30, Attack: 5, Defense: 0

Hooktail
A dragon that's been terrorizing Petalburg and eating many of its residents who came to her castle to slay her, like Professor Kolorado's dad and Koops' dad. When Mario, Goombella and Koops came to her castle to obtain the first Crystal Star, the Diamond Star, they learned she got food poisoning from something that starts with cr- and ends with -icket. They learned her weakness was the sound of a cricket's chirp. Upon reaching the tower, they slayed her and freed Koops' dad, who was swallowed whole and obtained the Crystal Star, which Koops' dad found in her stomach. She has two older brothers named Bonetail and Gloomtail. Bonetail resides in the bottom floor of the Pit of 100 Trials and Gloomtail guards a key in the Palace of Shadow.

Stats: HP: 20, Attack: 5, Defense: 0

Three Shadow Sirens
Three shadow-like witches whose names are Beldam, Marilyn, and Vivian. They aid the X-Naut Legion on their hunt for the Crystal Stars. After Vivian joined Mario's team, Doopliss the Duplighost took her place.

Stats:

-Beldam: HP: 9, Attack: 1, Defense: 0 -Marilyn: HP: 12, Attack: 2, Defense: 0 -Vivian: HP: 10, Attack: 1, Defense: 0
 * Boggly Woods Battle:

-Beldam: HP: 30, Attack: 5, Defense: 0 -Marilyn: HP: 40, Attack: 7, Defense: 0 -Doopliss: HP: 40, Attack: 7, Defense: 0
 * Palace of Shadow Battle:

Magnus Von Grapple
A giant robot controlled by Lord Crump.

It first appears in Chapter 2: The Great Boggly Tree. When Lord Crump steals the Emerald Star and activates a 5:00 self-destruct mechanism, Mario and his teammates must catch up to him before the Great Tree detonates. The minute Mario and his teammates catch up to Crump, Crump deactivates the detonator and summons Magnus Von Grapple to attack. After Mario and his comrades defeats Magnus, Lord Crump and the X-Nauts are driven out of the tree.

Magnus Von Grapple appears again as Magnus 2.0 at the X-Naut Headquarters in Chapter 7: Mario Shoots The Moon, in which Lord Crump was assigned by Grodus to guard the Crystal Star. Magnus 2.0 is pretty tough than the Magnus Von Grapple you faced at the Great Tree. You must be careful of its "Audience Blaster attack", in which Crump kidnaps the audience members and shoots them at Mario and his team, doing a whole lot of damage to them. After the robot is defeated, it will explode, shooting Lord Crump into space.

Stats:
 * Great Tree Battle (Chapter 2: vs. Regular Version) -HP: 30, Attack: 2, Defense: 1


 * X-Naut HQ Battle (Chapter 7: vs. Magnus 2.0) -HP: 70, Attack: 6, Defense: 2

Macho Grubba
Grubba is the manager of the Glitz Pit. When Mario (aka the Great Gonzalez!) and his team learn from a mysterious person named X that Grubba has been making the fighters disappear, Mario and company must follow all the clues if he is going to get to the Gold Star, especially if that meant fighting Grubba's alter ego, MACHO GRUBBA!! After they defeat Grubba, Jolene confesses to Mario and his team that she was their X buddy and upon Grubba's defeat, Prince Mush, Jolene's younger brother comes out of the machine unharmed. Mario is given the Crystal Star as a reward for defeating Grubba.

Stats: HP: 60, Attack: 4, Defense: 0

Doopliss
A duplighost who's been causing trouble at Twilight Town, turning the residents into pigs and stealing Mario's identity and teammates, leaving Mario his shadow. To defeat Doopliss, you must find the Superbombomb and give it to Shadow Siren Vivian. Vivian will join your team and help you get your identity and teammates back and to do that, you must do what the characters did in Rumpelstiltskin: guess Doopliss' name. The only thing Mario and Vivian were missing was the lower-case letter P. The letter P was hidden somewhere in Creepy Steeple. After Mario and Vivian guess Doopliss' name, Doopliss flees back to Creepy Steeple. When Mario and Vivian fight Doopliss at Creepy Steeple, Vivian discovers she was helping Mario and does a little time to think it over. She joins the team for real, because Mario treated her a lot nicer than Beldam and/or Marilyn. After they defeat Doopliss, Mario gets his identity and friends back and gets the Ruby Star. Doopliss runs of in humiliation and joins forces with the Shadow Sirens for revenge. He becomes a lot nicer at the end of the game and pursues a career in acting alongside Flurrie.

Stats:


 * Creepy Steeple Battle: HP: 40, Attack: 4, Defense: 0
 * Palace of Shadow Battle: HP: 40, Attack: 7, Defense: 0

Cortez
The holder of the fifth Crystal Star. He is a very old pirate who once sailed the seas in the marauding Black Skull. He thinks Mario is after his treasure and fights him. After he is defeated, Mario will tell him he's not interested in hie treasure, just the Sapphire Star. After getting the Crystal Star, Lord Crump and the X-Nauts will attack Keelhaul Key. Your only option: ask Cortez if he can lend you his ship, and give Cortez the Skull Gem, which Flavio's ancestors stole from him. After you defeat Lord Crump, Cortez will give you lifts to Keelhaul Key and back to Rogueport.

Stats: HP: 20, Attack: 4, Defense: 1

Smorg
This boss doesn't hold a Crystal Star, but it attacks the Excess Express during the trek to Poshley Heights. This monster is made up of smaller smorgs, disc-like creatures with yellow eyes. They were first seen at the Riverside Station, where they lift the drawbridge, trying to stop Mario and his comrades from reaching the Garnet Star at the Poshley Sanctum (It's obvious they're working for the Shadow Sirens-- they were ordered to stop the train from going far after the Honey Syrup Bomb plan failed). Later on, they stow away onto the train and kidnap the passengers and make the train go out of control. Mario and his teammates fight the tribe on top of the train and free the passengers.

Stats:


 * Smorg: HP: 50, Attack: 5 (Miasma Strike), 10 (Miasma Pinch), Defense: 1


 * Smorg Miasma: HP: 4 (Miasma Strike), 6 (Miasma Pinch), Attack: 5 (Miasma Strike), 10 (Miasma Pinch), Defense: 1

Gloomtail
Gloomtail is the older brother of Hooktail and the younger brother of Bonetail. After Mario slays Hooktail to get the first Crystal Star, he wants revenge for the death of his sister. He is seen at the Palace of Shadow, guarding a key to Grodus' lair.

-Stats: HP: 80, Attack: 8, Defense: 2

Bonetail
Bonetail is a large Dragon, living at the bottom of the Pit of 100 Trials.

He is the oldest member of the "tail" family, older than both Gloomtail and Hooktail. As his name implies, he is merely a skeleton of a Dragon, implying that he has been living far longer than the other members of the family. He was once a minion of Shadow Queen, but has apparently stopped serving her. Any actions outside of the Pit of 100 Trials, if any, are unknown.

-Stats: HP: 200, Attack: 8, Defense: 2

Grodus
He is the supreme leader of the extraterrestrial organization called the X-Naut Legion. He kidnaps Princess Peach and he wishes to capture all of the Crystal Stars before Mario does to unleash the spirit of the 1,000-year-old demon known as the Shadow Queen. His base is located on the Moon.

Stats:
 * Grodus: HP: 50, Attack: 7, Defense: 1
 * Grodus X: HP: 3, Attack: 4, Defense: 0

King Bowser and Kammy Koopa
King Bowser is Mario's arch enemy of them all and Kammy is Bowser's right-hand Magikoopa. After Kammy told Bowser Grodus abducted Princess Peach (even though the Magikoopas don't know who it was that kidnapped her), Bowser went to Rogueport to kidnap her back. Bowser first fought Mario at the Glitz Pit and he and Kammy fight Mario again in the Palace of Shadow.

Stats: -Glitz Pit Battle: HP: 30, Attack: 3, Defense: 1 -Palace of Shadow Battle: HP: 70, Attack: 7, Defense: 2
 * Bowser


 * Kammy Koopa: HP: 50, Attack: 5, Defense: 0

Shadow Queen
The 1,000-year-old demon who lives behind the Thousand-Year Door. Was sealed by the Crystal Stars and released by Sir Grodus.

Stats: HP: 150, Attack: 7, Defense: 0