Beady-eyed star-like creatures were gathered in a large bedroom. Lumas they were called.
A handful of guests had joined them; two Italian plumber brothers named Mario and Luigi, two princesses named Peach and Daisy, two friendly dinosaurs named Yoshi and Birdo, a fungus brother and sister duo named Toad and Toadette, two brown simians named Donkey Kong (a gorilla) and Diddy Kong (a monkey), and a pair of troublemaking Italian men named Wario and Waluigi.
In a chair at the front of the room, with a book in her hands, was a beautiful, otherworldly princess-like figure. Her hair was platinum blonde, with a large bang covering the right eye. Her visible left eye was blue, sparking like a gem. Her light skin was smooth and her lips were full. A silver crown stood atop her head, golden star-like earrings hung from each ear, a gold and silver star brooch laid upon her chest, and a long turquoise gown covered her tall and slender frame. Her name was Rosalina; queen, guardian, and adoptive mother of the Lumas.
Mario, Luigi, Peach, Daisy, Yoshi, Birdo, Toad, Toadette, Donkey Kong, Diddy Kong, Wario, and Waluigi were all friends of Rosalina's, whom she had invited for an overnight visit. It was the Luma's typical storytime before bed, and Rosalina's friends were about to reexperience a part of their childhood… well, except for two.
Not taking the indirectly aforementioned two into account, Rosalina opened her book and read aloud, "Once upon a time, in a faraway land, a young Prince lived in a shining castle. Although he had everything his heart desired, the Prince was spoiled, selfish, and unkind. But then, one winter's night, an old beggar woman came to the castle and offered him a single rose in return for shelter from the bitter cold. Repulsed by her haggard appearance, the Prince sneered at the gift, and turned the old woman away. But she warned him not to be deceived by appearances, for Beauty is found within. And when he dismissed her again, the old woman's ugliness melted away to reveal a beautiful Enchantress. The Prince tried to apologize, but it was too late, for she had seen that there was no love in his heart. And as punishment, she transformed him into a hideous beast, and placed a powerful spell on the castle, and all who lived there. Ashamed of his monstrous form, the beast concealed himself inside his castle, with a magic mirror as his only window to the outside world. The Rose she had offered, was truly an enchanted rose, which would bloom until his twenty-first year. If he could learn to love another, and earn her love in return by the time the last petal fell, then the spell would be broken. If not, he would be doomed to remain a beast for all time. As the years passed, he fell into despair, and lost all hope, for who could ever learn to love... A Beast?"
"BORING!" Wario heckled.
"Not to mention lame!" Waluigi added. "As the stupid book said, who could love a beast?"
"Hey, don't insult Mama's story!" a golden Luma chastised.
"Yeah, why do you guys always have to ruin everything?!" Daisy complained.
"Well I thought perhaps she could have read a more interesting story that's-a more suitable for us adults, instead of this kiddish fairytale garbage," Wario explained.
"Hey Wario, in case you forgot, one of us guests here is still a kid!" Diddy Kong reminded Wario, indirectly referring to himself.
"And with all due respect, Wario, and Waluigi, all my Lumas here are children too," Rosalina kindly told Wario and Waluigi. "You are both being very inconsiderate of that."
"Pfft, wah, considerate schmiderate," Waluigi mocked. "Maybe you've got-a separation anxiety after your family died all those centuries ago and never outgrew your bunny dolls and story books, but-a Wario and I have already lived our childhood and we don't need to do it again."
"DK like reliving his childhood," Donkey Kong fondly said.
"Oh shut up you pathetic ape!" Wario insulted DK. "It's-a no wonder you got dumped on your grandparents!"
"DK was a baby!" Donkey Kong argued. "DK's dad went missing after going off to war!"
"And hey, Wario, you were-a raised by a stork," Mario recalled. "Any recollection of how that happened, hmmm?"
"Let me just say something, I would have much preferred to raise a Baby DK over a Baby Wario in a hypothetical situation," Peach sassily chimed in. "You can imagine why, Wario."
"Shut up, fruit head!" Wario growled.
"I'll bet even your real mother was scared of you," Luigi teased.
"And you're one to talk, Loserigi?" Waluigi interjected. "I still-a remember that time when you got scared of that cute little Waddle Dee!"
Wario and Waluigi laughed, and Daisy insulted them, saying, "And you think you guys are tougher than him?! What about that time at the Mario Party 3 after party when I took both of you out in a martial arts fight and left you hanging by your pants on the top flag pole of Peach's Castle! WIMPS!"
The whole room went silent as Wario and Waluigi gasped with embarrassed expression on their faces.
"Guys, come on, the Mario Party gatherings are supposed to be about FRIENDSHIP, so can't we all just be friends here too?" Toadette implored.
"I'm afraid not!" Waluigi objected, crossing his arms and sticking his nose in the air.
"Toadette, you and I can be secret friends, like we've been since Mario Party 6, but the rest of these people are ignorant losers!" Wario ranted. Standing up, he said, "Come on, Waluigi! Let's-a get out of here!"
As Wario and Waluigi headed for the door, Wario whispered something in Waluigi's ear, and then Waluigi exited before him. Then Wario turned around and said, "So long, losers! Don't let the gas hit you on the way out!"
Wario then arched his fat butt and let out a loud, gassy fart that stunk up the whole room, much to the displeasure of everyone else as he and Waluigi departed, laughing hysterically and mocking them.
"Ugh, I KNEW this would happen!" Daisy groaned, covering her nose and mouth. She then took out a small can of air freshener and said, "It's a good thing I've always got a mini pack of floral scented febreze handy… when Wario's around."
Daisy then sprayed the air with her febreze until the gas and stink from Wario's flatulence were gone.
"And can someone get me some Pepto Bismol?" Toad asked, trying so hard to hold back vomit. "Wario's gross antics always make me queasy."
Remembering this reaction Toad had from previous experiences, Peach took out two chewable Pepto pills and handed them to Toad, saying, "I've got some for you. Here you go, sweetie."
"Thanks Peach, I'm really glad to serve a princess like you," Toad replied, opening the pills from their mini bags and putting them in his mouth to chew them.
"Oh, you're quite welcome Toad, anytime," Peach said. She then gave him a small kiss on his mushroom cap, which made him feel a bit smitten and Mario internally jealous.
"I like Wario, but he AND Waluigi can be really difficult sometimes," Toadette lamented.
"I never liked either of those guys, especially Wario!" Birdo complained. "What shameful behavior the two of them have demonstrated tonight! Why we keep inviting them to our events and competitions is beyond me. And I still remember when Wario took the Peaceful Woods from those poor sprites. Toad, I am so glad I was there to help you take them back."
"I always appreciate a little help from my friends," Toad answered, sentimentally.
"I still remember when Waluigi bullied me at the Mario Party 5 after party," Yoshi sadly recalled.
"Then DK punched Waluigi out," Donkey Kong cheekily added.
Smiling, Yoshi said, "Oh Donkey Kong, I know Diddy Kong's your best friend, nephew, and partner in a lot of our sports competitions and stuff like that, but I really missed having you as my default partner in the Mario Party games since Mario Party 4."
Patting a huge hand on Yoshi's nose, Donkey Kong told him, "DK miss Yoshi too."
"I'm still your best friend though, right?" Diddy Kong asked Donkey Kong, hugging him.
"Yes, DK always love Diddy, Diddy's always DK's best friend," Donkey Kong replied, wrapping a huge, muscular arm around his little buddy.
"Yoshi, for our next date, maybe we can schedule a hangout with DK and Diddy," Bird suggested. "I think that would be lots of fun."
"Everyone, listen," Rosalina spoke up, catching everyone's attention. Smiling cheekily, she said, "I have a funny spinoff of my story coming up."
"YAY, MORE STORY TIME!" a blue Luma beamed.
"And those mean men can't ruin it this time!" a red Luma added.
"I wanna hear the funny parts, I love laughing!" a green Luma anticipated.
Giggling, Rosalina said, "Then I think you'll all love this."
Meanwhile, Wario and Waluigi were outside, walking around the Comet Observatory when the two of them spotted a purple launch star.
"Hey Waluigi, look at this," Wario commented. "It's-a one of those launch star things from-a Super Mario Galaxy, but a different color."
"Maybe we could test this thing out," Waluigi suggested.
"Don't be a fool, you don't know where that thing goes!" Wario argued.
"Oh shut up, it can't be that bad!" Waluigi retorted.
"Okay fine, let me test it out first," Wario said.
"No, let ME, I suggested it first," Waluigi objected.
"Yeah, well I SPOTTED it first, moron, so MOVE IT!" Wario growled, pushing Waluigi aside as he approached the launch star.
Before Wario could even touch the launch star, Waluigi ran and shoved his tall and skinny self into Wario's heavyset body, shouting, "YOU MOVE IT!"
This turned into a brawl as both Wario and Waluigi started pushing, shoving, and wrestling each other, constantly growling the words, "Move it! No, you move it! YOU move it! No, move it!"
"I LIKE TO MOVE IT MOVE IT, I LIKE TO MOVE IT MOVE IT, YOU LIKE TO… MOVE IT!" King Julien's rendition of "I Like to Move It," from Madagascar, began spontaneously playing in the background amidst Wario and Waluigi's fight, stopping them both.
"Where's that stupid song coming from?!" Wario snapped.
Suddenly, he and Waluigi began floating off the ground, and Waluigi panicked, "Wario, what's-a happening to us!"
Both men squirmed as they levitated, against their will, into the launch star. Once they were both in, waist deep, the star began spinning them around at hyper speed, emitting dizzy shouts of, "WAH, WAH, WAH, WAH, WAH, WAH, WAH!"
The star stopped for a split second, then BOOM! It launched Wario and Waluigi straight into the air, in a rapid, upward diagonal direction.
"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Wario and Waluigi perpetually screamed in unison as they flew.
The music played on, and their screaming continued until they both went through a glowing white wormhole. A wormhole leading to a time period that would make a spectacle out of both of them.
***Additional Notes***
1. I originally intended to have only the twelve characters from Mario Party: Star Rush (Mario, Luigi, Peach, Daisy, Wario, Waluigi, Yoshi, Toad, Toadette, Rosalina, DK, and Diddy) present, along with the Lumas, because I thought it would be a nice mix of characters. Then I decided to add Birdo to give Yoshi his default partner from Mario Party 7 through 9 and thus even out the number of Rosalina's guest. Just an odd quirk I had, lol :P
2. The excerpt of "Beauty and the Beast" that Rosalina read was the prologue from Disney's 1991 animated version.
3. Some references to canon (including some of my own head canon) were made during the squabble with Wario and Waluigi. Wario's taunting of Donkey Kong ending up in his grandparents care while his father went missing, and DK's argument about it, was a reference to my Donkey Kong/Lion King crossover, "Kongs in the Pridelands." Mario's recollection of Wario being raised by a stork was a reference to an ending cutscene of Yoshi's Island DS, in which all the babies were returned to their homes except for Wario, who was seen on a raft with a stork. In my own head canon, Baby Wario had been abandoned before his kidnapping, and the stork adopted him as her own son. I made the stork a female, and an Italian stork, to humorously flow along with one of the Mario Power Tennis Bloopers, in which Wario's cell phone goes off while he is lifting weights, and then he picks up, saying, "Hello? Ma, I told you not to call me!" Waluigi's mention of Luigi getting scared of a Waddle Dee was a reference to a clip from Super Smash Bros Brawl's Subspace Emissary, in which Luigi cowered at a Waddle Dee passing by him, and then King Dedede snuck up from behind and struck him into the air with large wooden hammer to turn him into a trophy. Daisy's comeback reference, standing up for Luigi, of taking Wario and Waluigi out in a fight in the Mario Party 3 after party was purely made up by me. It was inspired by this one clip in Story Mode, in which she got so alarmed at Bowser's up close presence that she punched him into the sky. Wario's reference to himself and Toadette being secret friends since Mario Party 6 was a reference to the team name, "Secret Friends," that they had in that game (I find it believable, given Wario's friendship with small female characters such as Kat and Ana in the WarioWare games).
4. I would now like to discuss a couple of references that were made after Wario and Waluigi left. Birdo's memories of helping Toad take the Peaceful Woods back from Wario was a reference to an old Nintendo game, "Wario's Woods." Yoshi's recollection of Waluigi bullying him in the Mario Party 5 after party was inspired by their team name, "Unhappy Dino." Donkey Kong standing up for Yoshi and punching Waluigi was inspired by some moments in Mario Party 5 when DK would appear and punch Bowser to defend players if his space was nearby and in Story Mode when he punched any Koopa Kid that landed on his space and took half their coins (while giving coins to the chosen character when he/she landed on his space). In Mario Party 3 and 4, Yoshi and Donkey Kong were default partners (due to the pairings of Mario and Luigi, Peach and Daisy, and Wario and Waluigi), until Donkey Kong's role was changed from playable character to space host/helper (the opposite role of Bowser) from Mario Party 5 to Mario Party 8 (he was a board host in Mario Party 9 and returned as a playable character in Mario Party 10).
5. As I wrote about Wario and Waluigi fighting over the launch star, telling each other to "move it," it made me think of a Mushroom Kingdom Hearts video clip in which Sora and Donald had a similar confrontation with one of the Chinese soldiers in Mulan's world, and then King Julien's version of "I Like to Move It" started playing as everyone jumped into the fight. I thought incorporating this inspiration would be funny, so I figured, "Why not?"
