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After being showed around Arcade City, Sonia then pulled out her wetsuit, which is what she wore as beach attire. It was her way of preventing sunburns, as she claims. She left that out and laid it on the bed in her new home in Arcade City.

Suddenly, Sonia felt a tremor outside her house. Curious, she walks outside to see a pipe sticking out of the ground. She took a look inside and smelled seawater. She rushed back inside and changed into her wetsuit, keeping her original outfit in a bag she was carrying. She kept her shoes on and went inside.

Sonia came out of the pipe and landed in a beachside area. Luckily she kept her pager with her, yet it was in her bag with her clothes. She began looking around for anyone.

Roxy led the group to the next group, which was a coastline of an abandoned seaside town.

Sonia spotted the group a stone's throw away from her. She waved to get their attention.

Daisy was the first to spot the wetsuit-clad newcomer.

"Heya!" She called to her as she waved back at her. "Over here!"

Sonia spotted Daisy and her first reaction was to walk over to her, but hesitant at first. She pointed to Peach and asked, "Is she alright?"

"She passed out from exhaustion, I'm assuming," Jackie told to Sonia.

"Thank goodness. I thought for a second she was dead." Sonia sighed in relief as she placed a hand on her chest. "I forgot to introduce myself it seems. I'm Princess Sonia Nevermind of Novoselic. But call me Sonia."

"Ehh, she'll wake up in a bit," Daisy told her. "I'm Princess Daisy of Sarasaland, by the way!"

"I'm Princess Roxy of the Technopunk Kingdom," Roxy chimed in.

"Jackie. Jackie the Chipmunk," Jackie stated as she bowed respectively.

"Cassidy Mario," Cassidy introduced with a respectful tip of her cap.

"And I'm Toadette!" Toadette chimed in.

"How nice to meet you all!" Sonia chirped with a smile.

"So..." said Daisy. "Me and the girls here are on a quest to retrieve some magical golden coins before some evil villain does. Care to come with?"

"I would love to, but I don't know how to defend myself, unfortunately," Sonia replied, her smile fading into a frown. "I'll come, so please don't think of me as a burden."

"Fair enough," Daisy commented with a shrug as she glanced at the ocean. "Now then... how to go down there..."

Then, Daisy took a look at a nearby item box.

"... I wonder..." She wondered as she continued to stare at it with hope.

Daisy gently placed Peach on the ground and took a run to the block, hitting it and making another peculiar mushroom come out. It had a scallop shell as the shape of the top of it. Then, Daisy touched the shroom and transformed into a mermaid. She now had a long, gold-colored mermaid tail, coupled with a golden, scale-covered bra.

"Cool!" She commented. "Just like in the beta!"

Cassidy, Toadette, and Jackie each hit an item block and found a scallop mushroom, touching them and turning into mermaids.

Cassidy had a hot pink scale-covered bra and a teal colored tail.

Toadette had a red scale-covered top with a light pink tail.

Jackie had a black scale-covered top with a teal tail.

"Am I to, do that, or am I fine as is?" Sonia asked as she began to explain the wetsuit's purpose was to prevent sunburns.

"Well... unless you want to drown..." Daisy replied as she squinted her eyes.

Roxy then got a mermaid mushroom, gaining a bright silver tail encrusted with bright, dazzling rhinestones and diamonds, with a platinum scaly top, encrusted with purple rhinestones.

"Sweet!" She cheered, admiring her new look. "I'm a stylin' mermaid!"

"I'd like to keep my legs, thank you," Sonia replied, having an anime sweatdrop on her forehead. She then noticed an item block within reach. Should I?

Sonia glanced up at the item block in curiosity. She debated to herself whether she should grab it or not.

The princess sighed. If it was the only way, then she thought she didn't have the choice. She reached up to touch the item block, as it was narrowly within reach, as she was only 5'8, she barely reached it.

As all of this was happening, Peach groaned softly as she slowly opened her eyes, waking up and fully regaining her consciousness.

"Oooooohhh... where am I?" She asked.

"Oh, hey, Peachy!" Daisy greeted gently. "We're about to go underwater to search for the next coin! There's mermaid mushrooms over there!"

Peach slowly got up and went over to the block and hit it, giving herself the mermaid mushroom. She transformed into having a pink tail with a matching tail, diving into the water.

Rosalina looked at the Mushroom. She didn't believe she liked what it turned one into, but it seemed they would need it. She leapt up, taking hold of one. She gasped as immediately she began to transform, her gown becoming a long and teal colored tail speckled with white and gold scales over the teal. Her crown became a wreath of seaweed and pearls appeared in he hair as decorations, hung on strands of kelp. She covered her chest immediately with a gasp, pale. She looked down and almost panicked. Nothing! Immediately she dove into the water and soon came back up with two shells she had fashioned into a cover, but she was still pale and blushing in humiliation. She despised being in this state of undress. It made her feel terrified and vulnerable. Her skin was white and pale and free of flaw, but that was probably because of her position as Queen of the Cosmos... and her parentage...

Sonia gasped at what happened to Rosalina. Maybe this was a bad idea after all, she nagged to herself. Nevertheless, she touched the Mushroom curiously with her foot, and braced herself for what would happen. Strangely, nothing happened. She still had her wetsuit on her, which puzzled her.

"Uh, was something supposed to happen?" Sonia asked.

"Give it a minute," Daisy replied to Sonia, "It'll kick in."

Cassidy, Toadette, and Jackie dived into the water with Rosalina.

"Are you okay, Rosie?" Toadette asked her.

Rosalina glared sharply at Daisy, warning her silently off. "The world could do with more modesty- wait! You have a brother, Daisy?"

"You have a brother?" Sonia asked Daisy. She must be a rare case if the tail hadn't have formed yet. So she went into the water and prayed she'd not get a tail. After seeing what happened to Rosalina, she'd rather keep her legs at this point.

"Yeah I do..." Daisy replied, "He's kind of a doofus, though. He's all precarious, and shy, and overly-protective of himself, and doesn't really approve of my lifestyle at all... that, and he doesn't want to partake."

As soon as Sonia was in the water, a strange feeling overcame her. When she went down to feel her legs, a tail was there instead, which really freaked her out. Instead, a black tail was where her legs should be.

"I-is this temporary?" She asked in a panicked tone.

"It is until you get hit by an enemy," Daisy replied, trying to reassure Sonia.

"So, gals!" said Roxy, diving in next and doing an Ariel hair flip when she resurfaced, "We gonna go get us a coin or what?"

"YEAH!" The girls answered as they raised a fist in the air.

"Right then!" said Roxy excitedly. "C'mon, girls!"

Then, the girls took off into the ocean and began their underwater journey.

"So, why do we need to get the coins exactly?" Sonia asked.

"Well, see..." Roxy began as she started to explain. "Basically, these coins can be used to unlock this power that has the capability to destroy an entire kingdom, much like mine, or Daisy's, or Peach's, or even Rosalina's! But, here's the hitch; the coins' powers are only accessable to those who are of royal blood. That's why we're trying to get them first. Because we're princesses! Plus three."

Sonia raised her eyebrow at Roxy. "Are you sure... you don't have any grudges against people? Seeing that as your reason just doesn't sit well with me." She thought there would be more to it. But hey, whatever worked for her, as long as she got her legs back.

"Well, we don't want to use that particular power of it, if any," Roxy followed-up. "We just want to keep them out of the hands of this as of yet unnamed bad guy."

"So, that's why," Sonia replied as she nodded. "If there was a more noble cause, then that I'd do it, but this is what I've got to go on, so I might as well provide whatever help I can."

"I suppose any help you can provide is fine," Roxy commented as she glanced down at her lovely mermaid tailfin. "Now then... how to get used to this large-assed mermaid tail."

She tried swimming on the surface, but had a little bit of difficulty because of how she had to swim.

"Jeez, this is harder than it looks!" She groaned as she struggled to swim properly. "How does Ariel make it look so easy?"

"I don't know if her name rings any bells, but I was hoping you could... teach me something so I can protect myself?" Sonia asked her, eyes filled with hope.

"Huh?" Roxy gawked as she faced Sonia. "Oh, I dunno. Don't you have any offensive abilitys at all?" Christ! How can something like this be so hard!? Was in her thoughts as she still had a hard time with her tail.

"None that I can speak of, Roxy," Sonia replied as she shook her head.

"Well, that kinda sucks..." Roxy sighed as she began to ask her anything of the following: "...You've at least gotten in a fight once before in your life, right? Even once? Even if it was with a schoolyard bully?"

"I'm afraid not..." Sonia sighed. Her life seemed sheltered compared to the other girls here, which came close to being an escort.

"Goddammit!" Roxy cussed out loud. "... Well, shit... well, I guess me and the girls gotta look out for you from now on. now, enough of that..."

She then pulled her tailfin up to her face, then said, "Tailfin... work with me, will ya?"

Peach swam up to Sonia and put a hand on her shoulder comfortingly.

"Don't worry, you'll fight someone someday," Peach reassured.

"But that's the thing. I don't take kindly to violence as it goes against everything I hold near and dear," Sonia retorted.

"...Okay..." Roxy commented. "How's this sound? Once we get the chance, we'll teach you how to fight, okay? Until then, we protect you. Sound good?"

Sonia looked at her new tail in more detail and nodded in response. From what she could tell, the wetsuit in itself morphed around her feet and shins to form a tail. Luckily, since her tail wasn't weighed down by any scales, it would be easy for her to maneuver in the water.

"How old is he?" Rosalina questioned to Daisy.

"My brother? Only a little younger than me. Like... 25 or so." Daisy recalled upon remembering her brother.

"Um, miss? I don't know if we've exchanged formalities," Sonia spoke up to Rosalina.

Rosalina turned to Sonia curiously and smiled. "I am Rosalina, Queen of the Cosmos," she replied. "Might I ask who you are and where you come from?"

"Sonia Nevermind of Novoselic," Sonia replied with a warm smile.

Meanwhile, Jackie was conversing with Cassidy on how she would consider her mermaid powerup to be normal.

"I don't know why you consider shit like this to be normal, Cassidy," Jackie commented as she glanced down at her mermaid tail.

"Because where I come from, there are clouds that have eyes, plus all this crazy stuff happening in Arcade City. So, I'm pretty much used to stuff like this," Cassidy responded with a shoulder shrug.

"I can atest to that," Daisy added, suddenly joining in on their conversation. "I got kidnapped by an alien once! Let me repeat that; a goddamn alien!"

"So, this kind of thing is what you consider the normal life in Arcade City to be as?" Sonia wondered.

"Well, let me put it this way, Sonia, no matter what happens, let it be a picnic, a party, or a simple walk around the park, something crazy and out of the blue is just somehow guaranteed to happen," Cassidy explained briefly.

"...Wow... I have no idea how to respond to that," Sonia commented.

"Are we going to get the second coin or what?" Peach asked in an encouraging tone.

"Hell yes!" Roxy shouted with excitement.

"I think we've screwed around enough for now," Daisy added with a slight shrug.

"Finally. Because I'm getting tired of hearing about bullshit about... clouds with eyes," Jackie groaned as she couldn't compare to cyborg bears. "But I'll be honest, I've seen weird shit like that when I've seen Tediz. The robotic bastards..."

"Lead the way, girls," Sonia replied as she began messing with her very long, blond hair.

Then, after all the conversations, Roxy lead the group through the undersea floors.

"So, you mentioned the first chance you girls get you'll show me how to fight. I'm curious as to when that is," Sonia mused. Hopefully she didn't have to get any blood on her hands.

Roxy pulled out her glass tablet from her hammerspace again, tapping away at it as she swam.

"Okay, so the next coin should be..." She began.

Then, Roxy pointed at a huge underwater field of shipwrecks, all littering the ocean floor.

"...Somewhere in there..." said Roxy.

This caused all ladies to have an anime sweatdrop on their foreheads.

"Well, fuck..." Jackie deadpanned with a slap to her forehead.

"Jeepers creepers!" cried Toadette in fright.

"My goodness, that's a lot of ships!" Peach gasped with wide eyes.

"I get the feeling those shipwrecks are haunted," Sonia trembled in fear with a gulp. "Here's hoping we can go in and get the coin without much fuss?"

"Probably nothing we can't handle, right, gals?" Daisy commented as she turned to the others.

"Hopefully," Sonia couldn't bare it if she got hurt, since she felt herself didn't have much in the way of vitality.

"Well, all I can say is that we better be careful. Otherwise, we're in for some serious trouble," cautioned Cassidy as she had a somewhat worried look on her face.

Then, Roxy led the group into the shipwreck, being careful not to get cut by any of the sharp debris.

Strangely, it was quiet. Perhaps, too quiet...

...

...Even the girls weren't conversing.

Sonia began glancing around her. "Is it me, or is this place too quiet?"

"Actually, I just noticed that as well," Peach agreed.

"Isn't it strange? I expected we'd at least see some ocean life down here," Sonia commented as she glanced to her left and right.

'It does look rather spooky around here..." Daisy shuddered slightly.

"I find it hauntingly beautiful," Rosalina murmured, swimming through the debris. and through holes in the wrecked ships. If not tragic, she inwardly added as she saw a skeleton. Did someone still wait for this one's return? Did this person leave behind mate and children, brothers, sisters, or parents? Sadness and pity came to her eyes before she swiftly swam out to join the others.

"More like a deathtrap to me," Jackie mumbled as she swam along with the others.

Daisy found a beautiful string of pearls laying on a bedpost on a bed that had apparently fallen out of a nearby ship.

"They do not rightly belong to us," said Rosalina. Perhaps they had been gifts to or from loved ones. Of course they could very well be from ancient treasures, but even still.

She ignored Rosalina's statement and slipped them on, then them showed off to the others and said, "Check it out, gals! Don't I look... stunning?"

"They look nice on you, Daisy," Sonia smiled, keeping her eyes around the area, almost expecting something to jump out and scare her.

"They look very beautiful," Toadette commented as she set her eyes on the pearls. She swam towards Daisy and found some extra pearls lying around, putting them in her pigtails. "Well...?"

"Awesome!" Daisy commented.

"Girls, focus!" Said Roxy, "We're here for a coin, not for pearls!"

Before long, the group reached their destination, which was a large island with a creepy, knarled forest surrounding a large castle.

Sonia was still a bit nervous, though she swam relatively close to Rosalina. Something about her made Sonia feel safe and secure. She didn't know why, Rosalina just had that effect on her.

Rosalina smiled reassuringly at Sonia, telling her that everying was going to be okay.

So, like the others said... is Arcade City really as dangerous as it sounds? Sonia thought to herself.

Before long, Roxy led the girls to a large, sunken pirate ship, which was almost the size of half of Peach's castle.

"This is the place," She said. "It's somewhere in there!"

"So, what's the plan, Roxy? Do we split up and cover more ground or do we stay together?" Sonia asked.

"I think it would be wise to stay together," Roxy responded wisely. "That way, we'll be much safer in the long run."

"Very well, then. You lead the way," Sonia sighed in relief. Honestly if they had split, and, believe it if you wan,t she's seen her fair share of horror movies, there would be the outlandish chance she would come across a serial killer. But what were the odds of that?

"Well, let's get coin-searching, ladies!" Cassidy announced as the group began to venture together in search of another clear tablet.

Roxy led the group as they swam through the wreck, looking in room after room for the coin, while Sonia remained closely to Rosalina.

"I wonder if this coin is guarded..." Sonia pondered into her thoughts as she said that aloud. "Normally, with something this powerful, you would have to make sure it was to be guarded."

"That's a pretty likely possi-" Roxy stopped talking when they came to the open door of a certain room.

"What is-" Daisy began, but was promptly shushed by Roxy.

Sonia stayed even closer to Rosalina. Now they're gonna show me how to fight. Dear me...

In the room was a sea serpent, which was currently asleep.

However, there, right under it's tailfin, which lay in front of it's snout while it was coiled up sleeping, was the coin.

"...Goddammit..." Daisy whispered in annoyance.

"What do we do?" Sonia asked in a hushed tone, lingering closer to Rosalina more than ever.

"You'll be alright," Rosalina assured Sonia, sensing uncertainty.

"Thank you, Rosalina." Sonia smiled and hugged the celestial princess. "I don't know why, but I feel safe and secure around you."

"Actually, I'm a Sneeker, so what if I just sneak quietly over and take the coin without disturbing the serpent," Jackie volunteered in a quiet tone, so as to not awaken the underwater beast.

Roxy nodded, telling Jackie it was okay.

After the response from Roxy, Jackie began to swim slowly, carefully, and quietly towards the sleeping serpent.

Be careful. Sonia thought.

As the monster yawned, Jackie, thinking he was going to awaken from his slumber, quickly turned invisible. Then, the monster fell back asleep again. Jackie reached her right arm into the monster's open mouth and carefully took the clear tablet out and quietly swam back to the others.

Phew. Peach thought, relieved.

That's it? Just like that? Sonia wondered. Well that was easy. I guess I got myself worked up over nothing.

Roxy sighed in relief once Jackie came back with the coin.

"That was so easy it was ridiculous," Jackie snickered quietly.

Daisy leaned back against to nearby wall, accidentally making a wall lamp fall onto her head, which didn't really make much noise when it hit the floor.

However, what Daisy did next, did.

"OW! FUCK!" She shouted, immediately regretting it, as the sea serpent jerked awake, letting out a loud roar at the girls.

(A/N: Oh, god. Time to put in the underwater boss fight music.)

Sonia let out a shriek and what happened next surprised even her. Seven shields began circling around her. "What the!?"

"Ru-Swim!" Peach yelled.

Sonia was too confused with the shields surrounding her to notice Peach's shouting. Almost as if she was in a stupor.

"Yep!" Daisy shouted, taking a hint from Peach as she swam as fast as she could, as Roxy did the same.

"Oh, FUCK ME!" Jackie yelled as she, Cassidy, and Toadette swam away with the others.

Then Sonia noticed the serpent roaring at them as she swam to Rosalina's side, scared out of her mind.

Rosalina swiftly swam in front of Sonia, eyes narrowed as she prepared to battle, if need be. As long as she wasn't attacked or the girl wasn't in danger... enough said.

Sonia was then reassured. "I'll help as best I can, Rosalina!"

Roxy pulled her laser pistols out again and fired at the beast, trying to find a weak point with each blast.

The serpent struck out and tried to attack Sonia.

Sonia flinched, but the attack instead hit one of the shields, cracking it. "Now, that's odd."

Peach took out her frying pan. She was only going to use her powers as a last resort.

Jackie took out her katana and swam towards the monster as well as Cassidy, who pulled out her trusty hammer.

Daisy then went up and fin-slapped the monster in the head...

...Which made it flash red and took the damage.

"...Wow, got it on the first try," she said. "Attack it's head, guys!"

Peach repeatedly beat the serpent on the head with her frying pan.

However, while she was occupied doing that, the sepertn reached over and grabbed Peach, wrapping her tightly in it's coils and squeezing her.

"Peach!" Daisy shouted.

"H-help!" Peach yelled as she began to struggle at a desperate attempt at freedom.

Rosalina immediately sent a moderately powerful blast at the serpent to try and drive it to release Peach.

The serpent took damage from Rosalina's blast, releasing Peach from it's grasp as she swam as far away from the serpent as she could.

"I think that makes two hits so far," Daisy stated as she turned to the others. "Who wants to make the third?"

"I'll do it!" Cassidy volunteered as she swam towards the seprent and hit him in the head with her hammer.

The Serpent flash red one last time, then cried out in pain before vanishing in a puff of dust.

"Alright, now that thing's dead, can we get out of here?" Peach asked desperately.

"Yeah, I wanna get outta here before another sea serpent gets us!" Toadette gulped as she trembled, coming from behind a seawall she had been hiding behind throughout the whole battle.

"Sure thing. C'mon, girls, we're outta here!" Roxy exclaimed as she led the group out of the shipwreck and out of the water.

They also took the second coin, now having two out six coins that they needed to claim.

VideoGameNerd123: AAAAAHHH! That serpent was scary enough to give me chills! I certainly won't be getting any sleep tonight! DX Well, gotta go wash my eyes out with bleach at an attempt to get that serpent outta my head. See you guys... later! *runs off*

TEASER!

Then, the girls washed up against the shores of a different beach that led to a jungle, their next destination.

...

Roxy then handed Sonia a green and yellow PVC suit with matching boots and gloves, smiling as she did so.

...

"Okay, so I take it the next coin is through there, right?" Daisy asked Roxy, getting a nod in response.

...

"Yes," Roxy answered. "Onward, valiant Princesses! Plus others!"

...

"You know, maybe I won't have to fight anything as long as I just keep calm," Sonia mused to herself.

...

Sure enough, Sonia could have sworn she heard rustling somewhere nearby. She looked at the rustling bush and began to feel sick.

Toadette seemed to notice that Sonia could sense something wasn't right.

"What's wrong, Sonia?" She asked cutely.

"I could have sworn I heard something," Sonia replied to Toadette.

...

"Get off me!" Sonia shouted, trying to free her leg from the vines.

...

Fuck... what in the hell is next!? Jackie thought to herself as she pulled out her katana and began slashing at a vine.

...

"What did you do?" Peach asked Daisy.

"Nothing..." Daisy answered, getting an eye roll from Sonia. "Don't worry about it!"

"Tell me," Peach demanded seriously.

...

As Peach and Daisy were continuing this, Sonia slipped out of the vines, landing on her head in the process.

She was now going into an unconscious state.