The second chapter, The plan in action
Peach enters the Mushroom Village and heads towards the Inn. She speaks the the woman at the front desk. "My name is....." Peach pauses in thought. "Cherry Blossom," She knew it was a lame alias, but it was all she could think of. "and I'd like a room here." The woman Toad nods. "Alright, the cost will be 10 coins per night." Peachs hands the female Toad 20 coins and says;"Just two nights for now." The woman hands Peach the room keys to room number 904. "Your room is on the third floor." She tells her. Peach nods and takes the keys. She heads up to the third floor in the elevator. She enters her room(Which looks like Link's room in 'The Stock Pot Inn', minus the treasure chest) and sits down on her bed. She had left behind all her pink dresses, because everyone would recognize her if she wore them. Instead she brought several long-sleeved black, white and dark red dresses. Peach begins to unpack her things.
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Back at the Mushroom Palace, Mario opens the door to Peach's room and enters it along with Luigi. "Peach? Are you alright?" Mario asks. When he sees the room empty and many of Peach's things missing, they fear that Peach was kidnapped and robbed by the Koopa Kids! "It must've been Daisy!" Mario says confidently. Luigi is silent, as usualy when Mario suggested Daisy did something terrible. They head over to Daisy's house.
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Daisy is filing her nails when they enter the shack. "Oh, Luigi! You did FINE job at collecting coins in that stupid Mansion! You had enough to buy yourself a Mansion and ME a shack! How generous!" She tells Luigi sarcastically. Mario steps up angrily. "What did you do to Peach?!" He demands. "I didn't do a damned thing to your Princess! All I did was tell her I'd never forgive her for the things she did to me." Daisy replies rudely. "Now if you'll excuse me, I need to sweep my shack." She pushes Luigi and Mario out the door.
"Okay, so it wasn't Daisy....." Mumbled Mario. "It must be Bowser!" Luigi shakes his head. "We haven't seen him in three years." He tells Mario. "Yeah, but Peach is always being kidnapped by Bowser! You know how she is." He reminds Luigi.
Inside, the shack, something dawns on Daisy. She jumps to her feet and runs out of the shack. "Did it ever occure to you that she might have run away?" She calls after the Mario Brothers. Mario and Luigi turn around. "Peach wouldn't run away!" Mario protests. Daisy appraoches them. "Don't you remember yesterday? I was watching the Mario Party Game, and she looks pretty sad when she lost again. And I overheard her yelling at you two. You are pretty disrespectful to Toadstool, Mario." She reminds them. "Hey!" Mario says angrily. "I am NOT disrespectful to Peach!" Daisy shakes her head. "She was pretty angry at you. You never know what she might do. You don't know the side of her that I do. She may seem cute and sweet, but she's secretly mischievious." Daisy grins. "But, whatever. I don't know what YOU'll do if you don't believe me, 'cause Bowser has a few new tricks up his sleeve and it'll be harder to infiltrate his lair." She heads back into her shack. "And next time you get a haunted Mansion, Luigi, get enough to buy ME a mansion!" She slams the shack door, casuing dust to fly everywhere. Luigi sighs. "Maybe she's right. Maybe Peach DID run away. She seemed tired of people mistreating her just because she couldn't win at Mario Party." Mario shook his head. "But Peach isn't rash. She'd talk it out, not run away." He reminded Luigi. "You're just in disbelief that Daisy would do it." Luigi glared. "And YOU're in desbelief that Peach would leave you!" He snaps. "Fine." They says simultaneously, turning their backs to eachother. Luigi heads towards Daisy's shack and Mario heads towards Bowser's lair.
Luigi knocks on Daisy' door. "What NOW?!" Daisy demands, swinging the rickety door open. "WHAT, Luigi?" She demands. "You didn't kidnap Peach, really, did you?!" Luigi asks. Daisy groans. "For the last time, I didn't do ANYTHING to Toadstool! Would you stop believing that damned brother of yours and believe ME for a change?!" She tells Luigi. "And if she didn't run away, maybe it was Wario." Daisy heads back into her shack and begins sweeping. Luigi enters Daisy's shack. "Ew. What a dump." He mumbles. "It's YOUR fault." Daisy snaps. Luigi turns his attention back to Daisy. "Why don't you come live in my Mansion." Daisy doesn't stop sweeping or even look at Luigi. "What's the catch?" She asks, sounding absent minded. Luigi shrugged. "There's no catch." He tells her. "That mansion kind of creeps me out when I'm alone in it...." He says, sounding frightened. "You chicken." Daisy grumbles.
"So THAT's the catch." She says. "I have to live with a chicken." Daisy set down her broom. "I think I can ajust." She tells Luigi. "It'll be better than living in this shack you bought me. Just let me get some things real quick." Daisy walks into her room and sits down in her chair. She opens the cabinet in her side table and sees that her journal is gone! "Hey! Someone took my journal!" She stands up indignantly, her hands on her hips.
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Meanwhile, in Bowser's lair, Bowser is reading Daisy's journal. "Hmmm....." He mumbles. "She seems to hate Princess Toadstool as much as I do!" Bowser looks thoughtful. "Maybe if I kidnap this girl she'll help me kidnap Toadstool!" He snaps his fingers. "I'm a genious! All I need to do is infiltrate her castle!" An evil Goomba walks up to Bowser. "Um, she doesn't live in a castle. She actually lives in a shack." He tells the Koopa King. Bowser shrugs. "That'll make things easier." He laughs in his evil way. "Goombas! Go kidnap Daisy!" The Goombas rush off.
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"I'm sure you just misplaced it." Luigi told Daisy as he searched for her journal under the table. Daisy was standing indignantly with her arms crossed. She didn't want to get dust on her new dress, and that was why she wasn't looking, or so she said. "I NEVER misplace things, Luigi." Daisy informed him. Then, the window shattered in the other room. Daisy and Luigi froze. Daisy stared at the door leading to the kitchen. "Wh....what was that?" She inquired quietly, trying to keep calm. "Luigi, go in there and see what made that noise." Luigi shook his head and jumped up. "Uh-uh! You do it!" He told her. "Oh, fine." Daisy grumbled. She swung the rusty door open and then shut. There was a crashing noise through the door, then Daisy screaming. Then another crashing noise, then a loud thudding noise. Luigi turned the knob cautiously and opened the door a crack. "D-Daisy....?" He inquired. He glanced around the kitchen. Plates had been smashed, so had the window. The chairs and table had been turned over. The footprints in the dust resembled Goomba footprints and Daisy's high heels. From what Luigi could tell, the Goombas had broken in through the window, Daisy had thrown plates at the Goombas in an attempt to stop them, then they had hit Daisy on the head with a chair/plate to knock her unconsious, and then they dragged her out the window!
Luigi jumped up onto the counted and jumped out of the window. "Where'd they take her?!" He demands as he ran down the hill. "I'll save you, Daisy!" He said confidently, but all the confidence on his face disappeared when he saw a huge haunted house. "Or maybe I'll get Mario to do it...or maybe Toad? Yoshi...?" Luigi sighed. "They probabely wouldn't help her, anyway....." Luigi headed slowly and cautiously towards the haunted house.
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Peach was staring at the wall. She could faintly hear 'The Song of Storms' coming from the room behind her. Peach pulled out a green Mushroom and ate it to try to lift her spirits. But still she missed her friends. Peach sighed. She pulled out her CD player and put on her headphones. Some Mario Party 4 Music began playing. Peach lay down on her bed and fell asleep.
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When Daisy opened her eyes she was on the cold ground of a dungeon! Daisy jumped to her feet. She examined the room. After a few seconds, Daisy pushed a brick and the door opened! She headed towards the door, but the moment she lets go of the brick, the door closes! She then notices the teenagers from Maniac Mansion. "Hey, um, how'd you get in here?" Daisy asks. Dave walks up. "We were captured by Edna and we were thrown in here." He tells Daisy. "Yeah, well, could you hold this brick in place?" She asks. "Sure." Dave holds the brick in place and the door opens! But Dave and the others are too busy mumbling something about some Sandy girl to notice. Daisy walks through the door and heads down the hallway.
She walks up the steps and arrives in Bowser's throne room, where he and two Baby Bowsers are playing Darts of Doom. When Daisy approaches them, they all turn, so no one notices that one of the Baby Bowsers made a bullseye. The Baby Bowser let out a growl of terror and pulled his darts out of the dart board. Daisy placed her hands on her hips. "You kidnapped me!" She shouted, pointing an accusing finger at Bowser. "Heh heh......Well, Daisy, I didn't expect you to figure out that if you just hold down the door knob as you open the door to the dungeon that it'll open." Bowser laughed. Daisy got a blank expression. "I didn't, but thanks for the info." She said. Bowser placed his hands on his hips. "Anyway, I was wondering if you'd like to get some vengance on your sister Toadstool." He explained. Daisy's annoyed expression faded.
"Vengance? On......Peach?" She whispered to herself, staring at her feet. "My sister? Could I really do that to her......?" Daisy is silent for a moment. "I'd like that." She says, smiling as she looks up at Bowser. She crosses her arms. "Well, don't just stand there! Let's get this plan into action!" Bowser laughed as Daisy became just out of hearing distance. "Naiive girl! Did she really believe that she'd be benefited in this? Bwa ha ha ha ha! Once I'm rid of that meddlesome Peach, Mario will fall easily! Then Daisy will be mine to crush. And, if I have time, I'll just get rid of what's-his-face......ya know, the kid with the green hat." He looked down at the two Baby Bowsers. They shrugged.
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Peach gasped and opened her eyes. She looked around the dark room. Nothing was there. She checked her watch. Midnight. She yawned and went into the bathroom. She splashed some water on her face and, when she looked up into the mirror, realized that her hair had gone back to its normal color! She searched through her suitcase for black hair dye. None was left. She hadn't planned for this! Peach embraced herself. "What am I to do....?" She wondered aloud. "I wish......I wish that Daisy were here....." She whispered. "She'd know what to do."
Peach walked over to one of the closets and opened it. "Oh? What's this?" She pulled out a Pirate's outfit. "It's my size, too." She pulled out several other outfits including a space-ish uniform, a witch costume, a cowgirl outfit, and an archeologist-style costume. Peach tried each of them on, and, conveniently, they all fit her. "They must have been left here by the people who used to live here." She mused. She kicked open an old trunk that was also in the closet. Inside were a bunch of hats, each one going with one of the different costumes. Peach, now sporting her new gun-slinger outfit and carrying her suitcases(She's now carrying two so that she can bring along the costumes and hats), walks out of her apartment and leaves the Inn. She decided to move to the West. It would be a really long road, but she knew that she really didn't have a choice but to keep moving.
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Luigi knocked on the door to the Haunted house. "H-hello....?" He calls. No answer. He backs away and runs down the hill, his phobia of ghosts kicking in. He runs back to the Mushroom Palace. He enters the King's throne room. "Any luck finding Peach? Has Mario been back yet?" Luigi asks. The King shakes his head. "No, Mario has not been back yet. I thought he'd be with you." He told Luigi. "And, Peach has not returned, either. She's been gone for what seems to be so long.....I'm worried." The King sighs. "Don't worry, your Majesty. I will find your daughter!" Luigi assures him. "Thank you!" The King says. "Thank you.......um.....wh-what's your name again?" Luigi falls over. "Luigi." He replies.
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A little while later, Mario is standing infront of Bowser's castle when Luigi comes racing up. "Haven't you gotten in yet?" Luigi inquires. Mario shakes his head. "I'm wondering how to get in without being spotted by Bowser." He explains. "Well, c'mon, we'll think of a plan in West Mario Land." Luigi suggests. So the two of them walk towards Western Mario Land. They see a sign that reads "Now Leaving Northern Mario Land". Then, they come across a train. "Howdy!" The train greets them. This is not surprising. It IS Mario Land, after all. "Climb aboard the train to Western Mario Land Capital, Western Mario Land Town and Western Mario Landville." "Who the hell named these places?" Luigi grumbled as he and Mario boarded the train.
They are sitting across from a pretty blond Gun-slinger girl. She glances towards them, then freezes. Luigi examines the girl. She's wearing a pink dress--very much like Peach's--with a black cloth over it. For a belt she has a rope(Or maybe it was an ammo belt. It was hard to tell.) and she was wearing a cowboy hat. "Haven't I seen that girl before?" Luigi wonders aloud.
It turns out, as you may have already guessed, that this girl is Peach. At the next stop, she is relieved to get off the train. But, it doesn't last for long. The very second that she jumped off of the train, she heard Luigi's voice saying;"Well, this is our stop!" Peach narrowed her eyes and grunted in annoyance. She ran towards the Milk Bar. She pulled her cowboy hat down over her eyes, making her look very mysterious and beautiful. She throws open the doors to the Milk Saloon and takes a seat. Much to Peach's displeasure, Mario and Luigi sat at the table right behind her.
"I wonder where Peach went.....?" Mario sighs. "I just KNOW that it was Daisy who kidnapped her!" Peach wasn't looking, but she could tell that Luigi glared. "Daisy didn't do it! She would never do that to her sister." The Barkeeper walked up to Peach. "What'll it be?" He asked. "One cup of milk." Peach replies, trying to keep her voice low. The Barkeeper nods and walks off to get Peach's order. "It doesn't matter what you think or what Daisy said! I know she kidnapped Peach!" Mario snapped at Luigi. Peach glanced over at the two, but quickly turned her face when Luigi looked her way. "Hey, haven't I seen you somewhere?" A voice inquired. Peach froze, then realized that the voice wasn't addressing her. Peach looked over her shoulder to see a man talking to Mario. "Aren't you the guy who always saves Princesses?" Mario nodded. The man turned to Luigi. "And you're his brother! You know.....Larry, Liggie......" He guessed. Peach stood up, and, out of force of habit, spoke. "His NAME is Luigi." The man, Mario and Luigi turned towards Peach. "How do you know that?" Luigi asked. Peach coughed nervously. "E-everyone knows that. Everyone with a brain." She replied, lowering her voice. She turned her back to the three of them, dropped a few coins on the counter, drank the rest of her milk and left the Milk Bar.
"That was close." Peach sighed once she was well away from the Milk Saloon. She leaned up against a building and wiped some sweat from her forehead. "This place is a little too dangerous." "HELP!" A Koopa-sounding voice shouted. Peach whirled around to face where the scream had come from. At the end of the road, a bank was being robbed. Peach runs up to the scene, drawing her gun. She shoots and shoots at the thief. The evil Koopa thief falls to the ground. He lets out a scream, gets to his feet and runs off. Everyone comes running to see what happened. Everyone gasps. "You stopped the robber! I owe you my life!" The Bank Koopa exclaims. Peach is shocked at what she had done. She had foiled a bank robbery! "Who are you?" Peach turns to face a crowd of awed people. Luigi and Mario are umong them. "I'm....." Peach whispers. "Cherry Blossom." She lies. She turns and runs. "I have to get away from this place." She whispers to herself. She boards a train to Northern Mario Land.
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Daisy leaves Bowser's castle. "This plan is perfect. Once I get rid of my sister I'll be the Princess of the Mushroom Kingdom, like it should have been." She cackles. Her foot kicks something. She knees down and picks it up. "Peach's......The Peach Doll! It must've fallen out of Peach's bag....." Daisy shakes her head, places her hands on her hips and stands up. "What am I so worried about her for? Hmph." She walks towards her shack.
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Peach is walking around Northern Mario Land and spots what looks like a dilapadated old house. "I bet that no one will ever look in here for me." She muses. She knocks on the door. "Hellooooooo?" She calls. Nothing. Peach lets out a sigh of relief. "Time for a new outfit." She pulls out her Witch facade. "This is pretty." She comments. She changes into it.
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"I have a strange feeling about that Cherry Blossom woman....." Mario thinks aloud. "I bet that she's the one who kidnapped Peach!" Luigi sighs in annoyance. "You say that EVERYONE kidnapped Peach!" He tells Mario. "Well, anyway," Mario begins. "Peach's captors would probably find an abandoned building to hide Peach in. Can you think of any?" Luigi snaps his fingers. "That's it!" He shouts. "I remember I saw an old Haunted House in Northern Mario Land!" Mario nods. "We should check there! Let's go!"
Peach enters the Mushroom Village and heads towards the Inn. She speaks the the woman at the front desk. "My name is....." Peach pauses in thought. "Cherry Blossom," She knew it was a lame alias, but it was all she could think of. "and I'd like a room here." The woman Toad nods. "Alright, the cost will be 10 coins per night." Peachs hands the female Toad 20 coins and says;"Just two nights for now." The woman hands Peach the room keys to room number 904. "Your room is on the third floor." She tells her. Peach nods and takes the keys. She heads up to the third floor in the elevator. She enters her room(Which looks like Link's room in 'The Stock Pot Inn', minus the treasure chest) and sits down on her bed. She had left behind all her pink dresses, because everyone would recognize her if she wore them. Instead she brought several long-sleeved black, white and dark red dresses. Peach begins to unpack her things.
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Back at the Mushroom Palace, Mario opens the door to Peach's room and enters it along with Luigi. "Peach? Are you alright?" Mario asks. When he sees the room empty and many of Peach's things missing, they fear that Peach was kidnapped and robbed by the Koopa Kids! "It must've been Daisy!" Mario says confidently. Luigi is silent, as usualy when Mario suggested Daisy did something terrible. They head over to Daisy's house.
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Daisy is filing her nails when they enter the shack. "Oh, Luigi! You did FINE job at collecting coins in that stupid Mansion! You had enough to buy yourself a Mansion and ME a shack! How generous!" She tells Luigi sarcastically. Mario steps up angrily. "What did you do to Peach?!" He demands. "I didn't do a damned thing to your Princess! All I did was tell her I'd never forgive her for the things she did to me." Daisy replies rudely. "Now if you'll excuse me, I need to sweep my shack." She pushes Luigi and Mario out the door.
"Okay, so it wasn't Daisy....." Mumbled Mario. "It must be Bowser!" Luigi shakes his head. "We haven't seen him in three years." He tells Mario. "Yeah, but Peach is always being kidnapped by Bowser! You know how she is." He reminds Luigi.
Inside, the shack, something dawns on Daisy. She jumps to her feet and runs out of the shack. "Did it ever occure to you that she might have run away?" She calls after the Mario Brothers. Mario and Luigi turn around. "Peach wouldn't run away!" Mario protests. Daisy appraoches them. "Don't you remember yesterday? I was watching the Mario Party Game, and she looks pretty sad when she lost again. And I overheard her yelling at you two. You are pretty disrespectful to Toadstool, Mario." She reminds them. "Hey!" Mario says angrily. "I am NOT disrespectful to Peach!" Daisy shakes her head. "She was pretty angry at you. You never know what she might do. You don't know the side of her that I do. She may seem cute and sweet, but she's secretly mischievious." Daisy grins. "But, whatever. I don't know what YOU'll do if you don't believe me, 'cause Bowser has a few new tricks up his sleeve and it'll be harder to infiltrate his lair." She heads back into her shack. "And next time you get a haunted Mansion, Luigi, get enough to buy ME a mansion!" She slams the shack door, casuing dust to fly everywhere. Luigi sighs. "Maybe she's right. Maybe Peach DID run away. She seemed tired of people mistreating her just because she couldn't win at Mario Party." Mario shook his head. "But Peach isn't rash. She'd talk it out, not run away." He reminded Luigi. "You're just in disbelief that Daisy would do it." Luigi glared. "And YOU're in desbelief that Peach would leave you!" He snaps. "Fine." They says simultaneously, turning their backs to eachother. Luigi heads towards Daisy's shack and Mario heads towards Bowser's lair.
Luigi knocks on Daisy' door. "What NOW?!" Daisy demands, swinging the rickety door open. "WHAT, Luigi?" She demands. "You didn't kidnap Peach, really, did you?!" Luigi asks. Daisy groans. "For the last time, I didn't do ANYTHING to Toadstool! Would you stop believing that damned brother of yours and believe ME for a change?!" She tells Luigi. "And if she didn't run away, maybe it was Wario." Daisy heads back into her shack and begins sweeping. Luigi enters Daisy's shack. "Ew. What a dump." He mumbles. "It's YOUR fault." Daisy snaps. Luigi turns his attention back to Daisy. "Why don't you come live in my Mansion." Daisy doesn't stop sweeping or even look at Luigi. "What's the catch?" She asks, sounding absent minded. Luigi shrugged. "There's no catch." He tells her. "That mansion kind of creeps me out when I'm alone in it...." He says, sounding frightened. "You chicken." Daisy grumbles.
"So THAT's the catch." She says. "I have to live with a chicken." Daisy set down her broom. "I think I can ajust." She tells Luigi. "It'll be better than living in this shack you bought me. Just let me get some things real quick." Daisy walks into her room and sits down in her chair. She opens the cabinet in her side table and sees that her journal is gone! "Hey! Someone took my journal!" She stands up indignantly, her hands on her hips.
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Meanwhile, in Bowser's lair, Bowser is reading Daisy's journal. "Hmmm....." He mumbles. "She seems to hate Princess Toadstool as much as I do!" Bowser looks thoughtful. "Maybe if I kidnap this girl she'll help me kidnap Toadstool!" He snaps his fingers. "I'm a genious! All I need to do is infiltrate her castle!" An evil Goomba walks up to Bowser. "Um, she doesn't live in a castle. She actually lives in a shack." He tells the Koopa King. Bowser shrugs. "That'll make things easier." He laughs in his evil way. "Goombas! Go kidnap Daisy!" The Goombas rush off.
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"I'm sure you just misplaced it." Luigi told Daisy as he searched for her journal under the table. Daisy was standing indignantly with her arms crossed. She didn't want to get dust on her new dress, and that was why she wasn't looking, or so she said. "I NEVER misplace things, Luigi." Daisy informed him. Then, the window shattered in the other room. Daisy and Luigi froze. Daisy stared at the door leading to the kitchen. "Wh....what was that?" She inquired quietly, trying to keep calm. "Luigi, go in there and see what made that noise." Luigi shook his head and jumped up. "Uh-uh! You do it!" He told her. "Oh, fine." Daisy grumbled. She swung the rusty door open and then shut. There was a crashing noise through the door, then Daisy screaming. Then another crashing noise, then a loud thudding noise. Luigi turned the knob cautiously and opened the door a crack. "D-Daisy....?" He inquired. He glanced around the kitchen. Plates had been smashed, so had the window. The chairs and table had been turned over. The footprints in the dust resembled Goomba footprints and Daisy's high heels. From what Luigi could tell, the Goombas had broken in through the window, Daisy had thrown plates at the Goombas in an attempt to stop them, then they had hit Daisy on the head with a chair/plate to knock her unconsious, and then they dragged her out the window!
Luigi jumped up onto the counted and jumped out of the window. "Where'd they take her?!" He demands as he ran down the hill. "I'll save you, Daisy!" He said confidently, but all the confidence on his face disappeared when he saw a huge haunted house. "Or maybe I'll get Mario to do it...or maybe Toad? Yoshi...?" Luigi sighed. "They probabely wouldn't help her, anyway....." Luigi headed slowly and cautiously towards the haunted house.
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Peach was staring at the wall. She could faintly hear 'The Song of Storms' coming from the room behind her. Peach pulled out a green Mushroom and ate it to try to lift her spirits. But still she missed her friends. Peach sighed. She pulled out her CD player and put on her headphones. Some Mario Party 4 Music began playing. Peach lay down on her bed and fell asleep.
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When Daisy opened her eyes she was on the cold ground of a dungeon! Daisy jumped to her feet. She examined the room. After a few seconds, Daisy pushed a brick and the door opened! She headed towards the door, but the moment she lets go of the brick, the door closes! She then notices the teenagers from Maniac Mansion. "Hey, um, how'd you get in here?" Daisy asks. Dave walks up. "We were captured by Edna and we were thrown in here." He tells Daisy. "Yeah, well, could you hold this brick in place?" She asks. "Sure." Dave holds the brick in place and the door opens! But Dave and the others are too busy mumbling something about some Sandy girl to notice. Daisy walks through the door and heads down the hallway.
She walks up the steps and arrives in Bowser's throne room, where he and two Baby Bowsers are playing Darts of Doom. When Daisy approaches them, they all turn, so no one notices that one of the Baby Bowsers made a bullseye. The Baby Bowser let out a growl of terror and pulled his darts out of the dart board. Daisy placed her hands on her hips. "You kidnapped me!" She shouted, pointing an accusing finger at Bowser. "Heh heh......Well, Daisy, I didn't expect you to figure out that if you just hold down the door knob as you open the door to the dungeon that it'll open." Bowser laughed. Daisy got a blank expression. "I didn't, but thanks for the info." She said. Bowser placed his hands on his hips. "Anyway, I was wondering if you'd like to get some vengance on your sister Toadstool." He explained. Daisy's annoyed expression faded.
"Vengance? On......Peach?" She whispered to herself, staring at her feet. "My sister? Could I really do that to her......?" Daisy is silent for a moment. "I'd like that." She says, smiling as she looks up at Bowser. She crosses her arms. "Well, don't just stand there! Let's get this plan into action!" Bowser laughed as Daisy became just out of hearing distance. "Naiive girl! Did she really believe that she'd be benefited in this? Bwa ha ha ha ha! Once I'm rid of that meddlesome Peach, Mario will fall easily! Then Daisy will be mine to crush. And, if I have time, I'll just get rid of what's-his-face......ya know, the kid with the green hat." He looked down at the two Baby Bowsers. They shrugged.
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Peach gasped and opened her eyes. She looked around the dark room. Nothing was there. She checked her watch. Midnight. She yawned and went into the bathroom. She splashed some water on her face and, when she looked up into the mirror, realized that her hair had gone back to its normal color! She searched through her suitcase for black hair dye. None was left. She hadn't planned for this! Peach embraced herself. "What am I to do....?" She wondered aloud. "I wish......I wish that Daisy were here....." She whispered. "She'd know what to do."
Peach walked over to one of the closets and opened it. "Oh? What's this?" She pulled out a Pirate's outfit. "It's my size, too." She pulled out several other outfits including a space-ish uniform, a witch costume, a cowgirl outfit, and an archeologist-style costume. Peach tried each of them on, and, conveniently, they all fit her. "They must have been left here by the people who used to live here." She mused. She kicked open an old trunk that was also in the closet. Inside were a bunch of hats, each one going with one of the different costumes. Peach, now sporting her new gun-slinger outfit and carrying her suitcases(She's now carrying two so that she can bring along the costumes and hats), walks out of her apartment and leaves the Inn. She decided to move to the West. It would be a really long road, but she knew that she really didn't have a choice but to keep moving.
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Luigi knocked on the door to the Haunted house. "H-hello....?" He calls. No answer. He backs away and runs down the hill, his phobia of ghosts kicking in. He runs back to the Mushroom Palace. He enters the King's throne room. "Any luck finding Peach? Has Mario been back yet?" Luigi asks. The King shakes his head. "No, Mario has not been back yet. I thought he'd be with you." He told Luigi. "And, Peach has not returned, either. She's been gone for what seems to be so long.....I'm worried." The King sighs. "Don't worry, your Majesty. I will find your daughter!" Luigi assures him. "Thank you!" The King says. "Thank you.......um.....wh-what's your name again?" Luigi falls over. "Luigi." He replies.
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A little while later, Mario is standing infront of Bowser's castle when Luigi comes racing up. "Haven't you gotten in yet?" Luigi inquires. Mario shakes his head. "I'm wondering how to get in without being spotted by Bowser." He explains. "Well, c'mon, we'll think of a plan in West Mario Land." Luigi suggests. So the two of them walk towards Western Mario Land. They see a sign that reads "Now Leaving Northern Mario Land". Then, they come across a train. "Howdy!" The train greets them. This is not surprising. It IS Mario Land, after all. "Climb aboard the train to Western Mario Land Capital, Western Mario Land Town and Western Mario Landville." "Who the hell named these places?" Luigi grumbled as he and Mario boarded the train.
They are sitting across from a pretty blond Gun-slinger girl. She glances towards them, then freezes. Luigi examines the girl. She's wearing a pink dress--very much like Peach's--with a black cloth over it. For a belt she has a rope(Or maybe it was an ammo belt. It was hard to tell.) and she was wearing a cowboy hat. "Haven't I seen that girl before?" Luigi wonders aloud.
It turns out, as you may have already guessed, that this girl is Peach. At the next stop, she is relieved to get off the train. But, it doesn't last for long. The very second that she jumped off of the train, she heard Luigi's voice saying;"Well, this is our stop!" Peach narrowed her eyes and grunted in annoyance. She ran towards the Milk Bar. She pulled her cowboy hat down over her eyes, making her look very mysterious and beautiful. She throws open the doors to the Milk Saloon and takes a seat. Much to Peach's displeasure, Mario and Luigi sat at the table right behind her.
"I wonder where Peach went.....?" Mario sighs. "I just KNOW that it was Daisy who kidnapped her!" Peach wasn't looking, but she could tell that Luigi glared. "Daisy didn't do it! She would never do that to her sister." The Barkeeper walked up to Peach. "What'll it be?" He asked. "One cup of milk." Peach replies, trying to keep her voice low. The Barkeeper nods and walks off to get Peach's order. "It doesn't matter what you think or what Daisy said! I know she kidnapped Peach!" Mario snapped at Luigi. Peach glanced over at the two, but quickly turned her face when Luigi looked her way. "Hey, haven't I seen you somewhere?" A voice inquired. Peach froze, then realized that the voice wasn't addressing her. Peach looked over her shoulder to see a man talking to Mario. "Aren't you the guy who always saves Princesses?" Mario nodded. The man turned to Luigi. "And you're his brother! You know.....Larry, Liggie......" He guessed. Peach stood up, and, out of force of habit, spoke. "His NAME is Luigi." The man, Mario and Luigi turned towards Peach. "How do you know that?" Luigi asked. Peach coughed nervously. "E-everyone knows that. Everyone with a brain." She replied, lowering her voice. She turned her back to the three of them, dropped a few coins on the counter, drank the rest of her milk and left the Milk Bar.
"That was close." Peach sighed once she was well away from the Milk Saloon. She leaned up against a building and wiped some sweat from her forehead. "This place is a little too dangerous." "HELP!" A Koopa-sounding voice shouted. Peach whirled around to face where the scream had come from. At the end of the road, a bank was being robbed. Peach runs up to the scene, drawing her gun. She shoots and shoots at the thief. The evil Koopa thief falls to the ground. He lets out a scream, gets to his feet and runs off. Everyone comes running to see what happened. Everyone gasps. "You stopped the robber! I owe you my life!" The Bank Koopa exclaims. Peach is shocked at what she had done. She had foiled a bank robbery! "Who are you?" Peach turns to face a crowd of awed people. Luigi and Mario are umong them. "I'm....." Peach whispers. "Cherry Blossom." She lies. She turns and runs. "I have to get away from this place." She whispers to herself. She boards a train to Northern Mario Land.
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Daisy leaves Bowser's castle. "This plan is perfect. Once I get rid of my sister I'll be the Princess of the Mushroom Kingdom, like it should have been." She cackles. Her foot kicks something. She knees down and picks it up. "Peach's......The Peach Doll! It must've fallen out of Peach's bag....." Daisy shakes her head, places her hands on her hips and stands up. "What am I so worried about her for? Hmph." She walks towards her shack.
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Peach is walking around Northern Mario Land and spots what looks like a dilapadated old house. "I bet that no one will ever look in here for me." She muses. She knocks on the door. "Hellooooooo?" She calls. Nothing. Peach lets out a sigh of relief. "Time for a new outfit." She pulls out her Witch facade. "This is pretty." She comments. She changes into it.
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"I have a strange feeling about that Cherry Blossom woman....." Mario thinks aloud. "I bet that she's the one who kidnapped Peach!" Luigi sighs in annoyance. "You say that EVERYONE kidnapped Peach!" He tells Mario. "Well, anyway," Mario begins. "Peach's captors would probably find an abandoned building to hide Peach in. Can you think of any?" Luigi snaps his fingers. "That's it!" He shouts. "I remember I saw an old Haunted House in Northern Mario Land!" Mario nods. "We should check there! Let's go!"