A Million Miles Away.

Author: Million Miles Away.

Genre: Adventure/Romance.
Rating: T
Pairings: Peach/Mario, Daisy/Luigi, Toad/Toadette, Yoshi/Birdo, Wario/Mona (WarioWare) and there will be future pairings.
Summary: After a few years of peace and harmony in the Mushroom Kingdom something rears it's ugly head to threaten the lives of all its residents. War descends over the Kingdom, how will our characters fare?

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters that appear in the Mario/Wario based games. I only own the one or two original characters, which are a creation by myself. I do not also own the rights to the lyrics 'Million Miles Away' by the Offspring. I am merely using the song and the characters as my own base for this fan fiction.

There was a time, looking through myself
Wanting to pretend
If I escaped, I could fill myself
I don't think you can
Been far and wide
But that hole inside
Never really leaves
When I went away, what I really left
Left behind was me

It's telling me
To be on my way home
Million miles away
I can't stay

Each passing day, every passing face
Seems like such a blur
I long to be
Home, silently
Lying next to her
Just to get back, by her side is all
All I need to be
Cause I went away
But what I really left
Left behind was me

I need to be
Getting on my way home
A million miles away
Million miles away

Chapter 1: The Beginning.

For the past few years all the citizens of the Mushroom Kingdom lived in Peace. Bowser had long since given up on marrying Peach and had now become an ally. Even though Mario didn't trust this development he let it pass for the sake of his Princess. Because of the Kingdoms new reputation for peace their neighbouring Kingdom Sarasaland had twined with the Kingdom and their two Princess's friendship had never been stronger. The reputation of the Kingdom spread further then their friends of the north. People from all over the world were moving to live in the Mushroom Kingdom. Suddenly the population rose and the Princess Peach was overjoyed at the fact more humans were joining the population. It was a real joy for her to see both Mushroom and human alike getting on so well and in perfect harmony.

On one particular sunny day most of the Mushroom Kingdom had came out to watch the annual tennis tournament. It started four years ago as a bit of fun but two rivals took it to a slightly over competitive level. Mario kept beating Wario, which annoyed the latter. Wario declared war against his adversary and so it began, the annual tennis tournament.

The whole occasion had reached its finale, with two first time finalists slugging it out. Daisy was taking Waluigi to the cleaners and certainly didn't lack in her fan base. Most of the crowd were cheering her on. The flighty Princess of Sarasaland was loved by most of the Mushroom Kingdom and often spent time at Peach's castle.

Eventually Daisy did manage to over throw her opponent to a rapturous applause. She bowed gracefully and accepted a nice sparkling trophy. Waluigi, runner up was completely ignored, so he skulked off into the crowd.

Daisy watched the crowd. Where was he? After all this was her first title, he should be there to congratulate her. She really wanted him to be by her side at this point. She had hoped he would be happy for her; after all she deserved the title. She bit her lip in frustration. A smiling Peach walked over to her.

"Well-done Dais! You were amazing!" The blonde Princess said. Her smile faded when she saw that her brunette counterpart seemed distracted.

"Dais?"

"Oh! Sorry, I was looking for someone," She said, turning to her friend. Peach also scanned the masses of spectators. Then with a happy smile she spotted who Daisy was looking for.

"He's here Dais, look," Peach pointed. Daisy grinned with relief. How could she even doubt him?

She watched as a tall man made his way through the crowd. As he approached Daisy he picked her up and spun her around in delight. When he placed her back on the ground, she smiled warmly at him and robbed him of his green hat and placed it on her own head.

"Wondered where you had got too!" She scolded fondly.

"It was difficult getting through your adoring fans, Dais. You didn't think I'd miss this did you?" He replied.

"No course not Luigi," Daisy said feeling a little silly. From behind them came two of their most eager friends of pint size proportion.

"Heya Toad, Toadette, enjoy the tennis?" Peach asked as she greeted her retainer and his girlfriend. Toad furrowed his brow and looked at Peach glumly.

"Sadly I missed it," He said.

"Awwh, how come Toad?" Peach asked.

"I'm too small! Toadette had to sit on my head so she could see, you see," Toad said. Toadette, Peach, Daisy and Luigi laughed at their friend's plight.

Later on that day Daisy was accompanying Luigi to his home on Brooklyn Terrace. They had been dating for a while but hadn't made the big step of moving in together. There were many familiar faces on Brooklyn terrace. Toad and Toadette lives together next door to Luigi. Waluigi lived across the road and Mario used to live on the other side of Luigi. After he moved out a dark haired girl moved in. Luigi and Daisy got to know her fairly well. Katya was about their age and like many folk, she had come to the Mushroom Kingdom in search of peace and freedom.

Mario and Peach had been together slightly longer then Daisy and Luigi, so they were slightly ahead of the thought trail. After a few good years of being together in matrimonial bliss the happy couple decided to live together in Peach's castle.

A stones throw away from Luigi's house lives Wario in his oversized castle. He had given up living in Diamond City even though he still worked there. This was only because he wanted to plonk his oversized castle right in the middle of the view from peach's castle. Nothing was more enjoyable then showing off in front of Mario. Not that Wario spent much time in the castle; he was normally at his work place, WarioWare.

Daisy and Luigi were inside playing Mario Kart Double Dash, but Daisy soon got bored. There were only so many times they could win by an immense margin. After claiming first place once again Daisy left her control pad on the floor and went outside to bask in the sunshine. Luigi soon followed suit.

Lying down in the sunniest spot Daisy closed her eyes; the sun was so warm against her skin. She felt Luigi sit down next to her and smiled to herself. After and hour or so she felt a chill run down her spine. Opening her eyes and sitting up she glanced around. Luigi had disappeared.

Getting off the spot where she had previously lain down, she walked towards the house to find Luigi. His back door was ajar and she walked straight into his dining room. The house seemed oddly silent.

"Luigi?" She said, hoping for an answer to indicate as to where he was.

No answer came so she walked into the kitchen and again no one met her. Walking through the kitchen and into the living room, she spied the front door open. Thinking it odd she went to the front door and a strange site greeted her.

As she looked out from her front door, she saw a frantic rush of Mushroom folk and humans dashing in one direction. In the midst of the crowd she spotted Luigi talking to Toadsworth, Peaches Aide.

Avoiding the seemingly panic stricken residents Daisy made her way over to Luigi and Toadsworth.

"What's going on?" She asked. Toadsworth looked at her but it was Luigi that answered.

"We're not sure yet, but a random appearance of a building on Mushroom Mountain has caused the residents of the Mushroom Kingdom to panic," he explained. None of this actually made any sense to Daisy but she nodded any way, hoping he would shed more light on the situation.

She looked over into the backdrop of the Mushroom kingdom and was alarmed at what she saw.

"Oh my!" She gasped. Luigi and Toadsworth nodded.

"But how…?" She stammered as she stared at the newly placed castle type building placed more or less at the top of the mountain.

"That's what we don't know I'm afraid Princess. Princess Peach has ordered a few Mushroom soldiers to check the situation out. People are panicking and leaving because it just appeared shortly after the tennis tournament and people are clearly worried that it will lead to trouble," Toadsworth said, clearly troubled.

"How's Peach taking it?" Daisy asked.

"She's being brave. This is something new and unheard of," Toadsworth said.

"We should go to her castle," Luigi said, Daisy agreed. After locking up his house they were all set to go. The road was still buzzing with the sound of panic stricken people. They were making a fair amount of noise and a few residents of Brooklyn Terrace had come out to have a look.

Across from Luigi's house a very aggravated Waluigi stood at his front door glaring at the masses rushing past his house. Spotting Luigi, Daisy and Toadsworth leaving Luigi's house he stormed straight over to them.

"What the bleeding hell is going on?" He shouted, still glaring at the odd passer by he happened to see. Daisy pointed towards Mushroom Mountain. Waluigi had a double take when he saw what was placed near the top.

"So you mean to tell me that all these rushing idiots woke me up at an ungodly hour to run away from that thing!" He growled. Toadsworth made a disapproving noise that made Daisy smile.

"It's four in the afternoon and weren't you up and about earlier?" Luigi questioned him with an amused expression across his face.

"Yes but that is not the point!" Waluigi cried back at him.

"As nice and refreshing as it is to discuss this imbeciles sleeping habits we must be getting to Peach's Castle," Toadsworth remarked huffily.

"Hey!" Waluigi snapped.

"You're right!" Daisy said. Luigi nodded. Before they could carry on again Toad and Toadette came over to quiz them about what was going on. After retelling the story again the six of them set off.

"Wait!"

They all turned round to see Luigi's other next-door neighbour beckoning them. Katya trotted across to where they were all standing.

"What's going on? I saw Toadsworth and thought he'd know," She asked out of breath. Luigi said they had no time to explain but if she wanted to know she should go with them to Peach's. After agreeing they went to Peach's without any more hesitation.

Next Times on Million Miles Away – The group reach Peach's in hope of more information. Bad news is delivered to two of the group, how will they all react?