This is a sequel to 'Fins and Roses', an old Mario comic. If you have not read it, don't worry, I summarize it in the introduction paragraphs.
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Box 12: Angry Roses
There once was a fish called Stanley, Stanley the talking fish. That fish flirted with every girl who came near the lake where he lived. One day, Wendy Koopa found out that Mario needed to cross that lake, so she waited for him, armed with many weapons, including bombs and bazookas to destroy the plumber, enemy of the Koopa Kingdom once and for all.
Not all went as planned for the rose of the Koopa Kingdom; she met the fish Stanley, who wouldn't leave her alone. To further add to her troubles, she was found by Bertha, Stanley's fish girlfriend who actually believed him when he said that Wendy was the one flirting with him, while the koopa girl clearly wanted to destroy him for daring to stalk her during her mission.
After many failed attempts by Stanley to win Wendy's heart and many failed attempts by Wendy to destroy him, Mario arrived just as Wendy was attacked by Bertha. He too hated Stanley the talking fish, one of the biggest, if not the biggest, annoyance in the entire Mushroom World. He offered her a ten minute truce and invited her to drink a koopa kola, while they said mean and nasty things about Stanley. She accepted the invitation.
"And he's yucky and icky and... did I say ugly and stupid?" Wendy took another sip of her koopa kola.
"Yes you said that already. In fact, I think you've said every insult in every language, plus some you made up, about Stanley the talking fish. Is it my turn to bash him now?" Mario had long ago finished drinking his koopa kola, that stuff wasn't all that bad.
"But if I said everything there is to say, what will you say then?" Wendy inquired.
"I don't know, I guess everything's already been said, plus it's been more than ten minutes, so our truce ended a while ago," Mario admitted.
"Right, we're enemies now, as soon as finish my koopa kola." While Wendy finished her drink, Mario intended to slip away.
However, from the pipe near the bench they sat, came none other than Bertha, Stanley's official girlfriend whom he tried to cheat on with every female he saw, including a very annoyed koopa princess. "I heard you saying mean and nasty things about my Stanley! You'll regret trying to steal him away!"
"That stupid fish wouldn't leave me alone!" Wendy threw her can of koopa kola at Bertha.
"This is war!" Bertha jumped back into the pipe, then returned with an electric eel, which she threw at Wendy.
"Eek!" Wendy jumped behind Mario and the eel wrapped itself around the red hatted plumber, trying to reach the koopa girl. "I'll show you a war!" Wendy yelled, while Mario tried to wrestle the eel off. "Sorry Mario, I can't destroy you right now, I'll do that later. First, I have to take care of business." Wendy temporarily retreated to Bowser's castle, to find some more weapons.
Yoshi walked by on his way to buy a koopa kola. Even if they were supposed to be made for koopas, they were pretty good. They tasted like those things from Mario's dimension, Pixie kolas or whatever they were called. That's when the constantly hungry green dinosaur saw Mario. "Yoshi!" He greeted happily.
"Yo-oshhhh-shi!" Mario was being electrocuted. "T-thisssss isss fo-or yoooo-uuu!"
"Yoshi!" Yoshi gave his thanks, before aiming his long tongue at the electric eel and pulling it to his mouth. "Yoshi!"
"Yummy? I'm glad you like it," Mario passed out.
"Yoshi, yoshi?" Yoshi's words meant 'are you sleepy?'. Assuming Mario's silence meant yes, Yoshi carried him back to the Mushroom Kingdom castle.
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At Peach's castle, Mario woke up, feeling much better after resting. His brother Luigi was there, as were Toad and Yoshi. He was informed that the princess had gone out for a walk.
Not too long after Mario woke up, Peach returned wet and angry. "Princess what happened to you?" Luigi asked.
"Stanley the talking fish," Peach grumbled.
"The same thing happened to Wendy earlier today," Mario recalled.
"That fish is out of control! He must be stopped, no, he must be destroyed!" The creepy evil un-Peach laugh that followed, sent shivers down everyone's spines.
"B-ut Pr-princess-ss you-you are the gen-gentle rose of-of the Mush-mushroom Kingdom-om," Toad was shaking in terror.
"Even a rose has her thorns and very sharp thorns at that," Peach was determined. "Mario, Luigi, I will not be in need of your assistance this time. This is my battle. However, I would appreciate it if you help me carry my weapons to the battle field."
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Peach and the Mario brothers arrived at the lake. The two plumbers were carrying many question mark boxes. They stopped, hearing an explosion. "I see Wendy has already started the war. I may not have that kind of weapons, but the contents of these boxes will just have to do."
With a massive explosion, the koopa princess was sent flying out of the lake and landed near the mushroom princess. "That stupid Bertha! If I don't get passed her, I'll never destroy Stanley!"
"Take a break, it's my turn," Peach hit one of the boxes Mario was carrying, harder than necessary, a star popped up and Mario was sent back falling in a sitting position on the ground. "Perfect!" Peach grabbed the star and jumped into the lake.
"Did Stanley try to flirt with her too?" Wendy inquired and the two plumber brothers nodded at the same time.
With another massive explosion, Peach was sent flying out of the lake. "That Bertha! How could she not realize that Stanley is cheating on her?"
"It's my turn again!" Wendy exclaimed.
"No! I'm not done yet!" What began as a mission to destroy Stanley the talking flirting fish, continued as a battle between princess Peach and princess Wendy, to see who would destroy Stanley.
"Aw, isn't that cute you're fighting over me!" a familiar voice was heard. Peach and Wendy ended they're royal glaring and insult contest, to look at the source of the voice. It was that flirting fish, their mortal enemy. "Don't worry girls, there's plenty of Stanley to go around."
"I heard that!" Bertha surfaced in the lake behind Stanley. "You little cheat! It was you who were flirting with them all along, wasn't it? I'll make you pay for breaking my heart!"
"No! It's not what it looks like!" Stanley desperately pleaded, seeing his life flash before his eyes.
"Stay out of this!" Peach and Wendy both kicked Bertha far away. There was no way she was going to steal their change to beat up Stanley.
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Meanwhile, Yoshi had returned to his village where they were talking about what they should cook for dinner. "Yoshi!" suggested a yellow yoshi.
"Yoshi, yoshi, yoshi, yoshi," replied a blue yoshi, something about how they made that yesterday and they should make something different today.
"Yoshi, yoshi?" Asked a red yoshi.
Yoshi, the green one who was best friends with the Mario brothers, thought about the question when suddenly a fish fell from the skies. "Yoshi!" He pointed at the fish.
"Yoshi, yoshi!" The other yoshies cheered in agreement. That was the end of Bertha, who was cooked and eaten for dinner by the yoshies.
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Back at the lake, Stanley had the nerve to think Peach and Wendy were trying to save him. "Thanks a lot babes. Maybe I'll date both of you as a token of my gratitude."
Needless to say, this made the two princesses very angry. "We'll cook him and feed him to daddy," Wendy suggested.
"It's a deal!" Peach agreed.
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The princesses then captured Stanley and rushed back to the Mushroom Kingdom to Peach's castle. They kicked the royal chefs out of the kitchen, saying they needed it for something very important, and cooked poor Stanley alive. Well he was only alive for a while, until he got really cooked and perished among the rare spices.
"It's finally done!" Wendy cheered.
"Yes, this was kind of fun," Peach also looked pleased.
The Mario brothers and Toad, who were listening behind the closed kitchen door, decided they didn't want to hear the rest of the conversation and left to take a relaxing walk in the royal gardens. Maybe the fresh air would help cure the shock of finding out what happens when both the princesses are angered by the same cause and they decide to work together. Those two were a dangerous combination.
"What should we do with the cooked fish?" Wendy asked.
"What we agree to do from the beginning. Take this to Bowser and let him eat it for dinner, but you'd best not tell him who the fish used to be," Peach replied.
"Okay, I will. Hey Peach, if I have a boyfriend and he breaks my heart, can I bring him to you?"
"Of course you can, us princess have to stick together. To break the heart of one princess, is to break the hearts of all the princesses. We'll cook him then you can feed him to your dad."
"What if my siblings are mean to me or I decide that I really want to be an only child, can I bring them to you too?" Wendy gave Peach her sweetest innocent look.
"Don't push your luck kid," Peach shook her head. "The cooked alive and fed to the Koopa King penalty is reserved for overly flirty men and heart breakers, not annoying bratty siblings."
"Alright, I had to ask. I guess I'll be on my way now," Wendy took the fish home.
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As the koopa princess entered Bowser's castle, her brothers smelled something delicious and followed the scent. "What's that, sis?" Larry asked.
"Something for daddy," Wendy happily replied. Ludwig, Roy, Lemmy, Iggy, Larry and Morton looked a bit confused, but it was pretty clear Wendy wasn't going to let them have the delicious dish, so they stopped asking about it. Wendy set the fish on the table. "King dad! King dad!"
Bowser arrived, fearing Wendy would ask for something, most likely something very expensive or hard to find. "What is it?"
"I cooked dinner for you, Peach helped," Wendy announced.
Bowser looked at the fish, then at his daughter, then at the fish again and his daughter again. "No, really, what is it?"
"I just told you, daddy. I made dinner with Peach's help. It's a special dinner. Eat it! Eat it!" Wendy encouraged.
Bowser sat at the table and looked at his dinner. It smelled good, but he couldn't believe that Wendy and Peach had actually cooked it together. "What's the catch?"
"There is no catch. Can't a daughter do something nice for her father every now and then?" Wendy thought about it. "Actually, I saw a really nice pair of shoes the other day that I would like to buy." She might as well cash in if she was given the chance.
"You want another pair of shoes? You usually just ask for shoes when ever you want them, you never do anything to try to earn them," Bowser was suspicious and Wendy tried look innocent. "I guess I'll enjoy my dinner and not overanalyze it too much."
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Disclaimer, I don't own Super Mario or the comic Fins and Roses.