"Zzz…"
"Luigi, wake up, we have to get going."
"Zzz… We did all the parks already… Zzz…"
"Yeah, but we're doing the water parks today."
"Zzz… I'll wait until it's hot out… Zzz…"
"I'll bust out that air horn again."
"YIKES!!! I'M UP!!! I'M UP!!!"
Luigi practically leaped out of bed, plowing Mario over in the process, to avoid having that infamous air horn blown in his ear again. By the time Mario managed to get back to his feet, Luigi was already in his swimsuit.
"Wow…" Mario murmured, "I think we've got ourselves an incentive to get you to wake up…"
"As soon as I find where you're hiding that infernal thing, I'm throwing it away," Luigi reminded, "until then, I'll take getting up early over losing my hearing any day."
With Luigi already dressed for the day, Mario walked into the bathroom to change into his swimsuit.
"So, which water park are we going to?" Luigi shouted through the closed bathroom door, "Typhoon Lagoon or Blizzard Beach?"
"From what I've heard, both!" Mario replied, "Peach really wants to make sure we hit everything Disney has to offer, huh?"
"No kidding… You done yet?"
Mario promptly came out of the bathroom wearing a pair of red swim trunks.
"Yep! Let's-a go!"
"Hey, Wario! Waluigi! Hurry up already!" Daisy yelled into the men's locker room.
"Do you losers mind!?" Wario retorted, "We're changing in here!"
"Why didn't you just do that back at the hotel? It would've been more efficient and you wouldn't have to rent out a locker!"
Waluigi stuck his head out glared at Daisy.
"Honestly? We just like annoying you idiots," the lanky plumber explained, "actually, you're kinda cute when you're angry. You should keep that look."
The flower princess was about two seconds away from strangling Waluigi before he ducked back into the relative safety of the locker room. Annoyed and defeated, she turned back to the Mario Bros. and Peach, who were waiting there with her.
"So they did this just to annoy us?" Luigi grumbled, "Why am I not surprised?"
"I can't believe this either," Mario sighed, "we're here at Typhoon Lagoon and the Wario Bros. are holding us up because they had to change here rather than back at the hotel!"
"Actually, I think they're coming out now!" Peach exclaimed, "There they… Oh, dear."
The Wario Bros. did come out, all right, but everyone found themselves wishing that they had stayed in the locker room. Wario was wearing a white-and-blue stripped muscle shirt, a yellow swim cap, goggles placed firmly over his eyeballs, and an inflatable ducky inner-tube that may or may not have actually been part of his swim trunks. Despite how awkward Wario looked, though, Waluigi was even worse. All he was wearing was a pair of very tight, very small, purple Speedos.
"Oh gosh, my eyes," Daisy moaned, covering her face with her hands.
"Say what you want, hun, but you shoulda seen the looks we got in the locker room!" Wario bragged, "All the guys knew that they didn't stand a chance at getting any chicks with us around!"
"Because they'll run out of the park screaming the minute they lay eyes on you?"
"Waluigi…" Luigi sputtered, eyes affixed and mouth agape at the purple plumber's pants, "Momma mia, how well indow---"
"Nuh, uh, uh!" Waluigi interrupted, "I don't need to hear it! I already know, thank you!"
There was a long pause before he leaned towards the 'fourth wall' and whispered, "And we wanna keep this fic K rated if at all possible."
"Waluigi?" Mario asked, "Who are you talking to?"
"Erm… No one."
"Join the club…" Luigi murmured.
"Okay, I know you're all still so unbelievably impressed with our swimming gear, but you can stop now," Wario requested, "we are humble, even in victory. Now, where are we goin' first?"
"Over there," Peach answered, pointing to the right, "they have a very unique waterslide called the Crush 'n' Gusher that we should check out."
"Sounds good to me," Mario concurred as the group made their way over to the slides, "what's so unique about it?"
His question was answered as soon as they reached the attraction. The slides were themed like an abandoned tropical fruit processing factory, with the 'slides' being what the fruit had previously been sent down to be cleaned. Theming aside, the biggest thing that stood out was the fact that the slides not only went down, they also shot back upward!
"They call it the world's first 'Water Coaster'," Peach proclaimed, "so, who's ready to go?"
The six vacationers quickly ran up and got in line for the slides. There were three different slides and the tubes used for the slides allowed for two at a time. Naturally enough, Mario and Luigi went on one slide, Peach and Daisy went on the next slide, and Wario and Waluigi got in the last one. After a few minutes of waiting, all three pairs were sitting in their tubes, waiting for the lifeguard to give them a push into the slide.
"Race you to the bottom?" Mario suggested.
"Sure thing!" Peach agreed.
"Wah ha ha! We'll beat all four of you losers!" Wario taunted, "So long, suckers!"
The lifeguard gave all three tubes the push they needed as fast as he could, and the trio of duos rushed down the slides. For Luigi, he had spent a lot of time at water parks, and was thus quite used to going on water slides. However, nothing could prepare him for the feeling of going up a slide! Unfortunately, he had placed his rump a little too far into the tube, and he felt his rear end getting rubbed against the slide! Regardless, he ignored the rather uncomfortable feeling as the tube dipped, rose, and turned through the complex slide until it finally came splashing down into the pool at the bottom. Incredibly, all the riders reached the end at practically the same time!
"A-Wha!?..." Wario gasped, "We all tied!? What the heck!?"
"Well, that seems fair," Peach commented, "that way, no one's a loser."
"No! It means we're all losers!" Waluigi whined, "I demand a rematch!"
"Sure thing, pal!" Daisy accepted, "And this time, we'll win!"
"Yahoo! That was fun!" Mario cheered, ignoring the argument going on next to him, "What'd you think, Luigi?"
"Not bad, but I think I just wore the bottom off my pants," the green plumber remarked, rubbing his sore tush, "I always forget to not stick my bottom so far into the tubes on water slides… Hey, where'd Daisy and Waluigi go?"
The remaining four got out of the wading pool and looked around for a few minutes, but to no avail. Suddenly, the two missing persons came splashing down the slides again and, once again, they tied!
"WHAT!? TIED AGAIN!?" Waluigi screamed, "That's it! This thing's rigged!"
"Whatever…" Daisy sighed, "I think it's time to move on, eh?"
"Yep!" Mario agreed, "There are a lot more water slides here, not to mention a lazy river! Come on!"
The group began to set off, but Daisy quickly stopped Peach before she got too far.
"Hmm? What is it, Daisy?" Peach asked.
"Come on, I wanna show you something," Daisy replied.
"Oh, okay…"
Daisy led Peach over to a small nearby stand. It consisted of a small cart and two chairs underneath an umbrella. On the fringes of the umbrella were the words 'Hair Wraps/Hair Braiding.' Daisy playfully shoved the other princess into one of the chairs while she herself sat in the other one.
"Oh, hair wraps," Peach began, "I got one of those while we were at Isle Delfino. I thought it looked pretty cute."
Daisy, however, wasn't really listening. As two Cast Members walked over to see what the princesses wanted done, the brunette let out a devilish little grin.
"Two full head hair braidings, please."
"WHAT!?" Peach shrieked, reflexively covering her head, "I don't want my hair braided, especially all of it!"
"Aw, come on Peach!" Daisy teased, "It'll look so much cooler braided, and you won't have to deal with it in the morning. Athletes do it all the time."
"But… But… It's not feminine at all! I'm no tomboy!"
"Remember the little deal we made yesterday?" Daisy recalled, grinning all the while, "That you'd do something tomboyish with me if I did something girly with you?"
Peach tried to come up with a comeback, but she couldn't; Daisy was right.
"But… I… Sigh… You so owe me for this," the pink princess hissed.
"Yeah, but it'll definitely be worth it. I've always wanted to see you with braids."
With the dispute settled, Daisy sat confidently while Peach slouched solemnly as the two Cast Members began their work on their hair.
"Gee, I wonder where Peach and Daisy have been all this time?" Mario asked hypothetically, "they missed out on a bunch of the water slides."
"And the lazy river!" Luigi added.
"Ha! I bet Daisy's scared I'll demand another rematch and beat her!" Waluigi concluded, "She acts all tough, but she's still scared of me! Ha! What a loser!"
"Or maybe she just didn't want to look at those Speedos," Wario suggested.
"I'd go with that theory, thanks," Luigi agreed, still staring awkwardly at Waluigi's choice of swimwear.
"Hey, these things are cool like you don't even know!" the scantily-clad plumber defended, "Nothing says you're a man's man quite like purple spandex!"
"Okay, this conversation is getting really weird…" Mario intervened, "At any rate, let's go to the wave pool. I hear the waves they make here are seven feet tall!"
The four plumbers made their way to the wave pool. The pool had a 'beach' at the end, covered with lounge chairs and umbrellas for people to place their stuff while they went into the water. While searching for a few chairs to claim for their own, the Mario and Wario Bros. eventually wound up finding the princesses, complete with their new hairstyles, already relaxing in two of them.
"Hey, nice look," Mario joked to Peach, "let me guess: Daisy talked you into it."
"'Forced' is more like it," Peach grumbled.
Peach's hair, like Daisy had requested, was completely braided. Now, instead of her hair cascading down around her head, she had dozens of tightly woven locks that dropped right down behind her back.
"Actually, you look pretty good with that, honest," Mario complimented, "certainly looks tropical."
"Really?" Peach asked, blushing, "Why, thank you… Still, I'm getting these things out as soon as Daisy lets me."
Daisy turned to glare at her princess friend. Her hair was also braided, but unlike Peach's, whose hair as it went down behind her, Daisy's hair was braided right along her head, creating little 'rows' of braided hair on her head that went across her scalp and stopped right below her neck.
"I still think you chickened out by not having them braid it along your head," Daisy commented, "you would've really looked awesome with that."
"Yes, but at least I don't have to put suntan lotion on my head," she retorted.
"A small sacrifice," the other princess shrugged.
"I say you both look like a bunch of morons…" Wario grunted, "Can we go in the wave pool now? It sure as heck beats what you freaks are doing here."
"Fine, fine…" Mario replied, "Let's-a go!"
All six of them ran into the water and began to swim around. After a few minutes, there was a loud fog horn, and a huge wave suddenly came rushing towards them!
"Gulp… Big… Wave…" Luigi gasped.
Wario had no trouble, though. Having been wearing a giant inflatable tube with a duck's head on it the entire time, he simply bobbed up and down as the wave passed underneath him. Luigi, however, promptly got caught up in the wave, tossed backwards, and landed right back on the beach!
"Ow… Okay, the fun in that ran out pretty fast," the green-clad plumber grumbled as he rubbed his sore bottom… again.
"Aw… What's the matter, Luigi? All washed up?" Wario teased, "Wha ha! What a loser!"
"You were just standing too close to the shore!" Mario shouted to his brother, ignoring Wario's taunts, "Come out deeper, and the wave won't throw you for such a loop!"
"Sigh… Okay, Mario! I'll try that!"
Luigi swam out, much deeper this time, until he was almost near the max distance the swimmers were allowed to go (to avoid getting too close to the wave machine). This time, the wave, rather than throwing him all over the place, simply lifted him up, allowing him to 'body surf' a short distance before gently placing him down and then crashing into the shore.
"Oh hey! That worked! You were right, Mario!"
"I always am, bro!" Mario replied.
Wario heard this and snickered a little bit.
"Mario? Right? Pphh… Give me a break… WHOA!!!"
Without warning, the next wave came in, catching Wario completely off guard. Because of this, he flipped over, came riding into shore upside-down with the ducky tube keeping him buoyant, albeit feet-up, and promptly crashed into the beach with his head stuck in the sand!
"MMMPPPHHH!!!" Wario hollered, although completely incoherent due to being under the sand.
"Wha ha ha!" Waluigi laughed, "I told you not to wear that stupid outfit, but did you listen to me? Nooo… Trust me, when it comes to swimsuits, less is more!"
"No… No it isn't…" Luigi countered.
Meanwhile, Peach, having already had enough of the wave pool, made her way back to the lounge chairs and began to dry off.
"Hmm…" Peach mused as she rubbed the towel through her braided hair, "It's much easier to dry my hair off with it like this. Maybe this braided hair isn't so bad after all…"
"Really?"
Peach whirled around and saw her fellow princess standing right behind her with a grin as big as Tall, Tall Mountain.
"I mean… Uh… Um…" Peach sputtered.
"So, you admitted that you like your braided hair, hmm?"
"What!? No! I just said it wasn't as bad as I thought…"
Despite her correction, it didn't wipe the smile off Daisy's face.
"Don't forget you have to keep your side of the bargain, girl," Peach reminded, "and I'll be sure to find the most girly thing imaginable for you to do."
"Somehow, I'm not scared," Daisy replied, "anyway, I'm gonna go back in the water now. See ya!"
With that, Daisy ran off, leaving Peach by herself. With her friend gone, Peach casually began playing with one of the braids.
"Sigh… Daisy, how a tomboy like you ever got to be a princess is beyond me, and yet…"
She looked at her friend, who was currently playfully splashing Luigi with water.
"I won't have it any other way."