Chapter Two: Just Wario?
"Stop! You there!" A toad was yelling. He could see Wario a few feet from him, and he was trying to let everyone else know. A troop of toads followed Wario, but the smoke made him hard to see.
"Get him!" Toadette exclaimed from the tennis court. "Don't let him get away!"
"They won't let him get away," Toadsworth reassured her, putting a hand on her shoulder.
"Way to interrupt a tennis match," Luigi said. Luigi had been playing Yoshi at the time of the explosion.
"How much do you wanna bet it's Wario and Waluigi again?" Mario replied.
"They always have to ruin things for everyone!" Peach exclaimed. "Mario's probably right."
"Hey Peach," Luigi asked. This had been on Luigi's mind for a long time today. "Where's Daisy today?"
"I don't know," Peach told him honestly. "She never signed up for the tournament. Weird huh?"
That was strange for Daisy not to be here. She came to all these sporting events. Heck, she was usually in them, sometimes kicking everyone else's butt.
"Maybe she's sick," Toadette suggested. Luigi was trying to think of where Daisy might be, but he had no clue.
Peach nodded, and they waited together as toads worked around the clock to clear out the smoke, find the intruders who messed everything up, and to reorganize the tournament. Luigi and Yoshi would require a rematch.
"Oh, what a mess," Toadsworth said, looking at the schedule of players of matches left to go. This was the largest tournament yet, and now it had to be pushed back by who knows how many days.
"What's wrong?" Donkey Kong asked coming over with Diddy to see what was going on.
"Everything will have to be delayed, there's nowhere to play anymore! The dome is ruined and everyone might be stuck here for another week, maybe two depending on what was damaged," Toadsworth said.
"That's horrible!" Peach exclaimed. "How will we ever finish now?"
"Toadsworth!" a toad came up and said. "We have caught the intruder!"
"Do you know him?" the old toad asked.
"Well...yeah! It's Wario," the toad said.
"Find Waluigi then," Peach told the toad.
"Waluigi wasn't there," the toad said. "no one saw anyone else exit the dome after the explosion. And he wasn't on the cameras. Waluigi's not here."
"Hmmm," Mario said. That was a curious thing.
"Impossible," Luigi said. "Those two are always together. He has to be around here somewhere."
"Keep searching," Toadsworth commanded. "If you find him, bring him back, but I don't want 50 toads on this investigation for Waluigi. If he's not here then we'll have wasted our time looking for someone who... wasn't even here during the explosion. Take 10 on a search party."
"Yes Sir!" the toad said, running away from them with a party of 10.
"Humph, Sir..." Toadsworth said. "It makes me feel old."
"That strange," DK said. "No Waluigi. Well, come on Diddy. We gotta get back to Cranky." The Kongs walked out of the dome arena.
"He's right, that is quite odd," Peach said. "They always ruin whatever we're doing together."
"Yeah, usually," Mario said. "We'll get to the bottom of this. Don't worry, Princess. I'm sure we'll find a tennis court somewhere around here. We could always let them on the private court. This is a special condition, after all."
"That would make the schedule off by only a few hours," Toadsworth said with hope that the princess would agree with Mario. "We may need an extra day but it's better than a week..."
Peach sighed. "Yeah, that seems to be the only option right now, doesn't it?"