"WAAH-WAH-WAH-WAH-WAH-WAH-WAH!" Wario yelled, flying up out of Rosalina's storybook and onto the bedroom floor.

"AAAAHH!" Waluigi screamed, flying up out of Rosalina's book and on top of Wario.

Before Wario could say anything about Waluigi landing on top of him again, everyone in the room; Rosalina, the Lumas, the Mario Bros, the Princesses, the Kongs, Yoshi, Birdo, Toad, and Toadette; all burst into laughter.

As Waluigi rolled off of Wario, and both of them got back up onto their feet, Wario demanded, "Hey, what's so funny?!"

"The story Mama read about you guys!" a blue Luma jeered.

"What?!" Wario and Waluigi questioned in unison, perplexed.

"Look here, boys," Rosalina cheekily told them.

Wario and Waluigi turned around to look at a book Rosalina was holding. The book was entitled, "Wario, Waluigi, and the Beast," and had a cover image of them running from the Beast.

"YAH!" Waluigi cried.

"That's us!" Wario roared.

"Grrrr!" Wario and Waluigi growled.

"Why you little"- Wario began, reaching for the book.

"I gave that book to her, you know," a familiar voice spoke up.

Wario and Waluigi turned and were mortified to see everyone looking at the Enchantress in the doorway. Of course, since she could have cursed them both horribly instead of mercifully sending them home, neither Wario and Waluigi attempted to say anything.

The Enchantress laughed and said, "Rosalina and I have been very close friends for centuries, and I must say, we had an occasional good laugh about your encounter with the Beast for the past 277 years!"

"277 YEARS?!" Wario and Waluigi squawked.

"The two of you were sent back in time," Rosalina explained. "Moral of the story, don't disrespect fairy tales."

"And I have given this story to Imaginative Believer to publish," the Enchantress cheekily added.

"WHAT?!" Wario and Waluigi screamed.

Everyone roared with laughter again, and Waluigi muttered, "Well, it's better than being stranded in the cold, and getting cursed by that witch."

"And I've already got a reputation as a villain and anti-hero, so that stupid book shouldn't affect my company too badly," Wario added. "In fact, I might sell those things for fortune at the risk of my own humiliation."

"Hey, what about-a mine, you dolt?!" Waluigi asked angrily.

"Oh, shut up!" Wario rebuffed. "It's my company, not yours!"

"Hey, I work for you, stupid!" Waluigi reminded Wario.

"I know that, just because I didn't mention how it didn't affect you doesn't mean I didn't have you in mind!" Wario argued.

"There's a proverb that says, 'As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he!'" Waluigi retorted.

"Gimme a break, why would I care about some dumb old proverb?!" Wario dismissed.

"Cause you're a stubborn idiot who never gets-a moved by anything!" Waluigi insulted.

"Well, you can move outta my castle for all I care and go jump in a ditch somewhere for all I care, cause you're-a-" Wario began.

"I LIKE TO MOVE IT MOVE IT, I LIKE TO MOVE IT MOVE IT, YOU LIKE TO… MOVE IT!" King Julien's "I Like to Move It" song reprised.

"Oh no, not this stupid song again!" Wario groaned as the song continued playing.

"It's-a your fault cause you're the one who last said 'move!'" Waluigi blamed, only to find himself dancing to the music against his will. "Wah! Wah! WAH! What's-a happening to me?!"

"Wahaha, stupid!" Wario guffawed, pointing at Waluigi. Wario's laughter was stopped when he too began to dance against his will. "Hey, what's-a going on?! Why can't I stop dancing to that deplorable tune?! Whoever's behind this, you'll-a pay dearly! You're-a messing with the Great Wario, and I shall have my revenge! You hear me?! DO YOU HEAR ME?!"

Everyone watched and laughed as Wario and Waluigi danced against their wills.

Daisy approached Rosalina and the Enchantress and said, "I bet the way the Beast dealt with those two would make Bowser BLUSH with envy. As a matter of fact, I wonder how the Beast himself would react to this scene. It's too bad he couldn't live to see this."

"Oh don't you worry, dear," the Enchantress chuckled. "You see, the Beast's princess, Belle, is a Disney princess. A man named Walt Disney liked their story so much that he made a movie out of it, as he has done with other Disney Princesses. The Disney Princesses have been loved by so many that I, and some other magical beings from their respective time periods, merged all their worlds together into a timeless one. The love in the princess' hearts maintains the strength of their world's connection, and any Disney character from any time period can travel through it, in and out thereby. So… perhaps there may be at least one more humorous encounter between Wario, Waluigi, and the Beast."

***Additional Notes***

1. Wario and Waluigi's screams at the beginning of this chapter were derived from the sounds they made in Mario Party 7 when falling or being blasted away.

2. Wario and Waluigi's initial reaction to Rosalina's book was derived from Mario Power Tennis for the Nintendo GameCube and Wii, when they gave that exact same reaction to seeing their portrait in gray, with a red "x", next to the Mario Bros (signaling their elimination after losing a tennis game to them in the tournament).

3. Since the original fairy tale of Beauty and the Beast was published in 1740, I had Disney's version take place around that time. And since I first published this Wario/Beauty and the Beast crossover in 2017, the time difference between 1740 and 2017 is 277 years.

4. I was inspired to have the Enchantress give this story to ME, Imaginative Believer, after referencing myself writing about Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong's adventure in the Pride Lands in my Donkey Kong/Rudolph crossover (which I could not finish before Christmas and will continue around Christmas in July - yes, that's an actual thing) "Donkey Kong Country Before Christmas." I was inspired to do THAT in my other story after seeing Carl Denham reference Merian C. Cooper and RKO Studios shooting a film with Fay Wray in Peter Jackson's 2005 remake of Cooper's King Kong, AND the elderly Wendy Darling telling Peter Pan's children that J.M. Barrie liked her stories about him so much that he wrote a book about it. So in my fanfiction world, authors often write stories about fantasy-oriented adventures and such that they like hearing. This is also the case with Walt Disney, whom I referenced doing that very thing with Beauty (Belle) and the Beast.

5. For those who do not know, Wario has his own spinoff series. The company that he referenced is WarioWare, from which many of his games were made.

6. The Enchantress' mention of the Disney Princess' worlds connected into one timeless world is a reference to my Mario/Disney Princess crossover, "Mario and Friends: The Disney Princess Rescue." The same explanation of the connection is found toward the end of chapter three, but with a couple more details. Since I started "Mario and Friends: The Disney Princess Rescue" before finishing THIS story, I thought I might include the aforementioned explanation.