In the lavish yard surrounding Princess Peach's castle, the ruler of the Mushroom Kingdom and Princess Daisy lounged around the lake formed by the runoff from the castle's moat. To combat the afternoon summer's heat, Peach wore a bikini top in her trademark pink that consisted of a loop of material around her neck and another around her sizable bust with cords connecting the two in a crisscross pattern and bikini bottoms that had three cords along her hips connect the smaller pieces of fabric on her front and backside. Daisy's yellow string bikini was only slightly more conservative by comparison. The ruler of the Mushroom Kingdom relaxed under a parasol while slowly drinking from an icy glass of hard pink lemonade while the Princess of Sarasaland tanned face up in the harsh sun.
"You know, you might as well go full body if you're going to tan," Peach said as she set her drink down on the table next to her.
"No way, guys go crazy for tan lines," Daisy returned, turning her head to the side and looking at Peach through her large sunglasses.
"I think you're just self-conscious that you're too sensitive to wax and don't want to me to see your bush," Peach teased her friend.
With a quick laugh, Daisy returned her friend's teasing by saying, "I think you just want me to strip because you're bored and want something to look at while you jill off."
"You wish," Peach responded with a half-grin as she started leafing through the documents prepared for her by her advisor Toad. It had been nearly six months since she was last kidnapped and a feast was planned in celebration.
Unbeknownst to the two princesses, a figured spied on them from the shrubbery at the top of the hill on the edge of the castle's lot. She wore a black corset with a blue brooch in the center of the garment's bustline. It flared into a ball gown at her hips that ended just above her ankles, showing off her black baby heels. Studded bands of black leather wrapped around her wrists and upper arms, matching the black leather collar around her neck. The dark accessories made her flawless skin look even lighter and more pristine. Her golden blond hair was tied into a high ponytail with bangs framing her mischievous face. Her blue eyes and earrings matched the brooch on her chest and her upper eye teeth seem just a touch more prominent than they should have been. Most notably, though, the young woman had a small, pink crown resting on top of her voluminous hair and small horns on the sides of her head.
"Can you hear me, my Lord?" The disembodied voice of Kamek, the most powerful Magikoopa, asked the woman.
"I can, your telepathy spell worked," The woman replied softly in her deeper, husky voice. "You're modifications to the Super Crown are also working just as we planned. This transformation is flawless."
As she praised her second in command, the woman ran her hands over her body for the thousandth time since dawning the magical crown. She ran her fingers over her shapely legs and into her wide hips before gliding across her slim waist until her fingers caressed her perky and prominent breasts. While the woman appreciated her new form and how well it hid her former appearance, she wasn't used to being quite so small and thin. This body was a far cry from her previous boulder crushing level of strength, and she wasn't even sure if she could breathe fire anymore! Although, if this plan worked as intended, she wouldn't need that particular ability.
"Thank you for your praise, my master," Kamek replied with his telepathy spell. "I'm sure that not even Mario would recognize you in your current form."
"We shouldn't have to worry about him anyway," the Koopa ruler explained to Kamek. "I called in a favor from King Boo and he trapped Mario in a painting inside a haunted mansion, or hotel, or something. His brother is using a vacuum cleaner to free him, but by the time they're back our plan will already have succeeded!"
"Ah yes, about that, my Lord," Kamek began, interrupting the woman's smug laughter. "Why must we steal the Mushroom Kingdom's coffers and kidnap Princess Peach again? Your Kingdom has been thriving under your new infrastructure policy and your change to entirely green energy sources has already paid for itself. I know your decenters said you were just mimicking the legislation of the Mushroom Kingdom, but the success of these programs is undeniable!"
The ruler of the Koopa Kingdom sighed before answering the most powerful of the Magikoopas, "I'll level with you Kamek. Remember a while back when I got really into anime and remodeled my castle in a feudal Japan style? Well, that was more costly than I had led you to believe. If I can earn Princess Peach's trust in this form, I can get access to her castle's treasure room and easily cover the remodeling expenses."
"I understand, my lord, but then why must you kidnap the Princess yet again?" Kamek asked the slight exasperation in his voice hint at his long-standing frustration with his master over this issue.
"Because when I last called the Koopalings at their boarding school they said I couldn't!" The woman exclaimed, referring to her seven adopted children and biological son who were all finishing their last year of prep school. "Sure, Jr. backed me up and said that I could kidnap and hold onto the princess if I really wanted to, but he's always been a little kiss ass. I'm going to prove to my kids that I can kidnap Peach for as long as I want and there's not a damn thing Mario can do about it!"
"If that is your wish I'm here to aid you, my Lord," Kamek said, doing his best to hide his reluctance. When the Magikoopa sensed such great potential from his master so many years ago, he didn't realize that he'd have to tolerate so many flights of fancy.
"Okay, I'm going in Kamek. Monitor the situation with your crystal ball and let me know if you spot anything amiss," the woman informed her advisor, switching entirely to mental communication as she left her hiding spot.
"Of course," Kamek returned.
The woman walked confidently towards the princesses, she had spent the past week practicing walking in high heels, making her current pair a breeze to strut in. She was also unbothered by the afternoon heat in her black dress. It was nothing compared to fiery, lava filled, planes of the Koopa Kingdom. The woman got into character as she approached the other ladies, rehearsing her lines in her head.
Both princesses turned to the vaguely dragon-like woman when she was only a few feet away. Following a well-practiced curtsey, the approaching woman said, "Greetings my fellow princesses. I am the ruler of the Ruined Kingdom, and I'm here today to foster good relations between our nations."
"Oh, hello," Peach said with a somewhat quizzical look on her face as she stood up. "I wasn't expecting any visitors today, let alone a princess."
"My advisors assured me that they left several messages with a Toad announcing my arrival. Perhaps there was a miscommunication somewhere?" The woman lied.
"Ugh, ever since Captain Toad took that sabbatical to go treasure hunting I'm lucky if I get one in three messages," Peach admitted. "I'm sorry about that."
"Isn't the Ruined Kingdom, like, ruined? Why do they have a Princess?" Daisy asked, not bothering to get up from her chair.
"Wow, rude!" Peach chided her friend. "Don't listen to her, she's just pissed that her Kingdom is still in 16-bits."
At that remark, Daisy briefly flipped the Princess of the Mushroom Kingdom off before focusing on her tanning once again.
"Oh, it's quite alright," the woman said while speaking as aristocratically as she could, "we're actually in the process of rebuilding the kingdom. That's probably why you haven't heard of me until now."