Super Peach, Chapter 1: Good Morning, Sis

"Peach! Hey, Peach! Get up already, it's almost noon!"

With a loud, long yawn, Princess Peach slowly sat up in her bed, stretching out her arms. She was already looking forward to another beautiful day of ruling her perfect Mushroom Kingdom, which always started with a delicious breakfast made by her loyal kitchen staff. As Peach opened her eyes, they widened in surprise; she wasn't in her throne room.

Instead, she was facing a wooden wall. She looked down, seeing that she was covered in a pink blanket and had been sleeping on top of a small-yet-comfortable bunk bed. When she leaned over the edge to see the floor, she saw that the bottom bunk was neatly made up, wrapped in a green blanket. She had seen these beds before, but where? Looking down at herself, she saw that her usual pink nightgown was absent as well--instead, she wore white-and-pink striped pajama pants and a buttoned-up shirt.

"Where am I?" Peach asked out loud as she turned her body to the side, her legs dangling off the side of her bed. "Who woke me up? I know I've heard that voice before, too. It was too young to be Toadsworth ..." Peach slowly slid off the bed, landing feet-first on the hard, wooden floor. She looked around the bedroom, seeing a table at the end of the room with a box of mailed letters on it.

Next to that table was a doorway which lead into a bathroom, and behind her sat another doorway. She tilted her head to peek throught it, seeing a large kitchen table and a stove, with Luigi standing in front of it and flipping a pancake into the air. Nothing unusual here, she thought. Just Luigi cooking breakfast for the both of them.

Wait, what?! Luigi?!

Peach walked into the kitchen, looking around the spacious room. Various trophies and pictures lined the walls, some of the trophies engraved with Peach or Luigi's names, pictures of Peach sitting on Yoshi's back with Luigi posing next to them, and other pictures of various Toads that Peach didn't recognize. The strangest thing about them was the outfit Peach wore: a pink cap with a pink "P" sewn on the front, blue denim overalls, and a long-sleeved pink shirt. She didn't remember ever having an outfit that so strongly resembled Mario's, but considering she couldn't remember how she even got into this house, who knows what happened?

Speaking of which, where is Mario?

Peach sat down at the kitchen table, letting out another yawn as she covered her mouth. A plate was dropped in front of her with a stack of syrup-covered pancakes. Peach smiled, looking up at Luigi as he returned the expression.

"Luigi, where's Mario?" Peach asked as she reached for a fork Luigi had placed next to her plate. "Why am I at your house?"

"What?" Luigi sat down across from Peach with his own plate, an eyebrow raised at her. "What are you talking about, sis? Prince Mario is probably at his castle, you know that. This is our house, remember?"

"Prince Mario?!" Peach choked on her bite of pancake, pushing hard on her chest before spitting it out with a loud cough. The bite of cake flew past Luigi's head, but he ignored it and continued eating his breakfast. "Luigi, what are you talking about? I'm Princess Peach! You and Mario are the heroes of the Mushroom Kingdom!"

"Pfft!" Luigi laughed through eating, looking at Peach with an expression of disbelief. "Did you not get enough sleep, sis? You, a princess? You're a plumber!" Luigi paused his eating and held up a hand, beginning to count on his fingers. "A plumber, a doctor, a typing tutor, a carpenter ... are you doing something new this week?"

"I-I'm a plumber?" Peach asked, the color draining from her face as she imagined herself cleaning up dark, disgusting pipes full of giant turtles, creepy crabs, and fighter flies. "Jeepers, yikes ..." Peach sighed, shaking her head. "I have to deal with all of those ... things ... coming out the pipes?"

"Yep, I really get in a bind without you when something's gumming up the plumbing." Luigi replied, taking a sip of coffee from a green mug with a large green 'L' on the side. Peach looked over, seeing a pink mug with a matching 'P' full of coffee. She grabbed it and started to chug the burning-hot liquid--maybe she could wake herself up from pain.

"Hot! Hot!" Peach frantically waved her hand in front of her outstretched tongue and open mouth, feeling her face heat up from the scaling hot drink. "Water! Luigi! Water!"

"I keep telling you to let it cool!" Luigi replied, frantically hoping from his seat and running to the sink, grabbing a glass from the counter and filling it with cold water. He ran back to Peach, who snatched the glass from Luigi's gloved hand and finished the water in one gulp. Peach let out a sigh of relief, handing the empty glass back to her 'brother.' "Calm down, sis ... you're acting like you've seen a ghost. Wait, have you seen a ghost?!" Luigi started to tremble, frantically looking around the room.

"I'm not your sister!" Peach protested, standing up from the table. "I'm Princess Peach, and your brother is Mario!"

"If you weren't the Kingdom's doctor, I'd take you to one." Luigi replied, setting the glass on the table. "Come on, Peach. Go take a shower and we'll go to Toad Town. We'll make a day out of it and do some shopping."

"Shopping does sound pretty relaxing ..." Peach muttered. "Thank you for breakfast, Luigi." Luigi nodded at her, keeping an eye on the blonde woman as she walked back into their bedroom, heading for the bathroom.

"I put some fresh clothes in there for you!" Luigi yelled. "Take your time!"

"Thank you!" Peach replied as she stepped into the bathroom. She paused at the neatly-folded blue jean suspenders, pink shirt and pink cap on the counter. She sighed in frustration and closed the bathroom door behind her.

As Peach stepped out the shower and started to dress, millions of things ran through her mind: was this a dream? The coffee definitely hurt, and she didn't wake up after that. Luigi acted like she was just being crazy and didn't question her as much as she would have questioned herself. What happened the previous day to make her become ... whatever she was now? As Peach pulled her long, blonde hair into a ponytail with a blue hairband, she reached for her pink cap and stared at herself in the mirror as she positioned it on her head.

"I guess ... I'm just normal Peach now." The ex-princess commented, looking at herself. "Maybe Toadsworth will have some idea what happened." Peach stepped out of the bathroom, seeing a pink wallet laying on the table next to the box full of mail. She grabbed it and shoved it into her back pocket, walking through the room and heading for the front door. Even if the day started confusing, at least shopping in Toad Town was still the same. This horrible morning was nothing a new outfit couldn't fix.

As Peach stepped outside, she saw Luigi waiting at a green warp pipe in the front yard. He waved at her and jumped into the pipe, leaving her alone. She looked around the outside world, seeing that she was indeed in front of the Mario brothers's home, or what once was the Marios' house--rather than 'Mario' in large letters, 'Peach' was written above the door.

Peach shrugged her shoulders, sighing and climbing into the warp pipe. Hopefully 'Prince' Mario and Toadsworth could figure out just what happened yesterday.