"Peach... Daisy... my wonderful newfound friends..."

Her voice echoed in the midst of a spinning reality, where only three nude young women existed in any sort of recognizable form. Rosalina's mouth did not move with her words, yet they were heard just the same.

Eventually, the spinning stopped, and things re-righted themselves...

"Hey, cool! I'm no longer sticky!"

True to Daisy's words, the first thing she and Peach noticed was that they were completely cleaned up. Their hair was dry, done, and back to usual fluff. They were also back in their signature frilly pink and orange royal gowns-the very gowns they had been wearing when the party had gotten under way in Sarasaland that night.

After checking themselves, the two then checked their surroundings, and noticed one more thing.

Said "surroundings" consisted of the final frontier... and not much else.

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"triple princesses"
a super mario brothers fan fiction
by inverse, various months 2010

intermission:
a princess's power
all characters are copyrighted and owned wholly by Nintendo.
no money has been made with this, and none is ever to.
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"Whooooa," Daisy said, sufficiently awed by the majesty of space. Countless stars twinkled in the distance. Some made up picturesque constellations, while others merely existed in the void. She tried to mentally connect the dots, but gave up after roughly fifty.

Daisy then looked down at her feet... and realized she was standing in space as well. Having never left her planet before, it could be said that Daisy handled this new experience rather well:

"WAAAUUUGH!"

She clung to a surprised nearby Peach, holding on for dear life. "Peach, are you seeing this? We're in space! We're floating in space! Like, on nothing! Why aren't we falling? What if we-"

She then realized that she was actually talking.

"-wait, we're breathing in space, too? You always told me that wasn't possible! Oh, man, Peach, help me out here, nothing's making any sense..."

"Calm down, Daisy," Peach said. "If I had to guess, this is all the work of a certain someone..."

The view around them shifted once again, this time from "suspended in space" to a lush grassy meadow, complete with with trees and a waterfall. Looking further into the distance, they were able to see a sparkling, multicolored tower, just as majestic as either of their castles back home.

"See?" said Peach. "There we go. She was probably just getting things ready."

Daisy's eyes wandered again around the new scenery. "Oooooh... pretty..."

They were on a small ship now-one that Peach knew well. It still floated aimlessly in the void of space, but it provided some welcome perspective, and some actual ground for Daisy to finally press her feet on. She did so, relieved.

The voice from before returned-this time chuckling gaily-just before its owner appeared in front of them in a shower of sparkles.

Rosalina was back, just as restored as the rest of them. Her hair was back to its usual straightness, and back to covering one eye, as opposed to the disarray it had been in earlier due to the night's activities. Her blue gown fluttered despite there being no wind present.

When she spoke, it was once more with her own mouth.

"My apologies, Your Highnesses. I had forgotten that only Peach has ever been this far from home." She took Daisy's hand into hers, and tenderly kissed it to accentuate her confession.

Daisy could do naught but blush. "Awww... s'all right. I forgive you."

Rosalina smiled. "Very well then."

A wand with a star-shaped tip appeared in her hand. When she waved it, the same sparkles which originally heralded her arrival were created once more. She gestured in the direction of the celestial phenomena around them-planets, stars, the nearby sun, a black hole in the far distance. They and several others were created, moved, and positioned by her every command.

"Welcome, my dear princesses," said Rosalina, "to my Observatory, where I ride the seat of the universe. I have overseen galaxies being created and destroyed. I have saved planets from black holes. I've traveled at the speed of a comet, surfed solar flares and ridden the forces of supernovas, purely for thrills, and lived to tell every tale. Nothing has ever been outside of the scope of my power..."

And then, as if to follow her words, space gradually became a lot less spectacular. It slowed down. Miracles of space disappeared, one by one. More stars reappeared, as did the sun, moon, and their home world below them.

"...except the ability to find true companionship. I wandered the stars with countless Luma. They loved me and I loved them, but it was the sort of love between a mother and her children, no more, no less. It eventually came to be the only sort of relationship I would ever know." Her gaze lowered in sorrow. "I lost hope."

The two earthbound princesses stepped in close to Rosalina, and grasped her by each side, providing support. Rosalina's gaze shifted slightly upward to their planet, and Peach and Daisy followed her line of sight.

"Each century, I would hover over our home world, and entertain thoughts of finally returning to the surface. But for whatever reason, I would decline to do so. Call it an irrational fear of the unknown-the world I left behind would clearly be a much different place than the world of the present."

Rosalina looked up again, her eager smile warming Peach and Daisy's hearts, in the same way theirs had warmed hers.

"But then, Peach... then came you. Even after your heroes re-powered my home and I'd left this galaxy... you sent back for me. To this day I'm not sure why or how, but not a day goes by that I'm not thankful for it. You showed me that even with all of my world's changes, there's still so much to do and to be." She cast her eyes towards Daisy. "And then I find out that there's someone even wilder than you in it! But no less honorable."

Once again, Daisy blushed. This woman had a way with words, no denying that! "Can we keep her, Peach? Can we? We can, right?"

Rosalina chose that moment to disappear.

"...awwwww."

Rosalina giggled, her speech echoing in their minds. "Actually, I brought you here because, while I was recovering from your... attentions, I came up with a similar, yet better idea."

The lighting around the Observatory shifted from bright noonday-levels to a barely-visible dusk... and from the shadows, both princesses soon felt two sets of hands encircling their waists... then pulling them back against two bodies.

Peach and Daisy turned to see the faces of their embracers... and, in stereo, gasped with surprise to see that they now both had a Rosalina to themselves.

Simultaneously, each Rosalina gave their quarry a deep, passionate, tongue-twisting and gratitude-filled kiss as one final speech made its way into their minds:

"You, who accepted me and allowed me to get reacquainted with my original home... you, who taught me the true meaning of friendship... and you, who went so far as to introduce me to the worldly joys of womanhood... prepare to have your favors returned, many times over... with all of the power that I possess."

The Observatory vanished completely.

The planet, sun and moon disappeared.

The stars went out.

The universe faded to black.

Peach and Daisy each clung to their respective Rosalinas, until they could no longer see even themselves.

Finally, at the height of their confusion...

...they awoke.