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“So what are you afraid of?” Lara asked calmly, “Thank you miss.”

Peach and the other two princesses were showing her the due hospitality; Tea, Biscuits, water, even offered a fresh change of clothes, but they were also really focusing on getting firearms training. Lara had found an icon for her tank top and shorts outfit and kit, but when she touched it, the outfit just formed on her, replacing the wet suit… and the tank top was a teal latex teddy like she had modeled years ago.

“Well this power ups are just appearing everywhere and we need to understand them for everyone’s safety…” Peach said.

“That’s not what I mean,” Lara said, “If I may be a bit American your Majesty, you are trying to get me to teach you how to shoot them. And since you aren’t exactly preparing to sally forth on some grand crusade, that would mean you feel as if someone is about to lay siege to your castle… So what are you afraid of?”

“I am the ruler of the Mushroom Kingdom,” Peach said, “But we have been invaded many times by the Koopas, an army that lives in the Darklands beyond our boarders. I have been attacked personally by their plotting king on numerous occasions.”

“Real nasties,” Daisy interjected.

“Disgusting folks,” Jeannie, the red-haired Toadstool sister spoke up with her American accent.

“Previously we counted on champions from your world, a pair of brothers to protect us,” Peach continued, “But they, along with the Toads, disappeared yesterday. So now it is we princesses and the Toadettes left to defend ourselves.”

“Now that does sound somewhat disconcerting,” Lara said.

“We can only imagine what their leadership is plotting for us right now…” Daisy added.

*

The War Room was now a sex dungeon, with multiple beds, spanking horses, X bondage frames and cases of toys, oh so many kinky toys… And Wendy was bucking her hips as Lena rode the purple strap-on dildo Wendy wore with wild abandon. A pair of regular Koopas had come in and were locking Queen Bowsette’s naked feet with gusto. Kammy was tied to a bed with a fucking machine working hard at stimulating her pussy.

*

“Right Your Majesty,” Lara said, “Might I have a word in private?”

Peach nodded and waved for the Toadettes and the other two to give her and the doctor some privacy.

“What seems to be the mater?” Peach whispered.

“I know this is rather rude, but what is with the ‘Baby-Dykes’?” Lara asked.

“The what?” Peach asked, “Is that some sort of damn? I am sorry, I have no idea what that term means.”

“Really?” Lara asked.

“No,” Peach shook her head.

“A Dyke is a rather rude way to refer to a lesbian…” Lara saw that the statement still meant nothing to the Blonde, “A female homosexual? A woman who feels no romantic or sexual attraction to men but rather feels attraction romantic or sexual towards women. And a Baby Dyke is a woman that just discovered her sexuality and is still figuring out how to be a lesbian.”

“Oh…” Peach said, “I have never seen that before…”

“Those Toadettes that are all flirting with each other like they have never been in love before,” Lara looked at a pair, “That would be a perfect example.

Peach followed the gaze.

“Oh, them, so that is what that is called…” Peach blushed slightly, “Well… the Toads and Toadettes never really displayed such behaviors before… Toads haven’t really displayed much romantic behavior before period. But a few of them seem to have been messing with this strange power up we found at about the same time as the weapons and ammo ones.”

Peach walked over and pointed at the kissing Lillies powerup.

“Oh my,” Lara said squatting just out of reach of the powerup, “That leaf is a Lipstick Lesbian pride flag, and a Bi-sexual pride flag, a BDSM flag, and on the other side we have Leather Pride, Polyamory pride and Rubber pride flags of the leaves.”

Peach seemed concerned and looked back towards Jeannie and Daisy.

“Call them over…” Lara smiled, “This won’t be the first time I have given this class.”

Peach gestured for the other two princesses to join them.

“Ok, so this leaf with the lipstick on the pink and purple stripes is a symbol for feminine women who are sexually and romantically attracted to other feminine women,” Lara said before moving her hand to point at another leaf as it came around, “This is a marker for people who form multiple sexual and romantic partnerships at once or Polyamory. And on the other side this one with the purple and blue is bisexuality or being sexually and romantically attracted to men or women equally. And this one with the red and yellow on black is for latex fetishism or taking sexual delight in wearing latex. That one is the BDSM pride or enjoying bondage, and other kinky games while having sex and that last leaf is the Leather pride flag, for people who take sexual pleasure in wearing leather…”

Lara turned and looked at the princesses who were all blushing.

“Wearing rubber for sexual pleasure?” Daisy asked.

“Bondage? Like slavery?” Jeannie asked.

“Sometimes, part of power exchange,” Lara said, “As you might have guessed, I had an interesting time at University.”

“You practiced all of that and university?” Daisy asked.

“No, but we had a class that covered it; Sexual studies… one of the psychology courses I had to take,” Lara stood up, “While my major was archeology, students were required to take so many classes from the various fields outside of their majors to give a more rounded perspective.”

The three princesses all shook their heads at the wisdom of such a policy. Daisy then pointed at the floors brought together in a kiss.

“Any symbolism from that?” Daisy asked.

“I would guess it is contact between women’s gentiles against each other,” Lara shrugged.

“So… What about the hearts?” Peach asked.

“What hearts?” Lara asked.

*

“What are your thoughts?” Mario asked.

“That judge doesn’t like us,” the lawyer said candidly.

“What did we do to her?” Luigi asked.

“Not you, us… she doesn’t care about you, she doesn’t like use,” the Lawyer responded.

“We are never getting out of here…” Mario said.

*

“Well, your majesties…” Lara said, “I know that emblem from when I modeled… that is a logo for leather and latex femdom fetishism… and considering the other power ups, someone seems to really want us to enjoy these latex outfits.”

The three princesses looked at Lara.

“After I graduated from my initial studies, in-between post graduate classes and internship digs I earned pocket money by doing modeling for a label that made these latex and leather outfits and I wouldn’t be surprised if we found that logo on the small of the back of each one of these latex outfits,” Lara revealed that bit of her history.

The Princesses all started to lean back to look for the same heart logo on each other’s back.

“It is a symbol to represent kink expression and fetish fashion enjoyment,” Lara said, “So unless you want to really get into wearing these outfits… I suggest we get back to weapons training.”

*

“Alright ladies, on the count of three reach down to the trigger and pull it back once,” Lara called out to the line of Toadettes and Princess Peach each holding a H&K MP5SD…

Of all the weapons ‘Powerups’ that the princesses had found, the MP5SD with the collapsing stock, 9mm chambering and integrated muffler over the barrel made the most sense to train the short Toadettes on.

“One, two and three,” Lara called out and all up and down the line of five shooters they squeezed off one shot each, “Good ladies, not too bad was it? Let’s do another shot on the count of three… One, two and three…”

*

It wasn’t that they had requested it, or even encouraged the Toadettes to do it for them, but Jeannie sat with Lady Lara, Peach and Daisy in the grand dinning room having a royal dinner.

“So how do you like it?” Daisy asked Lara.

“Tastes nice,” the British woman smiled, “What dish is this?”

“I am not sure,” Peach said, “It seems to be the specialty of one of the senior Toadettes.

“So which of the other powerups have you not tried yet?” Lara asked.

“Well, we have figured out the wetsuit, the air tank, the magazines and shells, we figured out the alternate time line one…” Peach listed.

“Alternate Time Line one?” Lara stopped eating and looked around, “What is that?”

Both Peach and Jeannie Toadstool stooped eating and looked down at their plates. Daisy picked up and smiled while keeping her fork in her hand pointed at her plate politely.

“There are these three level X shaped hourglasses floating around,” Daisy said, “Princess Peach Toadstool tried one to see what it did and then we found herself standing besides herself in the form of Jeannie Toadstool, a version of her from another world. Very similar and fills the same role but in another time line.”

“Well the Guardians we mentioned, Mario and Luigi,” Peach said, “Are about the age of Daisy and myself…”

“While to me, Mario and Luigi were basically adopted uncles,” Jeannie added, “And I never met a fellow princess called Daisy.”

“So the Princess Toadstool just split apart?” Lara asked.

“That is what it looked like,” Daisy said, “It was rather disconcerting.”

“I could imagine,” Lara said keeping her traditional British Stiff upper Lip, “Since some of the Toadettes tried the Lillies powerup the only one you haven’t tried yet are Hearts then, correct?”

“Correct,” Peach said…

“Hmm, I will want to continue to train the Toadettes on the MP5SD3s, but I will be training you ladies on the Bishop 600, the Cheeky AR-15s and the various pistols,” Lara said.

“I am still unsure why you call them ‘Cheeky AR-Fifteens,’ Doctor Croft,” Jeannie spoke up.

“Well, ever since the 1960’s the Military and police versions with full auto have been sold under different names, while the commercial semi-automatic only carbines have been identified as AR-15s,” Lara said, “But the examples you have are marked as if they are semi-automatic only carbines, but have the select fire internal parts of the military and police versions.”

“So you are saying they are illegal?” Peach asked.

“Well, that depends, does your majesty have a law about owning machine guns?” Lara asked.

*

Luigi looked at the two guys walking over to him in the showers… They had looks on their faces that said they were up to no good.

“Hay, leave my brother alone,” Mario said stepping to intercept the two guys.

Just then, three men moved to get behind the two and one placed a hand on each of the two guy’s shoulders.

“If you two have a problem with either of these two plumbers, then you have a problem with Clyde…” the man said with a grim tone.

The looks on the two guys faces changed to ones of shock and horror.

“We are sorry, we just want to use those shower heads over there…” one of them said sheepishly.

“Good idea,” the man behind them said, “As for you two, Clyde knows you are good people, keep your noses clean and he will watch your back. He carries a lot of weight on this side…”

“Ah, thanks man,” Luigi said.

“Thank you,” Mario said.

Then the other turned to leave Mario and Luigi alone to shower in peace.

“Hay Luigi, do you remember helping a guy named Clyde?” Mario whispered to his brother.

“Maybe in another life,” Luigi said.

*

The Koopas didn’t seem to be bothered at all; Bowsette, Lena, Wendy and Kammy marching in wearing matching black rubber leggings and black rubber corsets. The table was laid out for the four and dinner brought out without comment.

“What shall we do about the Mushroom kingdom Mistress Mommy?” Wendy asked Bowsette.

Bowsette turned to the Blonde Dinohattanite Koopaling and gazed at her for a long minute. She then looked out among the half empty tables of the Koopa Troopa, Buzzle Beetles, Spinies, Lakitus, Hammer Brothers, Gombas, Shy Guys and Snifts. Everyone seemed aware that every table seemed half empty but no one said anything…

“We wait, and train,” Bowsette said, “When our men return, we will celebrate and then march on the Mushroom Kingdom…”

The armies gathered all slammed their mugs on their tables in agreement.

“Ladies I know our men are away, but they will return soon,” Bowsette called out.

There was another round of slammed mugs.