Co-worker Joe opens up the Diamond City gelateria one morning. It's 7:53 and Mona hasn't punched in yet. Mona, a pretty lady with red hair and a driving goggles, is riding her scooter through some beautiful countryside when she realizes she's late. Mona hits the gas - right as she passes a cop. With the flip of a button, a hatchway on the back of Mona's scooter opens up. A tiny elephant fires sludge out of his truck, knocking out the cop car. Another cop car shows up. Flick - a tiny piggy pops out of the same hatch and kick a soccer ball at the cop car. Soon, whole fleets of Diamond City police are chasing Mona, so she brings out the big guns: her monkey.
The player challenges Mona's series of games with the monkey's bananas representing their lives. Each game beaten successfully lobs a banana peel at a cop car, which true to Mario Kart form, spins out of control. Mona's theme, strange games, fits perfectly with the weirdness of a night vision goggles-clad monkey throwing banana product at cop cars. Given a few seconds, players must catch toast popping out of a toaster or push a thread through the eye of a needle. In the end, Mona makes it to work just a second before 8 a.m. - right on time. Everybody else ends up hanging out at Gelato Joe's as well.
Players can also unlock a special game featuring Mona and Dribble. It's called - ahem - Dong Dong and requires two players to nudge blocks to fall on each other.
By WarioWare: Twisted, however, Mona seems to have quit the gelato job and opened up her own restaurant, Mona Pizza. The place even comes with a nifty billboard parodying the Mona Lisa. She's more popular in Diamond City than her rivals, the corporate franchise Pizza Dinosaur. As Mona speeds out to deliver her loyal customers their pizzas, the Pizza Dinosaur goons give chase - even whipping out an actual Tyrannosaurus Rex and a big dino mech-on-wheels in the effort to stop Mona. Luckily, Mona has her friends - the elephant, the piggy and the monkey - willing to help. In the midst of the fight, Mona's microgames start up - and to the tune of the Mona Pizza jingle by the Yum Yums to boot. When the elephant's oil slicks and the piggy's soccer balls can't stop the Pizza Dinosaur mech, the monkey drops a banana peel on the road. Again, in classic Mario Kart style, the dino mech flips and Mona delivers her pizza successfully.
(Mona's games set, "Mini Spin," require the player to perform the appropriate action by making slight turns with their Game Boy Advance.)
Apparently unfulfilled with life as a mere pizza personality, Mona becomes a pop star of sorts in time for her appearance in WarioWare: Touched. Her rival, surly diva Vanessa, is tuning in to Diamond City's music news network to make sure that she's still at the top of the charts. But what a shocker - Mona and the Hawt Licks have displaced Vanessa as Diamond City's favorite. With Decko on vocals, Art on lead guitar and Mona on bass, Mona and the Hawt Licks pose a serious threat to Vanessa's stardom. But even burgeoning celebrity status won't stop Mona from scootering food to faithful patrons. As Mona dashes out from rehearsal to deliver more pizza, Vanessa and her back-up singers pursue on their own scooters. (At this point, the action breaks for Mona's microgames, the "Cute Cuts" set, in which the player must make tiny, quick swipes with the stylus in order to win.)
With the help of her animal buddies, Mona fends off her attackers, but Vanessa beats her to the Hawt House, the local music venue. Figuring she looks enough like Mona to leech her stardom, Vanessa hops on stage. The fans can tell, though, and boo her off. Soon enough, Mona hops on stage, jams on her guitar and gives the performance her fans wanted. What a girl!
A bit of trivia: Mona's voice comes from former Nintendo Power magazine editor Leslie Swan, who also voiced Princess Peach in Super Mario 64.