A/N: Look like December is finally here and I thought I post up this little parody of a Christmas story for Smash Bros. I will be using songs as well. This first one is from 'Sing a Christmas Carol' from the musical Scrooge just as you know. Please enjoy and review.
Super Smash Bros' A Christmas Carol
Chapter 1: Mario
We start with this story a snow was settling on the night of Christmas, as many carollers, Ness, Lucas, Villager, Nana, Popo, Wii Fit Trainer and Little Mac were singing outside a huge castle.
Sing a song of gladness and cheer
For the time of Christmas is here
Look around about you and see
What a world of wonder
This world can be
Sing a Christmas carol
(Sing a Christmas carol)
Sing a Christmas carol
(Sing a Christmas carol)
Sing a Christmas carol like the children do
And enjoy the beauty
All the joy and beauty
That a merry Christmas can bring to you
Inside the castle was a beautifully decorated room with a christmas tree, presents and table with food on it, while a pink ball-like creature, who was wearing a black top hat and a red jacket was dancing in the centre of the room.
"That's a Merry Christmas can bring to you." Kirby sang before he laughed and said to the readers. "And a merriest of Merry Christmas to you all. What a lovely place to meet. Welcome to the household of the most generous and the most kindest man in town, Mario!"
He then had a feeling that the viewers already knew, smiled and then said. "You're surprised that in this story I called Mario kind and generous when he usually is in real life. Well you can take my word for it. You see, Mario isn't always so jolly. There was a time back when he was as mean and miserable as the counting house when he conducted his business: the office of Mario and Wario. Well, why don't we see what happened? Come on and we head to the past and we'll see what happened."
Kirby then leapt on a Warp Star and flew off a year back, to the past as the singers continued to sing.
Sing a song of gladness and cheeer
For the time of Christmas is here
Look around about you and see
What a world of wonder
This world can be
Sing a Christmas carol
(Sing a Christmas carol)
Sing a Christmas carol
(Sing a Christmas carol)
Sing a Christmas carol like the children do
And enjoy the beauty
All the joy and beauty
That a merry Christmas can bring to you.
Kirby then landed outside a small, lonely house, which had 'Mario and Wario' on the sign above.
"Now Wario was dead to begin with, but Mario never paid to have the name repainted on the office sign. In fact, Mario never paid for anything. He'd become such a stingy man ever since he started his business."
"He also despises Christmas." Kirby added in a sad tone.
"But our story begins here, at the orphanage of Princess Peach" Kirby said as he walked down to an old orphanage, where Peach was seen, sweeping the front door, a saddened expression was on the blonde's face.
"Now Peach used to be Mario's girlfriend in the past, but due to Mario's change in personality, corrupted with greed, she was forced to leave him." Kirby said as Daisy came out bearing bad news.
"Bad news, Peach. We have to close the orphanage soon because of low funding. Tomorrow we were forced to have everything removed." Daisy told Peach, saddening her further.
"Oh those poor children and poor Pokémon. I have no choice. I'll write to Mario and ask for him to help us save this orphanage." She replied, hoping there was a small shred of the old Mario that could help her.
"Are you crazy? Mario will never do that." Daisy said, but Peach, thinking of others, just said in reply. "We have to... for the children's sake."
"So Peach decided to write a letter to Mario. However, we go back to Mario and Wario and we'll see what they are doing in there." Kirby said as he returned to Mario's counting house and crept inside.
Inside their counting house, Mario was at his desk, counting his golden coins.
On a desk far from him was his clerk, Link, who had to work grueling hours and was paid a very low wage.
But with what time he had left, Link was seen writing in the book he would always keep with him, using a feather to jot down his messages.
"As you can see, the room is very cold as Mario never stoke the fire." Kirby said, shivering a bit, before the door rang open, where Mario and Link's cheerful friend, Fox McCloud entered the room in good spirits.
"A merry Christmas, Mario! God save you!" Fox said as he approached him, causing Mario to retort rudely. "Bah, humbug!"
"Christmas' a humbug? Surely you don't mean it?" Fox asked.
"I do. Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? what reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough!" Mario snapped back.
"Come, then." Returned Fox cheerfully, before saying. "What right have you to be dismal? What reason have you to be morose? You're rich enough. Don't be so cross."
"What else can I be, when I live in such a world of fools as this Merry Christmas! Out upon Merry Christmas. What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books and having every item in 'em through a round dozen of months presented dead against you? If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should! Keep Christmas in your own way, and let me keep it in mine." Mario replied bitterly.
"You don't keep Christmas?" Fox asked.
"Let me, leave it alone, then. Much good may it do you! Much good it has ever done you." Mario said in reply.
"There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say, Christmas among the rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that as a good time: a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!" Fox said, very powerful, causing Link to smile and nod in agreement.
"Not one sound from you, Link!" Mario snapped at Link, before he turned back to Fox and told him. "And you'll keep your Christmas by losing your situation. You're quite a powerful speaker, Fox. I often wonder why you don't go into Parliament!"
"Don't be angry, Mario. Come and have dinner with us tomorrow." Fox welcomed.
"Not on your life. Let me ask you this, why did you marry?" Mario snapped.
"Because I love Krystal. But I do pity you, Mario, with all my heart, to find you so resolute. We have never had any quarrel, to which I have been a party. But I have made the trial in homage to Christmas, and I'll keep my Christmas humour to the last. So A Merry Christmas, my dear friend. And you too, my dear friend Link." Fox said as he headed for the door, bid farewell and left.
"Humbug!" Mario called after him in a fury, he didn't even see Peach outside his door, looking a bit sad as she slid the letter through the letterbox, causing Link to pick it up.
"Mr. Mario. This is for you." Link said as he handed the letter.
"Bah!" Mario said back as he pocketed it, before saying. "And you, Link, with fifteen shillings a week, and a wife and family, talking about a Merry Christmas. I'll retire to Bedlam!"
"But sir..." Link tried to get out, but he was interrupted as Marth and Roy entered the courthouse next.
"Mario and Wario's, I presume. Have I the pleasure of addressing Mr. Mario, or Mr. Wario?" Marth asked in a kind tone.
"Mr. Wario has been dead these seven years, this very night!" Mario told Marth in reply.
"We have no doubt his liberality is well represented by his surviving partner." Roy said, before he told Mario. "At this festive season of the year, Mr. Mario, it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the Poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, sir."
"Bad time to say that to Mario." Kirby whispered as Mario then looked up and asked. "Are there no prisons?"
"Plenty." Marth said, causing Mario to then ask. "And the Union workhouses? Are they still in operation?"
"They are. Still, I wish I could say they were not." Roy replied.
"The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?" Mario asked.
"Both are busy." Marth said.
"Oh! I was afraid, from what you said at first, that something had occurred to stop them in their useful course. I'm very glad to hear it." Mario said.
"Under the impression that they scarcely furnish Christian cheer of mind or body to the multitude, a few of us are endeavouring to raise a fund to buy the Poor some meat and drink, and means of warmth. We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices. What shall I put you down for?" Marth asked.
Mario glared at the both swordsmen and said. "Nothing."
"Nothing?" Roy asked.
"That's right! I wish to be left alone! Since you ask me what I wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. I don't make Merry myself at Christmas and I can't afford to make idle people merry! I help to support the establishments I have mentioned: they cost enough: and those who are badly off must go there!" Mario shouted as he rose from his chair in anger.
"Many can't go there; and many would rather die!" Marth said as Mario then begin to push them both outside, before he yelled. "If they're gonna die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population! It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people's. Mine occupies me constantly. Good afternoon, gentlemen!"
With that, Mario then slammed the door behind him.
"You know what this world is coming to, Link? Whatever it is, I don't like it!" Mario said as he walked back to his desk.
"It was a very long time before it was time for closing." Kirby narrated as Link walked in front of Mario, who asked. "You'll want a day off tomorrow, I suppose?"
"If it's convenient, sir." Link said.
"It's not convenient and it's not fair. If I was to stop half-a-crown for it, you'd think yourself ill-used, I'll be bound." Mario replied bitterly.
"And yet." Said Link, who smiled faintly. "You don't think me ill-used, when I pay a day's wages for no work. It was once a year."
"A poor excuse for picking a man's pocket every twenty-fifth of December!" Mario snarled, but then sighed and said. "But I suppose you must have the whole day off. But be here early on the morning the day after."
"Oh I will sir. Merry Christmas." Link smiled as he put on his cap and left.
"Bah!" Mario just said.
"Oh, Mario is so grumpy and stingy that he's not recognised as the Nintendo mascot you know and love." Kirby said as Mario put on his overcoat, went outside and locked the door.
"You sure are lucky, Wario." Mario said as he looked at the sign. "You don't have to bother with Christmas anymore. So am I. Don't have to share the profits with you anymore."
Mario then laughed and left, while Kirby walked out, grinned and then said. "But little did Mario know, tonight would be different."
A/N: Next is the meeting of Mario and Wario, stayed tuned.
