101 Stories About Super Smash Bros.
By Father Hulk
Opening Words:
Hello my children! Father M.J. Hulk here fresh from Sunday services! I know, I know… I've been terrible with keeping up with my writing, I have a few stories that kind of died… "Loving Laura" for example… but I have a good feeling about this one! This is going to be my story to end all my stories! I dunno if I'll actually get to 101 stories, but it's a catchy title, isn't it? Well, I hope, as well as I'm sure you do, that this story lives up to my past history as a writer! Now, let's go read 101 Stories about Super Smash Bros!!!CHAPTER ONE: THE CALLING
Paratroopas stirred in their nests and Little Goombas poked their heads out of the ground as the morning sun rose over Mushroomland. A rooster crowed in the distance, gently waking Mario from his deep sleep. He yawned loudly, rubbed his eyes, and pushed himself up to a sitting position.
"Mamma-mia," he mumbled sleepily, "Is it morning already?" He scratched his head. "I had the strangest dream… There was this world, and this big frog, and… ah, well, it was all a dream."
Mario got up out of bed and went to brush his teeth when his mushroom-shaped phone rang.
"Hello?" he said, picking it up.
"Good morning, Mario!" sang a beautiful, golden voice.
Mario smiled. "Good morning, your highness!"
"Mario, can you come to the castle? I have something we need to discuss. I'd love to discuss it over breakfast."
"Absolutely. Let me just get dressed and I'll be right over."
"Thank you, Mario. Goodbye."
"Goodbye."
Mario quickly got into his shirt and overalls and left his house, grabbing a mushroom on the way out. He strolled leisurely up to the gate to Mushroom Castle, where he was stopped by a Mushroom Retainer.
"Halt!"
Mario laughed. "It's a-me, Mario!"
"I'll need to see some proper identification if you want to see the Princess." the Toad said sternly.
"What??" Mario and the Toad stared at each other, then both simultaneously broke into laughter.
"Good to see you, Mario!" the soldier chuckled, hugging Mario. "Go on through!"
"Thank you!" Mario said, bowing, and walked past the gates and into the castle.
"Princess?" he called out into the echoing hall, "I'm here!"
He heard a door click behind him. "Good morning, Mario!"
Mario turned to see Princess Peach descending the large staircase that led down from the mezzanine. She looked breathtaking, as always, in a silky, blue morning dress. Her long, golden hair was flowing freely behind her, and she wore a warm smile upon her face.
"It's good to see you, Mario." She said, embracing him.
"Likewise," he said, hugging her back.
"Come," she said, standing up, "Toad's prepared breakfast."
"So I got a letter this morning," Peach was saying as they ate, "From a man called Mr. Handey. He said that I had been selected from all the citizens of Mushroom Land to take part in a special contest."
Mario chewed thoughtfully. "What kind of contest?"
"The letter didn't say. It just said it was a once in a lifetime opportunity, and to respond immediately."
"If you ask me," piped up Toad, who was standing nearby, "I don't like the sound of it. It sounds like a trick."
"Hmm…" Mario rubbed his chin. "Think Bowser is behind it?"
"No. This letter was postmarked from a place way beyond the Mushroom Kingdom."
"The BeanBean Kingdom, maybe?"
Peach shook her head. "Someplace called Battlefield City. They said they'd arrange transportation if we agreed to go, but I've never even heard of the place."
"More coffee, your highness?" Toad offered.
"No, but thank you." Peach said, and then she turned back to Mario.
"I want to do it, Mario."
Mario finished his biscuit. "Well, that's great! I'm sure there's nothing to be worried about."
Peach's expression became worried. "Even so… I want you to come with me, Mario."
Mario raised his eyebrows. "Me?"
"Yes. Just in case there is something evil at work, I want you to be there for me."
Mario thought about it for a moment, then said, "Sure. No problem. I'll be right there with you."
Peach smiled. "Thank you Mario. I knew I could count on…" Peach was interrupted by a loud noise from downstairs, that sounded like the palace doors being flung open.
A deep voice rang through the hall. "Hello? Is anybody home? Gwa ha ha!"
Mario leapt from his seat. "It's Bowser. Stay here." He ran downstairs and screeched to a stop right before where Bowser, king of all Koopas, was standing.
"Don't take another step, or I'll hurt you." Mario warned.
Bowser seemed confused for a moment, then laughed heartily. "Gwa ha ha ha! No need to fear, overall breath!"
Mario held his ground. "Why are you here?"
"Uhhh, actually, to see you, shorty."
"To see me?"
"I wanted to know if I could borrow the Sky Pop."
"My plane? Whatever for?"
Bowser grinned a horribly toothy grin. "Well, unlike YOU, I have been chosen among all Koopas to compete in a special contest! And I'm gonna win it all!"
Mario raised his eyebrows. "You mean you've been chosen too?"
"What do you mean, 'too', red boy?"
"Well, it's just that Peach has also been selected to enter."
Bowser rubbed his chin. "Is that so…? Hmm…"
"Don't get any ideas!" Mario warned him. "Because I'm coming too."
"What? Are you accusing me of plotting to kidnap the Princess?"
Mario shook his head. "Let's not go there. Anyway, you don't need to borrow Sky Pop because all entrants get transportation provided for them."
"Oh? Oh really? Well, that's just dandy then! When do we leave?"
"Soon," came Peach's voice as she came downstairs. "I've just put the RSVP card in the mail, so it could be a few days until they come…"
Suddenly, a shadow passed across the large windows of the castle.
"What's that?" Mario wondered. The three of them dashed outside and gasped. Hovering slightly above the ground was a ball. A huge ball with a strange pattern on it. It was a vertical line running up the left side, and a horizontal line cutting low across it.
"Is that our transport?" Bowser growled. "It looks awful fishy."
They walked towards it cautiously, and all of a sudden, three brilliant blue beams shot from the ball, engulfing them in a blinding white light. Before any of them could say, "What's going on?" they were drawn inside, and the ball shot up into the stratosphere.
"HOLD IT RIGHT THERE!!!" Link, the Hero of Time, burst through the Hyrule Castle doors and into the throne room, where a towering monster was standing over Princess Zelda. In two swift strokes of the Master Sword, the beast was dead.
"LINK!" Zelda cried, not in a grateful tone but in an angry one instead, "What on earth did you do that for?"
"You were in danger, princess," Link said, bowing.
"I most certainly was not!"
"Huh?"
"That was a messenger from Clock Town. He was bringing me a letter, not threatening to kill me!"
"Oh… I'm sorry."
"Well it doesn't really matter now, does it? Bring me the letter."
Link pulled the letter from the monster's grip and brought it to Zelda.
Zelda scanned it. "We've been chosen to compete in a contest." she said shortly.
Link's eyes narrowed. "We? You mean, both of us?"
"That's what it says."
"What kind of contest?"
"I'm not sure. It reads, 'A highly enjoyable time awaits you during this once in a lifetime opportunity! Transportation will arrive upon agreement.' That's all it says."
"I don't know, princess… It might be a trap."
"No… it isn't." Zelda said softly.
"What? How can you be sure?"
"Because I had a dream of this last night… I dreamt of a big get together, and I met so many interesting people, and then…"
"And then what?" Link pressed.
"The rest was wrapped in shadow… I could not see."
"Sounds suspicious to me."
Zelda was quiet for a minute, and then said, "I have to go."
"What?"
"I must. I have a feeling that something important will happen there. You must come too."
"So you're agreeing?"
"Yes, I'm agreeing."
Right as those words were spoken, a giant ball broke through the ceiling and descended down into the throne room, and drew Link and Zelda inside.
"Can I help you, young man?" The sea captain asked.
"Uh, yeah, I have to go here." Ash Ketchum replied, pointing at the writing on his ticket.
"Pika pika!" squealed Pikachu from his shoulder.
The captain studied the ticket, then looked up. "Son, this island you're talking about is so small… it's just a tiny spit of land! There's not even any place to dock!"
"Well, I have to go there. I'm competing in a contest!"
"A contest, eh?" The captain rubbed his chin, then shook his head. "I'm sorry, but I will not sail to that island."
"But…!"
"No! Now get lost, sonny!"
Ash walked off the dock, sulking. "Stupid captain… stupid stupid…"
"Pikaaa!" Pikachu echoed angrily.
Ash clenched his fists. "Well, if I can't get there by boat, then I'm going to fly there! Noctowl, I choose you!" With a flash of light, Ash's Noctowl appeared, hooting loudly. Ash held his Hoenn map in front of the owl and pointed to the island. "Noctowl, take us here, okay?"
Noctowl studied the map for a moment, then nodded. Ash and Pikachu jumped on, and Noctowl zoomed up into the air and they were off!
They had been in the air for about twenty minutes when Noctowl began to dive. Ash held onto his hat and looked down, to see the small island rising rapidly up to meet them.
"This is it, Pikachu!"
"Pika pika!"
Ash studied the surface of the island. "It doesn't look like there's any kind of competition going on, though… do we have the wrong island?"
Noctowl set Ash down on the center of the island, and Ash began looking around.
"Hello? Is anybody here? I'm here for the competition!"
"Pika pikaaa!"
Suddenly, a huge sphere descended from the sky in front of them.
"Uhhh…"
When the ball was hovering just above the ground, a figure wrapped completely in a cloak and hood stepped out and approached them.
"We will be taking your Pikachu now." He said.
"What?"
"Your Pikachu will come with me." The man repeated.
"I don't think so! You're not taking Pikachu! Taillow, I choose…"
"STOP!!!" The figure commanded, and as if by magic, Ash's limbs froze solid. "Your Pikachu will be competing in the contest." The man specified.
"Th-th-the contest? It said that I was chosen!" Ash managed to whisper.
The figure nodded under his hood. "That was a miscommunication on our part… We needed you to bring Pikachu here. You need not worry. Your Pikachu will be quite safe." Before Ash could say anything else, the man glided forward, picked up Pikachu by the waist, and re-entered the sphere, which shot up into space.
The large sphere, now having gathered almost all of the participants for the contest, zoomed through space at incredible speeds. Inside, the chosen ones regarded each other thoughtfully.
"So where do you come from?" Peach asked a short man in a blue winter coat, who was seated beside her.
"I come from the north," the man replied, "And my name is Popo."
Peach smiled. "I am Peach, the princess of the Mushroom Kingdom."
Popo nodded. "If it is a clear day, and I climb high, I can see your castle."
Meanwhile, Mario was making conversation with Link.
"Hyrule, huh?" he was saying, "Is that near the Mushroom Kingdom?"
"Nowhere near it." Link replied. "So what do you do for a living?"
"I'm a plumber." Mario replied proudly. "And I fight that guy on weekends." He said, pointing to Bowser, who was tickling Pikachu's feet.
"Nice mousey.. Heheh.. Does the mousey like to be tickled?"
"Pika pikaaa!" Pikachu cried happily, laughing.
Suddenly, the ship gave a lurch as it appeared to slow down.
"What's going on?" Link wondered. Suddenly, a beam of light came down from the ceiling and another entrant appeared… Donkey Kong himself!
Mario rose to his feet, disbelievingly. The two regarded each other for several seconds, and then embraced.
"Good to see you, old friend!" Mario said, slapping his buddy on the back. They slapped the high five and "gave the pound," and then Donkey Kong said something in simian, then started on a banana.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the sphere, Princess Zelda was boring Yoshi the dinosaur with the history of the Royal Family of Hyrule.
"It's true that none of the others of the royal line have magic powers besides me… but maybe that's because I descended from the Hylia, who were an ancient race that dwelt on Hyrule long ago. Many of them were lost in a great battle back in the second age… And then, in the year 1224 of the second age, a young prince rode off with Princess Daniella, who used her power…" Yoshi made a gun with his fingers and repeatedly fired at his head.
A figure clad in armor sat alone on a bench near the far wall. It was to this figure that Fox Mccloud walked up to and sat down next to.
"You from the Lylat system?" he asked casually.
"No." replied the figure simply.
"Uhh… then where do you work?"
"I work alone." She replied, equally simply.
Fox nodded. "Hmm… Could I at least get your name?"
"My name is Samus."
"I'm Fox. Fox McCloud."
"Very well."
No more conversation was attempted.
Meanwhile, a tall, brash man in a purple suit was talking to a small boy in a baseball hat.
"So you want to be a fighter, kid?"
"Yeah! That'd be so cool!"
"All right then, show me your moves!"
The boy, whose name was Ness, proceeded to exhibit several fighting poses.
"That's good for starters," the man said, "But why don't you take a few swings at the old captain here, huh?" He thrust his chest forward. "Hit me with your best shot!"
Ness took out a cracked bat and slammed him right in the gut.
"Owwie!" Captain Falcon fell to his knees. "Nice… nice work, kid."
Link had gotten up and gone over to the vending machine. (Do spaceships even have vending machines? New one on me…) He retrieved his Mars bar from the slot when he noticed a small, pink puffball staring up at him with big happy eyes.
"Hi there," Link said, petting the creature on the head. "Ohh, did you want me to get you something?" He gestured back to the machine.
Kirby shook his head, took a few steps forward, and then inhaled the entire machine! Link simply stared.
All of a sudden, the sphere gave a lurch and screeched to a halt. Before anybody could say, "What's goin on?" everyone was transported outside.
They looked around, amazed. They were standing in a huge courtyard, with tall, mansion-like houses all around. There were also different paths leading away from the courtyards, with signs that read, "Main Fighting Hall," "Special Training Hall," and "Multiple Fighter Arena."
"Mario," said Peach worriedly, "Is this some kind of fighting competition?"
"I don't know…" Mario said.
"A strange place…" Popo mused.
"Mmm…" agreed his partner, Nana.
Suddenly, a huge voice echoed around them. "THANK YOU ALL FOR COMING!!! WELCOME TO BATTLEFIELD CITY! I AM YOUR HOST, MR. HANDEY!"
"Where is this guy?" Bowser growled.
"YOU WILL MEET ME IN DUE TIME. LET ME EXPLAIN WHY YOU ARE HERE. YOU HAVE ALL BEEN CHOSEN AS THE ELITE OF YOUR PEOPLE. YOU WILL NOW BATTLE EACH OTHER IN ORDER TO DECIDE WHO IS SUPERIOR OVER ALL!"
"But… we don't want to fight each other!" Zelda cried.
"YOU WILL FIGHT EACH OTHER…" Mr. Handey repeated, "FOR THE ULTIMATE PRIZE IN ALL OF LIFE AND IN ALL OF THE WORLD!"
Everyone looked at each other, dumbfounded.
"THIS CONTEST WILL LAST A LONG TIME. I HAVE THEREFORE FITTED SEPARATE QUARTERS FOR ALL OF YOU, WHICH I WILL NOW ASSIGN. MARIO, YOU AND THE PRINCESS MAY GO TO CABIN 1. LINK, YOU AND ZELDA WILL GO TO CABIN 2. DONKEY KONG, TO CABIN 3, POPO AND NANA TO CABIN 4, BOWSER TO 5, YOSHI TO 6, KIRBY AND PIKACHU, YOU MAY STAY WITH YOSHI. CAPTAIN FALCON, SINCE YOU HAVE SEEM TO HAVE FOUND A FRIEND IN YOUNG NESS, YOU MAY SHARE CABIN 7."
Captain Falcon patted Ness on the shoulder. He was just like a son to him.
"FOX, YOU SHALL GO TO CABIN 8, AND SAMUS TO CABIN 9. NOW THAT I HAVE ARRANGED ALL THE BUNKS, IT IS TIME FOR YOU TO RETIRE FOR THE EVENING. IN THE MORNING I WILL ADDRESS YOU AGAIN AND EXPLAIN THE RULES. FOR NOW, GOOD NIGHT." The voice faded into nothingness, and still the group stood in the courtyard, bewildered.
"I guess we should… go to our bunks." Fox said.
With many nods and mutterings of "Good night" and "Sleep well," the group dispersed and headed to their bunks. With few words, they made up their beds and settled in, and, since they were all very tired from their long journey, they fell quickly to sleep.
