Old fic, turning this into a series cause I got a couple more goofy smash chapters to upload with this later.
Chapter 1: Play Ball!
Let's get to the point
"Tryouts? For what?" Pit continued to munch on his food while looking at Mario and Luigi quizzingly. The red plumber took out a piece of paper from his overalls and showed it to the young angel.
"The 3rd annual-a Smashers Baseball Tournament!" Mario shouted in estactic, earning the attention of the others at the dinner table.
"Baseball!?" Pit looked even more confused "Ohhhhhh! ...What's that?"
"You gotta be kidding me..." Luigi sighed. Zelda raised her hand in confusion.
"3rd annual?" Zelda asked "I don't remember this happening in the previous years..."
"That's because...nobody...showed up..." Luigi mumbled while looking down at the floor embarrased.
"They-a were tough years for the Smashing Plumbers..." Mario shook his head "But-a this year will be different! We have enough people to divide up the teams into two!"
"Actually we've had enough people for two years..." Luigi quietly whispered
"And to make sure everyone has-a fun, we've already signed you all up for the tryouts!" Mario grinned as he ignored the collective groans from the dinner hall "And-a Master Hand says everyone has-a to appear at the tryouts, OR ELSE!" Mario tried to imitate Master Hand's voice by yelling, only to burst into a series of coughing fits.
"E-Excuse me. Everyone report to the Wii Fit Studio in 1 hour!" Mario sped out of the room throwing fliers at people people on his way out. Luigi turned to see a number of Smashers staring at him irritated
"Ehehe...g-go team?" Luigi hopped in the air and quickly followed his brother out the room.
After an hour of eating and silliness, all of the Smashers appeared in the Wii Fit Studio room, squeezing inside the small arena and murmering to each other.
"Ugh! It's so tight in here!" Falco pushed others away from him
"Can we just get this over with?" Samus remarked
"By the gods this room stinks!" Marth held his nose as Wii Fit Trainer spoke up
"Hey! Watch your mouth or I'll-" Wii Fit Trainer paused as did the multiple smashers once Master Hand flew into the room, his ominous presence creating a heavy tension in the room. His seriousness elevating the deep, dark, mysterious atmosphere and personality, that was the all mighty powerful godlike presence of the Mast-
"EUGH! WHAT IS THAT SMELL!?" Master Hand's fingers cringed in digust. Mario hopped up in the air and replied,
"That-a Master Hand, is the stench of success!"
"No."
"But-"
"No." Master Hand flew above the entire Smashers and pointed his giant finger down at multiple people
"You, You, You, You, You, You, the three of you, the five of you huddled together, you behind the other you, you, you, you, you, the entire right side of the room!" Master Hand stuck his thumb out at the door
"Out, Out, Out, Out! Your services will not be needed, thank you." A bunch of Smashers all cheered and hollered as they quickly escaped the room, happy to obliege.
With that said, the 9 "lucky" Smashers who remained in the room all continued to stand in their positions, some begrudgingly, as they continued to look up at Master Hand.
"Mario, Luigi, Rosalina, Pit, Ness, Ganondorf, Lucario, ROB, and Sonic..." they didn't know it but Master Hand was looking down at the "team" cheerfully "Welcome to the Smashing Plumbers! Please deride any questions, comments, or complaints to your team leader Mario. Your first game is in 3 days, I expect good things from you all! GOOD THINGS! HAHAHA!" Master Hand cackled as he dissipated into thin air, leaving the Smashers to themselves.
Mario coughed loudly to get the attention of his team.
"Smashers...my friends...LET'S GET-A PHYSICAL!" Mario ripped off his shirt showing off his flabby stomach to the grossed out team.
"Well this was a horrible idea." Luigi slumped his shoulders. Luigi looked on to the ragtag team Master Hand had set upon them. "And in 3 days too... Just how on earth are we gonna get these guys ready-"
"WEEEEEEEEEEEEEELCOMMEEE TO THE 3RD ANNUAL SMASHERS BASEBALL TOURNAMENT!" Master Hand shouted at all the Smashers in the crowd. Everyone started to cheer where as Luigi stood near dugout with shocked eyes.
"...in 3 days..." Luigi finished. Mario patted his brother on the back encouragingly,
"Don't worry Luigi! This year it'll be-a different! That-a trophy will finally be-a ours!"
"What Trophy? We're the ones who made this tournament!"
"I don't know!" Mario shouted in oblivious glee "But what I do-a know! With enough training and-a confidence, we can do this!"
"Mario, uh..." Luigi huddled closely to Mario "If you haven't noticed our team isn't...exactly..." Luigi glanced at Rosalina and Pit holding their bats the wrong way, while Lucario and ROB struggled to pick up theirs. Ganondorf stood without one, saying they would look too demeaning to a king of his status.
"...We're done for." Luigi sighed, "Hopefully the other team won't go hard on us."
"Hey, that reminds me." Sonic said, suddenly appearing in betweening Mario and Luigi's huddle, scaring the lights out of Luigi. "Where's the other team? Isn't the game about to start?" The plumbers looked at the other side of the field, and sure enough, there were no players in sight.
"Uh...what are we supposed to do?" Sonic asked, and by coincedence, Master Hand floated down from the stands
"Silly me, I forgot about the other players!" Master Hand opened up a portal into Subspace, whatever you wanna call it, and out popped dark shadowy figures. Master Hand closed the portal and waved at them.
"Now now, I'll let you all stay out for a little while on ONE condition, play by the RULES!" The shadows made gurgling noises, while Master Hand pointed back at the Smashers in the Dugout
"Those 9 fighters right over there." The Shadows all started morphing into the figures they were directed at, and soon enough dark versions of the Smashing Plumbers stood in the middle of the field, facing their counterparts.
"Oh?" Master Hand counted the shadows "It appears we're one short...ah!" Master Hand snapped his fingers, and suddenly Dark Pit stood in the field next to the shadows, bag of chips in hand.
"W-What the!? How'd I get down here!?" The Dark angel fumbled his words while looking at the Master Hand.
"You're playing."
"Woah-a!" Mario stared at the Shadow Mario from up to down, inspecting his entire shadow body. "Hi! I'm-a Mario! Here's to-a fair game!" " Mario stuck out his hand at the odd looking creature.
"Your blood will be spelt upon these grasslands feeble human." The Shadow Mario spoke as he glared at Mario.
"That-a sounds nice!" Mario grinned, slowly pulled his hand back in fear.
"PLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY BALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!" Master Hand yelled as the teams got in position. The Shadow team gathered on the field as Mario took his bat.
"Woohoo! Goooooooo Marioooo!" The Mii fighters cheered on by the fence.
Shadow Mario leered at his counterpart, and threw the ball at Mario, who struck it as hard as he could and started running.
"Goooooooooooooooooooooo MARIO!" Everyone cheered, as the italian plumber made it to second base. Luigi took his bat and made it to the base, awaiting the cheers of his fans.
"...go weegee..." a lone Mii shouted from the crowd. A Luigi Mii. Luigi grumbled to himself as he picked up the bat, while staring down Shadow Mario.
"Hehehe...I should warn you..." Luigi shouted out to the shadow "Back in the Mushroom Kingdom, I was considered the superstar-" three balls whizzed past Luigi's head,
"STRIKEONESTRIKETWOSTRIKETHREE, YOU'RE OUT!"
"...player..." Luigi sunk his head to the ground, walking back to the base and handing his bat to Rosalina.
"...U-Um excuse me..." Rosalina leaned over to Pit "Um...do you know how to play?" Pit shrugged his shoulders
"Beats me. The author skipped over our training montage. I think you're supposed to swing the bat and run or something..." Rosalina nodded and walked over to the batter's plate.
"Hehe, easy prey..." Shadow Mario smirked, and quickly threw a curve ball at Rosalina, who stood still.
"B-Ball?" The umpire shouted in confusion.
"Rosalina! You're supposed to swing!" Luigi yelled from the dugout.
"Oh!? Already?" Rosalina spun around in a circle multiple times, before throwing her bat as far as she could across the field. The shadows in the outfield scattered to not get hit as Luigi slapped himself on the face.
"WOOHOO!" Rosalina giggled and laughed as she started running down the field, before she began floating into the air. "This is fun!" she yelled as she continued flying deeper into the sky...
"She's not coming back is she?" Luigi asked in shock.
"Nope." Sonic continued squinting towards the sky.
"Pit! You're up!"
"Oh boy!" Pit grabbed his bat backwards and skipped towards the plate.
"Goddesses of Baseball, hear my plea!" Pit shouted to the heavens. "I am Pit, servant to the Goddess of Light, the lovely Lady Palutena!" Palutena sunk in her seat in embarassment as others laughed at her
"GIVE ME THE STRENGTH TO WIN THIS BATTLE!"
"YOU'REEEEEEEEEE OUT!" The umpire screamed as he caught the third ball Shadow Mario threw.
"Oh?" Put looked at him quizzingly "Already?"
"Oh for the love of- Everyone to the field!" Luigi shouted at his team. The team all begrudgingly ran out to the field, covering spots as Luigi took pitcher. Shadow Luigi ran up to the plate. Luigi glared at his counterpart as he threw a curveball
"STRIKE ONE!"
Shadow Luigi gulped, and shook as he got ready to swing. Luigi threw a fastball and once again,
"STRIKE TWO!"
"I can-a do this!" Shadow Luigi yelled. Luigi threw another ball, as Shadow Luigi swung, he spun around in a circle and accidently threw the bat up in the air, causing it to hit his head as the ball sped past him. Everyone started laughing at him as the Umpire called another strike.
"Hehehe, what a loser-oh..." Luigi looked down gloomily in realization. Surprisingly, Shadow Rosalina struck a homerun on the next go, earning some boos from the crowd. Shadow Ness as well. It wasn't until Shadow Pit and Mario came at bat, Luigi was lucky enough to score two more outs.
"YES!" Mario shouted as he ran back to the dugout. "Go get-em Ness!"
Ness took out his lucky bat, and walked out to the field. The crowd went wild as Ness struck out a homerun effortlessly.
"NESS NESS NESS NESS WOOOOOOOO!" The crowd cheered as Ness happily ran as fast as he could towards the homeplate, so fast that he accidently moved his ankle too fast, causing it to sprain as he fell to the ground.
"O-OW!" Ness cried out and began sobbing as two Mii nurses ran out to the field with a stretcher. "I-I-I w-w-want my m-m-MOMMY!"They carried him out of the field, ignoring his cries for his mother as they sped towards the closest hospital.
"...There goes another one." Luigi sighed
"But we still got a homerun!" Sonic laughed while Ganondorf strutted up to the batter's plate.
"Hey Ganondork! You need a bat you idiot!" Shadow Mario mocked. Ganondorf ignored his teases and only chuckled to himself.
"The King of Darkness does not need a bat. Not as long as I contain THIS!" Ganondorf held up his hand to show off his glowing Triforce of Power
"Oh here we go..." Zelda muttered to herself
"THE GODDESSES HAVE GIVEN ME THE POWER TO DESTROY YOU PATHETIC CREATURES!"
"Yeeep..." Zelda looked on in annoyance as Link and her's triforce began to glow.
"STRIKKKKE ONE!" Ganondorf snapped out of his speech as he saw a ball in the Umpire's hand, followed by another one speeding past him.
"STRIKKKKE TWO!"
"For the love of god hit the ball already!" Zelda yelled from the crowd. Ganondorf saw the third ball spinning at him, and he smacked his hand at it, causing it to fly into the sky.
"D-Does that count?" The umpire asked Master Hand.
"Just go with it."
"RUN!" The team yelled at Ganondorf, who veryyyyyyy slowlllly, started running towards first base. Yep. Verrrrrrrrryyyyyyyy slowllllllllyyyyyyyyyy-
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LATER
The crowd fell silent as Ganondorf continued to heave and huff to himself, almost at second base. Luigi sunk his head and turned to ROB.
"J-Just get out there ROB..."
The robot beeped and carried it's bat to the plate.
Shadow Mario looked at the robot intensely, unsure of how it would react. He threw a fastball at ROB, who stood still as the ball hit the umpire.
"STRIKE ONE!"
"ROB! Don't you know how to play Baseball?" Luigi shouted from the dugout. ROB turned to him
"I HAVE DOWNLOADED THE RULES TO BASEBALL IN MY MEMORY BANKS!"
"STRIKKKE TWO!" The umpire yelled as another ball sped past ROB
"THEN WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR!?" Luigi was about to tear his hair out
"I AM ONLY PROGRAMED TO FIGHT AND PLAY GYROMITE OR STACK-UP"
"But-"
"GYROMITE OR STACKUP"
"YOU'RRRRRRRRRRE OUT!" The umpire yelled at the robot once he caught the third ball, who strode back over to the dugout.
"That's it, HUDDLE!" Luigi huddled with the rest of the Smashing Plumbers. "We're getting killed out there, what do we do?"
"I can take my shirt off again."
"You're not helping Mario."
"We coulllllllld use our special moves..." Sonic smirked.
"But-a isn't that cheating?" Mario remarked. Luigi looked between the two, sighing as he looked back at Mario sadly "Sorry bro...but we got no other choice. Lucario, you know what to do..."
Lucario nodded as he made his way to the batter's plate. Shadow Mario sneered, throwing a curveball at Lucario, who's bat suddenly glowed blue with the power of the aura. "HURRRRRRRGHHHHHHH!" Lucario roared, striking the ball into the stratosphere.
"W-What the!?" Dakr Pit looked on in shock as Lucario began running around the field. "HEY! THAT WAS CHEATING!" The Shadow players looked on towards Master Hand in the crowd, who had fallen asleep waiting for Ganondorf to make it across the field, speaking of which.
Sonic threw his spring at Lucario, who caught it and threw it at a Ganondorf making it past 3rd base. The spring hit the prince of darkness, causing him to careen threw the air towards the homeplate. Lucario followed soon after. The crowd went nuts!
Sonic ran up to the plate, where Shadow Mario threw a fastball as hard as he could. Sonic smirked and used a homing attack to hit the ball with his bat. Once again it went flying into the air, while Sonic sped across the field in seconds.
"RGH" Shadow Mario grunted in annoyance. Swing after Swing, the Smashing Plumbers continued to make homeruns as the score went up quickly. Players like ROB and Ganondorf sat it out as the others did their thing.
"LUIGI! LUIGI! GOOOOOOOOOO LUIGI! YEAAAAAAHH!" The crowd and team yelled as Luigi ran from 3rd base to home plate, sliding across the plate just as Shadow Mario ran up to it.
"WE WON!" Mario and the team ran over Luigi and picked him up in the air, shouting and cheering as they carried him into the field. The Shadow Players begrudingly walked towards them, just as Master Hand had awoken.
"B-Bwuah? Is it over?" Master Hand looked on to see the team cheering "Oh." He floated over to the Smashing Plumbers.
"Ahem...CONGRATULATIONS!" Master Hand yelled, snapping his fingers to create a golden trophy of Mario swinging a bat. Mario squealed with joy and quickly grabbed it.
"WAHOO!" Mario ran around in circles, double and triple jumping with excitement.
"Well, you certainly surprised me. I hearby announce the winners of the 3rd Smashers Baseball Tournament to be- where's your other players?" The team stopped celebrating and looked around. Rosalina and Ness were nowhere to be seen.
"Ah well Ness injured himself, but Rosalina...isn't anywhere to be seen. I see...haha, I suppose this means you guys are disqualified. I'll be taking that." Master Hand pried the trophy away from Mario, who stared in shock as his baby was taken away from him.
"Ah well, looks like you guys win." Master Hand gave the trophy to Shadow Mario "Alrighty then, back to Subspace you go!" Master Hand opened a portal and flew inside, as it sucked in the Shadow Players, Dark Pit by accident, and more importantly, the trophy.
Poof.
It was all gone.
The Smashing Plumbers stood in silence, unsure of what just happened. The crowd coughed and shuffled uncomfortably, not sure what to do next...
"Who wants cake!?" Peach shouted from the crowd. The entire crowd and team began cheering as everyone exited the bleachers and walked towards the Smash Mansion. All but Mario and Luigi.
Mario sunk to his knees, still holding his arms out where the trophy once was, crying and sobbing. Luigi wiped a tear from his eye and bent down and patted his shoulder.
"Cheer up Mario. There's always next year..."
"Woohoo!" Rosalina fell from the skies, landing gracefully near Mario and Luigi as she grabbed both brothers by the shoulders and shook them excitingly.
"Again, again!" Rosalina laughed to herself, drowning out the cries and sobs of the Mario Bros.
End