Because I obviously do not have enough stories active, I have started yet another story for the smash bros section. Just a quick note: If you have seen my other stories, be warned that this one will be much more serious and somewhat darker than my other ones. While humor will be present, the story will not be humor focused, but instead more story driven.
Put bluntly, this is The Epic Quest of Pichu on medication.
Special credit to HeartEsart on deviantART: One of her pictures inspired a certain costume choice in this chapter (I can't say much without spoiling a clue.)
I do not own the smash bros series or any other characters in this fanfiction unless stated otherwise yadda yadda yadda.
Our story begins in a secret underground lair. The lair was being staffed by Goombas, Waddle Dees, Egg Pawns, metools and other assorted baddies while a large white hand was on the phone with a mysterious stranger.
"And that's just what I want! Crazy? He wants salsa. Salsa as far as the eye can see. And leave it wrapped in trillion dollar Brazilian bank notes, got it? … Okay, how much time do you need? …Until SEVEN O'clock?! That's it, the hostage dies!" The sentient hand then slammed the receiver (and the rest of the phone) deep within the Earth and realized, with a heavy heart, that he would have to deal with the Digletts. Again. At this moment, his office door was blown open as a group of four irate smashers (one of whom had used his skull to rudely break down the door) barged in looking determined. The smallest, a yellow baby mouse stood up to Master.
"Master Hand," It began looking maliciously at said hand, "We have had enough!" another smasher, a man with a mustache in a doctor's uniform also spoke up.
"Yeah! You may-a treat us very badly sometimes, but this-a time you've gone too far!" Master Hand looked at them as indifferently as a hand could.
"Erm… Who are you and what have I done?"
The green wearing swordsman leapt onto the table alongside Pichu and yelled at him.
"We know what you did to Roy!"
Several Hours earlier
Pichu, Young Link and Dr. Mario were currently cleaning out the trophy gallery to make way for the New Nintendo Super Smash Bros Tournament season. These tournaments were held every new console-I mean "cycle" and was usually broadcasted throughout multiple dimensions; not just the world of trophies. Meanwhile, denizens throughout the multiverses entered to have themselves cloned into a trophy avatar and compete in the tourney.
Currently, Pichu was shocked at the fact that Young Link and Dr. Mario were currently thinking of not entering this cycle.
"Guys!" Pichu whined to his friends as the trophy gallery was being dusted. "Why aren't you entering this cycle? This is a complete TWO seasons this time!" Dr. Mario looked sadly toward the mouse while Young Link kept sweeping.
"I'm-a sorry Pichu, it's just that Master Hand does appear to have a point. He keeps-a telling us that we're just… inferior. And he's right. Besides, I can-a use this time to continue studying medicine."
"Well, what about you Young Link? Given that Toon Link might not compete, why aren't you entering?" Young Link looked down and sighed.
"To be honest, even if I was allowed back in the tourney (which I'm not) I probably wouldn't go. You see, I was interrupted from looking for… someone whom I might have fought with on occasion."
Young Link said no more.
Pichu's ears drooped. This meant that only three missing veterans would be entering the chance to reenter the cycle: Himself, Mewtwo, and the perpetually absent Roy. Curiously enough, Pichu nor anyone for that matter saw Roy after the announcement that the five failed to get in, but considering Mewtwo disappeared shortly after rather than allow himself to be re-trophified for most of the tournament, they had assumed that Roy had also left. At least until Dr. Mario inspected a large lump of dust and found a fallen trophy...
In the present…
At this point, Master Hand started laughing smugly at that little "accident" at least until he remembered that he was floating in front of four weak, angry clones. But before he could banish them to the twelfth dimension (Where his mother was trying to renegotiate with him) Roy stepped forward and bowed.
"Sir Master, if I may interject? My companions and I would like to redeem ourselves in hopes of bettering your view of us. Thus, we would like to take the Melee Tour challenge, fitting in that the melee tourney was the first (and only) official tourney we were in." The other clones and a crowd of bystanders, such as Raiden and Silver the Hedgehog, all randomly came out of nowhere and started clapping profusely.
Master Hand got tears in his non-existent eyes. Tears of horror. Would these four clones really think that he, The Master Hand, would allow them, a bunch of useless copycats (one of whom he invited for ***ts and giggles) to take the Adventure Tour?! Because they would; He has to. On the plus side, he thought, if he kills them, there would be a scandal, an investigation, and eventually an International Incident. Meanwhile, if they got killed on the tour, then the blood would be on somebody else's' hands! Muhahahahaha!
"Alright you little rascals, I'll comply. Now let's head off for Portal Park to discuss how this tea party will go down." The clones, shocked that Master actually listened to them, were wary as Young Link asked "But isn't Portal Park dangerous?"
"No it's not."
"Then what about Marth and Sonic?"
"Wha-"
"That was an accident-accidents happen-shut up!" And so Master Hand lead the mostly wary (but extremely confused in Roy's case) smashers to Portal Park, constantly muttering that nobody would have batted an eyelash at their deaths if this was "Attack of Giygas".
Unbeknownst to the group, Master Hand's "accident", like many of his other "accidents" had dire consequences. However, unlike the others, this "accident" is very colossal.
It had started out simply enough; Marth, in another bout of egotism, wanted to try the All-Star challenge; A challenge which made extensive use of the Portal Park system. However, while audiences saw Marth enter the portal, he never showed up for his match. In fact, he never showed up anywhere for a few months until he suddenly returned claiming to have no memory of anything after stepping into the portal. There were still things off about Marth after his reappearance however. Firstly, he was quite prone to fits of depression and anger, almost as if he was mad at everything. Secondly, whenever these fits came about he would wear his white outfit along with a different tiara-I mean crown consisting of an ovular hole with a blood red gem taking up most of the space, giving it the striking resemblance of a red eye. Nobody took notice of this except for Kirby and King Dedede, whom would stop whatever they were doing and cringe visibly.
Another disturbing change was Marth began talking in his sleep. While he would deny having nightmares, Marth would constantly mumble that "they" were always watching and, shortly after the reveal of three of the soon to be newcomers, seemed to be warning them to stay away before "They" arrived. After a certain point Marth would only mumble ten numbers, first four then, after a pause, six. Eventually, King Dedede had Marth attend his castle and asked one of the castle aides to watch him for the numbers. When he turned them into letters, Dedede went extremely pale and ran off like he'd just seen Kirby while holding his cake.
However, nobody else, as noted before, noticed and for those whom actually did notice, Master Hand had the portal tested several times before slapping Marth over the head and chastising him for playing such a cruel prank. That was Crazy's job. Eventually, life went back to normal in the World of Trophies.
At least until it happened again.
The second occurrence happened similarly to the first; some young upstart wanted to try All-Star mode. This time, however, it was Sonic whom had heard Marth's story and, seeing as how it would be sometime until he knew whether or not he would be around next cycle, decided to check it out. He used the Portal Park system, stepped into the portal and disappeared for several months until reemerging just in time for the announcement of the new tourney. Intriguingly, unlike Marth, Sonic was a lot more informative, telling of how he was in some sort of void, helpless to do anything other watch and listen. In terms of watching, he noted that the void was black and reddish and when it was not made up of horrifying faces, it was made up of barcodes and hexagons. This description made both Kirby and Ness grow stiff with shock. Meanwhile, in the listening department, Ness and Lucas tried to extract the memories from Sonic, but mental images of strange and sinister eyes forced them to grab only snippets of the conversation.
The snippets in question seemed to come from one source, but came out as a chorus.
"…..according…..plan…vassal…..subspace…..vassals…. .Polygon…happy…..joy…hopes…..boy…..Love…..….all reduced…..."
Very few could make sense of that conversation and those whom could make sense of some of it chose not to make themselves known.
Like Marth, Sonic underwent a change in attitude unconsciously and would also be prone to fits of negativity. He even started wearing a white cloak-like cloth with a straight line on it and seemed to sprout a second tail, although unlike his best friend, the second tail seemed greenish. He too also started mumbling about "them".
Finally it all came to a head when, after the announcement of the three newcomers, Sonic ran past The Villager and the Wii Fit Trainer, pointed at Mega Man and said six simple words.
"They were looking for you."
To those on the surface, the two cases seemed relatively unconnected and that if anyone learned something today, it was this: ego-centric people should not use Portal Park. This left two groups with inkling as to the real meaning of things: Those from the Earthbound universe, and residents of Pop Star.
Portal Park; Present
Portal Park, despite all the horrible "accidents" that happen there, was an actually calm, collected place. It was a simple field with rolling hills and great wood oaks, and if one listened closely, one could hear the sounds of mighty lumberjacks bursting into song about how they're okay and the hours of work that they accomplish and-
"Shut it narrator, I'm about to take an infodump!"
Master Hand dropped the booklet (creatively named "Plot") with a mighty grunt and turned to the four soon to be killed challengers.
"All right, you four soon to be "accident prone" suckers, listen up! You will be traveling to several different Countries, Worlds, and even dimensions in search of many badges in the shape of; a mushroom, a… DK emblem, the Triforce, a… screwball thingy, a warpstar, er… the starfox emblem (or Conarian Army Emblem… I don't care), A Pokeball, A F-Zero helmet, An Earth emblem and finally, an eggplant- And before you ask, no Roy, there isn't a Fire Emblem stage yet. Get over it! Once you have all these badges, bring them to the arena and I'll comply with whatever it was you wanted. Do you understand?" Roy raised his hand.
"Sir Master… Let's say we failed to get all the badges…" Master Hand simply snapped his fingers and opened a portal. Out of the portal, Crazy Hand popped out wielding a mallet and a trophy of Tabuu. No words were needed. Everyone jumped into the portal and was whisked away. Master continued to laugh, but Crazy was somewhat unnerved (which is really saying something).
"Brother, are you sure that Tabuu is truly gone?"
Master hand simply looked (?) at Crazy and kept laughing. "Come on Crazy," he giggled, "Don't you remember? When the Smashers killed Tabuu, they took all of Subspace out with him! Mark my words: The Subspace Emissary is dead! Gone! Ceased to exist! The only way something like that Subspace Incident could happen again was if somebody had put Tabuu up to it and takes matters into their own hands!" And so the two gloves proceeded to laugh manically… unaware of the girly swordsman and the hedgehog staring at them.
To be continued in chapter 2… whenever I finish it…
Fun fact: This chapter has three different versions: The Epic Quest of Pichu (Completely Chaotic) A second unfinished one: (Slightly Saner) and this version (On medication). The other two versions were more humor based and also contained Stage 1 of Adventure Mode.