Author's note: This is a Christmas special about five parts, maybe six that is NOT canon to my main series. Some things will crossover like the residents and temporary residents currently in the mansion, the portals and time disruptors, and the current standing of all relationships. There will be no head segments. Joker is included in this and after doing the math and splitting everyone up with a randomizer I had about 114 characters currently in the mansion to play around with during the main series. You can expect no interviews happening anytime soon, I'm going to try and not go higher than that. But, however I will try to at least feature those 114 in any shape or form. Even if they're just there and don't say anything. *looks at Paper Mario*
Also, what better time than to tell you some of the changes being made to my revisions of the main series, than now. Warning: will contain spoilers to people who have not read The ULTIMATE Smash Bros Story. Feel free to skip this part of the author's note.
Season 1 Episode 1: The Arrival: A short scene of how King K. Rool turned off the simulator.
Season 1 Episode 1: Tournament: The "Party Room" is being renamed and rethought into the "Ballroom". It was planned to be big in the beginning, but I was thinking party room at the time for events instead of formal events.
Season 1 Episode 4: Punishment: Swapped Pac-Man with Shulk since the monado boy was actually caught by Master Hand, but was never actually punished. Pac-Man wasn't featured in that previous episode.
Season 1 Episode 7: The Date: Plan to add another scene of Zelda trying to comfort Lucina.
Season 1 Episode 10 & 11: Worlds Tour: Will have slight title addition and the second part will be slightly extended.
Season 1 Episode 21: The Octarian's Invasion Part 3: DJ Octavio: Will add an alternate (still good) ending if DJ Octavio didn't suddenly turn good since we don't have clear standing of his role in the anticipated Splatoon 3. This alternate ending will become the main ending.
Season 2 episode 8: Competition: Mistakes were made. I had sent Lana back to her world for not having a good reason for wanting to become a resident, yet she still became a resident. So either, I remove Lana from the mansion roster, or I come up with a reason. Probably going to do the latter.
With that out of the way let's begin.
A Very Merry Smashmas p1: Secret Santa
'Twas a time of giving and cheer as Christmas was approaching the Smash Island at a fast place. Shops and businesses throughout the city were decorated, ready for the holidays. Master Hand loved Christmas since it does the one thing he strives for when starting, helping build new relationships and spending time with family. Though he doesn't admit it that often he considers the residents of the smash mansion as a family. Even if they sometimes drive him crazy.
To start the day off snow had begun to fall onto the Smash Island, and the disembodied hand (the form I came up with does not crossover into this story) was decorating the mansion for the holidays. Helping him was Mario, Link, Kirby, Geno, and Layton.
"So how exactly does Christmas work around here," Link asked to the others, "I haven't exactly been here in the past years."
"I have to ask the same question, Master Hand," Layton said, "I don't want to walk in blind."
"Well," Master Hand said while putting lights on the porch, "first we decorate of course, then later on in the day we do the secret santa. That's when you pull a name out of a bag and then get something for that person."
Link cocked his head, "That seems… complicated."
"It's-a usually easy to-a understand Link," Mario said while setting up the inflatable snowman. "Then again this-a is your-a first time doing-a Christmas to begin with-a."
"When do we do the whole bag thing," Link asked again. "Also, are we restricted to get something for that one person only?"
"Sometime in the afternoon," Master Hand said, "after some decoration is finished for the mansion." Master Hand finished wrapping the lights around the porch and went to check the electrical circuits. "As for your other question, you're not restricted to just getting that one person something. You can get someone else a gift if you want to, but you have to at least get something for the person you pulled."
Link tapped his chin in thought, smiling to himself, "Good to know." He then happily went back to decorating the outside while the others were looking at him, confused.
"We is he suddenly happy," Kirby asked Professor Layton.
"Leave him alone Kirby," Layton said, "he's mature yet naive at the same time, unless he has a plan brewing." I bold assumption of Layton.
Inside the living room Master Hand had assigned Pac-Man, Isaac, Goombella, Paper Mario, and Joker to take care of the tree. R.O.B, Marth, and Caeda were there for extra help if needed. Right now was the argument of whether they should get a synthetic tree or a real one.
"We should get a real pine tree," Pac-Man said with Isaac and Goombella on his side. "With a real one it would give a nice smell to the room, and not to mention the surrounding rooms. Maybe even the ornaments will have that fresh pine smell."
"Please," Joker said with Paper Mario and R.O.B. on his side. "An actual pine tree would die literally after two weeks." Only if you don't take care of it, Joker. "With a synthetic tree we would save money, don't have to worry about giving it water, and best of all we can store it and use it next year."
Marth and Caeda were watching from the sidelines as the argument continued. Marth finally decided to play peace setter when Joker and Pac-Man were about to do and all-out fight. "Okay you two calm down," Marth said breaking the two up, "This isn't getting us anywhere. I suggest we check the storage room for a synthetic tree, if there's none in there then we can use a real tree."
"And then if there is a synthetic tree in the storage room then we can use that," Caeda said, finishing Marth's sentence.
"I can agree on that," Isaac said. One-by-one others favored that idea, Pac-Man and Joker being reluctant, but since they were out of options, so the obliged. They then left for the storage room. "So what's the chances we'll find a synthetic tree on the storage room," Isaac asked.
"GIVEN THE FACT...THAT THE AUTHOR USES...A SYNTHETIC TREE...VERY LIKELY," R.O.B. said as they continued down the hall. Man, I love doing fourth wall breaks.
On the way down they had bumped into Little Mac who had somehow intercepted the bag of names. Marth eyed this suspiciously and asked, "Little Mac, what are you doing?" This sentence caused the boxer to jump.
"Uh," Little Mac nervously said, "I'm definitely not grabbing Samus's name out of the bag so I can get something really special for her."
"Good save," Joker said sarcastically, he then took out a dagger, "now put it back." Isaac lowered Joker's dagger as Little Mac did as told.
"You don't have to use violence as a way of convincing people," Isaac said as the group continued. "Keep doing stuff like that and you'll face Master Hand."
"Noted," Joker said, especially since the fact their voices are very similar it really freaks him out. Probably does the same for the disembodied hand.
Henry was currently experimenting with certain hexes since Master Hand asked him to find something that would give the mansion the Christmas spirit it needed. The unfortunate soul that agreed to be the guinea pig was Pit.
Pit was just chilling on the couch in Henry's room while the dark mage was preparing the hexes and their antidotes in case they cause Pit near-death problems.
"Okay Pit," Henry said, closing his book, "you ready to feel the Christmas cheer so hard that you may die."
"You bet," Pit said in excitement, "but Master Hand told what he was looking for when he said Christmas cheer, right? Also when you say "you may die" you meant that metaphorically, right?"
"Don't worry Pit, Master Hand explained everything to me." Henry was about to do the first one when he noticed Lucina at the door. "And why are you here milady."
"Just waiting to see if you are capable of finding a way for me to be protected from Tharja's abilities," Lucina answers.
"Princess," Henry said, "if you want protection from Tharja's dark magic then you'll have to go to Rocket for that. Anyway!" Henry used the first spell.
And Pit turned into a life-size gingerbread man that was shaped like him. Lucina has a face of horror. "Just wait princess," Henry said as the gingerbread cracked and was revealed to be shell as it broke opened and reveal Pit inside gasping for air. The shell cracked into normal sized gingerbread cookies shaped and decorated to look like Pit.
"Well, would you look at that," Lucina said as Henry quickly grabbed the cookies and put them on a plate. Or multiple plates as the were a lot. "What about the five second rule?"
Henry shrugged, "Not like anyone would know. Not to mention, I'm pretty most people in this mansion wouldn't even care. I just need to use this next one to add variety to the cookies so they're shaped like multiple fighters and not just Pit. Then again.."
"You're doing things that Ricken would be better at," Lucina asked and Henry nodded. "Then why not bring him here I'm sure you two will work great together."
Henry thought about this, then said, "What the heck, let's find one of those portal things and get him here." Henry and Lucina left and Pit decided to help himself to the cookies.
"Floor cookies," Pit said to himself, "just as good as floor ice cream." Keep thinking that Pit.
Marth and his group opened he door to the rarely visited storage room to find the needed synthetic tree. Pac-Man, Isaac, and Goombella waited outside just so they could head right out and get a tree in the case one wasn't there.
Marth turned on the lights and said, "Okay, everyone spread out and look." Everyone did so while sweeping away the mass amount of dust.
Joker opened a box full of old pictures, "Wait a minute," he said pulling one out and looking at it. The picture dated back to 2000. "Hey guys check this out." Caeda, and Paper Mario walked over and looked at what Joker was looking at. "I think this box is full of old pictures from back in the day."
Paper Mario got an idea and motioned for a piece of paper and a pencil. R.O.B. came over and provided the items. The paper version of Mario was scribbling away and held up the paper. It read, "How about we take this box out, show it to Master Hand, and place them throughout the mansion to remind people of the true meaning of Christmas."
"That's not a bad idea," Caeda said while picking up the box. "Knowing Master Hand's love for the holiday I'm sure he'd be thrilled to see it."
"MARTH…," R.O.B said, "HAVE YOU FOUND…A TREE YET."
"No," Marth said who was nearing the back of the storage room, "there's none to be found." Pac-Man and his group saw this as a green light and ran off to get a tree. "Mind helping me out," Marth said as the rest of the group quickly ran over to where he was.
They kept on looking until Paper Mario was frantically pointing at a box. It read "Tree" "That must be it," Joker said as R.O.B quickly activated his thrusters and lifted the box above the desired one.
Marth then opened it and saw a stand and parts of a tree, "We found it." The hero king picked up the box with Joker and they left the room with Paper Mario turning off the lights and closing the door as they left.
"Where did Pac-Man and the others go," Caeda said as they were no longer at the side of the door.
"Probably getting something to help decorate," Marth said. "Now we need to get this to the living room and put the ornaments on." They all went back down the hall.
Little Mac was back in his room and was sulking on his bed for coming close to getting Samus's name from the bag. It wasn't until Doc Louis walked into the room when he completely snapped out of his deep thoughts. "Oh, hey Doc," Little Mac said trying not to sound sad.
Unfortunately for him, the trainer saw through this. "You can't get anything past me champ," Doc Louis said as he sat down next to Little Mac, "What's on your mind?"
"Nothing," Little Mac said, he then noticed the look Doc was giving him. After sighing, "It's just that, I have a slight crush on Samus I was hoping I could sneak her name out of the bag and get her something amazing to see what she thought of me. I don't know how I'm going to be able to do that though."
Doc Louis felt sympathy for Mac. "Son," he said, "when you love someone and you want to do something special for them. You don't need the secret Santa. You can do something special for her anytime you want. Then again, that bounty hunter's anti-social."
He noticed Little Mac looking down and took back that last sentence. "Look Mac what I'm is, follow your heart. Sometimes it will do you wonder."
Little Mac spirits look like they were lifted, "That's actually really good advice, thanks Doc."
"Anytime champ," Doc said getting up, "now if you excuse me Palutena said there's a tray of eggnog set up in the living room if anyone wants it." The trainer walked out of the room. Little Mac got an idea and went on the computer in his room.
The decorations were all set up outside, now all they had to do was see if the lights worked. Master Hand worked through the electricals and flipped the switch and the Mansion filled up with the Christmas spirit. "Well, pretty good if I do say so myself," Master Hand said, "I'd like to thank you all for helping me." He then went back into the mansion with others following. Remembering something right there he said, "Oh, word of warning watch which girls you're with, the villains tend to go around the mansion with mistletoes to try and put residents in awkward situations."
Layton tipped his hat, Mario and Link nodded, Geno crossed his arms because it didn't matter to him, and Kirby was confused, despite the villains doing this for the past five years. Once back inside they heard and ornament break. Master Hand went into the living room to see a normal red ornament broken on the floor with Paper Mario, hanging his head in shame. Master Hand went next to the paper version and said, "Ah, it's ok, so we break a few there's still plenty left."
Master Hand snapped the mess away and Paper Mario got back up a lot happier and continued to help. Caeda approached Master Hand and said, "Um, Master Hand don't want to bother you but-"
"No go ahead, I'm all hands," Master Hand said. Did I use that joke already? "What is it."
"Well, we found these old pictures of the residents while looking for the tree, and we were wondering if you were okay with us hanging some of these up around the mansion for the holiday." Master Hand slowly grabbed the picture Caeda was holding.
"I haven't seen these in so long," Master Hand said taking the memories in, if his programming allowed tear shedding, he would. "Let's do it, get every single one of these pictures hung up around the mansion." Something caught his eye, "but, I think I might keep this one in my office, something for motivation when I don't feel any." It was a group picture of the original twelve from Christmas 1999.
The doors to the room then opened as Pac-Man and Isaac walked in with a pine tree, Goombella tagging behind. "Okay," Pac-Man said, "found this perfect, real, pine tree at a place outside and…" He then noticed a mostly decorated synthetic tree. "What?"
"Wait a minute," Joker said, "You went out and got a real tree, even though he hadn't examined the whole storage room yet."
"We heard Marth say something about not finding anything," Isaac said.
"I meant that for what I looked at so far," Marth said annoyed, "not the storage room as a whole."
"So now what," Goombella said, "we just let this tree go to waste?"
"Actually," Master Hand said, "I have the perfect place for this tree." He carefully grabbed the trunk and teleported everyone to the ballroom. He then summoned a stand filled with water and placed the tree in. "This tree would be the perfect decoration for the party we plan on having in here."
"Huh," Isaac said, "So I guess it's a win-win."
"Yep, and the decorations outside are finished, you know what that means," Master Hand said teleporting away. His voice was then heard over the intercom saying, "Can all residents please report to the meeting room for the secret santa distribution."
In the meeting room everyone was talking to one another until Master Hand floated on stage with Isabelle behind him. "Okay," said the disembodied hand, "Isabelle here will take a name from the bag first. Then, she'll walk around to everyone and you will all take a name, without looking, from the bag. If you call out the name before everyone has a name, or if you rummage through the bag we will start over. We will only start over three times though so cooperate."
Isabelle took a name out of the bag, and then started walking around the room. She was about halfway done when Wario yelled, "Ah, come on! I got Wii Fit Trainer." Everyone groaned and sent dirty looks towards the greedy microgamer as Isabelle recollected the names and started again.
The second time was successful. "Okay, now you can look at the name feel free to tell someone if you want, but don't yell it out," Master Hand said as some did so. (Names we decided by a team generator. Some of these were total fate and help me with some drama. How this worked is that the first name in each group would get something for the second name of the group the second person would get a gift for the first person in the next group. Example: Dark - Young Link, Young Link-Rosalina and so on and so forth)
"Daddy, look," Bowser Jr. said, "I got Orange, who did you get?"
"Well if you look here Junior," Bowser said, "I got Isabelle. Ah, but you got the female inkling, gonna get something really special for here." He said this part teasingly. Unfortunately, he forgot Orange was taken.
"It's not like that Daddy," Bowser Jr said, he then whispered in his ear, "She's already taken by Blue."
"Hmm, Junior, whether she's taken or not, I will make sure you get her something she will love." Bowser Jr. was so happy his dad was acting like and actual, responsible dad and hugged him.
Zelda (ALttP) was looking at her slip inquisitively, "Link look," she said, "I have to get Cap'n Cuttlefish something. What am I supposed to get for a man that old."
"I don't know," Link said, "but I will tell you, nothing that may send a bad vibe to him. I've been warned by Agent 4 he can do that. But it's definitely harder then finding Richter something."
"Okay everyone," Master Hand said, "time for dinner. Good luck on finding someone something."
Everyone left for the dining room, but Red (pokemon) was left behind wondering one thing, What the heck do I get for a robot who's the last of his kind.
Some names may be hard, but the festivities were just beginning.