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Disclaimer: Super Smash Bros. is owned by Nintendo. Pit belongs to Nintendo, and Sonic belongs to SEGA.

Stage Zero (A Super Smash Brothers Brawl Story)

Chapter 1: Grudge Match

Once upon a time...

Wait. No. I'm not doing that overly-used cliche story opening. This might have happened once, and it was during a time, but no. I'm not using that. Not even "once during an adventure in a faraway land" or "in the beginning..." or anything. I'm not going to do any stupid things. This definitely isn't a fairytale.

Now let's try this again...

"We're stuck."

"We're stuck?! What do you mean, 'We're stuck'?!"

"I mean I can't get us out of here," Pit explained, exasperated. He was still tired from the battle he just lost against the his least favorite ego-driven blue hedgehog.

"Please tell me you're joking. Please tell me that this is just a prank from one of my friends or something," Sonic pleaded, getting restless. "Just tell me that we're not actually in this totally uncool situation."

"Why would I be joking? You know I'm terrible at pranks and puns and all that stuff. How would I even think of this?" Pit questioned. "I'm from an less popular game as well, so nobody would think of telling me to do something like this. Especially not your friends or anything."

"But how did this happen? This was supposed to be just an early-morning brawl! Nobody was supposed to know about this little fight between the two of us!"

"I don't think anybody does, Sonic. I think that the system glitched. Where's Master Hand when you need him?"

Sonic shrugged before trying to get the attention of the all-powerful boss of the Smash Mansion...by starting another fight.

"WAITSONICDON'TKILLME!"

Pit blasted towards the side of the Final Destination stage as Sonic got ready to strike again. But Pit was already too close to the Kill Point at the edge of the augmented reality. Because of inertia of the stage moving so fast over so many landscapes, he didn't hit the KP next to him, but behind him. The fire that hid the teleportation to the top of the stage on those floating platforms was accompanied by the classic explosion sound. Another KO for Sonic against Pit, but it didn't recognize the point for him on the system. Confused, Sonic looked up to see if Pit was still alive.

Luckily, the system wasn't glitched too badly, because Pit was standing there on the dimensional platforms that held all of the fighters after they respawned. Unluckily, Pit was now very angry at a certain fast animal Smasher.

"SONIC! I'M GONNA KILL YOU!"

Pit slammed into Sonic with a downwards smash, stabbing the hedgehog in the face as he tried to turn and run. Yelling in pain, Sonic spindashed against Pit in an attempt to do damage while running away. This only gave Pit the moment he needed as he shot a blue glowing arrow of a piercing shot at the blurry ball that was traveling away from them. The landscape behind them turned into a cloudy sky as they continued fighting.

"You coward! Of course you would run away!" Pit shouted, running towards the Blue Blur with his bow turned back into his two specialized swords. As Sonic sped back the other way to avoid falling off the edge of the stage, Pit charged up a smash attack, releasing it just as Sonic was about to hit him. Blades collided with fur, and Sonic was thrown backwards as Pit yelled out in fury. The hedgehog responded by performing an aerial homing dash, knocking the winged fighter off of his feet.

Just as Pit was about to retaliate, both fighters froze in their positions. "Whoa, whoa, whoa!" A voice shouted across the Smashverse. "Everyone stop! Stop fighting!" Anyone listening immediately recognized the voice to belong to Master Hand, the one in charge of all things Smash. Sonic and Pit guiltily looked towards the sky, waiting, as the hand's power released them from their frozen state. They were caught.

"Alright, whose idea was it to break the system?" Asked the voice. They looked around, confused. Somebody broke the system? "Really? Nobody knows why there is an essential part of the machine that runs this place which is currently on fire? No?" Everyone shrugged.

"And did you really have to have these grudge matches at night, against the rules?" Master Hand questioned. "I've got 6 Smashers stuck in stages and no way to get them out. Maybe we'll have to do this the hard way..."

"What do you mean, the hard way?"

The hand responded. "Ah, Pit. Still haven't settled your anger issues with that hedgehog, I see. Anyways, the part of the system that was removed has to do with exiting the stages. Since it's gone, you're stuck there, in places throughout the multiverse...but some of you probably know that already.

"It's most dangerous for the two stuck on Final Destination, I'm afraid. The nature of the stage makes it hard to predict where you'll be at what time, and even which universe you might be in," Master Hand explained. "So you'll have to take a risk. Everyone, I'm deactivating the Kill Points, so you can find a safe place or use whatever power there is in that universe to get back here. Meanwhile, I'll have to find the saboteurs and cancel the tournaments for the foreseeable future."

Suddenly, the voice in the sky answered someone in another stage. "Fox asked what they should do if they were in a universe without too many mythical powers. In that case, just find a safe place until someone else gets you out.

"I'll be able to speak with you, but not much else. Now if you excuse me, I have someone to track down. Master Hand out."

Sonic was speechless. Being stuck for possibly days? Totally uncool! Pit, however, had things to say. "Well, I guess that's that. Now I guess we should go. Sonic?" The blue hedgehog turned. "You'll have to trust me for now, despite what happened between us the other day. Just because I'm better at controlling my smash doesn't mean you need to get angry," Pit declared, holding out his hand.

Just then, a smash ball came out of nowhere, with a note attached. It read: For emergencies ONLY! Not for grudge knockouts! I'm looking at you two, Sonic and Pit! They took it, rolling their eyes.

Sonic sighed. "Just so you know, this doesn't make you a friend or anything. You're still lame, while I'm way past cool!" And with that, he grabbed Pit's hand (since the latter could fly), and leapt off of the quickly moving stage, into the unknown.