A/N: Hello readers of Super Smash Bros fanfiction! It feels good to take another shot at making a story for this wonder videogame series. The last two stories I made weren't too good in my opinion, despite the overall positive responses I received on them. Now I'm back and hopefully better than I was back then! Also, another thing I'd like to say is this story is my 20th story on so hooray for me! Enough with my babbling, let's get this show on the ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOAD!
Disclaimer: I do not own Super Smash Bros, Nintendo does. KTHXBAI!
The Rise and Fall of M. Hand
By: TRIGGER MIKE THE GREAT
Chapter 1
Princess Peach Toadstool's Point of View…
My head is spinning and everything feels so different to me now. I could have sworn just less than a couple of minutes ago I was in my kitchen, but this atmosphere, this surrounding, this setting doesn't feel right. I slowly open my eyes and instantly notice an unfamiliar silver metallic tint to the walls. Definitely not the pink walls that cover my kitchen. Everything was kind of a blur to me as I also noticed bars on the left side of me. My eyes finally regain their complete vision as I finally realized I was definitely not at my castle.
"Mario?" I called out the name of my male companion. The response I was getting back was the echoes of my voice bouncing off the wall. "MARIO?!" I yelled out again, raising my tone a little. However, it made no difference besides only causing my echoes to become louder and cause my ears to rattle.
I let off a small moan as I grabbed the back of my head where someone or something had struck me at prior to arriving wherever I was. This new setting I was in definitely sent negative chills up my spine as my blue eyes surveyed my new habitat. To my left were some iron bars, behind me, to my right and straight in front of me was three walls made of metal. The metal was so shiny I could see my reflection in it. My peach colored dressed was torn in certain areas and also dirty. The golden blonde hair that I take such pride in was unkempt. I am the Princess of The Mushroom Kingdom, not some peasant from the Bean Bean Kingdom. Now after seeing my terrible reflection, I really wanted to know what happened and why I'm here.
"I bet this has something to do with Bowser." I spoke to myself.
Right as I was about to try and pluck out a Bob-omb from the ground, a tremor or something close to it began and caused me to fall down. I rubbed my sore rear as I then heard a familiar voice let out a high pitch scream.
"Zelda?" my ears wiggled as her signature high pitch scream went off again.
Without having any second thoughts, I began plucking my infamous turnips from the ground hoping one would be a black sphere with eyes, brown boots and a small fuse on top of its head. Eventually after working up a small sweat, I finally pulled one out and tossed it directly at the wall in front of me. Doing a quick pivot, I crouched down and placed my hands over my head as I heard the explosion and couldn't help but look delighted as I knew that bomb had to make a puncture in the wall.
"And what do you think you're doing?" a voice shouted from the opposite side of the bars.
I turned around and saw a man dressed in a familiar outfit to Wolf O' Donnell's. The way his eyes were locked on to me wasn't flattering at all. Doesn't he know that I'm royalty?
"Can you tell me why I'm here?"
"That information is classified." he hissed just like a snake. "However I will tell you that these walls are indestructible thanks to my lord and master."
Not wanting to believe him, I then flung my hip directly into the wall and bounced off with tremendous force. I smirked at him, but then noticed he was pointing at the wall and laughing at me. His laughter haunted me as I slowly turned around and notice that the wall sparkled like it was brand new. Gravity then forced my body to the fall first into the ground out of embarrassment. I quickly hopped back onto my feet and dusted my dress off.
"So are you one of Bowser's new minions?" I asked, trying to drag some answers out of him.
"Pfft, that guy?" the figure snorted. "He is a disgrace to all reptiles like myself."
"Now I'm not trying to defend Bowser or anything, but he's the King of Koopas. The most terrified being of all the Mushroom Kingdom." I frowned as I arched my eyebrow. "Who in the world are you?"
The figure gasped and laugh out a small laugh. He then placed his hands on both of his hips as I looked at him like he wasn't the brightest crayon in the box.
"Annoying woman, I am the great Leon!" he then pulled out his blaster and aimed at me. "Now I've been order to shoot you if you don't cooperate!"
Hearing those words come out of his mouth caused me to think twice about how I was acting. It look like he meant business as I stared up the barrel of his blaster. Leon noticed the scared look plastered on my face.
"Alright, now listen to me very carefully. The boss will be here momentarily to transport you to Venom." Leon spoke as the ground began to rumble again. "I don't understand why Wolf chose to build a base out here anyways."
"Where is out here?"
"Titania."
I scratched my head out of total confusion. Even though I've visited many places, this one doesn't even come close to ringing a bell. Leon was trying to read my facial expressions and I guess he predicted that I was confused since he rolled his eyes and let out a deep sigh.
"This is a remote planet near Venom. The population is very low and there's a reason for that." he then pulled an electronic device from out of his utility belt. "The temperature right now is near sixty degrees Celsius out there now."
"So it's about one-hundred and forty degrees Fahrenheit?" I guessed while crossing my fingers hoping my converting knowledge was on point.
"That is correct, Princess." Leon slowly clapped as I giggled. Suddenly the screams of Princess Zelda could be heard down the corridor as the ground shook violently again. "Shut your mouth or else I'm coming down there!"
The screams became mute and I saw that chameleon show off that nasty smirk of his again. If I knew a way to get out of this cell, I would definitely introduce him to my three friends. My golf club, my tennis racket and my frying pan.
"Leon and Panther I need you two to report to the main control room immediately." a rough voice growled through the intercom.
'That guy sounds kind of cranky, that must have been Wolf!' I concluded in my mind.
Leon then pressed a button on the side of his headset to communicate back to his leader. "Leon is on the way!"
"Toodles!" I cooed as I saw him walking away. He then showed me a finger that hopefully I'll get to break off once I find a way out of here.
Meanwhile at Princess Peach's Castle…
Mario's P.O.V.
Every since my first time arriving to the Mushroom Kingdom, I've always noticed that Toad was very protective of his princess. He had every right to be since she's a great ruler of this land. From the first time Bowser kidnapped Peach and took her to his homeland to our most recent encounter in outer space, Toad was always there trying his best to help me rescue Peach. Today was no different as I stood before Toad and listened to him cry on about a group of bounty hunters kidnapping the princess. At first I thought it was a pratical joke. Especially since Peach just called me less than an hour ago and told me that she whipped up a super breakfast for her Super Mario.
"So lemme get this straight…" I held up my index finger as I began to recap what the mushroom humanoid told me. "Peach was applying the final touches to some pancakes right after she called me and a group of men came in a big white ship came and knocked out Peach?"
"Yes Mario!" Toad whimpered as he wiped some tears from his eyes. "It was terrible! Not even Bowser has ever did what these low-lives did!"
As Toad explained to me in detail what he saw, my fists balled up and I could feel the anger burning inside of me. From the descriptions he gave me though I found it hard to believe that it was done by them. The big white ship is the Great Fox which is owned by Fox McCloud.
"So you're telling me that the Star Fox team did this?"
"I think so Mario, that's what I saw on the side of the ship!" Toad exclaimed. "Even though my vision was blurry from all the tears, I know one of the guys had a big bushy tail just like a fox."
It had to have been Fox. But why would he kidnap the princess, better yet why would he kidnap my woman? I thought we were friends, I thought Fox was on our side! Well he's going to pay for what he has done.
"Mario, are you going to go save the princess alone? Those guys looked pretty darn tough."
"Well, I have to admit that life was pretty boring as of late. Too peaceful, so this will give me another great adventure for the history books." I tried to lighten up the situation. "Now as far as help goes, all I will need is Luigi."
"Luigi went on that cruise with Daisy, remember?"
"Darn it!" I nearly cussed. "Hmm…I need to go with at least one more person."
I saw Toad shyly raise his hand but I automatically shook my head from left to right. I heard him moan but I only did it for his own safety. If I'm truly dealing with Fox and his team then Toad would be a dead man walking.
"Over the years your friendship with the neighboring worlds have grown tremendously. You can get help from practically anyone from the Super Smash Brothers League."
"Good point, Toad!" I rubbed his head as I dug into my pocket and grabbed a Smash ball. Even though in the last tournament these balls were used to unleash our Final Smash attacks, they also serve as a way for us to communicate since most of the worlds don't have telephones. "I'll try to get in contact with Link first."
Back at Titania…
Wolf O' Donnell's P.O.V.
It's just like Panther to be late to a meeting. I wouldn't even really consider this a meeting. It's more like a quick huddle to discuss the plan to transport our three hostages to Venom. Leon looks like he wants to say something, let's see if I can drag it out of him.
"Leon!" I slammed my fists into my desk, in attempts to frighten the chameleon. "How has the princess that Mario is devoted to been acting?"
"She has no clue what's going on. I think that whack to the head really did its job, sir." Leon stated. "All though she has already tried to escape."
"Ha! Foolish broad. There's no way she'll be able escape that cell." I snickered. "Is that why you look worried? You think that Peach is going to find a way out of her cell while you're here?"
"It's possible…"
When he said that it made me want to hop across my desk and slash his face up until all the skin was gone. Lucky for him, my anger management classes are starting to pay off. Right before I could start to insult him, Panther waltz into the room like he was on time.
"Thanks for joining us five minutes later, Panther." I retorted. "Now that you're hear I need you guys to be one-hundred and ten percent on your toes."
"Yes sir!" they both replied in unison. "Now our plan worked out pretty well since we successfully stole the Great Fox from the worthless Star Fox team. Any witnesses to our two kidnappings will definitely think it was committed by Fox, Falco and Slippy."
"Now hold up, Wolf." Panther cut me off. Bad choice. "I'm pretty sure that fairy saw all THREE of us kidnapping Zelda. Same thing with that mushroom midget at the castle."
"Stupid cat!" Leon shouted from across the room. "Don't you remember that the leader gave us holographic cloaks? So we could disguise ourselves as Fox, Falco and Slippy?"
"Oh…" Panther's eyes darted around the room as he gulped.
All I could do was place my forehead into my palm and grunt as I knew that this meant that Panther did NOT turn on his cloak during the kidnapping processes. Now the plan might be ruined because of this reject!
"You're an idiot, you know that?" I hollered at him. "This whole plan might be in the toilet because of your ignorance!"
"Calm down, Wolfie…"
Leon gulped as he heard Panther say the one word that no one should ever call the leader of Star Wolf. Panther then smiled at me as he pulled out his trademark rose and tossed it to me. The big black cat then got up from his seat and dismissed himself from the room.
'I'll deal with him later' I thought to myself as I was about to pounce on him. Instead I sat back down and looked at Leon.
"Listen up Powalski, we're going to transport those broads via Bowser's Airship. He should be arriving very shortly. Once they are abroad then we'll start Phase 2 of the mission."
"There's a Phase 2?" Leon croaked.
"Yep which can help add a couple of extra zeros at the end of our checks, Leon."
Meanwhile in Hyrule…
Link's Point of View
It feels really good to tighten my boots and load up my supply bag knowing it's time for another adventure to rescue Princess Zelda. From the information Navi gave me about the gang of hooligans that kidnapped the princess of Hyrule seemed like a pretty tough team. I couldn't help but scratch my head in confusion as the descriptions given to me by my fairy since they matched the identity of Fox, Falco and some huge black panther.
"Navi, are you sure that the people that carried away Zelda looked like a Fox, a blue falcon and a big black panther?" I ran a hand through my blonde hair as I watched the tiny blue circle known as Navi fly around me.
"Yes!" she squeaked. "They came on a huge white ship and ambushed the princess. Then they took her away on a tractor beam."
"Damn them!" I yelled as I tightened my grip on the Master Sword. "How could the Star Fox team do such a terrible thing to a woman, let alone the princess of Hyrule!"
"Well Link, don't forget that Fox himself has considered his team as a group of mercenaries."
The words that my sidekick let escape from her mouth and enter my earlobe made complete sense. Still, the fact that Fox, a good friend of mine would kidnap someone that's close to my heart? Something isn't right. I don't even recall a panther being a part of the Star Fox team. Just as I was about to whistle for Epona to come, a familiar beacon began to go haywire inside of my tunic. I dug deep into my outfit and snatched out the Smash Ball. My blue eyes scanned the sphere as its bright colors displayed a beautiful pattern that put me in a temporary state of relaxation.
"Yo!" Navi yelled, instantly snapping me out of my trance. "Are you going to eyeball the Smash Ball or are you going to answer the distress signal?"
My eyes turned into slits as I stared at the dime size fairy before I began to twist the ball around like a rubix cube. Now to the common eye you would have thought I was just playing around with the Smash Ball. In reality though, it was completely a unique sequence that allows me to open my Smash Ball and allow me to have communication with people outside of my world. Once I did the final twist sequence, the ball snapped open as a image of Mario was instantly projected into the clear sky.
"Link, how are you?" the plumber from Brooklyn greeted me with his trademark smile.
"Not too good, it seems Fox thought it would be funny to kidnap Zelda." I counterattacked his smile with a frown. "Him, Falco and a panther of some sort jumped her and took her probably to Corneria.
"Oh really?" Mario asked, twisting his mustache with his index finger. "Peachy has also been taken away by Star Fox."
"You know, something doesn't seem right."
"I think you're right Link. Well that's why I called because I need your help."
"I'll help you, if you help me." my lips curved into a smile.
"Deal." the elder Mario brother nodded his head. "Now all we've got to do is find out where the Great Fox is at right now."
Back At The Holding Cells…
Princess Zelda's P.O.V…
Ugh! These tremors keep coming and getting worse! I wonder why Wolf chose this place as a base. I remember after they kidnapped me, they kept talking about taking Peach, Samus Aran and myself to Venom. However I know for a fact that we aren't on Venom, we are on Titania. What in the world would Wolf want with all three of us though? He's just a bounty hunter, which means he only hijacked me for someone else. They say Andross lives on Venom, but why would he want us? Maybe he wants to harness the power of my wisdom? But what do Peach and Samus offer to him then? So many question that won't get any answers from me being stuck in this cell. Din's Fire should give me the first answer on how to get out of this cell. The heat started in my heart and flowed through my body and gradually built up as it reached my hand. I then took aim at the iron bars in front of me as I took a deep breath. My hand started to glow red as I saw some of the flames escaping my fingertips. Not able to contain the fury within anymore I shot out the remaining fire from my hand in a perfect orb as it flew full speed towards the obstacle that was keeping me from escaping. My Din's Fire made a perfect hole through the bars as I panted heavily.
"WARNING! WARNING! SECURITY VIOLATION IN CELL A! WARNING! WARNING! SECURITY VIOLATION IN CELL A!" an automated voice boomed through the public address system as the lights began to flash red and yellow.
"Uh oh, I better go find the others now!" I gasped as I dashed down the corridor
After sprinting down the hallway, I noticed a cell holding one of the most feared bounty hunters in all of the Nintendo universe. She looked different without her Power Suit. Instead she was wearing her blue Zero Suit. When I stopped in front of her cell, she looked up at me and gave me a weak smile.
"Who would have thought that little ol' Zelda would be rescuing me!" Samus chuckled. "If I had my suit right now I would have blasted Lord O' Donnell's head off by now."
"We can plot an attack on him later, right now we need to get out of here." I said, closing my eyes and focusing my magic.
Once again my magical powers took control of my body as I did a couple of revolutions. While I spun around frantically the power of Nayru's Love surrounded me in a crystal like shape. Down towards the bottom a row of shards extended from the crystal containing my body and tore into the iron bars holding away my friend. Samus stepped back as she saw the bars getting slice in half.
"Okay Zelda, you've cut through." Samus warned me. "You can stop before you cut me!"
Her fears of getting sliced signaled for me to stop spinning and allow Nayru's Love to wear off. Samus then stepped through the newly created opening and signaled for me to follow her lead.
"Alright, if we can get outside, I can call for my ship." Samus began typing in some coordinates into her metallic wristband.
"Hold on, we can't leave without Peach."
"Princess Peach is here?" her face was full of surprise. I slowly nodded my head as the buzzing of the alarm system's ringing began to take toll on my eardrums.
"Yep, Wolf and his goons kidnapped the three of us for some odd reason." I explained to her as we started to advance up to Cell C where the princess of the Mushroom Kingdom was being held captive.
Right as we were approaching the cell, a group of polygon guards shaped like Mario, Kirby, Captain Falcon and myself stood in front of Peach's cell. Each was armed with a Super Scope and they had a pretty good shot on both of us. Without saying a word to one another, we split up and took a side to attack from. Since I was on the left, Captain Falcon and my polygon doppelganger were my opponents. To my right side, Samus was engaging in battle with Mario and Kirby. All four emptied their clips as we sidestepped and dodged every shot.
"Zelda!" Peach yelled from her cell. "Get me out of HERE!"
"It'll be only a couple of seconds." I grinned to her as Captain Falcon charged at me.
The polygon version of the F-Zero Grand Prix championship racer lunged towards me. Knowing that these were mindless clones, I could help but laugh out loud at his foolish attempt to kill me. As soon as he was in striking distance, he performed his Raptor Boost attack. When I saw his right arm coming towards my face, I did a quick sidestep which caused him to fall flat on his face. I then lifted my right leg up and stepped on his back and pinned him down with my heel. The heel easily stabbed through his polygon shell and caused him to crack into pieces. My doppelganger then use her version of Farore's Wind and teleported behind me. My reaction time wasn't fast enough since she was able to then hit with a powerful thrust. As she extended her hands forwards and allowed the magic to disperse from her fingertips, it knocked me back into the wall.
"Zelda!" I heard Peach call out. "Are you okay?"
"I'm fine."
I then rose to my feet and shot a barrage of Din's Fire at the purple figure. This polygon was a lot smarter than the previous one I fought because she nimbly dodged my bombardment. Using most of my magic power made me extremely fatigue as I began to breath heavily.
Peach's Point of View…
Things weren't looking too good for Zelda as her doppelganger was out matching her in every department. However on the other side I could see that Samus was handling her opponents with relative ease. Even though she was only equipped in her Zero Suit, she still had enough firepower to handle a couple of mindless clones. Polygon Mario shot a fireball at her while Polygon Kirby did his Final Cutter attack and used the blade as a projectile. They had Samus surrounded until she did a flip in the air which caused the attacks aimed for her to hit them instead. For a tomboyish figure, she is extremely gracefully when she's not wearing her Power Suit. Like a cat she landed on her feet behind Mario and use her paralyzer to stun him. Not able to escape from her attack, Samus then concreted the plasma energy into a whip and leashed the polygon in half. Good thing those things weren't filled with organs or else these steel walls would be painted red. The polygon Kirby did a 360 degree turn and swung his wooden hammer at the intergalactic beauty. Once again she proved how graceful she was by doing a cartwheel and countered with a roundhouse kick. The polygon puffball bounced off the wall right back towards Samus. She pulled out her paralyzer again and created another plasma whip and pinned the dark creature against the wall.
"Too easy." I heard Samus mutter under her breath as the polygon shattered into a million pieces.
Meanwhile Zelda was still fighting her doppelganger and every move that was thrown was mirrored by the other in the same exact motion. The doppelganger slashed her arm forward while Zelda being observant of her foe crouched down and plunged her foot forward. By doing that, the polygon version of Zelda landed directly on her back side which left her extremely vulnerable. I then saw a huge smile creep across Zelda's face as she grabbed the polygon and slammed her to the ground. Following the ground throw, she shot a flurry of magical bursts into the purple image of herself causing it to shatter into pieces.
"Good job, Zellie." I cooed, as I called her by a nickname that I gave her. "Now get me out of this cell so we can escape."
While Zelda used her Nayru's Love to crave the bars off of my cell, I saw Samus punching in some coordinates into her wrist. Hopefully she was calling for her ship, so we could get out of this dump and back home.
"Okay you're free." Zelda told me as I saw the bars that once had me imprisoned sliced in half.
"Good timing, I sent a distress signal to my ship and it'll be here in five minutes." Samus smirked, giving both of us a thumbs up.
"So do we stay here or try to get outside?" Zelda asked.
"Well my ship can't land inside of here." Samus retorted. "C'mon girls the exit should be straight ahead."
Samus then dashed off followed by Zelda and finally me. It seem like we ran through the hallway at light speed as we saw a couple of double doors ahead with an 'EXIT' sign above them.
"Hey girls, looks like we are free!" I sang while placing my hands onto the push bar door handles. As we opened the door, we were greeted by an enraged gray wolf, annoyed chameleon and a handsome black panther.
"Can't let you do that, Princess Toadstool." Wolf slowly growled through his gritted fangs.
A/N: Thanks for reading, now if you can just leave a review it would be MUCH MUCH appreciated.
~TRIGGER MIKE THE GREAT