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Heroic vs. Hatred Episode 1

The Beginning of the Endgame

(A/N: This whole first chapter is told from Mario's view.)

My name is Mario.

Everyone says I'm a hero. I say I'm just another human being, trying to do some good.

It strikes me as odd that any human could do the things the Hatred have done. Some of the things that we've done…

But then again, most of us aren't entirely human anyway.

I am, though. I am completely and totally human. Ironically enough, this made me frowned upon at first.

I am currently the leader of a group known as the Heroic. We fight against the evil Hatred, in order to end this war…

I suppose I should start my tale at the beginning…2 long years ago…

I was fighting the evil King Bowser Koopa. Koopas are humanoid-turtles, and this one is their leader, and the purest evil I've ever seen. And he looks the part, too…fangs, tail, horns, red hair, spikes on his shell…in fact, he seems more like a demon than a Koopa.

He'd gotten smarter lately. It used to be that he was thickheaded and destructive as a warhead. Now, he's just destructive. I don't know exactly when, or how it happened, but somehow, the egotistical psychopath's intellect shone through. It wasn't gradual. There was no warning. It just happened.

This plan was a lot more cunning than previous ones (a.k.a. kidnapping Princess Peach in a new way). In fact, this plan didn't even involve the gentle, pink-dressed human ruler of the toadstools.

Bowser's plan started out simple. He lured Queen Bean from the neighboring kingdom of Beanbean (I know, just go with it). He then "accidentally" let word of his plan to "kidnap" her leak out. And it fooled us all…

Turned out, he didn't want to capture the queen. He just brought her here to grab our attention while he invaded Beanbean kingdom.

By the time we got there, his monsters had been let loose, the traps to keep intruders out had been multiplied by 100 power, using the latest technology most people could only wish for. But then, Bowser wasn't most people. My twin brother, younger by a few minutes, taller and slimmer than me, blue overalls and a mustache to match mine, but a green shirt and hat to match my red, and I fought through the troops, and got through the traps in such a way I could never describe. It's almost as if we felt that this battle would be for higher stakes.

The real horror started out as soon as we got past the traps. We had fought something along the lines of an ancient stone guardian that could shoot laser beams last time we tried to get up the mountain to get this stone block, which was really round, as well as rescue the prince of Beanbean, who had been turned into a monster, and Blanblanadon, a pterodactyl who gave rides to the top normally. Well, the guardian was back, now guarding the village, and it was mutated into a magma freak by now.

By now, you're probably going, "Um…what?" And I can't say that I blame you. I can scarcely believe it myself…a whole other dimension, connected to ours by portals that randomly opened and closed…it's madness. And I love it.

But I ramble. You were wondering about the magma monster, no doubt. Well, my brother and I swiftly attacked as he shot out two beams of pure, unadulterated flame from his eyes.

Big mistake on his part.

You see, I can control all but the most powerful flames, and although I wasn't sure exactly how powerful these flames were, my brother was at my side, and that gives me some kind of weird power boost.

I halted in my tracks, and my brother leapt over the fire. I stopped the fire, sending it back to its source, while Luigi charged a ball of pure electricity…into the monster's face.

You see, while I can control fire, my brother can control electricity. (Duh…) These powers were gifts from, er, "gods". Although I really doubt their god-ship…anyway, the monster was basically fried from two basic points, and it basically blew up.

"Good job, bro!"

Luigi. A brother to the end. "Thanks for the assist back there, Weeg!"

"Assist? Excuse me, but I think you assisted me!"

Like I said, a brother to the end. Unfortunately, the end was sooner than we thought. As we found out later, Bowser had managed to turn water into its exact opposite, fire. And there was water at the top of the mountain.

Those blocks we mentioned earlier, the one used to make our hammers? Those are easily melted as well as easily broken. In other words: lava. And, of course, Bowser would have the kind of technology necessary to make a volcano erupt. So, we were in trouble.

As the mountain blew, people began to evacuate the village. You know those movies, where the hero barely manages to escape the lava flow?

Well, this was no movie. Lava flows a lot faster out here in the real world. And it's too hot to get close to, so even if you could barely escape it, you wouldn't, because of the heat. In short: it was impossible to escape.

But hey, me and Luigi had done the impossible before.

After all, how possible (I use that term loosely) is it to slam a large mallet on your brother's head to shrink him in size, pick him up, charge him with electricity, and toss him like a bowling ball, all without hurting him?

Yeah. That's what I thought.

But that's exactly what we did. And as I slammed into the lava, I nullified the heat, making a wall of rock, which more lava flowed over, which became more rock, until I'd basically restored the mountain, only a bit warmer than before.

Like I said, impossible.

We were pretty satisfied with ourselves, let me tell you.

Then we turned around.

Oh, crud…

Chapter One, Part two:

The Doom Ship.

Sure, it looked like a regular ship (even though it was flying)…from far away. But up close, you could see the Dead-Black paint it was covered with, the slime-shooting cannons, the flamethrowers, and the fearsome shelled guards…

And King Bowser Koopa himself, as well.

He smirked as he slowly raised his arm, snapped his fingers. Exactly 1 second afterward, the ship opened fire.

Apparently, the volcano's eruption had been some kind of signal. A signal we were here. And when a signal for something is that big, you know what it's signaling must be extremely powerful.

And we were. But not powerful enough to stop the ginormous ship…

Yeah, right!

We jumped over, beside, through, around, and under the blasts, eventually meeting back up with each other again.

STAIRCASE BROS.!

Luigi jumped on my head, jumped off, grabbing my hands as he leapt. At the zenith of his jump, he threw me straight up. As I "flew", I grabbed his hands, and then threw him, at a slight diagonal angle. He then grabbed my hands, etc.

Either those Hammer Bros. And Shy Guys are really bad shots, or we're even better than we thought we were. Either way, we stopped on top of the ship, taking a fighting stance.

10 Shy Guys. 100 Bullet Bills. 5 Hammer Bros. 800 Goombas. 20 Magikoopas. 80 Koopas. And 1 Bowser.

-Hmm- I thought, -Less than usual.-

I jumped in front of my green-clad brother, who bashed his hammer on top of my head, then swung it like a golf club. And I was the ball. I was hit toward a Magikoopa; he shot a magic blast at me, to no avail. I hit him, knocking him unconscious, then bounced back like a pinball.

Which was exactly what we called this attack. PINBALL BROS.!

Luigi hit me over and over again, bouncing me to and fro from several enemies at a time, all of which I bounced from into another enemy or two or 7 before returning to Luigi.

Eventually, they all stopped advancing, and started advancing…to the rear.

Finally we got to Bowser. He smirked again, pulling out a stopwatch "Record time, Mario Bros. Definitely one for the history books!" he bared his claws, turning the stopwatch into a pile of gears.

"Too bad you won't be around to see those books!"

He rushed toward us with incredible speed, especially for such a large creature as himself. Me and Luigi put our backs to each other, pulling out our hammers. We started sinning around, toward Bowser.

TORNADO BROS.!

But Bowser caught my hammer, and since Luigi and I were holding hands, we immediately stopped. He sent his other hand toward us, the claws threatening to turn us into sliced ham if we didn't move fast enough.

Luigi slammed his hammer into Bowser's claw, causing him to involuntarily catch it. We stood there like that for a good 3 minutes, at a stalemate. Suddenly, Luigi turned his head toward me, I tuned mine toward his. We smirked and nodded, then jumped, Bowser still holding the hammers. Time seemed to stop for a second as we hung in space. Then me a Luigi kicked in Bowser's head, me with my right, Luigi with his left. That way, the power was focused on one spot.

Bowser was sent flying. We tried a Bros. Attack again as he slammed into the cabin wall.

TORNADO BROS.! And this time it hit.

Bowser was sitting straight up, dazed. As our hammers slammed into his gut, cracking his shell, he gagged repeatedly. Finally, we got dizzy, but he was bleeding.

However, he could take a lot more than we could, as evidenced when he stood up like nothing had happened and slashed through our midsection, turning our clothes into shreds, flowing sideways, but somehow not ripping through them.

Me and Luigi quickly regained our ground, getting ready to pull of another Bros. Attack.

Bright light. Big zap. We're gone.

Episode 1, Part 3

Half a second after we were transported, we all got out of our fighting stance and looked around.

Bowser was first to comment. "What the heck?"

"That's just what I was thinking…" said a yellow-brown fox next to us. I'd have been freaked out if I didn't see talking animals on a daily basis.

"Okay, this is uber-freaky," said…

VIEWTIFUL JOE!

Luigi raced up to him quickly. Then he screeched like a rabid fangirl. "Oh my mushroom! It's the Viewtiful himself! Slow down time! Split the screen! Lemme touch your helmet!"

"Erm…" said good ol' Joe.

I grabbed my brother by the ear and began to drag him away. "Please excuse my brother, he's an idiot…" I then walked back to VJ, after depositing Luigi in the nearest trash receptacle. I shook the crimson clad hero's hand. "Hi. My name's Mario Mario, of the Mario Bros. You've probably never heard of us, but I've heard of you. Your last movie was great!"

"Gran Bruce Bites Back? Yeah, I had fun making it!"

"Um, I hate to sound out-of-date, but what's a movie?"

I turned. Standing next to me was a man clad in Lincoln green. On his back were a quiver, a bow, a sword, and a mirrored shield. He was also wearing a belt, on which hung a small bag with some fuses sticking out, a colored drink in a bottle, and a small conductor's stick. Looking into his eyes, I could see a hard-edged warrior, but with an innocence to him.

"Robin Hood?"

The kid looked shocked. "No way! He's an amateur! I'm…" he pulled out his sword and shield, striking a pose and nearly slicing a poor pink puffball who happened to be walking by, "Link, of Hyrule!"

I looked at him for a little bit. "Okay, so you like to cosplay. But try not to use such dangerous weapons, okay, kid?"

"Cosplay! What's that?"

"Make-believe you're a fictional celebrity, and dress up like them"

"MAKE-BELIEVE? DRESS UP LIKE! FICTIONAL! Hyrule is the greatest of all the countries, and no myth! Who is spreading such vile rumors that it doesn't exist?"

Luigi walked over with a banana peel on his head. "Pretty much everyone on Earth…"

"What in the name of Din is happening?"

"I'll tell you what's happening. We've switched dimensions."

Everyone's attention (which had currently been focused on one another) turned to the robotic-armored girl with the laptop on her arm. "Everyone currently in this room is from another dimension than the one we're currently in."

"So we need to find a way home?" said an egg-shaped middle-aged man with sunglasses in a small mech.

"According to the data, yes…" said a purple and white cat-like thing, in a really cool thought-speak voice. It was obvious to everyone he was Psychic.

"So let's get going!" said a purple-haired belly dancer.

"Right on!" said a brown bear with a blue backpack, yellow shorts, and a shark tooth necklace.

"Woo hoo! We're going on another adventure!" said a red bird, poking out of the bear's backpack.

"Just one problem," said the movie-magic maker, a.k.a. Viewtiful Joe, "How do we get home? We can't exactly just call up a portal to whisk us back to our respective dimensions, can we? Man, this is so un-cool…"

"I know how to get you all home…"

We are turned toward the stage none of us noticed before. A small octagonal section opened up, and a silhouetted figure rose on a platform, styled exactly like what had just been opened up. "Welcome, champions all!" the silhouette shouted as the platform clicked into place. "To the Inter-Dimensional Fighting Tournament! Also known as…Super Smash Bros.! You, the ultimate heroes and villains from various time periods, dimensions, planets, and tribes, have been gathered to duke it out for the ultimate prize: returning home and being granted one wish!"

The crowd murmured. Villains spoke of wishing to rule various places, while heroes spoke of…other things.

The shadowed-in announcer became un-shadowed as it said, "I'm your host…Male Wire Frame!"

You could practically see the anime-styled sweatdrop that appeared on the fighter's collective heads

"Just be warned…if you lose, then you aren't going home."

The sweatdrop turned into an exclamation point.

So, how'd you like Chapter 1, Parts 1-3? Wait, don't answer that. Tell me in a review! By the way, I don't mind constructive criticism,

but flames will be made to hurt you.

By the way, I'm open to ANY one dare from one of the following catagories:

Teen Titans

Danny Phantom

Xiaolin Showdown

Most Nintendo Games

However; I will not do gay/lesbian stories. I mean no offense to gays and lesbians, and I do respect homosexuals, but if given the choice, I

would rather not write about them, as all of the above things I mentioned have non-gay characters. Proof? None. Probability? High. So, no

homosexual stories.

So, review and/or dare away!