Merry Christmas to all of you who celebrate the Christmas. This is my holiday special story. I hope you like it.
It's that time of year again for the Smash Brothers. That's right, Christmas. The celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ (for some people anyway). However since the characters of Smash Brothers know nothing about religion, they celebrate Christmas because it's Christmas. But this year, the Christmas spirit was not very prevalent amongst the roster. Princess Peach, a woman with a heart of gold, was trying to increase the Christmas Spirit of her fellow Smashers, but they wouldn't accept it. Usually, she was in charge of setting up Christmas decorations, and she had a good amount of the roster to help her out. But this year, no one bothered to help out. There were no lights, no caroling, no decorations. There wasn't even a tree. Seeing the lack of Christmas, Peach became distraught and just burst in to tears, thinking she was in a place where no one would hear. However, she didn't know that there was a man taking a nap in the cardboard box next to her. Who is this man you ask? Why, it was none other than Solid Snake, mercenary and Metal Gear slayer. Solid Snake had woken up due to Peach's crying. Agitated at first, he peeked through a hole in the box to see who it was. When he saw Peach kneeling on the floor in tears, he became worried. He emerged from the box and knelt down to Peach's level.
"What's wrong!?" He asked.
Peach screamed and swung her frying pan, hitting Snake in the head.
"OW! Damn!" He moaned.
"Oh god! Snake! I'm so sorry!" She frantically apologized.
"It's fine, it's fine! I didn't mean to startle you." He assured her.
"Do you need something?" Peach asked.
"Actually, I wanted to know what was wrong. I saw you crying."
Peach began to cry again.
"Oh Snake…it's terrible! Nobody seems to care about Christmas this year! No one wants to decorate, give presents to each other, or even set up a tree! I guess we won't have Christmas this year…" She sobbed.
"WHAT!? CHRISTMAS IS IN TROUBLE!?" Snake shouted in disbelief.
Peach was confused at Snake's somewhat passionate reaction. Of all people, she didn't think Snake was big on Christmas.
"Uh…well yeah, no one will help me decorate or make any preparations what so ever."
Snake put his hands on Peach's shoulders to comfort her.
"Don't you worry Princess! I'm on it! I'm not going to let Christmas pass us up this year." He proclaimed.
Peach stopped crying and smiled with joy.
"R-Really? Do you mean it!?" She asked.
"Of course I do."
"But wait! There are only two of us. We can't do all of it by ourselves." Peach informed him.
"Don't worry…I'm calling in backup."
Snake kneeled down and turned on his Codec.
Frequency 141.12
"This is Snake. Do you read me Otacon?"
"Loud and clear Snake. What's up?"
"We got a big problem here. Christmas is in trouble!"
"Christmas!? It can't be! Are you serious!?"
"I'm afraid so. I'm going to need some help if we can hope to save it."
"I'm on it Snake! I'm sending some help over there."
"Thanks Otacon."
End Transmission
"Alright Peach; I've called in my friends from Philantrophy." Snake reported.
"When do you think they'll arrive?" Peach asked.
"In a second." Snake answered.
"No really,when will they..."
"We're here Snake." Otacon said.
Peach turned to see all the members of Philantrophy, Snake's anti-Metal Gear organization.
"Peach, I'd like you to meet some of my friends."
Snake proceeded to introduce Peach to the team. Hal Emmerich (AKA Otacon), Snake's best friend and all around technology expert. Mei-Ling, a specialist in advanced technology. And Raiden, the cyborg ninja that Snake mentored during the Big Shell incident.
"Well it's nice that you're all here but we still need more people" Peach sighed.
"What's going on here?" A voice said.
Everyone turned to the direction of the voice. It was none other than Big Boss, the legendary soldier and father of Snake.
"Dad?! What are you doing here?" Snake asked.
"I'm here to celebrate Christmas of course! So...where the hell is all the Christmas? There's no lights, no decorations, no nothing." Big Boss replied.
"Yeah, come with me down the hall dad. I need to talk to you about that." Snake admitted.
30 Seconds later...
"CHRISTMAS IS IN TROUBLE!?" Big Boss panicked.
Big Boss ran back into the room and went up to Peach.
"Are you in charge of the Christmas committee here?" Big Boss asked.
"Y-Yes Sir." The Princess answered.
Big Boss saluted her.
"I'm at your service! Tell me...how many people do we need to pull this off?"
"About 10 I guess."
Big Boss turned his radio on and called Kazuhira Miller, his second-in-command of his private army, known as the MSF.
"Kaz?"
"What's up Boss?"
"I need you to send the entire MSF to my location."
"All 300 of them? What's the situation?"
"Christmas is in terrible danger!"
"Good God...I'll send them right away!"
A few minutes later the entire MSF filled the room.
"I think we have enough people, don't you think Peach?" Snake teased.
Peach smiled, motivated by the amount of people here to help her bring Christmas cheer.
"Ok everyone! Let's save Christmas!" She cheered.
"YEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" The crowd cheered.
Peach, Snake, Raiden and Big Boss traveled into a forest.
"Okay, first things first, we need to get a Christmas tree." Peach ordered.
"Any one of these trees you had in mind?" Raiden asked.
Peach pointed to the tree that she wanted. It was quite tall, and looked very nice.
"Well that was easy enough. Raiden, go ahead and cut it down." Snake said.
"Wait? Where's your axe?" Peach asked.
"Don't need one." Raiden said and then cut the tree down in one swing with his High Frequency Blade.
Peach was impressed with how quick Raiden cut the tree.
"Ok now let's help him carry it back to the Mansion." She said.
Raiden lifted the tree over his shoulder with ease. His cybernetic strength made carrying a tree barely a chore. He then sprinted back to the Mansion at high speed, bringing the tree with him. Peach was amazed that the task of cutting down a tree and then bringing it back to the mansion had been completed in less than a minute.
"So what do we do now?" Big Boss asked.
With the tree now set up in the living room of the Smash Mansion, Peach decided to move on to the next order of buisiness.
"Now we need to decorate the tree. Unfortunately I don't have any so does anyone have any ideas?"
Big Boss scratched his head as he began to think of an idea. After a few moments, he struck gold and turned to some of the MSF soldiers.
"Men! Bring out the Christmas Ray!" Big Boss ordered.
"YES BOSS!"
"ROGER THAT BOSS!"
Two soldiers ran to get the "Christmas Ray". Peach was confused as to what this was.
"Uh...Mr. Big Boss?" Peach asked.
"You can just call me John, miss." Big Boss said.
"John? That's a nice name!" Peach complimented.
"Uh...thank you miss." Big Boss said as his cheeks reddened.
"So John...what's the Christmas Ray?" She asked.
"It's something new that my R&D (Research & Development) Department have been working on. To tell you the truth I don't know what exactly it does."
The two soldiers came back armed with what looked like chain guns. They took aim at the tree.
"READY!?" The first soldier asked.
"READY!" The second soldier responded.
"FIRE!"
The soldiers fired their guns which shot out a beam of light at the Christmas tree. No harm was being done to the tree.
"Now cross the beams!" A soldier shouted.
The soldiers did as such and resulted in a large flash of light. The light surrounded the tree and when it disappeared, the tree was decorated. Lights, Ornaments, and a Star on the top.
"Oh my gosh! That's amazing! How does that even work?" Peach asked in amazement.
"Would you believe that it's because it's powered by Christmas spirit?" Big Boss asked nervously.
"Works for me!" Peach cheered.
Big Boss sighed with relief. In all honestly he didn't know how it worked.
"All right Peach. My dad's got his crew working on decorating the whole building." Snake reported.
"All right! Thank you Snake." Peach replied gratefully.
"So what's next on the list?" Snake asked.
"Well...next we need to get a present for everyone. But I don't know what anyone wants." Peach admitted sadly.
"Leave that to me." Snake boldly requested. "Otacon! Mei-Ling!"
"What's up Snake?" Mei-Ling asked.
"I need you two to do some research on every individual here. What are their interest so we can figure out what we can give them as a present."
"All right Snake. We'll get right on it." Otacon said.
"That takes care of that. We should get a wish list of all the Smashers within the next two hours." Snake said proudly.
"That's good. My only concern is how are we going to get all the presents after that?" Peach asked.
"Well we not going to get them..." Big Boss said, having just entered the room.
"What do you mean Jack?" Peach asked.
"Why would we need to get them if we can just make them. I'll get my R&D Department to make the presents. Those talented bastards can make just about anything."
"Huh...That's actually a pretty good idea." Snake admitted.
One hour later...
"Ok Peach. Otacon and Mei Ling hacked into the network and got the Psyche profiles of everyone on the roster." Snake reported.
"Psyche profile? What's that?" Peach questioned.
"Psyche profiles have everything that you could possibly know about an individual on it. Likes, dislikes, sexual orientation..."
"That's...a lot of information Snake. Are we really supposed to be using these?" Peach asked.
"Well...technically no, that's why we had to hack into Master Hand's private files in order to get them. It's fine though! They'll get us a good idea of what they would want for Christmas." Snake answered.
"All right Snake, we're printing out a wish list." Mei Ling said.
"Already? Geez, that was fast." Snake praised.
Mei Ling handed Snake the wishlist. Snake took a glimpse and saw the names of everyone on the roster, and next to that name was the name of what they would most likely want for Christmas. Snake went to his father and handed the wishlist to him.
"It's all up to you now." Snake reminded.
"Don't worry, there isn't anything my R&D Team can't handle." Big Boss boasted.
Like he had claimed, Big Boss' team built all of the presents within 5 hours. Now they just had to get the presents sent to everyone. It would've been much easier if everyone had just come to the living room for a Christmas gathering and exchanged the presents to each other. But no one was feeling up to it. So the team decided to bring Christmas to them.
Targets: Link, Toon Link, Marth, Ike, Meta Knight
Operative: Raiden
All the sword users of the Smash Brothers roster were gathered together in the forest for some sparring. It was beginning to get dark, so it was time for the five of them to head back to the mansion. It was also the perfect time for Raiden to make his move. Without being detected, Raiden stalked the swordsmen, jumping from tree to tree as they kept moving. After exiting the forest, Link, Toon Link, Marth, Ike and Meta Knight could see the Mansion from a distance, as it was glowing with Christmas lights.
"What the hell? I don't remember the mansion being that bright!" Ike panicked.
"What are all the lights for?" Link wondered.
Raiden had then decided to reveal himself and jumped off a tree and landed right in front of the five Smashers. He took his HF Blade out of its sheath and pointed it at Link.
"You ever heard of something called Christmas?" Raiden asked rhetorically.
The five swordsmen took out their blades and stood ready to fight.
"Who are you!?" Link shouted.
"It doesn't matter who I am! What matters is what I'm going to do to you!" Raiden said with a sinister laugh.
The swordsmen dashed at Raiden and prepared to attack. Raiden reacted with lightning speed.
SLICE! SLICE! SLICE! SLICE! SLICE!
In mere seconds, Raiden had managed to cut all five warriors' weapons in half. The swordsmen were paralyzed with fear, seeing that their beloved blades had been destroyed.
"Now that there are no more distractions, let me explain what I'm going to do." Raiden demanded.
The five Smashers could do nothing but let their attacker speak.
"I'm going to..."
The Smashers dropped their heads, and prepared to accept whatever fate awaited them.
"To give you guys presents." Raiden said and kicked 5 cardboard boxes wrapped in gift wrap to them.
"Wait...what?" Marth asked in confusion.
The five of them just stood where they were, wondering if this was real. Raiden observed this and got frustrated.
"Look. I'm not going to hurt you! Just open the damn presents!" Raiden ordered.
They did as Raiden said and in the each box was a High Frequency version of their swords.
"It's...it's our swords!" said Meta Knight.
"Actually, it's High Frequency version of your swords." Raiden corrected.
"What does that mean?" Toon Link asked.
"Well like the name implies, your swords now resonate at high frequencies, which allow it to..."
Raiden could tell that they got lost in his explanation, so he decided to put it into laymen's terms.
"Your swords are now five times better than they were before." Raiden bluntly put it.
"Oooooh." They all said.
Raiden began to take off, but Link called out for him.
"Wait! What is this for? Why are you giving this to us?"
Raiden turned to the five of them and merely said "Merry Christmas from Peach and Snake." and then disappeared from the area. The five of them just stood there, shocked by the ninja's response.