A glint of sunlight reached through the curtain of Mario's room. It was about 7:21 AM. The surrounding countryside was still quite dark, but light was beginning to remove it. Birds had begun to chirp and the crickets had slightly ceased with their song. Mario opened an lazy eye to the light. Morning already? Mario was hoping to get more sleep because of work running long yesterday. Still, today was important.

Mario was part of an group known as the Super Smash Brothers. It was sort of a club for the greatest fighters in history. If anyone could prove their combat skills at the place there, they could earn a membership. The place was a club for heros to hone their skills and learn about each other. Tourneys were held all the time and it was also a great public spectacle. People could go in stadiums high above ground in the biggest stadium ever built to view fights in different locations. For example, one of the areas in the stadium looked like the Bridge of Eldin in the country of one of it's members: Link.

That of course, The Smash Brothers would not have had such success if it didn't have members. The place held many members: Mario and his Brother Luigi from the Mushroom Kingdom, Link and Zelda from the Land of Hyrule, Roy from Elibe, Fox McCloud and Falco Lambardi from the Lylat System, Marth from Altea, and many more. All of these people were expert fighters who knew combat. Most were accustomed to different styles. Fox McCloud And Falco were trained with Infantry combat, Link, Roy, and Marth were masters of the Chivalry Knight code, Mario was accustomed to hand to hand combat, and all sorts of combat styles from each different person. Because of this, fights were extremely intense.

Your basic Smash Brothers Fight was usually four people on one of the arenas built. Rules for winning were 4 different variations: The first rule was Knock out time matches. This is where the person who fought had to knock someone off as much as possible and score as many points per knock out as he could. If he/she fell, he/she would lose one point. The one with the most points won. Another was stock. A person only had so much times allowed back up. After that, the person was out. He or she would also be out if their stamina could not let allow themselves back to fight again. That was also another variation where combatants fought till their muscles gave out. And finally, was the only match used for comic relief: Coin. Where Combatants had bags of coins attached to them. And the objective was to collect coins from the other warriors. It wasn't used a much due to little combat action. Most fighters preauthorized collecting coins more than fighting. Coin was stilled used but not as much. Link enjoyed the Coin matches as he said," It taught me to prioritize objectives. Balance combat and the real mission". Obviously falling from great heights was dangerous. There were usually emergency workers and paramedics at the scenes to be sure fighters were not killed. Several accidents had forced the Smash Brothers to build a Hospital wing at their building. Healing was quite fast because of the magical items that were brought from different countries and worlds. However, broken bones, the most common reason to be in there, still needed to be taken of patiently. The arenas had rubber and cloth stoppers at their bottoms to keep fighters from seriously injuring themselves from falls. If they fell, they would hit the cloth, making it take most of the damage. Leaving them with only minor bruises. Sometimes they worked. Other times....not so much.

The club had extreme success. People came from all over the world just to see the matches. The fighters (Well most of them) became quite popular. They were loved by most of the crowds. And the organization seemed to always make more money than they spend.
And today was a great day. The Smash Brothers were busy for the past years developing a giant arena that floated in the sky. The cost estimated to be at least 1.5 billion dollars as much technology was nesscary for the construction. The arena was finished over two months ago and one month later, they had gotten the arena in the sky.

Today was opening day.

Mario was told to be at the club no later than 9:00 AM. He had quite a busy day today. He was going to be the lead fighter today. The first one up. The fight would begin at noon that day. Mario had to be there to get ready, get a brief overview, etc etc. He grumbled at the fact as last night he had to repair some of the plumbing there. It was nice to them to know they had free plumbing. And thanks to Mario and his brother, it always went well.

Mario decided to make the best of it. He first got up and put his overalls on, and putting on his traditional hat. He put a pot of coffee on the machine, and he began to cook breakfast. A usual breakfast: Eggs, bacon, and toast. After breakfast and some coffee, he decided to get his brother up.

"Hey Luigi, you up yet?" Mario yelled. "We gotta be at the Smash Brothers club by at least 9!"

No reply.

"Luigi?" Mario asked.

No reply. Mario went into the his room. Looking at the bed of his brother showed all the covers and blankets in a disorganized fashion (prior usual). The floor had stuff all over it, including the Poltergeist 3000 that was still near his bed. "His fear of ghosts never died after the mansion incident," Mario remarked. The drawers were opened and one his green signature hats were taken off the shelves. One of the windows was opened and Mario remembered specifically that the window was not opened last night.

"Luigi must have left early this morning." Mario said. "But that's not like him. Luigi usually has eleven hours of sleep. Why would he all of a sudden have eight?"Mario began to look around the room for an answer. He began to throw around some of brothers stuff. He didn't really care to put them back because...when has Luigi ever picked up his room. "Then again, since when have I ever?" Mario remarked since his room was the least best example of a clean room.

"Hey what's this?" Mario asked.

Mario was searching the shelves through Luigi's junk. This included comics, week old sandwiches, plumbing tools, etc etc. Mario found an envelope with Luigi's signature L written on it. Very sloppy, but readable. Mario let one of his fingers heat up and then easily swished it through the paper. A normal person would have had a paper cut, but the fire power Mario had easily prevented that. He took out a very poorly written note. It appeared to have been written some hours ago. It was written very frantically and very sloppy, but since Mario was used to

Luigi's poor writing ability, he was able to read it.

"Mario, the Smash Brothers called and said the girls bathroom in the hallway 121 broke down again. I was going to wake you, but I knew how hard you were working yesterday so I went myself. Luigi"

"Again?" Mario asked. "That's the third time this week!"

Mario looked around. Since Luigi was already gone, there wasn't much of a reason to stick around.

"Well I guess I'll head out then if there is no reason to stay here." Mario exclaimed.

Mario grabbed his keys to his house. He grabbed a lunch he had prepared last night and a soft drink for the road. He first locked up the house and went to the garage to his house. Opening it, revealed a small red Go-Kart. Mario put the key in the ignition and began to drive away from his house. Mario lived down an area that held a lot of vegetation. As Mario was about to hit the clearing, he pulled a remote control from his hand. Pressing a red button with the Smash Brothers insignia on it, a pipe appeared from the ground. Mario drove into it and began to fall down a long tunnel.

"They really need to consider a better way between worlds!" Mario remarked! "A portal that matches the persons world and then they make you fall thousands of feet!"

Mario held onto his kart as he fell in the pipe. It seems to take forever as he fell down the endless green pipe. As Mario regained back onto the kart, he put his seatbelt on, feeling stupid he had never put it on in the first place. This kept him from floating off it again. This left Mario with nothing to do but to put on the radio, but of course, he was no longer in New York so any of the stations he tried to get came with nothing but static. He figured as much as by technical standards, he was no longer part of space time. Traveling to a different dimensions was basically leaving space time and entering a new one. Mario was positive signals couldn't go that far yet. Mario decided to put in a CD, but as he decided it, a bright light consumed him and the Kart. Seconds later, revealing himself in an open field with a single road. The field had many trees off to the sides, along with blocks floating in the air. The sky was blue with little signs of rain; better than New York where it looked like Hell was about to be unleashed (Bad storms were predicted that day). Mario was glad it was today. Good reason to get out of the house.

Mario turned on the engine again and began to drive on the single dirt road. The road was used by travelers here. They're were people living on this world, and people who got here, they're were many sights to see. The ancient ruins to the west, the icicle mountain in the North of the ruins.

Mario opened the Coca cola can and began to have a drink. He saw the massive building and the giant symbol on it. Under the symbol in a fine white linen (probably donated from either Peach or Zelda) with the words "Opening day for Sky Stadium." A couple thousand meters in this distance to the right of it was a huge object in the sky. The Stadium. All of those years of labor payed off. And Mario got to be the first one to fight there.

Mario got off to look at it. Mario did his fair share of work there, working with the pipes. Bathrooms and showers weren't the only pipes he needed to fix. He also had to put together exhaust pipes. He was no engineer, but it was basically the same concept. Pipes carry liquid. No different concept. Just put them where nesscary. Mario was proficient in just about anything. He even could probably play Major League Baseball should he have choose so as playing Baseball with Bowser honed his skills greatly.

"Sure looks nice." Mario said.

"Yeah." A voice from behind him said. "Sure does."

Mario looked behind him assuming a bad guy. He jumped back and put his fists up in a fighting stance.

However, instead of someone else, he saw someone else. Someone who hasn't seen in a long time.

"Roy?" He asked.

"What up Mario." Roy said.

Roy was a former Smash Brothers. He joined when the group, but resigned his membership a while back because of problems back at home. And now here he is. There was also a girl behind him with flowing blue hair. She wore a dress and held a staff in her hands. Roy was still wearing that armor he had when he first came to Smash Brothers. The blue armor and white slacks. He still had his old sword as well. It held a gold handle with a jewel embed in it. The blades steel was still without rust. The girl's dress was blue as well as her eyes.

"Roy!? IS that you!?"Mario exclaimed.

"How you been?" Roy asked.

"Fine." Mario said. "But my god Roy, I haven't seen you since you left the Smash Brothers. What are you doing around here anyway?"

"I'll tell you." Roy asked. "You heading to the Smash Brothers?"

"You bet!" Mario said. "I'm going to fight on there" Mario exclaimed pointing at the stadium in the sky.

Roy looked up at it.

"Whoa!" He said. "It's just about done. Today is opening day right?"

"You betcha!" Mario said.

Mario looked at the girl.

"Who's she?" Mario asked.

"Oh," Roy said. "Mario this is Lilina."

"So...just Lilina?" Mario said. He remembered that back when Roy was there, He only spoke Japanese. He must have recently learned to speak English.

"Uh....yeah." Roy said.

"Speaking of which," Mario said. "Last time you were here, I couldn't understand a word you were saying. Now all of a sudden, you can speak English?"

"Yeah about that." Roy said. "Your friend Link gave me a lecture. He's very smart for someone so quiet."

"Yeah." Mario said. Link never really talked a lot, but when he did, it showed he was quite intelligent.

"Hey Roy, we won't be able to get good seats if we stay here longer." Lilina said.

"You two want a ride?" Mario asked.

"Isn't the kart a little too small?" Roy asked.

"This is my Double Dash kart." Mario said. "Hold onto that back bar right there and hold stand there."

Unlike his normal Go-Kart, the Double Dash kart had a extra seat in the back. Well it wasn't a seat, just a standing spot. Still it was fairly wide so Roy and Lilina had plenty of standing room.

"So you two going out?" Mario asked.

"Yeah." Roy asked. "How'd you know?"

"You two were holding hands." Mario said.

"Oh..." Roy said, blushing a bit.

"That did kind of give it away" Lilina said.

"Hey Mario, can we stop at the headquarters." Roy asked. "I want to say hi to everyone."

"Well, I don't know if people are there right now." Mario said. "But sure."

"I heard your friends there are quite a lively bunch." Lilina asked.

"You have no idea." Mario said. "I'm sure you'll get along with everyone."

"That's good." Lilina said.

The Kart speeded towards the Smash Brothers Club, unaware that an adventure of a lifetime was about to begin.