Hack: I finally decided to start writing on again! Why? Because I think that I'm a whole lot better at writing than months ago (though I haven't been writing fanfics for a while, so I'm a bit rusty…), and Super Smash Bros. Melee still remains my favorite fanfiction to write. After reading some excellent pieces of writing, some silly and some serious, I was finally inspired to start writing again! Yay!
All reviews are accepted, though if you're going to flame me, I'd appreciate some sensible criticism about what's wrong so I can improve. )
All right, here's the story… It's only the beginning, and I hope it's not too cliché… Enjoy!
And something in italics means it's either someone's thoughts or it's the past.
I don't own any rights to SSBM or any other video games in this fanfic, including: Mario, Zelda, Pokemon, Metroid, Kirby, Donkey Kong, Earthbound, Starfox, F-Zero, Golden Sun, Kid Icarus, Chrono Trigger, Pikmin, Fire Emblem, Retro Games, and the list is endless. There are also a couple joke references to Seinfeld (because it's awesome). I don't own that either, clearly.
It's all rated T for some language and some violence... actually there's lots of language. Beware.
And if you happen to review this fanfic, please, please, PLEASE don't spoil anything in your reviews! Especially what happens way later. It'd be a disappointment to those who read the reviews before reading this story. I'd appreciate it lots!
So... Enjoy!
Prologue: The Two Hands
Three years ago, the Fight of the Universe ensued on an deserted, hidden world made just for fighting called the Final Destination. The consequences of this fight would have been catastrophic if the heroes of the Nintendo Universe had lost, and the universe may have been destroyed. Of course, the heroes prevailed in this eternal fight, destroying these villainous monsters of great power with their unique abilities.
But exactly who was in the fight, and why did it start? What exactly happened in this eternal fight?
Two entities came into existence years before this fight, and to everyone's surprise, they were white, gigantic, and simple hands. As silly as that may sound, they possessed great power, enough power to destroy an entire world in matters of minutes. With a snap of their fingers, they can destroy an entire city. They can crush anyone that they grab with their fingers. They can read other's minds at will through psychic powers. What did they want? What most villains in most games, movies, and series want: world domination.
But no, it wasn't exactly world domination; rather it was the domination of the universe. Indeed, the universe is much bigger and much more important than one single world; comparing a world and a universe is like comparing a miniscule molecule with the entire solar system.
But who were these entities? The Master Hand and the Crazy Hand. Their target? The Nintendo Universe.
Their presence was so powerful that just their mere existence in the universe already had dramatic impacts on various worlds: the mushrooms of Mushroom Kingdom began to melt into nothing, the lush, green grass of Kokiri Forest transformed into ugly saping weeds, the happy white clouds of Pop Star transformed into eternal dark storm clouds, wild Pokemon in Kanto began to viciously attack all trainers, and unknown aliens invaded the peaceful town of Onett regularly. Quite a drastic change, one must say.
Luckily, the heroes of the worlds made an answer to these changes. As the entire universe was in danger, the heroes of the universe, rather than heroes from just one world, would be the ones to fight the Hands. They all knew something was obviously wrong with their worlds and sought to find the source and destroy it. These heroes left their worlds in search for the source of these problems, but these journeys resulted in them meeting each other. Noticing that the problems weren't in their worlds alone, they traveled to other worlds, meeting other heroes and heroines. Finally, twenty-six heroes, heroines, villains, and creatures have gathered together after finding the hidden world of Final Destination, nicknaming themselves the smashers of melee. Most were human, although some others were animals, puff-balls, pokemon, and eskimos. After much journeying through the universe, they found their source of the universal problem right there in the Final Destination: the two hands.
Immediately, the biggest fight for the universe ensued. The hands were no pushovers at all, and it seems like they were easily defeating the smashers, one after another. However, the hands weren't immortals, and they grew tired, thus weakening them to a great extent. They were outnumbered twenty-six to two, and if the two were tired, they wouldn't be able to take on even five. Eventually, after days upon days of fighting, the hands were finally defeated by the smashers' superb teamwork, and the smashers rejoiced. They decided to build Final Destination into a recognized world (although extremely small) and took those days to get to know each other; some became instant friends (Link and Luigi), and a couple became friendly rivals (Captain Falcon and Fox). All of them became friends with each other in general, but with a couple clear exceptions. They would hold tournaments for them to fight each other, whether it be one on one or a free for all battle. But as time flew past, the time to return to their home worlds arrived.
After one year, the smashers left the new mansion they built called the Smash Mansion one by one, saying farewells to their other friends that they had made. They agreed that there would always be a couple smashers that would stay at the mansion, however, to make sure the hands do not come back. Every now and then, the groups of smashers of about five would switch places.
Whenever people watch over their foes to make sure they don't come back, they usually do. Ironically, the hands never return. Instead, a new threat comes to threaten the universe once again… and instead of twenty-six smashers saving the universe together, it will only be five…
Chapter 1: An Unknown Enemy
The Battlefield was a perfect place to train with others to improve their skills. It was a somewhat small purple field, with three smaller platforms hovering above the main platform. No interference from arwings, 2-D tools, or apples, no interference from items, and no interference from moving objects. That way, nobody can have a stage advantage, or win from raw luck.
A three stock match between two smashers ensued on this stage. Fox stood on the left platform, his forehead sweating. He looked at his damage meter on the melee screen suspended above the stage, which showed with green letters a hundred twenty four percent damage next to Fox's name. Shoot… Another big hit and I'm going to lose my second stock… He glanced at his opponent, the taller and cockier Captain Falcon, who was on fifty-seven percent damage according to the screen. Because both smashers lost only one life each, and Fox was clearly at a damage-disadvantage, Captain Falcon was evidently winning. I never thought Captain Falcon got this much powerful since the last time we fought... must've been doing a bit of training.
Captain Falcon, who was on the other side of the stage but on the main platform, looked up at Fox. He gave a thumbs up. "Look, Foxy! I'm going to completely rape you in this match! Just look at all that sweat on yourself! You're practically pissing in your pants in fear of defeat! Just admit defeat and end this pointless match already!" he taunted. Captain Falcon was a very cocky, arrogant person on the outside. He was always overconfident and optimistic, which sometimes gave him an extra edge in fights, but as one knows, overconfidence can also lead to risk of death. He also hit on almost every women that comes by, but his flirtatious behavior only led to being blown up, particularly by Samus.
Fox smirked back. "No way. I'm not going to throw off this match for you. Remember that we're tied 127-127 games before our month of self-training, so I don't think you'd have a better chance of winning than I do. If anything, I'd have a better chance of winning than you!" Fox was definitely more sensible and mature than Captain Falcon, but he was also more sensitive, so he tries to hide his true feelings more often than everyone else. He is a very confident person (though not overconfident like Falcon), and would never lose a game without a valid excuse.
"Holy shit!" exclaimed Captain Falcon. "You're seriously keeping track of all our matches? I think I remember that I won more matches than you!"
"I'm pretty sure that you didn't; I have a good memory," replied Fox. He then smiled. "Well, what are you waiting for? Let's get it on!"
Captain Falcon blew his tongue at Fox then quickly sped towards him. He jumped towards Fox and stuck his knee out. Fox, reading him like a book, side-stepped Falcon's assault, and grabbed him from behind. He quickly threw Falcon behind him and pulled out his blaster with great agility. He quickly shot two shots at the sailing Falcon, and then jumped towards him. Falcon regained his balance in midair and the moment Fox lifted his leg in midair to kick him above, Falcon thrusted his legs down on Fox. Caught by surprise, Fox grunted as he was spiked downwards, losing another stock. (spike: connecting an attack with a recovering person to send him down, making that opponent lose all hope of recovering.) Falcon swiftly performed a Falcon Dive and returned to the edge of the stage when Fox reappeared on the top platform, at zero percent.
"How do you like that, Foxy?"
"I would've been very impressed if it wasn't the millionth time you used that spike on me. But I can't complain since I always fall for it…"
"Damn straight, I'm the bomb that will kick your ass. All the gals will love me for that."
Fox dropped through the platform, facing Captain Falcon. "I hope you're prepared for this then!" said Fox. Fox predictably sped towards Falcon. Falcon short hopped towards Fox (short hop: jumping extremely low so an aerial attack can be used near ground level. You push the X or Y button and let go as fast as possible.) and used his spike again to hit Fox. However, Fox immediately rolled behind Falcon. He immediately slid across the floor towards Captain Falcon in a standing position (called a wavedash: You airdodge diagonally into the ground to slide across it, then you can attack out of it immediately), and used his reflector to shove Falcon a couple feet. He immediately performed another wavedash, landing right beside Falcon before he could react, and reflector-ed him again! He repeated this combo until his reflector lightly knocked Falcon off the stage. Fox swiftly slid off the stage, and performed one final reflector assault on Falcon.
Falcon was pushed away from the stage at a downward angle, and he was barely far enough to reach the stage. Not giving up, Falcon performed another jump and was about to use another Falcon Dive when Fox fell towards him and reflector-spiked him again! Falcon was immediately spiked down and away as Fox swiftly returned to the stage with his Fire Fox.
As Captain Falcon reappeared on the top platform, he said, "Wow, that was really really gay, Fox…"
Fox grinned. "That's what I call my infinite shine combo. Care for another demonstration?"
"Try me. You can't beat the unstoppable Captain Falcon!" He dropped through the platform, and kicked Fox with two quick consecutive kicks. He short hopped and performed a flip kick to send Fox towards the edge a bit. Captain Falcon quickly landed and used his short hop, flip kick combo again on Fox. Once Fox was off the edge, Falcon jumped off the stage and performed his spiker.
Immediately, Fox used his Fox illusion to grab the edge of the stage while Captain Falcon remained in mid-air, still vulnerable. Fox used this time to quickly hop off the edge and kicked Captain Falcon behind him. He landed back onto the stage, facing the racer who was trying to get back to the stage. Noticing that Captain Falcon would be able to grab the edge if uninterrupted, Fox quickly wavedashed off the stage and grabbed the edge. For Falcon, defeat was almost unavoidable, but he never gave up. He used his Falcon Dive to attempt to return to the stage, and would've been able to grab the edge if Fox wasn't already hogging the edge. Since Fox was edge-hogging, Captain Falcon was unable to do anything as he plummeted off the stage, ending the battle.
Fox and Captain Falcon reappeared in the portal of the battle room, panting heavily. Fox was obviously happy about the fight, since he had won. Captain Falcon sighed, frowning.
The Battle Room was one of the key highlights of the Smash Mansion. It was where two to four smashers could set the stage, items, and type of battle they can have, then entered a virtual world to fight. For fun of course. A screen was on the wall above the control panels of the battle room, where other smashers could watch the current fight while sitting on the comfortable couches and sofas. A large, wooden table was placed in front of these seats to allow anyone to brig refreshments and snacks. The spectators for the fight were Samus and Luigi.
"Wow, Fox! You were on fire! That was a great match!" exclaimed Luigi as Fox and Captain Falcon shook hands. Out of the five currently in the mansion, Luigi was the most rational, reasonable, and sensible one besides Jigglypuff. He never lost his temper except in extreme conditions. He did not seem like the best fighter, but he does not like fighting as much as most of the other smashers, so he usually tries to reason himself out of a fight if possible. Some, particularly Mario, joke around and call him a peace-freak.
"Yeah, it took out a lot of me, but my new combos that I was practicing really paid off," said Fox. Captain Falcon scowled.
"Geez, that infinite shine thingy really threw me off… I was darn surprised! But don't get cocky, I was holding back. I've got my own new combos that you haven't seen yet! And I'm pretty sure that they'll catch your attention!" He immediately winked at Samus.
Samus glared at him, then, by instinct, shot a powerful super missile at his feet. Captain Falcon shrieked as he was sent flying upwards 30 feet and fell down with a thud. Since he makes it so obvious, it was public knowledge that Captain Falcon loved to 'show off' to girls, especially Samus since none of the smashers has seen her without her suit.
On the other hand, it was also public knowledge that Samus was a young, hot-tempered lady who loved to blow things up. Anything that made her angry prompted her to blow up whatever it was, and her most common target is apparently Captain Falcon. She was a mysterious woman, as none of the smashers could actually see her face apart from the piercing eyes she gave when she was angry. She hides her feelings and intentions very well, more than Fox. She didn't talk much either.
"Geez, Falcon, if I had a penny for every time Samus blew you up for trying to flirt with her, I'd be damn rich," joked Fox.
"Huh, if I had a penny for every time Bowser and my brother fought, I'd be ten times as rich as you would be, Fox," replied Luigi. Everyone chuckled.
"Well if I had a penny for every time I OWNED Fox with my sexy skills, I'd be a hundred times as rich!" Falcon bragged. Everyone was silent.
"...No. You just killed the joke, Falcon," said Samus. Falcon grumbled about not being funny.
"Might as well head to the kitchen, see what Jigglypuff made for dinner," said Luigi. The other nodded as they exited the battle room through the door. Fox, the last one to leave, turned off the control panels and the lights before he left. The moment he closed the door behind him, a shadowy figure appeared in the battle room.
"Heh heh… Let's see what this place has to offer…" it said as it turned on the control panels and fiddled with it. "Now where is the source..."
The Smash Mansion was indeed a magnificent mansion. The living room was without a doubt the largest room in the mansion, fit to have over 50 people conveniently, even if they were all as big as Bowser. The living room was lit by orange and yellow lights emitting from the huge chandelier hanging from the center of the ceiling. A plasma TV set sat by the wall, in front of several comfortable and fluffy sofas and couches. On the other side of the room were two grand doors, obviously the entrance to this beautiful mansion. A rectangular marble table rested in the midst of these ornaments. Four plates with lasagna and a glass of varying drinks lay on this table. The four smashers walked into the living room as Jigglypuff turned on the TV set on Fox 5.
"Hey, Jiggly," said Luigi. "Mmm, lasagna… gotta love it!"
Jigglypuff responded with a smile. "Thanks, I also set up each cup with your favorite drinks. Enjoy!" Jigglypuff was probably one of the kindest smashers you'd find out of the 26, if not the kindest. She was also a great close-range fighter, though highly underestimated for her small size and cutesy-appearance. However, she is found many times crying in some hidden room within the mansion, though nobody knows why. Clearly, they never discuss it with her because it'll only sadden her. The only person that seems to know her problems are Pikachu and Pichu, though they never discuss it. Mewtwo seems to have an influence in it too, but he never says anything about it.
"Hm? There's one missing. Aren't you going to eat, Jigglypuff?" asked Fox as he sat down beside the cup with Sprite, his favorite drink.
"I already ate while waiting for you guys to finish battling. I need to clean up all of my cooking in the kitchen anyways… Made a big mess there while making lasagna." Jigglypuff was a very good cook, but she was quite accident-prone and pretty clumsy all the same.
"You sure you don't need help?"
"No, it's ok. Just enjoy eating while watching Seinfeld," replied Jigglypuff as she cutely smiled and walked off to the kitchen. Sounds of the dish-washer running were heard from the kitchen, followed by the sound of glass shattering. A quiet "Oops" could be heard too.
"Eh, she's always like that," said Captain Falcon as he chomped down on his dinner. "It's no big deal."
Everyone was silent as they all watched Seinfeld on the TV, occasionally smiling or chuckling from the humorous jokes. Samus slightly lifted her visor each bite/sip she took, which was the most of her face that any smasher ever saw. Luigi vigorously chomped down on his lasagna, one of his favorite foods, and Fox took spoonfuls at a time for each bite rather than each handful.
Unable to stand the silence, Captain Falcon yelled out, "Man, this show's boring!" he lied of course, as he loved Seinfeld, but he wanted some sound from everyone else at least. He couldn't stand silence. "Why can't somebody do something right here right now?"
Coincidentally, the lights went out. The TV set went out like blowing out a birthday candle, and all was dark.
"Oh, nice job Falcon. You've cursed us!" joked Fox.
"Hey, it was a coincidence, damn it! Even I know what a coincidence means, and I'm using the word correctly, damn it!"
"Damn it, and that was my favorite episode," cursed Samus. Judging from her growling voice, she was noticeably angry, and the three others weren't stupid enough to light the fuse in her that would cause her to blow up the mansion.
Quick footsteps were heard in the pitch dark. "What just happened? Wha- AHHH!" said Jigglypuff as she accidentally tripped over Samus's leg. "Oops, sorry…" she apologized. Samus was completely silent, though the other can sense her temper rising. She immediately shot a missile at the TV set, blowing it up.
"What the hell just happened? What just blew up?" exclaimed Fox.
"Must've been Samus, you know about her really bad temper," said Captain Falcon.
Another missile was shot in the dark, though it accidentally hit a different target.
"AHHHH!" cried Jigglypuff as she was sent flying upwards 30 feet.
"Now you've done it, Samus!" yelled Falcon as he ran up to Samus to restrain her in the dark. Thing is, he got Fox instead.
"What the hell? Get off of me, or else I'll shine you again like before!" cried Fox.
"Falcon, you're dead!" yelled Samus.
"Shut the hell up!" yelled Luigi. The entire room immediately fell silent before his commanding voice. "This is getting us nowhere at all! And what puzzles me is why the power went out. This mansion doesn't run on electricity, you know… Somebody must've cut the power source just now."
"All four of us were here except Jigglypuff, but she was heard cleaning up her mess," replied Falcon. "Of course, she makes more mess than she cleans by herself."
More silence.
"Falcon, your jokes are stupid and not funny at all." Fox shook his head. "Don't even try next time."
"Someone else must be in here… I'm going to kill that person," growled Samus as she charged her arm cannon, changing the topic too.
"Calm down, Samus. The last thing we need is violence… for the time being. We need to find this person. Thing is, I don't know where the power supply is in this mansion… I didn't help build this place you know…" said Luigi.
"I know! It's a hidden door in the battle room, but we're not supposed to tell anyone about it," replied Jigglypuff.
"Apparently, some smasher turned it off I guess… Or someone else already knows…" said Luigi.
"We need to go find out who it was then. Let's go!" said Fox. "But we need some light… who can make a light?"
On cue, Luigi held out his palm and held a fireball which brightly lit up the entire room with green light.
"Awesome. Let's go," said Fox. The four other smashers nodded as they walked through the hall that led to the battle room.
"Excellent… I have the power now… I must report back to headquarters before the smashers find out…" the voice said. He walked through the wall and appeared directly in front of the control panels. Apparently, he can see through the dark perfectly well. He turned to his left to walk towards the doorway when he heard several footsteps. Damnit, I should've been quicker… But noooooooo, the boss insisted that I take the safe route rather than plowing through the entire mansion itself… geez…
A green light immediately emitted the room and Fox, Captain Falcon, Samus, Luigi, and Jigglypuff quickly entered. The unknown person wasn't quick enough to escape the light, and Luigi's green light shone on him.
He was a small, cloaked thing, about the size of Jigglypuff and Kirby. He wore a white mask, and appeared to have a blue body. He had two yellow evil eyes that glared at the smashers, and held a long sword that rivaled Marth and Roy's sword.
"Who the hell are you?" questioned Captain Falcon.
"Obviously the source of our problem, you idiot," replied Fox, bonking him on the head. The dumbfounded Falcon didn't notice.
"Wow… I was really slow in getting out of this place with the power producer. My boss told me it had a great power that we can all share for… Never mind!" said the figure. "I can already feel some power coming into me… Power that you can't imagine!"
"If you're talking about power, try facing Master Hand and Crazy Hand first," said Fox.
"I know about their powers… but this source's power dwarfs the hands' powers tenfold!" I mustn't use it all though, or my boss will kill me… "Prepare to die!" he said as he drew his sword.
This was a time where smash abilities came in handy. All five smashers got into fighting stance. However, the small knight strangely glowed and radiated some energy that all the smashers could feel.
I can tell he's not going to be easy… Shit, I'm still tired from the battle with Captain Falcon… Fox thought.
The knight suddenly disappeared and appeared behind Luigi. Luigi whirled around, but it was too late. He immediately slashed Luigi on his back and quickly thrusted his sword through his arm. Luigi let out a loud gasp as he fell to the ground, unconscious and wounded.
Fox was the first to notice what was happening, but it was too late; the knight already got Captain Falcon too. Samus threw out her grappling beam in an attempt to grab the fast knight, but he disappeared yet again. Knowing what to expect this time, she quickly morphed into her morph ball, just to hear the swift sound of a swinging sword above her. She quickly planted a bomb and boosted away before transforming back.
Unfortunately, the bomb missed and the knight took this opportunity to slash Jigglypuff, whose reactions were too slow to counter him. She fell after a single slice as well, leaving only Fox and Samus against the enemy.
Fox immediately pulled out his blaster and started firing at the knight, but all of his shots missed. The knight jumped from wall to wall and finally reached his closer target: Samus. Expecting her to transform again, he attempted to slice her vertically instead. She immediately shot a fully charged power beam shot into his face, sending him flying into the wall. Fox took this opportunity to speed towards the knight and kicked him upwards. He jumped up and prepared to use his trusty reflector attack when the knight disappeared and reappeared below Fox.
Samus released her grapple beam to reel in the knight while switching her arm cannon functions; it was now switched to the ice beam. She shot a shot of pure ice at the knight in her grip, but the knight swung his sword to cut the grapple beam and rolled around Samus. Before she knew what happened, he swung his sword up on her back and immediately slammed his foot on her head.
For the knight, four down one to go.
Fox was one of the fastest smashers, he knew, but his enemy was way faster. He wasn't going to go down without a one-on-one fight though. The knight appeared right behind Fox. Expecting this, Fox rolled around the knight just as it had rolled around Samus. He crouched and swung his tail at the knight, lifting him into the air a couple feet. Fox short hopped and used a drill kick. He immediately used a powerful round-house kick on the stunned knight, sending him flying across the room. He grabbed his trusty blaster and fired away.
But the knight disappeared in midair! Before Fox had a chance to react, the knight grabbed Fox's neck from behind, holding his sword in front of his neck.
"Any last words?" the knight asked.
Fox had nothing to say, so he asked, "Who the hell are you?"
The knight kicked Fox off and swiftly slashed his back with his sword. Fox gasped out in pain as he felt blood spurt out from his back and felt himself losing consciousness.
"You want my name?" the dark figure asked, pointing his sword at Fox. "You're an interesting guy."
Fox closed his eyes. The moment before he fell unconscious, the knight replied, "My name is Meta Knight and be sure to remember it."
