Hello! I'm sorry that this whole author's introduction section looks a bit imposing but please bear with me as this stuff is important.

This story is not a Smash story where Master Hand invites them all to an all-out brawl and they fight the whole time. Well, there's a lot of fighting, but there's also a lot of storyline, character development, and you'll be seeing almost every (if not every) stage, to an extent, from the game. It's a free-form area, a little like the world in the Subspace Emissary. The characters wander from world to world.

Now, a little about that. The characters are aware of each other, but until the story, they never go, for example, to take a stroll from Hyrule to the Green Hill Zone. NO MORE! They discover smash balls and other items (Yes, there will be items) and eventually wander off to each other to find out what's going on. And they fight, of course.

Like I said, Mario has heard about Link and Pit, and he knows a little bit about Mute City and whatever, but until now, they never actually went there. The only stages nobody knows exists yet are Flat Zone 2 and Hanenbow. Likewise, the only characters nobody's at all heard of are ROB and Mr. Game and Watch.

A couple last notes: Bowser owns the Final Destination under Crazy Hand, who rarely shows up, but they have devious plans. Master Hand has not been seen for a long time, so the realms are going into chaos. Ganondorf owns the Battlefield, which he uses as a kind of mini-coliseum, where he pits players against players for the crowds.

It's... hard to describe.

Okay! We now go to the Mario Brothers, who, unfortunately, are the only characters we meet this chapter. But there will be more next chapter, I promise!

Here we go!

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There was a straight road ahead. In the air floated numerous blocks, some untarnished, but many with strange little question marks on them. And where there were question marks, there were usually super mushrooms.

Mario stood and stared at the endless path ahead of him, smiling a satisfied smile. This was his playground. Luigi and he always went here, to the Mushroomy Kingdom, when Bowser wasn't around to fight, and the Yoshis were away, and Princess Peach was busy. Come to think of it, he hadn't seen Bowser for what seemed like forever. He was probably up to something big.

Mario turned around. "Luigi?" he asked in his funny Italian accent.

"Yes?" Mario's younger brother said. He was running around the plain blocks, punching and kicking them to pieces.

"I have a question, Mario answered. His large brown shoes tapped against the ground.

Luigi stopped messing around and walked up to Mario. They had matching mustaches and big noses and blue overalls, although Mario's shirt was red, while Luigi's was green.

Mario hesitated. "Are you ever... jealous of me?"

Luigi stared, then laughed. "Haha! Of course I'm-a not jealous! What makes you think that?"

Mario shrugged. "It seems that I always get the popularity, when nobody really cares about you." There was a pause. "No offence," he added.

Luigi put his hand on Mario's red shoulder. He was slightly taller than Mario. "Well... You're my older brother. It's only right that you take a lot of the fame. I don't mind."

"Thanks, Luigi," Mario said, smiling.

"Anytime," Luigi replied, glad to break the awkward moment. "Now, uh... How about we play a game?"

"Sure!" Mario said. He ran under two of the floating question mark boxes, Luigi right behind. "Okay," Mario said. "Let's-a go get some super mushrooms and start mashing up the place!"

"All right!" Luigi said. It was always fine to break stuff in the Mushroomy Kingdom because everything grew back.

Mario started it off. With a loud "HA!" he jumped up and bumped the block. The question mark disappeared and a mushroom came out. He became twice his size in seconds. He smiled down at his bro.

"My turn!" Luigi announced. He jumped up and bonked his head against the block. Another, slightly darker mushroom came out. Mario opened his moth to warn Luigi but it was too late. The poison mushroom hit him and he shrank to half his size.

Mario laughed, very hard. Luigi scowled at the fact that he was shorter than Mario's knee, but he started cracking up as well. These were the kind of brother-brother moments they both lived for when it was just them around.

"Okay," Luigi admitted over Mario's laughs. "I admit that was-a stupid." This only made the giant Mario laugh harder.

"But really, Luigi," Mario insisted, wiping a tear from his eye. "Go get the next one. Odds are it's-a gonna be a super mushroom.

Luigi nodded. He ran top speed at the nearest question mark block and jumped on his tiny little feet upward to punch it. He looked back and forth to find it fall, but he couldn't. "Where'd it go?"

He looked at Mario expectantly, but the red plumber was staring in the air, now for some reason shrunk back to normal size. "Lu-Luigi," he stuttered, "look a-at this!"

Luigi felt himself suddenly get taller and then realized that he had gotten to his normal height as well. Then he looked at what Mario was staring at. And he stared as well.

It was a sphere. That was all it was, a ball floating ominously in the air, glowing all the colors of the rainbow and then some. In the middle, there was a strange icon in black, but neither brothers could recognize it fast enough as if floated away.

"Mario?" Luigi managed to say.

"Uh huh," Mario answered, still staring at where the object was.

"What's happening?" Luigi said.

"I don't-a know."

Neither of them knew. But the truth was, Super Smash Bros. Brawl was happening.

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Yahoo! Mysteries! So yes, suddenly Smash Balls are appearing, and items will too. I'm going to have maybe two or three more character introducing chapters, with two or three characters each, and then the adventure starts happening. And chapters will have more action, less author's notes. Hopefully.

I'm not sure who I'll introduce next. It will probably be Bowser, Link, and/or Fox and Falco.

Okay. Let's talk a little. I've made Mario just the usual running jumping plumber man. He's loyal but he's not stuck-up. Yet. And Luigi is the usual: Mario's shadow. He doesn't show it now, but it will really annoy him later in the story!

I'm sorry I'm bad at storylines and everything, but please, this is my first multi-chapter fanfic. It will get better!

Mario: And-a review! Aspiring authors are known to simultaneously combust if they don't get lots of reviews!

Oh, Mario...