Who Would've Thought?

Samus clutched the ground hard it shook and the small confinement she was in started to get hotter. She was lucky, this time she was able to make it inside the small pod right before the lava erupted and consumed the place. Her damage was high… noticeably so, being in the hundreds as of now. Next to her was her partner, the small yellow thunder mouse, Pikachu. He was shivering, scared out of his life. His damage was even higher than hers.

The eruption was now halfway over, and the feeling of anxiety only grew. The small pod they were in could only survive the eruption and they knew as soon as it was done their opponent would destroy it in no time. Samus, being a veteran, and one of the strongest ones at that, was normally not frightened by anyone, but this one was strong… really strong… and she got hurt several times trying to keep Pikachu from being blasted off the field. As it stood now, both she and Pikachu were severely wounded, and they hadn't even landed a hit on their assailant. He had dipped and dodged every one of their attacks and never gotten the smash ball. On the other hand, they both got it once and missed.

The eruption was now over, and Samus felt really vulnerable without her Power Suit to pack the damage on. Without it she was able to keep up with him, but now she was much more susceptible to his constant attacks. They were sitting in the dark confines of their not-so-safe safehouse when it happened. Their opponent started to break open their bubble and soon the grinding sound of metal against metal was heard. In no time it was covered in holes of all kinds and their prison flashed a few times before disappearing, leaving them in the open to their unlikely predator.

Now that she was out of the cell and in the light, it could be seen that Samus was in her Zero Suit, which now had cuts and slashes in it, making her even more revealed than the Zero Suit alone usually did. The cuts were made in such a way that they revealed parts of her bosom, legs, stomach and back and still inflicted major damage. Samus took this as an insult as she knew that her opponent was purposely avoiding exposing her in any naughty way, and therefore had enough time between attacking and defending to choose his attacks.

XxX

Up in the spectator's box, two figures could be seen watching the fight. They both sported incredible swords and capes and blue hair. They were resting and talking about this and that.

"Wow, look at what he's done to her! She isn't going to like that… I mean, I do… but she won't…" the first one said, looking intensely at Samus.

The second one looked impassively at Samus. He liked the view, but he wasn't going to be distracted by it. He looked over at her opponent with more analytical scrutiny than ever seen before.

"Still not talking while we're undergoing this stuff huh? Stick in the mud…" the first one said, resting his hand on his sword. "Still, this is making me itchy… Makes me want to fight…"

XxX

Samus and Pikachu were now visibly freaked out. They knew their opponent was still here… He had to be if they were still in this forsaken place… but where? He survived the explosion somehow and was now playing ninja with a bounty hunter. They backed up to the end of the stage… ready and alert for just about anything should he pop out of anywhere…

"Damn rookies… who knew Kirby would suggest someone like him… I should have known better to accept someone that little pink powerhouse suggested… If I knew it was him… DAMN IT!" Samus screamed. She felt like a sitting duck… y'know… how she made everyone else feel.

"Pika pika pika chu pika pi" asked Pikachu.

"I don't know… keep on alert… he can't beat two veterans…" she answered reassuringly. She reached down to pet him and comfort him… and regretted it instantly.

From behind them a blue mass of burnt cloth sprang up and with blinding speed whipped out his yellow jagged blade. He was small and round, and wore a metal mask that only revealed his bright glowing yellow eyes… Yes this person is…

"Meta Knight" Samus muttered, as everything was going in slow motion. She was in a bad position. Meta Knight had been waiting for this opportunity, and she knew she was screwed at that moment. She closed her eyes and waited for the worst.

Then, a flash of light happened, and Samus fell off the platform she was on and onto the one below it. She looked up to see Pikachu using his thunder attack, and finally scoring a hit on the mysterious swords master. This, added to the damage from the lava explosion, managed to get him close to their damage, but not close enough. The little knight was a little shocked from the attack, but recovered quickly. He opened his wings and flew back to the little yellow fur and with a quick smash attack; an upward slash of his sword, Pikachu flew off the field.

XxX

The two figures were surprised, Pikachu rarely ever lost. I mean sure… today he was sick and only accepted so he could go to his home dimension and get some medicine, but still, most rookies couldn't touch him even then. And then Samus… If you cut off both her arms and legs, poked out her eyes and gagged her she would still be able to headbutt most of the older players into submission. This rookie was good, and they were willing to accept him into the swords division of their little club… but now he was going to have to endure some pain. Pikachu was the only one that really got along with Samus, and now that he was gone, Meta Knight was screwed.

XxX

Meta Knight could taste the killing intent and power coming off his opponent. He backed up slowly, then remembered he had attacked them on the end of the board, and cursed. The blonde clad in blue slowly approached , then pulled out the gun she had previously kept concealed.

XxX

"Where does she keep that anyway?" the first one asked

"Dunno" answered the second

XxX

She raised the gun, and shot an electric round at her opponent. Meta Knight reacted quickly, and blocked it with his sword, but the electricity shot down the sword and into his arm, weakening his grip. The pissed blonde rushed forward and did a sharp upward kick during his moment of surprise, knocking the sword out of his hand. She fired several shots at point black range, before going into hand-to-hand combat. Several punches and kicks were sent all over his round body, before smashing him into the ground. Meta's mask was now cracked, providing little defense against the attacks. He looked up, only to see her looking back down at him, rage evident in her eyes.

"Oh no… you're not getting away so easily." She growled as she pulled out her gun and shot several more electric rounds, but this time Meta Knight was able to dodge. He jumped off the stage, turning his cape into wings and trying to fly to a safer location, which seemed like nowhere to him at the moment. The bounty hunter looked on with indifference, before extending her laser whip from her gun and enclosing it around the bat ninja.

"Goodbye, swordsman" she said, before pressing a button and releasing a shockwave through the whip, shocking Meta into unconsciousness, before releasing him and letting him fall into the lava.

Within an instant they were back in the lobby of the Smash Mansion, which housed champions of many different dimensions. This was known as the Super Smash Bros dimension, formed by the Master Hand and Crazy Hand, and then made famous by the legendary Original Twelve. Ever since then, more and more fighters were invited to the most prestigious gathering of heroes and villains.

One of these legendary heroes was pissed as she stomped out of the room, almost forgetting her victory stars. The two spectators walked into the room, and were about to congratulate the victor, when they were cut off.

"Shove it, Ike, before I stick that sword somewhere you won't like" she then turned to the second person, "Good morning Marth, tell Link the rookie is good enough to be a swordsman of brawl." She then grabbed him by the collar of his armor, "Also tell him that if he ever uses me as testing material for rookies again I will castrate him with his own sword."

Samus let him go, and then stomped out of the room, leaving three terrified men in her wake.

"Damn… she is scary" grunted Ike, "I now know why she doesn't have many friends" the one called Ike said, before being zapped by Pikachu, who was still in the room, congratulating the rookie. The yellow rodent pitter pattered out of the room for his medicine and food.

Marth chuckled, then said, "Indeed, and if you keep this up, you won't have that many either. Come Ike, let's introduce Meta Knight to Link", he said, motioning the small knight over, who obediently obliged.

XxX

Samus stomped down the hallway to her room. She hated rookies, she always did. During Melee she hated all the people everyone brings in, crowding the huge mansion. It was still big enough so that even on a busy day it was more than likely that none of them would see one another, but now, the rookies never seemed to end. She was seeing them left and right, and they were odder than the last generation. Too bad, the fruits of her labor trying to break in the rookies from Melee to NEVER speak to her were finally beginning to show…now she had to start all over again! At least in Melee there were some understandable ones. Like Roy… Roy had such a huge crush on her he would often stand outside her door and slice up whoever comes near. The red head had to leave, however, for he missed his hometown, as they all did, and the visits weren't enough for him anymore. It was okay, or at least would be if the guy he chose to replace him wasn't a lecherous monkey like Ike… A strong monkey, at that… Mewtwo was powerful, and he kept to himself as well. She would almost tolerate the psychic if he didn't have such a fierce rivalry with Pikachu.

But now… NOW there were completely un-relatable people coming! One of them was Link's incarnation from a different time zone, and his eyes creeped her out. Sure… Link went through an incarnation change every time rookies came in, but he was still essentially the same person. The only reason Young Link was a different character was because eventually they did turn out to be completely different beings. Young Link had to go on another adventure in his world, though, so he got his descendent to take over in his place… a creepy toon version of himself. She shivered. She hated swordsmen.

She was finally on her floor, and walked down numerous hallways and made many turns until she came to the hallway that had her door. No one was stupid enough to claim the same floor she did out of fear they would bump into her, but she wasn't going to take any chances should one try. She wanted to be as far away from these annoying beings as possible. She decided that she wasn't going to talk for a while, as Pikachu was going to his dimension to meet his trainer, Red, whom he invited as well. She was a little saddened by this, as now they were going to spend less time together, but she would never show it. Hell, this is better… bounty hunters like herself had no business making friends.

She turned shook herself out of her thoughts and soon her plan was out the window. Standing in front of the door to her room was an unfamiliar face, his hand poised and ready to knock… Something that was taboo in the halls of the Smash Mansion, as the hand that was knocking would soon be cut off. As such, only Crazy Hand did it, as..

He was crazy

What was she going to cut off?

She whipped out her gun and pointed it at the face of the perpetrator. He was wearing all white, a laurel reef on his head, which was covered in brown hair, and had these huge white wings. He looked familiar, but then again everyone outside of the mansion that looked familiar to her was likely an enemy. The boy raised his hands in the air, before panicking. He started to hyperventilate, and Samus, in her own perverse way was actually flattered by this.

"IamsorryMissIdidn'tmeantodisturbyoubutI'" he managed to scream out, clearly frightened.

Now Samus was pleased. Beyond pleased actually. In fact, she was so pleased at the boy's fear she actually decided not to kill the young boy. She lowered her gun and spoke in the gentlest she could to the rookie, which was still pretty scary.

"Calm down, repeat your situation"

The angel took a deep breath, then calmly restated himself, "Sorry, I didn't mean to disturb you… I am new here and was looking for a room when I got lost. Most of the doors on this floor were locked. I finally found one that wasn't, but it had stuff in it, so I was knocking on your door to see if anyone was currently using it." He then pointed to a box behind him, "I didn't look in it, but I had to move it out here so there would be no misunderstandings." He looked back up from the box to see Samus… terrified.

Samus was freaking out! She had lost that box a while ago, and was looking for it ever since. She forgot that she moved it into that room while she was cleaning hers. If anyone were to ever know what was in it, she would be ruined… NO! No one must ever know! She raised her gun again, scaring the angel boy.

"You… touched the box…" she muttered in a monotone voice… almost everyone in the mansion felt shivers going down their spine. The angel felt sweat dripping down his face. She slowly advanced on him, her gun at the ready, and her eyes deep and terrifying.

"No one… can ever know…" she said, inching ever closer to her prey. The rookie was a dead man, as some in the mansion were passing out from pure fear. The newcomer getting the full brunt of it managed to keep his mind, but fear was starting to grip his body and his legs were shaking. In a feeble attempt to escape this terror, even only a little, he backed up and managed tripped over the box in question, spilling its contents.

In an instant the killing intent spreading over the entire mansion was gone, as the source scrambled on the floor trying to recover her belongings. Pit, in his fear hazed mind, managed to catch a glimpse of the stuff in there. There were some stuffed toys, a pendent and some pictures. His eyes snapped to one in particular, just before it was snatched up and put carefully back in the box and closed. The blonde looked at him, blushing slightly because he managed to see her precious belongings.

"Next time I see you, you WILL die!" she said, before shutting and locking her door.

No sooner had she done that, several figures ran around the corner. They were Mario, Kirby, Link, the Ice Climbers, and a man in a black suit wearing one white glove on his right hand.

"What'sa going on here?" asked the plumber

"Isn't it obvious? Samus scared another rookie senseless." Said Link, a hero clad in green, as he put away his sword.

"Pao pao pao, pao pao!" said Kirby, who was turning back around, followed by the Ice Climbers, who just looked at each other before following suit.

"You're right, Kirby. Only Samus could secrete such power. I'm surprised the newbie is still alive, let alone conscious. I'm happy I invited you here, Pit" the masked man said, extending his gloved hand to help the boy up, "come, you don't want to be here. She will kill you should she decide to come out her room right now, and it will take all of us to hold her back."

Pit sat there on the ground, thinking it over, before grabbing his hand and accepted the help. He released the hand as soon as he was up, however.

"No, Mr. Master Hand. I have already chosen my room, and I want to get used to it." He said, pointing to the door adjacent to the one of the famous bounty hunter.

"Kid, are you crazy? Did you not feel that just now? You don't know her Pit, she will make your life a living hell for whatever you did to her. I'm afraid I can never give you enough lives to survive that slaughter." Master Hand said, trying to convince the newbie.

Pit just stood there, his resolve not changed one bit, "No, Mister Hand, you're wrong. I want this room."

Master Hand was about to retort, when Link put his hand on his shoulder and shook his head, "If the fool doesn't want to believe the facts, then it's his funerals." He said, before turning and leaving. Master Hand opened his mouth to say something, but quickly closed it as he snapped his gloved hand and walked away.

Pit watched as they were walking away, then said to himself, "You're wrong Mister Hand… I do know her." He walked into his room, which was no longer empty, but now filled with his belongings and looked a lot like his home world of Skyworld. Pit would be impressed by the power of the gloved figure, but was too deep in thought to really care at the moment, as he walked over to his bed, now sitting on a cloud, and sat down. He reached into his shirt, and pulled out a pendent, which opened to reveal a picture of a girl with long, straight blonde hair. She was wearing an orange shirt and grinning heavily. She had to be at least five. She had her arm around a blushing boy wearing a white hoodie and white pants. A single tear fell on the picure, which was wiped away quickly. The picture was already worn and fading as is.

"Impossible" he said, before closing the pendent.

XxX

In the room across the hall, a female bounty hunter was sitting on her bed, bawling her eyes out. The room was filled to the brim with guns, knives, swords, cannons, armor, armor, armor, more armor, flamethrowers, rocket launchers, gunship models, miniature gunships, crossbows and a Chouzo ball but none of that stuff could make her happy right now. Painful memories were brought up by that… that nuisance… He even saw what was sitting inside her precious box… Now all of that hard work getting the people to fear her would be gone in the blink of an eye. No, he was going to die before all of that happened. No one except the boy in this picture was allowed to see even a glimpse of her true self. She looked down at the picture at hand, which was old and fading. She started to cry uncontrollably again… and tears fell on the picture, of a blonde girl with her arm around a blushing boy in white…