Chapter One, The Usual.
A simple day in the Smash Kingdom, where everyone fights each other for fun, to prove that they are awesome or just for training in case of a major enemy. But for now, it was battle time for Pit and Dark Pit V.S. Villager and Duck Hunt.
Link, Mario, Sonic, Luigi and Zelda were watching at the character screen, which showed the owners of the game their pictures and select screen but for the fighters, a nice little café with random greenery and a huge baseball stadium sized TV place right above a gaping doorway, which lead the chosen fighters to their stage and arena.
"Alright! Go for the gold Pit!" Sonic cheered, Zelda winched as the Villager planted a tree and sent Dark Pit flying out of the ring the moment they were allowed to move, "Mama mia!" Luigi exclaimed, "Who knew trees could be so dangerous!" Link chuckled and took a bite out of his sandwich, "Apparently, not Dark Pit."
They watched as Dark Pit was brought back in, growling slightly as the Villager happily taunted knowing full well that Dark Pit was going to kill her when he got the chance, Duck Hunt wasn't making their battle go any easier since he would stick by the Villager who planted tree and used them as shields against most of the Pits' attacks.
"For crying out loud! Stop hiding behind trees!" Dark Pit roared, Pit laughed nervously as he charged forward hitting the Villager and sending her off the edge, "Lighten up Pittoo!" Dark Pit glared at him and snarled, "How many times have I told you not to call me that?!"
"About a million," Pit blocked and began slashing at Duck Hunt who yelped and tried to get away, "But it isn't that bad! We have an extra life we can win this."
Dark Pit was about to argue that they were going to lose when Villager fired a Gyroid combined with a potted tree. "I. Hate. TREES!" Dark Pit fought back while the Villager danced away laughing the entire time. Pit and Duck Hunt watched and sighed knowing that after the fight that they were on damage control to prevent Dark Pit from murdering the droopy eyed female Villager.
The fight ended with the Villager being the winner while Duck Hunt happily cheered from the sidelines, Dark Pit sulky clapped while Pit simply grinned and stepped out of the stage room, "Nice battle Pit!" Zelda smiled at him while Link nodded in agreement and said, "Although I suppose it could have been better if Treeleaf wasn't spamming her tree attack."
"Oh, ya think!?" Dark Pit stormed out of the Stage selection with Treeleaf, the droopy eyed village wearing the green and white dress and Duck Hunt lazily trailing behind them.
"It wasn't that bad." Treeleaf yawned, Dark Pit spun around prepared to bite her head off when Pit lead him toward the café counter to order something for lunch.
"You could have cut him some slack Treeleaf." Mario said, Treeleaf gave a surprised expression and did her worry dance, "But then I wouldn't be fighting Mario!" Her expression changed once more as she did her plotting face, "Besides, he's fun to mess with!"
Mario and Link gave her a scolding glare as she skipped off to chat with the rest of the villagers, there were four boys and four girls, all of them sharing the same move set.
All of them loved to use their tree attacks to troll whoever they were fighting. Then again, the Villagers never seemed to take the fight as serious as everyone else did. Probably because they grew up in such a laidback area.
Sonic jumped up and stretched, "Wonder who's fighting next? Hope it's me!" Luigi nervously laughed, "You always hope it's you." Sonic grinned down at the green plumber, "So? What's the fun of sitting around?"
"Oh, I don't know, talking with friends, relaxing not having to worry about Gannondorf's evil plans for a while." Zelda glanced over to Sonic with a bored look that hid her beautiful smile, "That kind of fun." Everyone laughed and Sonic sped off, probably to challenge Shulk to a race since his sword, the Monado had some sort of speed stat that nearly made him as fast as Sonic.
Everyone was sort of surprise that Shulk didn't deny Sonic's countless requests for racing but then again, Shulk was probably trying to figure out how the blue rodent managed to run that fast without hurting himself.
"Well, whatever." Zelda got up and stretched, "I'm going to see if I can talk some sense into Peach." Mario and Luigi groaned, "Do you have to?" Zelda crossed her arms preparing to launch into a lecture but Luigi quickly backed down, leaving his brother on his own. "I understand how things work in your world, but still. Having tea parties with the enemy? It's unacceptable!"
"Yes but-," Zelda cut Mario off with sharp, "But nothing! As a fellow princess I have to talk some sense to her! It's either that or explain the real reason why she needs better guards!" Mario gulped and backed down, not in the mood to face an angry Peach since the last time Zelda had brought that topic up, she went complaining to Mario who didn't understand anything about royalty.
Zelda gracefully headed over to the dense woods were Peach was, leaving the boys alone. Link stood up and studied his Master Sword, "Well, whatever the next fight is, I plan on taking a nap." Luigi opened his mouth to say something when a quiet voice interjected, "Marth wishes to see you Link." Everyone jumped and spun around to see Sheik awkwardly looking at them, he or she was fiddling with her scarf that head most of their face.
"How long have you been there?!" Luigi demanded, embarrassed that he had jumped into Mario's arms for safety, Sheik quietly replied, "Ever since the Pits' battle begun." Mario dropped Luigi on the floor and crossed his arms, "And you didn't tell us this earlier why…?"
Sheik looked away, Link didn't understand why Mario asked the question since everyone had noticed that Zelda and Sheik were almost never in the same room unless they were fighting, Link understood why. Before Zelda and Sheik were one for two whole tournaments now they were two different people.
Zelda remembered everything from Link's adventure as a wolf and bits and pieces of the last two tournaments while Shiek… No one knew what Sheik remembered since she never chatted with anyone but Samus and she always seemed to know what they were talking about.
Plus the awkwardness of feeling like you once knew that person but didn't know why bothered them both to the point that Sheik preferred to sneak around rather than face Zelda and hold a conversation.
At least it was better than Zero's reaction to being spilt into two different people, Zero was well, Zero Suit Samus and finding out that her suit worked perfectly fine without her in it drove her a little paranoid since she had lost her suit once and an alien had taken it over with a robot. No one knew the real story since Samus never liked to talk about it.
They made extra measures to make sure that Samus and Zero never bumped into each other and start fighting.
"So what does Marth wants?" Link asked,
"He needs your help convincing Roy that there still friends. They have a team battle in a couple minutes in a while and Ike's joining them." Sheik explained, she glanced over to the row of doors which lead to the different Smashers rooms, "He refuses to come out…"
"Not again." Link groaned, he gave a sheepish grin to Luigi who was dusting himself off, "Sorry Luigi, I won't be able to help get you out of Wii Fit Trainer's workout scheme." Luigi sighed and waved his apology away, "Don't worry, I figured something like this might happen, so I enlisted the Pikachu Squad's help."
Right on cue, four Pikachus appeared looking at Luigi with pride, the leader was the Pikachu without a costume while the other three were simply lackeys, there was the brash fiery green headband Pikachu who was a great fighter, the planner, Blue google Pikachu who often took charge whenever Pikachu wasn't around and the simple red capped Pikachu who preferred to stay in the shadows.
They saluted and said in perfect unison, "Operation ruin Female Wii Fit Trainer is go!" Sheik blinked in surprise and looked at Luigi who was studying his shoes very closely, "How did you get the Pikachu squad, the very same squad who planned to over throw everything in Brawl on your side?"
"They just noticed that I had lighting powers." Luigi mumbled, Headband chirped, "Plus he's cool! Super cool!" Goggle nodded and said, "Plus he has super cool plans for pranking people!" Pikachu winched and gently backhanded Goggle, "We weren't supposed to stay that out loud!"
"Oops." They quickly kidnapped Luigi and said a hurried goodbye while Mario and Link laughed, "There… Interesting…" Sheik deiced Mario nodded in agreement while Link headed off to Roy's room to try and cox him out.
He found Marth and Ike yelling at the door, ordering Roy to either come outside or let them in so they could talk in private. "Alright Roy!" Ike unsheathed his sword and prepared to set the door aflame, "If you don't come out this instance! Then I'm burning your door down!"
Marth hastily forced Ike to put his sword away and said, "He's kidding! But we would really like to talk this over!" The door opened slightly and Roy glared at Ike, "I'll talk, but not with Ike!"
Ike growled but did nothing as Marth buried his face in his hands, "Roy, you need to talk to Ike since were going to be on the same team!"
"Not happening!" with that, Roy slammed the door shut. Forcing Marth and Ike to go back to plan A, banging on the door and pleading for Roy to come and talk. Link joined them and Marth breathed a sigh of relief, "Thank goodness you're here Link." Marth gestured to the door, "As you can see, we've been trying to get Roy out but…"
"He's being a stubborn mule and refuses to come out." Ike growled, "I am not!" Roy argued, they heard something fall to the ground and winched as Roy shouted something in Japanese. Judging from the way Ike and Marth frowned it was probably a curse word.
Link sighed and knocked on the door, Roy carefully opened the door and glared at Link, "Yes?"
"Is there a reason why you're locking yourself in your room?" Link asked, Roy glared at Ike and was about to close the door when Link used his hook shot, forcing Roy into the hallway. "Hey!" Roy struggled but couldn't get free, he scowled and crossed his arms in defeat.
"Come on Roy, we're talking this over." Link dragged him back into his room with Marth and Ike close behind him, Roy flinched when Ike stepped on a letter someone had sent him. Link placed Roy on his bed which was decorated with fire, flames and his sword in the middle. There was a second bed to the right but it was hidden by a dark purple curtain.
"Now then, why don't you want to work with Ike, Roy?" Marth asked gently, he sat down besides Roy who pretended to be studying his oddly shaped lamp. It reminded Link of a fairy since it was circular, but also of a sword since it had a sharp tip.
"You know why." Roy grumbled, "I do?" Roy glared at Marth who pretended that he had no idea what Roy was talking about, "Fine!" Roy jumped off his bed and pointed at Ike who glowered down at him, "I don't like him since he replaced me!" Roy snapped, "Happy now!?"
"Since when did I replace you?" Ike demanded, "It's not my fault that you weren't up to snuff for Brawl!" Roy stood tall and made eye contact with Ike. "You replaced me, and don't deny it, you stole me spot next to Marth, you stole my attack style and my rightful place in the army." Link flinched when he saw how calm and collective Roy was acting, even though he was chewing out Ike. Ike was about to argue some more when a tired voice sighed, "If you're going to argue about being replaced than leave me out of it."
Roy glared at the curtain and snapped, "You could easily just leave ya know!" Ike readied his sword but Marth stopped him, "I could, but you forbid me from leaving with your book, remember your highness?"
"…You're enjoying the fact that your right and I'm wrong already."
"Yes, yes I am. Then again I am also enjoying this wonderfully useless argument." The voice snickered, Ike glared at the curtain and snapped, "Who are you!?"
The curtain opened by unseen hands and Mewtwo glared at Ike, lazily holding his book with his physic powers. "Hmph," Mewtwo stopped glaring long enough to look Ike up and down, the stuffy playfulness gone from his voice. "I am Mewtwo, the first ever manmade Pokémon to exist." Ike blinked a couple times trying to understand what Mewtwo was saying, Link couldn't really blame him, Mewtwo was… Interesting from his appearance to his attitude. And meeting him for the first time was… Interesting.
Mewtwo tended to look down on all the human fighters, preferring to hang out with Pokémon and sometimes Kirby in hopes of educating him properly (It never worked) Mewtwo also tended to get on everyone's nerves since he acted like he was the smartest person around, and the fact that he was a Physic Pokémon who was pretty much a genius didn't help.
"Well, have fun with your argument." Mewtwo floated toward the door and forced it open, "Bowser invited me to the villain meeting or something idiotic." Roy laughed and shook his head, "I guess he forgot the first time you went and attacked everyone for having completely worthless plans."
Mewtwo gave a dry chuckle and pointed out, "Well, everyone except Gannondorf, he had an okay plan the first time around, the only problem was that he waited Seven years before trying to destroy his hero." Link winched as Mewtwo gave him a look that clearly said that the only reason why he was alive was because he was lucky.
"See ya later Mew," Roy hit the floor as Mewtwo flung a metal trophy at his head, "How many times do I have to tell you!?" Mewtwo snarled, "Don't. Ever. Call. Me. Mew!" And with that he slammed the door shut and left, Roy giggled and muttered, "Your reaction totally makes it worth it." He winched as Mewtwo yelled, "I heard that moron!"
Marth sighed and looked at Roy who was sheepishly studying his books, "You just enjoy getting on his nerves. Don't you." Roy fake gasped and put a hand to his heart, "Me? Get on Mewtwo nerves? How dare you accuse me of such vile nature?"
"Yes, who would have ever thought that the guy who charged his attack up to the point that he injured himself would do something that evil?" Link teased. Roy laughed and defended himself with, "Not my fault that the people controlling me though it was funny!"
"Wait, he blew himself up because it was funny?" Ike questioned, Roy nodded, "And Fox also jumped off the stage just to scream Wyatt!"
"I wasn't doing it to be funny!" everyone looked at the door to see Fox and Falco, Fox was tapping his foot probably annoyed at the fact that his opponents were taking forever.
"We know Fox." Roy stood up and gave his sword a few practice swings, "But for right now, I wonder how many times you'll scream Wyatt." Fox grinned and tossed his pistol up in the air before skillfully catching it, "I wonder how many times you'll blow yourself up."
"It's on doggie!"
"In your dreams flame boy!"
And with that Fox and Roy raced to the café to choose the stage playfully hurling insults at each other, Falco and Ike watched in amusement, "Never seen Roy this hyped up to a battle before." Falco mused, "It's probably because Mewtwo cheered him up." Marth noted, Link grinned and said, "Well whatever the reason, you guys had better hurry up before he realizes he's on the same side as Ike."
Marth winched and chased after the red head while Ike and Falco took their time. Link decided to head back to his room and catch up on some reading, Phoenix had lent him some interesting books that involved magic and he was itching to read them. Even though he wasn't a mage or a magic wielder like Zelda or Lady Palutena. He had used magic items during his adventures and potions in order to progress further without dying.
Knowing how to make potions could come in handy one of these days, so he wouldn't have to waste valuable rupees on buying more. Link passed Kirby, Joe Boxer (Little Mac, but everyone from Brawl called him Joe Boxer since they had no clue on what his real name was at the time) JigglyPuff and Toon Link who happily started talking about the best bombs and arrows to use when fighting evil.
Zelda fidgeted and twitched as Palutena braided her hair, she wasn't use to girly activities that weren't planning for a party or courting someone, she had grown up during a time for peace and action. Spending most of her time trying to learn how to protect herself or how to plan for war if needed. So having a somewhat private girls' night out was not her cup of tea.
Although it seemed to be right up the Goddess's alley since she was happily giving tips to Phoenix, who was Robin's female counter part on hair braiding and make up for Rosalina the mother of Lumas.
"Can we please stop?" Zelda half asked, half begged as Palutena combed through her hair, trying to get rid of all of the tangles that had magically appeared ever since Zelda had arrived.
"Ah, ah, ah~" Peach grinned and playfully scolded the Princess of Hyrule, "You promised us some girl time, that included Sheik and you have been putting it off for too long!"
Zelda groaned and flinched as Palutena combed through her hair again, "Look on the bright side Zel." Zelda glared at Phoenix who was re-braiding Sheik's hair, she looked completely embarrassed that she had to remove her scarf. "At least you have Lucina on your side." Lucina glared at her friend and grumpily fixed her tiara, "Can we please skip the makeovers and start gossiping or something?"
"I agree! Let's start talking!" Sheik yanked her scarf away from Phoenix and shakily placed it back on her head and around her mouth, "I'm back with the cookies." Rosalina daintily placed a tray on the blanket they were using and scolded a couple baby Lumas who were trying to steal some.
"Aww, there so cute!" Lucina cooed, she patted the red Luma and hugged it, earning coos of delight from the baby star. "And there also a handful," Rosalina laughed earning a small protest of, "Are not mama!"
Peach clapped her hands and took a bite out of her cookie, "Well, since some people wish to do something besides our wonderful makeover." Peach looked right at Zelda and Lucina who rolled their eyes, "What topic should we talk about?"
"Well, we can't talk about boys." Phoenix deiced, "Since we have two snooping around already." She glanced over to Rosalina's cottage where Shulk and Owl, the male Robin were examining everything outside of the little house, trying to figure what magic or machine Rosalina used to make the planet livable.
"Well, they aren't too bad." Zelda offered then she paused and added, "Compared to that noisy Duck Hunt dog and Pacman."
Everyone shuddered, Duck Hunt was annoying. He spied on everyone, ruined little picnics and sometimes evening strolls. No one but the Villagers really liked him and of course Kirby who Duck Hunt hated since Kirby would tackle him and pet him over and over again.
"Well, we could talk about the villains we faced." Palutena offered, Phoenix shuddered, "Next topic." Sheik played with her braid and suggested, "How about we talk about the newcomers?" Zelda shot that idea down quickly, reminding Sheik that everyone in the group was a newcomer to Smash. The girls thought for a while but couldn't really think about anything interesting to talk about.
"Well, we could watch the match down below." Phoenix suggested, Peach looked down just in time to see Fox flying out of the stage, "Hey! Roy's fighting!"
"He is?" Zelda joined her and grinned, "Nice to see that he and Ike aren't fighting for once." Phoenix looked down and sighed, revealed that her team was winning, "I was terrified that Roy might spend the entire battle arguing with Ike."
"Well, looks like we were wrong." Lucina pulled her long blue hair into a ponytail and watched the match below, Palutena frowned slightly and wondered aloud, "Although, I wonder what that big argument was about earlier." Lucina glanced up at the Goddess, "Marth, Ike and Link were trying to convince Roy to come out of his room to talk, Link managed to finally talk to Roy after he used his hookshot." Rosalina sighed and stroked a yellow Luma, "I wish those two would get along."
"For those two to get along it would be like Lucario, Mewtwo and Greninja becoming besties." Shulk joked, he sat down and watched the match below, "I'm guessing that you two still couldn't figure out how we manage to breath in outer space?" Peach asked,
Owl joined Shulk and groaned, "We tried every possible solution, even using Shulk's theory that Rosalina's planet works like the Bionis. Using Ether to supply energy and life."
Shulk sighed and looked around the small galaxy, "We even tried magic and the Mondao's power in search of answers." He glanced over at Palutena who was enrapt with watching the battle, "Do you have any idea on how-,"
"Shh! There getting to the good part!" Shulk glanced down and frowned, not understanding the Goddess's love for fighting, or at least for watching it. "Right, my mistake." He looked at Zelda and Sheik who shook their heads, not understanding it either.
"Well, looks like this will be an unanswered question." Shulk decided, "True, but now we can focus on the next problem!" Owl jumped up and looked down at Roy, "Figuring out why Roy and Mewtwo don't like certain people!"
Shulk grinned and joined his friend, "Right! Although it's going to be a bit trickier since their people…" Lucina laughed and playfully punched Owl, "Well, I'll give you boys a clue. They seem to have been replaced by Ike and Lucario." Lucina quickly regretted giving them a clue since they tackled her and begged for more information which Phoenix happily suppled, "Alright! Let's go interview some of the council!" Owl declared,
"Agreed!"
Zelda and Peach giggled as the boys and Phoenix dragged Lucina off on their next mystery,
"Well, looks like there going to be busy." Rosalina giggled, the girls started tossing around ideas on how Shulk and Owl would get the information when Sheik killed the playful mood, "But… What if they find out about the forgotten…?"
Zelda and Peach paled and shot Sheik a look to zip it, but Palutena and Rosalina leaned forward, interested about the forgotten, Peach made a hurried excuse about talking to Mario and left, leaving Sheik and Zelda to fend for themselves, "Soooo." Palutena leaned forward, resting her hands on her staff's orb, "What are the forgotten?" Zelda hesitated and stammered, "It's nothing of your concern for now." Rosalina noticed how uncomfortable Zelda and Sheik were and quickly said, "If it's something…. Close to your past then we won't ask about it!"
The luma princess glared at Palutena and nudged her, "Right Palutena?"
"Hmm? Oh right!" She sat up and waved away the matter, laughing nervously, "We'll stop bothering you if it's too painful!" then she leaned forward, a sinister glint in her eyes, "Buuuutt… It would be nice to know."
Zelda gulped and was about to make an excuse when Sheik grabbed her arm and ninja vanished to the Café, leaving the Princess and the Goddess alone, the Lumas sighed. Disappointed that their new friends had left abruptly and floated away, Rosalina whacked Palutena and chided her, "There probably going to avoid us now!" She stood up and wrung her hands, "Ohh! I hope they like apology cookies."
Palutena watched and sighed, "I just wanted to know what the forgotten were." She looked around and found that the battle had ended, "Tsk, I'll just have to ask Pit about who won." She left, not noticing the sudden chill in the air or the Lumas' sudden nervousness as they felt someone watching them.
Palutena glided down to the Café just in time to see Roy storm off, while Marth desperately held Ike back who seemed ready to murder someone. "What happened now?" Palutena asked, dreading the answer. A Jigglypuff looked up at her and answered her question, "At the last moment, Zero knocked Ike out of the ring and Roy was left on his own to fight. They won, but Ike…" the Jigglypuff glanced over to where Marth was now scolding Ike.
"But Ike didn't like the outcome of the fight." Palutena sighed and headed for her room, she hated it when anyone fought among their teammates it ruined the sport of fighting in her opinion. She pasted Pit and Dark Pit who were chatting with Headband and Toon Link.
"Hey Lady Palutena!" Pit grinned at the Goddess, "Did you see the awesome match we had?" Dark Pit snorted, "Awesome? We got destroyed out there."
"It wasn't that bad Pitto."
"Stop calling me that!"
Palutena bit back a smile as they two argued about Dark Pit's nickname, Headband glared at them and snapped, "Who cares? It's just a dumb nickname!" Toon Link led Headband away saying, "It's probably a good idea to leave them alone."
"What?! I was just about to challenge those losers to a battle!"
"Headband." Headband glared at the green clad boy and pouted, "Spoilsport."
Yup, it was a normal day in the Smash Kingdom… Or so everyone thought. Little did they know that their life would be turned upside down in a short amount of time, by an old enemy….