Awakening
By Gryphic
Note: For this story, only Pokemon may use nicknames for other Pokemon. Any other creatures of other species use the general species name for the particular Pokemon.
I don't own Super Smash Brothers, and this is the first time I'm trying out a chaptered story. If any of the characters become Mary Sues, please kick me in the guts (i.e tell me in a review so that I'll rewrite the part).
Prologue - Meeting
It was night.
The moon shone high above a small clearing, illuminating the tall rock in the center.
In the bushes, a yellow cat-sized creature was running. It had pointed black-tip ears, brown stripes and a jagged tail.
It was called a Pikachu.
The little Pokemon hoped that it wasn't late to the meeting. In the forest, it had passed parked airships and stars and it knew that it certainly wasn't the first.
Pikachu burst into the clearing and sighed with relief. The only other Smashers there were a small pink puffball with hands and feet, a tall penguin wearing a robe, a blue puffball with a cape and a silvery mask and a tall bidpedal dog-like Pokemon.
"Greetings, Lightning," the other Pokemon, Lucario, said telepathically, using a nickname for the Pikachu.
"Hey there, Anubis," Lightning said in Pokemon speak. "Hello Kirby, King Dedede and Meta Knight. I'm glad I'm not late."
"You're not late." Anubis was sitting on top of the rock in a meditative pose.
Lightning hesitated. "Should you… be treating the Memorial like that? Disgracing it by sitting on it?"
"Poyo, rocks are meant to be sat on! Just because it stops the curse doesn't mean we can't sit on it! Poyo!" chirped Kirby, the pink puffball.
"Whatever floats your boat," sighed Lightning. "Wait, I thought you were coming with Red?"
"I sucked Red! Poyo!"
Anubis laughed. "Little Kirby here did suck Red up and is refusing to let him go. If you look closely, Kirby is wearing Red's hat."
Lightning sweatdropped. "I, ahem, see. Kirby, spit him out, will you?"
"Poyo! No!"
The blue puffball, Meta Knight, turned to Kirby. "Kirby?" he said in a dangerous tone.
"Poyo…" With a sigh, the pink one opened his mouth and spat out a boy. He was ten years old and was wearing red. Three red and white balls were situated on his belt.
"Oh, thanks for that! I really needed to be in your mouth for a bit," the Pokemon Trainer said sarcastically.
"You're welcome! Poy-" Kirby was interrupted by more rustling in the bush. A boy wearing a green tunic and wielding a sword came out, followed by a smaller boy that looked like the first, if not for his shorter stature and cat-like eyes.
"Link and Toon Link," Meta Knight said. "Welcome."
Link nodded and sheathed his sword.
A few minutes later, all the Smashers had gathered in the clearing. Anubis looked around and stood up, still on the rock.
"At last, we can start the meeting. As you hopefully know, it was I who gathered us all today," Anubis began. "I wanted to talk to you all today because of some rather startling developments in the last month."
"First of all, Samus has told me that she has found evidence that the curse and Master Hand are linked. Not only linked, but-" The rest of the speech was drowned in chatter. Master Hand and the curse of the Smasher, linked? Inconceivable! Master Hand was the deity of Creativity while the curse was most likely of destruction. It was more likely that the rumoured (i.e. possibly made up) brother of Master Hand, Crazy Hand, created the curse.
"Shush, be quiet!" The chatter stopped. "Secondly, most of us have been seeing strange shadow-like beings, correct? They look like thin humans with bird-like heads and impossibly large claws, and they're transparent grey." The crowd murmured in agreement. "They have attacked Red and me." The crowd gasped.
The Pokemon Trainer stood up. "I was in Sinnoh, involved in a brawl with Lucario. I was relatively clear headed, as the curse doesn't affect me to the extent as all of you. So, I was ordering Squirtle to attack when I myself was attacked by a shadowbeast."
Anubis nodded. "Apparently, the shadowbeasts feed on energy, the stuff that is behind your elemental attacks. They made Red faint and the smash stopped. Then, they absorbed some of my aura."
"This… is bad. I have been noticing more of them. If the Memorial wasn't here, I believe there would be… so many." This came from the shocked Meta Knight.
A small person in a blue parka, Popo, raised his hand. "Lucario, um, does the, er, energy regenerate?"
Anubis shrugged. "It is unknown. Anyway, apparently my friend Eugene has seen a giant white hand command these beings, but he's a barrister."
There was silence, then an embarrassed cough. "I've seen it too…" said Bowser.
Everyone stared.
"I'm not crazy! It was last week! And no, I was not in a bar! I was walking around Castletown, looking for trouble when I went into an alleyway and saw a giant floating hand, which disappeared!" Bowser protested. "Get Lucas or Ness to read my mind if you need proof!"
"Okay, we believe you," Anubis said simply. Everyone turned to stare at him. "Why would he lie in this situation? We're all in the same boat here. And this brings me to the next thing of interest."
"I have been to Canalave Library in Sinnoh and have read a precious manuscript. It has in detail how to, in essence, open a portal to another world." Silence struck again. "But the manuscript was only one page of many."
"I went to various libraries and museums around the realm – Pewter City Museum in Kanto, the royal library of Hyrule, the museum in Dreamland… And I managed to pierce together the pages of the Book of the Memorial. Yes, my friends and fellow Smashers, the Memorial is the key to that other world. And the strange thing is, the Otherworlders believe they have created this world."
A stunned silence filled the clearing. Anubis smiled ruefully and continued.
"I think that the legend of the Hands who created us all and this world that thinks they parented our world are, to say the least, linked. I have memorized the way to create a portal and I hope to create an expedition to this Otherworld."
The silence continued and was only broken when the usually silent Link spoke. "If we choose to go to the Otherworld, what will happen to us?"
"The book doesn't detail what happens if one from our world goes to their world, only that it has been done before and the travelers survived. And al-" Anubis was interrupted by a strange buzzing noise.
There was a shriek. A blonde woman in a pink dress, Princess Peach, pointed in horror at the sky. "Look! Look!" Everyone looked and saw the sky covered in a strange grey.
"The shadowbeasts!" The Lucario stood up and jumped off the rock. "The Memorial is the only thing keeping those… creatures from coming in here and sucking our energies. Because there are so many of us, they are strongly attracted to here. We need to open a portal and send some of us through, so that some will leave and the numbers will be more manageable."
"How do we open the portal then?" asked Lightning.
"Lucas, Ness and Princess Zelda, come here! The rest of you, stand back and prepare your strongest elemental attacks!" The mentioned three walked over to the stone and listened as Anubis privately told them how to open a portal.
Lightning watched as the four closed their eyes. It jumped back as the Memorial started to glow with an eerie purple light.
"Unleash those attacks now!" Electricity, water, fireballs and even some very surprised Pikmin were launched at the glowing stone. The Memorial flashed a startling pink, and then, on its surface, a daylit forest could be seen. "Those who want to go, go."
The Pikachu made its decision quickly. It ran forward and noticed only a few Smashers from the corner of its eye – the Ice Climbers, Link, Meta Knight, wait there was more but-
Then Lightning touched the pillar and lost all consciousness.
What do you think? I know the last part is cheesy.