Chapter 1 - A New School Year

Mario was in paradise. He was sitting on a beach, stretched out on the sand, catching some rays. Sipping lemonade, he glanced over and saw a girl with blonde hair and a pink swimsuit. She was waving and calling "Mario!"

"Mario!"

"HEY! MARIO!"

Mario jolted in his seat, blinking fast. Oh, yeah... He was headed to school. Dang.

The kid who woke him was his friend Yoshi. Yoshi was a Demi-Saurian, a halfhuman halfreptile race that could turn into a dinosaur. Yoshi, in his half form, looked pretty normal. Average size, spiky green hair, and pale-ish skin. The only outlandish thing about him was that he had scales on his shoulders and slightly down his back, and he had a retractable 5-foot tounge.

"Dude, why'd you wake me up? I was having this great dream..."

Yoshi pointed out Mario's window. "Sorry, but we're approaching the Academy. Take a look."

Mario looked out the window. There in the distance was SSB Academy. A large island, with all kinds of landscapes.

Mario picked up his hat and pulled it over his head. "Okay, then. Let's get this party started."

Hundreds of students surrounded Mario on all sides. He was waiting for the opening ceremonies begin. There was idle chatter, but he didn't talk much seeing as how he didn't know anyone. Suddenly on the platform in front of the students, a huge plazma screen buzzed to life. All the talk was hushed.

On the screen was a man in a chair. The room was dark, and you could only see the man in his dark suit. The strange thing was, you couldn't see the top part of his face. Just his mouth was visible. Something else, was that you could only see his right hand. His leg was crossed and his left hand was in his lap.

When he spoke, it was a deep booming voice.

"Welcome students! May I be the first to greet you here at SSB Academy! I am the principal and chairman of this wonderful place. My name is M.H., and I will be monitoring your progress throughout this term."

For Mario, this guy looked like a lame excuse of a principal, but when he spoke, it gave him a powerful aura.

"You were all chosen to come here because you all have something in common. You all have the potential to be great fighters. Each of you have unique powers and skills that need to be trained and tempered."

Mario glanced around. All these kids were fighters?

"You will each be assigned to dorms. You may or may not share them with a different student, depending on the scores that was made on your exams. I hope you all have a wonderful term. And remember the SSB Academy motto..."

Quiet...

"FIGHT ON!"

And with that, the screen blinked out. Murrmering spread through the crowd. Now what? That's when a loud barking voice boomed over the loud speaker.

"ALRIGHT! ALL OF YOU PUNK KIDS PULL OUT YOUR APPLICATION FORMS! GO TO THE CORRESPONDING FLAG TO BE ASSIGNED A DORM!"

Mario pulled out a sheet of paper from his pocket. On the letterhead was a circle with two lines crossing each other in the lower left hand side. The SSB Logo. Mario glanced around. About three dozen flags lined the outskirts of the crowd. After scanning a bit, he found the flag and made his way towards it.

After much bumping, pushing, and elbowing, Mario arrived at the flag. A large bus was waiting next to it, already half filled. Mario walked around to the door. A plain looking man with black attire sat in the drivers seat.

"Uh, is this the right bus for the dorms?" Mario lifted his application. The man looked at it, then nodded towards the back. Mario climbed on and found an empty seat. Not really bothering to look around, he pulled his hat over his eyes and drifted back to dreamland.

"Hey, we're here."

Someone, Mario didn't see who, nudged him awake. Pushing his hat back, Mario saw that tthe last of the students were filing out of the bus. With a yawn, Mario joined them outside.

Everyone was yawning and stretching, and the sun was beginning to set. The dorms looked more like a small appartment building, about three strories high.

Everyone walked into the main room. It looked like a cafeteria/lounge, and a run-down one at that. After the last one came in, a door on the other side of the room opened.

Out stepped a tall man with a tight purple flight-suit, a yellow scarf, and what looked like a flight helmet with goggles. The first thing that popped into Mario's mind was 'Showboy'.

"Welcome students! I am Coach Falcon!" He pointed his thumb at his chest.

"I will be the DormMaster here, as well as your P.E. Coach! You'll all need to work hard, because I'll be" Coach Falcon struck a pose "Showin' ya moves!"

I'll be seeing you all tomorrow bright and early, so be sure to get some rest. For now, I'll announce the dorm pairrings."

One kid in the back spoke up. "You mean we gotta share a room with someone?"

Coach Falcon nodded. "Yes! This promotes teamwork, and saves on space. Now..."

Coach Falcon started calling out names. Most of which Mario had never heard of.

"Kirby & Link!"

A tall blonde kid in green, who had been silent looked around for Kirby. Kirby, as it turned out was standing next to him. A short kid with pink hair and a pink hoodie. Link sweatdropped, and Kirby grinned sheepishly.

"Fox & Samus!"

An anthrovulpine nodded towards the guy with red body armor, who nodded back.

"Mario & Yoshi!"

The two friends grinned and punched knuckles. After the rest of the pairrings were made, everyone filtered off to the rooms. Mario and Yoshi opened the door to thier room to find a small-ish room with a bunkbed and a large chest-of-drawers.

"Well," Yoshi said, throwing his bags in a corner "You and me, buddy." Mario nodded. "You and me. Let's rock this school apart."

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