Hello! This is my new story. I'm good at stating the obvious.
Now, before we begin, I need to explain some stuff. In this story, as well as a video game, the Super Smash Bros Tournament is also a television show hosted by the hands. Each chapter, a new character will be discussed, similar-ish to a 'codec'. This first chapter is just to get me warmed up, and is basically just setting the scene of the whole fic. Enjoy!
"On air in five minutes!" called a Toad, causing the frantic rushing about of other Toads and Waddles Dees all around became even more frantic. In the midst of it all sat two floating white gloves; Master Hand and his brother Crazy Hand. The two floated around, checking everything was in place.
"Three minutes!"
The Waddle Dees switched on the spotlights, the Toads readied the mikes.
"Two minutes!"
Master Hand and Crazy Hand floated into their studio and took their places behind the desk.
"Five… four… three… two… one… and rolling!"
The cameras swivelled around to face the two hands behind their desks in their studio, Master Hand on the right, Crazy Hand on the left. Behind them was a huge screen, which would display any useful info. Right now, it merely displayed the Super Smash Bros logo.
"Hello everybody and welcome to the fourth Super Smash Bros Tournament!" bellowed Master Hand to the viewers at home, "As you all undoubtedly know, I am Master Hand, creator of this tournament and indeed this small section of the universe!"
"And I am Crazy Hand," said the left hand, who was widely regarded as slightly insane, "And we will be your hosts throughout this tournament, giving you the low-down on everything, from the Smashers to the stages!"
"Yes," continued Master Hand, "And, as you all know, a Smash Tournament means Smashers, old and new. The competitors are all widely-known characters from across the multiverse, and have travelled far and wide to compete for the grand prize of one million Smash Coins and the title of Smash Master!"
"And serious bragging rights!" chipped in Crazy Hand, "Last year, the competition was dominated by the masked swordsman Meta Knight, the year before Sheik, the mysterious ninja woman, owned everybody and in the year before that, the first ever Smash Tournament, the victor was Pikachu!"
"Yes," continued Master Hand, visibly irritated by Crazy Hand's interruption, "But this time it's anyone's game, and of course we will be there every step of the way! We start of with a round-robin competition; everybody gets a turn fighting everybody. The matches will be three-stock fights with a time limit of five minutes; all items turned on. The victor of these fights will get a point, the loser will get only shame,"
"And then the competition really starts!" butted in Crazy Hand, "Depending on their scores, the Smashers will be put in elimination round where the loser drops out; three-stock five-minute matches with the only items being Smash Balls, until only one remains! They shall be the victor!"
"Indeed," said Master Hand, "And here is the list of every contestant in the competition, ahem;
Mario
Luigi
Doctor Mario
Peach
Bowser
Bowser Jr.
Rosalina & Luma
Yoshi
Donkey Kong
Diddy Kong
Wario
Link
Zelda
Sheik
Ganondorf
Toon Link
Samus
Zero Suit Samus
Kirby
King Dedede
Meta Knight
Pikachu
Charizard
Lucario
Jigglypuff
Greninja
Mewtwo
Fox
Falco
Pit
Palutena
Dark Pit
Marth
Ike
Robin
Lucina
Captain Falcon
Ness
R.O.B.
Mr Game & Watch
Olimar
Little Mac
Villager
Wii Fit Trainer
Shulk
Duck Hunt Duo
Sonic
Megaman
And Pac-Man!"
As the right hand called out the names, the character would appear briefly on the screen behind them, and acknowledge the audience, by a wave, a nod of the head or merely a glare.
"Hang on!" interrupted Crazy Hand, "That's… wait a sec, I'm doing the maths… that's only forty-nine competitors! We need and even amount of characters for this whole thing to work!"
"Yes, I know that!" sighed Master Hand, turning to his brother in annoyance "If you had just given me the chance to say that, then I would have revealed the three Mii Fighters!"
"Oops, sorry…"
"Anyway, as I was saying," growled Master Hand, turning back to the camera, "You may have noticed that we currently have an odd number of Smashers; we need some more! So, here are the three Mii Fighters; the Mii Brawler, the Mii Swordfighter and the Mii Gunner!"
The three Miis flashed on the screen behind them (generic characters of no-one in particular).
"This brings the total to fifty-two," explained Master Hand, "And that works perfectly!"
"But there's more!" Crazy Hand happily exclaimed, "As a handful of these characters have other… 'skins' that are completely different people!"
"Good point!" said Master Hand, before turning back to the camera again, "For every third fight," he said, "Olimar will swap out for Alph, Bowser Jr. will swap out for a Koopaling (Larry, Roy, Wendy, Iggy, Morton, Lemmy, Ludwig in that order), Villager will swap with another Villager and Robin will switch genders. Also, every fifth fight, Little Mac will swap with Wireframe Mac as well. All these characters fight identically,"
"Well that's good to know," said Crazy Hand, before addressing the camera on his side of the studio, "Anyway, join us both next week where we will begin introducing to you the Smashers! We will talk about their movesets, strengths, weaknesses and we could even have them in the studio with us!"
"Oh, I can barely look forward to it," sighed Master Hand, clearly not looking forward to it, "Well, we'll be back then, so stay tuned!"
"And we are off air!" shouted the Toad, and everyone visibly relaxed.
"I swear this gets more stressful every time," sighed Master Hand.
"Well, I enjoy it!" stated Crazy Hand matter-of-factly.
"Well, I'd enjoy it a lot more if you didn't interrupted me so often!" scowled Master Hand.
"But that's my job!" protested Crazy Hand, "You're the serious one, and I'm the comic relief!"
"Just… go away," sighed an exasperated Master Hand, "And you!" he pointed to a nearby Waddle Dee, "Get me a coffee!"
I will try to update this weekly, but I can't make any promises. And I'm gonna try and not make this too much like the generic 'codec' fics around; the characters will be discussed in depth.
Bye!