UPDATE: DarkZelda here, I decided to remake chapter 1 since I'm not satisfied with it. Chapter 14 will be coming, just wait. If you already reviewed it and have something else to say, you can anon review, I don't mind, just make sure you use your penname so I know who you are. Also, I have finished some drawings and I'm trying to put on DeviantART. My username is DarkZelda15. Now, Super Smash Bros. and any other game that I mention belongs to Nintendo, not me. Oh, one more thing, I've altered some ages so Ness is 16, and Lucas is 15. So without further ado, enjoy this revised chapter!
WARNING: SWEARS WORDS (SOMETIMES UNCENSORED) ARE IN THIS STORY
"And…there, looks perfect!" Peach exclaimed happily, her and Zelda stepping back to admire their work. On the kitchen counter stood an enormous, frosted five-tier cake of many assorted flavors. The bottom four tiers had miniature trophies of all the smashers, veterans or newcomers, in order of their place on the Brawl roster, not fanmade tiers. For example, Metaknight, who was known for his god-tier title, was only on the second of the four tiers, while Ganondorf, King of Evil and Lowest Tier, was only on the third tier of cake. The first tier at the top however, was reserved for trophies of Master Hand and Crazy Hand, the birthday celebrates for today. Due to the size of their huge cake, the trophies were twice the size of normal hands, and Peach managed to put a miniature smash ball candle in the middle of them. Around the circumference of the first tier in rainbow icing read the words: "HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MASTER AND CRAZY HAND!" in neat cursive, courtesy of both princesses working their hardest to make sure the cake was flawless. Caught up in their masterpiece, neither Peach nor Zelda noticed Samus walking through the kitchen doors behind them.
"Hey, are you girls done yet? Wario, King Dedede, Kirby, and Yoshi are dying of wait, even though we just fed them about two hundred days of food, and Craptain Failcon and Snake are starting to get bored and hitting on me. So could you please pick up the pace before I plasma whip the perverts all the way to the Underworld?" Samus' comment made Zelda and Peach turn around and stare at her.
After a few seconds of silence, Peach spoke. "Don't worry Samus, we finished, how do you like it?" Both princess started moving away so the bounty hunter could get a better look, but Samus held her hand up to stop them.
"Looks great, I'll help you carry it out, okay?" Samus said quickly, just wanting to get this over with. The Toadstool princess nodded and pushed over a stainless steel push cart. Zelda used magic to slightly help Samus lift the cake and carefully set it on the cart. Thankfully, the kitchen doors were big enough to let Giga Bowser through, so a large cake and the three smashers could easily walk through the double doors and into the dining room.
For anyone who hasn't seen the dining room before, they would be stunned. The room was so big Ganon and Giga Bowser could fit with Mega Jigglypuff, and it would still have enough space for more people. Rectangular windows were evenly placed to let sunlight in. At the center of the room stood a large, rectangular table (made of steel after the wooden one was damaged multiple times) had a long, red tablecloth on it that flowed to the ground, and around it were chairs, also made of metal, yet cushioned. There were just enough seats for all the Brawlers, the cut five from Melee, and the hands, even though the floating hands didn't need them.
As half-eaten food was being cleaned up by Kirby to make room for the cake, Master Hand started looking around like he was anticipating something.
"Is there anything wrong?" Mario asked the nearby hand, his Italian accent making his words difficult to understand by some.
"Whew…she's not here…" Master Hand muttered before turning to Mario. "Don't worry, everything's fine." I hope, he thought silently to himself. His thoughts were interrupted as Zelda, Samus, and Peach carefully set down the cake in front of him and his brother, Crazy.
"What? This cake is no lie!" Crazy Hand shouted. Due to spending about a year with the diabolical appendage, everyone knew it was best to ignore him right now. Peach took out a fire flower to light a small flame on the candle. Zelda then motioned everyone to start singing 'Happy Birthday.' It was a chorus of growls, roars, high to low pitch voices, telepathic voices, and Pokemon calls. Once the song finished, the candle was somehow blown out by the Hands. As the big eaters were momentarily tied up and slices were being handed out to everybody, a loud knock could be heard.
"I'll get it," said Master Hand a little too quickly, um, 'standing' up and rushing to the elegant, wooden double door entrance to Smash Mansion, home of the Hands and Smashers. Opening the door, Master Hand saw a girl, looking not older than thirteen. Her pure white hair was partially tied back and braided, and the black crown on her head had a blood red jewel that matched her eyes. Her elegant black dress had various symbols on it, and in one of her white gloved hands was a rapier with a pitch black hilt.
"Nice to see you again, Master Hand!" the girl said cheerfully, her elfish ears occasionally twitching. "Mind if I come in?" Without waiting for a response, she walked calmly through the door. She looked around and saw the entire mansion had bright streamers on the ceiling, and balloons were strategically placed near the door and stairs. "Well, looks like it is your birthday," she muttered to herself before turning back to Master Hand.
"...Why are you here, DarkZelda? I thought you were busy writing a story?" the hand finally asked, earning a smile in response.
"I came with a surprise birthday message! But first, can I..." DarkZelda whispered in what she assumed was the appendage's ear, and waited for his response.
Master Hand thought about what she just said. "...If I say no, will you do it anyway?" He sighed as the girl nodded. "Fine, but just a little bit, about one minute, okay?"
"Great, thank you!" she exclaimed before teleporting in a swarm of darkness.
"What am I getting myself into..." the hand murmured to himself before reluctantly floating back to the dining room.
When you're enjoying cake at a birthday party, you usually don't except a figure dressed up in black clothing to suddenly appear in front of you. But, that's what happened to Olimar, and the Hocotate jumped out of his chair in surprise.
Almost immediately, all the swordsman were standing, their swords drawn and pointed at DarkZelda.
"Who are you and what are you doing here?" Link asked, his eyes never leaving the newcomer in case she decided to attack.
DarkZelda giggled evilly, if that was possible. "Oh, forgot my manners. I'm DarkZelda, the person who'll be eating all your souls, isn't that wonderful?" The moment Zelda was spoken, the Courage and Wisdom triforce bearers looked at her.
"Hm...you do look similar to me..." Zelda stated, starting the examine her counterpart closely. "But why eat our souls? Right here is a group of some of the strongest fighters in the universe...or, should I say, universes."
"Well..." the dark princess started to say, thinking of an excuse, "stronger souls are much tastier. Though I might not eat some, like that fat guy in the yellow costume, he reeks of farts and garlic." At that comment, some started staring at Wario, currently eating a slice of vanilla cake with garlic on top. When they looked back, they noticed DarkZelda's sword glowed with a dark aura.
"I wonder who I should kill first," she said scanning the group carefully, her sadistic, blood red eyes unnerving some. Finally, her eyes landed on Luigi, who was backing up towards a corner. She quickly started dashing towards him, barely avoiding various attacks aimed at her. With only a few scratches here or there, she managed to reach the green plumber and raise her sword, the tip aimed for his heart. She smiled one last time and started to bring it down...
"Dark, that's quite enough." Hearing Master Hand say those words made the princess stop her sword midair almost immediately. She slipped her sword into a little loop on her dress designed to hold it, and walked calmly to the head of the table like nothing happened.
There was a bit of confusion and silence as this happened. Ike was the first to speak. "Okay, what the hell was that?"
'I'm afraid you'll have to excuse DarkZelda," Master Hand began, "she thought it would be...'fun' to scare you a little. Of course, she meant no actual harm."
"Riigghhtt, fun," Ike muttered sarcastically. "So, I guess that isn't all she's here for?"
DarkZelda decided to speak up. "No, there's actually something very important I need to inform you of." Her cheerful tone was now serious. "There has been sighting of Tabuu in Subspace." At that comment, everyone was shocked. It had been what, nine months since they beat him? The fact that he was still alive caused mass confusion.
"How is he alive?"
"Is he still planning to rule the world?"
"Will he kill us first?"
It took both Master Hand and DarkZelda to calm them down while Crazy Hand was rolling on the floor eating cake.
"So, you didn't get the note?" DarkZelda asked Master Hand.
"What-" Master Hand was interrupted as a window to his right shattered to a million pieces due to a rock with something duct taped to it. "Dang it, that's the fifth time this week." With an exasperated sigh, the hand went over to the object that broke through the window he was going to reinforce with steel later. Pulling the duct tape off, he began to read a note imprinted with a symbol looking like Tabuu's wings.
Attention idiots,
You really think I would let you guys live a happy life. Especially after a certain idiot destroyed my wings? Think again, you'll be dead soon. Then this world will be covered with beautiful Subspace. Better call reinforcements if you want to stand a chance.
Yours Truly,
You know who the heck this is
Everyone was silent after the note was passed around and read. Master Hand looked at DarkZelda, looking grave.
"...Did you come up with a solution then?" he asked quietly.
The dark princess stared at him for a few seconds, then grinned.
"Of course I did! I wouldn't come just to rub that in your faces! Now, some of them should be coming soon-" a knock could once again be heard at the door, but there were also loud voices too.
"Get off me!"
"It's not my fault I tripped!"
"Everyone please calm down!"
The sound of a fire could then be heard along with a yell. The Smashers, Master Hand, and DarkZelda left Crazy Hand on the floor and rushed to open the door.
Outside were three people, two girls and a slightly scorched boy, all of them looking like they were in their teens.
"Here are a few of the recruits," DarkZelda said, gesturing to the first girl on the left.
The girl's blue-green eyes sparkled cheerfully, shining almost as much as her shoulder-length golden hair tipped with red dye. Around her neck was a black choker with a sun amulet on it and a white cloak held by a gold pin with a blue gem. Her half white-half black chiton blew slightly from the outside breeze, but fortunately for her it went all the way down to her ankles, hiding most of her brown boots and preventing perverts from looking at her too much. On her right arm above her bronze and gold cuff were two dark rings that seemed to slightly glow. If people looked down, they saw that her shadow had a pair of wings, even though the girl herself had none.
"This here is Natz, she's an adept at light magic," the authoress stated. At this comment, Natz slightly blushed.
"I'm not that good at it..." she said, "I can just do a few things, but I'm not a master at it..." she paused as she saw Pit and smiled. "It's nice to see you again, that was fun training in Skyworld!"
The angel grinned back. "Yeah, same here!" While the friends talked about Skyworld, DarkZelda pointed to the next girl.
The girl appeared a little older than Natz, her silver eyes scanning everyone like she was wondering if they were friend or foe. Her chocolate brown hair reached her waist where her gold belt was. She wore a red dress with loose, detached sleeves, all of it gold at the edges. Her crescent moon hairclip and choker seemed to glow luminously, though it was probably the light of the sun hitting it.
Before DarkZelda introduced her, she spoke up. "Name's Lily, don't have to do a fancy introduction for me." She looked at the princess.
"...How about I'll just say you're the person that burnt Ryu?" DarkZelda asked the girl, both of them then staring at the blond haired boy dusting soot off his white tunic. His blue eyes were too busy looking for any other sign that he just got burnt. All of his clothes seemed to be slightly singed except for an amulet of a white orb sprouting a pair or black and white dragon wings.
"Thanks a lot Lily," Ryu muttered, finally turning his attention to the others. He gave them a big smile and a hearty greeting.
"And finally, that's Ryu, prince of a kingdom in a different world." The prince looked slightly irritated at that comment, but before he could say why Ike turned to Marth and spoke.
"Looks like a little kid beat you in terms of manliness, Marth-a," Ike joked. The blue haired prince looked annoyed.
"For the last time, stop saying that before my so-called 'toothpick' of a sword slices you up." The remark made both blue-haired swordsmen glare at each other, their hands wrapped around the hilt of their swords.
"Guys, please stop," Roy pleaded, "If you're going to shed blood, do it in the arena. There's a reason why the carpet's red..." For a second, the fire swordsman was afraid who would kill him first, it was like waiting for two nuclear bombs to go off. Finally, Marth and Ike both grumbled and relaxed, focusing back on DarkZelda and Master Hand.
"Well..." DarkZelda started, "that's was...interesting. But don't worry, these are just three of the people that will help. I've asked multiple authors to join our cause, and soon this place will be full of new smashers."
"Wait, this place?" Master Hand questioned, slightly surprised.
"Oh yeah, forgot to tell you, I'm going to use Smash Mansion as a base of operations, okay? I won't do much, mostly I'll drop off potential recruits here so they can live here for a while."
"...And if their personalities cause some...technical difficulties?"
The authoress brandished a dark bow. "Then we beat the crap out of the difficulties. Any questions?" A few hands went up. "No? Good, now, let's start training. Better pray you don't die."
"The letter is sent." The ruler of Subspace smirked as the kneeling figure said those words. "I sent Blade, my accomplice, so it would be easier to send."
"I see..." Tabuu said, signaling the armored clad boy to stand back up. "So, you remember the plan, Gage?"
The boy nodded, his spiky black hair almost blending with the color of Subspace. "Of course, I find strong warriors and bring them for our cause. There is one problem though..."
Tabuu's voice was sharp. "What is it?"
"Blade...he wants to know what the name of the group will be..."
"The name?"
"Yeah, like how Master Hand has the 'Smashers' or-"
"Do you really think I give a crap about a name?"
"But, Blade-"
"Just tell that idiot demon we're not naming our group...Where the heck is he anyway?"
"I believe he's-" Gage's sentence was interrupted by the sound of explosions and fire coming from the other room. He sighed. "Currently destroying this mansion. I'll take care of it," he told Tabuu with a bored tone, unfurling his black dragon wings. With a quick flap he was off, his sword out and ready for when he entered the room Blade was in.
Tabuu sighed and reclined in his throne. He looked around at the tall room and the objects in it, all of them, including the throne, made of pure Subspace and darkness. You brought this on yourself, Master Hand, Tabuu thought. The first time I was just going to cover this miserable planet in Subspace. But now, looks like I'll just have to crush you and your so-called 'Smashers' like the little bugs they are. A sadistic smile plastered on his face soon turned into a maniacal laugh, echoing eerily throughout the mansion made of Subspace.
UPDATE: End of the revised 1st chapter! I fixed it since my writing style has improved, at least, I think it did. If you send OCs, I would prefer PM but you can review too, and make sure you put if they are GOOD or EVIL along with other important stuff. Anyway, thanks for reading, please give me your opinion about this!
