CHAPTER 2
IN HYRULE….
"Where are they?" Zelda wondered out loud. "We've been waiting for three hours!"
"Maybe they got lost. Maybe they forgot where to go to meet up." Snake said.
"Maybe they remembered you're in this group." Ganondorf hissed.
"Should we go look for them?" Lucas asked. "What if they're stuck? What if they lost the stone?"
"Then hurray. Let's throw a party." Shadow said.
"I thought you hated parties." Samus countered.
"Guys, come on." Zelda said. "We probably have to go look for them. Come on."
That was when Greg and John appeared right in front of them with that weird Pokémon catching cage thing.
"WHAA!" Zelda jumped backwards. "What are you doing here? Where are our friends? Tell me right now before I take that branch, and shove it up your-"
"ZELDA!" Little Mac yelled. "there are kids here!"
"Your friends? What do you mean?" Greg looked really creepy. "We haven't seen them."
"Don't lie. I know you met up with them." Marth growled, drawing his sword. "So tell us where or else.
"They joined The Games." John said. "Said they thought they could learn something from it."
Everyone stood there in shock. "Over here." Trevor motioned by some trees. Everyone went over there.
"Do you think Palutena sent them?" Knuckle Joe whispered. "And that's why they went?"
"Maybe." Ike said. "Or they could just be lying to try to get us to join."
"But what if they really did join?" Dr. Wright muttered.
"I don't know…" Samus muttered right back. "Wait…yes I do. They had to sign a contract, right? We'll just ask to see it."
"Great job, Samus." Snake looked really proud.
Samus rolled her eyes. "Come on. Let's go get the contract."
They walked back to where Greg and John were. "So if they really did join The Games, they had to sign a contract, right?"
"Yes, they did." John pulled out a piece of paper. "See?"
He held it in front of her face for about three seconds and then pulled it back. "It's technically against the rules to show other people that haven't joined The Games a contract that has been signed by participants."
"Um…ok." Samus turned back to everyone else. "they really did sign, as far as I can tell."
"Should we join too?" Ness asked. "To meet up with them again?"
"I don't know…What it said in the three page small print guidelines still has me worried." Zelda muttered.
"But we're all powerful and some of us have swords." Jeff said. "We can take care of ourselves."
Zelda glanced at Ness and Lucas. "I don't know…"
"Come on, Zelda. You aren't their mom." Wario said. "They'll be fine."
Samus walked up to Greg and John. "I'll need a contract and a pen."
ON MOBIUS….
The group stranded on Mobius DIDN'T sign any contract. Greg and John happened to be masters of calligraphy and forgery, even thought they had never seen anyone's signature. It was rather creepy.
"I WANT TO GO BACK TO HYRULE OR I WILL SCREAM REALLY LOUDLY!" Sonic yelled.
"Too late." Pit muttered, hanging up-side down on a tree branch. "Wheeee!"
"Is there anyone on this forest-y planet that can help us?" Fox yelled. "I'll give my blaster for something to teleport us back!"
"How about some superglue?" Link asked. "Maybe we can glue the rock back together."
"Yeah, right, Wise Guy." Falco rolled his eyes. "If it was that simple I'd laugh and kick myself."
Everyone swung from trees for a while.
"Pika." Pikachu muttered. His stomach rumbled loudly.
"Oh, man. Now what?" Ana asked. "Zelda isn't here and I don't like killing things to eat."
"Apples!" Kat said, flying up into a tree and returning with about forty five apples.
"Yey!"
So everyone ate apples and thought up useless plans.
That was when Greg and John showed up.
"GET THEM!" Lyn shouted.
"WAIT!" Greg held up a contract. "They signed!"
Everyone stood there. "What?" Saki literally screamed.
"They signed. They're in The Games now." John looked really evil. "So if you want to meet up with them and get off this planet you should come with us."
"We'll talk about it." Meta Knight said. "Over here, guys."
Everyone went 'over here'.
"Should we go?" Sar'John asked. "It'll get us off this planet."
"And hopefully with everyone else." Jill said.
"We can rescue all the Pokémon and Sonic's friend, while we're at it." Goroh said.
"I think we don't have a choice." Tingle said. "I'm in."
"Me too." Everyone said at the exact same time.
Link turned to Greg and John. "I'll need a contract and a pen."
LATER….
"You'll be in a place called Smash Hall. It's the biggest mansion in all the worlds." Greg was saying. "There you'll wait until The Games start."
"Ok…but what exacally ARE The Games?" Pit asked.
"Poyo." Kirby agreed.
"You'll find out soon enough." John said. "Now…Earth!"
Suddenly they were standing on Earth, near a forest.
"The Games are connected to all the worlds." Greg said. "So in every world there's a connection to The Games."
"Whoa. So there's like…a world connected to other worlds?" Mario asked.
"Yeah, mostly."
"What I'm still concerned about is why you went around and captured people for these Games." Sonic hissed. "Why?"
Greg and John didn't reply. They just headed over to a tree.
"Watch this." Greg took his stone and put it in a stone-shaped hole in the tree.
There was a flash of light and they were standing on the lawn of the biggest building ever, pretty much. "Welcome to your new home, Smash Hall."
"Wow…" Everyone had to look straight up in the air to see the top of the mansion.
"We'll come back for you later." Greg said. "For now, get situated."
LATER….
Everyone's weapons were taken upon arrival, but the people taking them promised that they'd be given back at some point.
In total, there were four hundred and twenty three rooms in the mansion, not counting closets. There were twenty three full bathrooms complete with a Jacuzzi thing(This isn't counting bathrooms without showers), one hundred and fifty bedrooms, fifty main rooms, a ballroom, nine pools, a movie theatre, an arcade, a theme park, a music room, a spa, a bank, an auditorium, a work out room, a shopping mall, and an entire three connected rooms dedicated to the kitchen. The rest of the rooms were smaller gathering rooms meant for four or five people.
Luckily, everyone found a map.
"We could get the entire fifth floor to ourselves." Meta Knight said. "Everyone could get their own bedroom, bathroom and gathering room."
"Sounds good to me." Kat said. "I'm exhausted."
So everyone found the stairs and climbed five flights to the fifth floor, where they all claimed a room and crashed.
WITH THE OTHER GUYS….
"Ok, I think Trevor said he was going over there, and Ganondorf said he was going to the work out room, or something…" Zelda turned the map up-side down. "Oh. Ok, that makes sense now. We could claim the fifth floor. No one's up there. The first and second floors are entirely taken up with people."
"I guess. Maybe we'll run into everyone else." Samus said.
The two of them hiked up five flights of stairs. "Jeez…" Samus muttered.
That was about when a small yellow fox with two tails ran up to them. "Did they get you too? Oh, this is terrible! We're all gonna die!"
"No we're not." Zelda said. "Are you all right?"
"No, they came and took me! What do they want from us? They said something about The Games…whatever that is. I'm scared. I think they're going to kill us! I want to go back!"
"It's all right." Samus said. "We'll help you."
"You might not be able too. They're watching us." The little fox looked around. "They see who we talk to and then they turn us against each other."
Zelda and Samus glanced at the ceiling. "What?"
"That's what someone told me. I'm Tails. Who're you?"
"I'm Zelda, and that's Samus." Zelda said.
"Ok, then. You'd better not hang around people for too long. They'll know." Tails said. "I have to warn others, ok? Can you help?"
"Sure." Samus said.
Tails ran down the stairs.
"What was that about?" Zelda asked.
"I don't know. Do you think he's right?" Samus muttered. "What if this really is an evil place?"
"Then we're in a lot of trouble." Zelda said.
WITH SNAKE AND GANNONDORF….
"Now this is a work-out room." Ganondorf remarked.
The room was so big they couldn't see the other side. All they could see were buff guys working out.
"This is totally my place." Snake said, claiming a treadmill.
So they had a contest to see who could go the longest on a treadmill.
Snake won with one hour and fifteen minuets.
"I hate you." Ganondorf gasped.
That was about when Goroh came running in. "Did you guys see what was playing in the theatre?"
"No." Snake said. "Is it good?"
"Chainsaw Massacre Unrated. Apparently it was so gory that they didn't have a rating for it."
"I want front row seats." Snake and Ganondorf ran out of there in a flash.
MEANWHILE….
Trevor, Ness, Lucas, Jeff and Link were wondering the mansion trying not to get lost.
"Ok, we're here….there's a store over there…and over there is a pool!" Ness said, looking at the map.
"You're holding it up-side down." Trevor took the map from him. "Ok, we're actually over by the ballroom. Let's get far away from it."
"Quit being a bunch of kids. I've noticed there are some nice ladies here…" Link muttered.
Trevor, Ness, Lucas and Jeff stopped and stared at him. "In case you haven't noticed, we're kids. We're suppost to act like kids." Lucas said.
"Well, then act older than you are." Link said.
Jeff stopped the first girl that walked by. "Wanna marry me?"
"Not like that." Link groaned.
After the girl left looking creeped out, everyone found a nice place to sit and look at the map.
"What's this over here? There's just a bunch of unmarked rooms." Ness pointed.
"Let's go check it out!" Jeff suggested.
So go and check it out they did. But first they got lost three times and ended up in a beauty salon.
"AAAGH! GET AWAY!" Trevor ran out screaming.
Soon they were near the unmarked rooms.
"Ok, who knows what danger lurks behind this corner. So that's why Link goes first." Lucas said real wisely.
"Oh, fine."
Before he could turn the corner two people started talking.
"So when's the first Game?" Said the first guy.
Everyone exchanged glances. That was Greg.
"Starting tomorrow." The second guy said.
"Who's going first, Peter?"
"I dunno. I was thinking of sending some sword-wielder out first against a ninja. I don't know. Got any suggestions?"
"Some of these guys are really powerful. They're too powerful, if you ask me." Peter said. "We should use them as Assists."
"I thought we canceled that out of the rules." Greg said back, sounding surprised.
"I guess we didn't." Peter retorted.
"So what do you want me to do about it, huh? Go out and get everyone that's too powerful for The Games?" Greg said sarcastically.
"Exacally. Get out there." Peter said.
Link, Ness, Lucas, Trevor and Jeff scooted away from that corner as Greg came storming around it.
"What do they mean?" Ness looked worried.
"I don't know. We'd better warn the others." Trevor said. "There are some pretty powerful people in our group. We could be in danger. When we were in the jail they had Assist Trophies…some of us had come from them. Jeff did."
Jeff nodded. "It was horrible…" He muttered.
"Well, then, come on! We're gonna have to split up." Link said. "I'll check this floor, and you guys go down and check the pools and stuff."
"Meet back here in an hour or something?" Ness asked.
"Yeah. Now move out, troops!"
MEANWHILE….
"PING PONG!" Ana said happily, taking a paddle thing. "Who wants to verse the Queen of Ping Pong?"
"I will!" Kat said.
They started an epic game that lasted about five minuets altogether.
"I win again!" Ana cheered.
Samus and Zelda walked into the room. "Hey, guys, you haven't seen Walluigi, Goroh, Tingle, Lyn, Jeff, or Shadow anywhere, have you?"
"Nope. Wanna verse Ana at Ping Pong? She's evil!" Kat said.
"Maybe later. But everyone we've talked to has been really…worried, I guess." Samus said. "I can't really place it, but something about this place. It's huge, for one thing, and for another…it's weird…"
"I know what you mean." Luigi said. "I'm worried now."
"Everyone's on guard, like they know something bad's going to happen." Lucario said.
"Anyone have any idea what could go wrong?" Meta Knight asked.
"Everything." Sonic said unhelpfully.
"No, for real."
"You know what? I don't like this. I'm gonna go find everyone and then we stick together as a group. Comprendo?" Zelda said.
"Comprendo." Everyone said at the same time.
That was three seconds before Ness and Lucas came running in the room. "You guys! You're not gonna believe this! We found out an evil plot!"
"Good for you! What is it?" Everyone said at the same time.
"Greg and this guy called Peter said that there are too many really powerful people here and they have to be Assists, whatever that means. So we wanted to ask you, and then we have to meet up at a place in an hour." Lucas said really fast.
"Assists?" Zelda gasped. "It's just like at the prison thing…"
"What exacally do Assists do?" Ness asked.
"They helped you in the battles in the prison." Samus said. "If you get one and break the glass, someone'll pop out and help you."
"Wait, who was missing again, Samus?" Fox asked.
"Walluigi, Goroh, Tingle, Lyn, Jeff, and Shadow."
"Lyn's pretty darn good with a sword." Ike said. "I'm scared to fence her."
"Oh my gah they got her!" Jill gasped. "Oh, nooo!"
"But Tingle didn't really have any power, did he?" Samus asked.
"Maybe he's just lost." Zelda suggested.
"What about Walluigi? He's just tall." Falco said.
"He's good at tennis." Mario said.
"What's that got to do with anything?" Luigi said, giving him a sideways look.
"Goroh's creepy with a sword too." Knuckle Joe said. "Maybe they took him too."
"But why Jeff? Where the heck is he? He's just a kid!" Wario said.
"He can build rockets." Lucas said. "He's the nerd. He can build stuff."
"Maybe they got him to shoot rockets at people." Wolf suggested lamely.
"Don't be stupid." Jill said.
"The only reason I can think of that they might've taken Shadow is because he can knock you out in one hit with those shoes of his." Fox said.
"Ha, Link learned that the hard way." Falco laughed a lot.
"Good times…good times…" Samus agreed.
"If we're done wondering weird thoughts, can we go to the meeting place?" Lucas asked.
So everyone went to the meeting place, which was near the place that was unmarked on the map.
They all sat in a deformed circle and waited for the others.
"What if they really are using us to fight again, like at the jail?" Pit asked.
"Then we take a group and escape." Knuckle Joe said. "There's no way I'm being a stupid Assist Trophy again!"
"Forget taking just one group. We'll break everyone out of here." Jill said.
Ganondorf, Snake and Jeff came running over to them. "What's so important that you take us out of the movie theatre during the movie of the century?" Ganondorf growled.
"Jeff! You're not a Trophy!" Ness and Lucas and him had a little group hug.
"You guys that have been Assists before might be in bigger trouble than some of the others." Samus said.
"So at all times be with a buddy that was never an Assist." Zelda said.
"Wait, we're in danger again?" Snake growled. "I knew it. They didn't even serve popcorn at the movies."
"Guys, right now we're waiting for Trevor, right?" Ana asked.
"Yeah."
Two seconds later Trevor came running back. "I couldn't find anyone…I don't know where everyone could be…we're missing people still, aren't we?"
"There's a good chance they brought back the jail place." Mario said. "All of the people taken were once Assist Trophies."
"Our main lead is these unmarked rooms here." Link showed everyone the strange unmarked rooms on the map. "We were down there and we heard Greg and a guy names Peter talking about Assists."
"So let's head down there." Lucario suggested.
"Ok, then. Come on."
Everyone took about three steps when a loudspeaker crackled to life. "Attention!"
Everyone stood at attention.
"As you know, The Games begin tomorrow! There is a schedule located in the main gathering room so you know when you bat… I mean, compete. The Games begin tomorrow at 9 O'clock sharp in the morning and end at 9 O'clock at night. See you then."
The loudspeaker shut off.
"We'd better check down there later." Zelda said. "Just in case."
They continued on to the unmarked place.
"Ok, Lucario, can you sense if anyone's coming?" Trevor asked.
"That's the thing…I can't sense anything! Not even bugs! There's either nothing down here at all or it's hidden away from any psychic powers." Lucario looked worried.
"Where's Author Lady when you need her?" Ness asked.
I'm right here. You guys were really stupid to sign that contract. Just sayin'. Now your friends could be in real danger. Good luck getting out of this. If you make it out, I'll eat my hat…If I even wore a hat. So how bout this: You make it out alive, all of you, and you'll all get a stone to teleport wherever you want, whenever you want, forever. Sound good?
Everyone stood there.
You'd better go! Someone's coming!
"Quickly! In here!" Link shoved everyone into a dark room and shut the door.
Everyone was in complete and total darkness.
"What do we do if we actually find them?" Kat wondered.
"I don't know. We'll just wing it." Zelda said. 'like we always end up doing."
"Ha, ha. Very strategic." Wolf said sarcastically.
Something crashed behind them.
Everyone stood deathly still.
"What was that?" Fox squeaked.
Link pulled a fairy out of his pocket and it lit the place up.
Ganondorf snickered. "Fairy boy…"
Then everyone noticed what was in the room.
Pokémon.
Lots and lots of Pokémon in a ton of cages.
"Whoa…" Trevor gasped. "What happened?"
"This is where they put them after they got captured." Lucario said.
Pikachu went over to another Pikachu and fiddled with the lock.
"We've got to free them all!" Ness said. "Maybe they can help us get out of here!"
"Pi! Pika Pi!" The Pikachu in the cage said very fast.
Lucario frowned. "He says there is no way out. You need a stone to get out."
"Is that why they broke our stone?" Lucas asked.
"And took Shadow?" Jeff added.
"Oh, man, we need to rescue everyone and get the heck out of here." Zelda sighed, looking stressed.
"Let's make like a hockey player and get the puck out of here." Sonic suggested.
Everyone giggled immaturely.
"I'll go look for the missing peoples." Pit volunteered. "Who's coming with me?"
"I will." Sar'John said.
"Then let's go."
The two of them were about to head out of the room when a loudspeaker crackled to life.
"Attention! Please stay away from all unmarked rooms! They are being remodeled and will soon be gathering rooms for you and your friends. Until further notice stay away from them. Thank you."
"Lame." Jeff said.
"Yep."
"Gathering rooms, my foot." Samus muttered. "Come on, Snake. We're going with Pit and Sar'John."
Snake looked really happy.
"Meet back here in about five minuets, ok? We're gonna free the Pokémon!" Jill cheered.
So Pit, Sar'John, Samus and Snake left the room to find the missing people.
They came to a fork in the road.
"hey, it's plastic." Pit said, kicking it.
"This could be harder than I thought." Samus said as they rounded a corner and found four different doors to enter into.
"This one looks evil. I'm going down there." Pit said. 'Who wants to agree with my psychic powers and follow me?"
"Sorry, buddy. There's four doors and four of us." Snake said.
Before any of them could take one step down any of the doors a door opened down the hallway next to them.
"Quickly!" Samus hissed, and the four of them ran like mad back to everyone else.
"People are coming! We have to leave!"
They were outta there in no time flat.
"You've got to be kidding me. There's always someone down there!" Link growled. "Can't we just kill them all and explore in peace?"
"No! We have to act like we don't know anything yet!" Zelda slapped him.
"So what now?"
"It's about 10:30 at night. Let's call it a day and snooze." Mario suggested.
"That sounds great." Ike suddenly looked really tired.
They all trooped up to the fifth floor and crashed.
THE NEXT MORNING…
"It's technically morning." Ness and Lucas said at the same time, bursting into Link's room.
"Huh? What? What do you want?" Link asked, sounding tired. He glanced at the clock. "12:00 AM?"
"We were gonna ask Jeff if he wanted to go down to the arcade because we couldn't sleep…and he wasn't there." Ness said.
"Can this wait till at least nine in the morning?" Link groaned.
"No! We think he might have been taken too!" Lucas sounded worried.
"Ok, fine…" Link hissed, getting out of bed. "Come on. I'll show you he wasn't taken. I'll go to another person's room and they'll be there."
The three of them walked down the dark hallway to Knuckle Joe's room. Link knocked loudly.
No one answered.
Link knocked more loudly, if possible.
No one answered.
Lucas tried the door and it opened. "Joe? You in here?"
"Hold on, here's a light switch." Ness flicked the light switch.
They all gasped.
Everything breakable was broken, pretty much. The windows, the headboard of the bed, the lamp… everything.
"What happened?" Link demanded, suddenly wide awake.
"Oh no! They took him too!" Ness looked really scared.
"We need to get the others." Lucas said.
FIFTEEN MINUETS LATER….
"Spread and search." Zelda said.
So everyone did that.
Kat, Ana, Tingle, and Saki turned up missing within the first five minuets.
After searching the entire fifth floor, Jill was also presumed kidnapped.
After checking the food court places, Little Mac was also among the kidnapped.
"See the trend? All the people who were once Assists were taken!" Fox remarked.
"We can't find Lakitu anywhere!" Luigi announced from the arcade.
"And I can't find Dr. Wright!" Mario shouted.
Everyone sat there.
"So…that's everyone, right?" Samus asked glumly.
That was about when a guy came around the corner. "Hey, what's all the ruckus?"
Trevor stopped in his tracks. "Ash? Ash Ketchum?"
"Yeah. What're you doing here?" The guy called Ash asked.
"I don't know! But we do know that this place has kidnapped half of our friends!" Trevor said. "We need to get a group and escape."
Ash adjusted his hat. "Um…but The games start in fifteen minuets and people might wanna watch."
"FIFTEEN MINUETS?" Ike shouted. "We've been looking for almost nine hours?"
"Dang, then this must be serious." Ash said. "I'll do what I can, ok? Good luck finding your friends."
He turned and ran off.
"You buddies?" Ganondorf asked gruffly.
"Yeah…we met once or twice before. I didn't expect to meet him here." Trevor looked worried.
"Attention!" A loudspeaker crackled to life. "Attention! The Games will start in ten minuets! Everyone wishing to view The Games please go to the front lawn. Thank you."
"I think we'd better confirm our worst fears and go see what The Games are." Marth said solemnly.
"We'd better." Zelda agreed.
TEN MINUETS LATER ON THE FRONT LAWN….
"Is this everyone?" Greg shouted over the huge crowd. "Then come on!"
Everyone trekked around the mansion to the back yard.
"Now why can't they just say 'meet on the back yard?'" Snake hissed.
Everyone took one look at the back yard and stopped dead. "Whoa…."
There was a giant glass dome. And I mean giant. It was taller than the mansion and the glass had to be a foot thick. Inside the glass dome there was a floating piece of land. It was as big as a soccer field and about as grassy too. Underneath where it was floating was a deep purple fog, like in the Dark Forest back in Hyrule.
"What is this?" Meta Knight said in awe.
As in reply John grabbed a microphone and said, "This is where The Games will always be held. This simulator will project a place to play The Games, and the winner of the Game will be awarded a pass to another Game scheduled with them, if they want."
Greg motioned to the huge football stadium seats gathered around the glass dome. "Take a seat and let's begin!"
Everyone in the group quickly claimed seats somewhere in the middle.
"Did anyone see who was in The Games today?" Pit asked.
"No…It wasn't any of us, right?" Falco asked nervously.
"First up in The Games… Krystal VS. the Black Knight!"
Fox, Falco, Wolf, Ike and Marth sat deathly still. "WHAT?" they all shouted at the same time.
"You have two minuets!" John shouted.
The crowd cheered.
Everyone stared into the glass dome and vaguely made out two figures. One was significantly larger then the other.
"Oh no! Not Krystal!" Fox groaned.
"Buddy of yours?" Zelda asked.
"Girlfriend." Falco answered for Fox.
"Ok, what about the Black Knight?" Link asked Ike and Marth.
"Oh, don't get me started." Ike muttered. "I hate him."
Then the song Let it Rock began playing.
"GO!" Greg shouted.
The Black Knight charged at Krystal, but she flipped over his head and landed on his back. She then proceeded to shoot him in the back with a blaster thing.
The crowd was a mixture of boos and hurrahs.
Then everyone noticed the big flashy signs underneath the glass dome.
KRYSTAL: 0%
BLACK KNIGHT: 60%
As they watched, the 60 went up to 70. Then 80….90…
Then Krystal jumped like a ninja and knocked the Black Knight off the soccer field.
The crowd got silent. The song ended.
Krystal was staring into the purple fog underneath the field.
"GAME!" Greg shouted. "TWO MINUETS ARE UP! KRYSTAL WINS!"
Fox, Falco and Wolf jumped up cheering loudly. "SHE DID IT! Hey, Fox, can you introduce me to her?" Wolf asked.
"We hoped you enjoyed the first Game!" Greg said. "Now for the second! This battle has never taken place before! A battle like no other! A battle against two friends!"
The crowd erupted in cheers.
Krystal had walked off the field and two other people walked onto the field.
"From the planet Mobius, I give you Silver and Blaze!"
Everyone glanced at Sonic, who had gone completely pale. "W…What?"
"UNLIMITED GAME!" John shouted.
"WHAAT? THIS IS INSANE!" Sonic shouted.
Then something weird began to happen. The floating soccer field in the glass dome began to change until it was a city. The purple fog turned to black ash.
"YOU HAVE AS LONG AS YOU NEED UNTIL ONE OF YOU KNOCKS THE OTHER OFF!" John was still shouting. "UNLIMITED BRAWL!"
"Brawl? Is that what The Games are really called?" Zelda said.
"Makes sense." Link muttered.
Everyone sat there for a while watching the horror unfold before them.
There were explosions and multiple buildings fell down in the first five minuets. Mostly everything was on fire.
"Who do you think's gonna win?" Marth asked Ike.
"I dunno…they both scare me. I would hate to go up against either of them."
Apparently Silver was psychic because he literally lifted up a building and smacked another with it.
"Wow. Lucario, if you go up against him, I really don't know who'd win." Trevor squeaked.
"Hopefully after today we won't even be here." Lucario said.
The Final Countdown began playing.
"This is really beginning to scare me." Wario muttered.
Suddenly something clear-ish fell from the sky. Blaze reached it before Silver did.
"That's not…" Zelda nearly whispered.
"It is." Ganondorf growled.
Lyn popped out of the Assist Trophy and glared at Silver.
"Oh, man, I can't watch…" King Dedede muttered.
Everyone kinda glanced at the percentages and hoped against hope that Lyn would somehow miss.
The crowd erupted in cheers.
They all looked up just in time to see Blaze standing over the edge glaring into the smoke.
"GAME!" Greg shouted. "BLAZE WINS!"
"Come on. We're getting out of here." Zelda said.
The group managed to get to Greg and John. "What is this? These aren't games! This is life and death!"
"Not exacally." Greg held up a small vial of something golden. "You may be dead for a while, but not forever."
Everyone stood there, fuming, at a loss for words. "You…you…you…" Ganondorf's face was red. "I'll Dark Punch you both to H*ll and back, you maggots!"
"Dang, Ganondorf." Ike muttered. "That about sums it up."
"Let our friends in the Assist Trophies go before we break em out." Marth hissed.
"Yeah, good luck with that." John yawned. "Now either go back to the stands or go away. There's another brawl."
"What happens to the people who fall?" Sonic demanded.
"You know what the fog does to you in the Dark Forest?" Greg asked.
"yeah…" Link shuddered.
"Well, that's what happens. No matter what color it is."
The song This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race began playing.
"Come on. I have an idea." Samus said.
Everyone left the stands and followed her.
"We need to get the stone they have." Samus said. "Right? So you know how they said if you …brawl and win you get a pass to the next brawl you have to participate? Well, I want to trade that pass for a stone."
"Samus! They might pit you against…against…Ganondorf!" Mario shouted.
"And I'll let her win." Ganondorf said confidently.
Everyone stood there in shock.
"You'd do that…?" Link looked ready to pass out.
"If it means getting out of here, then yes."
"Wow. I'm about to go into cardiac arrest, so let's go and find someone with medical experience." Link muttered.
"Wait…they'd have a hospital thing here, won't they? They need people to fight, right? And the people that fall in the fog…" Zelda said.
"Right! Let's go find it!" Pit said.
"But what if they don't let you trade the pass for the stone?" Sar'John asked.
"Oh, I think they will once they see what I have in mind." Samus said.
Everyone exchanged glances. "Samus, don't do anything stupid." Snake pleaded.
"I won't." Samus replied. "Now come on."
They trooped back inside the mansion and took out the map.
"Look! On the ninth floor! Part of it is reserved for the hospital." Ness said.
"The ninth floor? These people have the funding to build a mansion like this but not enough to build an elevator? That's madness!" Ike pretended to faint.
"Can we be serious, please?" Marth nudged him.
"Ok, sure…"
They climbed three flights of stairs and then Kirby got hungry, which is never a good thing.
So they veered off course and headed to a nearby Dunkin' Doughnuts®
"Gimmie a cappuccino." Meta Knight said.
"I want an espresso!" Sonic said.
"Why don't you stick to the orange juice?" Mario suggested.
So after everyone had a muffin and coffee/orange juice they claimed a table and stuffed their faces.
"It's-a good muffin!" Luigi said, his mouth full.
That was about when Tails came running into the table.
"OW!"
"Tails?" Sonic said around a huge chunk of muffin.
"There you are! I heard you were here! Did you see the brawl? It was awful!" Tails said really fast.
"And that's why we're going up to the ninth floor to speak with everyone." Lucario said.
"I'm scheduled to fight Ganon…dork…" Tails turned a map thing upside-down. "Who's that?"
"That's me. And it's Ganondorf…" Ganondorf said evilly.
Tails took one look at him and pretty much passed out.
"Can I see that?" Pit asked.
Tails gave him the map thing.
"Oh no! I have to fight Zelda tomorrow at 5:30! And Link has to fight Ike after me!"
Everyone sat there.
"But that's all for that day." Pit said. "Oh, man…Samus you'd better go talk to Greg and John soon!"
"When do you have to fight?" Falco asked Tails.
"Tonight at about 7:00." Tails looked really worried. "Please don't kill me."
Ganondorf gave him a very evil look.
"Do you want to come with us?" Sonic asked.
"I don't really think I should…they're still watching us." Tails said.
"What do you mean by that? I haven't seen any cameras." Zelda said.
"They're hidden. They know what we talk about and who we stick around. Then they'll make us fight. You saw what happened with Silver and Blaze."
Everyone glanced at each other. "Should we split up again?"
"I don't know…if we're a group we're less likely to get jumped." Fox said. "I saw a guy get his wallet stolen earlier."
"Good point." Samus said.
"Well, we're heading up to the ninth floor, if you want to come." Trevor said.
"No thanks." Tails said. "See you later…hopefully…"
He ran off.
"Come on. We'd better head up, then." Snake said.
SIX FLIGHTS OF STAIRS LATER….
"Forget about the stone, I'm fighting for an elevator." Marth sprawled out on the floor. "Ahhh…the floor's so cool…"
"Come on, get up." Wolf kicked him.
After consulting the map twelve times they found the hospital.
Link knocked.
"Yeah?" A short girl opened the door.
"Um, yeah. He broke his…nose." Link pointed to Ike.
Ganondorf quickly socked him in the nose before the girl could see.
"AAGHAAA! THE PAAAIN!"
"Oh…come in then." The girl said.
Ike walked in trying not to bleed all over his cape and boots. "I hade yo, Gahndorf." He said the best he could.
Everyone kinda stood outside the hospital doors.
"Now what?" Mario asked.
"We wait." Wario said.
So they all sat in a deformed circle outside the doors.
WITH IKE…
Ike thought his face was on fire. But that didn't make any sense, because there was no smoke.
The first thing he was going to do after getting out of the hospital was sock Ganondorf in his face as hard as he could.
"Um…what's your name?" the girl asked.
"I'hm Ihke…" Ike said. His nose was swelling.
"Ike? Ok then, Ike, over here."
She took him into a room and took a small vial of the golden stuff out of a drawer.
"Whad doe dat do?" Ike groaned.
"It'll heal you completely." The girl said. "here. You have to drink it."
"Oday." Ike took it and drank it. "Dastes like honeh…"
There was an unpleasant snapping sound in his nose.
"AAGAHAAA!"
"It's ok! That was your nose going back into place!" The girl said.
"Ah-ha-ha-ha! OWWW…" Ike cried.
"Ok, you can go now." The girl said.
"Wait…what happens to the people that fall off into the fog? Do they go here?" Ike asked.
"Sometimes." The girl said. "It depends if they've got broken bones or anything before they fell."
Ike got pale. "Um… What about the….dying thing?"
"Then we give them a bigger dose of the stuff I just gave you." The girl said. "It can bring people back to life."
WITH THE GROUP….
They were so bored Link and Zelda played Patty-Cake.
"Ok, we're insane." Sonic admitted.
"Nah…really?" Mario said.
Then Zelda missed Link's hand and socked him in the face. "Oops…"
Everyone laughed like maniacs.
"Hey, Link, can I play?" Ganondorf asked evilly.
"AGH! NOOO!" Link ran behind Kirby, but Kirby was short.
Ganondorf laughed really hard.
Link swore at him.
Everyone learned a lesson that day: never say naughty words in front of annoying people.
"Link, what does-" Ness said the word Link just said. "-mean?"
"Nothing." Zelda said quickly. "Link was comparing Ganondorf to a fat donkey."
Ness and Lucas laughed.
Ike walked out of the hospital with his nose back to normal. "I didn't learn hardly anything."
"Neither did we." Marth said. "Except Ness learned a new word."
"Yeah, it's-"
"NO NO NO NO NO!" Zelda shouted. "there are young people reading this!"
"Um…ok." Ike said. "That gold stuff? It'll turn you back to normal. In high doses it can bring you back alive."
"So you got to eat some gold stuff?" Pit looked jealous.
"It tasted like honey." Ike said dreamily.
"Ok, dreamer. Let's go talk to the guys in charge."
So they walked down to where The Games were still being held. "GREG! JOHN! We have to talk to you!" Sar'John shouted, flying up to them.
"I have something to ask you." Samus said. "Concerning when I participate in The Games."
"You're not suppost to participate for another three days." Greg said.
"I don't care. Can I go tonight at about…um…say, 7:00?"
"There's a Game scheduled for that time." John said. "But there's an opening at about 6."
"Well, I really want to go at seven." Samus said. "I'll go up against Ganondorf, the Black Knight and Blaze. If I win, instead of getting a pass for another Game, I want your stone."
Greg and John just sat there for about thirty seconds.
"You want to go three on one?" Greg laughed so hard he could barely speak.
"Yes. And if I win I get your stone."
"What if you lose?" John asked.
"Then take me as an Assist Trophy."
"Fair enough. You've got a deal." Greg said. "Good luck…you're gonna need it…"
Everyone trooped back to the front lawn.
"Samus, what are you thinking?" Snake nearly shouted. "they can't take you as an Assist Trophy! You're the only one with common sense!"
Zelda glared at him but he didn't notice.
"And what about the Assist people anyway? They'll still be Trophies even if you win!"
"Then I'll trade the pass thing for all the Trophies." Link said. "I'll go up against…whoever. Anyone."
"We'll think about that when the time comes." Zelda said. "But for now…Samus needs to get ready for her battle that begins in three hours."
THREE HOURS LATER….
Samus was given her weapons back, prior to the battle. She was waiting in a small room, ready for the brawl.
Three on one. Hardly fair…
…For them…
Samus smiled to herself. There was no way she was losing this. All her friends were counting on her, and quite possibly most of the other worlds.
So no pressure. Yeah, right.
Suddenly the small room began to rise. The door opened in front of her and she was standing on the soccer field thing. She looked around, but there was only blue sky, dark deadly fog, and her opponents. No cheering crowds. No music. It was completely soundproof and reflected the sky, not the stands.
If so much had not been at risk Samus would have stopped and stared.
Then a loud voice cut through her thoughts.
"We have a special three on one battle! Samus Aron VS Ganondorf, Blaze and the Black Knight! If she happens to win, she will be granted a special stone instead of a pass! But you all know the chances of that are very slim…" Greg announced. "Now the battle begins in three…two…one…GO!"
Samus was pretty sure Ganondorf had no idea what just hit him…literally. She flung the electric whip thing at him and sent him sprawling on the ground.
"You'll pay for that." Ganondorf growled unconvincingly.
Samus flipped over the Black Knight's head and landed on his back, just as Krystal had done.
But this time the stupid knight had backup, because before Samus knew it, she was flying through the air. She landed on the ground hard.
"There's no way you're winning this." Blaze ran up to her. "if those slow idiots don't do anything then I'll destroy you myself."
"Blaze this is for-" Samus dodged as she threw a fireball at her. "-everyone! If I win this, we can get out of-" Another fireball. Samus ducked and lashed out with the whip. "-here!"
Blaze dodged the whip and charged at her.
Samus flipped over her head, along the way shooting everywhere.
"Aaagh!" Blaze shouted. "Now you're in for it!"
A wave of flames came at Samus.
"You've got to be kidding me…" Samus growled. Then she spotted the Black Knight nearby…
Samus made the quickest decision in the history of ever and ducked behind him.
The heat was suffocatingly hot, but Samus was unharmed.
But the Knight was.
He kinda staggered to one side and then the other and then fell flat on the grass.
Something hit Samus in the back. She went flying over the edge of the soccer field thing…
But her hand caught the edge. She pulled herself back up.
Ganondorf was waiting for her. "WHAAA!"
Samus jumped as he nearly hit her with his Dark Magic.
"AGH!" Samus hit him in the back and he went over the edge.
She saw that he could have grabbed the edge but didn't on purpose. "Go, Samus!" He mouthed as he fell into the dark fog.
Samus turned to face Blaze. Her back hurt like mad and she was slightly dizzy from all the flipping and spinning.
"Get up, Knight!" Blaze hissed at the Black Knight.
Samus fired her gun like crazy.
Blaze put up a wall of flame and the shots dissolved in the fire.
"Now I know why your name is Blaze…" Samus said. "Come on, one on one! That Knight isn't getting up!"
Something caught Samus' eye and she saw an Assist Trophy container next to her.
"Come on, we've got to win this…" Samus grabbed it and shattered it.
Kat and Ana jumped out. "Samus! What's going on?" Kat demanded.
"Just get Blaze!" Samus said.
Kat and Ana charged at her through the fire and flames, swords drawn.
Samus was pretty sure that Blaze wasn't going to survive Kat and Ana's fury, but she dodged like a pro until…
"MY ARM!"
The wall of flames went down.
Samus walked towards her with her gun ready. "Blaze, it doesn't have to be like this. If I win, I can free you all from this place. I swear."
"You're just afraid of dying, aren't you?" Blaze hissed, clutching her arm. "I could take you down without any help!"
Something flashed above them and a multicolored ball appeared over them and began to float around.
"What's that?" Blaze demanded.
"That is a Smash Ball! Get it and finish off your opponent!" Greg shouted, unseen, from the sidelines.
Samus shot at it, but the thing kept dodging her shots.
Blaze jumped up and hit it with her fist as hard as she could. There was a clanging noise and it glowed brighter.
Samus lashed her whip at it and it broke. A strange multicolored glow surrounded her.
"What…?" Blaze demanded.
"I swear I'll get you out of here." Samus smiled apologetically. The glow around her glowed brighter…
Blaze only watched in awe as strange armor covered Samus until she looked like some kind of robot.
Samus launched a missile at Blaze after a second's hesitation.
Blaze couldn't get out of the way in time. The missile sent her flying over the edge into the fog.
"GAME!" Greg screamed. The sky-dome changed until Samus could see the stands. The crowd was wild.
Samus knew she should had felt relieved, but she felt guilty that she had to fight to get freedom for everyone.
LATER….
After Samus drank the honey stuff, everyone gathered in a meeting room with Greg and John.
"I can't believe you did that." John's face was red. "But a promise's a promise. Here. Take your stone and get out of here."
Samus took his little green stone. "Now let our friends in the Trophies go."
"Oh, you said that you only wanted the stone." Greg smiled evilly.
"Our friends too." Samus glared.
"You'll have to battle for them." John said. "You gave the crowd a great thrill today."
"I'll fight instead of her." Link said. "Pit me against whoever you want."
"Ok then…" Greg got an evil glint in his eye. "But no backing out of this."
"What happened to Ganondorf and Blaze?" Samus asked suddenly. "Are they ok?"
"They'll be fine." John said, obviously not caring. "Go back and go to the movies or something. We've got a special battle to schedule."
LATER…
"I'm really scared to fight." Link muttered a bit later. "What if it's like, Ganondorf's twin brother?"
"My twin brother is nice." Ganondorf said sarcastically.
"Yeah…Ganondorf, why did you…just fall? You could have easily come back up and finished me off." Samus said.
"I've seen some pretty young people here. They don't need to see the horrors yet." Ganondorf whispered almost too quietly to hear.
"Wow…after all the fighting we did…are you starting to go soft?" Link's eyes were really wide and he looked dumbstruck.
Ganondorf punched him into the wall so there was a dark Link-shaped hole in it.
"I guess not." Zelda remarked. "That wasn't soft in the slightest."
"Heck, yeah." Meta Knight agreed.
Link came crawling out of the hole with a black eye and multiple cuts. "I think I broke my uvula…"
Everyone fell down laughing so hard their faces turned purple.
"Link, do you even know what your uvula is?" Snake asked.
"Isn't that the bone in your arm?" Link held up his arm and everyone saw it was bending in a strange angle.
"Um…no. Your uvula is that thingy that hangs back in your throat." Ness said, opening his mouth to prove it.
"Ok, then…I'd better go up and get my arm fixed." Link limped away pitifully.
Everyone pointed and giggled immaturely after him.
36.56 MINUETS LATER….
Everyone was gathered in a small gathering room.
"Now what? Does anyone have any idea who Greg and John will throw at Link?" Fox asked.
"Any one of us?" Falco suggested.
"Who knows?" Wolf shrugged.
"I have a really bad feeling about this." Sonic muttered.
"Now we're jinxed." Mario hissed.
Everyone sat there for a few seconds.
"I'll be right back. I have to use the bathroom." Zelda got up.
Everyone else thought the thoughts.
"Think, thank, thunk." Marth said out loud.
Everyone gave him weird looks.
"Please think to yourself." Ike whispered.
At least ten minuets went by.
"How long does it take a girl to go to the bathroom?" Luigi muttered rather loudly.
"Maybe she met someone along the way and had to talk." Samus said.
"I give up. When does Link battle?" Lucas asked.
"In forty-five minuets." Trevor checked a nearby clock.
"Where the heck is Zelda?" Snake demanded. "It's been about half an hour!"
Everyone sat there for a few seconds. "Maybe she got jumped?" Wario suggested.
"Spread and search." Link said at once.
Everyone spread and searched.
30 MINUETS LATER….
"It's no use, Link! You've got to battle in ten minuets and this place is huge! We'll never find her in time!" Ike said.
They literally ran around the mansion in the next five minuets but still, no Zelda.
Everyone had to run out to the field in order to watch Link's epic battle.
WITH LINK….
"Oh, great gods above, let me live through this…" Link muttered as he stepped onto the floating soccer field. He glanced around him, looking for his opponents.
He nearly dropped his sword.
Zelda was standing in front of him, looking as surprised as he was. Next to her was Tails and a friend he hadn't seen in a while.
"N'ich haan, Link!" Midna said, giving him a worried look.
"Yeah, Midna. We have to fight…" Link just stared.
In case you don't know who Midna is, here's a brief description. She was about as tall as your arm from elbow to fingertips, had one bright orange eye, as the other and most of her head was covered in a strange helmet thing with a carving of an eye where her other should have been, and she had bright hair that was tied back in a ponytail. Her skin was light green and black, and strange designs decorated her arms and legs. She was at the moment floating next to Zelda's shoulder.
"I don't understand..why do I have to fight you?" Zelda asked nervously.
"Because that's what Greg and John set up for us." Link hissed. "When I get out of here I'll shred em to pieces!"
"Ni! Nich hasam bea? Miicri jr'sor?" Midna asked.
"Samus won us the stone earlier to teleport out." Zelda explained. "So we're going to free the Assist Trophy people and run for it…with everyone."
Midna nodded. "Gree?" She asked.
"I'm sorry, Midna, but in order to help us…you'd have to jump over the edge there…" Link muttered. "But you'd have to make it look like an accident…"
"THIS IS AN UNLIMITED BRAWL!" Greg shouted, unseen. "THREE ON ONE! BEGIN!"
Zelda, Midna, Tails and Link just stood there.
"I SAID BEGIN!"
They just stood there.
"BEGIN!"
"I won't fight!" Zelda declared.
It was quiet for a few seconds, and Link could imagine the crowd gasping and whispering among themselves.
"Very well." Greg said. "if you don't want to fight…"
There was a strange hissing noise and the Black Knight, Silver, Ganondorf, and Blaze walked out of a portal thing…but they were all shadowy and dark…their eyes a piercing red.
"What…?" Zelda muttered. "What's happened to you guys?"
"Play The Game, or face the wrath of them." Greg said. "And you won't be brought back."
"Nich hana! Krekko!" Midna screeched.
Even if you don't understand Midna all that well, you knew from her tone that she was still refusing to fight.
"Brawl, or you will never see your Assist friends again!"
Link glanced at Zelda.
"I guess we have to, then." Zelda admitted. "I really have to fight you…"
"Fight as hard as you can. We aughta make this look desperate." Link muttered.
Zelda nodded. The shadowy figures stepped back into the portal, and The Game began.
WITH THE OTHER GUYS…
"Oh, my Gah…"
Everyone was literally on the edge of their seats as they witnessed everything.
"Was..was that me?" Ganondorf demanded.
"I don't know…" Marth was very pale. "What is going on here?"
"No clue. This place is worse than I thought…" Mario groaned. "Link had better win. I don't know what he said to Zelda, but it looked like they're really fighting for all they're worth."
"Three on one, though…I'm sure I got lucky." Samus said. "if our luck holds out I swear I'm gonna take a group out of here tonight."
Everyone stared grim-faced into the glass dome, watching as Zelda exploded everything, Link slashed his sword everywhere, Tails dive-bombed him with rocks, and Midna used her ponytail as a third hand. It was quite unnerving.
"This is really creepy…" Ness squeaked.
Trevor suddenly pointed to the far corner of the field. "Look! A Pokѐball!"
Everyone looked and saw it. "So if Link gets that he can call a Pokémon to help?" Sonic asked.
"Yeah. Hopefully it'll be a good one too."
Everyone watched as Link wrestled Tails for it. Luckily, he won. Link grabbed the Pokѐball and threw it at Midna.
It hit her in the head and something that looked like a flower popped out.
"That's a Bellossom." Trevor explained. "they can put an opponent to sleep."
Tails flew too close to the Bellossom and slumped to the grass.
"Awww…" Ness and Lucas awwwed.
Link ran up to him and kicked him in the face. Tails looked really freaked and slammed his elbow into Link's stomach.
"Ooooh…" Everyone held their breath.
"That's gotta hurt." Ike flinched.
WITH LINK….
Link felt like Ganondorf had Dark Punched him twenty times over. He also had to throw up.
Midna didn't spare him. She began punching every inch of him she could reach with her hand-hair.
Link rolled into a ball and didn't move. He felt more nauseous than before.
He heard Zelda pick up his sword.
"Link, roll out of the way." He heard her mutter. "Now. I'll stab the ground next to you."
Link looked up at her…and lost his lunch.
Zelda jumped backwards, dropping the sword in the grass. "AGH! LINK!"
Link grabbed his fallen sword and jumped up, sword ready.
Something hit him in his side and he hit the ground hard.
"Are you ok, Zelda?" Tails squeaked.
"I'm fine. Just really mad."
Something slapped Link over to the edge. He just barely grabbed on and hauled himself up.
There was a flash of light and a Smash Ball appeared.
Everyone stared at it for a second.
"JIK!" Midna screeched, whacking it twenty times over.
Link swung his sword but before he could hit her Zelda slammed him into the ground again.
There was a flash of light and a multicolored glow surrounded Midna.
Link just lay on the grass and gaped at what happened next.
The three Fused Shadows appeared around Midna, smacked together with her weird eye helmet thing and she changed. She grew six arms and grew about a story taller. Her body was now golden with dark swirls.
"Oh…gods…" Link muttered before Midna grabbed him with one of her many new arms and slammed him into the ground with all the force she could muster.
WITH EVERYONE ELSE….
"Oh no…" Meta Knight gasped.
Everyone in the crowd was strangely quiet. The music had stopped. Every pair of eyes were trained on Link's motionless body.
"Is he dead?" Ness asked.
"I don't know…" Lucas whimpered. "He's gotta win this! He just gotta!"
The three pieces of the Fused Shadows left Midna and she was back to imp form. She seemed stunned on what she just did.
"LINK, YOU HAVE TEN SECONDS TO GET UP BEFORE THE GAME IS FINISHED." Greg shouted.
The crowd began to count down.
"Oh, come on, Link! You can do it!" Samus screamed.
"5….4….3…"
On 2 he slowly struggled to his feet.
"YES! GO LINK! HURRAY!" Everyone in the group kinda did a happy dance, apparently.
WITH LINK…
Link could barely stand, not to mention hold a sword. His head hurt so bad he was seeing red, or that just could be the blood in his eyes.
"Are you ok, Link?" Tails asked.
"Yeah…I'm fine…" Link gasped. "never been…better…"
"can you still fight?" Zelda asked.
"I'll manage."
The two of them began to fight it out, with Midna and Tails standing on the sidelines watching.
Zelda was quick. She nearly succeeded in punching Link over the edge, but he rolled out of the way and countered.
But then Zelda kicked his sword out of his grasp. It fell into the fog down below the field.
"Oh, man…" Link muttered. "Now I'm dead…"
Then an Assist Trophy fell onto the field. Zelda, Link, Tails and Midna stared at it for a second, and then all four of them rushed for it.
"It's mine!" Tails yelled. "I'll get it for you, Zelda!"
Link shoved Zelda out of the way and grabbed Midna's ponytail and literally threw her over his head.
Tails realized he was the last one and freaked out, punching Link in the head.
"Ow! Tails-OW! Stop it!" Link shouted, tripping him.
Link crawled the rest of the way to the Trophy and cracked it open.
Knuckle Joe jumped out. "Who do you want me to go for?"
"Anyone! Just stop them from beating me into a pulp!" Link yelled.
Joe set his sights on Zelda. "HI-YA-YA-YA-YA-YA!"
Knuckle Joe beat the tar out of her, but Link could only stand and watch, as did Midna and Tails.
Then with a final punch, Knuckle Joe sent Zelda flying over the edge…into the dark fog…
"ZELDA!" The three brawlers shouted.
There was no sign of her.
"ZELDA HAS FAILED!" Greg announced, although it was pretty apparent anyway.
Midna and Tails turned to Link. "I guess it's us now."
Link grabbed a nearby Pokѐball. "Nope. Just me."
WITH THE OTHER GUYS….
"Zelda just fell! Knuckle Joe…" Ness sputtered. "He's powerful!"
"That's why they wanted him for an Assist, then." Marth mumbled.
"Oh, come on, Link! You've got to do this!" Ike shouted.
"Samus, I just had a thought." Snake said. "While Greg and John are distracted, get a group that's still in the mansion and get out of here."
"That's a great idea." Samus said. "I'll go do that, then."
She left the stands.
"Now the rest is up to Link…" King Dedede looked really worried. "What if he fails?"
"What did Samus wager? They'll probably do what she said if she lost." Sar'John said.
"She said if she lost they could take her as an Assist." Pit said, his eyes wide. "So if Link loses, he's in huge trouble."
WITH LINK….
Link would have given anything for some sort of long range weapon. Midna would pummel him with her hand-hair thing, and when he least expected it, Tails would come flying out of nowhere and hit him in the head. It was rather frustrating, if anything.
"Would you please just stand still for FOUR SECONDS?" Link shouted.
An Assist Trophy literally fell onto his head.
Link cracked it open and Walluigi shot out of it, holding a tennis racquet.
He ran up to Tails, knocked him out of the sky, and beat him with the racquet.
Midna stood there, looking surprised. "Hac negret wonna?"
"Midna, that isn't even classified as a weapon." Link said. "It's for a sport."
"Oh." Midna shrugged.
"Just goes to prove you can use anything as a weapon…" Link trailed off as he spotted a baseball bat.
He grabbed it and spun around to see if Midna was coming for him. She wasn't. She was still staring at Walluigi as he looked around wondering where the heck Tails had gone off to.
Tails was holding onto the edge of the field for dear life, looking like he had a fight with a rather large cactus.
Midna ran over to him and picked him up with her third hand. "Hassa?"
"I'm ok…." Tails was shaking so hard he could barely stand. "But that was scary…"
Walluigi disappeared in a flash of white light.
"BATTER UP!"
Midna's eye got as wide as a dinner plate as she spotted Link running at her with a baseball bat. "AAAAGH!"
"Look out, Midna!" Tails jumped in the way.
It was too late for Link to change the direction of the bat, and with one swing, Tails was over the dark fog and falling. He didn't fly back up.
WITH SAMUS….
"Hey! Anyone! I gotta talk to you!" Samus ran through the mansion, looking for anyone. "This is important!"
Ash Ketchum poked his head out from the arcade. "Oh, hi. You're with that group, aren't you?"
"Yes, and this is very important." Samus held the green stone out. "This can get us out of here. I need you to gather everyone up that you can find and meet me back here in five minuets."
Ash nodded and ran off.
"Is it true?"
Samus turned to see Krystal standing there, looking very surprised. "You can get us out?"
"Yeah. I'm taking a group right now while mostly everyone's out watching The Games. Tonight I'll take a bigger group." Samus said. "I should be able to get everyone out of here in about three days if I'm lucky."
"Can I come with this group?" Krystal asked.
"Of course." Samus said. "I'm gonna bet that this is gonna be the smallest group out of all of them."
Ash came running back with the Black Knight and a weird green dinosaur thing.
"This is Yoshi." Ash said, "Luckily they only got him and not any of his family."
"So is this it?" Samus asked, looking at the small group. "Then we'd better head out.
They went out on the front lawn, where Samus held the stone out in front of her and shouted, "Jhoto!"
Nothing happened.
"Oh, I know…" Samus looked at the rocks and trees. She soon found what she was looking for: A stone shaped hole in the bark of one tree. She put the stone in and said again, "Jhoto!"
They were suddenly standing in a forest.
WITH LINK…
Midna stood in shock, still looking over the edge. "Ne'rooc…" She muttered.
"It's just us then…" Link said. "Let's end this quick."
Midna grabbed him with her hand-hair and held him over the edge.
"Midna! Wait! If I win we can get out of here! Don't you want that? Please! I have to win this!" Link pleaded.
"Hassro!" Midna hissed. "HELI VORCO STUI!"
"Look, I'm sorry I hit him, but I couldn't stop! He saved you, not me!"
Midna threw Link into the ground. "Kiiki!"
"Midna, I-"
Midna grabbed him again. "JEM FIJUM SIAM!"
That was about when a Smash Ball appeared over the field.
Midna dropped Link and charged at the Smash hitting it for all she was worth.
Link did the only thing he could do at the time. He threw the baseball bat at the Smash.
With a crash, it broke and a multicolored glow surrounded him.
"Midna, I'm sorry…" Link muttered, picking up the baseball bat again.
Midna charged at him and her hair-hand formed into a giant fist. She screamed bloody murder and smashed her fist into Link's stomach.
If he hadn't throw up already he would have then.
The world seemed to be spinning. Link knew he still had it, but then why was there another Smash Ball floating around? Or did Midna knock it out of him…
Link couldn't do anything but watch as she broke the Smash and glared at him as the three Fused Shadows snapped onto her helmet thing.
WITH EVERYONE ELSE….
Everyone in the crowd was dead quiet as Midna grabbed the Smash, transformed, and beat the living daylights out of Link.
"Oh, no. He doesn't stand a chance." Ganondorf growled. "He's done for."
"Why doesn't Midna pick him up and throw him?" Pit asked. "She's just beating him up."
Everyone watched intensively. "Maybe she's sparing him. She really knows what's at stake, doesn't she?" Meta Knight asked.
"I sure hope so." Fox said.
Midna lost the Smash and returned to normal, floating over Link, who looked dead.
"There's no way he's getting up, is there?" Luigi asked. "He's gone."
But against all odds, Link struggled to his feet, leaning against the splintered baseball bat. He raised it as threateningly as possible.
Everyone cheered.
Midna rushed at him with her third fist at the ready, but Link held the bat out in front of him. Midna's hair got tangled in the splintered wood, so she couldn't back away.
Link threw the bat at the ground, and Midna went with it.
"Do you think he's gonna do it?" Mario asked hopefully.
WITH LINK….
Even though Link was pretty sure his skull was cracked down the middle, he was standing.
Midna was trying desperately to get free of the bat. So desperate, in fact, she tried to bite her hair off.
"I'm sorry, Midna." Link picked up the bat again. "But I've got to win this."
He threw the bat as hard as he could.
Midna tried flying with it, but with her weight and the wood, it pulled her down past the edge…down into the fog…
"GAME!" Greg shouted.
Link thought the world flashed different colors, and the next thing he knew he was flat on his face, blacking out.
WITH SAMUS…
"Thank you, Samus." Krystal said. "I don't know how I can repay you."
"You don't have to." Samus said. "We've just got to get everyone to escape that place."
Krystal nodded. "Well, if you ever need help, I'm here for you guys."
"Thanks." Samus said. "Well, I'd better head back to The Games."
Krystal said, "Tell Fox not to get into too much trouble, ok?"
"Sure." Samus smiled. "See ya."
WITH EVERYONE ELSE….
Everyone was cheering so loudly that they thought they were going to go deaf.
"HE DID IT! AGAINST ALL ODDS, BUT HE DID IT! THAT'S MY PATHETIC HYLIAN HERO!" Ganondorf shouted.
Everyone gave him weird looks, but at least he was cheering.
"LOOK!" Pit shouted.
Everyone looked.
Link had fallen on his face and didn't get up.
The cheering died down in the stands so fast it was comical. "Oh, man…" Sar'John whispered. "Come on!"
Everyone ran down to the glass dome. A bunch of the mansion's doctors were already on the scene.
"Is he ok?" Mario asked as they carried Link out on a stretcher.
A guy ran up to one of the doctors in front. "He's dead, Jim." The guy whispered.
"Well, then, CPR is a good thing!" Sonic suggested loudly.
"We'll get him up to the hospital and he'll be fine." The Jim guy said.
Everyone just watched as they left.
"Come on. we should wait up on the ninth floor." Pit said.
On their way to the door they met up with Samus.
"Good news and bad news." Ike said.
"What's the good news?" Samus asked.
"Link won."
Samus cheered.
"But the bad thing is he died." Ganondorf said plainly.
Samus stood there looking stunned. "What?"
"He won and then died." Marth said. "From exhaustion, I think."
"Wow…" Samus muttered. "Well, I got Krystal, the Black Knight, Ash, and Yoshi out of here. And Krystal told me to tell you, Fox, to not get into trouble."
"Ok." Fox got an evil glint in his eye.
"I'll keep him in line." Falco glared.
"So…they're gonna give him that golden stuff and he'll be fine, right?" Samus asked.
"I hope so. We have to escape at some point, right?" Marth shrugged. "How about we make a run for it tonight?"
"Sounds good." Ike said. "Should I spread the word?"
"Yeah. In the meantime, I'll take Trevor and we'll try to break the Pokémon out." Samus said.
"What if there's a bunch of guards? You might need protection." Pit acted all macho and didn't fail as bad as Link did.
"Well, ok. Sar'John, you coming too?" Trevor said.
"Yeah! Can I adopt a Pokémon?"
"Maybe."
Everyone headed into the mansion.
"Ok, here. Take the map and we'll just get another one." Ike gave the map to Samus.
"See you in about an hour." Samus, Pit, Sar'John and Trevor ran off towards the unmarked rooms.
Snake made a split second decision. "Samus! I'm coming too!"
Everyone else rolled their eyes. "I figured that'd happen. You owe me money, Meta Knight." King Dedede said.
Meta Knight grumbled things everyone was glad they couldn't hear.
"So…up to the ninth floor! We'll work our way down!" Mario said.
"I swear, two more days of staying here and we'll be in such good shape it'll be scary!" Luigi muttered as they trekked up the stairs for the umpteenth time in the past 24 hours.
12.58 MINUETS LATER…
"Ok, I made it! Let's go get a latte!" Ike gasped.
So everyone got sidetracked and went for a latte.
Except Ness, Lucas and Sonic. They were still hyper from the orange juice.
After everyone was as normal as they could manage without going bananas, they sat outside the hospital in a deformed circle.
"Let's play telephone!" Wario suggested.
So everyone played telephone. Wario went first.
As it went along the lines people started making horrified faces. Then it got to Ganondorf. He laughed evilly and told Sonic something that made him cringe.
"Um…I'm not so sure I should say that out loud…"
Everyone near the end giggled nervously.
"I don't know about you, but I heard 'Dark Glug'." Meta Knight said.
"I heard 'Park Bug.'" Ness said.
"I said 'Spark Plug'!" Wario said loudly.
"Ganondorf and Wolf! Stop changing it!" Lucas accused.
Wolf reached over and slapped Ganondorf a high-five.
"Ok, my turn!" Mario said something to Luigi.
It went around the circle until it got to Wario.
"I heard 'Iowa ant coughing OW.'" Wario said.
"It was 'I want coffee now!'" Mario said.
Everyone cracked up.
Luigi said something to Ness and the game continued.
" 'Let go of my wood and clomp in a lemur pack'?" Luigi said.
"No! I said something completely different! I said 'Let's go to the woods and cue the lemmings back!'"
"Where did you come up with that?" Lucas gave him a look.
That was about when the hospital doors opened and Link, Zelda, Tails and Midna literally came running out.
They nearly succeeded in trampling Falco.
"What? Oh, hi guys!" Tails said happily.
"There you are! Oh, man! I can't believe it! We can get out of here now, right?" Zelda said.
"We haven't talked to Greg or John yet." Marth looked ashamed of himself. "And Samus, Snake, Pit, Trevor and Sar'John went to free the Pokémon."
"Ok then. What are you doing?" Link asked.
"Playing Telephone." Ness said. "It was quite funny but Ganondork made it inappropriate."
Ganondorf gave him an evil look.
"Can we play?" Tails asked.
"Sure."
Everyone except Midna joined the circle.
"Come on, Midna. It's a fun game." Link said.
"Jaya kroof vivillen." Midna said stiffly.
"Just one game?" Link pleaded.
Midna flew in close to his face. "NO." She said firmly. "Jaya kroof vivillen!"
"Ok, then…" Link looked depressed but Midna ignored him. She flew down the stairs.
"Where's she going?" Ike asked.
"She's going to get a head start on telling everyone we're getting out of here tonight." Zelda said. "We'll catch up to her in a few minuets."
"I don't know, those stairs are pretty long…" Sonic leaned over and looked down the stairs.
Ganondorf pushed him.
Everyone sat there as he literally bounced down the hard, cold, bazillion marble steps.
"Should we be worried?" Fox had a horrified look on his face.
Tails looked like he was going to faint.
There was a shout of "OW!" at the bottom of the eighth floor.
"I'll be right back." Link ran down the stairs.
"Now that we're rid of the boring people let's continue, shall we?" Ganondorf gave everyone an evil look that was so evil, Evil bowed down and surrendered.
Link came back up the stairs dragging Sonic before they could start again.
"I can't feel my leg! Ow! OW!" Sonic shouted. "I'll get you, Ganondorf!"
Link dragged him into the hospital before anyone could do anything.
"Ganondorf, don't ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, EVER do that again." Zelda hissed.
"Dang, that's a lot of 'ever's." Ganondorf snickered.
"Yes, don't make me repeat it."
"Ok, jeez…"
Everyone played more Telephone.
Link and Sonic came back about three minuets later.
"No one said anything about them taking blood from you!" Sonic growled.
"What?" Zelda asked.
"They came at me with this needle thing that was literally this long…!" Sonic pointed from the wall to the one opposite it. "…and it hurt!"
"Ha, ha." Marth muttered.
Ike nudged him roughly.
"Oh, come on. we'd better help Midna." Wolf said, getting up.
Everyone went down to the eighth floor.
"Hey, did you hear about tonight? We're breaking out of here." Ike whispered.
"Yeah, I heard." The guy said. "And as far as I know, a lot of people already know."
"Ok, thanks."
They went down to the seventh floor.
"Have you heard?" Marth asked.
"Yep. Tonight, front lawn, we're getting out!" The guy cheered.
They went to the fifth floor.
"Have you heard? We're getting-" Zelda started
"-out of here tonight." The guy finished. "Yep."
They went to the third floor.
"Let me guess: you know already." Ganondorf said.
"Yeah." A girl said. "we're getting out!"
They just gave up and headed down to the first main floor, where they found Midna, floating in the air and giving them a sneaky look.
"How did you manage to tell everyone?" Link asked, amazed.
"Negray vrof hako, negray gry krekk." Midna said.
"Tell one, you tell em all." Link muttered. "Should have done that a long time ago…"
"Ok then, lets' just hang out somewhere and wait for Samus and her little gang." Wario hopped into a nearby chair and acted like he owned the world.
WITH SAMUS' GROUP….
"Ok, no one's coming." Pit peeked around the corner.
They acted like ninjas and got into the room with the Pokémon.
It was completely empty.
"What?" Samus nearly yelled. "What happened to them all?"
"Well, they're still going on with The Games, right? They have the Pokémon for it." Trevor said.
"Oh, dmn, we should have thought of that." Snake swore.
"Darn right we should have." Sar'John said.
"So what now?" Pit asked.
"Let's poke around a bit. We might find something out." Snake took a grenade out of his pocket.
"Snake, if you're gonna blow something up, use something that won't blow us up too." Samus said.
"Right."
Pit and Trevor went to scout ahead with the map. "Let's go that way." Pit suggested. "There's a lot of rooms."
Everyone went the way he indicated.
"On the left there's a room with a funny looking closet thing." Trevor said, looking up from the map. "The addition to the room looks like a bunch of U's all joined together. Look, it kinda loops around…it looks like a flower!"
"That is a weird addition to the room…" Sar'John said. "Let's see what they got in there!"
"But the door's closed. There could be about fifty thousand nerds in there!" Pit protested. "We could die!"
"Ok, we'll come back to that room in a few seconds." Trevor looked at the map again. "There's a room just up ahead that actually connects to this room that looks like a flower. And there's not a map key for door in-between the rooms, so we can check it out."
They crept slowly to the door up ahead. A huge padlock covered the whole door, practically.
"No one's in there." Snake said. "Otherwise it wouldn't be locked." He took a weird metal thing out of his pocket and picked the lock easily.
The door opened slowly. Everyone entered into a darkened room. Snake found the light switch, switched it on, and closed the door. "We have to be quick in case anyone comes by."
Everyone looked around.
"What is this place?" Sar'John asked. "It looks like some sort of demented operating room!"
Samus was busy looking at a glass case that held many different vials marked with a label that was scribbled hurriedly. It was illegible as far as she could tell, but she wasn't looking at the labels. She was looking at what was in the vials…
"Is that…blood?" Pit asked, coming over to her.
"I think so…but why is there so many little things and not one big thing?" Sar'John asked.
"I don't think that blood belongs to just one person…" Snake was now interested.
"How did they get it, then? Krystal didn't say anything about them coming at her with needles." Samus said. "Do they have mosquitoes that work for them too?"
"Somehow, I doubt that." Trevor said, glancing around. "This place gives me the creeps. It's all evil…"
There was a snap outside the door they entered into and a shout.
"Hide!" Pit hid behind some huge thing.
Everyone hid, and with not a second to spare. The girl that had healed Ike's broken nose came in the room, carrying another small vial that she put with the others in the glass case. Just when they thought she was going to leave, Greg and John came in the room.
"So, how many do we have so far?" Greg asked.
"About six hundred out of nine hundred." The girl said.
John swore. "And I bet you anything that that stupid group of kids will try to break the Assists out of here at some point or another. We'd better get their DNA before anything happens."
The girl nodded. "Ok. I'll do that, then."
"Right now." Greg said.
The girl grabbed a few unused vials and rushed out of the room.
Greg turned to John. "Ok, when do we start in here? They're gonna protest sooner or later, and we need to be prepared."
"Actually, we've already started." John said. "I'll show you, if you like. You've already seen some of our progress in The Games, when those four refused to fight."
Everyone watched them disappear into the darkness that lead into the other room.
"Ah, yes. That's great. Keep it up and they won't stand a chance." Greg said. No one could see what he was looking at.
"We're improving every day with these things, and soon we'll have nine hundred to match the originals." John said.
"Great. Come on, another Game starts in three minuets."
They left the room…and padlocked the door behind them…and turned off the lights.
"What was that about?" Pit whispered.
"I don't know." Trevor felt his way to the light switch and switched it on. "But let's see that's in that other room."
Everyone wondered into the darkened other room. Samus found another switch, and suddenly they were facing at least fifteen door-height tall, cylinder-ish, doubly padlocked safes, it looked like.
"What is this?" Snake asked.
They had entered through a small doorway that they now realized used to be another cylinder. "What are these things?" Sar'John asked.
"Guys, over here!" Samus said.
They went to where she was standing. She was looking with horror at an operating table with a white sheet draped over it, with something that looked sickingly like a human shape under it.
"Who is that?" Sar'John asked nervously.
Samus gently grabbed the end of the sheet over the body's head and pulled it away.
With a loud scream she dropped it and jumped backwards. "No! No! No!"
"Who is it?" Snake grabbed the sheet.
His reaction was almost identical to Samus'.
Pit and Sar'John glanced at each other and then lifted the sheet.
Pit went white and Sar'John started molting. "It's….it's…."
Trevor pushed them aside and stood there in shock. "It's….LINK!"
"But I thought he was up on the ninth floor! How could they get him down here without anyone noticing?" Samus was hyperventilating to the extreme. "How…why…what…?"
"We need to get out of here." Snake looked around the room. "Wait a second…didn't that map say there was a door leading into here?"
Everyone looked around, but the only exit they saw lead back to the other room. "Yeah…" Trevor glanced at the map. "It should be right there…"
Snake turned and stared at the strange cylinder thing in front of him. "This doesn't look like a way out to me."
"Then we're trapped! There was only one way out and that was padlocked from the outside!" Samus said.
In frustration, Sar'John kicked the cylinder thing in front of Snake. "Stupid thing!"
When he kicked it, the metal covering rattled…and then fell off, revealing a door.
"Wow! That was cool!" Sar'John reached for the knob. "Let's go!"
"WAIT!" Samus grabbed him. "Don't touch that!"
"Why?" he looked freaked out.
"Look."
Everyone looked to see a thin trail of wire running from the doorknob to somewhere behind one of the other cylinder things.
"It's booby trapped. If you touched that you might have set off an alarm or gotten electrocuted." Samus said. "Someone find something made of rubber."
They looked for about thirty minuets before Trevor found a doorstop thing.
Samus was an expert on booby trapped doors, apparently, because she got the wire out of the way and got the door opened. And as an added bonus…
"When we shut the door the wire 'll go back into place. It'll look like we weren't even here…kinda…" She glanced around the room.
"Then let's go! We have to tell everyone that Link…" Pit trailed off.
"I know. Come on." Snake opened the door and they all rushed out.
WITH EVERYONE ELSE….
"Ok, where the heck are they?" Lucas asked. "It's been about two hours."
"I don't know. Should we go up to the fifth floor and wake everyone up that went up for naps?" Marth asked.
"Nah." Ness said. "Ganondorf's up there, so we're safe."
About the only people that didn't go for naps were Marth, Ness, Lucas, Zelda, Midna and Sonic. But Ness, Lucas and Sonic didn't count, because they were still hopped up on sugar and an unknown source of hyper-ness.
"Aaagh this is taking too long…" Zelda groaned. "And this floor is very hard."
"I can't feel my butt." Marth agreed.
"Sicko." Midna muttered.
"Hey, what other words in English do you know?" Sonic asked.
Midna took a deep breath and screamed The Mother of All Swears.
Everything seemed to stop, including time.
"That's about it, buddy." Midna said, laughing so hard she just about fell out of the sky.
Ness and Lucas cracked up and time resumed.
"How about this..anything other than curses and insults?" Zelda asked.
"Guacamole sea crabs ate my next door neighbor." Midna said. "Kreeko hingh?" She asked, not even sure what she just said.
"Midna, that doesn't even make a logical sentence." Zelda sighed.
"Ok, say this…" Ness said. " 'Ganondorf, I want you burn.' Then say it to him when he comes back later."
"Ganondorf, I want you to burn." Midna repeated. "Ok."
"It means nice things." Marth added. "He'll be soooo pleased."
Zelda sighed and rolled her eyes.
"Ness, I want you to burn." Midna said, grinning mischievously from pointy ear to pointy ear.
Everyone then proceeded to teach Midna words in English. And Spanish, but that was just for good measure.
"Can I have a latte?" Midna asked after a while. "Puh-Leeze?"
"Why are we teaching her about coffee products again, Sonic?" Zelda hissed.
"Who knows. It could be useful. Like when she goes to Star Bucks®." Sonic shrugged.
"iMi casa no tiene tacos!" Midna said. "Que?" She demanded.
"What did she just say? It's harder to understand her now!" Lucas said.
"She asked why her house does not have tacos." Marth said.
"You ate them." Ness said.
Midna swore.
"Ok, this is how you introduce yourself." Lucas said. "You say… 'Hi, my name is Midna! I like tacos and know how to swear in three different languages!'"
"Hi, my name is Midna! I like tacos and know how to swear in-" Midna started.
"Just stop, guys." Zelda sighed. "It's weird. Midna is picking up stuff like mad."
"It's weird." Midna agreed. "Can I have a latte? Puh-Leeze?"
10 MINUETS LATER…
Midna got her latte. But it was about the same size of her, so it was fun watching her fly and eat it at the same time.
"Where is Samus' group?" Marth demanded.
"They must have abandoned us…" Ness said, wide eyed.
"I don't blame them." Zelda muttered.
Everyone sat there for at least .34 seconds before Pit came and crashed into Lucas.
"There you are!" Zelda sighed. "What took so long?"
"We got held up. You won't believe this!" Samus came running up to them. "Link's dead! We saw him…"
"What?" Lucas, Ness, Midna, Zelda and Sonic yelled.
"No he's not!" Marth protested. "I'll prove it!"
Everyone ran up to the fifth floor and pretty much broke Link's door down.
"LINK! LINK!" Ness and Lucas screamed.
Link fell out of the bed. "What? What's going on? Is the mansion on fire?"
"Oh. You aren't dead." Midna said, looking slightly disappointed.
Link blinked really hard. "Actually, I think I am. You're speaking English and I can understand you."
"I'm dead because you can speak in this fan-fiction." Midna retorted.
"Can you go back to the Twilight Language, please?" Link asked.
"Ni, if you shut up." Midna said.
"Ok, let's go and get the group." Marth headed out of Link's room.
Eventually the group was sitting in a deformed circle outside on the lawn. "So when the games end today we confront Greg and John and make them free everyone, right?" Sar'John asked.
"Yep. But before we do, there's something we have to tell you…" Trevor told everyone what his group had witnessed.
"So that's why they came at me with needles…." Sonic looked freaked out. "But they didn't take any from you, did they Ike?"
"Well, my nose was broken…I was bleeding all over the place…I don't think they needed to." Ike looked annoyed.
"Oh, yeah, Ganondorf, Midna has something to say to you." Ness said happily.
Midna floated up to Ganondorf's face. "Ganondorf, I want you to burn."
"WHAT? Who told you to tell me that? Link!"
Poor, helpless Link went pale and scooted behind big, scary Zelda. "Don't kill me…"
"Ok, before we got distracted…" Fox reminded everyone.
"Oh, yeah. Ok, well, they had like, six hundred blood samples from nine hundred people so far." Pit said. "I don't exacally know what they meant, but they said something about Link's brawl when he refused to fight and then creepy shadowy images came out of a portal thing."
"They said that they would improve…" Samus thought really hard.
"You said that there were weird tank things?" Wario said.
"I didn't say that…" Samus suddenly went pale. "Wait…"
"What?" Everyone leaned in closer. "What?"
"I never thought of them as tanks…" Samus looked like she understood things a lot better.
"Like war tanks?" Lucas looked confused.
"No, like container tanks." Samus said.
Everyone sat there looking stupid. "I still don't understand." Meta Knight said.
"Think Star Wars." Samus prompted.
"Ok, secret lab thing….blood samples….tank/containers…dead Link…" Snake muttered.
"OH MY GAH IT IS JUST LIKE STAR WARS! ATTACK OF THE CLONES!" Link screamed.
Zelda slapped her hand over his mouth. "Announce it to the world, why don't you?"
"Clones?" Meta Knight muttered. "So that explains the weird shadowy figures…"
"Plus they said that they're improving, so they may look more lifelike." Mario said.
"Does that mean we could be replaced?" Luigi went pale. "They'll switch us with the clones…and then they'll…."
Everyone thought scary, dark thoughts.
"I don't know…I would think that they'd be for The Games…fighting yourself…" Falco said.
"He's got a point." Tails said.
"As if The Games weren't bad enough…" Wolf muttered.
"We have to escape tonight." Lucario said. "We have no choice."
