The Watery Aura

Chapter 2- Welcome to the Insanity

Wow, people are actually enjoying this? Thank you all for taking the time to read this fic. I didn't know people like this that much.

I also like to thank the ones who critiqued the first chapter. I do realize all the mistakes and errors I made. If you continue to notice the same errors (or new ones) in this chapter, please let me know, since I'm trying to become a better writer here.

Since this is a humor story, expect some insane smashers to appear in this chapter as well. After all, it's the Smash Mansion! What do you expect, you know?

Here's something I'm going to admit. After I finished the first chapter, I found out that the pink thing around Greninja's face was actually his tongue. I was blank after that, since I thought that it was a scarf he had. I sighed, knowing that this was going to greatly affect my fic, now realizing that explaining Greninja's tongue was not going to be easy. (Especially since he and Lucario are going to have lunch in this chapter.)

Anyway, let me shut up as this chapter goes live.

~KF

"...Wow... I haven't even been here for more than two hours, yet my first day at this mansion is going past my expectations. I'm already enjoying my stay in this place... When I decided to talk to another smasher, it happened to be one that comes from my world... I never even thought that it was even possible to invite more than one smasher from the same world into this home... But then again, Mario mentioned his brother back at the Teleporter Room, and I saw two of those boys who have giant heads... which sounds completely surreal for me... Anyways, those girls that are probably princesses looked like they are from the same world as well... Except for the dirty blonde..."

Right after they both left Lucario's room, Greninja almost immediately began to think everything over. He was actually surprised that he was already being treated like a veteran Smash Brother, which was completely out of his list of whatever expectations he had inside his mind.

Nevertheless, the water-type had only been there for about ninety minutes, which explained the down fall of the whole situation. He was trying to make the decision on whether or not he should bring his hopes up.

"Hmm..." He began to speak in his mind again, "...Guess I should just 'go with the flow' as they say... or is it 'following the flow'? ... ...No, I should probably stick with the former. But it doesn't really matter... Anyways, I wonder what are we going to do after me and... Lucario... finish eating our-"

"Are you planning to meet and greet other smashers today?" Greninja's fellow smasher questioned, looking at him to see him rotating his head towards his.

He was silent as a moment passed by. "...Most likely... I want to interact with others as well to get a good start, but not as many as possible, since I am trying not to rush things."

"I understand where you are coming from." nodded Lucario, "Slow and steady wins the race, of course."

For a Pokemon that never heard anything like that statement that escaped from one's lips before, it seemed a bit confusing. "...What do you mean by that?"

"It's a saying." answered the Aura Pokemon, "It means that it is best to take your time and to not rush things."

"Oh..."

"Don't worry. I've had that response myself when I didn't know what Red was talking about." Lucario said in reassurance.

Even though he had yet to know who Red was, Greninja chose to not question about it, knowing that he will meet him sometime, anyway. If only he just knew when will that time come.

"...Wait a minute..." He thought, "Red... I think I've heard of him before back in my world, yet I have never seen him... He's in this mansion, too? ... ... ...How shocking... ... ... How shocking indeed..."

"... ... ... ... ..." While he was thinking to himself, Lucario's eyes chose the opportunity to glaze upon the mysterious pink object around Greninja's face. It looked rather weird to him, blaming the fact that he'd never seen anything like that before. "...Just what is that thing...?"

That was when he decided to ask his new, fellow smasher. "Um,... excuse me? Not that I'm trying to be rude towards you or anything, but out of curiosity, I'd like to know what is that... thing around your face..."

"Oh, that's okay." Greninja said with a nod, "I don't mind when you ask me things like that. I am an open book. Anyways," he said, getting back to the point, "you may not believe things, but this pink thing you are seeing is actually my tongue."

"... ... ... ... ...I... ..." Lucario was still searching through his mind, trying to figure the right words to reply to that statement. Fortunately, it didn't take him too long after. "...I... I have never thought of it like that... When I heard of you back in my world, that thing never came to the topic,... despite it being one of your main features, apparently..."

"Yes, that is one of the interesting facts about us Greninja's." The dark-type informed, "You may not have catched it, yet. But my voice is not affected by this at all, not even a bit."

"... ... ...That is... interesting, yet different at the same time..." Lucario had to admit, "It doesn't even affect your voice... Though, I should have realized it at this point."

"That's okay. And yes, even though my tongue is this long, I'm surprised myself that my voice is not affected by it. If it is, then it will obviously be rather difficult to pronounce some of these words I am speaking correctly." The other Pokemon explained, "Though I have to admit, it was kind of in the way at the beginning, but not long after, I have managed to find a way to say these words correctly with no trouble, whatsoever."

"... ...That only makes things more interesting... Never in my life have I heard anything like that." Lucario said, his lips curling up a bit to make a small smile, "You seem like an interesting guy to talk to, speaking of."

With that being said, Greninja almost instantly widened his eyes a little. He knew very well that the statement Lucario just said happened to be the first comment that was ever made against him. Because of that, he had no choice but to express his thanks. The water-type could have opened his mouth to say something, but the shouting of a feminine voice threw his chances of doing so off a cliff.

"Falco, hurry up!"

Those three words managed to gain the attention from the steel and water-types. Their heads shifted to where the noise was coming from. There was a woman that had skin that was white as snow, which was the opposite of the black hair that was in a ponytail.

She was barefooted and had on a blue top that had two words in white that said 'Wii Fit' and to end it off, like her hair, her yoga pants were black.

The smasher she was shouting at was a blue anthropomorphic bird, or falcon to be more specific. He was wearing a white jacket that had a symbol that Greninja was unfamiliar with at the time. He noticed the orange scarf wrapped around his neck along with his red shirt with black and white stripes, the latter being smaller than the former. To top if all off, after looking at the rest of his outfit, Greninja guessed that he was a mercenary. It was all thanks to his gray and black boots with a hint of orange, which covered half of his brown pants. Though what really made Greninja assume that he was a mercenary was the holster that was strapped on to his pants.

The third and final smasher proved to be not the only anthropomorphic animal of the group. He looked like a fifteen year old that had cobalt fur, but it did not cover his arms, nor his chest. His white gloves protected his hands from being seen and he had on red shoes, with white stripes in the middle, along with a yellow buckle.

All three smashers were standing right in front of an opened door of the bedroom. If Lucario and Greninja were paying attention to their surroundings, the fact that they were now on the second floor instead of the third floor of the mansion would have been noticed.

The two Pokemon stopped in their tracks to see what was going on.

"Make me!" The falcon shouted back at the woman.

"Don't play games with me!" She shouted back at him, obviously becoming more angry, "Get over here so we can go to the gym and workout! I already have Sonic over here! Don't make me force you to hold ten more dictionaries for five more hours to your workout session!"

"How is drinking only one cup of coffee with your breakfast fat!?" He asked, with his current tone of voice.

"Because you drink coffee twenty-four seven!" She screamed, leaning her head forward a bit.

"Still, you can't force me to do anything, Trainer!" The avian bird argued, his glare that was on his face becoming a bit more sharp, "What do I look like!? Your son!?"

"Nevertheless, you still need to workout, looking at all the extra fat you have!"

If he had the ability to explode, he would have done so at that moment. "That tears it! Sonic, get my blaster from my room! We're gonna show this stupid, pathetic excuse of a smasher who really needs to workout when we're doing our fighting session!"

"Whatever..." Greninja came to the conclusion that the hedgehog was Sonic, and the blue bird was Falco. Although, he had yet to find out who that woman's name was, but he assumed that she was some type of fitness trainer. "And why do I have to workout?" He asked said trainer, "I run all the time! And you see how skinny I am? I'm not the world's fastest hedgehog for nothing! And you already know that speeds my game!"

"Then eat healthy food for a change!" prompted the fitness trainer, "Seriously! Who wants to eat chilidogs, almost every time lunch comes in this mansion!"

Sonic shrugged for a second time. "Running burns all the fat and calories that are in them. You really need to visit Mobius sometime... Now because of me being bored now, I'm gonna brawl with Diddy Kong!"

"Be careful not to get spammed by his thunder." Falco warned, not even waiting for a response as he turned around to head back into his room, despite the fitness trainer yelling at him afterwards.

Before the hedgehog could move, he stopped to give Falco a confusing look. "...That's Pikachu..."

"Whatever..." He said bluntly.

"Hey! Get back here! We have a workout session we need to do- Okay, fine! That's two workout sessions for both of you tomorrow!" She confirmed, "You will both have breakfast, but no lunch nor dinner! And don't even think about getting a snack from the vending machine!"

That was the last sentence that she stated before storming off with clenched fists down to her sides.

"... ... ... ...Lucario?" Greninja glanced, "...Is this what you mean by 'insanity'?"

"Correct." He nodded, watching the angry trainer leave, "The women that you saw was Wii Fit Trainer. She's always giving everybody intense workouts, even if you eat just one unhealthy food... I saw her yelling at Falco during breakfast because he always drinks coffee for every meal. Sonic was supposed to workout with him because Wii Fit Trainer found out that he was going to have a couple chilidogs for lunch, which is the food that he eats for almost every time we have lunch..."

Noticing the Aura Pokemon continuing to walk, Greninja followed alongside him. "... ...I never imagined that some of the smashers in this mansion are this insane, nor did I know that they are insane period. Now I am glad that I've decided to stick with you."

"No problem." Lucario smiled as he and the other Pokemon walked down the stairs to the first floor. Only one more set of stairs to descend before they would be on the same floor the cafeteria was. "Since not everyone in this mansion is insane, I suggest that after we finish our lunch, we'd go talk to some of the normal smashers."

"I have no problems with that." Greninja said, just in case Lucario wanted to make sure that he was okay with the idea.

"Good, then." Lucario replied, nodding his head, "I think you will like some of them. After all, you did say that you are planning to conversate with other fighters than me."

"And I am keeping my word, indeed." The water-type Pokemon forced a smile, "Now I can not wait until we finish lunch. Since I am talking to people like you, I'm starting to get interested in meeting even more smashers. Thus, I thank you for helping me beginning to adjust to things."

"It's no big deal, to be honest." Lucario voiced in his own opinion, "Whenever a newbie enters the home, I always do my best to make that newbie feel comfortable."

"As if I am your judge," Greninja began, "I'd say that you deserve a perfect score, because you are doing a terrific job at it."

"Then, it is my turn to give my thanks to you."

"Not a problem." He replied, his smile remaining, "So, just about how many smashers in this mansion do you consider to be... 'abnormal'?"

Lucario shrugged, staring in the direction he was heading. "Over half the mansion. I would explain them all, but as of now, it's probably not the time, we have a meal to get to, so I'll tell you this for the time being. You know Master Hand, right? Well, you won't believe this, but he has a younger brother named Crazy Hand."

That made Greninja give the Lucario a blank stare. "...Please tell that it is false..."

"I wish I could, but it's true. Master Hand's brother is actually named Crazy Hand." Lucario told him, "Yes, it takes a while for one to believe the fact, but over time you will get used to it. Just because of his name alone, you can already tell the main characteristic he has. Sometimes, he is not too bad, though other times he can be an absolute nightmare to some people, since other times he can be quite destructive."

"...Wow..." Greninja was at a loss for words. "I feel bad for Master Hand, now..."

"Some said the same." added Lucario, "But there was this one time when he went way too far. He'd almost blown up the mansion."

"... ... ..."

"Exactly." The steel-type was expecting that reaction. "I would tell you everything that he had so you can construe everything and all, but as I said before, we don't have time for now."

"Say, speaking of hands..." Greninja said, he and Lucario descending to the ground floor, "When I first saw Master Hand, my mind went blank. Who would expect to see a disembodied hand to be your master?"

Lucario's turned his head to the newcomer again. "Not even smashers that are from... unique worlds expected to see a white, floating hand to be their master, either. Some thought that it was creepy, while others decided to shrug it off and move along."

"And I'd went with the latter..." Greninja said, remembering the event when he first saw Master Hand, "Oh, we're almost at the cafeteria. Won't be too long, now."

As the journey to the Smash Mansion cafeteria came to an end, Lucario chose the opportunity to take a time out and think for a moment. "...Wow... Even though I have been talking to the smashers that are similar to this guy's personality, I have to say that he is the best of them all. If it continues like this, then we will get along great. Should we be friends?"

As much as he wanted that question to be answered almost as soon as possible, it had to be put on hold, which was a little unfortunate to the Lucario. The cause of that was that the two finally reached the cafeteria.

The aura wielder pulled open one of the double doors of said cafeteria, allowing the dark-type Pokemon to pass through first. He himself then followed behind, with Greninja nodding as a thanks beforehand.

Although, they only took a few steps because they wanted to have a quick look around the cafeteria. Greninja glanced at the buffet selection. Mario had already informed him about it, but he came from a world that had rather different types of food, at least when it came to the Pokemon. Basically, he never tried 'human' food as he called it. Luckily, he was no picky eater.

Meanwhile, Lucario was glancing at the couple smashers that were waiting in line to get their food. To past the time, they chose to have a conversation filled with laughter and excitement, which made the Aura Pokemon form a small smile. "Ness and Lucas..." He said inside his mind. In the Smash Mansion, lunch was usually scheduled to start at noon, before finishing at two o'clock, though due to some hungry smashers, most if not all the food would be gone. Fortunately, it was now a little over half-past noon, which made Lucario think that he and Greninja were okay for the time.

Still, Lucario wished that the duo were down at the cafeteria earlier. Reason for that being was because that the pink puffball, Kirby (occasionally a green dinosaur who was named Yoshi), would eat the whole buffet, not caring if he received warnings, nor consequences. If Lucario wasn't hungry, it wouldn't be too much of a problem, but the whole situation would be different if he were to be the opposite of that.

Since he thought that Kirby would most likely eat the whole buffet when the next meal time comes, he would suggest Greninja to watch out. "Let's get in line." He told him as the duo stepped into the line behind Ness and Lucas, who were so deep into their conversation, they never noticed the two standing behind him. Same thing applied when they were finally able to get their food.

Watching them head to some table to start devouring the food on their plates, both Pokemon started grabbing the food they desired.

"I'm gonna go ahead and grab a salad, for now." Greninja told the veteran without even looking since his mind was mainly occupied on the salad, he was scooping up into his plate, thanks to the salad spoon that was offered, "By the way, when I was down here with Mario, I had a straight face when I first saw the food. You know that being a Pokemon, you are completely new to the food that the chefs give you."

Lucario took a second to glance at Greninja, only to stare back at his plate, which now had a steak on it. "You've just taken the words from my mouth."

He slightly chuckled after that comment. "I mean, when I told Mario about it, he slightly chuckled and told me to not worry."

"He told me the same thing when all of us brawl newcomers entered the mansion." Lucario explained, "But since all of us entered the mansion on the same day, I had to speak with him in private."

Chuckling once more, he stopped for a moment. "...All of you entered the mansion the same day? Then, how come us newbies are entering the mansion on different days?"

"Master Hand used to bring all the fighters for each new era together, nowadays, he invites the newcomers to the mansion whenever he confirms that they were going to be part of the next era, rather than waiting until he confirms the final one." Lucario explained, "Yes, things have been a little different around here lately since the announcement of the fourth era, but I guess it's not too bad..."

Greninja shrugged as he and the Aura Pokemon finally walked to a table, which was far away from the one Ness and Lucas were sitting at. Both sat down in the chairs as Lucario saw Greninja grabbing his fork, causing him to stare at him blankly.

"... ... ... ... ..."

Greninja had to postpone the salad that was suppose to enter his mouth as he noticed Lucario's blank expression. "...Is something wrong?"

"...Uh... No offense or anything, but..." Lucario knew he had to ask in the rightful manner, since he didn't want to hurt the newbie's feelings. "...I'm wondering how in the world can you eat? ...I mean,... with your tongue in your way and all, how can you possibly chew your food?"

"...Oh..." Greninja shrugged, "I should have told you that earlier when we were discussing about food when we were still getting our lunch."

"Oh, that's alright." Lucario answered, "So, just how do you eat? Do you awkwardly chew your food in your mouth with your tongue in the way? Do you somehow remove that tongue from your neck before starting to eat, without biting your tongue?"

"The latter."

"Thought so..."

"Yeah..." The frog-like Pokemon responded, "Either way, it is still very awkward... Sorry if that sounds a bit gross to you..."

"It's alright, not a big deal to me anyways." Lucario grabbed a piece of steak with his fork, "Every Pokemon is different, you know. So, you don't have to worry when you're eating with me."

"..." Greninja was rather surprised. "You know what? You are very kind as I said before. I didn't expect a single fellow smasher in this mansion to actually tolerate my tongue, not even Master Hand. Therefore, we should be friends."

"Exactly what I had in mind." Lucario said, remembering himself thinking before the duo stepped inside the cafeteria, "We both are getting along with each other quite well. I agree that we should be friends."

"So there it is, then." Greninja confirmed. The two were now going to be friends for the rest of their Smash lives. The bond between starts to develop in the first stage of friendship.

At the other table where the two PSI powered youths sat at, Lucas was cracking up while he had both hands on his stomach with his eyes close, his small legs kicking under the table.

"Falcon chew!" Ness shouted, placing a piece of meatloaf inside his mouth, chewing his food subsequently. He'd decided that since the F-Zero racer, Captain Falcon, used his signature move, Falcon Punch in matches, he wanted him to be made fun of by saying 'Falcon' before doing whatever he desired.

"Falcon swallow!"

As he laughed with his younger friend, however, he started to cough due to him trying to swallow the food at the same time.

Only about three seconds later, Lucas took notice and gasped. "Ness? You okay! Ness!"

The steel and water Pokemon jerked their heads to see Lucas panicking and Ness coughing. Lucario wanted to take action by quickly running to Ness's table to help, but right when he started to do the process, a swordsman wearing a green tunic and hat, brown boots, and tan leggings came by, with the noticed very bored expression on his face from the Pokemon.

He walked up to Ness, and gave him a hard slap in the back, forcing the kid to swallow the piece of food at last.

"What did I tell you about chewing your food while laughing?" He asked, as the same Hyrulian princess from before came in the cafeteria to see what was going on. "You know better! Supposed you're the only one in the mansion and cannot be saved!?"

"Link..." The princess sighed, trying to get his attention.

No avail. "You could have lost consciousness that would eventually lead to death! Won't be laughing, then, will you?"

"Link!"

This time, the princess finally earned the swordsman's focus. "Look, everything's fine, now. Let's just get our food before Kirby shows up. Meta Knight managed to trap him in his own room so that we will get enough time to eat."

"..." The swordsman who was called Link found his turn to sigh. "You're right... Let's just get our food and eat... By the way, you wanna brawl after we eat?"

Lucario and Greninja's attention focused back onto each other.

"See what I mean?" Lucario said, "Stuff like this always happens at our mansion because many of us rather leap before they look..."

"At least that's over. If that kid,..." Greninja had to pause for a second.

"Ness..." Lucario said, knowing that he did not know all the smashers' names at the time.

"Ness, thank you," Greninja continued, "became worse, I would have sprang into action."

Lucario nodded in agreement since he was about to do the same. "He, Lucas, and three other kids would always pull prank to any smasher that would get on their nerves. Though sometimes, it's for no reason, whatsoever..."

"Then I'd better watch out." Greninja answered. At that moment, he noticed that he was about a quarter of the way finished with his meal. "Say, are there Pokemon smashers living in this mansion besides us?"

"As of now, five." Lucario answered, "They are Squirtle, Ivysaur, Charizard, Pikachu, and Jigglypuff. There is even a Pokemon Trainer in the mansion that commands the former three's attacks whenever he is requested for a brawl."

"Pokemon Trainer?" Greninja prompted, a surprised look in his eyes, "There's actually a Pokemon Trainer in this mansion?"

"His name is Red, just as I said on the way here." Lucario replied, making Greninja remember his new friend saying the trainer's name.

"...I had no idea that there was a Pokemon Trainer in this mansion... Having other Pokemon living in this mansion is surprising enough, but an actual trainer... that is just... unbelievable... Makes me think of my own trainer back in my home land... ... ... ..." He began to think about his trainer that he supposedly... left behind...

If Lucario had eyebrows, he would have definitely raised one when he noticed his friend staring off into the distance. "...Uh,... Greninja? Are you alright?"

His own name being called, Greninja's mind snapped to the present again as he saw Lucario glancing at him with a concerned look. "...Oh, sorry... I was sort of... lost in my own thoughts..."

"..." After staying silent for a brief moment, Lucario chose to take a guess on what Greninja was thinking. "...You miss your trainer?"

That caused the dark-type to be surprised once again, not knowing what words to reply to the dog-like Pokemon. "... ... ..."

"Don't worry, felt the same way about my trainer." Lucario assured, "Like you, me, my trainer, and my fellow Pokemon would battle others and explore our region together. When I received my invitation as a smasher, I had no idea what to do at first, until my trainer told me to enjoy myself and have fun. Next thing I knew, I was given a pat on my head."

"... ... ..."

Lucario took the chance to continue. "My fellow Pokemon were proud of me and wanting me to go, too, even though they knew they would miss having me around and to tag along with them in adventures... and knowing that without me, it wouldn't be the same... But then after a while, I got over it with the help of the other Pokemon and Red, though it was mainly the former, since he had to choose only three Pokemon to bring along with him so that he can help them brawl. Basically, he had a worse situation to go through..."

"... ...Oh... ... Thanks for that,. I suppose... But,... I really do miss my trainer, us conquering the region together and all... Though, with us being in separate worlds, it's still a shocking fact for me to accept..." He admitted looking down.

"...Should I tell about the-... No... Not just yet... I'd rather wait for the right time to tell him, but I don't feel that this is the right time..." Lucario resumed speaking subsequently. "...Well,... on some occasions, you do get the opportunity to head back into your own world just to visit your trainer... So, don't think of it too bad."

"Thanks for the advice." said Greninja, "I still need to let the thought of being a smasher sink in. You shouldn't have to worry about me much."

"It's fine. Just making sure."

With that out of the way, the two resumed to enjoy their food.

And thus, this chapter is finally finished. Turned out to be a bit longer than I predicted, but that's okay. I needed to have Lucario and Greninja interact with each other more since they've met near the end of the chapter, and around that time, Greninja was too busy settling in.

Questions:

1. This one may be obvious, but would you rather hang out with the insane smashers just to get a fresh taste of the wonderful humor they have, or would you hang out with the sane ones to be with the smart ones of the mansion?

2. If you were a smasher, and you have to leave a person you enjoy spending time with, how would you feel?

I encourage all Pokemon and Smash fanatics to review.