Hello to all! Chapter two of my fluff-fest is up, thanks to my plot bunny Hershel (you know you're weird when you name your plot bunnies…). This will be the last chapter for a bit, sorry. ;_; I'm still trying to sort out Inkblot issues, but I'll get back to this approximately when I feel like it. I hope this tides you over until then. :)

Special thanks to Diagon the Uber Lord of Lawlz; I don't think this chapter has a definite theme and my lame excuse is because I'm introducing some of the other main characters, but I think it's better than the last one (insert shrug), and the next chapter definitely has a good theme. I hope you enjoy this nonetheless. :) Another thanks to ClumsyHeart17, I'm glad you like the way I narrate. You made my day just there. Go you! And a third thanks to Foxpilot; blunt reviews are good too XD. I always have a hard time picturing the SSBB people walking around in their capes and dresses and stuff, so I thought it'd be funny to put them in more modern clothing. As to your other comment, they're a bit nicer to each other in this chapter, so all is well.

And with that, I give you my lame disclaimer—all SSBB characters and their respective stages/weapons/trademarks/whatever the heck I decide to throw in there belong to Nintendo and not the little MouseMaster (sigh)—and here you go! Please read, enjoy, and then review!

~EDIT~ BTW, I noticed when I was looking through the archive that there's another fairly recent fanfiction about how Marth's addicted to caffeine, and I'd like to go on record by saying that the Marth in my fanfics isn't addicted to caffeine, he just recognizes its live-giving abilities. I also didn't mean to steal that author's thunder (I wrote this a looong time ago—I'm not copying). ;_; I figured the circumstances were different enough that it didn't really matter.

BTW again (I'll shut up in a minute and let you enjoy the story), there's some mild language in this chapter, as well as several terrible jokes; just a heads up. ;_; Marth says weird stuff when he's tired.

Chapter 2: Breakfast

"Hey Marth?" Pit asked quietly, holding his breakfast tray carefully so as not to spill as he looked down at the Altean, who was slumped over one of the booth tables that lined the cafeteria wall. "Can I sit here?"

Marth blinked dazedly and looked up from a mug of coffee, revealing dark circles under his eyes. "Sure, Kid."

Pit smiled knowingly as he sat down, pulling the bunches out of his too-big T-shirt that was actually a hand-me-down from Ike. "Twilight Princess?"

"Yep," was all Marth said before resuming his dead man's stare into the coffee.

"You know Link's ticked, right?"

"Yep. Why do you think I bought the game?"

Samus left the buffet line and walked over to Marth's table. "Are you two talking about top secret male things, or can I sit here?"

"Yeah, you can sit here," Marth said sleepily, hardly even recognizing Samus in front of him. If he had, he would have made more of an effort at conversation, instead of just staring past her at the wall.

"So how late were you up last night?" Samus asked as she deftly swiped Marth's coffee out of his hands and replaced it with her breakfast tray, laden with eggs and bacon and all things breakfast-y.

"Samus!" Marth exclaimed, finally waking up enough to recognize that she had taken his caffeine-giving coffee away. "What are you…? Wh—I…..Huh?" His eyes, which were usually so alert, were glazed over; his pupils huge even in the bright light of the cafeteria.

Samus thought, perhaps inappropriately, that Marth was adorable when he was tired. Usually he seemed so sharp, like his sword edge, but now he looked sort of blurred at the edges. "No, it's fine. I'm on a diet." She sipped his coffee happily.

Marth reluctantly picked up the fork and started to eat some of the scrambled eggs on the plate.

"You never did answer her question," Pit spoke up. "About how late you were up last night."

"It's not really a question of how late I was up last night," Marth mumbled around a mouthful, "as much as it is a question of when I passed out this morning."

Pit made a sympathetic noise.

Samus rolled her eyes. "And I'm assuming it's your new little game that kept you up all this time?"

"Yeah. I got stuck in a temple, and figured I might as well finish instead of having to start over."

"Smooth," Pit commented.

Marth shrugged, and then made a wild grab for his coffee mug, missing by a few inches because Samus yanked it away with a smirk.

"You wore those clothes yesterday, didn't you?" she asked, pointing with her little finger at Marth's attire; a blue hoodie sweatshirt with the strings lopsided over what appeared to be a white shirt and a pair of washed out jeans.

"Did not," Marth said indignantly, trying and failing not to look too closely at Samus's skinny jeans and her closely fitting sweater. "I changed this morning, before breakfast."

"I'm amazed you were awake enough to put your pants on the right way," Samus said dryly.

Marth started to make a snarky retort about what Samus could do with her pants, but then remembered that an angel was sitting next to him and tried again. "Are you brawling today?"

"Yeah," Samus said, taking another swig of Marth's coffee. "Against one of the kids. The Poke guy."

"Just a one on one?" Marth asked, slightly curious despite his curiosity-damped exhausted state. "With Ash?" They had taken to calling the Pokemon Trainer 'Ash' after his official counterpart. The boy had initially insisted that his name was Quincy, but he eventually decided that he liked Ash better.

"No, we've got Luigi thrown in there too," Samus said, flicking some of her blonde hair over her shoulder. "But I'm not too worried about him. Maybe I'll get lucky and the kid and the dwarf will take each other out."

Marth laughed humorlessly. "Don't get your hopes up. Link tried that yesterday and it didn't work very well."

"I know. I saw."

Marth blinked tiredly. Samus had been watching his brawl yesterday? His sluggish brain was too fried to process that fact properly without caffeine. "Then you saw when I got pwned by Ike a few minutes later, right?"

"Only after you helped take out Sheik."

Marth shrugged modestly. "Yeah, well…Anyway, good luck."

"Watch out for Charizard," Pit suggested helpfully around a mouthful of his bagel. "He's the one that's hard to hit."

Samus stood up, taking Marth's mug with her. "Thanks, kid. I'll keep that in mind." With a jaunty little salute that would have looked cocky if a guy had done it, but since it was Samus nobody cared, she was off towards the battle stage.

"I'm assuming you have the day off?" Pit asked Marth, who had sagged onto the table, his eyes glazed over.

"You know what happens when you assume…" he slurred.

"No," the ever naive Pit said. "What happens?"

"You make an ass out of 'u' and me," Marth said solemnly as he began to nibble on a strip of bacon.

It took Pit a moment to get the joke, but he laughed lightly when he did. "That's a good one."

Marth looked at him sideways. "What do a plum and a camel have in common?"

Pit thought about it for a few seconds. "I don't know."

The prince looked straight ahead again, his voice flat as he delivered the punch line. "They're both purple, except the camel."

The joke was so lame that Pit was startled into a laugh. Marth shot him a glare that told Pit that the blue-haired young man was more than a little concerned for Pit's sanity if he thought that was funny.

"So you do have a brawl today?" Pit asked, instantly serious again in a subtle attempt to suck-up to Marth, who was much higher up on the SSBB hierarchy than himself. Pit, along with Ash, often found themselves stuck in the middle of things. They were too mature to hang out with the younger kids like Ness and the ice-climbers, but none of the older people like Snake or Ganondorf really wanted to hang out with them because they were too young. Pit considered himself lucky that he had been able to edge in with the sword-fighters like Marth and sometimes Link, when the Hyrulian was in a good mood. Ash hadn't had as much luck, but Pit sometimes brought him along as a guest when the older people threw a party (which was often), so it was all starting to work out. Marth had once told Pit that if Roy were still around, they would have gotten along because Roy was a bit younger, but Roy had left awhile ago when they started having issues back in his homeland, so that was that.

"Yep," Marth answered the angel's question after a long pause. "With Kirby, Ness, and someone else who I've forgotten. It'll be easy; I'm the only one with a sword."

Link and Zelda walked over together, making Marth look up in surprise when he noticed that Zelda's arm was looped through Link's elbow. Were they going out again?

"Morning," Link said, taking in Marth's haggard appearance. "One word, Marth: coffee."

"I had some," Marth said sullenly. "Emphasis on 'had.' Hi Zelda."

"Samus stole it," Pit said matter-of-factly.

"Since when were you two going out?" Marth asked, peering up through a curtain of blue at the Hyrulians. "I thought you were with Captain Falcon…?"

Zelda blushed. "We broke up awhile ago."

"Oh. Okay." Marth was too tired to say anything more than that. He and Zelda had dated for awhile too (Zelda went through boyfriends pretty fast), and he wondered fuzzily what had happened with Falcon.

"We're talking about getting a group together to go to The Brink sometime this week," Link said. "You in?" The question was directed at Marth, not at Pit.

Marth ran a weary hand through his hair, raking it away from his cobalt eyes. "Yeah. I'm totally in. Just not tonight, 'kay? I think I'm going to bed after my brawl."

Pit looked at Link hopefully. "Is it an open invitation, or big kids only?"

Link shrugged, rumpling his green mock football jersey. "You can tag along if you like. Have you ever been to The Brink?"

Pit shook his head. "What is it?"

Zelda giggled behind her hand. "It's a fun place, Angel."

Pit blinked, startled.

"In fact," Link said thoughtfully. "See if you can get Ash to come too. The bigger the group the better."

"But what's The Brink?" Pit asked again.

Marth grinned lopsidedly. "I guess you'll have to wait to find out, kid."

Ha….Marth said 'pwned.' Forgive my slap-happy humor, my brain is fried. ;_; So many projects to finish!

Marth won't be in every chapter, FYI; I just felt that this situation was too good to pass up. I'm trying to switch characters a lot to get a feel for writing from different points of view and stuff….And there will be a few pairings (not just Link and Zelda), but that definitely won't be the main part of the story. And they'll be changing a lot too (they're all mostly teenagers, what are you gonna do?).

What is The Brink, you ask? Why, "it's a fun place." You'll just have to wait to find out. XD Feel free to guess though.

ANYWAY! Review and let me know what you think, (please go easy on me; I'm beat) and a happy weekend to you all! (TGI-almost-F!)