Level 2
Snowdin
LOL, I'm back!
Sans: Quick, Dedede; hand me the bazooka!
Dedede: *hands bazooka to SANS* Here! *points at MOI* What the hell did I tell you about leavin' us alone, dammit!
... You have a bazooka? Can I see it?
Sans: *loads in missile* How about... no.
Meanie.
Dedede: You're the damn meanie here, girly!
So is your face.
Dedede: Wow.
Anyway, you can't kill me even if you tried. That's just not possible.
Well, I'm back, as stated above, with two weeks until winter break where I'm at! *cue in music from the holidays and Smash music* Yep, and that means more time to write...
Wait, I have a World History II SOL test the day after we get back...
Dammit, I need to study.
Anyway, here's some stuff I need to point out.
1) I might get some stuff wrong, so do correct me if possible. I might have to update it later on if I have time.
2) The snowstorm is there because Dedede isn't around at the time Ness gets out of the RUINS. Some funky weather might happen if one of the Bosses aren't around due to being in the Smash Mansion at the moment. The blizzard is Dedede's absence.
3) According to said Character meme, Dedede is Sans. Not kidding.
4) Ness wears a blue and yellow striped sweater, blue shorts and brown hiking boots, since he fell into a hole on a mountain. That mountain's name is still undetermined.
5) Whenever a Smasher from the Undergorund appears in the Mansion, they become human. Master Hand doesn't know why this happens; he assumes that since there are people that replace them, it's natural that they look like human beings, like Dedede in the last chapter. Sans replaces him in the tournament, therefore Dedede is human, like a Player...
6) So that it doesn't get mixed up, the Smashers stuck in the Underground are their normal self (e.x. Kirby is a puffball, Bowser is a Koopa, etc.); only the minor characters (Grillby, Muffet, Mettaton) are human. (IDK what I just said; think this was just for me to remember)
7) Dedede wears a red coat, not a jacket, coat. I forgot that he's a monarch and a coat would suit him better.
As always, I do not own Undertale or Super Smash Brothers; Toby Fox and Nintendo do. I do, however, own the plot. I also do not own anything that isn't related to Undertale and Super Smash Brothers unless said. They belong to their respective persons.
"...2015."
Sans actually stayed behind, wanting to know why the King of Dreamland was held back, Undyne's pestering along with Papyrus' scolding doing nothing to keep the skeleton away. Hugging the wall, Sans tilted his head to hear the conversation. If he looks, Master might see him and shoo him away, so hearing might do him well.
"Yes, 2015 to be exact." Sans knew without a doubt that's Master's voice. Why Dedede sounded incredulous, he didn't know.
"Oh, so winnin' 'da game only once doesn't satisfy you 'dat much, huh."
"If it's one game, then what's the point of the punishment?" Sans hears a sigh. "Look, this stuff that you're saying doesn't even make sense; doing this doesn't satisfy me that much, but you hit your mark."
"'Dat still doesn' explain-"
"I don't need to explain myself. The game does have three routes, one of them a variation. It'll do you guys some good if Ness plays through all of it."
Sans' eye sockets went dark. All? Like... Genocide? He tilts his head a little further but not further enough that Master sees his head. That's goanna suck.
"All? All? ALL?! I didn' ask for any of this, yet ya drag me into Ness' bullshit, bullshit I could've avoided! Hell, ask that damn kid; he'll say that dragging us into his mess is wrong!" Sans felt a dark aura coming out of the room. He couldn't tell if it's coming from Master's irritation or Dedede's anger. Probably the latter. "Master Hand, I'm sick and tired of this!"
"And yet... it's been only two days."
There was silence as Sans remembered the day when Master told the group about the punishment. He counted the days and saw that Master's right: it's been only two days. Two days of being stuck in the Underground; nothing to worry about, and Dedede's freaking out about it. Did he really hate the punishment? Well, he would've, like any other person that's getting punished, Sans thought.
"Two... two days?!"
"Uh-huh; two."
Sans can't help but snicker at the king's reaction. Being in the Underground with Flowey as the person who RESETs all the time was really frustrating, especially since he only did it for fun. If Master actually used the game as the basis for his playground...
Dedede has seen what he seen, and he's actually taking it all out on the person that placed him in that position. If Sans were in his place, he would've done the same. In fact, if there was anyone to blame for the RESETs and the constant cycle of them, he would've ranted about it until he drops dead. Wanting to hear more, he leans closer-
Until he lightly bumps into the cold metal of a doorknob.
Sans looks at it then at the door, a hunch telling him that Master assumed someone was listening and he closed it for some privacy. Damn that hand. Sighing loudly, Sans stands back up straight and makes his way to the kitchen; spying and eavesdropping like that can make someone hungry. Walking was something he isn't accustomed to due to actually teleporting around the place, but the Smash Mansion is huge and if his powers won't work, then he'll have to do it the old-fashioned way: walk. Arriving at the kitchen, he sees Luigi and Toon Link, Toon for short, making something at the oven, Ganondorf, the lucky son of a bitch that escaped Dedede's situation, sitting on one of the tables reading a book that could've been ages old, and Flowey, who sat two tables away from Ganon, also reading something.
The fact that this is happening means that the Mansion has went into a Code Gray: A state of boredom.
Sans mentally sighs and teleports next to Flowey, who didn't notice, and plops down on the seat next to him.
"sup," Sans says, the blonde human jumping while letting out an eep. "whoa, you literally jumped out of your skin, pal. that says a lot, you know."
"You smiling piece of fu-"
Sans quickly slams his bony hand into Flowey mouth, muffling the rest of his sentence. After it looks like he's finished, he lets go and Flowey proceeds to gag. "we have a kid here, you know," he said matter-of-fact.
Flowey glares daggers and says, "Huh, and you do it sometimes, Smiley Trashbag."
Sans glares daggers and retorts, "yeah; care to explain?"
"I don't need to explain myself."
Sans huffed, knowing that the human talks the truth; there will be times where he cusses in front of the kids without him realizing it, and Asriel or Chara might point that out for him. It wouldn't be surprising if Flowey knew any of that. After all, he eavesdrops, anyway.
"... okay, point taken," Sans finally says, casually snatching the thing Flowey's reading, the latter not amused. The skeleton took a quick look and glances at the blonde, who was trying to get it but couldn't due to Sans' hand blocking his face. Snickering, he teleports out of the way, Flowey falling on Sans' seat hard with his face.
"OOOOOWWWW!" he screams, lifting his face up to cover it with his left hand. His right hand flicks and several large white pellets went straight for Sans, who evaded all of them with ease. Anyone who is in the kitchen were now hiding under tables or behind the counter. "YOU FUCKFACE PIECE OF SHIT!" the human screamed as more pellets flew by and went for Sans, one of them nicking him, 0.01 HP chipped off. That's real nice, Sans wanted to say, but with the pissed human over his head, there's no way he'll get away without Flowey's two cents.
"well, come at me, then!"
Ness wished he brought a winter coat with him the minute he got out of the RUINS. After the door closed behind him, the harsh realization of being in the cold hits him hard in the face in the form of a icy blast of cold air. He remembered that he wore shorts and shivered, his breath coming out of his mouth as a white fog. He looks up to see a snowflake fall down as well as another and another oh lord-
He just ran into a snowstorm, full blast.
Ness tipped his cap downward so his face is shielded by the snow as he made his way in the freezing snowstorm, debating on whether or not he should wait it out behind the tall pine trees or keep on going. After deciding that he'll have better chances at getting to the King of the Underground by waiting the storm out, he quickly went to the trees and used one of the pine trees as a partial shelter. As the storm raged on, Ness wondered how he's going to explain the Subspace incident to Dedede, whose anger sometimes gets the best of him.
If things go smoothly, the only injuries I might have after that is a black eye or something, Ness thought as the wind howled and the storm gets worst. He also wondered why Dedede never let it go since it happened eight years ago, during the season of Brawl.
~Flashback!~
Bowser may be one of those people that loses their temper and takes it out on other people but never would anyone actually guess that the King of Dreamland is also one of those people.
It was after defeating Tabuu, dweller of Subspace and leader of Subspace; it was a very hard and enduring battle, but the patience and strength needed to defeat him paied off in the end. The Smashers stood at a cliff that, for most of them, was their temporary meeting place before entering the purple sphere that is Subspace, most of them content that the world is, once again, saved from total destruction and annihilation.
Some of the Smashers, however, weren't pleased at all.
Ganon, for starters, had mutiple reasons for being not pleased at all: the bad side lost, he had a chance at being the best but lost that, he's a bad guy therefore never wins, and more. Bowser was also displeased due to the fact that Tabuu backstabbed him and Ganon using Master Hand as bait; that kinda made the Koopa King mad.
Dedede is also displeased: during the final battle, Ness thought it'll be funny if he took him out first, which happened therefore killing him and another powerhouse in the battle (DK was the other one) so he could take all the credit for himself.
You see, that wasn't the case.
Ness didn't knock off DK; he fell down on his own. Ness did get Dedede, but all he said was that he blacked out and found himself against a wall seconds later; the latter not believing one ounce of word from the kid and called it bullshit (duh, since he wasn't there to see it). Even when that "bullshit" was backed up by the others who were there to witness it.
Needless to say, Dedede hates Ness' guts for that incident. The psychic knew that the King of Dreamland isn't known for holding grudges against people, but when he does hold one it becomes war for the other, even if they didn't know about it. Take Bowser for example: when Dedede found out that Bowser is just like him in several ways, he made the Koopa King's life hell for the first few days, like tripping him, shoving him down stairs (two out of three times it successfuly sends Bowser to the infirmary), and verbally throws stuff at him.
Even Bowser sometimes cowers in fear whenever Dedede strolls by.
The grudge did die out, eventually, due to having a politic talk and realizing they have the same views and finding out they work together well, but despite the grudge ending, Bowser still can't help but flinch whenever Dedede comes in the room.
Back to the main point, as soon as the guys, along with an injured Master Hand, got back to the mansion, Dedede slowly turns to Ness's direction and sucker-punches him in the face, the kid falling over while Lucas and Fox hold him up from falling on his bum. Everyone that surrounded the penguin took five steps back from him, some of the Smashers gasping. Master can't do anything due to being treated by Dr. Mario, resident doctor of the Mansion, and even he knows not to get in the monarch's way.
"What... what the fucking hell were you DAMN THINKING, YOU SON OF A-!"
"Language, Dedede!" Peach hollers. Cue in a Gordo being thrown at the princess. No one says another thing.
Ness, after getting up and reassuring Fox and Lucas that he's okay, says, "Dede-"
"It's Your Majesty; haven't they talk to you about manners."
Oh. Oh. He's pissed, all right. So pissed, he's actually acting like a real king.
"De- Your Majesty," Ness mutters, correcting himself. "I swear, I didn't do anything; the guys knew what happened. Why don't you just go and ask them!"
Falco and Kirby backed up Ness' statement by retelling what happened was mind control, though some of the Smashers that actually listened and thought about it were doubting it, not Ness' choice. The fact that Dedede immediately denied such thing was an indicator that at his state of anger and stubborness nothing won't get through him.
"Com'n, for fuck's sake," Falco cussed, glaring at Dedede. "Ness didn't do a damn violence; I think Tabuu made you have an impression that he did!"
"Y-Yeah!" Kirby spoke up, his voice wavering; the puffball knew that this isn't going nowhere and if it is, it'll turn into a fight between Ness, Dedede, and Falco, two out of the three strong enough to do collateral damage to the mansion. "Can you guys stop fighting? No one wants this here, and so do I!" Most of the Smashers agreed with this. "Besides, Ness didn't do anything; stop blaming other people on things they didn't do!" That one was directed to Dedede.
After a few more cusses and accusations thrown, mostly at Ness, Dedede had enough.
"Well, FUCK you ALL! Y'all don't understand what the hell I'm trying to say, so shut your traps or I shut it up myself!" he threatened as he turned on his heel and stormed off, leaving a disappointed crowd, a fuming Falco and slightly angry Kirby, and Ness, the child trying his best not to say anything that might be used against him.
~Flashback End~
Even if Ness actually did convince Dedede that it isn't his fault, the king wouldn't care. He wouldn't care at all.
And add Sans' role to that mess.
Ness hated thinking about worst case scenarios, but worst case scenario: Dedede sees him, and kills him. Doesn't matter if he's covered in blood (Dust probably wouldn't apply here) or he pacified every single Smashlite and Smasher in the RUINS; he'll do it anyway because of that incident.
Ness looks up to see the ceiling of the cave visible from where he's at; it appears that the snowstorm has passed and he could continue on. Getting up from his spot, he got on the main road and walked, praying that the worst case senario doesn't happen. He then comes across a bridge with pillars of equal width, which could fit even Bowser through, in front of him.
Oh no. This is it. Worst Case Scenario #34: Dedede comes and shoots him down out of fear for the Fallen Child or that incident. Hearing footsteps behind him, he froze and his breathing picked itself up, small fogs of air coming out of his mouth. The footsteps stop and Ness involuntarily shuddered, hearing something being rustled behind him.
What's Dedede up to?
"..."
Ness didn't dare turn around to see what he's doing; the air went from cheery to straight tense, the pressure bearing weight on the child, making it hard to breath. After a few minutes, Ness was back at square one, in front of Rosalina's house wait what-
Worst Case Scenario #34 has happened.
Ness really wanted to cry on anyone's shoulder, anyone who would just listen to him, mute or not. Dedede probably hates me, Ness thought as he went in the house, seeing Rosalina look up from her chair. "Probably to the point that he'll do anything, anything, to keep me down here," Ness mumbled as Rosalina hugs him and asks what happened.
Kirby is known for being the innocent one in the little town of Snowdin. Such innocence radiated from him, the townsfolk being happy whenever he's around.
Seeing Dedede's beaming face while covered in red stuff threw red flags all over the place.
"Dedede," Kirby says, careful with his words so the penguin won't see him as a curious person from the kitchen, "where have you been?! I looked all over Snowdin Town, and you were nowhere to be seen!"
The puffball heard a grunt and assumed that his brother fell asleep on the couch.
Hah, brother; that's the role of Kirby: Papyrus, brother of Sans, who's Dedede. It should've been Meta Knight, but Kirby doubts it; Meta is all but cheery, and being cheery isn't his thing.
"DEDEDE!"
"YES!"
Kirby peers from the corner of the wall to see Dedede staring back at him. "What's up with you, brother?! Did you do what I ask you?" Kirby asked, Dedede's face showing no signs of emotion. "DEDE-"
"Yes, Kirby. I hear you," Dedede says, siting up on the couch. "Anyway, what are you doing? Cooking?"
Kirby could now see red stuff all over the penguin's coat and shirt; the stains on the red coat were harder to see until one were to come close. A thought went to his head but dismissed it; his cool brother wouldn't do a thing. He's lazy to even fight, for all he knows.
"Well..." Kirby paused, his eyes still locked on Dedede's clothes. "I was cooking some thing called pasta!"
"Pasta?" the penguin asked, getting off the couch and getting near him. Kirby then realized what the red stuff was.
"Brother, what have you been doing?" Kirby asked skeptically, his eyes shifting to Dedede's face, still having no emotion.
"Something, Kirby," Dedede says.
The puffball knew he's lying. Why the hell do you have blood all over yourself? "'Something'? Care to explain?" Kirby insisted. He notice that Dedede slightly inches away from the puffball. Alright, let's get to the point.
"Brother, why is there blood all over you?"
Dedede looks at him like deer caught with the headlights. Bingo; now here's the hard part.
"Blood?" the penguin asks, looking at him incredulous. "I don't know, Kirbs, but this is red wine, I think."
There is no way Kirby would buy that. "Dedede, red wine doesn't stain that deeply."
"Why the hell do you want to know?" Dedede shot back, agitated. "It's none of your damn business!"
"Language," Kirby chided, "and it's my business; as the young brother of this household, I'll look after my lazy brother!"
"Who the fuck died and made you king of this palace," Dedede grumbled.
"Language!" Kirby noted. "And, go change if you're not going to tell me; we're going to look for some Newcomers!" he says in a happy tone, prompting Dedede to go upstairs, grumbling. After hearing the door slam, Kirby sighed loudly.
"Why do I, the Magnificent Kirby, have to deal with my lazy brother?" he wondered to himself aloud as he peers into the living room. "Why the hell do I have to deal with your bullshit, Dedede," he muttered to himself as he sighed again. "I know what you did; Ness' suppose to be here by now, and he isn't...
"Did... did you kill him, Dedede?"
If there is one thing Undyne likes, it has to be the Cruel Brawl option in the training room. Many Smashers advise against it.
She gotten two so far. She feels proud of herself.
If stuff gets better, she can drag a Smasher in, mostly Ike, Flowey, or Sans, to help her out.
Today, it's her, Flowey, and Sans, the two of them here because of causing a mess in the kitchen.
"Well, you let me fall!"
"screw you, weed; i didn't do a damn thing."
"YES YOU FU-"
"Guys," Undyne says, sweeping both of them to the floor. "Stop this petty fighting; you'll end up like Ness and Dedede."
"Ness? Dedede?" Flowey says, rubbing his head. "Psychic and king?"
"what did they do to achieve that?" Sans asked, interested.
Undyne pondered for a minute. "Well, Ike said that it happened eight years ago," she replied.
"In 2008? When Brawl came out?" Flowey asked, curiousity in his voice. "Subspace..." He snaps his fingers. "Something happened...!" His creepy face started to show as he's thinking about all the ways that could've happened.
"... Well, that's all I could get out of him," Undyne says. "I asked some more, but they all say up to that point; I don't think they don't want to talk about it."
"It was a dark day in the Smash Mansion..." Flowey says in his best narrator voice.
"Good Lord," Undyne muttered. "Anyway, we're here!" She the opens a door that leads to the training room. "I'll have it so we'll be doing Cruel Brawl."
"CRUEL BRAWL?!" Sans and Flowey exclaimed, gawking at Undyne, who looks at them in the confusion.
"are you crazy, undyne!"
"WTF woman wat de heel iz wrong with u!"
Undyne can't help but giggle at Flowey's reaction, and say, "Well, he said the hardest level, so... yeah, Cruel Brawl." She could see the blonde trying his best not to make a run for it while Sans' eye sockets are hollow. Huh, coming from Sans, Undyne thought as she glances at the skeleton, that's a rare look.
"undyne, ain't that a little bit too much?" Sans protested. "even flowey, by all laws of magic, is stronger than us but couldn't do it." Undyne raises an eyebrow.
"What? I did that shit already," the human grumbled. "It's harder than you think; hah, "Cruel" Brawl, more like "Death" Brawl."
"Well, here we are." She sneers. "Maybe you two shouldn't duke it out at the kitchen; that was what got you into this mess." Flowey and Sans groaned as the fish Monster triumphed in victory. "Anyway, you two ready? Flowey knows how it's done; you need me to explain, Sans?" she asks, looking at the dashboard with the options, one of them highlighted and read as "Cruel Brawl".
"the weed already told me," Sans says, crossing his arms. "no stock, no healing items, five people, or two for us, at a time; yep, he told me."
Undyne can't help but hiss out a scowl at Sans. If there is one thing that annoys her the greatest besides his puns is his dead tone. My, Undyne, you are cracking puns again, huh? That dead tone of his gets on her nerves; she knew that it's an indicator that he doesn't want to be here. Flowey's face was already readable, as some of the Smashers do know when to stay out of the blonde's way or when it's safe to talk to him, but Sans...
Well, you have to at least know him to the point where it's considered to be a friendship. and Flowey isn't friends with him.
"It's already set at Cruel Brawl," Undyne notes. "If you want this done faster, then let's hop right to it!"
"Let's be real here," Chara says, slowly munching on a chocolate bar Toony gave them a while ago. "You think there's another evil with the same intentions as me before then coming to kill us all?"
Frisk, Asriel, and Chara were sitting on the floor in Lucas' room (Asriel's, now) eating some chips, pie, and chocolate. Since Frisk did pacify Chara (and went a long and dangerous road for that) and Asriel was here due to Master Hand doing the impossible, they were stronger than the rest of the group, Chara and Asriel's SOULs holding more power than anyone's combined, even Sans.
I guess, Frisk signed, looking at the two of them. I mean, I'm not sure; I heard Lucario talking about it and being irritated by it.
"I don't... feel anything at the moment," Asriel stated, eating a slice of blueberry pie. "Though... it's faint." Master Hand gave Asriel a SOUL, something that shouldn't even be possible, but Toriel and Asgore thanked him and took off with the goat child, Chara and Sans looking dumbfounded at the scene. "I mean, the Mansion has a bunch of magical spells and stuff to keep evil off of the mansion."
"Then, explain Ganondorf," Chara says, throwing the chocolate wrapper in the pile of trash the three created. "He's evil, and he's under this roof." Asriel gave them a look.
Chara, he's a Smasher, Frisk signed. I don't think he counts. Think about Bowser the Koopa King.
"Bowser isn't evil!" Chara suddenly says, sitting up on their knees. "He had his reas-"
"Which," Asriel interupted, "is uncalled for."
Chara scoffs and says that the Koopa King's actions weren't uncalled for and that he had his reasons, but Asriel thinks not and the two bicker back and forth with Frisk sighing in between. As much as the youngest out of all of them want to not talk about Bowser and talk about that faint feeling, Frisk knew that getting them out of an argument is impossible.
Guys, Frisk signed, stop fighting before Toony hears you too.
"Toony?" Chara scoffed.
He might add his two cents into the conversation, Frisk pointed out.
"Well, he won't have his two cents of the conve-"
"What two cents?"
Chara almost choked on their chocolate bar while Asriel's eyes grew wide as the cartoon version of Link appeared at the doorway, leaning on the banister. Frisk looks his way and waved. They signed that they were talking about some things and that it isn't he needs to worry about.
"Well, that means I want to know more!" Toony exclaimed, coming into the room and sitting next to Frisk. "Oh, and you three like junk food." He took a stray unopened bag of chips and opened it. "I like junk food as well." He pops a chip into his mouth.
"You're lucky I'm a reformed megalomanic," Chara says, looking at Toony with their crimson red eyes. "I would've killed you right on the spot."
"That's nice," Toony says, completely ignoring Chara's implied statement. "So... what's up?"
Alright, Ness; take 23.
He had to 'fight' Rosalina, again, dying 22 times as well as Jigglypuff getting annoyed to the point where he just shot him down with a pellet.
Yep, he isn't in the mood at the moment.
But, there's progress to be made, and if he doesn't do it, then he won't be able to get everyone out. It's lucky he went back to the star thing before going through the door, otherwise he had to fight Rosalina again, adding to the death toll thus making him go insane, but he's trying. He's trying.
He got to the pillars and heard something snap within the forest, the boy instantly going rigid as Worst Case Senario #34 went through his head again. Com'n, Ness; there's no way he'll do it again.
No way.
"Newcomer."
Ness could've sworn his heart just dropped dead from that voice.
"Don't you know how to greet a new pal?
"Turn around
"And shake my hand."
Ness, afraid that he'll mess this up and make that long trek from Home to the exit again, turns around slowly, seeing a figure blacked out by the shadow of the pine trees hold out his hand. Cautious, the boy took the hand only to yelp in pain as electricity shot through his arm while the person laughed in amusement.
Their hand had a joy buzzer.
Ness wanted to use his PSI powers to smite the person down, but Master Hand somehow took it all away, making the boy completely useless in terms of psychic. He shook his arm as the figure came out of the shadows to reveal...
Dedede. The king of Dreamland. And he has successfully electrocuted Ness to the point where the child now stands at 18/20 HP; it took out 2 HP. Ness took a good look at Dedede, seeing that his usual attire had switched to a more "Sans" attire, which consisted of a red coat with a greyish-blue hood over his head that went to his white slipper covered feet over a cream-colored shirt.
"Ow," Ness muttered as he shook his right arm for the fourth time.
"Hah! 'De ol' joy buzzer; one of the classics! It's ALWAYS funny... t'a me, anyway."
Ness forgotten about that: Dedede's apparent love for joy buzzers. After the Subspace incident, he greets Ness with a shock, literally and figuratively. Literally, as in having a joy buzzer on him, and figuratively, as in the king actually communicating with Ness even if he knew about what happened.
"Anyway, ya ah Newcomer, right? That's hilarious," the figure continued.
"T-That's nice," Ness murmured, flexing his fingers to make sure they work. "So... uh, who are you?"
"I'm Dedede. "I'm s'appose to be on the watch for Newcomers, but ya know..."
If Ness had kept on to his experiences in the Mansion, he knew how to distinguish the nice and the pissed Dedede. Trying to tell if he's mad or glad is a skill only Kirby, Meta Knight, and Bowser can do.
"... I'm just not up to it."
The kid nods, and shivers violently; the cold's getting to him. Unfortunately, Dedede catches this. He took off his coat (Ness: Wait, he wears a long sleeve?) and hands it to Ness, who relunctantly took it.
"Just in case ya got cold; I was totally prepared," Dedede says with a grin. His eyes then widened for a brief moment then said, "Crud, i forgot to tell you something: ya see, I may not be a Newcomer fan, but my brother, tho'... well, he's a fanatic." Ness gulped. "I think I hear him now." He then walks past the bars. "He built this to keep Newcomers away, but he made the space in between too big." As they made their way to a clearing, Dedede's head perked towards the other entry way to the clearing. "Crap, that's my lil' bro; go hide over there," he says, pointing at the very conveniently shaped lamp. Ness wondered how it's there, but he went anyway so that he won't get caught. After a few minutes...
"BROTHER!"
"'Sup, Kirby."
Ness is able to peek from the lamp and saw the adorable pink puffball from the other end of the clearing, wearing a dark pink, almost magenta tattered bandana on his head. If he were human, Ness thought, that bandana would turn into a long, flowing scarf.
"Did you do what I ask?" Kirby exclaimed, standing two meters away from the lamp and, by extension, Ness.
"...Hmm?"
"Did. You. Recalibrated. Your. PUZZLES?!"
"Did I?" Dedede says, playing dumb. "I don't think so..."
Ness giggled silently as Kirby began to stomp his foot. "Goddang it, Dedede; what have I been telling you for the past few days! I already recalibrated my puzzles eight days ago, and all you do is just sit behind that hotdog vendor you have!" Kirby then looks at the penguin, who was staring at the lamp. "... What are you doing, exactly?"
"... Yeah," Dedede blankly says, ignoring the question. "Anyway, look at my wonderful lamp." Ness' hair went to stand on its ends as Worst Case Scenario #89 went through his head.
"I don't care about your lamp, Dedede," Kirby deadpanned. "What if a Newcomer comes through here?! I want to be ready! I must be the one; I have to be the one!
"I will beat the Newcomer.
"Then I, the Magnificent Kirby-" Ness snickered at this. "-will get what I deserve!
"Respect!
"Recognization!
"I will then be able to join the Veterans! I will be adored for being the strongest Smasher in the Underground!"
Dedede glances at Kirby, then at the lamp. "... Bro, maybe the lamp will help you."
"DEDEDE, YOU'RE NOT HELPING YOU FAT TUB OF LARD! All you do is sit around and EAT and SLEEP! YOU GETTING LAZIER AND LAZIER EVERYDAY!"
"Hey; take it easy! I did lots of dededeeds." Cue in a badum-tss.
That... was horrible, Ness thought as Kirby's face went to a scowl.
"DEDEDE!"
"Com'n, Kirby; ya smilin'."
"I'm am!" Ness was smiling. "AND I HATE IT!
Kirby sighed. "Why does someone as magnificent as me have to do so much work just to be recognized?"
"Wow, sounds like you're working way too hard... hard to the bone (KILL ME ~Author)." Cue in another badum-tss.
The puffball groaned loudly. "You know what? I'll go to my puzzles." He then glares at Dedede. "As for your work, put a little backbone to it."
Ness then knew what's coming next.
"Heehehehheheheheh."
Kirby walks the other way, putting swagger, if possible, to his stride as he disappeared through the trees. Then-
"HEH."
After a few moments, Dedede then sighed. "Okay, it's safe, kid."
Ness poked out from his spot and, once he sees that the area's clear, he showed himself. Looking around, he wondered if he could...
"Ya know what?"
Ness was about to leave the area, tiptoeing, and now looks like deer caught in the headlights.
"Hate t'a bother ya, but can ya do me a favor?"
Ness turns and looks at Dedede, confused. He's trusting me? "... What?"
"My brother's been down in 'de dumps lately. He never seen a Newcomer before in his life, an' just seein' ya just made his day."
Ness pondered and cocks his head, prompting Dedede to continue on.
"Don' worry; he ain't dangerous. Even if he tries t'a be."
"... Okay?" Ness says, forming his answer into a question.
"Thanks. I'll be up ahead."
Ness nods and walks to the exit-
"Oh, and kid."
What the hell do you want now, Ness mentally screamed as he turns around and perk his head up. "Huh?" He then felt his entire body go rigid as his SOUL popped out of his body, colored blue, floating above his chest. Ness was then dragged towards Dedede, who had a look that screamed the word 'kill' and the scared boy tried his best not to whimper.
"I'm not letting you off the hook."
If Ness showed any fear a while ago, he's showing it now as his ice blue eyes held fear.
Dedede's hood had slid down to cover the right side of his face, his left eye a pure imitation of Sans' left eyesocket: the difference is that the sclera (I know I didn't spell that right) is pitch black and sitting at the middle is a greyish-blue pupil that's trained on Ness. The boy shrank as it stared into his soul, figuratively, as in Ness feeling scared, and literally, as in his blue-colored SOUL is right there in front of him.
"... W-W-What do you m-m-mean?" Ness stammered, his body shaking from fright.
"You know what I mean."
Racking his brain, Ness tried to rememeber an event that would've made His Highness so mad-
The Subspace Incident.
Of fucking course, Ness thought as he groaned loudly. It's that one. "Look, Dedede, it's not my-"
He blinked and realized that his bottom is freezing: Dedede disappeared on him. A new sense of anger raged though the child, an anger that passed through him since Subspace, when Wario almost got Lucas. Why, that little son of a... He then tried to breathe.
"Look, Ness," he says to himself, getting up and dusting out his wet pants, "Dedede still thinks it's my fault and getting him caught just made that assumption even worst." Sighing, he walks out of the clearing and makes his to a splitting pathway, a golden SAVE point near the branching paths, a small box at the other side of the branching road, and a sign next to the box. "... But... why did you trust me in keeping Kirby happy?" The kid walks over to the SAVE point and hovers his hand over it.
*Knowing that Snowdin is just as cold as Dedede's dead personality at the moment fills you with FEAR and DETERMINATION.
[PROGRESS SAVED]
Wolf and Ike aren't the best of pals, but when thay look at each other eye-to-eye it takes only one wrong move to start a fight. In fact...
"Where the hell have you two been?" Wolf asked, glancing from the newspaper he held to Sans and Flowey, who walked side-by-side to the living room, the former panting more laboriously than the latter. After the two sat down on the couch adjacent of Wolf and Ike, Sans immediately fell asleep, leaving Flowey still catching his breath.
"... You two did Cruel Brawl with Undyne?" Ike asked, folding his arms across his chest. "Yeesh, that's harsh."
" It's...*pant*... torture...*pant*... Ike," Flowey stuttered, panting in between words. The two Smashers knew that the human didn't want talk anymore.
"... Well, don't duke it out in the kitchen then," Ike says, getting up. "I take that you guys end up getting two?" He walks to Flowey until he stands in front of him. "The only two-person group that holds record of two happens to be Bowser and Mario, and that was just three days ago."
"Well, I just talked to Undyne," Wolf says from his seat, "and they got up to one, since Undyne herself fell off the stage by accident. Sans and Flowey were the only two people up there, and you know what happens to a Group Cruel Brawl.
"You know, just leave them be," he continues, glancing at Flowey, whose head is resting on Sans' lap. "Undyne practically passed out in her room; the two were bound to do it. Remember your time?"
Ike stares at Wolf with a blank look.
"Y'know, when you went through Cruel Brawl the first time."
The swordsman kept staring at Wolf.
"Ooh, you forgot? Why, you were just like our flower buddy there, except the lap belongs to Zelda!~"
The swordsman was refraining himself from choking the complete shit out of the vulpine.
"In fact, I think her cheeks were tomato re-"
Wolf couldn't talk no more due to the swordsman's hands gripping his neck, choking the life out of him. While the swordsman and wolf fought (well, Wolf is fighting, but visibly losing), Sans lightly snapped his fingers and a light blue aura surrounded Ike, who lets go of Wolf and was slowly being dragged away from the coughing wolf was he gets some air into his system.
'hi," the skeleton simply says, waving his hand at the two. "what'cha up to?"
"Nothing," Ike stated, getting up as soon as the blue aura dissipated. "Wolf and I were just having a lovely chat. Guess that woke you up."
"oh." Sans started to get up only to look down to see Flowey's head on his lap, his face in a relaxed expression. "why-"
"You guys were both t-tired," Wolf stuttered, getting up, still coughing. "That armchair just made you guys comfy, I g-guess."
"oh," the skeleton says again. "... you okay? I see ike choking you."
Wolf coughed one last time and shook his head. "No, he wasn't; he's like that sometimes. Can't control his anger, like Bowser." He chuckled to himself. "I think you two should just stay there; just tell Master Hand that disturbing Flowey is a death wish."
"might as well do that, anyway," Sans muttered, getting himself comfortable while trying not to wake up the sleeping human. "tell frisk and asriel that i'm chillin' in the living room."
"I got you."
As Wolf left the room, Sans sighed. He knew that Ike tried to choke Wolf, probably due to annoying him to the point where that happened. At least he's awake enough to stop it from becoming a problem. As he slowly closes his eyes, he could've sworn he heard a certain megalomaniac's laughter ring in the room...
Ness has learned several things from the environment in Snowdin.
For example, he's never calling that person with their number on that fishing pole. Another thing is that the box is some kind of storage unit and that a box lover has left a sing talking about it. He went to put his stuff in when he sees that the box had a Toy Hammer in it.
A toy hammer? Looks like one of Ice Climebers' hammers, Ness mentally mused as he puts the Monster Candy in the box. I want to do Pacifist, so no weapons except my good ol' stick.
Not only that, but Dedede's personality has changed drastically, which can't be good if it carries on to the Mansion. Since the arrogant, egoistical king is actually Sans, that plus the RESET deal turned him into... that mess several minutes ago, if Ness could even call it a mess. Dedede may be a oblivious king, but if he's in a situation that might endanger him, he stands his ground and puts on one of the most dead look Ness has ever seen.
He's quite scary with that dead look, and that look gets people running and begging for their lives, even if they are on the same level as Dedede.
And now, with Sans' powers, it tripled that scariness to the holy-fuck-it's-Satan-run level.
Ness went to save again and went the other path, where Dedede and Kirby were talking loudly. As soon as Ness made his presence known-
"So, as I was saying about Samus," Kirby was saying, facing his fake-brother (yes, Kirby knew that Dedede isn't his brother; screw Master Hand for all he cares) who held a half-lidded lazy face. He turned around in the direction of Ness and he stopped his banter abruptly. He looks at Dedede, who looks at Ness, then back at Kirby, who looked at Ness again, and the cycle continues until they are spinning in place. Ness can't help but laugh softly at the sibling shenanigans. The two Smashers then turned their backs on Ness, talking in hushed voices.
"Dedede! Oh NOVA! Is that... a Newcomer!?"
The two the turn around and face Ness, who was busy touching the snow to make sure it's real and not fake.
"... I think 'dat a rock, Kirbs."
Ness looks up to see the two facing him again, noticing Kirby's disappointed look. Why is Kirby disappointed?
"Oh wait, w'at's 'dat in front of 'da rock?"
"OH MY STARS!" Kirby exclaimed, Ness now on full alert. "Is that a newcomer?" the puffball whispered, the penguin saying yes. "OH MAH STAHRS!" He suddenly jumped around the penguin; if anyone could see it, the penguin had an annoyed face on. "Dedede! I finally did it!" He stopped and exclaimed, "Samus' will..." Ness and Dedede raised an eyebrow.
"I'll be so... popular, popluar, popluar!" He then cleared his throat and pointed his stubby hand at Ness. "Newcomer, you shall not pass this area!" Ness kept staring at the puffball, who is smaller than Ness himself, only going up to his knees. "I, the Magnificent Kirby, will stop you! I will then capture you! You will be going to the Capital! Then!
"Then..."
Ness waited to see what Kirby knew after getting into the Capital. The puffball's hand was now beside his body.
"I am not sure what's next," the puffball muttered, averting his eyes for a second before going back to Ness. "IN ANY CASE!" He lifted up his hand once more. "CONTINUE... only if you DARE!" Kirby then runs off in the other direction, laughing along the way.
After Ness feels that the puffball's out of earshot, Dedede says, "Well, 'dat went well." He then looks at Ness, who went and stood in front of the penguin.
"... Is he really going to do... that?" Ness asked quietly, looking at Dedede. Kirby may be Papyrus, but he's Kirby, and he gets what he wants.
"Don' sweat on it, kid; I'll keep my eye out for ya." He then smiles (Ness: HOLY SHIT HE'S ACTUALLY SMILING HELP-) and ruffles the boy's head before leaving.
"... What the hell..." Ness grumbled, rubbing his head in the spot Dedede placed his hand on. He then started to walk on the path, nearing another station like the one in the clearing until his phone rang, making him jump. He then fishes it out of his backpack and answers it.
"U-Uhhh..." There was some muttering and, "I'd l-like to o-o-order a... uh.. a pizza?"
WHAT THE HELL, Ness mentally stated as his face made a confused look. Being around Smashers that curse did rub in on him. WHAT THE HELL WHO IS THIS BITCH I'M NOT THE PIZZA DELIVERY SYSTEM-
"With... uh... toppings are... um.."
NOT TO MENTION YOU HAVE ANXIETY ISSUES BRO GO OUTSIDE AND MAKE FRIENDS FOR ONCE-
"... I have them copied somewhere... I'll just paste them to you."
Unfortunately, the phone is from the 1980s, therefore cannot recieve such messages.
BOY ARE YOU STUPID THIS IS A BLOCK OF A PHONE IT CANNOT SEND TEXT MESSAGES MOM DOESN'T HAVE A SMARTPHONE DUMBASS KNOW YOUR SHIT-
The call then ends there. Ness silently cussed as he continued walking, making sure to remember the voice so he could pummel them later on. He passed the station since he doesn't give a damn, and was in a FIGHT with...
A lovely Shy Guy. With toast. Hold up, this is a reference and a reference Ness wanted to say, but refrained from doing so.
"Look at this toast," the Smashlite says, holding it in front of Ness. The child decides to ignore it since toast is boring.
*You try to take your eyes off the toast.
*SHY GUY is getting annoyed.
"Hey, eyes on the toast!" the Shy Guy says, waving the food in Ness' face. His attacks were just large white pieces of toast coming out of cannons, which would've hurt if standing right in front of the cannon hole. The child, however, evaded all of the projectiles with ease, and went to the MERCY button, seeing that the Shy Guy could be SPAREd.
YOU WIN! YOU EARN 0 EXP AND 18 COINS!
The Shy Guy walked away, grumbling about a person ignoring his precious toast as Ness sighed heavily. He gotten some more coins, coins that might help him in his quest of getting the hell out of the Underground with everyone unscathed and okay in the long run.
Especially Dedede, Ness thought as he continued on the path. He needs to learn that grudges that hold out for a long can have dire effects on him. He continued on the path when he sees another station with a sign that's not that far off from said station.
Oh Lord, it's goanna be Doggo, Ness thought as he read the sign and, slowly, walked quietly towards the station. He looks at the empty station and a dog head appeared, a golden lab with a black strip of cloth on its eyes. It looked around and muttered loudly, "Did something move; was it just my imagination?"
Yes, it was, Ness sarcastically thought, standing as still as possible.
"I can only see moving things...
"If something moved... for example, a Newcomer..."
Ness gulped.
"I'll make sure it will NEVER move again!"
Ness was thrusted into a FIGHT and the screen above his STATS say *Bogart blocks the way! Bogart was an animorphic dog, like Fox and Wolf, wearing a simple red tanktop and pink polka dotted boxers. In its paws were two sharpened knives.
"Bogart...? That's you're name?" Ness muttered, pressing the ACT button and stared at his choices. "Can I pet you?" He presses the option and tried to get closer.
*BOGART is too suspicious of your movements.
*Don't move an inch!
A blue knife materialized in the box and Ness tried to dodge it, only to realize that there is no gap for his SOUL to slip through thus getting hurt as well as Bogart barking about moving.
*BOGART is comfirming the moving object.
"Ow," Ness hissed as he sees his arm having a big cut, which bled slowly. He forgot that blue means stop (Ness: Wait, will Dedede talk about that...?) and, out of hastiness, forgot. He pressed ACT and decided to pet him again, which prompted Bogart to still be suspicious of Ness.
*BOGART is too suspicious of your movements.
*It moved! It didn't NOT move!
Ness stood still as the blue knife went through him, Bogart now seemingly can't find anything in his limited field of sight. He went to pet it again and Bogart responded with the same action.
*Will it move this time?
Ness, once again, stood still as the blue knife went through him. He pressed Pet for the fourth time and... he actually pets the dog.
"WHAT! I'VE BEEN PET!"
As the blue blade came through, the dog was spitting out words that start and ryhmed with the word 'pet' as well as saying the word itself. Ness started to giggle as he continued to pet the hyperventaliting dog.
*BOGART has been pet.
Ness sees his name flash in yellow, and went to SPARE the dog.
YOU WIN! YOU EARNED 0 EXP AND 30 COINS!
The two exit out of the fight and Bogart just calmed down from the petting. "S-S-S-Something just petted me... s-s-s-somthing that isn't moving...I'm goanna need some treats for this!"
The head disappears and Ness blinked, confused as to what happened. Well, he did know that blue means stop, so he did know what happened. Spotting a ringing bell on the counter, he went to press it several times, summoning the golden dog head.
"Hello? Anyone there? Okay," Bogart says and he goes back.
"That's nice," Ness muttered as he continued on, ignoring the pile of burnt dog treats in the snow. Once he got away from the station, he spots Dedede next to a sheet of ice with a sign in the middle. He then decides to see what's up with the ice thing in front of the penguin.
"Oh, heya," Dedede says, looking down to see Ness staring at him.
"... What's that?" he asked, pointing at the ice. Dedede looks at the ice and back at Ness.
"... A sheet of ice?" Dedede deadpanned. He then shook his head. "Hey, here's somethin' important to remember." Dedede stretches his arms, the two hearing a satisfying pop as the bones were being popped by the Smasher. "My brother has a very special attack; if ya see a blue attack, don' move. Trust me, it won' hurt ya." Ness knew this. "Since it might be a little bit hard to remember, here's an easy way t'a keep it in mind: imagine a stop sign, right? When ya see a stop sign, ya stop." Ness nodded. "Stop signs are red, so..." As if it came out of nowhere, the penguin produced a blue stop sign, waving it a little for the child to see. "Imagine a blue stop sign instead!"
Ness tried to stifle his laughing due to how ridiculous Dedede sounded when he said that.
"'Dat's simple, right? When ya fightin', think blue stop sign."
And when the child knew that the penguin wouldn't talk no more, he walked towards the edge of the ice and started to laugh loudly. I mean, it must've been that funny. Ness then walked on the ice, only to side across it to the other side. He spots another path and went up, seeing a lone snowman at the end of the path. When Ness came near it, the snowman began to talk.
"Hello, I'm a snowman."
"Hallo," Ness greeted back.
"I want to see the world, but I can't move. If you would be kind, traveller, please: Take a piece of me and bring it very far away."
Ness nods and took a piece of him and placed it in his bag. When he got to the big piece of ice, he slid down to the sign, which read that every single direction had ice, except east, which had a town called Snowdin, and ice. He went east, seeing that the sign can't be lying as well as the fact that going west meant going to wheer he came from. When he arrived at another clearing, he sees Dedede and Kirby talking to each other.
"You're so LAZY!" Kirby exclaimed, a pout visible on his face. "You practically napped all night!"
Dedede looks at Kirby with a lazy expression. "I think it's called... sleepin'."
Kirby, from Ness' persepctive, was having none of Dedede's sarcastic comments. "Excuses, excuses, EXCUSES!" He turns around and notices Ness. "AH-HAH! THE NEWCOMER ARRIVES! In order to stop you... My brother and I created some puzzles!" Cue in laughter. "I think you'll find this one... quite shocking..." Ness could've sworn that the puffball's voice faltered. "For you see, this is the invisible... ELECTRICITY MAZE!"
Oh, no wonder why his voice faltered; he just said a pun, Ness thought as Kirby began to cackle.
After calming down, Kirby continued, "When you touch the walls of the maze, this orb will give you a hearty zap!" The Star Warrior now held a dark blue, almost purple, crystal ball in his stubs-for-hands. "Sounds like fun? Because, the amount of fun you'll probably have... is actually small, I think," Kirby said, muttering at the end. "OK! You can go ahead now!"
Ness, unsure where the maze is at, stepped forward. When nothing happened, he realized that Kirby got zapped since he's holding the orb. By deduction, he had hit a wall. Kirby then started to stomp on the snow.
"Dedede!" the puffball exclaimed, the penguin looking at Kirby. "What did you do!"
"Bro, I think 'de Newcomer needs 'dat orb."
Kirby looks at the orb and realizes his mistake. "Oh; okay!" Kirby then goes into the maze, creating a trail of his footsteps and stands in front of Ness. "Hold this, please!" He holds out the orb to Ness who took it and went the way he came from, still leaving a trail of footsteps. This will be a piece of cake, Ness thought, gripping the glass orb.
"Okay, try it now!"
Ness walks in the invisibe maze, using Kirby's trail as a marker to where the walls are at, and appears at the end of the maze, Kirby and Dedede staring at him, the latter surprised.
"Amazing, you slippery snail!" Kirby brought his stub-for-a-hand to where his chin would've been. "You solved it so easily... too easily..." He notices Ness' beaming face. "HOWEVER! The next one shall not be easy!" Kirby cleared his throat. "It is made by my brother, Dedede! You will surely be stumped! I know I am. Heeheheheheheheh." And he walks away, leaving Ness and Dedede alone in the area.
"Hey, uh, thanks," Dedede says, Ness turning his head to face the penguin. "My bro's havin' fun, from 'da looks of it." He then gives Ness one of his shit-eating grins. "By 'da way, ya seen 'dat bandana he's wearin'? I gave it to him on his birthday several days ago as a present. He hasn' really taken 'dat thing off since... keeps calling it his "copy ability", w'atever 'dat means." His grin stretched a little wider. "Man, isn' my bro cool?"
Hmm, it appears some of your precious Smashers are nowhere in the vicinity of your Mansion.
There are new ones, however, and I'm quite surprised where they came from.
I also believe that these new ones replace your precious Smashers that are absent.
The tournament is still going strong; where did they run off to?
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Well, it doesn't matter in the long run.
Because that will just make my revenge even easier.
Oh, shit, a mofo is coming...
Sans: No shit, Sherlock.
Anyway, I was planning on doing the whole Snowdin level, but... I have Snowdin Town to go over, which might take a couple paragraphs as well as the fact that I almost abandoned this fanfic entirely.
Oh, and if you are from the USA, y'all familar with SOLs? If you know what that is, I got a 600 on World History II; a pure 100.
Dedede: 'Dat's actually good.
It is! I have school, so updates are still at random. Now then, what was I doing a while ago...?
(P.S. IDK what I wrote for the clarifications. Oh well.)