Episode 2: Welcome to the World of Smash

Kirby landed the star by what looks like a modern mansion. Glayze and Hydrus landed on their feet, looking around. "Whoa! Is this a mansion?!" Glayze asked, excited and spinning. Kirby nodded and hopped off the star, as it went small again. Hydrus picked it up and put it in his pocket. "Why did you bring us here, Kirby?" he asked, sitting on the fountain. Kirby went over to the door, hopped up, and rang the doorbell. The door opened, but no one stood there. Kirby walked inside, wanting the twins to follow him. "Alright then... come on Glayze," Hydrus said, walking inside. Glayze followed, practically skipping on the steps.

~inside the mansion~

Glayze looked around, admiring every decoration, furniture, and photos on the walls. She sat in the blue couch, and gasped at the giant TV. "This TV is huge!" she exclaimed. Hydrus sat next to her and picked up a remote, turning it on. He searched through the many channels, smiling a bit, seeing how many there were. Kirby got on the couch sitting next to Glayze. "Kirby? Is that you? Are you back?" asked feminine, high pitched voice. Glayze and Hydrus heard the sound of four heel clicks, and hid in the kitchen, leaving Kirby to watch the tv. "Kirby, there you are," said the voice again. He was picked up by a blonde woman with blue eyes and small, pink lips. She wore a beautiful, pink ball gown with short, puff sleeves, long, white gloves, large blue earrings with a matching broach, and a gold crown on her head. Next to her was another woman. However she had long, brunette hair, a purple and white dress with gold armor and a gold belt, a gold ringlet crown with a red jewel, and long, white and gold, fingerless gloves. "How was your journey, Kirby? Did you find what you were looking for?" asked the brunette woman, patting him on the head.

"Poyo!" Kirby told them, jumping out of the blonde woman's arms and heading into the kitchen. The women looked quite confused, but curious to see what Kirby had found. They walked in to see him tugging a piece of blue cloth behind a counter. "Kirby, let go!" Glayze whispered as she came out to pick him up. But when she felt a pair of eyes stare at them, she turned her head nervously. "And who might you be?" asked the brunette woman, bending down and extending her hand. Glayze looked at it and slowly took it, standing up, reaching an inch below their heights. "I'm Glayze... D-don't hurt us..." she said, shaking a bit. The women were confused, but the blonde one looked behind the counter to see Hydrus, slowly backing away. "Oh no! We won't hurt you. We fight, but we're not violent princesses," she said, extending her hand out. Glayze perked up a bit as Hydrus took the blonde woman's hand, and stood up. "Did you say princesses?" Glayze asked, slowly reverting to her happy self. The women nodded and giggled.

The blonde woman lightly lifted both sides of her dress and curtsied. "I'm Princess Peach. It's nice to meet you," she greeted. The brunette placed one hand above her chest, and extended the other, making a curtsy as well. "And I am Zelda. It's a pleasure meeting you both as well," she said, greeting them. Glayze grinned as she hugged Kirby. "I'm so happy to meet two real princesses! Well anyway, you know me as Glayze. That's my brother, Hydrus," she told them, Hydrus bowing. Peach went over to the cupboard and opened it. "Do any of you want some tea? Or something else?" she asked, getting a tea set out. Glayze shook her head no. "No thank you. I'm not the biggest fan of tea. But... is it alright if I have some sort of juice in a teacup?" she asked.

"Oh yes! Of course you may. You're our guests after all."

Glayze giggled. "Thank you,"

Peach started to take out some tea ingredients. "Hydrus? Do you care for tea?"

Hydrus shrugged. "I could drink it,"

~after a bit, in the garden~

Peach, Zelda, and Hydrus were both drinking tea as Glayze had a medium sized bottle of apple juice beside her, and had poured some in two tea cups: one for her, and one for Kirby. The pink ball happily lifted the cup with both stubs and sipped some. "So Glayze, Hydrus. We have a few questions to ask you," Zelda began, lightly holding her teacup. Peach placed her cup down on the small plate. "How long have you had those pendants for?" she asked. Hydrus held his up and looked at it. "Oh I'd say just yesterday. We don't know how we got them though," he told them, causing the princesses to giggle.

"Alright now," began Zelda. "Let us focus. Do you have any sort of power? There has to be some reason Kirby had came to your world, or else we wouldn't have known he left,"

Glayze nodded. "Yeah. I have ice powers, and Hydrus has water powers,"

Hydrus placed his cup down. "But before we had these pendants, all we could do was just form it from the palm of our hands,"

"I see..." Peach muttered, putting her finger by her lip in concern. "Do you know of any others with pendants?"

Hydrus nodded. "Actually yeah. Though I don't know what that means..."

Zelda slowly nodded. "Did one of them say something like... 'they're one of us' or 'they're with one of them'?"

Glayze gasped. "Yeah! When we were fighting this guy with fire powers. He said he really knew we weren't one of them because Kirby joined us in the confrontation. So we didn't get a chance to fight him..."

Peach and Zelda looked at each other concerned. They then looked back at the twins. "Listen you two," began Peach. "That group is very dangerous. They can create to cause destruction, and can destroy to create more..." Hydrus looked away, as Glayze started to shake a little. Zelda got up, and rubbed Hydrus and Glayze's hands. "Do not fear, you two. While some believe there is no hope for them to redeem, we believe there is. Though not for all of them, there is good in the hearts of these elementals. Like you two. You both now have pendants, and yet these powers haven't turned you to that group. There is good in you. That's what Kirby was looking for," she said. Kirby hugged Hydrus, then Glayze. They smiled and nodded. Hydrus looked at the princesses. "There is a girl I know from that group. And while she did try to tell everyone I was one of them, they didn't believe her. I feel like she's alone, even around those people..." he told them, talking about Esmeralda. Peach and Zelda smile. "Perhaps we could try to look for her," Zelda told him. Peach nodded, giggling. "But for now, why don't we give you both a tour?" The twins looked a little confused. Peach stood up, and said "Welcome to the world of Smash!"

~outside of the mansion~

"Smash is a tournament between people from many worlds. Kirby, for example, comes from Dreamland." Peach told the twins. Glayze was holding Kirby, she and Hydrus were both interested. "When we decide to plan another tournament, we come here. However, when we have a crisis, we live here temporarily until we end it. We had a crisis before we had the mansion built for us, and did not originally plan the tournaments... but that is another story," Zelda told them. The group walked inside into the living room. "I think you two know the living room, kitchen, and garden already, so let's move on to the rooms." Peach and Zelda lead the group to the first bedroom on the first floor: a red and green room with a red 'M' and a green 'L'. "This room belongs to our friends, Mario and Luigi," Peach began. "They're twins like you two, but they're both brothers," They took a few steps to the next room, which was green with one gold triangle stacked over two gold triangles. "This room belongs to Link, the hero from my world. He doesn't speak often, but he may give you advice on swordsmanship,"

They then stopped at a pink door with a yellow star like Kirby's, along with a smaller door within it. "Poyo!" Kirby jumped out of Glayze's arms, walked to the door, looked at the twins, lightly tapped the small door, and opened it, going inside and closing it behind him. Peach giggled. "I think he wants you to knock on the door," she told them, whispering. The twins nodded, Hydrus then going to the door and knocking on it. A muffled "poyo" was heard, making Hydrus open the door. Kirby laughed and walked out of the room, Glayze picking him back up. Zelda smiled. "That is Kirby's room. He wants you to know to always knock on the door, even if no one is inside." Glayze giggled. "Aww, he just wants us to be polite."

Before they could continue on with the tour, the roof began to freeze up a bit. Then, a boy with light blonde hair and sky blue highlights like Glayze's broke the roof and jumped down. He wore a light blue and white outfit. "What a nice mansion for two dainty princesses, two Elementals, and pink ball," he said, crossing his arms. He looked at Glayze and put his hand under her pendant. "Well now," he said, smirking. "Ashe never said the other Ice Elemental would be so hot~" Glayze slowly backed away from him, a little creeped out. "Leave her alone you..!" Zelda uttered, making magic sparks from her hand. "And you shouldn't call us dainty either..." Peach added, taking out a golf club. Kirby jumped out of Glayze's arms and stood in between the twins.

The boy rose his arms up. "Whoa hey now! Let's not get too excited. Name's Flaik," he said, trying to get the group to calm down. "Now I'm only here because I was told that there were Elementals who are working with Smashers," Peach slowly lowered her golf club, as Zelda removed her magic, both keeping serious faces. However, Kirby kept his guard up while Glayze and Hydrus were confused. "Yep, Esmeralda seemed crazy from what she said. But when Ashe said he encountered them, that was all the proof I needed. Not a believer until I hear from a witness," Flaik added. The group obviously didn't believe this. "Well Esmeralda's not crazy," Hydrus said. "But why are you really here?" Flaik lowered his hands, sighing. "Okay, okay you caught me," he began, looking at Peach, Zelda, and Kirby. "Master Lirix sent me. When he heard about the Elementals, he wanted to see one of them up close. I'd say..." Flaik grabbed Glayze by the waist, making sure her arms are restrained, causing her to start screaming. "She'll do~ Maybe I can get Master Lirix to turn her," he added, Glayze screaming, squirming, and kicking. "Let me go! Let me go! Let me go!" she screamed, trying to get out of his grip.

As soon as Flaik opened up an ice portal, Peach grabbed him from behind causing him to drop Glayze. She got up and ran toward her brother and Zelda, hugging Zelda in fear, the princess holding her protectively, witnessing Peach slap him hard. Twice. Flaik's cheeks were now red from the slaps. He stood up in anger, forming ice throwing stars in between both of his index and middle fingers. "Alrighty," he said. "Guess I'll have to fight my way to get her," The princesses and Kirby looked back at the twins. "You two should run!" Peach told them. Glayze and Hydrus looked confused. "Wait, we can fight!" Hydrus told them, forming his water arm. "No you two! You hadn't fought that Fire elemental, so please go! We don't want you to get hurt..." Zelda told them, forming sparks from her hand. Kirby hugged Glayze's leg and nodded. Glayze smiled as she and Hydrus nodded, running and hiding to watch.

Peach gave Flaik a 180 degree kick in the face, causing him to fall on his back as Zelda slashed one arm in front of her, with a trail of sparkles, knocking him back. He got up and threw two ice throwing stars at the princesses, Peach dodging, but Zelda getting hit. Kirby ran up to Flaik and jabs forward with the stub of his hand, knocking Flaik down again from a series of fast punches. Flaik got up and stomped the ground, causing ice to form on the floor, and freezing Peach and Kirby. Zelda crouched and kicked her foot in front of her, hitting Flaik low as the tip of her foot meteor smashed him when he fell down. Flaik was then flown up in the air, but he managed to get down on the ground. He used one of his ice throwing stars like a yo-yo and used it on Zelda, like an uppercut, causing her to get knocked down. The ice that held Peach and Kirby broke.

Kirby grabbed Flaik and threw him on the ground, and stomped on him several times. This caused him to fly up again, but before he could attack from the ground, Peach pointed upward as a pink heart appeared, causing him to fly up this time, defeating him.

~after the fight~

Glayze and Hydrus came out of hiding, Peach helping Zelda up. Flaik got up, beaten up, and forming larger ice throwing stars. Before he could throw them, a blue blur appeared and dashed through them, breaking them. Flaik then felt a red and orange fireball hit his back, hurting him immensely. They looked to see that what looked like a plumber with blue overalls, a red shirt, a red hat with an M, white gloves, and brown shoes. The blue blur stood up next to him, revealing to be what looked like an anthropomorphic blue hedgehog with white gloves, and red shoes. "Oh well looky here," Flaik said, turning to them, and walking towards them. "I expected the plumber leader of the Smashers, but I thought he had his wussy brother with him. Did you finally replace him? If so, why with that snarky hedgehog?" The plumber clenched his fist, flames forming from it.

Flaik raised his hands up. "Alright alright, I'm outta here! Just don't melt me," he said, forming an ice portal and going through it, the portal disappearing. Peach ran over to the plumber and hugged him. "Welcome back Mario!" she said as Zelda kneeled down and held his hands. "And welcome back to you too, Sonic. I hope everything was alright. But... where is Link?" she asked, sounding happy, but worried afterwards. Sonic let go of Zelda's hands. "Link got caught up in a fight, but he's okay. He'll be back soon." he said, smiling. Mario looked at Glayze and Hydrus, seeing their pendants. He and Sonic were about to fight them, but saw how defensive Hydrus was, along with how scared Glayze looked. Mario and Sonic looked calm at them. "Hey," Sonic began, walking over to them. "We won't hurt ya. Sorry about that, we just thought you were on their side." Mario nodded, walking alongside Sonic.

Hydrus kneeled down on one knee, Glayze on both of her knees. They examined their pendants, Mario lifting up Glayze's. "Mario, Sonic, they are Elementals, yet they are not on their side. Kirby found them, and believes they are on ours. And the two can confirm this, right Glayze? Hydrus?" asked Zelda. Hydrus nodded, Glayze rubbing her hands together, nodding nervously. Sonic smirked, giving them a thumbs up. "Well I can definitely trust them. Mario?" he asked the plumber. Mario smiled and tipped his hat. "Sure. The more allies we have, the more help we have!" he said, speaking in an Italian accent, then greeted the twins. "I'm Mario," Sonic crossed his arms, smiling. "And I'm Sonic. Sonic the Hedgehog," Hydrus smiled, standing up and holding out his normal hand, and water hand, shaking Mario and Sonic's. "I'm Hydrus. The girl with me is my twin, Glayze." He said, looking at Glayze. She looked down, rubbing her arm, smiling. "It's nice to meet you both... I hope we can be good friends,"

The hedgehog and plumber smiled, Kirby hugging Glayze's leg. Glayze picked him up and held him. "Could... could we stay here..?" she asked. "Our caretaker's on life support, and his coworker isn't authorized to take care of us yet..." Mario smiled. "Of course! Stay as long as you want!" Glayze perked up a bit and giggled. "Thank you so much."

~later that night~

Hydrus was sitting on a lounge chair, watching tv with Glayze laying on the couch and holding Kirby. "You're room is ready you two!" Peach announced as she was calling them from upstairs. Glayze put Kirby down, as she and Hydrus walked upstairs to their room. Kirby followed by hopping up each step. Peach and Zelda stood by a door with two gems exactly like the twins' pendants. Hydrus opened the door to see a room that had two beds: one with a light blue blanket, and one with a blue blanket, a dresser with their TV and Glayze's sewing kit, some shelves by each side of the twins' beds, and Glayze's baby blanket along with Hydrus's, which was purple. "We retrieved as many things as we could from your home." Zelda told them. Peach nodded. "Yes and your clothes are in the dresser. We have that and some shelves in each empty room. Though you can redecorate anything you'd like!" Hydrus smiled as Glayze had tears of joy in her eyes. "Thank you," Hydrus told them as he walked in his room. Glayze gave both princesses a hug, smiling. "Thank you so much..!" she said as she let them go and walked in her room.

Peach and Zelda smiled, watching them get in their beds and talking. Kirby tapped on the door, but it was clear the twins couldn't hear. He walked inside and tapped Glayze's leg. "Poyo?" he asked. Glayze looked down to see the pink ball. "You wanna sleep in our room tonight Kirby?" she asked. "He must be worried about your safety. And after what happened, I don't think he'll take no for an answer. But it'll be for today only. Well, we hope at least...," Zelda told them. Glayze nodded, and picked up Kirby. "Of course you can stay with us tonight," she said, picking up her baby blanket and wrapped it around him. Hydrus smiled, and took his baby blanket. "Here Kirby. You can use mine for a pillow," he said as he folded it into the shape of a pillow. He placed it by Glayze's bed, Kirby laying himself on it, and cuddling inside Glayze's blanket.

~later that night~

Mario quietly snuck in the twins' room and placed what looked like two smart phones on their dresser, along with a note next to them, and leaving quietly.

~elsewhere~

"Seems we got our hands full with those pests," said a low, dinosaur like voice. "Well yeah, and a not to mention they have them Elementals alongside them," said another voice, sounding more of a thick, southern accent.

"Have you seen Ganondorf anywhere?"

"He got caught up in a fight with that Link,"

"...Whatever. He should be back soon."

"Right then. So far, we haven't gotten one single reply from any of the others. You sure your son got one?"

"Hey! Don't judge my kid! He's a good kid in my eyes. And he will reply. I know it," Stomping noises were heard, meaning the low voice was leaving. A yellowish orange hand mitten held put a pin with a creepy looking penguin creature on it. "If something similar happens again, I'll be prepared." said the southern voice.

~elsewhere, in a different area~

Flaik leaned against a wall. "Be lucky Lirix, Illume, and/or Obascus didn't see you grab that Ice girl like that... You'd be busted for sure," Ashe said. "Oh relax," Flaik began. "It's not like I had the choice. I knew she wouldn't come with me even if I asked," A boy with silver, lavender, and purple hair walked over. He had a blue vinatage cardigan on, along with a crystal drop pendant. "And that's your way of treating women?" he asked. Flaik gave him a serious look. "You watch your mouth. You wouldn't want your sweet little Nature babe to know about what you said, would you?" he asked. The other boy looked away, and walked off. "You know, you're rude to him." Began Esmeralda, who was sitting on a futon. "You have any idea what he's going through? And not to mention you're the one who's being friendly with his girlfriend," Flaik blew some of his hair out of his face. "Come on Esme, don't be a tree hugger. Or better yet, don't be a Crystal hugger. Cause Crys deserves this treatment. After all, he's responsible for a lot of things he's done to the Elementals."

"But still, if you don't lay off of him, I'll make sure Lirix knows about tonight."

"Ooooh I'm so scared. It'd be worse if I, oh... fell in love with someone against us."

Esmeralda gasped, blushing.

"Yeah. I watched you. Now keep your mouth shut."

Esmerlada remained silent. She walked away, passing by a girl much younger than every other person, looking about 8-9. Her hair was light brown as she had a pink bow in her hair, a blue dress along with an apron covered in paint stains, and red shoes. She was drawing in a sketch book, and when she finished the drawing, she placed her hand on it, forming multiple colors from the palm of her hand. She ripped out the drawing and placed it next to her, showing a drawing of what looked like Mario, Sonic, Glayze, Hydrus, Peach, Zelda, and Kirby. She then continued to draw in her sketchbook.

~the next day; Smash Mansion~

Glayze and Hydrus awoke from their beds and saw the smartphones and note. Kirby opened his eyes, and watched them. Hydrus picked up the note and the twins read it, the note saying:

"Hello Glayze and Hydrus,

Sonic and I decided to give you two smartphones. We figured you'd need some way to contact friends or family, so enjoy it! And as of today, you two are honorary Smashers. We'll teach you the basics when Link returns.

Your friend,

Mario"

To be continued...