Super Smash Brotherhood

When we last left off, a small group of Smashers had taken a cruise vacation on the Great Ocean, during the course of which, Peach receives a mysterious letter. The next morning the ship is attacked by upgraded versions of Mario's old enemies, the Axem Rangers M.

Disclaimer: I claim no ownership over any characters or other themes in this story, save for original characters and themes by myself.

Tides of Battle…

"MAMA-MIAAAAAAAAA!!!" Luigi shouted as the charging beam of energy glowed even brighter.

"Ha ha ha ha! We win!" Red declared.

"Hey can we get something to eat afterward?" Yellow asked.

"Is food all you think about?!" Green asked angrily.

SHING

"Whoa! Red we've got trouble!" Black shouted.

"Huh? NOOOO!!!"

"What was that!?" Link asked.

"You tell-a me." Mario responded, equally surprised. A crescent wave of blue light sliced through the metallic head that was charging up the breaker beam. Soon the entire Blade began to shake in the water.

"No the breaker beam's energy is backing up into the Blade! My make-up's going to be ruined!!!" Pink cried.

"No waaaaaaaay!!!"

"Get down!" DK yelled as the Smashers ducked.

KAAAABOOOOMMM

"Guuuuuuaaaaaaahhhh!!!" The Axem Rangers M flew up into the air before they, along with the remains of the Blade, came crashing back down into the water.

"I don't know how that happened but, hey works for me." T. Link said.

"Hey! Who that?" Diddy yelped, pointing towards the floating debris of the Blade.

"Ugh… whoever did that is dead meat…" Red clambered onto the biggest remains the Blade, the axe head itself, and looked around.

"…" DK, Mario, Link, and Luigi just stared at the lone figure standing on the surface of the water in awe, jaws dropped wide.

"Who is that?" T. Link asked. The figure they were staring at was clad, head to toe in dark ebon armor, with a long red cape flowing behind him, and a long, gleaming sword held in his right hand.

"No way, Roy defeated you!" Link shouted, pointing a finger at the figure.

"It has been a long time Smashers… I trust you are doing well?" The Black Knight asked, a cold voice echoing through his helmet.

"Did that guy just destroy our ship?" Pink asked.

"Who?" Diddy asked, pointing at the Black Knight.

"DK, could-a you explain-a to Diddy?" Mario asked.

"Yeah…" DK agreed, before turning to talk to Diddy and T. Link.

"It must be him… Yellow! Take him out!" Red ordered.

"You've got it!" Yellow picked up his massive axe, hovered just above the surface of the water and flew at the Black Knight. "HRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!" Yellow brought his axe down on top of the Black Knight, the force of the swing and slam sending a tremendous pillar of water up into the air.

"Whoa! He's a lot-a stronger than-a he used to be-a…" Mario grimaced, shielding his face from the spray.

"Never mind that." Link said. "Look! I don't think tall, dark, and mysterious has softened up either."

"Pathetic." The Black Knight stood where he was, holding the giant axe by its blade in a single hand.

"Hrrrrrrnnnggghhh…" Yellow on the other hand, was struggling desperately to get his axe out of the Black Knight's hand.

SHING

In the next moment, the Black Knight was behind Yellow, the only difference was, Yellow's axe head had been removed from the rest of the axe. "Ah!" Yellow gasped.

"I'm not here to fight anyone. I suggest you stand aside like a good bystander." The Black Knight threatened as he sheathed his sword and looked up at the Smashers. Yellow just drifted backwards slowly, clearly beaten.

"How'd he do that?" Black asked, just as surprised as his fellow Rangers.

"Okay so I get how you guys know him, but how's he floating on the water?" T. Link asked.

"What-a do you want-a from us-a?" Mario asked from the ship.

"I received an enchantment for walking on water earlier, to answer the little one's question…" The Black Knight said. "And I merely came out of… curiosity. I had heard the Son of Gawain was among you." He continued.

"Huh?" DK and Diddy asked confused.

"… do you mean Ike?" Link asked.

"I take it he's not here at present… it matters little." The Black Knight turned around and began walking away.

"Wait! You can't honestly be saying you came here, destroyed a ship, and inadvertently saved our lives just to ask that question can you?" Link asked annoyed.

"…" The Black Knight paused for a moment. "Smashers, you'd do well to be weary of the master of these pathetic machines."

"What!?" Red immediately got aggressive. "Okay spill it tin head! How do you know about the Brotherhood of Supremacy!?" Red demanded.

"Is that what you call it?" The Black Knight asked.

"Brotherhood of-a Supremacy-a?" Luigi asked.

"Doh!" Red immediately covered his mouth.

"In any case Smashers, you should be weary, after all… one of your number is already in danger of falling before them." The Black Knight added before he walked away.

"Wait! What-a!?" Mario yelled, only for the Black Knight to keep walking away. "Do you mean-a Peach?!"

"I'll be taking my leave." The Black Knight said.

"He must-a be talking about-a Peach!" Mario cringed.

"Are we just going to let him leave?" Green asked.

"Grrr… we came here for the Smashers and that's what we're going to do." Red answered.

"We can't let him just leave…" Link said, reaching for his sword, his boots shining before being replaced by his hover boots.

"Eh?" Luigi looked at Link.

"Cover me!" With little warning Link jumped over the edge of the ship down towards the water.

"Hey the guy in the tunic's making a break for it!" Black yelled. The jets on his feet and back fired up before he rocketed at Link. "I'll slice ya!"

"Ha ha!" Diddy dropped from above and timed it just right to where he latched right onto Black's face.

"Hey no hitchhikers!" Black lost control of his steering and flew off to the side. Link landed safely on the water surface thanks to his hover boots and he began running after the Black Knight.

"Don't let him… huh?"

"HA!"

CLANG

Mario's hammer met with Red's shield and the two quickly began fighting with each other. "Yellow! Snap out of it and catch the elf guy!" Red yelled in between axe swings and blocks.

"Sniffle… alright…" Yellow hoisted himself up and prepared to charge at Link.

SLAM

"Rah!" DK planted a fist right into Yellow's cheek and caused him to fall into the water, just as DK safely landed on some debris.

"I'll hit him with electricity…" Green's lightning orb began charging up when.

"Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh!!!"

CRASH

Luigi came rocketing into Green's side, keeping him from aiming his attack properly. "Hm?"

"You'll pay for that…" Green threatened.

"Yipe!" Luigi quickly got up and began jumping from debris to debris. "Help-a me!!"

"I'll stop him!" Pink flew in Link's way and charged straight at him.

"Ha!" Link performed a front flip over Pink's head while holding his sword out.

SHING

"Guh!" A large cut appeared on top of Pink's head, causing sparks to fly out from the cut, also causing her to drop her axe into the water.

"Haaaaaaaaaa!!!" The second Link landed he unleashed a spinning slash that left a red, magic trail behind it, slicing clean through Pink's torso several times.

"Nooooo! Pink!" Red yelled.

KABOOM

"Out of my way!" Link then rushed at the Black Knight. "Hiiiiiiiiyaaaah!" Link then did a massive jump towards the Black Knight with his sword ready to land a vertical slash.

"Pathetic…" The Black Knight wheeled around with his sword swinging straight at Link's shield arm.

"GAH!!!"

SPLOOSH

"I already told you that I wasn't here to fight." The Black Knight said as he looked at the bubbles from where he sent Link rocketing below the water's surface.

"Hang on Link!" T. Link pulled out his gigantic Deku leaf and leaped from the edge of the ship towards some of the debris closest to the Black Knight.

"…hm?"

CLINK

A metal hook with a chain attached to it came out from the water and lodged itself into the shoulder-plate of the Black Knight's armor.

"Ha!" Link came out of the water where he performed a spinning slash right on the Black Knight's backside, before kicking off of his back, and tucking his hookshot safely away. "You won't get away that easily." Link said, taking a more proper battle stance.

"I see." The Black Knight said, turning back to face Link. "But I wonder." The Black Knight advanced slowly towards Link with his sword at the ready.

"Ha!" Link took the first move and rushed in at the Black Knight. Soon Link was on the offensive taking number slashes at the Black Knight. The Black Knight parried Link's sword to the side and took a horizontal swing followed by another swing with a spin added to it. Link ducked the first and used his shield to merely be sent skidding backwards by the second swing.

"…" The Black Knight then took a step forward and used the momentum from his previous swing to perform a vertical slash, sending a blue wave of light at Link.

"Hup!" Link jumped to the side just in time to avoid the swing. "Ha!" Link tossed a bomb at the Black Knight in response, who simply took the explosion.

"…" The Black Knight then thrust his sword forward, right as Link was lunging at him.

"Heh." Link used his shield to barely deflect the powerful thrust upward, allowing him a brief opening where he stabbed at the Black Knight's chest several times. "Ha ha ha! Hiyah!"

"Whew… he's doing fine…" T. Link sighed in relief.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!" Luigi was still running and jumping like a mad-man to escape the lightning bolts that Green was firing at him.

"Hold still!"

"Grrrrrrrrr…"

"Hwhoooaaa…" DK and Yellow were locking hands with each other and pushing against each other.

"Yahoo!" Diddy was acrobatically leaping around while firing his peanut popguns at Black, who was constantly lunging at him and slashing at Diddy with his arms or legs.

"Stop messing around with me monkey!" Black shouted.

"Ha!"

"Hiyah!"

SLAM

"I see you haven't lost your touch…" Red growled at Mario as his axe head locked under Mario's hammer head.

"Just-a tell us about-a this-a Brotherhood that the Black-a Knight mentioned…" Mario told Red.

"As if!" Red broke off and jetted backwards before lunging back at Mario, trying to attack him from an aerial stand-point.

"These guys are crazy." Someone from the boat said as a crowd gathered at the edge.

"That's the Smashers for you…" Ron Host whined.

"Grrrrr… if only my hover boots weren't the only thing of mine that allowed me to stay above water. Rolling behind him isn't an option…" Link thought as he continued to dodge and deflect the Black Knight's attacks.

"…" The Black Knight swung vertically, missing Link, then he swung low, Link simply back-flipped away, however the Black Knight did a spin forward and was swinging right for Link's torso.

"Gah!" Link was forced to block with his sword, but the impact was enough to send Link sliding across the surface of the water a great distance.

"… We're finished." The Black Knight said. He quickly closed the distance between himself and Link and held his sword in front of him.

"Hm!"

"Look out!" T. Link called.

"…" The Black Knight took four extremely powerful horizontal slashes at Link, each time Link tried raising his sword or shield to block, but all four times they were deflected forcibly to the side.

"Ah!!!" Link could only gasp in surprise as the Black Knight brought his sword down vertically across Link's torso. "GAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!" He cried bloody murder when the sword opened a massive gash in Link's body.

"AAAAAAHHHH!!!" The people watching from the boat responded to this with screams of terror.

"Link!!!" T. Link dived into the water just as Link fell backwards, his blood soon drifting in the water around him.

"Link!!!" Luigi paused to look over at where Link had just fallen.

"MAMA-MIA!!!" Mario turned in shock.

"AAAAAAHHH!" Diddy yelped.

"OOOHH!!!" DK gasped.

"Gotcha!" Black swiped at Diddy. Diddy barely caught wind and flipped over the arm swing, only for Black to kick his foot backwards and send Diddy flying back through the air.

"UGH!!!" DK was then thrown roughly onto the surface of the water before Yellow punched DK hard enough to send him rocketing deeper into the water.

"And stay down!"

"Waaaaaaaaahhh!!!" Luigi was soon electrocuted by Green before he fell to the ground.

"Umph!" Mario was slammed under the chin by Red's shield. He managed to duck an axe swing but didn't react fast enough to dodge a follow up kick.

"You snooze you lose Mario!" Red taunted. "Heh, looks like that guy made our jobs easier after all."

"Now if you'll excuse me…" The Black Knight reached into his pouch and sprinkled powder onto himself before he vanished into thin air, right as T. Link swam up to Link.

"Hang on, we'll help you somehow…"

"Hey! Link!"

"That voice!" T. Link turned to the source of it and found the guy in the blue coat that Peach met earlier. "Linebeck! Over here!" Linebeck brought over his small, steam-powered boat closer to where T. Link and Link, and helped hoist them both onto the ship.

"Ugh… that armored guy did a real number on this… bigger lookalike of you."

"What are you doing here?" T. Link asked.

"I was on this cruise, and I was trying to get away but then I saw you over here, well I figured I still owed you." Linebeck answered.

RING

"Huh?" T. Link reached into his pouch and pulled out a small phone with a Smash bros. emblem on it. "A… text-message… that's what it was called right?" T. Link opened it and looked at the text.

"What's that thing?" Linebeck asked.

"Get those guys on that small ship!" Red ordered. All four of the remaining Axem Rangers M turned to face the ship. "Get that guy that destroyed Pink!"

"Yikes! Linebeck we have to go!" T. Link yelled.

"Go!? Where?"

"Anywhere! We just have to get Li… uh… this guy somewhere safe!" T. Link said, pointing at Link. "No time to explain to Linebeck why a bigger version of me also has the same name."

"Ah! Good point!" Linebeck rushed into the engine room of his ship, soon the ship's paddle engine started rotating as the ship started sailing away from the scene.

"I'll ge-WHOA!" Before Yellow could fly away he was pulled underwater before both him and DK came crashing out from under water. "Oomph!" DK landed a solid uppercut under Yellow's chin.

"Ah-ha!" Diddy leaped onto Black's back and started beating on the sides of his head.

"Get off you monkey! Umph!" Diddy back-flipped off of Black while tossing an orange at him. "Huh?"

KABOOM

"I'll nail that ship from here!" Green charged up electricity in that orb on his axe when suddenly Luigi burst out of the water in front of him.

"Yaaaaaahooo!!!" Luigi did a spinning attack that hit Green multiple times before he kicked him away. "Y-y-you w-won't-a g-g-g-get-a Link…" Luigi said, his knees shaking terribly as he stood on some debris.

"Umph!"

"What!? I thought you took care of those… whoa!" Red narrowly ducked a horizontal hammer swing from Mario, only for Mario to quickly follow up with a vertical slam onto Red's chrome dome. "DOH!"

"Looks like-a T. Link got that-a text message-a." Mario thought with relief.

"Uuuuuuuuuuggggghhh…" Link groaned painfully.

"Whoa take it easy, here drink this." T. Link poured some red potion into Link's mouth. Link struggled to gulp it down but nonetheless managed to. "Is it any better?"

"Still hurts like heck…" Link groaned. "I think he just about broke my arms with those swings too…"

"Yikes, you definitely need some rest then." T. Link said. "Don't worry, the other guys can take those Axe guys no problem." T. Link said.

"It's not… them I'm worried… augh… about…" Link grunted. "I just… can't believe… I let him get… away… I'm worried about where Peach disappeared to…"

"We'll find her!" T. Link said. "The guys will clean up back there, and then we'll find Peach." T. Link said with confidence as the S.S. Linebeck sailed further and further away from the cruise ship.

"Grrrrr… that Black guy really messed things up…" Red growled.

"What!?"

"Not you Black!!!" Red yelled angrily. "Fine, we'll just deal with you clods and then catch up to those two Link guys!" Red threatened as he turned to face Mario again.

"Ooooooooooooooooo!!!" DK pounded on his chest vigorously as he stared at Yellow.

"We'll pound you like a tenderized steak!" Yellow yelled.

"Ah ah ah ah!" Diddy chattered angrily as he drew his popguns once again.

"Hey-a Red!" Mario called out.

"What do you want Mario?" Red asked angrily, taking a battle stance.

"I-a still want to-a know about-a this-a Brotherhood of Supremacy you mentioned-a…" Mario said.

"Ha! No way! Even if by some miracle you turned me into scrap parts I won't spill it! Besides, you won't be around long enough to make any use of what I know. Heh heh heh." Red chuckled.

"Hm." Mario gripped his hammer a bit more tightly and eyed all of the Axem Rangers.

"Gulp…" Luigi shook nervously.

"Come on! You guys can take those tin cans out!"

"Sink 'em!"

"Take them out! My vacation depends on it!" Ron Host yelled with a lot of people watching from the ship.

"You guys are definitely going down!" Green taunted.

"Let's tear right through them!" Black shouted.

"Let's-a go guys-a!" Mario shouted as the four remaining Smashers leaped at their opponents, ready to do battle.

Notes…

Just so you know, I've made it a personal goal to try and update this story at least twice a week. Though seeing more than that is definitely within the realm of possibility. Until next update, read and review.