Here be the third and final chapter of this little intro story to all my SSB fanfics to come. If I stop being lazy and write some XP

Roy-Tell me about it, you're so fecking lazy…

Mario-Let's go!

Roy-You had to say that didn't you?

Mario-Yep. S'mah catch phrase P

DISCLAIMER: Yadda bladda don't own SSB or characters 'cept Matthew and PORTAL and I own story.

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Welcome to Super Smash Bros.

Chapter 3: The Start of a New Adventure

We walked through the door and entered a fairly large room with rows of seats like a small movie theater. In the front of the room was a huge screen that (at the moment) depicted battle stats and such. There was also a control panel in front of it and four circular platforms beside it, two on each side.

Our group of twelve smashers gathered around Prof. Oak as he stood in front of the control panel and faced them. Without saying anything, he hit a button on the panel and the screen flashed for a second and showed a simple pixilated face.

"Good afternoon Professor Oak," it spoke in it's computerized voice ", How may I be of assistance?"

"Introduce yourself to the new generation of smash brothers," Oak gestured to us.

"Hello Smashers, I am called PORTAL. I am designed as the SSBHQ's main system. I set matches between you fighters and carry all sorts of data pertaining to SSB. I was told that our first fight of the season will be taking place, correct? Then I shall set up the rules."

"Excellent, we will be having a two minute time match, no more than that. It will be between…" he paused to fish names out of a hat. Once he got two he read them off "…Mario and Link."

"Hmm," Link crossed his arms ", This should be interesting."

"Coincidentally it happens to be between us two of course," I chuckled. Prof. Oak motioned for us to step on two the two platforms to the left of PORTAL's monitor. I was a bit nervous seeing as he was armed with a sword. So I had to ask…

"Um…Professor? Is he allowed to use a sword?" I nervously asked.

"Oh that? Don't worry about it," Oak reassured me ",The smash system is designed so one won't get seriously injured by things such as blades, fire and explosions, electricity, etc. It'll hurt when it gets in contact but it won't kill or seriously injure you."

"Okay, thanks…" I choked. I was still nervous either way. He randomly selected a stage for us to fight on. It came up as Link's home stage, Hyrule Castle.

"Now remember, this is the first smash of the season so it's going to be on live TV," Oak explained as Link and I looked at each other and back at him in surprise ", So try to put on a good show alright. Now ready to warp!"

The professor hit a button on the control panel and in a flash of light Link and I disappeared from the platforms. We reappeared on different parts of the large Hylian castle. I noticed a small robot with a camera and realized we were starting.

"GO!" PORTAL's voice rang out over the robot's speaker. Unfortunately I wasn't ready for that and Link was. He rushed at me with his sword drawn and slashed at me landing a direct hit to my right arm. I jumped back and noticed that my arm didn't have a huge gash in it like it should. Oak was right, I thought, It doesn't hurt that badly! With that my confidence rose.

"I wasn't ready for that," I grinned ", But now I'm all business!"

I charged full speed at the green-clad Hylian and landed a sliding kick knocking him off his feet. When he fell I grabbed his legs, spun around and threw him; a move I used on Bowser that I like to call the "Airplane Swing". Link hit the ground behind me hard. Link got up and rushed me slashing with his sword, but I was ready this time. I rolled behind him and delivered a roundhouse kick to his side, knocking th wind out of him.

"You're good," Link commented after regaining his breath ", But not good enough!"

He charged at me again and I prepared myself for another slash but instead he jumped up and stabbed downwards in a sword plant move, landing a direct hit. That did some damage! He bounced right off and slashed at me again knocking me off the edge of the stage, I struggled to get back on only to find a bomb in my face. The explosion knocked me down and past the blast line (A/N: A "blast line" refers to the boundaries of the stage).

"Link currently in the lead with one KO," PORTAL announced ", One minute remains. Link Damage: 68. Mario Damage: 0."

I reappeared on a floating platform. Link didn't seem to notice, as he wasn't used to that happening in a fight. I took advantage of the moment while he stood too close to the edge to drop down from above and knock him off with a drop kick. It was successful too, he wasn't ready for it so he fell right off.

"Now we're even!" I struck a little victory pose. But then I quickly snapped back to attention so the same thing that happened to him didn't happen to me. I faced him in the center of the stage. It was getting intense. We both charged each other and landed hits at the same time. I punched him in the face just has his sword connected with my torso. We both were knocked back. I looked around as I was sitting on the ground and saw a red koopa shell. What're one of those doing here? I though. It didn't matter where it came from, cause I now had it at my disposal. I picked it up and hurled it at Link. He quickly dodged out of the way.

"Ha! Missed!" Link laughed. I grinned and chuckled a bit in response. "What?"

"You didn't count on the fact that red koopa shells are homing!"

He had no time to react as the shell had flew back the other way and knocked into Link and repeatedly hit him. This gave me the perfect opportunity to strike back. I ran and jumped towards him, as he was knocked closer to the edge.

"5!"

I prepared to kick him.

"4!"

My foot connected with the side of his head.

"3!"

He was sent flying off.

"2!"

He passed the blast line. BOOM!

"1! Game!"

Suddenly in a flash of light I was back in the viewing room next to Link on the platforms.

Confetti poured down on me as I heard PORTAL announce ", This game's winner is, Mario!"

"Excellent job out there you two!" Oak complimented ", That was quite the first match! I can tell you two will do great in the final tournament."

"Thanks professor!" I…thanked him.

"Nice job out there," Link held out his hand and I shook it ", You're quite the fighter."

"You two Link. That match tired me out!"

As we left the viewing room, Link and I got many compliments from the other smashers and staff members. We were all handed a key and told that we could go off to our dorms which is exactly what we did.

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The first things I noticed about my dorm room was that there were all the basic things I needed. A bed, a mini-fridge, a TV, a desk, a shelf and a bathroom complete with shower, toilet and sink. I also noticed a strange slot in the wall placed over a box. I walked over to it and an envelope slipped out of it. I opened it up and a few coins dropped out. I pushed them off to the side and read the letter.

Mario,

Excellent job on your first match! Already we're getting calls and comments and such about how great it was. I've paid you and Link a few extra smash coins then the others. This should be enough to start you off. Smash coins are the currency of the Smash World if you didn't know. Anyway, thankyou for joining the Super Smash Bros!

Sincerely,

M. Hand

After reading the letter, I headed for the shower. Man was I sweaty! Whew! Stunk worse than

three month old lasagna! The shower was so relaxing and plus, it gave me time to think. Once again, I thought about the Princess, I was quite worried about her. If Bowser found out we were gone then he'd surely strike. That's the last thing I needed when I had the tournament to worry about. Oh well.

I finished with the shower and stepped outside to get a breath of fresh air. I looked out across the field between the SSBHQ and a nearby city. It was remarkable really. Just then I heard some footsteps. I turned to see my new friend Link standing next to me. He said nothing for a few seconds.

"Not a bad place eh?" I decided to break the ice.

"Yeah…" he replied, trailing off ", That was quite the match we had."

"I know, it was pretty intense."

"I can't wait to start training more! I sure hope I can at least get far in the tournament."

"Tell me about it, I would hate to train all this time only to get knocked out early."

"Well luckily we don't have to worry about that for a full year."

I paused and thought about that last thing he said, "a full year".

"Yeah, a full year ahead of us…"

That's when I realized how great of a thing I was getting myself into. A full year to fight and train for the ultimate tournament. It was hard to imagine what that would be like. This truly was going to be the biggest adventure of my life.

The End…sort of!

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So that is the introduction to all my SSB fanfics I will be writing in the future. I have plans for an SSBB fanfic soon…I know it's right after writing one based around the N64 SSB but I don't really care what you think XP

Roy-Brawl sucks! I'm not even in it!

Mario-Yeah, why is that anyway?

Uh……..I say it's because Roy was having issues back at his home kingdom. War related issues. Since this is fanfiction, I can make up whatever reason I want w

Roy-But why that?

Cause it makes sense. I could say it was because someone chopped off your-

Roy-TO WAAAAAAAAR!!!!

Mario-Please R & R --;

And be sure to look out for my next SSB fanfic, "The Haunting Past". It's centered around Lucario w