This is Starjamlegend 0's request for a dodgeball game of epic proportions. Hope you like it!
Disclaimer: I own squat.
It had been a relatively normal morning, up until Marth walked into the cafeteria. Several of the other brawlers, including Ike, Link, Pit, Samus, and Luigi, were standing in a line across the room. Even weirder was the fact that each one of them was holding a medium-sized red rubber ball. Several other balls were scattered around on the floor.
From the center of the line, Link smiled maliciously at his friend's blank stare and cried at the top of his lungs, "FIRE!"
Before Marth knew what was happening, he was hit full force by more dodgeballs than anyone could be bothered to count and was sent staggering back into the hall. He glimpsed Link, who hadn't tossed his ball yet, preparing to come after him, so he picked up the nearest ball and ran for it.
Back in the cafeteria, Ike had become Zelda's new target. It was unfair, really, that she was using magic to send the balls careening into the tall warrior, but no one had complained as of yet. Rolling sideways, he snatched one of the balls sent at him out of the air and hurled it back at the princess. It knocked her off balance and Ike used that moment to make a hurried escape. Wheeling around a corner into presumed safety, he almost stepped on Kirby.
"Sorry!" he said to the unperturbed pink puff. Kirby smiled strangely at him. It was at this moment Ike realized that Kirby's cheeks were slightly more…ball shaped…than usual.
"Oh, n-"
About 150 meters from the cafeteria, Marth was still running full force. Pit had followed him from the cafeteria and was using the walls to propel himself forward until he was within throwing range. Suddenly, having remembered he had a ball in his hand, Marth whirled around and launched the ball as hard as he could. It caught Pit in the stomach and knocked him back several feet. He landed near a side hall; looking down it, he saw Ike lying spread-eagled on the ground and Kirby smiling his odd little Kirby grin. Pit realized too late that Kirby had spotted him, and the puff fired his second dodgeball at the angel.
A plasma wire shot out in front and snatched the ball out of the air. Kirby, dumfounded, squeaked in shock. Ike rolled up into a half-squat, and Pit turned around.
Samus was standing there, twirling her Paralyzer in one hand and holding the ball with the other, smiling viciously.
Pit and Ike stood, too scared to move. Kirby, on the other hand, squeaked loudly in terror, turned, and bounced away as quickly as he could, waving his short, stubby arms wildly.
The others were then galvanized into action. Pit vaulted up into the air and flew off back in the direction of the cafeteria. Ike quickly followed after dodging the ball Samus hurled at him.
"Not fair! Get back here!"
"Make me!"
Ike would regret saying that later.
When Pit zoomed in through the cafeteria doors, he found Link dangling by one arm from one of the crossbeams, and Luigi was halfway out one of the open windows. There were no dodgeballs left in the room, with the exception of the one that was lodged in the almost broken window next to the one Luigi was hanging out of. The tables had been knocked over and were scattered everywhere, and there were a couple lime green scorch marks on the floor as well.
"What in Palutena's name did you two DO in here?"
"We-" Link paused as he readjusted his grip, causing his hat to slip off. He managed to catch it with his foot. "We were playing dodgeball, and then the crazy Italian over there decided to create some sort of negative zone, then there was this blast of energy and…well…this happened."
When Link's hands slipped a little farther, Pit decided to stop questioning and get the poor Hylian out of his situation. He flew over and helped Link make a smooth landing, and then went to get Luigi out of the window.
Meanwhile, Ike was now trapped in the hallway by Marth. To make matters worse, Samus showed up. In one shot, she took out both the prince and the knight, bouncing the ball off of Marth's shoulder to give it enough height to smoke Ike in the head. And, just as the two men recovered, they heard something behind them.
"LUUUUUUUUUUUUIIIIIGGGII TIME!"
Ike and Marth dove to the side, leaving Samus wide open. Luigi's jumping throw hit her head on, or, at least it should have. She still had the plasma whip. All the inertia the ball had was switched to the opposite direction, and sent Luigi spinning backwards right into Link, who had picked a really bad time to show up. Pit flew over holding a Kirby that seemed to be twice the normal size between his hands. He stopped right in front of Marth.
"Now, Kirby!"
Kirby shot dodgeballs out of his mouth at Marth like a machine gun. He reeled back into Ike, then scurried behind him and tried to use him as a shield. In response to this, Ike reached around, grabbed Marth, and launched him over his head. The Marth Missile crashed into Pit, who dropped Kirby and then promptly landed right on top of him, flattening the creature into a pink pancake that squeaked loudly in protest. Samus, Ike, Link, and Luigi, as well as Zelda who decided that now was a good time to come out of hiding, were doubled over in laughter.
Fifteen minutes later, back in the cafeteria, the dodgeball game had turned into an epic showdown between two teams: Zelda, Samus, Kirby, and Luigi versus Link, Ike, Marth, and Pit. The latter team was losing. The only advantage they had was that Pit could fly. On the other team, Zelda had her magic, Samus had the plasma whip, Kirby was like a squeaky pink bazooka, and Luigi seemed to enjoy creating negative zones. Link and Ike's efforts to hit the others were also diminished by the fact that Kirby would jump up, eat the ball, and then fire it right back at them with twofold speed. Just when they were about to raise the white flag, in came Mr. Cameron.
"What in blazes is going on in here?"
"We were just-" Link attempted.
"This room is destroyed! Not to mention several dents I found in the walls on the way here!"
There was no attempt at a response this time.
"All of you should be ashamed of yourselves. This incident will not be forgotten nor be taken lightly." Mr. Cameron sighed and ran a hand over his gelled hair. "Now, all of you return to your rooms. You do not want to be here when the president arrives."
None of them had met the president, and none of them wanted to. They left quickly.
Once they were out of earshot, Link decided to see if he could lighten the mood. "Even though we did get in trouble that has got to be the most fun thing we've ever done!"
To his delight, Ike agreed. "It was definitely worth getting yelled at."
"We should totally do it again sometime!"
The response to this was unanimous: "NO."
Pit shrugged. "It was worth suggesting."
"Next time," Marth said as he patted the angel on the shoulder, "let's try a less dangerous activity, okay? One that isn't going to tear the cafeteria apart. Or, at least, we should use the rec room!"
Link slapped himself in the forehead. "I can't believe we forgot about the rec room! I guess we all just got too caught up in the game."
"You know what I've been wondering?" Marth said. "Where did you guys get those dodgeballs from, anyway?"
Everyone laughed. "It's better that you don't know," Ike told the prince.
Finally, they reached the hall where all their rooms were. Each went through their separate doors, and the last sound anyone heard before noon was the closing of the last door. They all lay down and went back to sleep.
Wow. This one was long. I am immensely proud of that, though :) Except it just wouldn't end! I guess I ended up getting caught up in the game of dodgeball as well. Hee hee…anyway, hope you liked this!
