A/N Guess who's late again? ME! :D

The fedora-sporting teenager dashed through the street intently. Leaping over open manholes, dashing past delivery men handtrucking oranges to a store, and running through a busy street dodging every car, people looked in awe as he performed astonishing parkour he'd never be able to perform in real life on account of him being an uncoordinated buffoon. But, hey, it's the internet, so here he's an attractive athlete who is awesome. Also in this world when they find out he's running to announce things for a fanfiction contest, people actually care and cheer him on, cause it's the internet. People care about that stuff.

The door burst open and the audience swiveled their heads as he stood there, bent over with heavy breath. No one here applauded, cause in here everyone's gotta be in character and they'd be annoyed that this guy's two days late and that the author is blatantly ripping off Jimbo.

Awkwardly, the man made his way through the aisles until he was up on the stage he was on prior to this while announcing the contest's beginning. He slumped against the podium, sweat trickling down his face as he wondered why he was running when he knew once he got in here he'd be in character and therefore entirely wimpy. He also kept wondering why the author was still in Jimbo mode.

One of the three girls waiting already walked up to him, tapping him on the shoulder.

"Yes?" he asked.

"Chill. You're not that late."

"Only... what, two days?"

"It's fanfiction, dude, people randomly warp here when the announcement starts."

"...the author's really gotta stop with the Jimbo."

"Hey, he's departing, so just say it's a tribute and everyone'll love you."

"Ah, okay, thanks, Ace." He chuckled and turned to the audience. "Ladies and gentlemen, I am MessengerOfDreams with the conclusion of the entry round of the Contest for Those We've Left Behind! This will also be in the theme of a Stupendous Jimbo tribute, which I totally didn't think of at this very moment!"

"Ahem."

"Nor did Ace!"

She nodded.

"Anyway, so I don't totally leave them out of this chapter and make everyone think I'm some sort of anti feminist-"

"Instead of a fatalist?"

"I'm going to let MouseMaster and Kattheamazing start announcing the contest entries that have been submitted to the contest!"

The two girls THAT HE DID NOT FORGET ABOUT walked up to the stage. Mouse was first to pick up the microphone. "Ladies and gentlemen, we are honored to have gotten so many entries on our first contest! All... seven of you!"

Kattheamazing whispered in her ear.

"Nine?" Mouse replied out loud. "Where are the other two?"

More whispering.

"Oh, they didn't put Modacelimazing42 in the description?"

More whispering.

"Wait, why are you whispering? None of this is secret!"

More whispering.

"Yeah, I know it looks cool, but it's incredibly inconvenient!"

More whispering.

"Hey, I'm not questioning the logic of fanfiction and good storytelling, it's just... never mind." Mouse turned back to the crowd and continued.

"In order to mark this occasion, we have invited the characters you have used to help announce the entries themselves as a thank you!"

"No we haven't!" Kat shouted in surprise, and Mouse sighed, wishing that this time Kat had actually bothered to whistle.

"This is fanfiction logic. The characters will randomly pop out now that I've announced it."

Suddenly about a dozen different figures appeared on the stage.

"See?" Mouse grinned smugly.

"Impressive," Kat admitted.

"When do I get a part in this chapter?" Ace whispered to MoD. MoD turned white, fervently fitting in a place for his fellow author in his mind.

"Anyway! Our first entry is the first one submitted! From the ingenuous mind of TwilightOkami, we have A Second Chance At Adventure, featuring Wolf and Diddy Kong! Why don't you two come up and say your bit?"

"Do I have to?" Wolf smirked.

"Come on man, I bolded your name, that's the least you can do."

Wolf sighed and made his way onto the stage. Looking Twilight straight in the eyes, he made his compassionate, moving speech.

"Thanks."

Since the above was clearly sarcasm, Twilight blinked and sighed as Wolf tossed the microphone on the ground, stormed to his seat, satisfied at having annoyed the hand that wrote him. Diddy's reaction was a bit more enthusiastic as he grabbed the microphone off the ground.

"Oh my god thank you so much for writing about me, it's so awesome! I'm, like, never in these stories and to be in one... oh my gosh, it's so dang awesome! Thank you thank you thank you thank you than-"

"Thank you, Diddy Kong," Mouse took the microphone and spoke over the enthusiastic monkey. "Thank you too, Twilight, for entering!" Twilight, alas, didn't hear her because she was randomly telling the person next to her how much she wanted to keep Diddy Kong.

Kat took the microphone. "Our next entry is called Who I Am Hates Who I've Been, by the newcomer RedhazeKJ! This one stars both of the Kongs, Diddy and Donk-"

Her sentence was interrupted by the enthusiastic young monkey as he barreled into her and took the mic. Haha, get it? Barreled? Cause he has barrel rockets and jumps out of barrels?... Get it?

"Thank you thank you thank you so much RedHaze! It's so awesome cause I'm in two stories! Isn't that great Donkey? Isn't that great?"

Donkey took the microphone to halt the trainwreck that was his nephew's speech. "Indeed it is, Diddy. Thanks a lot, Red. It's sure nice to be in one of those stories. You're a pretty cool gal, ya know that?"

"Wait, Donkey, how d'ya know she's a girl?" Diddy asked.

Blanching a bit, Donkey stammered "It... says so on her profile!"

Indeed, Redhaze had a sign just above her reading "I'm a girl." Ace looked up to see one of those just above her as well. She raised an eyebrow and said "I really can't wait until we get out of the physics defying of fanfiction."

The two Kongs made their way off the stage, allowing Mouse to take the stage. "Coming up next is a full four chapter entry from one of the section's most prolific writers and frequent contester," she said contester on purpose because it's an in joke between all of the judges now. Anyway...

"Foxpilot! He has submitted an entry called Wanted: Aura which features Lucario and Captain Falcon!"

"Psst... you forgot the bold."

"Thank you, Kat. Lucario and Captain Falcon!"

Captain Falcon grinned as he made his way to the microphone. "Foxpilot, man, thanks so much for letting me in on this shindig! It's nice not to be a total idiot this time-"

A woman no one knew walked up to Falcon and whispered in his ear. Falcon's eyes widened as he shouted "What kind of ointment?"

Interrupting the surprised captain, Lucario took the mic. "It is an honor to be the star of an accomplished writer's story. Thank you." Saying nothing more, he left.

Falcon was still surprised, yelling "I still can't believed he had me using some embarrassing kind of ointment for what is presumably an unspeakable part of my body!"

He blinked and slapped his forehead as he realized that everyone could hear him, and all the smashers were now laughing at him. He tried fervently to get them to quiet as the audience started to gasp, laugh and roll their eyes at the commotion. Foxpliot just smiled a bit, unfazed as he had pretty much all these guys in his author's notes at least three times.

Ace cut through the crowd. "Anyway," she shouted, loudly to subtly tell the other smashers to shut their mouths, "our next entry is from a diehard Mario fan writing in the Smash Section, Princess DiMimi! With Fox McCloud and StarFox co-star Krystal, we have Krystalline Eyes!"

As both Fox and Krystal took the stage, MoD sighed because he worried that now he had to put this fanfiction under crossover. The two vulpine bipedals took the microphone, Fox speaking first.

"It is a great honor to be in one of the contest's stories," Fox started.

"I didn't even think I was going to be in one!" Krystal added.

"Indeed. Thanks so much, Princess DiMimi. I look forward to seeing the results."

"Ta!"

And just like that, the two exited the main stage and took their place next to the other smashers. MoD took the mic, saying "Wow, that was so... antic-free! Wow! Anyway, our next entry. Acclaimed reviewer and fellow contest proprietor Souldin has written the next story... wait, it's not on the list."

With a sigh, MoD pointed at Souldin, muttering "Click." Instantly a list of his stories popped out from above his head. MoD went through the list, and announced "Here we are! An Eternity To Remember, featuring Ganondorf and R.O.B.!"

As MoD moved out of the way for the smashers, he pointed at the X near Souldin's list of stories and said "Click." The list went away.

The heavyset Gerudo and the Robotic Operating Buddy took the stage. ROB was first to speak, and yes, that is the same R.O.B. As before, the author is just too lazy to use periods.

"Yo, homie. That shiznit was real phat, ya dig?" ROB said, using stereotypical slang in his robotic voice, cause, hey, it's funny. "Ya gotta keep pumpin' out those pimpin' beats cause that shiznizzle was the real dizzle, ya hear, homeboy?"

Ganon took the microphone. "Hoho, Souldin. How great it is to be in this story in full glory, ya old rascal! Only helps my god complex further! Thanks, bro!"

Everyone raised their eyebrow at Ganon's OOCness.

"Sorry," he explained. "Just got out of Paradigms." He cleared his throat, shouting "You dare bring me into your story? You must die!"

MoD shoved the angry Gerudo to the ground, sedating him. No one looked at him funny cause, hey, it's fanfiction, and he can do that here. ROB walked back to the Smashers, saying "Lame."

Ace went next. "I've gotta hurry cause the author's almost out of time. Our next story is a long entry by Sogo, it's called Unnoticed, and it stars Luigi! Take the floor, Luigi!"

At this point the author sighed because even though he doesn't have much time, he can't do Luigi out of character because he's one of the biggest Luigi writers in the section and would feel like a tool if he made him OOC. He sighed again and continued with the story.

"Well, my friends, it's a great honor," Luigi smiled. "It's refreshing to be written by someone who's not MessengerOfDreams!"

"Hey!" MoD shouted, neither of them aware of the irony.

"I'm just kidding. But it's nice to branch out a bit, y'know? So thanks, Sogo!"

Sogo nodded with a smile, and Kattheamazing took the stage.

"Next, we have a story by AvidAkiraReader, a pretty well known writer here, called Shotgun Kiss, again starring Wolf!"

Mouse whispered in her ear.

"Well, gosh! Just tell me next time, ya don't have to whisper!" Unaware of Mouse's facepalming, she proceeded to fix the bold/italic switch above, not that anyone cared.

"Wolf, why don't you tell AvidAkiraReader what you think of her story!" Mouse said with a cheery grin!

"She can go insert beeping noise here off." he hissed.

Mouse turned white as a ghost and with a more artificial cheer, declared "He says thank you very much!"

Since the author pretty much says hell with the order, he randomly picked Ace to announce the next story. "Our next story is unfortunately complete but can still be considered an entry. By critically acclaimed author Guessworks is the AU fic, Degenerates, starring humanized versions of Meta Knight and Jigglypuff!"

The two puffballs floated to the stage. Jiggly was first to speak, and she poured her heart out in a beautiful, heartfelt speech that shook the ages. Unfortunately, no one can understand Jigglypuff so it goes over their heads.

When she finished, Meta spoke. "Thank you, Lady Guessworks. May your pencil stay sharp." Even though technically no one uses a pencil while writing fanfiction since it's on the internet, Guessworks was genuinely touched by the statement and smiled with a slight wave.

MoD was next. "Finally, with our last entry we have A Braver Captain, starring- scuse me, A Braver Captain starring Olimar and Ganondorf!"

Ganondorf still lay unconscious on the ground, and MoD says "I'm sure he's very grateful. Anyway, Olimar!"

Olimar walked across the room. However, the guy's three inches tall and therefore it took him a few minutes to get to the microphone. Think of the snail from Spongebob who lit the official torch for the Snail Race.

However, when he got to the microphone, a new challenge presented himself, and that was that the microphone was thirty times bigger than him or something like that, I don't know, I don't wanna do the math. He started to climb up the pole. Slowly, everyone watched him for five minutes as he climbed up the pole, inch by inch. Finally, he got up to the microphone's speaking part, but before he could say anything, he fell off and down to the ground. Inexplicably surviving and unfazed, he began the trip again.

MoD's eye twitched and he quickly spoke "He's very grateful! Anyway-"

A small voice spoke. "Yes, but I had a spee-"

"Anyway, I think that'll do it! The jud-"

"Wait, you forgot me!" Someone shouted.

"Oh... well, who are you?"

"Bo Dynamite, sir."

"Well, get the *insert beeping noise here* out of here, Bo Dynamite!"

It was presumed that Bo Dynamite randomly disappeared from the story and MoD continued.

"As I was saying, the judging will start now, and we can get on with our lives! Thank you all for entering and we will see you when the results are announced!"

Slowly, the authors and authoresses walked out of the hall, and the smashers suddenly disappeared as right now they were useless to the author of this contest. MoD sighed as he glanced at the other authors with a grateful smile.

"We killed it," he laughed, unbelieving.

"We sure did!" Mouse laughed.

"Totally," Ace grinned coolly.

"Killed it like a sword to a Skulltula! Bloody and brilliant!" Kat declared.

Everyone blinked at the... interesting metaphor. MoD laughed one more time before, exhausted, he fell on the floor.

"Truck."

A/N You had a good run, Jimbo! :D Now it's just a totally slow crawl. I'd make some joke about your contest but I figure I'd be more polite than that, and if I did, I'd have to include Foxpilot! Let's hope I was somehow funny!

Anyway, thanks to you all for your participation! The announcement and prize giving out will probably be out in a month or two, cause we're hardworking like that! And generally awesome!

Love ya guys!

MoD

P.S. I know none of you will ever notice it, but there's a reference to another comic SSB author in there!