Super Smash Brotherhood
Last chapter, Mario, Luigi, DK, and Diddy battled and eventually defeated the Axem Rangers M. After Mario reported his findings to Master Hand, the four left to rendezvous with T. Link and Link, hoping to find Peach.
Questions still remain. What is the Brotherhood of Supremacy? Where did Peach disappear to and why? And where does the enigmatic Black Knight fit in this picture?
Disclaimer: I claim no ownership over licensed characters and themes.
…Opening Move…
In the Smash Dimension, a dimension that rests among a large number of other dimensions, there stands the headquarters of the Super Smash Bros. The Smash Tower; outwardly it would appear to be a nice looking, multi-story hotel building. The exterior was nothing to shake a stick at either.
"Hm hm hm hm hm." Entering the main gate and going to the right side of the building, Olimar could be found humming a merry tune and tending to his garden. A garden set aside specifically for his Pikmin. "Hm, the onions are all healthy today." Olimar observed as he looked at the red, yellow, and blue onion shaped plants with flowers on top of them. Three stilt like legs came from three openings in the onions, and soon little pikmin of the corresponding colors came sliding down. "Hello little guys!" Olimar greeted.
"Yahoo!"
"Wah!" The pikmin all jumped up and down to greet Olimar. It was at that moment a blue blur zipped by, caused all of the pikmin to get blown away and collapse to the ground.
"Noooooo!!!" Olimar shouted.
"Waaaaaooooohhh…" Soon all of the collapsed pikmin sank into the ground and little pikmin shaped ghosts drifted into the air.
"Sonic!!! There's a racing track behind the mansion for you to run you know!!!" Olimar shouted with an odd mixture of anger of sadness.
"Whoops, sorry Olimar." Sonic zipped back and shrugged. "What can I say? That track isn't big enough. I think I'll go run across town." Sonic then once again zipped off.
"Ooooooohhh…"
RING
"Oh my Smash phone." Olimar pulled out his Smash Phone and placed it as close to his ear as his helmet would allow. "Hello?"
"Olimar, can you come to the mechanics lab? I need a hand with our latest project. You said you had some ideas for the programming right?" Fox's voice asked.
"Oh I'll be right there!" Olimar hung up the phone and turned to the onions. "I'll be back later guys!" Olimar then ran out of the garden.
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"Aaaaaaahhh… nice and quiet here…" King Dedede was on the fifteenth floor, snuggling into one of the comfy chairs while waddle dees occasionally brought him treats to munch on. "And not a care in the world…" King Dedede mused to himself.
"…" One of the waddle dees brought King Dedede a piece of paper.
"Hm? Report to holo-training at 4 PM? Awwwww… I'm the king! Why do I have to follow a schedule like this!?"
-
Blue, Lucas, Ness, and Pit were on the thirteenth floor playing video games, Super Smash Bros. Brawl in particular.
"Aw man… why'd we agree to play as our worst characters? I can't play as Mr. Game and Watch…" Blue groaned.
"At least you came in third. You did better than I did." Pit said, always the one to find a silver lining.
"So what about Ness and Lucas?" Blue asked. On screen Ness and Lucas were fighting each other, and rather poorly at that.
"Stop dodging me Ness!" Ness shouted.
"I can't help it Lucas!" Lucas whined.
"Ness you don't have to yell at Lucas." Pit said.
"But Ness is dodging a whole lot." Blue noted.
"Wait which Ness are we talking about?" Pit asked.
"Woo-hoo! I won!" Ness cheered.
"Oh Ness lost…" Pit noted.
"… huh?"
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On the other side of the tower from Olimar's garden, there was another, beautiful, garden with many flowers and trees planted around the area. Yoshi, Kirby, Pikachu, and Jigglypuff were running around and playing nearby.
"Pikachu!" Pikachu yelled happily as he tagged Kirby.
"Pyo pyo!" Kirby soon went running after Yoshi.
"Yoshi!"
"Jigglypuff!"
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On the thirty-fifth floor, the very top floor and where Master Hand held residence, Master Hand was on the phone while his brother floated around aimlessly.
"Very well Mario, I'll show those pictures you sent to the Senior Smashers and then the others if deemed necessary. Somehow I feel as though we've stumbled into something very dire." Master Hand said into the speaker in his room. "Be careful and come back safely." Master Hand said before pressing a button to turn off the speaker.
"What's up bro!?" Crazy Hand asked.
"We must call the Senior Smashers immediately, I'm afraid that a new catastrophe is on the horizon…" Master Hand sighed as he pushed a button on the speaker that blinked a few times after it was pressed.
"Ooooohhh… you said that in a reeeeeal cool-like voice… you should be in a movie!" Crazy Hand yelled.
"… Remind me why you still live here." Master Hand told Crazy.
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The back yard contained a track and numerous playing fields for a variety of sports. The Tennis court was currently occupied.
"Woo-hoo!" The Ice Climbers jumped up and down cheering after successfully returning a ball to Falco and C. Falcon, neither of whom successfully got the ball.
"Fifteen-forty! Game point!" Samus called from the chair.
"Oh come on ump!" Falco shouted. "That last ball was out of bounds!"
"If you don't like it then just serve and get on with it." Samus scolded Falco.
"Let's just serve it." C. Falcon said as he grabbed a spare tennis ball and went to his side of the court.
"Let's go Nana!" Popo said as he took position.
"Here we go Popo!" Nana responded.
Beep beep beep
"Hm?" Samus noticed her Smash Phone beeping right as C. Falcon served the ball. The ball rocketed towards the Ice Climber's side of the court, bounced once and was out of there.
"Nice shot!" Falco cheered. "You see that ump!" Falco looked up to see Samus' chair deserted.
"Hey where'd she go?" The Ice Climbers asked simultaneously.
"Samus?" C. Falcon looked around confused.
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"…" Zelda was quietly reading a book to herself in the library on the fourteenth floor when her Smash Phone also beeped. "Hm? What could Master Hand want?" Zelda quietly set the book on the table beside her and walked towards the elevator.
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"Hrrrrrr… 100…" Wario was in the weight training floor, the thirtieth floor, on the bench press and was lifting heavy weights, Bowser was being his spotter.
"You about done yet? I wanted to hit this before dinner you know." Bowser grunted.
"Not… until… I… top… DK's… record… hrrrrrr… 101…" Wario grunted.
"Grrrrrr…" Bowser growled.
"Give it a rest, he won't get off of that one for a while." Ganondorf said while he was on the only other bench press in the whole gym.
"And you?!" Bowser asked angrily.
"I lost count some time ago." Ganondorf said as he continued pressing.
"Bah forget it! I'm just going to the dumb-bells." Bowser stomped off angrily.
"…" Ike was simply watching all of this from nearby while lifting dumb-bells by himself.
Beep beep beep
"Hm? Here Bowser." Ike just tossed his dumb-bells at Bowser as Ike turned towards the elevator.
"What? UMPH!" Unfortunately Bowser wasn't expecting this and both dumb-bells smacked him in the face.
-
"Geez… you guys just had to be on all of the lower floors didn't you?" Wolf asked, obviously irritated. Samus, Fox, and Zelda were all on the elevator with him, going back up and, according to the lights, stopping at the thirtieth and thirty-third floor.
"What floor were you on?" Zelda asked.
"Thirty-first… and the pup here had to be at basement two didn't you?" Wolf asked irritated.
"You think you're annoyed? While you were up there shooting targets I was busy working with Olimar on our next project." Fox replied, trying to contain his agitation.
"You can come back to it later. Not like you and Olimar have been short on ideas." Samus responded. "The two of you have been building more vehicles and appliances than we can use." She added right when the elevator stopped at the thirtieth floor, opening up to allow Ike to step in.
"So where are the other five?" Ike asked as he stepped in.
"I think Snake, Meta-Knight, and Marth were on the sparring floor with Lucario." Zelda answered. "Link and Mario are on vacation remember?"
"Oh that's right."
"Lucky punks." Wolf muttered.
-
"Okay, give Crazy his medicine, check. Prepare the pictures, check. Now all I have to do is wait." Master Hand mused out loud, Master Hand was currently by himself in the meeting room of the Senior Smashers, also located on the thirty-fifth floor. It wasn't too long before the door opened. Zelda, Ike, Marth, Snake, Fox, Wolf, Meta-Knight, and Samus soon took their respective seats at the long table.
"So why are we here?" Snake was the first to ask.
"Unfortunately, I have what may end up being grave news." Master Hand pushed a button at his pedestal. A white screen scrolled down from the ceiling behind Master Hand as the lights dimmed. "While Mario, Link, Peach, T. Link, Luigi, DK, and Diddy were on vacation in the Great Sea, the ship they were using came under attack."
"Are they alright?" Marth asked.
"Relatively… they were attacked by… these robots that Mario said were upgraded versions of old enemies." The pictures of Axem Yellow wrestling DK, Axem Black, Axem Green, and Axem Red then played in a slide-show on the screen.
"Unusual robots." Fox noted.
"There was also a pink one that Link dispatched according to Mario's report." Master Hand added.
"What of it now? They are dispatched correct? Or is there something else to this?" Meta-Knight asked.
"Yes… before defeating these Axem Rangers M, the Black Knight appeared." Master Hand answered.
"What!?" This was enough to make Ike stand up from his seat. "The Black Knight?"
"Yes, the same one that you know Ike." Master Hand answered.
"What was he doing there!?" Ike asked.
"Ike, sit down please." Zelda told Ike. Ike cringed but after taking a deep breath did as he was told.
"The Black Knight mentioned that these Axem Rangers M were sent to attack our friends under the orders of a group called The Brotherhood of Supremacy." Master Hand continued.
"Hm? Brotherhood of Supremacy? The hell is that?" Wolf asked.
"That's just the problem. We have no idea." Master Hand told Wolf.
"They can't be good if they attacked that ship." Said Fox.
"Even more importantly, they may be our enemies if they knew our friends were on that ship." Snake said.
"Agreed." Meta-Knight responded.
"Wait, what about Mario and the rest of them?" Samus asked. "What happened after they beat the Axem Rangers?"
"Right before the attack Peach apparently went missing. T. Link and Link went searching for her and apparently Mario planned to bring the others with him while they search for Peach." Master Hand paused for a bit. "And… Link was, seriously injured by the Black Knight."
"What!?" Zelda gasped, standing up from her seat.
"He's alive and recovering!" Master Hand quickly added. Zelda took a few deep breaths before sitting back down.
"The main problem is that we know next to nothing about this Brotherhood of Supremacy." Snake said. "And we need more info."
"He's right." Ike said. "Would the Black Knight have that info?"
"It's a possibility." Fox said. "But I say we start from the info we do have. Master Hand if you'll let me take those pictures I'll see if I can find any comparisons and figure out who might have built them."
"Very well." Master Hand grabbed a disk and tossed it to Fox, who caught the disk and tucked it into his coat pocket.
"I don't like just sitting here with our tails tucked between our legs, is there anything else we can do to scrounge up more info?" Wolf asked.
"What if we got some outside help?" Samus suggested.
"I like Samus' idea." Marth agreed.
"That could be risky however." Meta-Knight said.
"If we got the help of someone we trusted though it would be worthwhile." Zelda said.
"Before we go any further with this… what about the others?" Snake asked. "If this turns out to be something big the other Smashers will need to know."
"We don't know if it's anything big yet." Wolf said in response.
"I see Snake's point. I think we should at least inform everyone so that we can be ready at a moment's notice." Meta-Knight added in.
"Hmmmmm…" Master Hand floated in place for a moment before finally speaking up. "Very well. Marth, you will gather the remaining Smashers and tell them about what we discussed here, take another copy of the pictures with you." Master Hand tossed Marth another disk. "Fox while you analyze the pictures with Olimar, fill him in. Samus and Snake, stay put. The rest of you are dismissed."
"Right, I'm off." Fox said as he, and the others except for Samus and Snake stood and left. Zelda stopped at the door for a moment and turned to Master Hand.
"Are you sure Link is alright?" Zelda asked.
"Don't worry, I'm sure he's fine." Master Hand told her. Zelda sighed and walked out. "Now as for you two, I have a special assignment for you." Master Hand said to Samus and Snake.
"And that is?" Samus asked.
"It actually has something to do with your idea…" Master Hand started.
-
Several minutes later, most of the Smashers were assembled in the meeting room on the sixteenth floor of the tower. The Smashers were all situated in a lecture-hall styled room with Marth in front of a large projector that was constantly showing the pictures of the Axem Rangers M while Marth explained the situation.
"That's everything that we know so far." Marth concluded. "Any questions?" Wario was the first to raise his hand. "Yes?"
"What's the big deal!? So they beat up a few robots? Not like anything else is happening right?!" Wario asked impatiently.
"Yeah! You interrupted my nice break just for this!?" King Dedede asked equally impatiently.
"Pikachu!" Pikachu yelled at both Dedede and Wario.
"What did you say!?" The two heavy-weights yelled in response.
"Guys calm down, maybe it is isolated but we can't be sure." Blue added, trying to be the voice of reason.
"Hmmmm…" Sonic had his feet up on the desk in front of him, rubbing his nose while looking at the pictures intently.
"What's wrong?" Lucas asked.
"It's something about those robots… I just can't put my finger on it…" Sonic said. "Wait, robots…"
"Marth!" At that moment Fox came into the lecture hall with Olimar right behind him. "Olimar and I finished with those pictures and…"
"I've got it! Eggman!" Sonic suddenly yelled.
"…" Fox stood there in stunned silence while the lecture hall full of smashers looked over at Sonic.
"You were going to say that weren't you?" Marth asked Fox.
"Yeah…" Fox sighed.
"Don't worry about it." Zelda said from nearby. It's at that time that Zelda's Smash Phone rang, prompting her to answer. "Master Hand?"
"Eggman?" Falco asked.
"The fat scientist from your world?" Ness asked Sonic.
"Yeah! Those guys look similar to some of Eggman's robots I've fought before, like that black one…" Sonic started explaining.
"I understand. I'll do so immediately." Zelda hung up her phone before turning to the noisy hall of Smashers. "Attention everyone!"
"Pyo?"
"What?" C. Falcon asked as the hall started to quiet down.
"Master Hand has instructed me to form a team to go to Sonic's world and question Eggman." Zelda began. "Sonic, your inclusion goes without saying."
"You can count on me!" Sonic replied.
"Ike, Bowser, and C. Falcon, I'll need you three as our muscle." Zelda said as she started up the stairs towards the door. Ike silently stood up and followed.
"Roger." C. Falcon said.
"Hmmmm… well since you do need some real muscle, sure why not?!" Bowser said as he got up from his seat.
"Yoshi and Kirby if you two would please." Zelda told the two heavy eaters.
"Yoshi!" He responded with a salute.
"Pyo!" Kirby jumped up and down happily.
"Fox and Falco, I'll need you two as well if we're dealing with technology." Zelda told the two.
"Heh, you know I'm good for this." Falco smirked.
"Olimar take care of our project while I'm out." Fox sighed.
"Sure thing!" Olimar said.
"Ness I would also like…" Zelda started.
"Um, may I please sit this one out?" Ness asked. "I really don't want to chance running into Shadow again…"
"… Alright." Zelda replied understandingly. "Lucas then."
"Huh? Me?" Lucas asked nervously.
"I know you'll be of great help." Zelda said with a smile while she and the others reached the door.
"Um… wait up!" Lucas got up from his seat and ran after her.
"So what are the rest of us supposed to do?" Ganondorf grumbled.
"Stay put for now until we learn more." Marth answered.
"Puff…" Jigglypuff sighed.
"Well I'm going back to the gym." Wario grumbled.
-
"Okay, Falco and I can carry one person each in our Arwings, the rest will have to take the Warp Stars." Fox said while the elevator descended to the very bottom basement level, the hangar for all of the Smash Bros. vehicles and ships.
"My Falcon Flyer can fit most everyone else." C. Falcon added.
"Meh, I'd rather take the Warp Star, feels faster." Sonic said with a smirk.
"Pyo!" Kirby nodded happily. "Pyo?"
"Isn't that Samus' ship?" Falco asked. Right when the elevator reached the bottom, the team noticed a futuristic gunship that resembled Samus' helmet, only with two prows at the front and small wings behind the ship. As the ship faced one of the humongous portals in the hangar, the thrusters flared up before the ship rocketed through the portal.
"Where is she going?" Bowser asked.
"I don't know; Fox set the portal for Sonic's world if you would please." Zelda told Fox.
"Right." Fox replied.
A few moments later, Fox and Falco's personal Arwing ships, Falco's Arwing being unique in that it had bird-like feathers at the tip of his wings with additional, smaller, thrusters underneath it, were facing the portal. Soon C. Falcon's Falcon Flyer, the golden Falcon head of the ship leering at the portal, joined the two ships. Sonic and Kirby drifted next to the ships riding on yellow Warp Stars.
"Is everyone ready?" Zelda asked. She was riding in Falco's Arwing while Lucas was riding with Fox.
"It's cramped in here!" Bowser's voice yelled over the intercom.
"Could you stop moving so much please?" Ike asked, trying to hide his irritation.
"Sit down and hold tight, I'm about to start her up." C. Falcon said.
"Let's go!" Sonic yelled.
In mere moments, the Arwings and the warp stars departed through the portal, off to find Dr. Eggman and get answers.
…Notes…
Mario and co. continue their search for Peach. What was this special task Master Hand had for Samus and Snake? And what does Dr. Eggman have in store for our heroes? All in good time dear readers, for now leave a review.
