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Chapter VII

The Final Guests

Upstairs in the drawing room of the mansion, Mario, Luigi, and Peach were waiting for the other guests. "I wish you'd known that mouse was real before you handed it to me," Peach was saying.

"Well, I thought it was-a fake," Mario said truthfully.

"Well, it's-a gone now," Luigi said. "The big, scary, mouse-a is gone now."

"Oh, shut up," Peach said, too princesslike to say anything more vulgar than that.

"Hey, what's going on, guys?" said a spastic-sounding voice by the door. "Did you see the insane hand? I wonder who else is coming? Well, they won't be better than Link, I mean, even you guys aren't, and you're the bosses, and-"

"Shut up, Toon," said a tired-sounding voice. "What's up, Mario."

The three guests turned to see the Hyrule guests and the Alien guests in the doorway.

"Hi!" Kirby said. "Did you see the falling gargoyles? The poor guy must have an old roof when his gargoyles start falling."

"It was an attempt on our lives!" Meta Knight growled. "Sorry about my hopelessly optimistic friend here. But I guess I shouldn't complain too much, since I wouldn't be here anyways if he hadn't invited me."

"Well, I guess that's true," Fox said, sidling in. "But I don't think the gargoyles were meant to kill us."

Both Falco and Meta Knight spoke at the same time. Meta Knight said, "Oh, you'd better not be going all optimistic on me too, you little-" But he was cut off by Falco saying, "Well, what else was it then?"

"Well," Fox said, looking a little thoughtful, "I think it was a warning. Someone's trying to frighten us, but why?"

"Well, whatever the reason is, they're doing a great job!" said four voices at once as Lucas, Ness, and the Ice Climbers came in, speaking with Olimar. Ness was the only one who hadn't spoken.

"Oh, we can't let a little thing like falling gargoyles and screaming doorbells scare us!" Captain Falcon said.

"Then again," said another voice, as Samus and Pit came in, accidentally pushing Toon Link against a picture of a dragon on a wall, where he noticed something strange... "You wouldn't be afraid if there was a mad axe-man in here, would you?"

"Oh, will you please stop talking about mad axe-men?" Olimar said, looking around nervously, though it was harder to be scared when he was around this many of his friends.

"Yeah, it seems kind of unnecessary," Pit said. "Why don't we talk about how Job found his-"

"Okay, we don't really need to hear about it!" Link interrupted. "So, Samus," he said, getting closer to her, as the others started their own conversations, "Like I was trying to say earlier, treacherous roads are like-"

"Hey, Link," Toon Link said, moving over to him and pointing at the dragon picture on the wall. Link glanced at it and then continued speaking to Samus.

"Treacherous roads are like black-"

"Link!" Toon Link said, pulling at his sleeve, trying to make sure he'd seen correctly.

"I know," Link said, turning to him for a second, "the dragon's eyes are sticking out of the picture." With that, he turned back to Samus. "Treacherous roads are like black potions, you always have to-"

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Back in the parking lot, a Semi Truck pulled into the driveway. Snake and Sonic hopped out of it. "Well, we're finally here," Snake said. "By the looks of things," he added, looking at the lights in the mansion, "we're almost the last ones, if not the last. How does that make you feel? Angry? I mean, you just lost a race-"

"Shut it," Sonic said, looking towards the mansion. "You know, I don't think I like the looks of this place much." Fair enough, it did look very ominous: a creepy old mansion sitting at the top of a hill surrounded by mist.

"Well, it's part of the way of things," Snake said, talking like an old-fashioned detective again. "There's a number on the wall for all of us, and if tonight's the night they pick mine, than so be it." After a bit of consideration, he added, "Well, after you, Sonic," gesturing towards the door and dropping the detective accent. Sonic looked at him weirdly before walking up towards the mansion.

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Crazy was just finishing putting the monkeys in their rooms when he heard the doorbell. He shot down and flung the door open to see an anthro hedgehog standing at the door, looking horrified at a motionless figure under some rubble beneath him. "Holy ****," the hedgehog said, "He's dead!"

"Huh?" Crazy said, shocked that something like this had happened.

"Solid Snake, the man I work with, is lying out there, dead! He's been crushed by a gargoyle!" Suddenly the hedgehog collapsed from shock.

"You alright?" Crazy asked, looking at him. He suddenly felt himself being slammed against the wall and saw the figure that had been under the rubble pinning him to the wall with a gun aimed right at his non-existent face.

"Alright, freeze!" Snake shouted, slipping back into his detective impersonation. "Fingers up!" Apparently, he wasn't fazed at all by the fact that the thing he'd just pinned was a giant hand. "Get up, Sonic!"

Sonic jumped up and felt the Crazy Hand for any weapons he might be carrying. "He's clean!" Sonic declared, jumping away again.

"The gargoyle got here a couple seconds early!" Snake said, keeping his gun on Crazy anyways. "You invited me to dinner, but I didn't know I'd be on your wall!"

"Iz sorry for teh inconvenience," Crazy said, calming down a bit. "Iz put myself down now?"

However, Snake wasn't paying attention. He was reminiscing. "I had a little brother who died the same way," he was saying. "Crushed by a statue on a reconnaissance mission, three years ago. He would have been 74 yesterday."

"He random, huh?" Crazy asked Sonic, who nodded.

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After Crazy showed the two to their rooms, he went to the drawing room to announce that it was almost dinner time, and there would be soup for appetizers. He then shot down to the cook.

They all decided to wait in the library. As soon as they arrived, Pikachu found something strange. There was some sort of grotesque face on a plaque on the wall.

"What the heck is this?" he asked.

"It's a pokemon trophy!" Red said happily.

"You think everything is a pokemon trophy!" Marth said. They had learned this on the way to the mansion.

"That's pathetic," Ganondorf chuckled.

"Well, if you don't mind," Samus said, "I'm going to have a look around this place." With this, she headed out.

"Hey," Yoshi said, speaking up suddenly, "I wonder where everyone else is?"

"'Everyone else?'" Peach asked. "What do you mean?"

"I got it, too," Bowser said, standing. "We are all great heroes and villains. It's obvious that only the best of each are on the guest list."

"How did you figure that out?" Popo asked in astonishment.

"Well, it was on our letters," Falco pointed out.

"So what is it?" Captain Falcon asked.

"Well, I haven't seen one before. No one has. But I'm guessing it's a-" Fox started.

"Well, who else would be invited?" Zelda wondered out loud, interrupting Fox.

"Well, I'd bet Wario would be invited on our side," Ganondorf said.

"And Wolf!" Bowser said. "Don't forget him!"

"Oh, yeah, he's always great at parties," Fox said sarcastically.

"Who else?" Kirby asked.

"Well, there's-" Ness started, but was cut off by a new arrival.

"Solid Snake," said Snake, jumping in wearing a white suit. Sonic was behind him, looking the same as he ever did. "Sorry I'm late, but we got held up at the door by those concrete Christmas presents. You guys?" They all nodded. "We also met these guys on the way downstairs." Behind him was Wario and Lucario.

"You're Wario's guest, Lucario?" Red asked, knowing how proud Lucario was.

It was the best offer I got, Lucario admitted.

"So you were invited, huh?" Ganondorf said, as the two villains motioned Wario over. Wario hadn't dressed up at all. He was dressed in his usual jacket, fingerless gloves, and jeans.

"Yeah, I know this Game-and-Watch guy."

"Boy, you wouldn't believe-" Samus said, coming back in. Suddenly, she noticed Snake. "Snake!"

"You wouldn't believe snake?" Toon Link asked, looking confused again. "Why not?"

"Solid Snake!" she said, coming over. "What's been going on?"

"Samus Aran," he said. "You got an invite, huh?"

"Why else would I-" Samus started saying, not sounding angry, when they were interrupted by Crazy bursting in.

"Here da last guests!" he said. "Wolf O'Donnel and King Dedede!"

Into the room came Wolf, dressed in his uniform, and Dedede, dressed in his usual robe and carrying his hammer. "What up, dogs?" he said, moving over to the "Villains" are of the library. As Crazy rushed out, Dedede followed.

"So you were invited," Fox said, in a much different voice from Ganondorf welcoming Wario.

"I see you were, too," Wolf said, growling.

Suddenly, they were cut off by a loud noise. They all turned to see Olimar and Lucas trembling. They realized the noise was a moan coming from the face Toon Link had noticed earlier.

"What is it?" Pit wondered.

"It-a looks like a death mask," Mario said.

"It's-a like he's going through his-a final moments of a-death," Luigi said, looking at it in wonder.

What does it mean? Lucario wondered out loud, literally.

"It mean dinner ready!" said a voice from the door. They turned to see the Crazy Hand. "We don't got a gong!"

One by one, they all headed into the dining room, leaving the room behind, blissfully unaware of what was going to happen there.

Finally, all the guests are there! I was starting to wonder if we'd ever get there. Anyways, please R&R, constructive criticism is fine, flames are bad, Gamer4 out.