Tennis time!
Author's note: I've been gone for awhile. Sorry. I hope that this chapter will make up for it! It contains blatant character bashing (again). However, I'm hoping that it pleases all of you...
"I can't believe you've gotten me to do this," grumbled Zell. "Did you have to accept Link's Doubles Tennis offer? And did you have to say that I was you partner?"
"Yep. You weren't busy," replied Pit. He twanged the strings of his racket, very similar to the way he would his bow, and motioned for Zell to do the same. She rolled her eyes and sauntered down the hallway. Pit followed her for a moment, until they heard it.
"HEY!"
Both of them pulled out earplugs and iPods faster than anyone could say "LISTEN!". Plugging them in, the two separately enjoyed the one protection against Navi: loud music.
"Is she gone?" Pit asked after a moment. Zell nodded and turned off her iPod. Pit grinned, and the two continued down the hallway, iPods at the ready in case Navi made her reappearance. iPods were very popular in Smash Mansion right now, mainly thanks to the blue ball of annoyance. As a matter of fact, Marth had borrowed Ike's iPod so often that the two were now on speaking terms… or rather, on term of Ike trying to get Marth to understand something without trying to bash his skull in.
When they finally reached one of the tennis courts, they found that Link and Zelda weren't there yet. While waiting for the two to arrive, Pit and Zell turned their attention to the court next to them, where they watched Ness and Lucas, own Captain Falcon and Bowser. Bowser would scream like a little girl whenever the tennis ball was hit towards him, and whenever Captain Falcon hit the ball back towards the boys, he'd strike a heroic pose and exclaim about how manly he was, giving Ness or Lucas plenty of time to hit the ball to the other side of the court. On the other side, Lucas was totally unafraid of tennis balls, as they reminded him of dogs, while Ness wasn't manly and knew this very well.
"You guys having fun?" came a voice behind Pit and Zell after a few minutes. The two turned around to see that Link and Zelda were standing there, wearing identical tennis uniforms, both marked with the Triforce symbol.
"Was that accidental?" Pit asked, pointing to the Triforce symbols.
"Yep," Zelda replied. "Now I'm going to warn you, there aren't very many tennis balls left."
"Has Kirby been eating them again?" Zell asked.
"How'd you guess?" Link sighed and served the first tennis ball. Immediately, Zell hit it back to Zelda, who hit it very hard to Pit, who hit it to Zelda, who hit it to Zell, who hit it to Zelda, who scored the first point for Zell and Pit by hitting it out. Pit and Zell high-fived and turned to face Zelda and Link as Link served the ball once again.
Captain Falcon, meanwhile, noticed the new match and signaled for his own to end. The victorious psychics ran over to watch the new match, while Bowser and Captain Falcon trailed behind a bit. When Link, Pit, Zelda, and Zell realized that they were being watched, Pit hit the ball way too hard and sent it flying into the parking lot. Unfortunately, at that very moment, Ike was teaching Lucario how to drive his Jeep. Lucario was doing fairly well (yes, having Pokémon drive was illegal, but Ike broke rules frequently), but unfortunately, just then, Lucario backed up the Jeep and ran over the tennis ball.
"Did I just hear a crunch?" asked Ike.
"AAAHHHH! F#K!" screamed Lucario and began driving in all random directions, hitting the thankfully unoccupied cars in the parking lot. It took about five minutes for Lucario to ram into Master Hand's 'Hand Mobile,' a car made of solid steel that was totally sound and impact proof with missile-proof glass and diamond fenders. Of course, Ike's jeep didn't stand a chance, and neither did foul-mouthed Lucario and Ike himself.
"Did I just hear an explosion?" Pit asked Zell as Link served the next tennis ball.
"Nope," Zell replied. "But I can hear an extremely angry hand."
They could hear Master Hand now screaming at Ike and Lucario.
"HOW DARE YOU HIT MY CAR? YOU GOT SOOT ALL OVER THE HOOD! BESIDES, YOU COULD'VE DIED! HOW DARE YOU VIOLATE THE RULES THAT I PUT IN PLACE FOR YOU TO BE SAFE? AND LUCARIO, WHY WERE YOU DRIVING? IT JUST SO HAPPENS THAT YOU'RE HOLDING THE STEERING WHEEL! GUH, IKE, YOU'RE BLEEDIDNG ALL OVER MY CAR! GET TO THE MED-BAY NOW! HOW DARE YOU RISK YOUR LIVES LIKE THAT?"
Zelda giggled, and as a result, Link turned around to look at her, serving the tennis ball right into Captain Falcon's weak spot.
"GAH!" he shrieked and Falcon Punched the offending ball.
"Uh oh," Zelda murmured as the ball disintegrated.
"Sorry," Captain Falcon gasped afterwards.
"It's okay-uh oh," Zelda realized that Kirby was now standing on the sidelines. Kirby the tennis ball eater.
"HIIIIIIIII!" shouted Kirby.
Link nervously served the third tennis ball. This one lasted a full game until all of a sudden, it was hit by a blast from a gun.
"Like it?" Fox smirked, watching Toon Link's wide-eyed expression. "Yep, I can hit a tennis ball while it's in the air."
"So can I!" shouted Falco and fired at the fourth tennis ball, which had just left Zell's racket.
"UGH!" shouted all four tennis players.
"The last ball has to be guarded better," said Zelda and served it. Hardly had the words left her mouth when Kirby ate it.
"Well, there goes our tennis match," mumbled Pit, giving Kirby the evil eye.
"HEY!" shouted Navi.
"Great, we lost five tennis balls and now this!" shouted Zell. However, Link's eyes gleamed with excitement. Reaching into the air with his tennis racket, he lightly batted his fairy to Pit. Pit hit the fairy back to Zelda, and from that point on in the game, Navi was their tennis ball. All of the onlookers cheered.
Navi was finally getting owned.
