Super Smash Bros.: The First Year
Author's BEGINNING Note:
Presenting - the MAIN EVENT! This chapter will be way more interesting than all the other ones I promise. PINKY PROMISE?
There was a noise.
It was a strange noise.
It was a bad noise.
"Gah!" Link yelled, waking up with chills that shivered down his spine. Something, or someone, had woken him up. He scanned the room, just in case, y'know...Nope. Everything was where it should be: his trusty blade was in its sheath, hanging by his usual clothes; his shield was proudly standing on a shelf he'd propped up in his dorm. Then he shivered.
What made that noise? Or even worse...who?
Link sat up and thought for a moment. He was going to have to investigate, even though he knew he wasn't allowed out after 9:00pm. They weren't kids, why did they have to have a curfew?! Throwing his clothes on, he opened the door a crack. Yep, coast was clear. Lighter than a feather, he stepped out, quietly closing the door behind him. He listened a little, to see if the noise was still going. Zzzzzzz... there it was again. Was this some sort of live horror movie? Well, here goes, he thought. Down the steps. Down the last corridor on the first floor.
"Link?"
Link whizzed around, finding the other Smashers behind him.
"...Did you hear it too?"
"Yeah," Sammy replied, stepping out of the shadows. "Dunno 'bout the little...was it Pokemon? But we heard it."
After that, the rest proceeded forward, out of darkness and shadows. Falcon signalled to the final flight of stairs, and they advanced.
Now on the ground floor of the Manor, Ness said, "It sounds like it's coming from the portal room..."
Mario elbowed Ness. "That room's guarded, we can't look in there. So why don't we just-"
"Are you a coward, Mario? We're going, that's it!" Samus snapped, though she was still faintly quiet.
"Mario's right, though," Falcon commented. "Someone's in there making sure we don't come in."
Luigi was mysteriously silent, but smirked a little. "Not when Bob's on the job."
Peeking vigilantly into the room, sure enough, Bob was asleep. The plan was for Ness, the youngest and therefore lightest footed Smasher to sneak in, and the rest following one after the other. The teen would take a thorough observation of the room before beckoning the rest of the herd in.
In the portal room, the odd sound was now distinctly in that very room. Zzzzzz... it was crescendoing even louder now. Ness shuddered, but carried on looking around. Everything seemed normal - the portals had their gates closed, the dim light emitting from them. Something wasn't right - for sure. The question was - what?
Then for a moment, the noise stopped.
CRASH!
A blinding light enveloped Ness, only him at first, but eventually it was drawing the rest of the warriors.
"What the hell is going on?!" Donkey Kong yelled, even though you wouldn't have understood him.
Nooooooo! cried Kirby, tears rolling down his cheeks rapidly. That was possibly the first time anyone had seen Kirby weep.
"Ne-e-Ss!" Luigi screamed, his voice strangely static. "I-I'm co-o-o-mm-I-"
Zzzzip...
Nothing - was - left. And why didn't that wake Bob up?
"Ugh..." Mario moaned, when he finally came to. He looked around, trying to find the other Smashers - well, Luigi first, anyway. Where was everyone? He got up, scanned the room a little, then decided to go...left. Ring-g-g-g... did he just hit glass? GLASS? No, it couldn't be. The black around him was infinite, wasn't it? At least, that's what he thought. But was it what it was?
"Mario!" Ness called, somehow sounding different. Maybe he'd just altered his voice a little.
"What, I actually found someone? That's a relief, I thought I was alone," he replied.
"...Do you know where we are?"
"Well, we're in some sort of...black room. I tried all four directions and there always seems to be a border."
"Border?"
"Like a wall."
Ness hesitated for a moment. He knew exactly where they were, 'walls', hitting 'glass'...but how would he explain it to Mario? Mario had a habit of losing his temper if he didn't like something, and that included situations. This was a situation the Smashers may never escape.
"Ness?"
"Oh, uh, I was just thinking. There's something I have to tell you. It's...pretty important."
This was about the time the red-clad plumber started to get a bit roused.
"...Spit it out."
"I think - note that I said THINK - we are possibly, just perhaps, MAYBE...in a television."
At first, Mario scoffed. "TV? Why would we be in a TV if-"
"We need to find the wire system if we want to get out of here."
He froze for a moment, then tried to take a deep breath. At least he knew how to control his mix of emotions.
"Ok. But shouldn't we find the others first? I don't think they'd like it if we abandoned them in a...a...box with a screen."
"Well, obviously." Ness rolled his eyes a little. "Let's have a look around."
"So how did you propose we get out of here again?" inquired Link, confused right now.
"We need to hurry and get to the wire system before whosever TV this is turns it on," Ness explained.
"That might be the hard part. If we're still in here when the person turns it on, we'll get sucked into the 'game' they're playing - Super Smash Bros. since we're here - and the controllers will take control of us. "
"But it's a black room," Falcon said. "Wires are usually black, right?"
"Yeah, but since we're the tiny characters, they'll seem big...so we just have to keep looking."
It seemed like what was eternity would truly be everlasting. But one question loomed over the Smashers' minds...
Why wasn't Master Hand doing anything about this?
