Author's Notes: I'm sorry for the late chapter. Recently, I've written another fanfic, which seems to be more popular for the moment. Well, here is your new chapter to read!
Chapter 10: Everything is far from normal...
The kids and Link and Zelda at the Smash Hospital
"Oh, thank you!" Ness grinned at the almost-Boney stuffed animal and candies. "Thanks so much!"
He hugged the brown dog with all his might.
Next, they gave Meta Knight the Halberd Pillow and cookies.
"Wow... thanks! A Halberd pillow? That's awesome. Thanks, kids. I also love the cookies," Meta Knight gazed at his two gifts.
"You're welcome!" the kids replied in unison. Lastly, they went to Falco.
Falco was sleeping.
"Don't wake him," Link warned the kids.
"What're we gonna do?" Lucas looked up at Link.
"Just give him a note and put the gifts on the table next to him," Zelda answered. Nana, with a post-it and pencil, wrote down the note. Being an overachiever, she drew all of the kids, Link and Zelda on an additional post-it. The smashers drawn on the post-it were all smiling nicely.
Nana put her note on the table, and Popo put the toys right next to it.
"Come on home with us," Zelda smiled. "We're going to make some dinner. Want some?"
"Sure!"
Back at Zelda's and Link's house, the kids played video games and cards, while Link and Zelda cooked up a delicious meal.
Kirby didn't feel well, ever since he saw the glowing eyes in the puddle. What is up with me? He wondered, and tried to hid his nervousness and sick feeling in himself. Thankfully, since the others were having so much fun, they didn't notice Kirby acting unusually.
"Dinner's ready!" Zelda called. The kid smashers all stopped playing. They walked to the table (they didn't run because it would knock over some of the furniture), after washing their hands.
Soup, yellow rice, and vegetables sat on the table. They were accompanied by a freshly cooked chicken as well. All of the just-cooked food created an irresistible smell that made them all impatient to eat.
"Okay, now we eat!" Everyone dug into their food. The food tasted as good as it looked, and everyone filled themselves with the savory chicken and yummy veggies and food. All except for Kirby, who just inhaled some chicken. He excused himself from the table after ten minutes.
"Are you okay? You usually eat a lot!" Nana immediately asked in concern.
"No..." Kirby felt sick. He felt fatigued, tired, and weak. His feet almost gave way, and he almost fell. Kirby staggered a little.
"There's something wrong..."
"Kirby? Kirby? Are...you...okay..."
Spots flickered in Kirby's vision as all faded into darkness.
At the Smash Hospital again
"I can't detect the sickness. This is unusual. Hmm..." Dr. Mario bent over the unconscious Kirby.
"What in the world went on then?" Dr. Mario asked the remaining smashers that were with Kirby ten minutes ago.
"Well, we went to the Smash Plaza and bought stuff, then-"
"Wait! Didn't Kirby swallow that cotton?" Toon Link blurted out. "We were at that pillow store, and he swallowed the cotton, thinking it was ice cream."
"That might explain it," Dr. Mario took in the information. "Tell me, was this just an ordinary store, or a magic one? This can tell almost everything."
It was a magic store. It makes cotton and a pillow magically," Nana said. "We made one for Meta Knight."
"You gave a magic pillow to Meta Knight... wait! Take it back then! He might get sick!"
"He's already sick..." Pikachu murmured, looking at Meta Knight, who just fainted. Taking a bag, Pikachu bagged it, without touching it, and tied it up.
"Uh oh!" Dr. Mario said hurriedly. "Who else touched that pillow?"
"All of us..." the kids, Link and Zelda answered slowly. "But we weren't affected. Maybe that was because we only touched it for less than a minute."
Dr. Mario sounded a little relieved. "Just stay here in case... what if something happens?"
"Okay," they agreed. Dr. Mario then went to tend Meta Knight and Kirby, taking blood and magic tests to see if there was any bad substance or anything in their blood, which could have been caused by the pillow.
"We also saw a regular old oil puddle. Kirby probably wasn't feeling well. He seemed to think that oil puddle was an evil puddle, with part of Tabuu's wing, and glowing yellow eyes in it," Lucas suddenly said. "I read his mind, and I saw it all."
"Either he was hallucinating, or it was real." He added.
Dr. Mario nodded. After a few minutes, he held his magic and blood samples. He was frowning.
"The blood appears to be... poisoned, and there is some evil magic in their blood as well," Dr. Mario informed the anxious smashers. "I need to test you guys as well."
He beckoned them to the blood and magic station, were he immediately performed a series of tests on the smashers.
Dr. Mario was worried from all of it. Pretty soon, the smashers got worried as well.
"Well, Link and Zelda," Dr. Mario said. "There's nothing wrong with you two. I've still got to test the kids."
Link and Zelda stood at the counter at the front, watching on the kids in case they needed help.
"Nana and Popo, you're all right..."
"Jigglypuff, you too..."
"Toon Link, you're good..."
"Lucas, Pikachu, there seems to something wrong." Dr. Mario stopped, examining the samples.
"Oh no! Now Lucas and Pika can't play with us!" Nana frowned.
"Well, not yet." The doctor told an upset Nana. "I'll have to perform more tests on Kirby, Meta Knight, Pikachu, and Lucas. You guys are better off in staying upstairs in the temporary rooms, just in case. This is all not right. I don't know this 'sickness'."
The smashers decided to stay there for the night, worrying about Lucas, Pikachu, and the other ill ones.
The next day
Master Hand wasn't at the announcement today, which was unusual. He always would be there. In fact, he was the one who did all of the announcements.
Since MH wasn't at the announcement, Dr. Mario took over. He knew most of this magic illness.
"Smashers. Today, I have an important announcement."
Everyone nodded apprehensively, noticing the announcer's concerned face.
"There has been some magic illness I could not identify. Lucas, Pikachu, Kirby, and Meta Knight so far have caught it. I do not know where it really came from, but the other kids, Link and Zelda informed me that it came from a magic pillow store. This is something serious. It may have to do with Tabuu-"
The smashers gasped. Dr. Mario waited for the smashers to cease their whisperings and gasps.
"-or it may not. Even so, it has to do with Dark Magic, something which I haven't seen in...years."
Sonic interrupted. "What will we do? How are we going to cure the illness?"
"I don't know. All I hope is that they will cure by themselves, which is unlikely. I will have to perform more experiments."
Sonic nodded, and Dr. Mario went on. "I advise you all not to go near anything suspicious, which by what I mean is don't go near anything magic you don't know. Okay? Understood?"
"Yes," the audience answered.
"I repeat- please don't go near any dark magic places. You might get ill too, and with too many ill, it will be inevitable that something bad will happen to us and Smash Town."
Everyone looked really worried now. Dr. Mario stepped off the small podium, and the crowd dispersed.
"This must be terrible..." Samus told Zelda, who stood thinking.
"Yes, it is," Zelda answered, deep in thought. "This must have to do with Tabuu. He might have put evil into the Plaza, which is why they could run on magic."
"I hope it will be okay soon," Samus paced around the Smash Fountain.
"It's far from okay, and I don't know when it will get better..." Zelda walked away, waving once to Samus.
With nothing to do, Samus walked to the edge of Smash Town. A path to the right of her led to a field full of tall grass and flowers. A nice walk would be good for me, Samus took the path and walked up.
A mystical blue shape lingered behind her, ready to pounce.
Smash battling time!
Since Master Hand still wasn't there to assist the smashers, Crazy Hand took MH's part over.
"Two, One, Three!"
The Smashers on the battlefield didn't move.
"It's 'three, two, one, GO!" Lucario growled.
"Sorry," CH apologized. "Three, two, one, GO!"
Lucario, Captain Falcon, Toon Link, and Fox instantly leapt for each other. Lucario's aura powered up, Captain Falcon readied up a Falcon Punch, and Toon Link prepared to do his spin attack. Since all of the smashers were close together, Toon Link's spin attack hit the other three first, sending them to stagger backwards. Captain Falcon immediately retaliated, firing up a punch and kick on the little Hylian. Toon Link flew backwards from the impact.
Fox shot his blaster to try to stop the others from coming closer to him, but unfortunately his blaster doesn't make opponents flinch upon the shot. Lucario advanced onwards, evading each shot with graceful ability.
It was too bad for Fox. With a full-charged blast of aura power, Fox wasn't KO'd, but now his damage percentage was high. Fox flew back, past the edge of the platform. Falling, he quickly told himself to use his FireFox move, which would blast him up to the platform.
"Fire!" He shouted, and the fire around him blasted him up. Lucario, who was waiting for Fox on the ledge was burned from the recovery move.
"Heh," Fox smirked, but didn't let his small victory slow him down. He shot his blaster at Lucario, and grabbed him. Throwing him upwards, he shot his blaster once again, and two of the three shots connected. Lucario flew up.
Fox leaped up at the vulnerable Pokémon, but Lucario was ready for it. Lucario kicked Fox straight in the face. It hit his nose right-on.
"Ufff!" Fox grunted. His nose stung, but it faded away. Lucario, up on one of the ledges of the Battle Field, charged his aura yet again.
Fox had an idea. He would sneak behind Lucario and smash him with his powerful finishing move. It wouldn't work as well, because Lucario was a psychic. Oh well, it's worth a try. He stalked towards Lucario, quietly. Lucario didn't notice. Creeping up a bit more, Lucario started to turn-
But Fox used his Front Smash and KO'd Lucario. Doing a short taunt, he moved on, while Lucario was brought back. He was on his last life (this was a two-life battle).
Meanwhile, Toon Link and Captain Falcon were battling intensely against each other. Toon Link hacked with his sword, while Captain Falcon used his punches and kicks.
A rainbow-ish flash blinded the smashers for a second. They knew that it was the Smash Ball. It would get them their final smash powers- if they were the one to break it.
Toon Link dashed off, with a Captain Falcon following close behind. Because of this, Toon Link threw a bomb behind him, and it hit Capt. Falcon. Capt. Falcon was sent flying back, and Toon Link sped up.
Lucario hit the Smash Ball with his aura. Toon Link was also hit away by Fox's punch. Nevertheless, Toon Link shot his boomerang at full power and threw his bombs at it. One of the bombs hit Lucario, and the boomerang hit Fox and the Smash Ball. The bomb unfortunately missed his opponents and the Smash Ball.
Lucario recovered from TL's hit, and punched the ball, sending it straight at Toon Link. A swipe of his sword broke the Smash Ball.
"Ha ha!" TL shouted in glee as he activated his smash power. Captain Falcon was the unfortunate victim. Lucario, being close enough to Capt. Falcon during the time, was partially caught in it. Fox just stayed away from it all.
Lucario was being bounced around in the glowing Triforce. Toon Link hit the two victims with all the might he had.
With a shout, he launched his final move of the final smash. Captain Falcon was KO'd.
"Yayyyy!" Toon Link taunted.
Fox took advantage of TL and kicked him in the back.
"Whhhoooaa!" Toon Link shouted in surprise. Fox smirked once again. TL immediately used his Meteor Smash and hit Lucario. Lucario growled threateningly and used his fully charged aura to hit the green boy. Since TL was in high damage percentages, TL lost his first life.
Lucario charged towards Fox again. Fox was still vengeful at Lucario, and sidestepped. Lucario flew over the edge of the platform and fell. In instinct, the blue Pokémon used his jump/boost (whatever you want to call it) move and recovered. Fox powered up his down smash, and Lucario was eliminated out of the game.
Too bad, Lucario. Better luck next time, Fox thought. Then, he went to join the battle of TL vs. CF (Captain Falcon). Fox whapped his big tail, which was a useful weapon, and hit CF. Toon Link swiped at Fox's tail, and Fox yelped with pain.
"Falcon PUNCH!" CF screamed out, and Fox was temporary knocked into oblivion. He lost his first life.
The rivalry between TL and CF remained. Both of them, being good defenders and attackers, had only scored some hits on each other. Both were 20% damaged.
"You! Will! Die!" CF yelled, as he punched Toon Link in the face.
"You! Will! To!" Toon Link shouted back, throwing ten bombs at once. Five hit CF, while two hit TL himself. Three hit a nearby box, sending a Smash Ball flying out.
"Wow! You're going to lose!" Toon Link shouted.
"Loser!" CF shrieked loudly, making TL wince a little. CF used this to knock the little boy away. He broke the Smash Ball, since it was very damaged in the beginning. The three bombs had mostly damaged it.
"Loser, loser, come close now!" CF taunted. Toon Link, having battled with CF many times, knew not to go close.
However, CF ran towards the little boy, who tripped over a wind-up bomb. It was flashing red and black.
CF activated his final smash-
The bomb exploded-
And the final smash took effect just a split second before the bomb hit the two.
Toon Link was thrown onto a race track.
Roaring of cars became louder and louder, until-
CRASH! The cars hit Toon Link at full speed, sending Toon Link outside of the Smash Boundaries.
Captain Falcon had won. Or did he?
He was transported to another battle scene.
"Sudden Death. GO!" Crazy yelled.
"What?" CF shouted. "I won!"
No one replied. Toon Link was no where to be seen. Bombs started to fall, and CF sidestepped to avoid them. He eventually saw TL dodging bombs as well. CF ran to TL, and almost hit him. TL did the same, but the hit didn't connect either.
"Idiot! Die!"
"We can't die, Captain Falcon."
"Right. But anyways, you lose." CF made a shield, and a bomb bounced off of it. TL didn't notice, and was the one who lost the match.
After the match
As soon as Capt. Falcon was transported back to the Smash Room (for preparing battles), he knew something was wrong.
Why did he still feel a lot of pain? Normally, once Smashers finished battling, they were healed of most of their wounds. Captain Falcon felt like he still had all of those bruises and scrapes from the intense match.
He then looked at his arm. There were some scratches on it, mostly caused by Toon Link. That would have been healed. Why is it not?
Toon Link, Lucario, and fox all seemed to be worried over at. Zelda was busy healing the wounds.
"...don't know what happened...magic...what?"
"...something bad...dark magic or the magic Master Hand is wearing off..."
"By the way, where is Master Hand?"
"Don't know, he's been out for quite a while."
"That never happens..."
Captain Falcon sat down. The other three seemed to be in the same state as he. Zelda eventually cam over, with Dr. Mario.
"Oh my, you're injured too!" Dr. Mario tended to Capt. Falcon's injuries.
"Master Hand's magic is going awry or something like that." Zelda frowned. "What in the world of Hyrule is happening?"
"I've no idea..." Link trailed off.
"I guess we shouldn't do matches. We could get hurt worse than this. Maybe we can just do practice matches," Master Hand cut in, frowning at the mess. Something about him seemed odd to the Smashers.
"Where were you? You were gone for a long while!" Zelda asked.
"Well... I heard of the dark magic and stuff coming far to the East. I went to go see."
"Why didn't you go and ask us to see?"
"It would be too dangerous for you."
"Nothing's too dangerous for us if we Smashers work together," Link said confidently. The others in the room nodded.
"Yeah... Is everything okay, Master Hand?" Marth questioned.
"Ah yes, yes. I am. Certainly." MH immediately put in. Lucario frowned, seeing that something was wrong. He growled a bit, but MH didn't seem to hear.
MH left after that. Lucario, after waiting a bit, started to speak.
"He's lying. There's something wrong with this."
"I got that feeling as well," Zelda added on. "We all need to find out. We should-"
"spy on Master Hand!" Ike piped up.
"Alrighty then. Let's make a plan," Marth encouraged.
Author's Notes: Did you enjoy it? Please review, comment, like, follow, etc. with my fanfic if you really enjoy it! See you later!