A/N: Look who's back with another textwall to read! That's right, CCC is! *mutters* Another dang chapter is late again...
This chapter features a glimpse on how the smashers participate in the regale of the day of love. Maybe you'll get a kick out of it. But of course, this is a humor story. So that means it will be ridiculous as ever.
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With Smashers Like These:
Smashentine's Day
At the Smash Mansion, events at the house regarding a holiday were actually quite mild for once. By the usual standards, at least.
Though, the circumstances could always suddenly turn into an incident of Crazy Hand exploding a Smart Bomb somewhere in house. But it doesn't look like that's going to happen.
Yet.
In the living room, a handful of the smashers were gathered together, since that was where most of them had ended up for some reason. But that didn't stop some of them from participating in today's holiday, which was Smashentine's Day.
"Happy Smashentine's Day, Luigi!" A blonde woman with a ponytail, and dressed in a Zero Suit, greets to her fellow smasher warmly, handing him a red construction paper heart with something written on it.
"Aw, thanks Samus!" Luigi says, gladly accepting the heart and smiling. Samus reciprocates with a smile of her own.
In another part of the living room, Kirby is standing around casually when King Dedede approaches him with his hands behind his back. Acknowledging his presence, Kirby turns to King Dedede and looks up at him innocently.
The penguin king then thrusts a heart shaped chocolate box into the puffball's stubby hands. Before Kirby even has time to react to the gift, King Dedede scoops Kirby into his arms and gleefully hugs him, just like the way he was happy to see him in the Subspace Emissary.
Lucario is devoting his portion of the day to meditating peacefully. The vibes in the living room made him calm enough to concentrate while he sifts through the auras he registers. He then sees 6 smaller auras that appear to scurry over to him and stop where he is sitting on the floor.
When the aura user opens his eyes, he scans the room for the source of the auras he sensed. A squeak from below emits in front of himself, and Lucario looks down to see a group of assorted Pikmin. They hold up a structure of leaves and twigs that is crafted into a heart.
Diddy Kong is jumping up, down, and all about as Donkey Kong enters the living room. The monkey runs over to his uncle with a square piece of cardboard, the cardboard containing bananas that were glued to it and shaped into a heart. Inside the banana heart, there is a drawing of Diddy and Donkey Kong's heads, with a red heart just above the heads and colored in crayon. Seeing the gift that was made for him, Donkey Kong affectionately tousles his nephew's head.
Pikachu jumps into Sonic's lap while Sonic is lounging on one of the couches in the living room. In the pokémon's mouth, there is a plush version of Sonic that he drops in front of him.
"Thanks Pikachu!" Sonic says, scratching Pikachu's head and behind his ears. Soon, Squirtle, Ivysaur, and Charizard also appear next to Pikachu, each with different gifts to give to Sonic. Squirtle has a plush heart that's pink, Charizard had brought Sonic a chilidog, and Ivysaur has a white rose in his mouth that he picked from the garden.
"Thanks, you guys." Sonic tells the group of pokémon, a smile spreading onto his face.
While all of this is happening, there was one particular smasher who didn't necessarily enjoy the scene that was in front of himself at the moment. That smasher was Toon Link.
"Ugh." he voices, contorting his face to one of nausea as he observes the activity from one of the living room sofas. "It's like the entire term of affectionate got sick, and threw up everywhere."
Nana, sitting with Toon Link and Popo as well, decides to say her thoughts on the matter. "Well Toony, it's not that bad. It's a nice holiday for expressing that you care about your friends, your family, and more."
"And it's a good day to be getting candy!" Popo adds in, putting a large amount candy hearts into his mouth. "It's life Smashofween in Fefruary!"
Toon Link still seems convinced that there's no real reason to celebrate Smashentine's Day.
"Yeah, it's not so bad..." Ness, sitting near the sofa with Lucas, comments from his spot on the floor. "...for some people here." Looking over to Snake and Jigglypuff standing in front of each other, the rest of the younger smashers shift their eyes to what Ness sees.
Jigglypuff hands Snake a small plastic bag with candy hearts inside of it, all while beaming proudly.
"Wow, uh, thanks Jigglypuff..." Snake says, awkwardly accepting the gift and turning it in his hands.
"Jigglypuff!" Jigglypuff bounces in happiness. She then takes out her microphone from out of nowhere and clears her throat to sing a song.
"No, no, Jigglypuff! You don't need to sing." Snake says. But it was too late, as Jigglypuff had already started vocalizing.
Snake falls asleep almost as soon as the first note leaves the balloon pokémon's mouth. After he drops to the ground with a thud, Jigglypuff stops singing to see that, once again, someone she was singing to had fallen asleep.
Jigglypuff uncaps her microphone and growls irritably.
"He should've seen that coming." Toon Link passively comments as Jigglypuff furiously draws on the sleeping solider's face.
"Poor Snake..." Lucas says, watching as well.
R.O.B. wheels into the living room in the middle of the festivities. He swivels his head and looks around briefly for a moment with his camera eyes, watching what the smashers are doing. Then, the robot remembers what today is.
R.O.B. buzzes for a moment while trembling slightly. He then extends his arm, which transforms into a rotation-like appendage. Each of the four slots punch out Smashentine's cards the are shaped like hearts.
"Happy Smashentine's Day!" the robot says as the card shooter hums, powering up. Toon Link raises his eyebrows and widens his large cat eyes as his pupils shrink. It didn't take long for him to figure out what was going to happen next.
"Everyone, GET DOWN!" Toon Link shouts out, pushing the Ice Climbers off the sofa while he seeks refuge under the glass coffee table nearby. The other smashers in the living room don't even question the sudden command and immediately drop to the ground and cover their heads.
R.O.B. spins the card shooter so fast, that it blurs as it sends out cards. The dangerous paper projectiles get embedded in the walls, in the curtains, in the couches, in the paintings, and anywhere else that could be penetrated by the edges of the cards.
Once it's over, Toon Link open his eyes that were squeezed shut. He removes his hands from above his head and rises from underneath the table. Cards are stuck nearly everywhere in the living room.
Unluckily for some smashers that didn't seem to heed the warning in time, Ike, Marth, Meta Knight, Captain Falcon, Fox, and Wolf are stiffly pinned to the walls, suspended by the paper cards that were poking through their clothes.
"Can you feel the love?" R.O.B. asks, oblivious to the bad deed he has done.
"Oh, I'm feeling it alright..." Wolf mutters, narrowing his eyes and looking up at the ceiling. Captain Falcon waves his arms and legs around as he tries to become free of the cards. Since he dived to a floor a second too late, a card had caught onto his underwear, which was now hanging him to his doom.
"...I HATE Smashentine's Day!" Toon Link declares loud and clear, fully standing up.
"Well Toon Link, I guess you could say that...love hurts? Eh?" Popo emphasizes his pun by leaning next to Toon Link and waggling his eyebrows. The Hylian is not amused, and he proves this by staring down his friend while he still stupidly does his eyebrow waggle and grin combo.
Toon Link then firmly grips his face with the span of his hand, groaning loudly. "Popo, I am going to hit you with a Home Run bat..." he mutters, nearly inaudible.
A green dinosaur carefully makes his way over to Nana, cautiously looking to either side of himself as he passes through the card battlefield. The tables can turn so quickly when simple holiday cards become weapons of mass destruction.
"Thanks, Yoshi." the pink Ice Climber whispers to Yoshi once he hands her a red envelope. He gives a quick nod, then runs like a madman to get to the safety of somewhere that isn't the living room. As Yoshi runs, he passes by Falco, who has today's mail. As soon as Falco gets an eyeful of the living room, he understands why Yoshi is in such a hurry.
"Uh...hey Toon Link. You got mail." the bird says to the young adventurer, handing him a pink envelope with a red heart sticker on the mail flap. Falco also gives Ness an envelope, which is lavender in color. "You too, Ness."
"Aw cool, it's from Paula." Ness notices, slightly pressing the envelope to his chest and looking into the distance. He then lifts up his hat and stores the mail under the hat to read it later.
Toon Link opens his envelope carefully, so as not to rip the heart sticker on it, and pulls out a parchment with a golden inked Triforce stamp in the top right corner.
"I didn't get anything..." Popo states sadly, looking down and shuffling his feet. Lucas wraps an arm around the blue Ice Climber.
"You got me, buddy." Lucas tells Popo. Popo slowly lifts his head to the blonde psychic, then smiles and nods.
"Thanks." he voices with sincerity.
Toon Link reads through the letter that he received from his homeworld. I hope you're having fun, it's boring here without you, Aryll and your grandma say hi, we should go sailing sometime, the usual letter content...and something that he was sure he read way too fast. He reads it again slower this time, bringing the paper closer to his eyes.
The cartoon Hylian raises his eyebrows in surprise as a luminescent blush spreads across his face, lowering the paper slightly.
"Who's it from?"
"GAH!" Toon Link jumps forward, startled that Nana is suddenly over his shoulder. "...Why do you wanna know?"
"I saw the Triforce stamp."
"Oh." Toon Link puts his arms to his sides and avoids eye contact. "It's...it's from Princess Zelda."
"Oooh, really? I wanna see!"
"Heck no!" Toon Link raises the letter out of Nana's reach and uses his free hand to push her back from trying to get it. The very thought of having someone else read what was written down was enough to renew his receding blush.
"Hey, don't be nosy." Ness says as he puts a hand on Nana's shoulder. Nana ceases her clamor for the letter and turns to face both of the boys.
"You're right. Sorry." she apologizes, closing her eyes for a short moment. Toon Link and Ness lock eyes with each other, almost as if it were code for thanking someone for getting them out of a situation.
"Yeah..." Toon Link neatly folds his letter twice and hides it away under his green cap. He'll read the rest of it later. "Well...anyway, has anyone seen Red?"
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"Are you sure this is a good idea?"
"Yeah. He's staring out the window. That must mean he's checking someone out."
"I am having the biggest internal conflict with myself right about now."
"Don't worry! Just shoot your arrow and watch the magic happen!"
An angel and a pokémon trainer are watching an armored man stare through a window, which is near one end of one of the Smash Mansion's many hallways. The duo is at the opposite end of the hallway, hiding away behind a potted houseplant.
The plan for them today was to shoot one of the angel's arrows at the unsuspecting Gerudo king, hoping for some sort of reaction from him.
Of course, they should've known that the plan was a request for guaranteed eternal perishment.
"I'm just going to tell you again, I'm not related to, or in any way, shape, or form, the physical manifestation of Cupid." Pit reminds, raising up his Angel Bow in place of his Palutena Bow, and pulling back an arrow. The arrow has a typical appearance of a red heart as the arrow head, and two white plastic angel wings as the fletchings.
"Just shoot Ganon already!" Red says to Pit, eager to see what would happen. Sighing, Pit aims the heart arrow at the Gerudo.
Ganondorf observes the activity of the yard with lackadaisical interest. Though, whatever is going on outside is better than endearing the sociability of the living room. It causes him to sneer just thinking about it.
That's when a quick shot of pain makes itself known in Ganondorf's right leg.
"Ouch!" He yells while wincing, as an arrow has just embedded itself into his bottom. Then Ganondorf freezes in his spot, almost as if he were pulled into some sort of trance.
Pit holds his breath, hoping yet doubting at the same time that the arrow actually worked.
"He's totally under the love spell!" Red cheers in triumph at the sight.
Too bad Ganondorf hears him, and whips his head around at breakneck speed to notice Red. The wish of death literally screams from his glare. Red gulps.
"Or not." Pit squeaks, his voice at a higher octave in fear. But Red doesn't hear Pit's response, as he is already halfway down the hall.
Ganondorf turns his body and begins stomping towards the houseplant, dark magic forming in his hands as he clenches them in fists. Pit can only watch as Ganondorf nears to him, cemented to his place in terror and his wings wilting ceremoniously.
"PIT!" Red shouts in panic, realizing that the angel wasn't running beside him. The call is enough to snap Pit back into reality and send him towards the direction of Red, all while both of them are screaming their heads off.
"AHHHHH!"
"AHHHHH!"
"WHY DID I LISTEN TO A POKÉMON TRAINER!?"
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"Nope. Haven't seen him." Ness reports plainly.
Meanwhile, Bowser enters the living room in search of the princess of the Mushroom Kingdom. With everyone so distracted by today's holiday, there was no way that anything could interfere with his plans.
That is, until Wario suddenly appears in his path with a creepy smile. Bowser nearly jumps to the ceiling.
"WHOA! Jeez!" the koopa says, stepping back and clutching a spot on his chest, approximately where his heart is located. "What do you want, Wario?!" Bowser questions, riled by the sudden scare.
Wario laughs for a bit, much to Bowser's annoyance. The biker then grabs Bowser's arm and slaps a heart shaped card into his hand. Bowser looks down at the card, then back to Wario, then back to the card once again.
"What is this?" he asks, holding up the card like it was something fake.
"It's a Smashentine, man! From me to you!" Wario says, extending his arms out in front of Bowser. Bowser knits his eyebrows in uncertainty. If anything nice is coming from Wario, he must be dreaming.
"Come on, open it!" Wario encourages in giddy anticipation. Bowser prepares to open the card, all while staring at Wario with the same uncertain look in his eyes. The koopa doesn't even fully pull back the first side when he gets punched in the face by a novelty boxing glove, which knocks him back onto his shell.
"Wahahaha!" Wario full out laughs, falling onto the floor and kicking up his legs. Bowser loudly growls from his throat. He is so furious at the prank, he has enough momentum to push himself off of the ground and back onto his feet.
"I WILL DESTROY YOU!" Bowser snarls, exposing his claws to Wario and baring his teeth. Wario freaks out from this since he didn't expect Bowser to get back up.
"WAH! Don't destroy me! I need this face for the ladies!" Wario says, summoning his motorcycle out of nowhere and hopping onto it. He revs off just before Bowser can clasp a hand around his neck.
"GET BACK HERE!" the koopa king threatens, beginning to chase after the biker.
In all of the chaos, five figures exit from their places in the kitchen in a cheerful mood. These people are Mario, Princess Peach, Link, Princess Zelda, and Mr. Game & Watch. Princess Peach holds up the confectionery creation that her friends helped her make in the kitchen.
"We made—" the princess starts off with utmost pep. Then she takes in the scene happening before her very eyes, lowering the four-tiered treat in her hands. "...cake...?"
The living room is currently a disaster.
Luigi, Samus, Lucario, and Sonic were trying to pry Meta Knight, Fox, and Ike off of the wall they're stuck on, while Olimar, King Dedede, and Kirby are trying to get off Wolf and Marth. The younger smashers attempt to console Captain Falcon, since he's complaining that his underwear is giving him a wedgie as they try to free him from the suspension of the cards. Bowser is shaking his fist at Wario, who is driving on the ceiling with his motorcycle and laughing pompously. Then Bowser decides to spit flame breath at Wario, who then shouts in fear and now drives frantically to avoid the flames.
Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong poke at Snake, who is sleeping on the floor with frowny faces scribbled all over his face.
The five smashers all stare at the wild activity teeming in the living room.
"What is going on here?" Mario voices incredulously, watching Ivysaur pull with his vines at the card holding Captain Falcon captive. Squirtle walks over to Ivysaur and pulls on him to help, and when then doesn't work, Pikachu goes over to Squirtle and helps him pull. Then Charizard pitches in to help also, pulling behind Pikachu. Despite their efforts, Ivysaur loses his grip and causes himself and the other pokémon to fly back from the force, crashing into an unsuspecting R.O.B. and Jigglypuff, who Jigglypuff was singing to.
"Please move!"
"Sorry!"
Pit and Red suddenly push past the standing smashers, prompting them to stand a good distance away from each other as the two enter the living room. Ganondorf races past not shortly after, determined to get close enough to Red and Pit to at least rearrange their faces.
"I don't know what's going on, but Ganondorf has an arrow in his butt." Link says, grinning at the sight of the arrow as Ganondorf chases Red and Pit in circles around the living room.
Princess Zelda sighs wistfully, lowering her eyeshadowed top eyelids.
"Chaos always ensues in this house for this holiday—"
KABOOOOM!
The group of smashers jump at the sound of an explosion somewhere inside the house. The faint sound of someone laughing happily while someone else is yelling at them is heard. They hear traces of the scolding mention something about a Smart Bomb.
"...every single year." Zelda finishes from being cut short. Mr. Game & Watch beeps.
And there you have it.
Apologies for lateness. I thought I was gonna do this one idea, but then I decided to scrap that and do this instead. And then it ended up taking way longer to type than I expected. And then while I was writing this, I was always telling myself, "Ok, I'm almost done!", only to find out that I was forgetting someone! Jeez. :I
Anyway, thank you for bearing with me. And reading this whole thing. It's very much appreciated! I also noticed that this story now has 5,000 hits and counting. Thank you guys so much! :'D
'Til the next Author's Note!
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