SmashGaf Chapter 14

"Uh oh" thought IntelliHeath as he ran into the school. It was his first day of Junior Year and he was already late! He rushed through the hallways with most of his various papers and documents flying rampantly out of his binder. A grimace crossed his face as all of the old threads of his life were now scattered across the smooth, clean tile.

He knelt down to pick them up, when suddenly a wave of nostalgia hit him. "Wait a minute… haven't I been here before?" he thought. He looked up, and saw that Neiteio was walking over to him. He was shocked to find that the girl looked really different. She looked just like she did at the start of the school year, which was quite a shock to Heath, who had grown accustomed to how she usually looked.

Heath felt a strange sensation of comfort and confusion as she knelt next to him and helped him pick up the papers. She smiled shyly at him, then brushed a strand of hair behind her ear.

"I'm Neiteio, by the way." She said while stealing a look at Heath.

Heaths eyes went wide as he stammered for something to say. "I… Uh… I know." He eventually said, his confused look staring at Neiteio.

She looked back at him, and smiled a half smile, then let loose a small giggle. "I'm pretty sure I've never met you before. So…" she said, as she handed the papers to IntelliHeath. "I've got to get to class, but I'll see you later, alright?" And with that, Neiteio happily skipped down the hallway and out of sight.

Heath couldn't believe what was happening. "WTF?" he said, standing up from the cold ground. "I've got to get to the bottom of this, but where do I start?" He was stuck deep in thought, before finally realizing something. "Wait, shouldn't principal Sakurai be here? Where is he? He should be able to help me." Heath decided to go to Professor Beefs class. Neiteio would be in there, and that would be able to comfort him a little bit in these strange times.

He slowly made his way through the school, and turned down the hallway that had Professor Beefs room.

"Get away from me! Don't call my parents!"

Heath quickly slipped into the shadow of the hallway. He peered out from the shade, to see a familiar face being dragged down the hallway. "Afoni." Heath said, the words slipping out of his lips like a foreign word. He hadn't seen Afoni since the incident that he had been sure was just a dream he had had. "What the hell is going on?" he muttered under his breath.

Afoni was crying as he was being dragged away, towards the principal's office. Heath looked to see who the person taking him away was, expecting to see Sakurai, but was surprised to see a strange, smoky being. It looked as if it kept glitching in and out of reality, and didn't have a solid form.

Heath jerked back suddenly, causing the lockers behind him to ring out in a solemn melody. Heath remembered where he had seen that monster before. Him and Jedi Link had been fighting a being that looked just like that, but then…? Heath couldn't remember what happened then, or what he was doing here now, but he was sure that the monster had caused this somehow.

"Still so resilient, even after being defeated."

Heath heard a voice echo around in his head. He turned to try and find a source for the voice, only to find a black fog, slowly consuming his vision. He tried to yell out, or even talk, but found that he had no energy or resistance.

"With everything lost, does it even matter to keep going?"

The awful whispers of this voice were digging straight into Heaths mind. He felt a horrendous pain that made him scream out in agony. His whole body was tense now, and he found that the black fog was leaving his vision.

He was in principal Sakurai's office, although it looked a little different. There was no accessory's or ornaments decorating it's walls, and there wasn't even a desk. There were 2 chairs in the room. One he was currently sitting in, and next to him there was another chair that held a beat up and bloodied Afoni.

"Even now, I am destroying your world, your life, your friends."

The black smoke slowly drifted into the room, and began to cover Afoni. His eyes shot open and he began to rock back and forth, mumbling obscenities and lies. The smoke began to slip into his nose, causing his body to shake and spaz around. His eyes rolled back in his head, and he was now writing on the floor, foam sporting from out of his mouth.

Heath watched the horrible scene that was unfolding before him, trying to turn away, but being unable to not watch. Suddenly, he stopped moving, then slowly sat up in an unnatural, and spine breaking way. He faced Heath, then his eyes shot open. The whole eye was pitch black, and un blinking.

"And now it is your time." Said the body of Afoni

The new Afoni stumbled its way over to Heath. His movement was unnatural and jerked into different poses randomly. Heath tried to move, but found that he was strapped into the chair. Afoni reached its hand out for Heath, and eventually grabbed ahold of his face. Heath struggled to move away from the hand, but it eventually encompassed his whole face, and blacked out his vision.

"AUUGHHHHHHRRRRBLGHSLHDGLHSADG;LHSD;LSGA;LSKDGHHSPOQWEOTHL;SZXCB;/LASNF;LJFDKL!". Heath's voice yelled into the blackness of night as he shot up from his bed. He hunched over, his body sweating and heaving heavily. He looked at his hands, which were trembling. He tried to calm down but his adrenaline was pumping too hard.

"Why do I keep having this dream?" thought Heath. He remembered that moment all those years ago very vividly. He and the rest of the surviving members of SmashGaf had defeated the smoke monster and restored peace to the world. Why did he feel like something was wrong?

He slowly got out of bed and put on his socks. He grabbed his cane, which was propped on his nightstand, and slowly moved to the bathroom. Once he made it inside he closed the door and took a look at himself in the mirror. "What the hell happened to me…" Heath sighed as he looked at his war torn body. All of the scars were still there from previous battles.

He touched the scar on his face that he received during school. "Neiteio…" he muttered under his breath. He closed his eyes, flinching at all of the memories that name brought to him.

"BECAUSE I DON'T LOVE YOU ANYMORE!" shouted Neiteio at Heath. Heath looked up from the ground, tears in his eyes. "We were just a highschool fling! I never thought it was serious or anything." She said, looking at the sad, wrinkled form of IntelliHeath on the floor. Heath outstretched his arm for her, and Neiteio just looked at it, then looked away. "please…" Heath choked out, before collapsing on the floor.

Heath was suddenly jerked back into the present. His body tensed up as he felt the pain of that night. He stared at himself in the mirror, then punched it with all the force of 1000 Xatu's. The glass fractured all around his fist, splintering inside of it, causing shreds of blood to squirt. Heath yelled in agonpain, and clutched his hand as he laid on the floor in the glass. "I've got to get her back…. I have to…". Tears fell from the face of the man that once loved a woman who didn't love the man. He then began constructing the phases of his plan to win back his luvur.

15 Years Later

"Let's go, Alistair Roo! You're gonna be late for school!" called Neiteio up the stairs. She sighed as she softly smiled. She grabbed her purse and walked into the kitchen to say goodbye to her husband. Andre looked up from his frosted flakes, and smiled. Milk escaped from his mouth, and he quickly tried to cover it so his wife wouldn't see his embarrassing mistake. Neiteio smiled, and didn't care at all about the cereal.

She slid in next to Andre, and gave him a small kiss on the cheek. "I'm going to go drop off Alistair Roo, have a good day at work today." She said. Andre blushed and gave a frosted flake free smile back at her. "Thanks, I won't be doing too much, just reviewing Smash Bros. Infinity Wii 2u revolution." He said rather excitedly.

Neiteio laughed, but was secretly super jelly of her husbands job. She waved goodbye to him, and walked outside to her car. Alistair Roo was already waiting inside the family's kickass mini-van. Neitieo pulled open the delorean style door, and slipped inside. She closed the door then pressed the ignition button. *VROOOOMMBBBCCHAKAKAKAKAKAKAK*

The engine purred to life, and the mother/son pair departed for school.

"So, Roo, are you excited for your first day of school?" Neiteio asked. Alistair Roo just looked out the window nonchalantly. "I dunno, I guess mom. School kinda blows though, you know?" Neiteio gave a hearty laugh, then shrugged her shoulders. "I guess it depends on how you look at it, sweetie! I actually have a pretty interesting story of my first day of scho*SCREEEETCH*"

The badass pink mini-van arrived at the front of the school. Roo quickly jumped out. "Bye sweetie, good luck today!" Neiteio waved out the window as she sped away. Roo waved goodbye to his mum, and turned to face the school. "It looks a lot bigger than it did on the oculus rift walkthrough." He thought to himself as he walked to the front door.

*BOOM*

Roo was knocked on to the ground as soon as he reached for the door. He stared up to see a blonde, smug faced kid staring down at him. Tears were starting to form in his eyes, and he quickly wiped them away and got up. "Why did you do that?" asked Roo, glaring at him.

"Cuz I felt like it, brah. Just chillax man." Said the mysterious kid as he began walking into Roo's grill. He pushed Alistair Roo again, this time with enough force to launch him off of the stairs they were on. Roo hit the ground hard, and couldn't hold back his tears anymore. They slipped from eyes as he tried to cover himself with his jacket in shame.

The kid started laughing as he began to walk down the stairs to the crying Roo. Roo covered himself and braced for a world of pain, but was surprised to see that none of that was happening yet. He peeked out from his jacket, and found that there was a girl in front of him, protecting him.

"Leave him alone, The Captain!" shouted the girl, standing firm and strong. "I won't let you be a jerk to anyone this year!"

The Captain grinned as he stopped at the base of the stairs. "I don't think you'll be able to stop me, Jawmuncher." He said as he scoffed a deep scoff at her. "At this school, I'm going to climb all the way to the top and you can't stop me!"

Jawmuncher grimaced at him, then gave the secret signal to a bush. The bush rustled and out popped 2 other girls who ran in front of Roo to protect him. The Captain looked baffled that there were now 3 girls facing him, but he quickly regained his composure. "*witty remark*" said The Captain as he flipped his and stood aloofly in front of the girls.

"If you don't back down, I'm going to have Anura and Ice doesn't help, help me beat you up!" Anura, and Ice quickly took fighting positions, and glared at The Captain. "pshaw, whatever. You chicks don't scare me at all! Bring it on!" said The Captain cockily.

A shadow slowly loomed over him, and The Captain turned around quickly. His eyes met a tall, dark shadow. The being peered at The Captain behind a bandaged head that had one, bloodshot eye visible through the bandaging. M-m-m-m-mmm-m-m Mr. Intelli! Sir, I was j-j-just showing my new friends the school!" The Captain stuttered.

Mr Intelli gazed at him for a long time. The Captain was slowly getting unnerved having this monstrous, apparition of a man staring at him. Words formed from the deepest part of the man. "Meet me in the principals office in 5 minutes." Came an ice cold voice. Like a vision from hell, Mr. Intelli dissolved into the school, his eye piercing the souls of anyone staring at him.

The Captain stuttered some incomprehensible words, then fumbled his way away from the group of kids he was threatening. He made it to the door, and shakily made his way inside, vanishing into the crowd of students.

"Good work girls! We're definitely keeping the name of SmashGals alive if we continue helping people like this!" said Jawmuncher to Anura and Ice doesn't help. The girls all giggled and nodded happily. They began talking about girly stuff, and none of them noticed that Roo had quietly slipped away. Roo didn't want to be any more embarrassed today, and had decided to quickly retreat to his first class of the day.

As all of the children slowly began to go to their classrooms, Mr. Intelli watched from his office. His eye pierced through everything. There wasn't a thing in this school that he didn't see. He turned and sat at his desk, The Captain was sitting on the other side of it.

"L-look m-m-Mr. Intelli. I can explain! You see I was only try-". Mr. Intelli held up a hand to silence the boy. "I don't care much for your petty squabbles. Theres only one thing that matters to me, and it doesn't involve kids fighting in the school. If you don't want to be suspended, you need to do one thing for me. Keep picking on Alistair Roo until I tell you to stop." Said the frigid whisper of the principal.

"w-what? I only did that because I was insecure about my home life! theres now I could ever do it on purpose to actual hurt someone!" said The Captain, shaking his head. Mr. Intelli's stare caught The Captains eyes. "There are worse things that can happen than picking on a boy. I assure you that they will come if you don't do this for me." Said the principal. "Now, will you do this for me?"

The Captain gulped, then sat thinking for a minute. After 60 seconds he promptly nodded his head multiple times, and said "yeah, I can." Mr. Intelli didn't say a word, but rather just nodded, then pointed to the door. The Captain understood the message, and practically ran as fast as he could out of the door.

Mr. Intelli picked up his journal and took out a small piece of paper. He unfolded it 8 times, then set it on the desk. He took out a pen, and checked next to the words that said "Step 1". (The camera then zooms into Mr. Intelli's red eye, and the shot fades out.)

=====After a couple hours of tracing in paint, i've managed to make some reference images for some characters. I believe that this will help you see better realize the gravity of this story.

The Captain - h-t-t-p-:-/-/-i-.-i-m-g-u-r-.-c-o-m-/-6-p-F-y-Z-2-1-.-j-p-g- You're gonna have to go through manually and remove all of the "-"'s to see it.