Marth
Status: Alone
Current Location: On the Wyvern's turf
Plan: none
Other: Experienced Reptile wrangler
Ike, Link, Bowser, Pit, Roy, Sheik
Status: Together
Current Location: Bowser's sorcery room
Plan: Educate on mythical creatures of the castle
Other: Bowser is an experienced Sorcerer.
Nana, Samus
Status: Together
Current Location: Wine Storage
Plan: Find Popo and Toon Link
Other: Unknown
Mewtwo, Pikachu
Status: Together
Current Location: Library
Plan: Unknown
Other: Unknown
Shade, Red, Lucas, Lucario
Status: Together
Current Location: Unknown
Plan: Find the children
Other: Shade knows the routes of the castle
Captain Falcon, Snake
Status: Together
Current Location: Unknown
Plan: Find the kids and get them out of here
Other: Unknown
Toon Link
Status: Alone
Current Location: Unknown
Plan: Unknown
Other: Experienced Ghost slayer, but helpless in the dark
Meta knight
Status: Alone
Current Location: Unknown
Plan: None
Other: Lupophobic
Jigglypuff
Status: Alone
Current Location: Brawl Bar
Plan: Wait for help from Doctor Mario, Young Link, and Pichu
Other: Unknown
Doctor Mario, Pichu
Status: Together
Current Location: Exterior of the castle
Plan: Save the others' sorry tail ends
Other: All are experienced fighters
"Now, where should we look for the kids?" Captain Falcon asked
"Well, First let's think of which ones we know the location of so we aren't running around for nothing." Snake chuckled. Captain Falcon took out his ringing phone (murmuring "Falcon-answer" under his breath) and looked at it.
"Well according to the text I got from Mewtwo, we know where Lucas and Red are, and we lost Toon Link."
"You mean *Gulp* 'lost' lost?" Snake wasn't one to cower at anything, but at this time, when there was a chance of death for anyone, he was afraid.
"No, he just ran off. So that leaves Him, Popo, Nana, Kirby, and Ness." Captain Falcon replied, unaware that Nana had in fact, been found, simply trapped in a dangerous situation.
"Oh, phew." Snake breathed.
"Where might we find them?"
"Well, scratch off Toon for now, he can go on a rampage and you'll never find him. Let's search for the other three, if he needs to be found he'll turn up." Snake murmured. Suddenly, they both heard a helpless cry of despair.
"Wh-what was that?" Captain Falcon jumped.
"Maybe it's a crazy homicidal seventeen year old!" Both men shrieked at the thought.
"No! No! It's me! Mr. Game and Watch!" The voice called out, clearer. They looked up ahead to see the 2-dimensional little character sitting in a cage, helpless.
"Oh my gosh! Hang on GW we'll get you out!" Captain Falcon prepared a fist. "FALCOOOOON PAWNCH!" He leaped up and broke the cage's bars in a single blow. He landed gracefully, and looked up at Mr. Game and Watch. He leaped out of the cage, using his parachute to get down safely.
"Thank you for saving me!" He looked up at the two men with nonexistent eyes. "I thought I'd be trapped in there forever!"
"Who put you in there?" Snake asked, only to have the flat denizen grab his and Captain Falcon's hands.
"No time to talk! I'll tell you when we're at a safe distance!" He explained quickly. Both 3-Dimensional men were left feeling very confused.
"Run Nana! I'll get this Bole-vine Bozo!" Samus held up her laser whip and locked eyes with a minotaur. It had an oddly similar look to a Towtow, but still remained very cow-like.
Nana nodded briefly before dashing out fo sight and hiding amongst the barrels of wine. The humanoid Bull looked at Samus with eyes that told what it mouth couldn't say.
I love women. You are especially lovely, you'd be very tasty to eat.Samus kicked the thing in the groin and leaped backwards. The minotaur mooed in pain.
"How. Many. Stupid. Mythical. Creatures. Do. We. Have. To. MEET?" She screamed, grabbing the bull's nose ring and tossing the beast across the room. She came at it with the whip and began to lash at it. Nana remained huddled amongst the wine barrels, timid and scared. She never liked fighting, that's why she let Popo be the leader. She was scared of nearly everything, it was no wonder she got along so well with Lucas. She wanted so badly to cry, but she knew that if she did, that big scary monster might kill her. Samus meanwhile, had grabbed a rope attached to the ceiling and tied it around the bull's neck tightly. Very tightly. "Come on Nana, let's go." She called over to the little girl, who scampered after her, and out of the door as fast as she could.
But the thing Samus had forgotten was that she may have tied the rope tight enough to make it lose consciousness.
But not too tight to kill the thing.
"So your-ah castle has-ah been having trouble lately?" Mario asked Giratina.
"Yes. And sadly I have no clue what it is, so I cannot do anything about it." The ghost Pokemon nodded. "I was planning on leaving this place with my pokemon. I have known you have been living here for quite a while, and we ghost pokemon prefer to stay out of the way of you. Gets you a little too used to the fear to be afraid huh?" Mario and Luigi nodded. "However, as long as I live in this castle, I am in charge of whatever troubles happen to fall upon it. And as it's guardian, I cannot leave whenever things look bad." He continued forlornly.
"I have-ah an idea!" Luigi exclaimed. Mario and Giratina looked at him. "What if-ah we helped you, and-ah you and-ah your ghosts can-ah go wherever you please!" Giratinia's eye's lit up.
"Really?" He asked "Oh, I would be most grateful." he looked thankfully to the two plumbers.
"Oh yes, we would-ah be happy to help-ah you. Right-ah bro?" Luigi turned to his brother.
"You betcha!" Mario winked. "So, what's-ah your problem exact-ah-ly?"
"Well, remember what I told you about there being no ghosts?" The two Italians nodded "Well I thought there wasn't. I thought the only 'ghosts' around were my ghost-pokemon. But now I'm having second thoughts. I sense thousands of spectoral creatures, but I only have a few hundred ghost pokemon. I summon all of my pokemon, and I still sense huge numbers of creatures throughout the castle. The most we'd do is send a few children scampering out of the dark hallways, and making a couple of adults eye the dark places with caution. But you explained to me about one of your children getting possessed by a ghost. I'd never allow one of my own to do such a thing. There's more to this problem than what I thought."
"Well don't-ah worry! We'll help-ah you!" Mario smiled confidently.
"Then-ah you can-ah go and-ah live where you please!" Luigi finished.
"I am forever in your debt." Giratina gave a stoic bow of thanks. "How do you plan to capture these fiends?"
"First-ah we've got to know-ah who they work-ah for!" Luigi explained. "See, ghosts don't-ah just scare the heebie-bah-jeebies out of-ah people for-ah no reason. They do it cuz-ah they have a grudge. Now ghosts don't hold-ah the grudges all together unless-ah they all-ah work for someone who is-ah holding the biggest grudge of-ah them all!"
"Translation?" Mario asked. He really didn't get his brother's ghost obsession. Boos were all he needed to know about ghosts.
"Ghosts are the departed spirits of a person who has passed on. They have the personality of the person that they were in life. Would your arch nemesis and best friend hold the same grudges?" Mario shook his head. "Exactly, they're different people. Most ghosts don't hold all hold a grudge against the same person or group unless one of two things: One is that they have done something to their home that they don't like. Have they given you trouble before about remodeling the castle?"
"No." Mario shook his head, feeling his moustache.
"Then that couldn't be it. The second, which your brother has explained, is that the ghosts have a leader who has a bone to pick with you."
"English?" Mario asked.
"THE GHOST'S-AH HAVE PSYCHO MANIAC-AH LEADER!" Luigi screamed. Mario could aggravate him from time to time.
"Okay bro! Easy! I'm-ah sorry I asked!" Mario held up his white gloved hands. Luigi let out a breath and the group continued walking.
Snake peaked around a corner and held a thumb up to Captain Falcon and Mr. Game and Watch.
"So tell us," He sat down next to the Captain. "How did you get up there?"
"It was horrible," Mr. Game and Watch sighed. "I had run from the ghost that went into the Brawl bar, and since I knew the routes of the castle-" Mr. Game and Watch cupped his hands over his mouth.
"What?" Captain Falcon leaned in. "You know the routes?"
"I-I'm sorry! I was scared, I didn't think about getting out! I just wanted to run away!"
"You knew? How did you know?" Snake grabbed him by the shoulders.
"Don't hurt me!" The black figure begged.
"Tell us!" Captain Falcon egged on.
"Okay, okay." Mr. Game and Watch took Snake's hands from his shoulders. ". . .I may not have been in the first Super Smash Brothers. . .but I've been here for all three of the games we made." Captain Falcon was shell-shocked. He had met Mr. Game and Watch in Melee, back when Jody Summers was his,and not Blood Falcon's. (CF's facebook status was "It's complicated" for a reason.) He hadn't even known that Game and Watch was around until Melee came out.
"I was really bored the first one we made, you know, not having a schedule or anything. So I spent a lot of my time exploring the castle routes." Game and Watch rubbed the back of his head. "I'm sorry you didn't know." Snake and Captain Falcon were at a loss for words.
"So. . .tell us, what happened after you ran?" Snake finally broke the silence.
"Well, I ran down the first corridor I knew of, the one through the back of the Brawl bar. There's a cistern down there. I got through, and I thought I was alone when a pair of ghosts grabbed me and carried me off."
"Where did they take you?" Captain Falcon asked.
"They brought me to a huge room, it was almost empty except for a throne in the back made purely of subspace." Game and Watch's last words almost seemed to hiss out of his mouth.
"Subspace?" Snake's eyes widened. "Then-"
"We killed that son of a sandbag Tabuu right?" Game and Watch almost seemed doubtful of the moment that he swore that he'd remember.
"Yes. He's dead and gone." Snake nodded.
"Then it wasn't him. . ." Game and Watch spoke to himself.
"Who was he? What did he do?"
"It's odd really. . .Should I go into detail?" Game and Watch asked. Both men nodded. "He walked up to me like he didn't even need to touch the ground. He was clothed in an outfit that was really really. . .weird. It was sort of a mix between the sci-fi and fantasy world. He held up a hand to the ghosts and they brought me to his face. He put his hands on his hips and leaned back the way Marth does when he's curious. He spoke like a serpent; with vanity and power. He said 'Well fancy meeting you.' and he grabbed me up by the collar. 'You've been living in the limelight a bit too long for my tastes. So you'll be the first to be locked away. Then your little friends.' then he handed me back to the ghosts and they locked me up."
"Well scratch off a prank on the villain's part, they aren't that dastardly. But at least we're getting somewhere. Now we know what we're up against." Snake reasoned.
"Yeah. What did he look like?"
"Well he was humanoid, and he had a very fit looking body. I didn't catch much else because my mind was spinning." Game and Watch confessed.
"It's fine, now our main worry is getting everyone out of here. Kids first." Captain Falcon stated.
"I'll help! I may not be a great fighter, but I can be useful!" Mr. Game and Watch suggested.
"Good, we need all the help we can get." Snake nodded to him.
"Okay, that's everything I can teach and give you." Bowser closed up his book. "Now we've gotta relocate the others, starting with Marth and Meta knight."
"Right." Link gave a nod.
"Link, Ike, and Pit, you have blessed weapons so you won't need to worry about most departed creatures and living things. I'll alert you if it's dangerous though." Bowser turned to them. "As for Sheik and Roy, I'll-"
"GUYS!" Marth burst through the trap door.
"Marth? What are you doing here?" Roy looked over at him in shock.
"I can't find Meta knight!" A forlorn look spread across his face.
"Relax Marth, he's probably fine." Ike murmured, very exhausted.
"But what if the Cerberus got him?" Marth looked greatly distraught.
"He's smart, he would get killed!"
"But he's Lupophobic!"
"He's what-ah-what-what?" Roy asked.
"Long story. We've gotta find him!"
"Well you're in luck Marth, we were just on our way to." Bowser slung the bag with his spell book over his shoulder.
"Oh Thank you Bowser!" Marth breathed.
"Not a prob kid." Bowser shrugged. "We all need to get out of here."
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