Me: *Just minding my own business*
*Knock knock*
Me: *Opens door* Hello?
Anonymous: Yo. What's up?
Me: Wait a minute. Aren't you supposed to be in the cyber world?
Anonymous: Isn't other-big-forehead supposed to be in pink-big-forehead's mind?
Me: Nevermind. *Shakes head* So why are you here?
Anonymous: *Sigh* My boss is busy with setting some tournament up, and I'm not sure I'll be able to get there in time to watch.
Me: Here. *reaches into pocket* Take this Kenyan Leg battle chip. It'll double your running speed, so you should get there in time.
Anonymous: *Takes chip* Thanks. *Passes escape pod* Hey what does this blinking light mean?
Me: Oh that gauge? It means I forgot to refill the escape pod gas cell.
Anonymous: . . . Escape pod?
Me: OH SHIT! I FORGOT TO REFUEL THE ESCAPE POD!
Anonymous: I'm going to go now. *Jumps out door* Kenyan Leg battle chip in! Download!
*Shoots into distance at 100 miles an hour*
Me: Why was he here anyway?
To get caught up on the events here, go to the reviews column for chapter 37 and find the skit. You can't miss it. Also, I'm not being racist with the stereotype. It's for humor.
It was another lazy day at the Hikari residence. Naruto and Lan were goofing off, watching wrestling on the couch.
"Man. Wrestling is awesome," Lan said as he watched one guy hit the other over the head with a folding chair.
"Are you sure your mom lets you watch this?" Naruto asked. Right now he was in his ninja outfit.
"What she doesn't know won't hurt her," Lan said.
Naruto shrugged, but then sensed something.
You see, earlier that morning, Naruto deployed a couple of Shadow Clones to hide in the trees around the house, and to dispel if anyone went into the house.
Since experience gained by the shadow clones is transferred to the user, Naruto knew who it was coming through the front door.
"Hey Lan. Do you know where MegaMan went?" Naruto said as he took out his RushWhistle battle chip. He put it in the slot on the side of his PET Watch.
"He went to net city. Something about a tournament starting up or something," Lan said, still enthralled by the wrestling.
Rush appeared out of a hole on the couch behind Naruto. Naruto nodded as he quickly crawled through the hole into the Cyber World.
Just as Naruto's feet went through the hole, the front door opened, and Mrs. Hikari caught Lan watching wrestling.
"Uh oh," Lan said as his mom shot him an angry look for watching wrestling without her permission.
Rush dropped Naruto off in Net City.
"Thanks Rush," Naruto said as he crawled out the hole. "I almost got caught back there."
Rush barked as he ran to find some cyber dog biscuits.
Naruto shrugged his shoulders. "Oh well. I'd better get moving too."
Naruto dropped back into an alley and climbed up to the highest point of a nearby building.
"Now let's see here. Maybe I'll drop by the battle arena to see what this tournament is that Lan mentioned," Naruto said to himself as he looked around the city. "And I wonder if I fixed it from my last visit."
Naruto caught sight of the arena.
"There it is." Naruto leapt from one building to the other, making his way to the battle arena.
Meanwhile back in the real world.
Lan was laying on the bed in his room. His PET started ringing, he must've gotten a call.
"Hello?" Lan said as he answered the phone.
"Hey Lan. It's Maylu," Maylu said from the other side of the phone.
"Hey Maylu. What's happening?" Lan asked.
"We were all going to go to Yai's house to watch this tournament that's happening in Net City. You gonna come and watch?" Maylu asked.
"I can't," Lan whined. "Mom caught me watching wrestling while she went out for groceries, and now I'm grounded."
"Oh. That's too bad," Maylu said. "But you shouldn't watch wrestling when you aren't allowed to. Does Naruto want to come."
Him again? Lan thought to himself. "Uh, no. I think he went into the cyber world already."
"Aw, that's too bad," Maylu said. "Well. See you later."
Maylu hung up.
"Great," Lan complained. "There's a tournament going on and I can't even watch."
Naruto touched down in front of the battle arena.
"Hey Naruto! Are you going to enter too?"
He turned around to see Iris and Meddy running towards him. "Uh. Maybe I will. What're you doing here?"
"Oh, we're just here to watch this time," Meddy said.
"Here Naruto, I got something for you," Iris said. She handed Naruto a Recovery300 battle chip. "In case you ever get injured or something, you can use that to fix you right up."
"A recovery chip, huh?" Naruto smiled as he pocketed the chip. "Thanks. This'll come in handy during the tournament."
Iris smiled happily, glad that she brought a smile to Naruto's face.
Meddy got a little angry with that. However she didn't have any spare battle chips to give Naruto.
The three of them walked into the arena together.
When they entered, the arena looked like it had recently been refurbished. The ground was fixed, and the bleachers had new cushions on them. The ground in the arena had a black surface with a green grid pattern.
They looked around, seeing that the whole arena was filled with people.
Naruto looked over to the side. "Hey. There's MegaMan."
Nartuo, Iris, and Meddy walked over to MegaMan.
"Hey guys. You all entering too?" MegaMan asked.
"Nope. Just me," Naruto said.
"Hey look, there's GutsMan," Iris pointed out, seeing the hulking navi coming towards them.
"Hey GutsMan, you going to enter?" MegaMan asked.
"GutsMan not here to enter. GutsMan here to squash MegaMan," GutsMan said.
"Uh. Okay. Good luck with that," MegaMan said.
Just then, a flying pedestal came down from the sky. Two figures were riding it down to the arena.
"Thank you for coming here today. I would like to be the first to introduce the first annual, Net City Smash tournament," the first figure said.
"Hey isn't that Mr. Anonymous?" Meddy asked.
"There's no "Mr." to it. Just Anonymous," the referee corrected.
"Yep. That's him," MegaMan said. "But I don't recognize who that is with him."
Naruto looked up to get a look at the second figure. The figure was short, and draped from head to toe in a green robe and hat. His face was hidden, but two bright yellow eyes could be see. Two red ornaments that looked like kunai were placed on the front.
"I don't recognize that guy," Naruto said.
"The rules for this tournament are simple," Anonymous said. "Before the tournament itself starts, there will be an elimination round. By the end, there will only be twelve entrants left."
A tournament board with twelve slots at the bottom appeared on the large TV at the top of the arena.
"And whoever comes back on top will be given the Smash Bros. Trophy, and in addition, any three battle chips of the winners choosing. Any three, no matter how rare, or hard to find."
"Oh sweet, that prize is as good as mine," a random navi from the crowd said.
A bunch of navis in the arena poured down into the stadium to sign up for the Smash Tournament.
"Well c'mon. Let's go," Naruto told MegaMan.
The two of them jumped down into the arena.
"C'mon Iris, let's go and get a seat," Meddy said.
"Yep. I wanna watch Naruto fight too," Iris said.
The two of them went down one of the rows to find a good seat.
Suddenly, the short green robed figure walked out in front of them.
"I think he wants us to follow him," Iris said.
The green robed figure let Iris and Meddy to one of the booths.
"Aw sweet. Our own booth," Meddy said as she looked into the booth. There was a large window and two padded seats.
The green robed figure pointed to the front window. On it was a crisp white card.
Iris and Meddy took their seats in front of the window.
"Wow. These are great seats," Iris said. "I wonder why we got these."
"You like them ladies."
Iris and Meddy turned to a screen on the side of the wall. On it was Mr. Anonymous' face.
"Oh hey Mr. Anonymous," Iris said. "You look well."
"It's just Anonymous. No Mr.," Anonymous said. "Anyway, enjoy the tournament."
By the time Naruto and MegaMan got registered, about one thousand five hundred thirty-six (1536) navis entered. Among them were MegaMan, GutsMan, and Naruto.
The Elimination round was divided into six rounds to accommodate everyone there.
As far as MegaMan knew, he, GutsMan, and Naruto were in Tournament Block A.
A few hours later.
One thousand five hundred twenty-four (1524) contestants were eliminated, leaving the final twelve entrants.
"Alright everyone," Anonymous said from atop the pedestal. "We are now down to the final twelve contestants. When you are announced, come down to the glowing lines."
"From Tournament Block A, we have MegaMan, GutsMan, BubbleMan, Naruto, Roll, and NumberMan."
The six entrants jumped down onto the red line for the Tournament Block A.
"Hey guys. I didn't know you were here," MegaMan said.
"I'm here for the three battle chips," BubbleMan said.
"Hey MegaMan," NumberMan said. "Higsby sent me here to try and get the battle chips. He already has the three rarest ones picked out."
"Oh hey MegaMan," Roll said.
"Hey Roll. Glad you made it this far," MegaMan said.
Meddy did a spit-take. "What is she doing there?"
"And now to introduce the winning contestants from Tournament Block B," Anonymous introduced. "I bring you, Samus, Pikachu, Meta Knight, Lucario, Snake, and Diddy Kong."
Six figures that nobody had ever seen until today jumped down onto the blue line for the Tournament Block B.
Samus was wearing red and yellow armor that was segmented at the arms, legs, and shoulders. Samus wore a green visor, and had a large, dark green cannon on the right arm.
Pikachu looked like a large yellow rodent. He had pointy ears that were black at the tips, red cheeks, two brown stripes on his back, and a zig-zag tail that was brown at the base. It had round black eyes, and short arms and legs.
Meta Knight was a short round figure. He wore a white iron mask with a horizontal slat for his yellow eyes. He wore a blue cape with a bat shaped emblem on the back, white gloves, purple metal shoes, and had a sheathed sword.
Lucario was a tall humanoid hound. His body was cream colored, and had white spikes on the chest and back. His arms were black at the paws and blue at the shoulder, spikes were on the packs of the palms. His lower body was blue and looked like baggy shorts, with black dog-like legs. His head was like that of an anubis, with black markings over his eyes and between his ears, which were blue. His eyes were red, and his hands had blue flames on them. His tail was blue like the rest of him and bent down at the end.
For some reason, Snake chose to remain hidden under a cardboard box with a small hole in the front for the eyes.
Diddy Kong was a small, brown furred chimp. He wore a red cap with "Nintento" on the front, and a red vest with yellow stars on the front and back.
"I don't recognize any of them," MegaMan said.
"Me neither," Naruto said. "But I have a feeling that they're incredibly strong.
"Alright everyone," Anonymous said. "We're into the first round of the Smash Bros tournament. The first round will be..." he gestured to the large TV screen.
Two frames were flipping through the twelve entrants. "GutsMan versus Meta Knight!"
"GutsMan gonna crush Mega Knight!" GutsMan said as he jumped down into the arena.
Meta Knight teleported down into the arena with a flip of his cape.
GutsMan and Meta Knight's eyes narrowed.
"Alright everyone, before the match begins, would someone in the audience care to start up the Location Randomizer?"
Everyone in the audience said "huh?"
"Okay let me explain," Anonymous said. "This tournament will be played out in special battle fields, chosen by the Location Randomizer."
A small girl navi from the audience walked up to Anonymous. "Can I use the Wocation Wandomizer pwease?"
"Aww. Sure thing," Anonymous said as he ruffled her hair like an older brother would.
The little girl navi turned the wheel, causing the large frame to flip through a whole bunch of options.
"And it looks like the battle field is..."
The frame stopped on a large cobble stone bridge, placed over a ravine with the setting sun in the horizon.
"The Bridge of Eldin!"
The green grid lines flashed green, panels rose and shifted. The arena acted like liquid mercury and transformed.
When everything stopped, GutsMan and Meta Knight were standing on the cobble stone bridge placed over a deep ravine that seemed to be bottomless. A bright orange sun was placed in the sky above the arena.
GutsMan v.s. Meta Knight
GutsMan banged his fists together as Meta Knight unsheathed his sword.
"Let the first match-" Anonymous said as he held his hand up in the air. "Begin!"
GutsMan charged at MetaKnight. "I'll crush you!"
Meta Knight rolled under GutsMan's legs and sliced at his butt.
GutsMan yelped as he held his tooshie.
Everyone in the audience laughed at GutsMan's pain.
GutsMan growled angrily. "Mega Cannon!"
GutsMan's hand transformed into a yellow cannon, sending a large energy blast toward Meta Knight.
Meta Knight quickly raised his sword, slicing the blast in half before the hit him. "You'll have to do better then that."
GutsMan growled angrily again. His hand doubled in size. "Guts Punch!"
Meta Knight leapt into the air, vaulted over GutsMan's knuckles, dashed up his arm, and punched him in the face.
Meta Knight jumped away and swished his cape in dramatic fashion. "C'mon. Is that all you got?"
Gutsman growled angrily. "Guts Quake!"
He turned his hands into a hammed and slammed it down on the center of the bridge. A large shockwave was sent towards Meta Knight.
Meta Knight twirled his cape around and disappeared into thin air.
The next moment the shockwave went past where he was.
A moment later he appeared again, his sword held at his side.
"Wow. Impressive," MegaMan said, commenting on the little swordsman's fighting skills.
Meta Knight leapt at GutsMan and slashed rapidly at him.
GutsMan yelped as he fell backwards, unable to dodge the rapid sword attacks.
His chest now had a bunch of nicks in it. Meta Knight held his sword up, about to bring it down on top of GutsMan's face when he suddenly stopped.
He jumped off GutsMan's chest and ran to the other side of the bridge.
"Wait. Why's he running?" Roll asked MegaMan.
"I think that might have something to do with it," MegaMan said as he pointed to the screen.
A large green exclamation point in a green circle flashed on the screen.
GutsMan got up. "What's the matter? Scared of GutsMan?"
Meta Knight pointed behind GutsMan.
GutsMan looked behind him to see a fat armored goblin riding an armored boar.
GutsMan rolled out of the way, but went over the edge of the bridge.
Everyone in the audience gasped.
GutsMan, managed to grab onto the edge of the bridge and pulled himself up. However when he did he met up with an unexpected surprise.
A large barrel with a lit fuse filled with gunpowder.
GutsMan shielded his eyes as the explosion from the barrel took out the middle of the bridge.
Meta Knight shielded himself from the blast with his cape.
Everyone was silent as they waited for the smoke to clear.
"This is an unexpected turn of events!" Anonymous said to the audience. "The sudden appearance of a giant explosive has left the arena in a veil of smoke. Has either combatant survived. We'll have to wait and see."
The smoke cleared. Meta Knight was all right, his cape slightly singed.
GutsMan was fine too. Although his face took the full brunt of the blast.
He pulled himself over the edge and back into the match.
"It seems that both our fighters have survived the blast," Anonymous announced, "but now the middle of the Bridge of Eldin is gone. How will this affect the match?"
Everyone in the audience looked to see that the center of the bridge had been taken out, a large gap made it impossible to advance on foot.
"You have fought well large one," Meta Knight said. "But I will be the winner of this match."
He backflipped out of the way.
"GIGA!"
Meta Knight held his sword straight up.
"DRILL!"
His sword transformed into a giant drill, that at the base was four times larger then he was.
"BLADE!"
Meta Knight charged at GutsMan with his giant sword that had transformed into a giant drill.
GutsMan tried to run for it on what little stretch of bridge he had left.
"Oh man! If that attack hits him, he'll get deleted!" MegaMan said.
Right before the Giga Drill Blade could delete GutsMan, Meta Knight swung it out to the side and swung it into GutsMan's side, swatting him off into the distance.
The field glowed green as it changed back to normal.
"And it looks like the winner is Meta Knight!" Anonymous announced.
Meta Knight flew off and took a seat with the other Tournament Block B winners.
"Alright everyone, it's time for the second match. The fighters in the next match will be..."
The two frames on the screen changed pictures for a few minutes.
"Roll and Diddy Kong!"
"Good luck Roll," MegaMan cheered.
"Hehe. Thanks," Roll said. She blushed a little as she jumped off her seat.
The two fighters jumped down into the center of the arena.
"Would someone care to step up here and use the Location Randomizer?"
A white and yellow navi that looked a bit like MegaMan walked up. The sides of his helmet were like that of a Jester's, with little dangly bells on the ends. The NaviMark on his chest was blank.
"I'd like to give it a whirl," the navi said.
MegaMan and Roll looked at the navi with suspicion. "He looks familiar," they both said. "But I just can't place my finger on it."
The navi spun the Location Randomizer, the frame changed pictures for a minute.
"And it looks like the second match will take place on..."
The frame stopped on what looked like a bunch of differently colored hover-craft driving down a metal course over a giant city.
"Port Town Aero Dive!"
There was a bright flash of light that filled the whole arena.
When the flash ended, the sets of bleachers were hanging near a giant race track that was floating above Net City.
"Do not be alarmed!" Anonymous announced. "There is a safety net placed below, however you're advised to stay in your seats. The seats will follow the route of the course, so you won't miss a thing of the match."
Roll and Diddy faced each other down on a section of road that looked like a starting line. The ground was riddled with bracket shaped lines where the cars supposedly started.
"Let the second match-" Anonymous said as he raised his hand "Begin!"
Diddy took out two shotguns that looked like they were made of wood and shot six rounds at Roll.
"Eep!" Roll yelped as she dodged out of the way of the attacks.
Roll glanced a what the projectiles were. "Peanuts?"
She turned to face Diddy, who was jumping around like a chimp would.
"You may be a chimp," Roll said. "But don't expect me to hold back."
He arm transformed into a pink bow. "Roll Arrow!"
A pink arrow with a heart shaped arrow head shot straight toward Diddy.
"Ooh aah!" Diddy screeched as he ducked, barely avoiding the Roll Arrow.
Roll continued to fire Roll Arrows as Diddy continued to dodge them.
Suddenly, Diddy backflipped in Roll's direction and flew into a kung-fu kick.
His kick hit Roll straight in the chest and knocked her to the ground.
She got up and saw Diddy aiming one of his guns at her.
He was about to fire when his little chimp ears heard a whirring sound.
Roll heard it too. The both of them looked down the course and saw thirty hover craft coming right at them.
The two of them screamed and ran down the course, thinking they could get away from the F-Zero machines in time.
Everyone held their breath as the hover craft in the distance got nearer.
"Oh man. This is going to be close," Meddy said. She and Iris were on the edges of their seats.
The floating stands slowly inched down the course, following Roll and Diddy.
"Keep running Roll!" MegaMan shouted.
"You think I don't know that?" Roll said as she ran down the course.
Suddenly, a portion of the course split.
Roll thought that they'd have to jump, but suddenly a wide floating platform rose from the hole.
Diddy jumped onto the platform and held onto the front end.
Roll turned around, the hover craft would be on her any second.
She jumped for the platform, but right as she closed her fingers around the edge, it shot away, leaving her holding on for her life as the platform and the hovercraft were flying at 300 miles an hour.
The stands suddenly shot down the course at 300 miles an hour as well. Some of the unfortunate patrons were flung off and onto the safety nets placed below.
The moving platform suddenly stopped, sending Roll flying under it and onto the ground.
"Ow," she said as she rubber her butt.
She turned around to see the F-Zero machines flying right at her.
She quickly dodged to the left and right, trying not to get hit.
Diddy ooked as he watched the spectacle from atop the platform.
Rrr. Stupid monkey, MegaMan thought to himself angrily as he watched the monkey be a total sadist.
The platform shook again.
This time Roll was able to get back on top of it this time.
The platform shot off, following it were the stands. This time the spectators had enough sense to hold onto something.
The platform was approaching a hard left turn. A large wall was on the right following the curve.
Diddy and Roll were able to stand on the top of the platform this time.
"Roll Blast!" Roll shouted as she kissed her fingers and shot a wave of hearts at Diddy.
Diddy dodged the attacks by front flipping over them and grabbed Roll's ankles.
Roll screamed as Diddy rolled across the platform and threw Roll into the wall.
Roll nearly fell off the platform and down to the ground, but Roll was able to grab Diddy's tail while it was still in reach.
Diddy screeched as his feet left the ground and he was dragged off the platform.
One of his hands was able to grab onto the edge of the platform.
He tried to pull himself back up, but Roll's flailing mad his already precarious grip loosen completely, sending Roll and Diddy falling into the safety net down below.
The field disappeared, and the stands placed themselves back onto the ground.
"And the winner of the second match is..." Anonymous announced. "No one. Since both combatants fell out of the stage, it will be called as a draw."
To be continued in Smash Tournament PT 2
Up until now, the fights I've had to choreograph had been pretty short. So these were the first "Brawls" I've done. If I need to make improvements, please let me know.
And now here's the 100 Rules of Anime Comumn.
Anime Rule #73 - Law of Universal Edge Defense - Any projectile attack, from a blast of magic to a hail of bullets, can be easily defended against by holding a suitably cool-looking sword or other bladed weapon between the attacker and defender, usually so that the edge cuts into the incoming attack(s), causing both halves to go flying harmlessly past the defender. Observed most often in fantasy and martial arts anime.
Anime Rule #100 - Rule of Anime Events - Much like wrestling, anything and everything can happen.