A/N: Hello, everyone! My name is Dimpilo, and welcome to Tales of Smash!

Now I get that a concept like this for a Smash story is kinda overdone, but I wanted to give my own spin on it.

But anyway, enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own Super Smash Bros. That belongs to Masahiro Sakurai and Nintendo.

Chapter 1: Steel Fortune

The sun viewed its shining rays of light across the grassy fields. The air felt cool and refreshing as it whisked along the leaves of the trees. Birds chirped amongst themselves as they flew.

Today was great.

It felt like the perfect day to go outside and enjoy yourself among the spring weather.

It felt normal.

...

Normal days were all but a rarity within the halls of the Smash Mansion. When you have over eighty residents living in one manor, majority of them all owning some form of special ability or power, it was anything but regular on a daily basis.

Yet, today was different.

Today was actually fairly calm and collected from some the mansion's residents, which was strange. Not a single explosion, punch in the wall, or glass breaking was even heard.

Maybe today was finally the day nothing bad could happen.

"Hmm, how-a long will this-a take to arrive?" spoke Mario as he stood by the mansion's front door.

When it came to being Master Hand's second-in-command, there were a lot of responsibilities that needed to be taken care of: cleaning, organizing around, and most importantly (in Master Hand's case), getting any sort of package sent to the creator of the Smash tournament himself, even if he could do it himself.

Though he chose not to.

"I wonder if-a he finally bought that-a new air conditioner I've-a been looking at," he said to himself. "It feels-a like the walls are-a gonna catch on fire-a soon enough. That, or-a Bowser lost another game-a of solitaire again."

Not before long, Mario was approached by a speeding Sonic the Hedgehog. He relatively viewed the fast animal as a sort of a friendly rival to him, as well as a pretty close friend.

"Hey, Mario," the speedy animal greeted, his usual cocky tone apparent in his voice. "Could I use your help real quick? Simon's whip thing got stuck in the ceiling again and I can't get it down. Tried to show off a few of my struts, ya know."

"I wish-a I could, Sonic, but Master-a Hand said I need-a to pick up an important-a package for him," Mario told. "He said it-a was another surprise."

Sonic stared at the Italian with a look of bewilderment. "...Uh, Mario, you do remember the last time Master Hand had one of these "surprises" ended with Donkey Kong getting sent to the hospital, right?"

Mario winced from the terrible memory. "Err... So what-a if Master Hand had accidentally-a bought a bunch of Cuccos instead-a of a new couch? I doubt-a something like that will-a happen again,"

"The last time you said that he also bought a chainsaw that broke the fridge in half,"

"Eh..."

"Annnnd don't forget the time he bought that coffee maker that burned everyone's coffee,"

"...W-Well, I'll at-a least give him another-a chance. It'll be different-a, I hope,"

"Uh-huh, sure. And the last time you said that he-"

Before either of them could further their conversation, a knock came from the door. Mario faced to open it and was met with a small box at his shoe and the sound of the delivery truck driving off.

"Ah, it's-a here!" Mario beamed before picking the package up and closing the door behind him. "I wonder what-a it is."

"Well whatever it is, I'm pretty sure it'll explode as soon as you open it," Sonic snickered with a slight grin.

"Have a little hope-a, Sonic. Who knows-a what it is? It could-a be anything-a," Mario began to make his way to Master Hand's office, leaving behind a very doubtful hedgehog.

Sonic shook his head with a sly grin. "Welp, this might go horribly wrong in a matter of seconds... Can't let him get all the fun though." The Blue Blur eventually followed the second-in-command down the hallway, thinking of all the possibilities that could happen to Master Hand's latest surprise.

Master Hand's office was nothing all that special to some of the residents. It was mostly a simple black room with a few windows, a desk, a cabinet, a few photos on the wall, and a carpet.

Again, nothing all that special.

The giant hand himself was currently mumbling to himself as he looked through his desk of files. "C'mon, c'mon, where is it?!" he grumbled as he continued flipping through his files. "I need to find that receipt in order to return that chainsaw before Crazy Hand finds out about it! And the last thing I need is to pay for someone's medical bills again... Or was that Mario who payed for it last time?"

Speaking of Mario, a knock came from the doors.

"Come in,"

The doors eventually opened as Mario, as well as Sonic, came inside, the former holding just the thing the hand was waiting for.

"Ah, yes! It finally came!" Master Hand exclaimed as the plumber placed the box on his desk. "I thought it would never arrive! That or Wario would've just stolen and sold it on the market."

"Soooo, uh, you mind explaining what this thing is?" Sonic asked, his arms crossed.

"Oh ho ho, my dear friend! I'm glad you asked! You see, I've mostly been having Mario do most of the work around the mansion whenever nobody else is available. Actually, I let him do most of the work all the time..." Mario rolled his eyes at the hand's realization. "But I thought to myself: "What if I had something that could simply do twice the work he does without breaking a single sweat?" Well..."

With a quick laser from his pointer, the hand opened the package and pulled out the pièce de résistance.

"Behold!" He pulled out a black, sleek, circular object that shined against the rays of the sun. Both Mario and Sonic stared at the object with looks of total confusion.

"...A Roomba?" Mario questioned.

"Last thing I thought you would ever buy," Sonic remarked with a sly smirk.

"No, no, no! This is not just any Roomba," Master Hand retorted before placing the device on the floor. "This is an Automated Operation System, or A.O.S. for short—trademarked."

The hand pressed the power button placed the device's surface, and in almost an instant, the device began to light itself up with a color of neon blue.

"System loading..." a feminine voice emitted from the device.

"Ooooo..." Mario and Sonic watched the small device in anticipation.

And not before long, the device began to speak. "Greetings," its voice sounding quite like a English man. "I am A.O.S., your Automated Operation System. Pleased to make your acquaintance."

"Wow, this thing is pretty cool... Buuuut what does it do?" Sonic deadpanned, eyeing the small device's features.

"Happy to give you some in-depth examples, Mr. Sonic the Hedgehog," A.O.S. responded politely, though the hedgehog himself was perplexed at how it knew his name. "I am capable of scanning the health of civilians and acquiring them the proper healthcare they need or desire. I am installed with my very own heat and cooling system for any case in which you are in need of either one. I am also equipped with various weaponry in case of sudden alerts or emergencies. I can also-"

"Ok, ok! I think we've heard enough," Sonic grumbled from the amount of unnecessary information he had to sit through.

"Yep! Top of the line machinery!" Master Hand gloated before turning back to his more serious state. "Now, A.O.S., your first job is to clean off all the windows. They may be clean already, but they must be even cleaner! Never know when disaster could strike."

"Affirmative," A.O.S. immediately skid out of that room within a matter of seconds.

"Huh, guess I was wrong about this going horribly," Sonic admitted, a hand on his hip. "Guess this could be something good for once. And now back to making sure Simon doesn't find his whip in the ceiling." And with that, the hedgehog took his leave, leaving only Mario and Master Hand in the room.

Though Mario realized something he forgot to ask. "Uh-a, Master Hand, did you-a happen to read the information-a manual before buying-a this?" he asked.

"Of course I did! It's not like I'm a somewhat irresponsible person who just buys anything I think looks fancy without reading the information!" the hand scoffed. "Who do you think I am? Wario?"

"...You have me there,"

"Well I did, so there's need to worry, Mario. Everything will be just fine," Mario decided to simply shrug off the worry that contained him before leaving the dark office to possibly hang around his beloved Princess Peach, as per usual.

"Now where's that information manual?" The giant hand dumped the continents of the box on the desk, majority of it all being styrofoam pieces. "Aha! Here it is,"

Master Hand placed the piece of paper down. "Now let's see here: make sure your Automated Operation System is fully up-to-date with the latest data given out, do not let device interfere with any sort of liquids, do not let device run for more than approximately six hours or more or it will being to overheat and malfunction," the hand already began to get tired from reading the piece of paper. "Ah, who needs this? It's not like its gonna attempt to kill somebody. What's the worst that can happen? "

"Alright, do we have everything we need?" Lucas asked his small group of friends that consisted of Ness, Toon Link, Pit, and Kirby. The group of youngsters had recently began binging on a newly aired show titled, "Toads on the Run." A show about a group of Toads running away from home and exploring the great wonders of the world.

What a highly original plot.

"I got the chips," Ness told.

"I got the sauce," Then Toon Link.

"Poyo!" Kirby held up a bag of donuts.

"And I got this comically large spoon," Pit said as he held up said utensil.

Lucas and the others stared at the angel, their expressions fully muddled. "...Pit, where'd you find that spoon?" the boy asked.

"Eh, no clue," he placed the large utensil down on the kitchen counter. "Just thought it was cool."

"Okay then..." The group went to head out of kitchen, but was suddenly stopped by Ness.

"Wait! Shouldn't we get some soda as well?" the boy asked almost urgently.

"Er, isn't this already enough stuff we need," Toon Link said what everyone, besides Ness, was thinking.

Ness did have to agree about the amount of stuff they held in their possession. Yet his answer was a simple, "Nope!" The psychedelic boy ran to the fridge and pulled out a large bottle of grape soda that he could barely handle.

Seriously, the bottle was bigger than his head.

"You sure you can handle that?" Pit attempted to help the struggling child.

"Y-Yeah...I got it," Ness wheezed before finally fully lifting the bottle. Though that didn't last very long as within the next second he dropped it, causing a loud thud to erupt. "Oops."

And if that wasn't enough, the bottle's cap ended up loosening and the contents began spilling out onto the floor.

"Dang it,"

"I had a feeling that was gonna happen," Toon Link deadpanned.

"Well look on the bright side," Pit chimed in. "We get to finally experience what floor soda tastes like."

Utter silence filled the room upon the angel's statement, everyone's faces but Pit's formed into looks of slight disgust.

"What?"

"May I be of service?" A familiar voice piped in, alerting the group. Turning their heads—or body in Kirby's case—to the source, the youngsters were met with Master Hand's newly bought device, A.O.S. "Greetings, I am A.O.S., your Automated Operation System. Pleased to make your acquaintance."

The group couldn't help but stare at what had just spoken to them. It was truly a sight to see a talking Roomba waltz into a kitchen like it was nothing—yet here they were.

"The robots are starting to invade—quick, get the bat," Pit whispered to a befuddled Kirby, which surprisingly wouldn't be the pink puffball's first encounter with machinery taking over.

"U-Um...can we help you?" Lucas stuttered, frightened by the machine's sudden appearance.

"No need," the device replied, his English voice highly visible. "You are clearly in need of my assistance. Allow me, if you will."

A thin, metallic arm outstretched from the machinery's surface and put the cap back onto the bottle. And, weirdly enough, it dispensed a cloth from its side and wiped the spilled substance from the floor within a millisecond.

"Assistance succeeded," A.O.S. said as it inserted its necessities back into its small body. Though it wasn't over yet.

The device scanned around the kitchen, its sensors coming across the filth that was the dirty dishes, crumbs on the floor, and stains on the wall.

In pretty much an instant, the small machine raced around the room with the speed of light. It washed the dishes with lightning speed that none of the youngsters could even keep track of.

Dish after fork after knife after spoon.

After that was done, it skidded across the floor as it vacuumed any form of trash it could find as if it were in a track race—almost to a point where the group thought they saw dust.

And it was dust, actually.

Lastly, it attached itself to the wall and removed each stain it found within a matter of seconds before skidding back down to the wooden floor in front of the group.

"Please, enjoy the remainder of your day," A.O.S. bid its farewell as it left the kitchen, leaving behind of stunned residents.

"Woah..." everyone, besides Kirby, said in union, awed by the device's lightning fast agility.

"...Well, that was pretty weird," Lucas said with a raised brow.

"First I see a giraffe using a flamethrower, and now this," Pit commented. "This day just keeps getting weirder and weirder!"

"Yeah... Wait, you saw a giraffe do what now?"

As the day went on, A.O.S. had definitely made itself quite known around the mansion. From the living room, to the arcade, to the fitness center, the little device had managed to accomplish any form of task it was assigned to complete. Like vacuuming, getting Simon's whip out of the ceiling (much to Sonic's relief), and unclogging the toilet.

Blame Wario for that.

Speaking of the small mechanism, it was currently roaming through the mansion's various halls. Though, something seemed...off. It sounded as if a fan was running inside of it as hot air spewed from underneath. It was almost as if it was—overheating.

Though it still seemed to running completely normal.

Eventually, the device made its way to a suspiciously half-opened door which happened to be Marth's bedroom. What it didn't notice, or hear for a matter of fact, was the snickering coming from around the corner.

And it happened to belong to both Bowser Jr. and Larry Koopa.

"This is gonna be good," Larry chuckled as he peeked from the corner.

"Did you remember to put in hot water this time?" Bowser Jr. asked, peeking as well.

"Of course I did! Just because I put in a bunch of lobsters before doesn't mean I'll do it again,"

"Whatever,"

Suddenly, the sound of splashing, hot water filled the two children's nonexistent ears. They instantly rushed over to the room with devious grins written on their faces.

"Ha ha! Take that! That's what you get for eating the rest of the pizza in the fridge!" Bowser Jr. exclaimed proudly. "Nobody's allowed to do that but me!"

"Yeah! What he said!" Larry proclaimed. Though his gaze soon turned to what laid in front of them. "...Uh, Junior, that's not that Marth guy."

"What?" Bowser Jr. faced to what the Koopaling was speaking of, only to not find a drenched Marth in boiling hot water, but A.S.O. instead, who's lights began to flash a dangerous red.

"ERROR! ERROR! ERROR! SYSTEM MALFUNCTIONING! SYSTEM MALFUNCTIONING!" the device repeated in urgency.

"Aw c'mon! Of course this stupid thing had to get in the way!" The young prince picked the small device up before tossing it out the room, accidently colliding it against the wall. "Great! Now we have to get some more water! We should've done lobsters instead!"

"Now you're speaking my language!" Larry blurted as he and Bowser Jr. exited the room, not evening bothering to clean the evidence of water left behind.

Meanwhile, A.O.S. continued to flash colors of red as it repeated, "ERROR! ERROR! ERROR! ERROR!" Though that didn't last long as the flashing lights began to dim slowly, and not before long, the small machine completely shut down.

Nothing but an eerie silence filled the halls.

Not a single sound.

Not even the breaking of glass could be heard.

Silence...

Except for the sound of an approaching Mario happened to appear nearby. The plumber was making his way to the mansion's arcade but didn't take notice to the small device that bumped into his shoe.

"Huh?" He looked below him to see a wet, disabled A.O.S. laying in front of him. "A.O.S.?" he asked, but was met with no response.

"Hmm, something-a must've happened to-a it. I sure hope-a it isn't broken," He picked up the small machinery. "Maybe I should-a give it back to Master-a Hand, he should know-a what to do... I think." And with that, the plumber made his way to his designated area.

Hopefully nothing turns out to be wrong with it...

Rain poured heavily against the Smash Mansion's windows as night had overtaken the once blue sky. Thunder boomed in the distance as lighting struck from afar. Most would say it would be hard to sleep during a thunderstorm, but majority of the mansion's residents slept like newborn babies.

One of these residents happened to be the princess of the Mushroom Kingdom, Princess Peach.

Save for a few times some of her fellow residents made a ruckus, the princess slept with zero problems at her side.

It was almost impossible to disrupt her slumber (unless you were Wario), until-

Thud! Thud! Thud!

Peach rolled around her bed at the noise, her sleeping state choosing to ignore it. But it came again.

Thud! Thud! Thud!

"H-Huh?" the princess awoke, groggily.

Thud! Thud! Thud!

"Who could be needing me at this hour?" she questioned, moving out of her sheets. Getting out the bed and slipping on her slippers, the royal figure moved to the once banging door. She opened it, and what she expected was definitely not it. "A.O.S.?"

The device in question simply didn't respond as it continued to repeatedly thud against Peach's foot in an almost hypnotic state. But what really stood out was that instead of its usual neon blue lighting, it was tinted a deep shade of red.

Strange.

"Um, shouldn't you be in Master Hand's office?" the princess asked politely.

Once again, no response.

She began to grow tired as she let out a slow yawn. "Listen, A.O.S., my room doesn't need to be cleaned right now. I appreciate your help and all, but I'm kind of tired right now. Maybe you could do something for me in the morning, okay?" She then proceeded to shut her door.

Peach walked back to her bed, ready to continue her once peaceful slumber, when-

SMASH!

The sound of wood breaking filled the princess' eardrums. She jolted back and found an axe planted in her door, the wood crumbling down as it drew out.

"Huh?!" Peach exclaimed, backing away in fear.

Then it happened again.

SMASH!

The axe continued to chop down the wood of the door, sensing no point of stopping anytime soon. It grew to a point where the door entire door collapsed, and all that stood was what shook Peach to her core.

A.O.S. with an axe stood on its top.

And then came the dramatic lightning and thunder.

"Ah spaghetti, ah ravioli, ah mama mia..." Mario muttered to himself as he slept in tranquility, his dreams possibly consisting of what he spoke. Nobody truly knew what the plumber dreamed of besides spaghetti and ravioli, but that's beside the point.

"MARRRRIO!"

"Wha- Huh?" he shrug up from his sheets in hear of his name. "Is-a the microwave on-a fire again?"

"MARRRRIO!"

Mario gasped. "Peach!" In an instant, he jumped off his bed, slipped on his slippers, and bolted out of the room.

Though his running, along with Peach's cries of help, ended up waking some of other residents out of their sleep.

"What's going on?" Mega Man mumbled, rubbing his eye with a yawn.

"Is K. Rool trying to reflect lightning off the roof again?" Robin questioned.

"That or the microwave's on fire again," Sonic deadpanned.

"Wow, that's the second time this month,"

It didn't take long before Mario reached the princess' room, ignoring the shards of wood scattered across the floor.

"Peach! Are you ok-" The plumber simply couldn't finish his sentence as a flying A.O.S. ended up hitting his face at full force, knocking him over. "Ow..."

"Mario!" Peach threw her tennis racket on the floor before rushing to the plumber's aid. "I didn't see you, I'm so sorry. Are you okay?"

"Don't worry-a, I'm fine. As long as-a you're safe," Mario accepted the princess' hand as she pulled him up. "But, uh, how-a come you were yelling-a? And what-a happened to your-a door?"

His answer was immediately shown as a laser whizzed past his nose.

The plumber and princess jolted their heads over to A.O.S., its red lights seemingly growing darker. Mario instantly figured out something wasn't right.

"If anyone-a wants to get to-a Peach, they have to go through me," Mario stood in front of the princess in a protective stance, glaring down the small piece of machinery.

But that didn't intimidate the device once single bit.

Without warning, it reeved its small structure and pounced at Mario, sucking his clothes as he drove all around the plumber's body.

Mario attempted to rip off the scurrying device but it was just too fast for him, and the uncomfortable feeling of having his pajamas sucked didn't help at all.

"Don't worry, Mario! I'll get if off!" Peach ran inside her room and quickly grabbed her golf club. "Just hold still for me!"

Though Mario wasn't able to hear her as he was too focused on dealing with the vacuuming device clinging to him.

"What?!" the plumber yelled.

Within the next second, Mario not only felt the feeling of his clothes being vacuumed, but also the powerful hits of a golf club against his body. Peach tried to best to hit the machine off, yet that only caused her to hit the plumber's stomach, back, leg, and head as A.O.S. evaded each swing.

And those swings hurt.

"I had a feeling this was gonna happen. Eh, it's about time I get to kick some robot tail," Sonic smirked as he cracked his knuckles. "No offense, Mega Man."

"None taken," the robot boy replied.

Thankfully for Mario, A.O.S. eventually hopped off of him after finally being hit by Peach's golf club, though the plumber thought he ended up seeing stars.

"Are you okay, Mario?" Peach asked, concern written in her blue eyes.

"I'm-a fine..." Mario lied. His body was aching in pain, yet he decided to fight through it.

A.O.S., on the other hand, was far from over with its shenanigans. It ended up pulling out a buzzsaw—unsurprisingly—and aimed it at the couple, revving itself as if it were about to run thirty laps.

And cue the dramatic lightning and thunder again.

"Hey, buddy!" Sonic shouted, bringing the device's attention to him. "Why don't you pick on someone your own speed."

And that it did.

Immediately, the device shot forward almost as fast as the hedgehog himself, swinging its saw like it was nobody's business.

Sonic was able to swiftly evade the saw with a quick slide before spin dashing into the machine's side, knocking it over.

But the machine was smarter than Sonic thought. And plus, it was artificial intelligence.

A.O.S. instantly sat back up, its new dent not affecting it in the slightest. It threw the buzzsaw at the hedgehog, who, as expected, dodged it with ease.

"Ha! You think that's supposed to scare m-"

BAM!

The hedgehog couldn't finish his sentence as A.O.S. shot its body into Sonic's stomach with full force, sending him flying until he skidded against the floor.

"Yeesh, who knew something so small could be such a pain in the neck," Sonic winced as he pulled himself off the floor, his stomach aching with pain.

While A.O.S. wasn't looking, Mega Man attempted to grab the device as fast as he could, but the small machine was just too quick for him. It maneuvered out of the robot boy's reach before punching him with a boxing glove, right in the face.

Weird to include that into a robotic assistant's weaponry.

"You may be a piece of intelligence greater than mine, but I'm always three steps ahead," Robin proclaimed, Bronze Sword in hand.

The mage tried to plant the sword in the machine's top, but just like Mega Man, it was too quick for him. A.O.S. griped the sorcerer by the wrist with its arms and, with an unnecessary amount of strength, flung him and his sword across the hallway with a hard thud as he landed on his back.

"Well, guess I wasn't three steps ahead..." Robin let out a tired sigh as he attempted to pick himself up, rubbing his wrist.

"Ya think," Sonic deadpanned.

Mario looked back at his fallen friends, each one (save for Peach) attempting to heal their wounds. He couldn't understand how a machine this small could do harm this badly—especially when its main purpose is to assist.

The plumber had enough of it.

He stood, fists clenched and eyes enraged.

"Ok, A.O.S., we've had-a enough," Mario scolded, glaring down at the machine. "You've messed with-a my friends for far too-a long, even if it was five-a minutes ago. If you want you-a hurt anyone here... let it-a be me."

A.O.S. sat still as a crack of lightning flashed in the distance. But slowly—and also menacingly—it pulled its axe, its shine gleaming against the moonlight.

And, within a matter of seconds, it rocketed towards the plumber.

Mario didn't flinch a tinge, standing his ground as the machine got closer and closer.

"Mario, no!" Peach yelled.

A.O.S. got closer and closer and closer and closer, until-

WHAM!

An opening door hit the small machine before it could reach Mario, launching it through a nearby window and out into the crashing rain. And the one who happened to open it was a disturbed King Dedede.

"Will you dunderheads go to sleep already! It's two o'clock in the mornin'!" the self-proclaimed king shouted loudly. "Don'tcha know a king needs his beauty sleep?! Sheesh, the nerve of some people." The king then slammed his door shut.

The group, however, ignored the king's rant and rushed to the broken window. They saw the sight of a decaying A.S.O. in the lawn, who tried to wield up its axe yet couldn't. Sparks flew as the pouring rain hit its small body.

But it didn't quit.

The device slowly trudged its way to the mansion, its movement getting slower and slower with each passing second.

"Jeez, what's gonna take it to destroy this thing?" Sonic questioned.

His answer came pretty much immediately.

Lightning struck the small machine with a bang in the distance, and instead of catching on fire, it shriveled into ashes that got whisked away in the wind.

"...Huh, didn't expect that,"

A new day had arrived at the Smash Mansion, everybody up and ready to start their morning with some delicious breakfast.

All expect for Mario.

The plumber walked to Master Hand's office all by himself, his thoughts forcing him to tell the gigantic hand the news. He knew it wasn't his fault about the demise of A.O.S., but when Master Hand gets angry, he's not exactly pleasant to be around.

But, he built up the courage and approached the door before slowing knocking on it.

"Master Hand?" Mario asked, expecting the gigantic hand's usual response, but was met with something...different.

"Come in," Master Hand's voice came, yet it sounded more worn out and sad.

Mario noticed this difference but went in away. And the first sight he caught was the hand slumped over his desk.

The plumber guessed the hand already knew about the news.

"Uh, Master Hand? Are-a you okay?" Mario asked as he closed the door behind him.

"Huh? Oh, yes, I'm fine," Master Hand spoke, yet he sounded nothing but fine. "I've just been thinking of something that's been on my mind."

"Do you-a want to talk about-a it?"

"No no no no! I don't wanna put you through that, I insist," Though Master Hand began anyway. "Well, you see, I've been thinking about the things I've been buying recently. I wanted to get things for everyone to at least enough, but all I've done is put you all in danger. First the Cuccos, then the chainsaw, and then there's that one time I accidently got Lucina a hairdryer that was actually a flamethrower for Christmas."

"You did what?"

Master Hand untimely ignored his question. "But it's got me thinking that, everything I buy puts someone in danger. I don't want anyone getting hurt unless its Wario—he still owes me fifty dollars. So from now on, I'll make sure to read what I'm getting first before buying it."

Mario smiled at the hand's decision. "So does-a this mean you'll be-a getting a new robot to help-a around?"

"What? No, of course not. We already have one that works fine enough. Where is A.O.S. anyway? I haven't seen it all morning,"

"Eh heh... Uh..."

Hoped you enjoyed chapter 1 of Tales of Smash! These do take a while to make, so be on the lookout for the next chapter.

Anyway, until next time!