The squad. We've always been that one group everyone is afraid of. That one group everyone one sees and thinks ̈Oh dang, its them.¨ when they see us. That's us. Been one of them since I arrived here. Here's the basic story.
I had been transported from the darkness. It was weird, and my eyes REALLY hurt from the sudden change of hue. It was very light. I didn't like it very much. Because of this, the first thing I did was go to sit in the darkest corner I could find.
As a new student to this, I, obviously, had to attend my first class. I don't remember much but I think my homeroom teacher was Professor Elm. He taught a class about special abilities and, let me tell you, he was REALLY bad at it. I mean, he knew what he was talking about, but he just couldn't stop talking about it. Didn't even realize he had a new kid until class was three quarters over. Wow. However, when he DID realize me, that's another story.
"Oh," He had said. "I didn't realize it, but today, class, we have a new student." He glared at me. "What's your name again? I forget. Tell me your name, series, and anything else you'd like us to know."
I wanted to pull a Needle on him. "Uh, I'm Lucas. I'm from the MOTHER series. Mother 3, specifically. A fun fact about me: Half my family is dead and I think I just killed the other half before I arrived here. I have… issues."
I remember some of my classmates. Dark Meta Knight, Glass Joe, Doom Guy, the spider from Centipede, Knuckles, that creepy thing from World of Goo, Laura Croft, Tom Nook, and a bunch of other guys I don't remember. Anyway, basically all of them looked confused by "issues". That's kinda what I was going for, I think.
Professor Elm let me sit down, but then just kept on ranting about his job until first period started. The day went pretty blandly, pretty much every teacher making me introduce myself again and again, but other than that, nothing really happened, well, until lunch.
Here, a new student gets their first meal in their dorm while settling in, so lunch would be my first meal in the cafeteria. I was assigned where to sit before I even entered the building, but while I was in the lunch line, some weird kid dashed up to me with some "good news".
"Hello," they said as they said through panting. "My name is Adora. I am one of the campus helpers or whatever. Don't ask about it, cause it's not child labor. Anyway, I'm here to deliver a message from Master Hand. Basically, he said you've graduated. Let me take you to his office. Potato."
Adora got me to follow her, making me unable to even get a lunch. She seemed pretty okay, definitely better than the kid that delivered my breakfast the morning of that day. That one was one of those kids who just never stopped talking. Went on a whole rant about how he didn't want to be there, and I remember that I tuned him out pretty fast. The one that led me to Master Hand's office, however, was much more chill.
She seemed like she knew the place pretty well. After transporting from one floating island to another a hole bunch of times, she led me to a darker platform. Unlike the other platforms which were detailed and bright, this one was just a plain blue rectangle with a diamond pattern on the ground. There was some weird dark pyramid thing going on at the base. Now I know it as Final Destination. The only thing on it was us, a wooden desk, and a large, disembodied right hand, guarded by another kid around twelve.
Adora walked over to the other kid, the two of them standing paralel. If they weren't pre teens they might actually look like real guards. The disembodied right hand started doing some weird demented cackle at the sight of me.
"So you think you graduated?"
"No actually I was just taken here."
"You must prove yourself worthy to be in the game."
"I just got here."
"Fight me."
I remember staring at the hand thinking Huh?! How is it possible for a disembodied hand to talk?, but I ignored it.
"Okay, sure."
Before I had left the Dragon, I was given a bunch of stuff from my friends like new offensive PSI, a Rope Snake, and other weird and useful things. I decided that a huge battle would be the perfect place to try things out.
I forget what actually happened in the battle, but I won. The two kids were already hiding behind the desk by the time it was over. The hand laughed some while bleeding. It was a site I never want to see again. *shiver*
The other kid went up to the hand, got out some plastic straws, and performed some bizarre rituals with them until the hand stopped bleeding. The kid then put the straws back, in his hair.
Adora nudged him. "Hey Alex don't use plastic straws; They're not good for the environment."
Alex looked annoyed. "Nacho cheese Oreos."
"I have been defeated," Adora announced.
"I thought I told you to stop it with those stupid memes!", Master Hand had yelled. "Oh, yeah, right. Lucas, you're gonna be in Smash Bros Brawl."
The memory of Adora and Alex fake cheering for me has stuck. When I'm stressed out, I'll just imagine the two of them saying "You're gonna be John Lennon!" and "Delicious." over and over again, and then I get even more stressed.
I missed lunch and was pretty dang hungry the rest of the day. I learned a little bit later from Alex and Adora that graduated fighters don't really do anything during the day. There is an arcade, library, theater, and even a Hot Topic on campus, as well as some other stuff to do in your free time.
I didn't really feel like going to any of those places, so I decided to meet the other fighter in my dorm. As you probably know, I currently hate him, but this was before we met, so I decided it would be fine.
I left my room and walked up to the door with the word "Ness" on it. Master Hand's bodyguards/ meme lords had told me that Ness was the name of the other MOTHER graduate. My old self knocked on the door.
"Come in," a cheerful voice answered, so I foolishly followed what he told me. My awkward new kid self opened the door.
"Oh, you must be that new kid, right? Why aren't you in class?"
"I just graduated."
He gave me a weird look, got out a weird device that I now know as a Wii, and watched some video. It was my character trailer. Seeing it, I went full out rage mode. The other kid seemed annoyed, too.
"Well," he said. "You're in. But please tell me... WHY DO I LOOK SO WEAK IN THAT VIDEO?!"
I had a whole nother question on my mind. I didn't know that kid, so why was he there? I don't use PK Fire. Rope Snake was just a gift from Duster when I left, so why am I ATTACKING with it in the video? "I don't know. I don't even know who you are, besides the fact that you're names Ness."
"Oh." Ness scrutinized me carefully. "Wanna play with me? My roommate, Jeff, is at classes, so I don't really have anyone to talk too. Until now, when everyone left for class, I was just alone. I might go to the arcade every now and then. Wanna come with me? I know being a new kid can be hard. Come on. Let's play!"
"I-I'm good."
"No you're not. You need to play with me."
I ran out of the room. I decided to leave the dorm building and explore a bit. My brain remembered that Alex and Adora told me about a bunch of places to go, but I had no idea what a "Hot Topic" was. I decided to check it out.
The place turned out to be a store with a bunch of graphic Ts and hoodies. Not that bad. I looked around. It all seemed decent, well, until my eyes saw true love. A medium gray DCMC hoodie made of thin and comfortable cotton with a few fake rips in it. I found my size, boy's extra large, and took it to the counter. As I now know, they couldn't get any of the shopkeepers from our games to work here, so they was another one of those campus helpers.
"Hello," he said. "I will take your stuff. My name is Syeed. You can just give whatever idem you want to me. I will scan it for you. You can pay in any currency you wish. Rupees, Pokedollars, stars, coins, Power Pills, Rings, anything works."
"Does Dragon Power work?"
"Uh, probably."
"Okay."
He scanned the hoodie and told me it would be 110 DP. I gave the money, he handed it to me. I put it on top of my striped shirt. It was maximum comfort. As I was leaving, I was stopped by a large blue dog-like thing with a small, round guy with a sword sitting on his shoulder. Meta Knight and Lucario.
Lucario put out his foot to trip me, but I'm usually looking down at the floor, so I just stopped.
"You think you look 'edgy' in that hoodie, but you paid full price for it." He glared at me. The odds of me then knowing those two would be my closest friends? Surprising.
I thought for a second. "I've done some terrible things. I've destroyed the world I came from. I killed my friend's parents. I let my brother die. But my mother wouldn't want me to steal, would she?"
Meta Knight jumped off of Lucario's shoulder. He would have looked threatening, if he wasn't nine inches tall. I could probably have killed him if I stepped on him, but I'm not that kind of person.
"Oh no," he teased. "Mommy won't let you?"
"She has no control over me now cause she's dead."
"Oh." Lucario looked kinda guilty.
Meta Knight lowered his sword. "So you were saying that…"
Lucario put his hands together. "I sense a troubled aura. One with a dark past."
I rolled my eyes, even though I don't have pupils. "It's not a big deal. I got over it. It's just death nothing much."
The three of us got into a conversation. Eventually, they let me join them, turning them from a duo to a clique. Yeah, that's how I joined the Edgy Boys. Hot Topic. The most cliche way for edgelords to meet one another. We met Dark Pit performing satanic rituals outside of the cafeteria. We met Green and Ridley together when Green cheated in the arcade and Ridley tried to kill him. I'm not entirely positive how Joker joined, but I think it had something to do with the fact that his friends were at classes and something happened where he had cat hair on him, which Dark Pit is allergic to so one day he comes up to our table holding up a gun saying "This one hit me first." Yup. That's us.
