Captain N: Into the Gameverse

Level 1: Game Start!

2019

New York City

Minato Bray, age 19, was walking through the streets of New York City. He had a pale skin complexion and had some Japanese features. His father was American and his mother was Japanese. 19 years old, just got through high school and was saving up to go to college. His hair was blonde, his eyes were blue. He was wearing his yellow shirt with a Super Star printed on it and a black hoodie with a Diskun on the shoulder. He was out holding a GameBoy with a cartridge that he had never seen before.

He found it to be quite intriguing as this particular GameBoy and game cartridge were part of a strange rumor that Nintendo had in fact developed a prototype and a game that was being developed at the time. The cartridge in question was titled "CAPTAIN N" in all caps. He wasn't aware of a game like that being developed. He wasn't sure why it was made.

He found this in the video game store where he worked under Mr Iwata, who taught him everything he needed to know about gaming hardware and software of the days of the NES leading up to the Switch. Mr Iwata had him checking the number of games in the store and tallying them all up to be sure that they were all accounted for before and after sales end while helping Evan work behind the counter.

He got home and breathed a sigh of relief.

"I'm home!" Minato said.

"Welcome home." He heard his mother say.

He came in holding the GameBoy.

"Ah… Minato, what's that you got there? A GameBoy?" His mother asked.

"Yeah, found it in the store. Mr Iwata said it was ok for me to have it." Minato said.

"Did he now?" His mother asked.

"Yes." Minato said. "Are you going to cook dinner?"

"Why of course not. You know how I always like to cook your favorite meal." His mother said. "You can wait in your room."

She went off to the kitchen. He went to his room and held the GameBoy in his hand. He took out the cartridge and inspected it. He looked at the cartridge intensely and looked at it from every conceivable angle before putting it in. He switched the power on. The iconic sound the GameBoys made sounded off. He was greeted with a screen saying:

CAPTAIN N: The Game Master

He pressed the start button and pressed the new game option. Then the screen turned blue. A row of text opened.

ENTER THE GAME

NEW GAME MASTER

Shortly after the brief row of text appeared, a light shined through the screen and in a flash, he felt his body suddenly turning into atoms. Every bit of him was being sucked into the GameBoy. Suddenly, he began to fall down a tunnel as his body began to reconstitute itself. He looked at his arms and saw them appear more cartoonish than he thought. He screamed as he fell through the tunnel.

He saw a light up ahead. He wasn't going to die, was he?! It was too soon! He hasn't gone to college yet! He can't just die! Not here and not now! This wasn't how it was going to end, was it?!


Elsewhere…

Below the sky was a castle sitting in the center of a highly technologically advanced city. Trains shaped like the Nintendo Wii were moving in and out of the city. Cars were moving about on the highways. Several tall buildings that looked similar to Nintendo controllers and consoles were there. The castle itself was a golden color. It was designed to be somewhat of a mixture of Medieval with futuristic elements. Inside a tower of the castle was a girl of about 19 years of age. She had silver hair and amber yellow eyes. She stared out into the distance.

Her name was Princess Tei. She was the regent of all of the land before her and was ruler of the Gameverse. Her job was a simple one, to ensure that her citizens were happy, make decisions that would be implemented to deal with any sort of problems, and to make sure that there was peace in the world. But there was one thing on her mind.

And that thing was Captain N. She heard of the legend when she was a small girl, sitting on her father's lap. She always thought of Captain N as this knight in shining armor from another world with a heart of gold and simply looked dashing while also being brave and kind to all no matter the situation. She could never stop thinking about Captain N, even as she has grown up. She could only wonder what Captain N would look like.

She heard knocking at the door. She turned to see a woman appearing in her mid-20s with long green hair going down to her lower legs, wearing a layered white dress with several gold accessories such as a necklace, a laurel crown, fibula, arm bands, an arm brace, and an array of gold ornaments fastened to her belt. In her right hand, a golden staff with a blue sphere on the top and a blue handle. On her left was a mirror on a shield held up by a leather band.

It was Palutena, the Goddess of Light in all her regal beauty. There was Princess Peach and Princess Zelda, but none of them had the unimaginably attractive and tempting figure as Palutena. She was wise and very caring and motherly. Tei always saw Palutena as a mother figure. Palutena advised the Princess along with other advisors in the Plyae Council. Palutena was the head of the council itself. She also coordinated the royal guard led by Pit.

"Well Princess, thinking about your Captain N again?" Palutena asked.

Tei's face turned red. Of course, Palutena was the kind of person to tease other people.

"Palutena!" Tei exclaimed.

Palutena giggled.

"Jeez Tei, you are so easy to tease!" Palutena said. "You've grown into such a fair maiden and you still think about your prince charming."

Tei pouted.

"Well I came to see if you were doing alright." Palutena said. "Actually, that's not the only reason. It's about your future."

"You mean… who is to be my… consort, yes?" Tei asked. "Palutena, I…"

"Oh no young lady, waiting for your Game Master to come here is not an excuse to duck out of your responsibilities." Palutena said. "Naturally, I guess I can't force you to marry, but as a Princess, not only are you expected to rule the Gameverse, but you must have an heir."

"I know that Lady Palutena, it's just…"

She sighed.

"I know he's real. He may seem like some legend, but… what if it isn't?" Tei asked. "What if he's real? What if he's out there? I want to meet him with my own eyes. I'm sure that somewhere beyond the Ultimate Warp Zone, he's there and that when summoned… I could finally see if the stories are actually true and that the stories aren't just fairytales."

"That's admirable of you Tei, but you gotta focus on reality." Palutena said. "I'd want to see the legend itself come true, but I wouldn't…"

She stopped and puts out a sigh.

"You know where I'm going with this, right?" Palutena asked.

"Yes…" Tei said. "How's Pit by the way?"

"Huh? Oh, I had him, Falco, Samus, Simon, Mega Man, Lucina and Isabelle go out to get that cake from Princess Peach." Palutena said. "You know the one. The one with all the strawberry frosting and the cherries and all the sweetest things in life."


Meanwhile in the Mushroom Kingdom…

Simon Belmont held the cake with his muscular arms. Falco Lombardi, Mega Man and Pit were with Simon

"You know, I don't get it." Falco said. "Why are we guys forced to get some stupid cake while the girls do girl stuff? That ain't fair, don't ya think?"

"Now now my feathered friend, carrying this cake is good exercise for these muscles." Simon said. "I'm doing just fine. Heck, by the time Dracula rears his head, I'll vanquish him once again in a jiffy as you would call it."

"That cake weighs as much as Cloud's Buster Sword." Falco said. "Sure, you lifted it effortlessly and Pit knows how to work with a large club, so him lifting that thing wasn't surprising, but I can't even lift the damn thing and Mega Man lifted it up like it was nothing."

"I don't see the problem here." Pit said. "I mean, it's just a cake."

"Yeah, a cake that weighs 80 pounds. I can't lift 80 pounds." Falco said. "I don't like being reminded of the fact that raw strength isn't my attribute."

"But now that makes me wonder what Lucina, Isabelle and Samus are doing while we are daring this task by ourselves." Simon said.

"I don't know… Girls just do girly things." Pit said.

"Being a bounty hunter isn't a 'girly' thing to do." Mega Man corrected his angelic friend.

"I know that." Pit said. "I bet they're having fun or something."


Samus wished she could leave this place. The girls were just sitting at a table having cups of tea. Samus was not having any of it. She had a very important job to do and this was not one of them. She did not want to waste time doing this. She had a Pikachu in her ship that awfully gets temperamental when he isn't being fed. She felt a nudge. It was Isabelle, the anthropomorphic Shih Tzu. She was a secretary, working for the Villager who was running the Animal Crossing Town of Anima. Why she was even brought along with her and the others bothers Samus to this day.

"Come on Ms Aran, smile." Isabelle said.

"No." Samus said. "Why did I even agree to this again?"

"Because your ship was the only thing the cake could fit in." Lucina said.

"And you brought me over for tea time." Samus said. 'What do I have to do to get out of here?'

"I'm so glad you ladies decided to come here." Princess Peach said.

"I didn't decide. I was forced." Samus said.

"You know, you could at least try to have fun." Lucina said.

Samus turned to the blue haired Ylissean. Samus was having none of it.

"I didn't come here to have fun." Samus said. "Let's just get this over with."

"Please, at least drink the tea before it gets cold…" Peach said.

Samus took a sip. She hoped something would alleviate her boredom. There was a hum coming from Isabelle's pockets. Isabelle pulled out the GamePad.

"Uh… there's an energy disturbance in the Mushroom Kingdom…" Isabelle said.

"An energy disturbance?" Samus asked.

"It could be a tear. It happens once or twice in a world." Lucina said.

"If it's a tear, then it's a very unusual tear." Isabelle said. "These readings indicate a level 6 tear. But those tears are highly uncommon."

Samus knew what this called for. She pulled out a GameBoy.

"Location?" Samus asked.

"Coordinates are in sector H-7. That points towards World 1-1." Isabelle said.

She switched the GameBoy on and pressed on the A button.


A ringtone was playing. Pit took out a GameBoy and pressed the A button and Samus appeared.

"Hey Samus, what's up?" Pit asked.

"Isabelle's picking up a tear, a Level 6 near World 1-1." Samus said. "Investigate immediately."

"Right." Pit said. "Alright, we got a level 6 tear. Let's have a look."

"Uh… level 6? Isn't that dangerous?" Falco asked.

"We can't leave it alone. We have to go." Pit said.

He was glad he brought the Wings of the Pegasus with him. His wings glowed a magenta pink before he took flight. Mega Man summoned his robotic canine Rush. Rush changed into his Rush Jet form, a sleigh with his rear legs in the form of jet thrusters. Mega Man jumped on Rush as the dog's jet boosters activated. The Blue Bomber took after the Angel. Falco called up his Arwing with his device. The space fighter craft came to him and he jumped into the cockpit.

"Handle the cake will ya?" Falco asked.

"Wha—?! You would—?!"

"Later!" Falco said before closing the cockpit and flew off after the others.

"Come back you—! Oh let it go Simon Belmont. You have better stuff to do." Simon said.


World 1-1

Bowser Jr was looking at strange flashes in the sky. It was odd. There wasn't a prediction about a tear forming in the Mushroom Kingdom, least of all in World 1-1. It kept bugging him. Tears usually just let off a pulse and that pulse usually gets faster and faster until a tear pops open. Tears are usually just a result of an instability of data which then causes an energy fluctuation and leads to an explosion, forming a tear. Kokoro, the heart of the Gameverse, generated energy which was controlled by the core that encapsulated it.

He had instructed his fleet to steer clear of it. Tears are highly unstable and a hard collision would be enough to trigger an explosion. It was like a ball of antimatter surrounded by a containment field. If the field ruptures from a hard impact, the antimatter goes off in an explosion and can dematerialize everything around it. If anything were to get dematerialized in a Game World, anything native to said world in question would be rebuilt using backup data in the world's memories. But anything not native to said world would be erased forever, save for characters with extra lives. But they are still dangerous, even when they don't explode. Tears could burn out anything they touch.

Bowser Jr wasn't liking this one bit. Something was off. He didn't want to get caught out here, not with a tear possibly forming.

"We turn back." Bowser Jr said. "I don't like this one bit."

Suddenly, a giant tear in the fabric of cyberspace opened as storm clouds gathered around it. An energy field surrounded the hole as it began to change into a wormhole of some sort. It was high in the sky above him.

"Turn around! Quickly!" Bowser Jr ordered.

He didn't like this one bit. Something was off.


Pit looked amazed by the giant wormhole.

"What is that?" Pit asked.

"These energy readings don't suggest a tear. This is a Warp Zone unlike anything we've seen." Mega Man said.

"Wait… you mean that's—"

"The Ultimate Warp Zone. It would account for the energy fluctuations." Mega Man said.

"Ok, so what if it is? Where does it lead to?" Falco asked.


In VideoWorld…

Palutena felt a disturbance in the flow of energy. She gripped her staff tightly.

"I sense a disturbance." Palutena said.

"What kind? Is it Medusa?" Tei asked.

"No… it's a Warp Zone… but this intensity… it can't be…" Palutena said.


World 1-1

A bolt came screaming out of the wormhole and shot straight through Bowser Jr's ship. It crashed into the ground below with a resounding crash. Pit went down there. The wormhole suddenly began to implode and the sky went back to normal.

Pit landed at the crater below the airships overhead. He looked into the crater to find a humanoid figure wearing a black hoodie from where he was standing. Pit went into the crater as Falco's Arwing and Mega Man came in to join him. Pit got closer and examined him. His clothes looked like that of the early 21st century. Pit noticed that his skin was a pale complexion. The hair was blonde and short. Pit rolled the humanoid over to find that… no… he wasn't a humanoid. He was an actual human, albeit with some sort of cartoonish appearance. Pit picked the guy up.

"Guys… he's human." Pit said. "A human just came out of there."

Falco looked to where the hole was a second ago.

"Holy shit…" Falco uttered. "Oi, you don't think the stories are actually true, right?"

Mega Man looked at the human.

"The likelihood of that is… shockingly close." Mega Man said. "What we had witnessed was another being coming from the Ultimate Warp Zone. If this is in fact a sign of the legend coming true, then it's possible that he is…"

"Captain… N…" Pit said. 'Seriously? This guy might be the Captain N Palutena was talking about?'

The trio stood there in awe, looking at the human that just emerged from the Ultimate Warp Zone they had witnessed with their own eyes.


A/N: And thus, we truly begin here.

Minato Bray and Princess Tei

Yeah, I know, Original Characters, but hey, you'll know why they're here in the first place.