[Author's Note: This is the chapter you've all been waiting for!!! The Smashers finally meet!!! Burning questions are answered!!! Items are revealed!!! And after you finish, only ONE MORE CHAPTER TO GO!!! If you haven't read all the chapters up to now, I suggest doing so. For all the rest, here it is, "The Smashers Meet".]
Chapter 12: The Smashers Meet
Luigi and Mario were so busy arguing, that they didn't even notice the Master Hand filling up the last two cages.
"Oh so now I'm a half wit am I?" said Luigi. "We'll at least I'm not a glory hog-a!"
"Better that than a jealous loser!" countered Mario.
"Shut up, you obese shrimp!!"
"Make me, you-a moronic fraidy cat!"
"Mama's boy!"
"Wannabe!"
"Lard b…"
"SHUT UP BOTH OF YOU!!! YOU'RE MAKING MY HEADACHE MUCH WORSE THAN IT ALREADY IS!" finally yelled Link.
"Stay out of this, little boy!" scoffed Luigi. Normally he never would have said anything like that, but his jealousy was so out of control that he didn't really care at the time. Aren't you MARIO's brother? Isn't MARIO a good jumper? Can you get me MARIO's autograph? MARIO this! MARIO that! MARIO, MARIO, MARIO!
Luigi's anger was as high as it's ever been, yet it still grew and grew. It grew with every memory he thought of where he was run over by a mob of fans going over to see his brother. It grew with every remembrance of every time he went to the mailbox and found it stuffed with letters for Mario but not one for him. Not even a small one. And it quadrupled for every recollection Luigi had of him helping someone out and then them asking him if he could get them a meeting with Mario. I can't stand it anymore!! thought Luigi. I'll find a way to show him once and for all who's the better man!
But no matter how angry Luigi got, Mario was just as angry. Luigi's always been jealous of me! He always complains that I always have great adventures and have become hugely famous. Well, maybe if he got off of his fat butt and did something about it he wouldn't have to live in my shadow! I can't help it if he's lazy…
He was suddenly interrupted by Donkey Kong rattling the bars in the next cage. He wasn't surprised that much since DK has been doing it ever since they got there, only pausing to rest every once in a while.
"Ooh aaah ach eeh ohh ugh!" yelled the monkey in a fit of frustration. Unbeknownst to anyone but himself, DK just said, "Why don't these stupid bars break!" He had an unnatural fear of small places ever since being put into barrels by K. Rool's henchmen. He could barely breath it felt so much like the walls were smothering him. Finally he decided to close his eyes and think of something else. Of course, the first thing that came to him was Candy and her captors.
What's with K.Rool? Why does he have this obsession with ruling the island? Every other minute is another dumb plot to get the crystal coconut. And they're always so unoriginal! Well, I for one have had it! No more mister nice monkey. When I get back, I'll get rid of him and his lackeys, once and for all! Then DK's subconscious reminded him where he was, and tried to shake the bars loose again.
"WILL YOU PLEASE STOP THAT ALREADY?!? IT'S NOT HELPING MY HEADACHE YOU KNOW!!!" yelled Link for the second time. However, it seemed to have little effect on stopping the ape, or relieving his pain. Link began to hate this place with a passion. He finally decided to cover his ears and try and block out the pain.
Why can't anybody in this place just be quiet! thought Link angrily. Suddenly a bolt of pain struck him from his left temple. AAAaahhh!! He cried out mentally. After a minute the pain subsided and Link mind began to try and rationalize his situation…
He woke up to find himself in this cage with an ever-increasing headache. He quickly checked his clothes for any equipment. He had his sword, shield, and ocarina as well as a small hookshot, a larger boomerang, and some bombs that he purchased at a training post during his trip from Termina's entrance. The rest of his stuff was in his saddlebag, which in his haste of going to his room, left on Epona. His first notion was to use the ocarina and warp out of there, but none of his songs seemed to work. He then tried to break the cage with his sword, but that failed too. He considered using a bomb, but the close confinements might have resulted in his own destruction as well. Finally he gave up because of his crippling headache. But that's what you get when the only sleep you've had in three days was due to being knocked out. I should've never trusted that bartender. thought Link, whom he assumed was the mastermind of his kidnapping.
However, Link wasn't the only one suffering. Samus, too, had a big pain, and its name was Captain Falcon.
"Only really bad bounty hunters need to wear a suit!" sneered Capt. Falcon "Real men rely on pure skill."
"Yeah, well, too bad I don't see any around here. Maybe he could have given you some pointers." replied Samus, smiling under her exosuit.
Capt. Falcon was getting annoyed. "Yeah, well, if I had a blaster like you do, I'd be outta here fast than you can say F-Zero."
"And if you had brains like me, you wouldn't have just waltzed right in here!" said Samus. "And besides, I already tried that before you got here. It didn't even make a scratch."
"Well don't stand there and cry like a baby, try it again!" shouted Capt. Falcon. Samus was about to tell him that she didn't take orders from losers when all of a sudden, the small boy in the cage next to Capt. Falcon spoke up. "Cry like a baby? You should talk!" he said.
"What do you mean?" asked Samus. Capt. Falcon froze in fear.
"I mean, Mr. Tough guy over here cried more than my mom does at sappy movies when he realized he couldn't race anymore." said the boy.
"How did you know th…" said Capt. Falcon
"I'm psychic." stated the boy.
"You mean its true?!? HAHAHAHAHAHA!" said Samus as she burst out in laughter.
"Hey, so I got a little emotional, ok?" screamed Capt. Falcon in defense.
"A little?" said the boy. "You cried so much that you could have filled Lake Tessie twice over!"
"Stop it!" said Samus through her fits of laughter, "You're killing me!!"
"I wouldn't laugh so much if I were you." said the boy. "Otherwise I might tell him your 'dark secret'."
Samus immediately stopped laughing. Could this boy really know her true identity?
"What is it? C'mon, you told him mine!" begged Capt. Falcon.
The young boy smiled. "That's just it. She's a she, not a he."
"What?!?" yelled Capt. Falcon in surprise. Slowly it dawned on him what the little boy was saying. He turned to Samus. "You mean… you're a GIRL!?!" Suddenly, he began laughing as hard as Samus was earlier.
This, of course, made Samus furious. She shot her grappling beam through the bars of her cage and hit Capt. Falcon directly in the chest. She then retracted it and slammed Capt. Falcon into the bars next to her. "Don't you EVER laugh at a woman again!"
She then proceeded to fling across his cage so he hit the bars next to the young boy's cage.
"That goes for you too!" snapped Samus.
"Well, since technically I am girl," said the boy, "I wouldn't dream of it."
Samus had no clue what the little boy was talking about but didn't really want to know either.
Guess she's not the curious type. thought Paula. Oh well, it's probably better this way anyway.
When Paula had first awoken, she was more shocked than she's ever been in she life. One minute she was psychically linking with Ness, the next the link was severed and after a few minutes woke up here. Of course, that was nothing to the shock she received a few moments later when she realized she wasn't in her own body.
After a couple minutes and a few screams, Paula calmed down. She had already figured out why she was in Ness's body, but had yet to answer the question of where she was. To find out, she read the minds of the people around her. However, it turned out to be not very helpful because they were just as confused as she was. Then she tried reading the mind of the glove that many of the people remember being kidnapped by. Unfortunately, it seemed to be protected by a strong psychic shield that she couldn't penetrate. Finally, in a last effort attempt, she sent a SOS psychically, but so far there's been no response.
I hope Ness and the others find me. she thought. It's getting real boring here, fast.
She looked around for something to occupy her when she noticed the small dinosaur in the cage near hers that seemed to be shivering. She quickly read its mind and realized why. It lives on a tropical island. It must need the heat in order to survive. That means if it stays here, it could…
Paula knew she couldn't just sit there and let that happen, even though she was very low in psychic energy from the link with Ness and reading everyone's minds. She called the dino over and used her powers to heat up the air around it.
Yoshi didn't know what was going on, but it did know it felt much better. And somehow it also knew that the small boy was responsible and gave him a huge lick. Then slowly, it drifted into a much-needed sleep.
Kirby, on the other hand, had way too much energy to sleep. It felt like a wild animal and jumped around its cage, despite the gravity change. It also tried flying, but couldn't stay in the air very long before the pull became to great.
Damn glove! By now, the Dark Matter probably controls all of Dreamland! If I could only get out of this cage I'd teach him a lesson or two! thought Kirby as he tried breaking the bars again for about the hundredth time. He bit them and pulled them and pushed them and kicked them, yet they always seemed unaffected. He even tried to cut them using the cutter he still had with him from the picnic, but that didn't even scratch them.
"LET ME OUT!!!!!" screamed Kirby to the Master Hand, who seemed to be waiting for something. "ONLY A COWARD WOULD LOCK UP HIS ENEMIES INSTEAD OF FACING THEM!!"
All of this shouting woke up Star Fox. "Wha… Where am I?" he said curiously. Then he looked around and found out that he was in a cage, along with many others who were also locked up. "Who's responsible for this?"
"That guy is!" said a small marshmallow-like creature in the cage next to him. He pointed to a large white glove that was standing outside of the cages.
"You over there!" said Fox. "Why are you keeping us here?"
"Patience." said the hand shaped creature. "All will be revealed in time."
"I DON'T HAVE TIME!" yelled Fox. "PEPPPY'S ONLY GOT THREE DAYS TO LIVE!!!"
"Your trivial personal life means nothing to me." it responded. "You're staying here."
"LIKE YOU'RE GONNA STOP ME??" said Fox. He whipped out his blaster and fired through the bars. However, the blast was absorbed when it reached the edge of the cage.
"How in the world…" began Fox.
"They're magically sealed." said the glove. "No amount of force can ever penetrate them."
"Magic? Magic isn't real!" said Fox.
"Not in your dimension." the glove replied.
"You… You mean I'm not in my own dimension?!?" asked Fox.
"That is correct." said the glove.
Fox sat down in his cage. "Wow. I'm never been outside my dimension before." He looked around and saw a sleeping yellow mouse sitting in the cage next to him. Getting kind of lonely, he woke it up so he could talk to it (He is used to animals being able to talk).
"Pika!?!" said the yellow mouse.
"What?" asked Fox. "I didn't quite hear you."
Pikachu looked up to see a huge fox standing next to him. Needless to say, he panicked. "CHU!!!!" yelled the electric pokemon and shocked his surroundings with as much energy as he could muster.
"AAAAAHHH!!" yelled everyone else as their metal cages suddenly became electrified. After a couple seconds, Fox turned on his reflector shield and the mouse got shocked into stopping.
"Hey, what was that-a for?" Mario asked the Master Hand.
"I did nothing." said the Master Hand. "That was caused by one of your own."
"Well, who ever it was would have been real sorry if I brought my Franklin Badge!" said Paula.
"Yoshi Yoshi!" yelled the now awakened Yoshi.
Pikachu calmed down and looked around for the first time. He found out that he was in a cage that was in a long row of other cages. To his left was the giant fox that previously scared him. To the right was the dreaded Jigglypuff, a face he knew too well. Pikachu decided to risk getting put to sleep again by asking it if it knew what was going on.
"Pika-pi-pikachu-chu-pika?" it asked.
"Jiggly-jigglypuff-jiggly-puff-puff. Puff-jigglypuff-puff!!" said the pink pokemon, explaining what happened. "Jiggly-jiggly-puff-jig!!!"
Pikachu pointed toward the huge white glove. "Chu-pi?"
"Jig!!" said Jigglypuff.
"Pika! Chu-pikachu-pi-pika!" exclaimed Pikachu. He now understood how he got there, just not why.
Just as he was about to ask the large fox about it, an extremely big creature carrying a bag walked into the room and began talking with a rather large glove that looked like it was guarding the cages.
"Master, here is what you wanted." spoke the huge being, handing him the bag.
"About time!" barked the Master Hand. "Are the arenas finished yet?"
"All except the James Bond one." the creature said.
"Oh, never mind that." said the Master Hand. "I found someone more better to take his place." He gave a nod toward Jigglypuff.
"Shall we make a new arena for him?" asked the giant.
"You mean her." said the Master Hand. "But I don't think a new arena is necessary. She can easily share Pikachu's."
"Yes master." said the creature and bowed quickly before it left.
"Wait!" yelled the Master Hand.
The enormous being walked back into the room quickly. "Yes master?"
"Bring me the items." said the Master Hand.
"Yes master." repeated the giant and left the room again.
The Master Hand put the bag off to the side and turned to the cages. "MAY I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE!!"
Everyone stopped talking and looked at it. "Allow me to introduce myself for all of you who don't know already." it said. "I am the Master Hand. I was the one who brought all of you here."
"Why?" asked Capt. Falcon. "Did we do something wrong?"
"No." said the Master Hand. "The reason I brought you here was so you can compete in a tournament."
"What kind of tournament?" said Link, who now abandoned his theory that the bartender was behind this scheme.
"A fighting tournament. I picked all of you because you are the best of the best." it said.
"Then why keep us in cages!!! You afraid we'll get you!" mocked Kirby.
"No. They were more for keeping you from running into my portals and getting lost in a foreign dimension." responded the Master Hand. "But I have no use for them now." Then the Master Hand snapped its fingers.
All of a sudden, there was a flash of light and all of the cages disappeared. Everyone was thankful, but no one more than DK.
"Tell us more about this-a fighting tournament." said Luigi, who obviously was curious.
"Well, each of you will fight on a platform like level against one or more opponents." continued the Master Hand. "The object is to knock off the other fighters using your body or items."
"Like what?" asked Link, who was feeling much better.
The Master Hand stopped to think for a moment. "Well, there are swords and bombs and guns…"
"Chu-chu-pi-pika!" said Pikachu.
"Oh, I almost forgot!" said the Master Hand as it dragged the bag over again. It reached deep inside and took out a handful of strange glittery purple powder. Then the Master Hand proceeded to throw the stuff all over the Smashers, and they coughed a lot.
"Hey, what's the big *cough* idea!" yelled Capt. Falcon. "What does that stuff do?"
"To you?" said the Master Hand. "Nothing."
"Then why did you…" said Jigglypuff. She suddenly covered her mouth.
"Hey you can talk human!" said Pikachu. "Wow! So can I!!"
I wonder if it worked on me? thought DK. Only one way to find out…
"Can you guys understand me?" asked DK.
"Hey, DK, you don't-a grunt anymore!" said Mario.
DK was astonished. He's been trying to talk to Mario for years! "It's a miracle!"
"Yes, the language dust is pretty amazing isn't it?" said the Master Hand. "Too bad it wears off after a while."
"Awww! I wanted to impress Ash!" complained Pikachu.
"Anyway, what did you ask before?" said the Master Hand.
"I said 'Isn't that a bit dangerous?'." repeated Pikachu.
"Well…" the Master Hand said. "Normally it is, but not with my magic defense watches."
"Your what?" asked Paula.
"Magic defense watches." said the Master Hand.
"What are those?" she inquired.
"The magic defense watches…" began the Master Hand, "are my greatest creation. What it does is when someone hits you, instead of getting hurt, a small percentage counter on the watch goes up. The harder the hit, the more percent it adds. And the more percent you have, the easier it is to knock you off. One hundred percent is set to be the average amount a fighter takes before they get knocked off, but sometimes it might take more than that. Also, the watches have a small button that creates a force field that can block hits for you, but can be broken by constant attacks. And if it is, it will make you dizzy for a couple seconds and unable to fight back."
"What percent does the watch start at?" said DK.
"Zero." answered the Master Hand. "What else?"
"Okay, just making sure!" said DK.
"Yoshi no need button." said Yoshi proudly. "Yoshi can make egg to protect self."
Another large goliath entered the room holding a huge crate. "Here you are, master."
"Aah good. Just put it down there." said the Master Hand.
"Yes, master." said the giant and put the crate down.
"You may now leave." said the Master Hand.
"Thank you, master." it replied softly and quickly left the room.
"This must be the items." said the Master Hand and flew up to the top of the crate. Sure enough, he came back down holding the watches and gave everyone one.
Link looked at the watch strangely. "What do you do with this?"
"Put in on!" said Samus as if he was a moron.
"But… where?" asked Link.
"Your nose!!" said Samus sarcastically. Much to her surprise, Link actually tried it.
"It doesn't fit." he said after a minute.
"Gimme that!" she said and quickly grabbed the watch. She grabbed one of his hands put it on him tightly. "There, all done."
Link was very confused. "But I thought you said…"
"Never mind that!" snapped Samus.
"Here is the first item." said the Master Hand as it pulled it out of the crate. "It's called a beam sword."
"HEY!!" shouted Fox. "That's from the Great Fox's armory! You can't have that!!!"
"Too bad." said the Master Hand as he passed it around. "It will be returned when the tournament is over."
"Fine, but I'll personally make sure that it's put back myself." said Fox.
Many of the fighters were impressed, but none as much as Link. "By the fires of Din!!!" he exclaimed as it picked it up and swung it a couple times. "It's so light!!!"
"Hey stop being a item hog!" said Capt. Falcon. "You've had that longer than anyone else put together!"
Link wanted to teach him a lesson, but decided against it. "Fine." he said reluctantly and handed it over. "You can try it now."
"The next item is the most powerful one when used correctly. It's called the home run bat." It pulled it out and showed it to everyone.
Paula screamed as loud as she could when she recognized it. "GET RID OF THAT THING, NOW!!!"
"Why would I do that?" asked the Master Hand.
"Because that's not the home run bat!!!" said Paula. "That's the Casey bat!!!!"
"So?" said the Master Hand annoyed. "The name does not matter."
"That's not what I meant!" continued Paula. "The Casey bat is the worst bat ever!! Powerful, yes, but its also cursed with legendary bad luck!!! It's almost impossible to hit anything with it!!"
"Momma Mia!!" said Mario. "That's not-a good!"
"Oh well, just make sure what ever you're swinging at isn't moving for a while and you should be fine." said the Master Hand and passed it around. Everyone got a tried swinging it once, except for Paula who refused to touch the horrid thing.
"Moving on we have the life-giving items." said the Master Hand opening up himself so everyone could see. "On my index finger I hold a Maximum Tomato, a huge delicacy in Dreamland."
"WHICH NOW PROBABLY LIES IN RUINS BECAUSE OF YOU!!!!" yelled Kirby as he felt a surge of anger fill him.
The Master Hand paid little attention. "And on top of my ring finger is a Hylian treasure called a heart piece."
"Nice." said Link. "Something normal for a change."
"If that's normal, I'd like to see the strange stuff!!" commented Pikachu.
"Then why don't you try looking in the mirror." muttered Link. Jigglypuff giggled loudly.
"Hey, shut up, Jigglypuff. Your just as weird as I am!" said Pikachu.
"Well, it sure doesn't look it with all that marker on your face and all." responded the pink cotton swab.
"WHAT!!!" shouted Pikachu loudly. "Why didn't you tell me sooner?" He began to lick his hand and use it to rub off some of the ink.
"Because you blew your nose on me LIKE I WAS A HANKY!!!" screamed Jigglypuff. "That's really unpleasant, you know!"
"Do you two mind?" said the Master Hand. They had already missed the explanation of the Super Star, the Hammer, and the Star Rod.
"Sorry." they said in unison.
"Now as I was saying…" proceeded the large glove, "this is a bomb-omb. Though it looks rather harmless, it actually is a powerful explosive. Also, if not picked up right away, the bomb-omb will start walking on its own and blow up anything that it comes in contact with. The other explosive here I have comes from Mr. Bond's private collection. He was originally supposed to be here instead of Jigglypuff. Anyway, this is called a proximity mine. It sticks to whatever you throw it at, and then explodes whenever passed over by a moving thing. Be very careful not to walk on your own mines."
"Good advice." said Fox.
The Master Hand passed them around and then quickly got two new items. "On the left, I have the ray gun."
"Hey, isn't that my trusty energy blaster?" said Capt. Falcon.
"Yes, this item was procured at your estate." replied the Master Hand.
"What does it do?" asked Link.
"It a gun!!" said Samus. "You press the little button on the front of the handle and it fires out a blast. Where you from, the Stone Age?"
"…And on the right we have a Fireflower, which can be used as a flame-thrower." explained the massive hand like being.
"What's a flamethr…" said Link.
"IT SPITS OUT FIRE, OKAY!!!" yelled Samus.
"Okay, sheesh you're moody for an iron man." said Link.
"Probably PMS." mumbled Capt. Falcon.
"WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY!?!!" roared Samus.
"Nothing." he said out loud.
"The next two are the only ones not taken from one of your dimensions, the fan and bumper. The fan is extremely weak but very fast. It also can break shields very easily. The bumper bounces off of anyone it hits or hits it, as well as knocks the target person back a few feet." The Master Hand said and passed them to more players.
"Here are the turtle shells." it told the heroes as it retrieved them from the crate. "Both are powerful if thrown into an enemy, but when the red one hits the ground, it will home in on the closest thing on its platform."
"Are we almost done a-yet?" asked Luigi.
"One more to go." said the glove and passed the items out. Finally it pull out the last item. "Here it is. The pokeball." Everyone stared in awe.
"Kinda small don't you think?" said Fox.
"Don't be fooled by its size. The pokeball will release a random pokemon to fight for you for a limited time. However, it effect is different depending on the pokemon."
"So I can get a little electric thing like him to fight for me?" said DK, pointing to Pikachu.
"No. Only certain pokemon can appear." said the Master Hand.
"Good cause I'd hate to get shocked by another of… chu." said Pikachu. "Pika? Chu-pi-pika?"
"The language dust probably wearing off." stated the Master Hand.
"Yeah, my throat feels kinda… eeehh eehh ooh!" said DK.
"Yoshi, Yoshi!" exclaimed Yoshi.
"Yup, I guess so." it said.
"So, how is the tournament going to be set up?" asked Paula.
"Well, first of all, we will put all of your names into a drawing and pick out four." said the Master Hand. "Those four will get a bye, while the rest of you will fight in the first around. Once the winners have been decided, they will take on the bye people in the second round. Now there's only four left, and they'll fight in a huge battle royal. The winner will take on my best unit of polygons, Metal Mario, and then finally, battle me for the title."
"Polygons? What are they?" asked Luigi.
"Polygons are magical creatures made from statues of you. They fight a lot like you, and have the same moves, but are completely purple, lack high intelligence and are made up of rigid shapes like squares and triangles." explained the Master Hand. "I had to quickly replace all of the Bond ones with Jigglypuff ones once I got back from getting the pokeballs."
"Jiggly!" said Jigglypuff. "Puff-jiggly-puff!"
"Well, it's been great staying here, but I really got to go." said Fox. "I have important things to do. Send me back please."
"I don't think so." said the Master Hand. "The tournament hasn't even begun."
"But I don't want to be in it." said Fox.
"So? The decision isn't yours to make." said the glove.
"WHAT?!?" said Fox.
"No one may leave until the tournament is over." said the Master Hand.
When the Master Hand said that, everybody froze.
Suddenly, Link spoke up. "You can't do that!! We have lives you know!"
"I do not care." the Master Hand said. "Until the contest is finished, you're all staying here."
"Then I'll just eliminate myself in the first round." said Fox. "I don't care if I win your crummy tournament."
"But then you won't win the prize." replied the Master Hand.
Capt. Falcon immediately perked up. "Prize?!? What prize!?"
"The winner of the tournament will receive one wish of his or her choice." said the Master Hand. "However, there are two restrictions. You can't wish to give yourself any extra wishes, and you can't wish for my powers."
"Ahh nuts!" said Capt. Falcon.
"So how about it Mario and Luigi." said the Master Hand, noticing the older of the two seemed not convinced. "You ready to prove what you're made of?"
"I don't-a care if you keep me here a million years! The principle of a-beating up other people for no reason is-a wrong!" said Mario.
"You're just a-scared! You know I would beat-a you, so you don't want to fight!!" said Luigi.
"That's not-a true!!" yelled Mario. "I could a-crush you like a bug!"
"Oh yeah! Prove it!!" said Luigi.
Mario knew it went against his morals to take part in it, but anger got the better of him. Besides he thought he needed to put Luigi back in his place. "FINE! YOU'RE A-ON!!!"
"Excellent! How about you, Donkey Kong?" said the glove.
DK didn't like the idea, but when the Master Hand told them about the wish, he knew he would do it. K. Rool will pay. he thought to himself and nodded vigorously up and down.
"Link? You got something you really want?" asked the Master Hand.
Link quickly remembered that he had been searching for over a month (not including the Termina incident) and that so far, he hadn't even found a trace of her yet. However, Link also remembered that he wasn't very strong without his equipment. "Let me just get a couple of my masks from a saddle bag from my horse Epona. Then I'll definitely figh…"
"Some of your masks contains the souls of others. You cannot get help from outsiders." said the glove, fully aware of his plan.
"Then what if I got the Master Sword and became older instead." suggested Link. "No one would be helping me, but I could fight at my full potential."
The Master Hand thought about his request for a second. Then he finally said, "Agreed. Let me just put a spell on you so you will age the seven years in a matter of seconds."
It got out a large magic book from the back of the room and flipped to a certain page. "Colierus paramum tropason!" it said and an energy ball flew out and hit Link.
"There. It is done." said the glove and opened up a dimensional rift into the Temple of Time.
Link walked in and a minute later came out fully-grown and holding the master sword. "Feels kinda weird to be like this again." he said.
"Okay, now that that's done, how about you Samus?" asked the Master Hand as he closed the portal.
"One question first." said Samus. "Did my ship explode?"
"Like a over-filled water balloon." replied the Master Hand.
"In that case, I'm in." she said.
"Me too." said Capt. Falcon even before the Master Hand asked him. "If I prove that Goroh sabotaged me, they'll make him pay me for a completely new car!"
"That's two more. Ness, you want to give it a try?" said the Master Hand.
"I'm not Ness!!" yelled Paula. "When you kidnapped him we accidentally switched bodies!"
However, the Master Hand did not believe her. "Look I told you, no one leaves until the tournament is done. Making up a feeble excuse isn't going to get me to let you go."
"BUT IT'S TRUE!!!" protested Paula.
"Even if it was, how are you going to switch back!" said the Master Hand. "You'd need to win the tournament, that's how."
Paula sighed and realized that what it said was true. I'll have to only use PSI Fire, Thunder, and Magnet because I'm low on PP and those are my cheapest types. There's no way I'll win if I run out…
"Fine. I'll do it." She said reluctantly.
"Good. Yoshi?"
Yoshi agreed quickly. He didn't want to think about what would happen to his friends if he refused…
"And now were at Kirby." said the Master Hand.
"ONLY SO I CAN MAKE YOU PAY!!!" yelled the angry cream puff.
"Good enough for me. Fox, how about it?" the Master Hand said.
Fox didn't like being held captive, but he knew he needed the wish badly. "You can count me in too."
"Okay Pikachu do you want to fight in the tournament too?" asked the huge hand shaped being.
"Chu!" said the pokemon, refusing.
"Oh come on! There's got to be something you want!" said the Master Hand.
Suddenly, Pikachu remembered the events that took place before he was brought here. He realized that it would take a miracle to get Ash and Misty talking again. And that's exactly what this white glove was offering.
"Pika." answered Pikachu affirmatively.
"Great! Jigglypuff, you're the only one left. Can I count on you to fight too?" asked the Master Hand.
"Jiggly-puff!" said Jigglypuff. It knew what it wanted from the moment Misty taught it to sing. Someone to actually be able to listen to her do a complete song without falling asleep!
"Then it's settled." said the Master Hand. "We will start immediately."
[Author's Note: The final chapter, "Some Very Smashy Endings" should be done soon. (Try not to cry too much.) Until then, live long and… uhh… something.]