Super Smash Brothers Melee - Special Edition

Episode 1-New Beginnings


For the last two years tensions had mounted between the realms. With the last tournament unsuccessful, the world was still left without a winner and rivalries still flowed deep. Small battles would break out between realms. The only thing preventing a war between the realms was a peace treaty signed by the combatants. The treaty, created princess Peach, stated that as long as the combatants stood against war then no wars will exist. This treaty would be void if any hostile action between combatants took place. So no one dared to lift a finger in violence. But recently all out attacks have happened within the realms. The most obvious were between Hyrule and the Mushroom Kingdom, even though Link and Mario have remained peaceful. But not even that could stop the violence. The treaty states that if war would break out it would be decided in the arena, not in a battlefield.

We last left off with Mario and Link about to engage in combat.

Mario and Link charged at each other in furry. About a foot away from each other Link took his sword and slashed down with it in an attempt to run it through Mario's skull. But Mario managed to grab Link's hand stopping the swing. Mario the proceeded to give Link a stiff shot to the stomach making him bend over in pain. A splurt off blood shot out of Links mouth before Mario grabbed ahold of his shirt and tossed him about ten feet backwards. Link rolled for about a foot before landing on his feet. After catching his breath, Link wiped the blood from his mouth and laughed a low short little laugh. The two once again took fighting stances. Mario charged at Link at full speed, but Link remained still. Mario turned his charge into a jump at the last second and with one leg straight out at Links head. Link managed to catch Mario's foot out of the air, Link retaliated by throwing Mario straight into the ground with a loud thud. Link proceeded to try and stab Mario once again, but as before, he was too slow and Mario was able to kick Links feet out from underneath him. Link started to fall down as Mario got to his feet. Mario took the chance and kicked Link in the gut sending him back another 8 feet. Link didn't get up quite as quick this time so Mario started running towards him. Mario had planed on kicking Link while he was down but was instead greeted by a foot in the face as Link flipped to get up. Link quickly took his shield and gave Mario a heavy slap across the head almost knocking him off his feet. The shield was followed by a sword slash but the sword was knocked out of Links hand as Mario was able to strike it. Shocked Link watched his sword fly away while Mario grabbed his shirt. Mario then fell back pulling Link with him. When Link was on top of him Mario kicked as hard as he could and sent Link flying straight up into the air. Link floated to the top of his arch and looked down. Below him was Mario preparing a fireball. Link thought quickly and pulled a bomb out. With a quick throw the explosive was headed towards earth. Mario didn't see the bomb right away. So a very shocked Mario just barely managed to jump out of the incoming bomb's path. The explosion left Mario face first in the dirt and small crater behind him. "Damn close one" Mario look back in time to see Link land gracefully next to his sword. In a flash Mario was charging towards Link again. But Link still had his back to Mario. Mario figured he had it won until at the last moment Link side stepped leaving Mario to stumble to the ground with an extra wound in his arm from Links sword. Mario held his arm in pain while on one knee. A small drop of blood ran down Link's sword. With his good arm Mario formed a fireball and turned quickly to throw it at Link, the fireball roared towards Link who stood his ground. The fireball was quickly deflected by his shield into the bleachers. "You missed" Link said plainly "But I didn't" Mario was perplexed by this right up until the point where Links boomerang hit him in the back of the head knocking his hat off. Before Mario could even hit the ground Link had run up and drop kicked Mario in the chest. As Mario was flipping backwards in place, Link introduced his sword to Mario's kneecap. A scream of pain could be heard from Mario as he hit the ground holding his leg. Mario rolled on the ground in pain as Link stood and watched. After what seemed like an eternity to Mario, Link walked up with his sword drawn and placed it at Mario's throuht. Link's only words "Time to end it". Mario was helpless, he felt as if he had been cut in half, but he was just moment away from the real thing. As Link drew back for the final blow he felt a wave of energy coming towards him. A split second later Link was smashed into the arena wall nearly breaking some ribs. Amidst a mouth of blood Link managed to speak "CR...UD .wha..t who..?" As Link looked up he saw toad standing in the bleachers, Toad had an energy cannon and a big one at that. "You! What are you doing!?". Toad didn't reply but instead a voice from behind him spoke, it took only a moment for Link to recognize Peach's voice. "We are here to stop this, I'm not sure what you were hoping to accomplish but it stops now! Because of your actions war is unavoidable now. But there is one thing left that can be done. As of now I declare that there will be a new tournament, hopefully it will end before too many people have died. I hope your both happy" By the time Peach had ended her lengthy speech Toad had locked in another shot on Link. Mario had finally gathered enough strength to walk up to Peach. "Thanks Peach but you shouldn't be here" and within a second Peach had turned towards Mario with a look on her face that could pierce lead. "YOU'RE THE ONE WHO SHOULDN'T BE HERE! What were you thinking idiot, you know as well as I do that he can simply be revived if you killed him and vice versa." Mario had almost collapsed in pain before he could speak. "You don't know?" Peach look puzzled "Know what" Before Mario could speak a loud thump could be heard. Peach and Mario turned to look at the noise and were in shock as they saw Toad with an arrow through his over sized head. Peach ran to his side in time to see him die. She turned to see Link putting his bow away. Link then proceeded to tell peach the truth "If you die on this arena floor, the final arena, you die forever." With that Link proceeded to leave the arena. Peach turned to Mario "Is this TRUE?" A simple nod is all Mario could do. At that exact moment Peach's heart split into two, her life long servant now lie dead. "No, this can't... happen.." as tears rolled down Peach's face she yelled at the top of her lungs "LINK! LINK YOU COWARD YOU WILL PAY FOR THIS! HYRULE WILL PAY! THIS MEANS WAR! THERE WILL BE NO TOURNAMENT! YOU HERE ME!? THERE WILL..." But Peach was interrupted as Mario's hand touched her on the shoulder. "Peach it's too late, you already declared the tournament and look" Mario pointed at the arena. Peach watched in amazement as the old battered arena started to repair and within a minute it looked better than ever. "As long as Link is in the tournament, he cannot be harmed those are your rules." Peach's heart sank even deeper.. Would there be no vengeance? Can he just simply kill? Then a wave of inspiration over came Peach as she realized the only solution. "I will fight!" Mario would have protested but he had passed out.

By midnight that night all the realms were at war with each other.

Author: When writing this i felt that i needed to get the point across that this isnt your grandma's bed time story, its grimey and realistic... i was listening to "come out and play" while writing the fight scene...