Note: Assume that we are fighting on a standard, 2D flat plane, just like
in the game. This also makes our bodies susceptible to SSBM's insane,
unearthly physics. No eight way movements here!
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CHAPTER THREE:
HORIZON OF DESTINY
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You'd think that after pummeling these guys flat to the ground everyday, they would know better than to backstab me with a cheap smash attack. Some people just never learn to show some respect.
I was furious. Sam nailed me with a Side Smash Attack, just to prove that he had the strongest and most skilled abilities. I positioned myself in the air, ready to drill my feet right through him. "Nah. I better not," I thought. I landed on the far right edge of the platform, observing exchange of swings from Jess and Sam's blades. Cling and clang sounds reached my ears as their swords connected, resulting in a stalemate.
"I might as well join in," Cal thought. He was behind Jess as he calmly walked towards him and delivered a great force through his arm as he slashed his sword forward, hitting Jess with the strongest part of it, the tip. A loud THUD sound came from the attack as Jess flew back a couple feet, where Sam took a small leap and unleashed a quick, uncharged Flare Blade to volley him back at Cal. Jess became covered in flames after the toned down attack hit him.
This is when I stepped him. I lifted my right leg behind my back to kick the descending swordsman. Sam felt the hit and stayed in the air for another second, allowing me to land a swift Backflip Kick Smash Attack. He was suspended in the air and readied his sword to attack anyone who stood in his way. I was surprised how quickly the others caught on to their attacks. Jess had continuously attempted to return a Side Smash at Cal, who kept rolling away back and forth, dodging his attacks. I knew I had to play it safe. I was at 79% after all, and I couldn't afford to get ranked any higher in damage, since I had no idea what would happen if I was to get knocked out of the arena.
I held my position while I reached my holster and drew my blaster. I was capable of shooting the thing as if it where an automatic weapon, all while causing my opponents not to stagger at all. It was my safest bet to not aggravate the dueling swordsman. I aimed straight ahead and began to open fire.
Meanwhile, Sam finally had enough range in the air to swing his sword downwards, which stopped Cal's mad rolling. Jess had a wide open shot for another smash attack, an opportunity he blew. He noticed hot ruby red lasers coming in his direction at an incredible firing rate. He leaped high into the air and moved his body in a fancy flip over Sam and Cal. Now Sam was in the line of fire. He too, backflip over the annoying blasts, making Cal the new target. I kept my hand steady as I continued to fire. Cal didn't mind the attacks and immediately turned around and used the side smash, only to be Countered by Sam! Sam drew his blade closely, flung Cal's sword out of the way violently and delivered a blow with almost twice the force that Cal out into his attack. Cal was knocked out of the way in flames. He was accompained by Jess as well, who had rolled into Sam's Counter blow. Unfortunately for Sam, this left him wide open for my beams to get through to him, steadily ranking up damage on him. I must have at least hit him with 20% worth of damage with my Blaster alone. He's the one of the few who actually takes note of my little cheap attack. He began to charge at me with his sword ready to smash me out of the stage.
His assault came to a halt as Jess came down to the ground and delivered a painful meteor smash to him, sending Sam slightly into the air, with a healthy 51% on him. Cal managed to land safety on the ground next to me, rolling away as he landed. Jess was pushed back by Sam's sword as Sam swung it back and forth as he got up. Cal then volleys Jess back with another deadly side smash, sending Jess flying far of the left. I quickly ran up to the vulnerable Marth, grabbed him and kneed him twice, then threw him down to the ground and blasted him 4 times, just like I did to my opponents earlier before. Instead of using a deadly Up A smash, I decided to side smash him instead. Cal flung back from my attack, leaving him wide open.
Or so I thought. After I smashed him out of the way, I noticed a large, wooden bat, hurling in my direction! Its pitcher, Sam, chuckled as it flew across the air at incalculable speed. Normally I would use my Reflector Shield to send it right back at him, but there was no time for me to put up my shield to do so. I quickly dodged to the side, while the bat bounced at my former position. Close call. A bat is an extremely lethal throwing item in SSBM. How Sam found one puzzled me. What a cheap, dirty trick. I charged at Sam with great speed (After all, I'm Fox, one of the fastest characters in the game.) and forced my kick through his armor. He was hurled up above me as I continued my charge against Jess. Sam descended down to the ground slowly. He fired up a Double Edge Dance, swinging his blades in different directions, which turned his body into different colors, each strike making a foe susceptible to a devastating four hit combo.
Jess and Cal where engaged in a series of sword slashes and strikes, some of them making contact, some of them tasting dead air. I quickly used my charging kick, plowing through both of the unsuspecting combatants. Immediately I began to fire up a Fire Fox, which drew in Jess and Cal into my charging fiery body. An aura of flames dashed through both of them, and I bounced off the ground as I made contact with it, right past Sam's third Double Edge Dance swing. His fourth swing ignited Cal up in flames as he soared high up into the air. I say Cal struggling to stop himself from flying any further. None of us has been elevated that high. I turned my eyes towards Sam and ran up to him, expecting him to dodge behind me. I stopped right before I approached him and sure enough, he was soon in my grasp as I used my infamous throwdown. Sam knows me better and was able to roll out of my Down A splits smash attack as soon as he landed on the ground. He also rolled right into Jess's Side Smash. Meanwhile, Cal calmly floated right onto the stage's edge, grasping it firmly as he dangled over the unknown abyss of Final Destination. "Close call," I thought. I shook my head in shame. This had to end now. Jess didn't seem to get the picture as he and Sam keep on fighting each other. I had to speak up.
"HEY GUYS!" I yelled. "HOW ABOUT WE KNOCK IT OFF?"
"Yeah... Just listen to what he says," Cal said in a shaky voice as he looked down into the depths of space.
"Has anyone even bothered to think what would happen if one of us was knocked straight out of the level? What would happen? Would we come back or.. Die?"
Jess stood quietly for a while, with a blank, confused stare on his face.
"Ah you'll be fine!" Sam confirmed. He still thought this was a crazy dream.
"How would you know that?" I asked.
"Because I just do! Nothing is going to happen to me," he bragged proudly.
"I dunno Sam, for all we know, we could only have one stock, and I could of just lost mine.
"Don't be such a chicken," scorned Sam. " This is nothing but a crazy dream anyway."
"Don't you think this is a little too real to be a dream? Your attacks on me didn't exactly scratch me, they really gave me some pain," I said. While neither of us where bruised or gashes from our attacks. We felt like crap, but didn't look like it.
Sam directed his attention towards me. "Well you shouldn't have started this whole fight!"
"What are you talking about?!" I replied. The nerve of him sometimes! I just wanted to smash him with a Hammer. "You're the one who started this whole fight!"
"Well how am I supposed to know if this is real or not? You can't blame me for that! You're the one who took it all seriously. Do you really think that if I'm Roy and your Fox I'm just going to let you dance around me?"
I just shook my head and said, " Aww, forget it. What I want to know is if anyone else from the room is here, or how we're gonna get out of here."
"Just how did you get here before we did?" asked Cal.
"Beats me. I guess I was unconscious for a while. When I woke up, I was welcomed by Bowser, D.K., and C. Falcon."
Jess seemed pretty amazed about my last statement. "You. you fought all three of them at once?" he asked.
I grinned and began to stretch my arms a bit. Jess has a tendency to be the try and surpass me in everything I do. Keyword: Try. "Yep, I sure gave them a beating," I said in my casual, cocky voice. I then frowned as I turned my attention towards Sam. "I tried to take a break, till you guess showed up, begging for a fight."
"Hey, I want to know what's going on as much as you do," Cal said on his defense.
"Well, it's anyone's guess really," I sighed.
Sam calmly put this sword away, with his head to the ground and his eyes closed. "Well, I'm Roy, so I'm not complaining. But why are we here? Sea, did you do this? Cause if you did..."
"How would I?" I said.
"Just a thought, your normally the one who screws everything up. It was probably because of your gay Gamecube."
"But you know what else I wonder?" asked Cal, " Why are you Fox? Why is Sam Roy? And how can there be two Marths?"
"I'm sure there's a pretty good reason why I'm the strongest character out of the three," answered Sam.
I just rolled my eyes at Sam's usual arrogant comments. For some time, I had been thinking about his. I quickly came up with an answer. "Well, just think," I began. " You could say we have became the character of our choice in our daily school bouts. That's why Jess and Cal are both Marth, and Sam's Roy while I'm Fox. It's cause these characters are the players we use most. I find this hard to believe for myself, since I switch off between two other characters," I stopped to bust out some quick, fancy footwork, "but I can live with what I got."
"So how did you figure all that out?" questioned Cal.
"Eh?" I replied. "Oh, it's just my own little theory!" I said as I placed my hand over my head.
"Really now?" said Jess. "Anything else you would like to tell us?"
"Actually I do." I looked over towards the imaginary horizon that laid ahead of the arena. " Well, in the game, you know how Final Destination heads towards the horizon right?" I pointed over to the deep depths of space. Didn't look like we where going to get anywhere anytime soon. "Eventually, this stage enters an atmosphere of some sort of world. Maybe it will, and it'll be a different Nintendo world or something."
"You forget one thing," added Sam. "If that does happen, then how will we get from here to there? We're not going to just jump right off!"
"Yeah, I guess you right," I admitted. "Well it was just a ..." I suddenly found myself flat on the ground. A great rumbling quake rocked the level. I noticed the others where struggling to stay on their feet as I staggered to get up. The star filled sky was soon being replaced by thick white clouds as the arena continued to twist and turn violently. "WHAT NOW!" I exclaimed to our new dilemma.
"How convenient! Look over there!" pointed Sam. The horizon was no longer filled with bright stars and space. We soon seemed high up in the air, with more white clouds flowing at an incredible rate through our faces, causing us to squint our eyes close together. Just as unexpectedly as the quake started, the stage began to make a quick turn...downwards.as in rotating!
"AAAHH!!!" Jess immediately tripped and fell on his back as soon as the level began to tilt sideways.
"JESS WHAT DID YOU DO!?" yelled Sam. He then notices that he was sliding down the level.
"Everyone! Hurry up and try to run to the top of the stage!" I ordered. I already began my way up the steep platform as it slowly but surely began to rotate. Something was trying to get us off the stage!
It was too late for Jess. His foot got caught on his long, blue cape and he began to roll uncontrollably straight down. It was like he was rolling off a steep mountain trying to snowboard. He then launched right off the stage and fell down the abyss.
The stage suddenly began to rotate at a must faster speed. Sam managed to make his way close to the top. He jumped in the air and began to double jump and fired up his Up B Blazer attack. He forced himself up with a fiery sword uppercut. Roy never did have a good recovery move. He lost his momentum and plunged down to the unknown depths of our new surroundings. All I could hear from him was, "OH NOOO !!!
It wasn't too long before Cal and I began to feel the gravity of this bizarre dimension pull us down to the unknown world. Cal had some decent speed as the swordsman prince, Marth. He desperately tried to climb up to the stage as the arena tilted with no hint of stopping. "Too.steep.," he said as he continued to struggle to the top. Even as the nimble Fox McCloud, I found myself having a lot of trouble navigating my way to the highest point to safety. I carefully turned my head around to see if Cal was still with me. He wasn't. He had slipped and lost his balance and slide right over the stage. Could I make it?
I was almost within reach of the ledge, just a few more steps. But the stage had almost reached a full 90 degree angle. There was no way I could take another step. I franticly tried to literally scratch my way up, but there was nothing to grab onto. This place had no gripe whatsoever. I soon found myself helplessly falling down into the abyss. I pretty much blacked out.
******Earlier*******
A desolate wasteland of darkness and space roamed an unknown land. Platforms floated lifelessly around the plains of emptiness. Atop one of them, two dark figures where plotting imminent doom to all.
"So there you have it." Said the small, cloaked figure in his dark, moody deep tone. "So you up to it medusa?"
The huge, weird being seemed very pleased with the proposition. "Of course." He hummed. He floated towards the edge of the platform and put his many hands together. "I am well aware of the situation. Now is the time for me to be released and seek..."
"Oh really?" interrupted the dark emerald green cloaked figure. " Then get to it. I don't have time to listen to your motives. Just get the job done as fast as possible."
"As you wish," replied the floating being.
Instantly, the area was covered in light and a huge vortex engulfed everything in sight. The two villains floated in mid air. Two portals opened up right before them, each leading to a different land. "You should go get that genetically engineered Pokemon on your side," advised the cloaked figure as he entered the left portal. The other mysterious villain simply chuckled and nodded his head as he stepped into a realm that we thought only existed in our wildest dreams.
******* Back on Final Destination*********
The stage was like it was before anything had ever happened. It was lying in the space, as flat as ever, waiting for more combatants to unlock the mysteries the universe. As fate would have it, three smashers lied unaware of what was about to happen.
The first to awaken was a young princess. She was dressed in a fine, light pink Hyrulian dress. She slowly opens her eyes and takes a look at her new surroundings. She rubs an aching pain on her head as she gets up. " Meh.... What was that all about?" she asked herself. She notices something different about her attire. "Oh freak! Where did I get this?" she gasped. "What's going on?" she asked as she examined herself. "I'm..I'm Zelda!?" Just then, she noticed two other Hyrulians coming to conscious as well. One was a familiar, valiant hero who wore a green tunic, wielding a Master Sword safely nestled behind his Hyrulian Shield strapped on his back. Further back was a Zelda's alter ego, Shiek, who was examining their surroundings.
Huwe's jaw dropped as she saw characters that she thought only existed in virtual reality. Link turned around and noticed the princes standing right across from him. "Well what do you know!" he said. "It's Princess Zelda!" He walked over to her slowly and with reverence. Huwe just stood there, not knowing what to say, what to think.
"Don't worry princess," said Link. "I'll make sure I return you safely back to Hyrule Castle."
"Wha?" Huwee responded in confusion. She couldn't possibly be the Zelda, could she? "But. I'm not Zelda!"
"Oh nonsense," said Link, " you certainly are, you look just like her." A curious thought rushed through his mind. "Could it be possible that the fall caused her to get amnesia?" he thought.
"She's not Zelda," answered the mysterious Shiek. "She's Huwe, and I would take it your Hieu."
Huwe was confused. How did Shiek know who she was? And Link is Hieu? "As in, Hieu from school?" she asked.
Hieu scratched his head in confusion. "That's odd," he said. He pondered for a couple of seconds. "Then, is it safe to assume that you are not Shiek.. But Eric?"
"Yeah, it's me." he answered.
"Gah!" exclaimed Huwe. "But, how? Is this a dream? It probably is!"
"Well," said Hieu, "I sure don't mind being Link." He took some more note at the stage they where on. "This sure isn't Hyrule, it looks a lot like."
"Final Destination," interrupted Eric. He seemed a little disturbed.
"I wonder how we got here?" asked Huwe
"It looks like we're the only ones here." confirmed Hieu in his normal, calm tone. "So what shall we do now?"
Huwe was curious. She wondered how come she was Zelda, and why Eric was Shiek. Could she transform into Shiek as well? "I wonder," she asked herself. "But, how would I be able to try out an attack?" she thought. "Maybe Eric will know," she thought.
"Hey Eric," she asked.
"Yeah?" he replied.
"You. wouldn't happen to know how, or if we could attack? You know, like in Super Smash Bros.?"
"I wouldn't know how," Eric said. "Why?"
"Well, I was wondering if I could transform into Shiek too!" She said.
"It's as simple as Down B," answered Hieu. "But I wonder how you would be able to do that?"
Huwe began to imagine herself playing the game. She concentrated her abilities as a smasher in the real world into her new body. She instantly shot out a Side Smash. Bolts of magic rushed through her body to the palm of her hand.
"Whoa!" Hieu exclaimed as he jumped back a little. "How did you do that?
"I.. I just imagined myself playing the game, as Zelda, and this game out!" she answered. She immediately attempted the transformation. Nothing. "What? Am I doing it right?" she thought as she continuously tried and tried to transform into the elusive Shiek. Her attempts all ended in failure. The ability just wouldn't work.
"What's wrong?" asked Hieu.
"I... I can't turn into Shiek!" she said. "I wonder... Eric, try turning into Zelda!"
"...... No thanks, I'm fine the way I am," he mumbled. It was bad enough for him that he was Shiek. Why push it any further?
Hieu quickly changed the subject. "So we're in the Melee world. This level should come to a point where the horizon is not blank space."
Once again, a bright star flashed in the sky just before the arena reached it's final destination. Only this time, a familiar dark warlock came crashing down right before the Hyrulians, right about the same time the stage began to shake violently.
"Ganondorf!" exclaimed Hieu. His adrenaline began to pump up. A chance to beat down on the villain of Hyrule had finally come to him, this time for real. He was pumped up and ready to smash him.
"Huwe stand back!" shouted Eric as Ganondorf held his ground. Hieu was struggling to reach him due to the intense rumbling of the stage. Ganondorf calmly stood there with a grin on his face. "Well it appears I landed here too late," he began. Hieu, Eric and Huwe were thrown to the ground by the force of the stage's violent, malicious shaking. " No matter. It only makes thing a lot more fun! Hahahahahaha!"
"What.are you talking ..about?" asked Huwe. Suddenly, the arena began to tilt just like it did earlier.
"I really wish I would have gotten here sooner. That way I would have had the pleasure of finishing you off. I guess I'll have to wait for now!" He charged his trademark Warlock Punch and ripped a hole in the dimension! "I'll catch you kids later," he said as he quietly exited the rotating stage.
"Hey guys.." Hieu said in a shaky manner. "Any ideas of what is happening?" He slowly began to slide down the tilting level.
"What the heck is going on?" shouted Huwe. Eric was already almost at the top. He leaned his body forward as he dashed to safety. "There's no way those two will make it with their speed," he thought. This was true, considering that Zelda and Link are two of the slowest characters in Super Smash Bros. He had to go down and help them. The level had already reached a 45 degree angle.
Hieu was already sliding down dangerously close to the edge. He tried to run back up, but it was way to steep. Huwe was on her knees climbing hr way back up, trying not to look down. Eric had to think fast. "HIEU! USE YOUR HOOKSHOT!" he commanded.
"Right!" Hieu was already griping onto the ledge of the stage. He grabbed his Hookshot, closed his eyes and hoped for the best. He then jumped back a little and fired his Hookshot right on the tip on the ledge. It dug itself deep inside the edge. Hieu dangled in midair as the rotation continued. He tightly held onto his Hookshot and hoped it would stay in place.
Eric saw that Hieu was safe, so he slid down to try and help Huwe. The level had almost reached it's limit. Time was running out. He reached out his arm to try and grab Huwe. He didn't know for sure if he could make the climb back up, but he had to give it a shot. Unfortunately, Huwe could not pull herself up. "Damn it!" said Eric under his breath. He had no choice but to turn back.
Huwe fell back down to the unknown abyss. She noticed Hieu dangling from his Hookshot. She moved herself towards him and grabbed onto his boot! The force of the pull pushed the hook of the Hookshot out a little, but it was still locked in place. Huwe sighed a sigh of reflief as she and Hieu hung there. The platform was nearly at it's 90 degree angle. Eric felt the wind rushing through his body as he fell back to the unknown.
"ERIC!" shouted Hieu. Eric vanished before their eyes.
Hieu began to loose his gripe on the handle. The platform hit the right angle. Huwe and Hieu swayed back and forth as the stage continued to rotate. Huwe knew that she was causing a lot of stress on Hieu and the Hookshot. She quickly came up with a daring plan. "Hope this works," she thought.
The Hyrulian princess threw herself back. "HUWE WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" shouted Hieu. Huwe then used Teleport to move herself back up. "Why didn't I use this earlier?" she wondered. She appeared right above Hieu and slowly drifted downwards. She moved herself towards Hieu again, but this time she knew where what she was going to do. She latched onto the Hookshot rather than Hieu.
"Phew," thought Hieu. "Good one Huwe." He was relived that he didn't have to have her weight on him. The force of the grab was too much for the Hookshot though. It lost it's place in the stage and ripped itself right out. Huwe and Hieu began to suffer the same fate as all who entered Final Destination.
*****Earlier.. Again******
The waters of Kanto are filled with many islands, all home to wild Pokemon. Some were as common as a Goldeen, others as rare and elusive as an Articuno. One of these islands once housed a laboratory. A laboratory where years and years of research was conducted in order to create what is possibly the strongest being in not only the Pokemon world, but all of Nintendo itself. The laboratory laid in ruins; all caused by the product of the ambitious project. Nothing surrounded this little island except ocean, with the only piece of land being near is Cinnabar Island, which was miles and miles away from it.
Resting in his birthplace, the psychic 6'7 Pokemon known as Mewtwo stood there. He came back to this island from his Unknown Dungeon to find the voids that filled his emptiness. He was sleeping standing up right on the exact same spot where his stasis tube once stood. He was dreaming of his past.
He found himself casually walking through the laboratory, unnoticed by the scientists that where hard at work. Monitors, mainframes and tubes surrounded the room, each vital to creating the ultimate Pokemon. Mewtwo chuckled as he walked around the area, witnessing his very own creation. "Fools" he thought. "Did they really think they could contain me? Did they have any idea of what they created? Why did they even bother!"
Mewtwo began to fill himself with mystical rage as he unleashed an amethyst wave of energy from his body. It covered the entire island. Scientists began to panic. Alarms went off. Computers and mainframes began to explode. Tubes shattered spreading vile liquid everywhere. Within the very instant these catastrophic events began, Mewtwo began to flash. Everything on the island began to compress itself. A giant explosion soon engulfed the area.
The smoke cleared as the dust settled. Debris of the lab where drifting in the ocean, which was poisoned with the fluids that were once in the stasis tube. Mewtwo stood there unaffected by anything that had occurred.
He began to chuckle as he looked at the remains. "See what you have created?" he said. "You have assured this world doom. I truly am the."
"Strongest Pokemon?" interrupted a voice. "Is that all you are?"
Mewtwo had never sensed this strange energy before. He didn't even bother to turn around to examine the intruder. He awoke instantly, but the presence was still there. He kept his back turned at this new being. "I believe we have not met," he said. "Who are you?"
"Listen here Mewtwo. That is who you are is it not?"
Mewtwo felt no sense of fear. It did not matter to him whether this thing knew his name.
" I can tell you your purpose. I can show you the way. If you agree to help me, you will truly understand who you are."
"And how is that?" asked Mewtwo.
" Come with me. You will find your own meaning if you do. Stay here, and you will continue to run along an endless path. It is your choice."
Mewtwo seemed surprised that this being wasn't forcing him to do it's will. He had a choice.
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The usual: Mewtwo, Pokemon, SSBM and all Nintendo related stuff are © Nintendo Everything else is © to me.
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CHAPTER THREE:
HORIZON OF DESTINY
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You'd think that after pummeling these guys flat to the ground everyday, they would know better than to backstab me with a cheap smash attack. Some people just never learn to show some respect.
I was furious. Sam nailed me with a Side Smash Attack, just to prove that he had the strongest and most skilled abilities. I positioned myself in the air, ready to drill my feet right through him. "Nah. I better not," I thought. I landed on the far right edge of the platform, observing exchange of swings from Jess and Sam's blades. Cling and clang sounds reached my ears as their swords connected, resulting in a stalemate.
"I might as well join in," Cal thought. He was behind Jess as he calmly walked towards him and delivered a great force through his arm as he slashed his sword forward, hitting Jess with the strongest part of it, the tip. A loud THUD sound came from the attack as Jess flew back a couple feet, where Sam took a small leap and unleashed a quick, uncharged Flare Blade to volley him back at Cal. Jess became covered in flames after the toned down attack hit him.
This is when I stepped him. I lifted my right leg behind my back to kick the descending swordsman. Sam felt the hit and stayed in the air for another second, allowing me to land a swift Backflip Kick Smash Attack. He was suspended in the air and readied his sword to attack anyone who stood in his way. I was surprised how quickly the others caught on to their attacks. Jess had continuously attempted to return a Side Smash at Cal, who kept rolling away back and forth, dodging his attacks. I knew I had to play it safe. I was at 79% after all, and I couldn't afford to get ranked any higher in damage, since I had no idea what would happen if I was to get knocked out of the arena.
I held my position while I reached my holster and drew my blaster. I was capable of shooting the thing as if it where an automatic weapon, all while causing my opponents not to stagger at all. It was my safest bet to not aggravate the dueling swordsman. I aimed straight ahead and began to open fire.
Meanwhile, Sam finally had enough range in the air to swing his sword downwards, which stopped Cal's mad rolling. Jess had a wide open shot for another smash attack, an opportunity he blew. He noticed hot ruby red lasers coming in his direction at an incredible firing rate. He leaped high into the air and moved his body in a fancy flip over Sam and Cal. Now Sam was in the line of fire. He too, backflip over the annoying blasts, making Cal the new target. I kept my hand steady as I continued to fire. Cal didn't mind the attacks and immediately turned around and used the side smash, only to be Countered by Sam! Sam drew his blade closely, flung Cal's sword out of the way violently and delivered a blow with almost twice the force that Cal out into his attack. Cal was knocked out of the way in flames. He was accompained by Jess as well, who had rolled into Sam's Counter blow. Unfortunately for Sam, this left him wide open for my beams to get through to him, steadily ranking up damage on him. I must have at least hit him with 20% worth of damage with my Blaster alone. He's the one of the few who actually takes note of my little cheap attack. He began to charge at me with his sword ready to smash me out of the stage.
His assault came to a halt as Jess came down to the ground and delivered a painful meteor smash to him, sending Sam slightly into the air, with a healthy 51% on him. Cal managed to land safety on the ground next to me, rolling away as he landed. Jess was pushed back by Sam's sword as Sam swung it back and forth as he got up. Cal then volleys Jess back with another deadly side smash, sending Jess flying far of the left. I quickly ran up to the vulnerable Marth, grabbed him and kneed him twice, then threw him down to the ground and blasted him 4 times, just like I did to my opponents earlier before. Instead of using a deadly Up A smash, I decided to side smash him instead. Cal flung back from my attack, leaving him wide open.
Or so I thought. After I smashed him out of the way, I noticed a large, wooden bat, hurling in my direction! Its pitcher, Sam, chuckled as it flew across the air at incalculable speed. Normally I would use my Reflector Shield to send it right back at him, but there was no time for me to put up my shield to do so. I quickly dodged to the side, while the bat bounced at my former position. Close call. A bat is an extremely lethal throwing item in SSBM. How Sam found one puzzled me. What a cheap, dirty trick. I charged at Sam with great speed (After all, I'm Fox, one of the fastest characters in the game.) and forced my kick through his armor. He was hurled up above me as I continued my charge against Jess. Sam descended down to the ground slowly. He fired up a Double Edge Dance, swinging his blades in different directions, which turned his body into different colors, each strike making a foe susceptible to a devastating four hit combo.
Jess and Cal where engaged in a series of sword slashes and strikes, some of them making contact, some of them tasting dead air. I quickly used my charging kick, plowing through both of the unsuspecting combatants. Immediately I began to fire up a Fire Fox, which drew in Jess and Cal into my charging fiery body. An aura of flames dashed through both of them, and I bounced off the ground as I made contact with it, right past Sam's third Double Edge Dance swing. His fourth swing ignited Cal up in flames as he soared high up into the air. I say Cal struggling to stop himself from flying any further. None of us has been elevated that high. I turned my eyes towards Sam and ran up to him, expecting him to dodge behind me. I stopped right before I approached him and sure enough, he was soon in my grasp as I used my infamous throwdown. Sam knows me better and was able to roll out of my Down A splits smash attack as soon as he landed on the ground. He also rolled right into Jess's Side Smash. Meanwhile, Cal calmly floated right onto the stage's edge, grasping it firmly as he dangled over the unknown abyss of Final Destination. "Close call," I thought. I shook my head in shame. This had to end now. Jess didn't seem to get the picture as he and Sam keep on fighting each other. I had to speak up.
"HEY GUYS!" I yelled. "HOW ABOUT WE KNOCK IT OFF?"
"Yeah... Just listen to what he says," Cal said in a shaky voice as he looked down into the depths of space.
"Has anyone even bothered to think what would happen if one of us was knocked straight out of the level? What would happen? Would we come back or.. Die?"
Jess stood quietly for a while, with a blank, confused stare on his face.
"Ah you'll be fine!" Sam confirmed. He still thought this was a crazy dream.
"How would you know that?" I asked.
"Because I just do! Nothing is going to happen to me," he bragged proudly.
"I dunno Sam, for all we know, we could only have one stock, and I could of just lost mine.
"Don't be such a chicken," scorned Sam. " This is nothing but a crazy dream anyway."
"Don't you think this is a little too real to be a dream? Your attacks on me didn't exactly scratch me, they really gave me some pain," I said. While neither of us where bruised or gashes from our attacks. We felt like crap, but didn't look like it.
Sam directed his attention towards me. "Well you shouldn't have started this whole fight!"
"What are you talking about?!" I replied. The nerve of him sometimes! I just wanted to smash him with a Hammer. "You're the one who started this whole fight!"
"Well how am I supposed to know if this is real or not? You can't blame me for that! You're the one who took it all seriously. Do you really think that if I'm Roy and your Fox I'm just going to let you dance around me?"
I just shook my head and said, " Aww, forget it. What I want to know is if anyone else from the room is here, or how we're gonna get out of here."
"Just how did you get here before we did?" asked Cal.
"Beats me. I guess I was unconscious for a while. When I woke up, I was welcomed by Bowser, D.K., and C. Falcon."
Jess seemed pretty amazed about my last statement. "You. you fought all three of them at once?" he asked.
I grinned and began to stretch my arms a bit. Jess has a tendency to be the try and surpass me in everything I do. Keyword: Try. "Yep, I sure gave them a beating," I said in my casual, cocky voice. I then frowned as I turned my attention towards Sam. "I tried to take a break, till you guess showed up, begging for a fight."
"Hey, I want to know what's going on as much as you do," Cal said on his defense.
"Well, it's anyone's guess really," I sighed.
Sam calmly put this sword away, with his head to the ground and his eyes closed. "Well, I'm Roy, so I'm not complaining. But why are we here? Sea, did you do this? Cause if you did..."
"How would I?" I said.
"Just a thought, your normally the one who screws everything up. It was probably because of your gay Gamecube."
"But you know what else I wonder?" asked Cal, " Why are you Fox? Why is Sam Roy? And how can there be two Marths?"
"I'm sure there's a pretty good reason why I'm the strongest character out of the three," answered Sam.
I just rolled my eyes at Sam's usual arrogant comments. For some time, I had been thinking about his. I quickly came up with an answer. "Well, just think," I began. " You could say we have became the character of our choice in our daily school bouts. That's why Jess and Cal are both Marth, and Sam's Roy while I'm Fox. It's cause these characters are the players we use most. I find this hard to believe for myself, since I switch off between two other characters," I stopped to bust out some quick, fancy footwork, "but I can live with what I got."
"So how did you figure all that out?" questioned Cal.
"Eh?" I replied. "Oh, it's just my own little theory!" I said as I placed my hand over my head.
"Really now?" said Jess. "Anything else you would like to tell us?"
"Actually I do." I looked over towards the imaginary horizon that laid ahead of the arena. " Well, in the game, you know how Final Destination heads towards the horizon right?" I pointed over to the deep depths of space. Didn't look like we where going to get anywhere anytime soon. "Eventually, this stage enters an atmosphere of some sort of world. Maybe it will, and it'll be a different Nintendo world or something."
"You forget one thing," added Sam. "If that does happen, then how will we get from here to there? We're not going to just jump right off!"
"Yeah, I guess you right," I admitted. "Well it was just a ..." I suddenly found myself flat on the ground. A great rumbling quake rocked the level. I noticed the others where struggling to stay on their feet as I staggered to get up. The star filled sky was soon being replaced by thick white clouds as the arena continued to twist and turn violently. "WHAT NOW!" I exclaimed to our new dilemma.
"How convenient! Look over there!" pointed Sam. The horizon was no longer filled with bright stars and space. We soon seemed high up in the air, with more white clouds flowing at an incredible rate through our faces, causing us to squint our eyes close together. Just as unexpectedly as the quake started, the stage began to make a quick turn...downwards.as in rotating!
"AAAHH!!!" Jess immediately tripped and fell on his back as soon as the level began to tilt sideways.
"JESS WHAT DID YOU DO!?" yelled Sam. He then notices that he was sliding down the level.
"Everyone! Hurry up and try to run to the top of the stage!" I ordered. I already began my way up the steep platform as it slowly but surely began to rotate. Something was trying to get us off the stage!
It was too late for Jess. His foot got caught on his long, blue cape and he began to roll uncontrollably straight down. It was like he was rolling off a steep mountain trying to snowboard. He then launched right off the stage and fell down the abyss.
The stage suddenly began to rotate at a must faster speed. Sam managed to make his way close to the top. He jumped in the air and began to double jump and fired up his Up B Blazer attack. He forced himself up with a fiery sword uppercut. Roy never did have a good recovery move. He lost his momentum and plunged down to the unknown depths of our new surroundings. All I could hear from him was, "OH NOOO !!!
It wasn't too long before Cal and I began to feel the gravity of this bizarre dimension pull us down to the unknown world. Cal had some decent speed as the swordsman prince, Marth. He desperately tried to climb up to the stage as the arena tilted with no hint of stopping. "Too.steep.," he said as he continued to struggle to the top. Even as the nimble Fox McCloud, I found myself having a lot of trouble navigating my way to the highest point to safety. I carefully turned my head around to see if Cal was still with me. He wasn't. He had slipped and lost his balance and slide right over the stage. Could I make it?
I was almost within reach of the ledge, just a few more steps. But the stage had almost reached a full 90 degree angle. There was no way I could take another step. I franticly tried to literally scratch my way up, but there was nothing to grab onto. This place had no gripe whatsoever. I soon found myself helplessly falling down into the abyss. I pretty much blacked out.
******Earlier*******
A desolate wasteland of darkness and space roamed an unknown land. Platforms floated lifelessly around the plains of emptiness. Atop one of them, two dark figures where plotting imminent doom to all.
"So there you have it." Said the small, cloaked figure in his dark, moody deep tone. "So you up to it medusa?"
The huge, weird being seemed very pleased with the proposition. "Of course." He hummed. He floated towards the edge of the platform and put his many hands together. "I am well aware of the situation. Now is the time for me to be released and seek..."
"Oh really?" interrupted the dark emerald green cloaked figure. " Then get to it. I don't have time to listen to your motives. Just get the job done as fast as possible."
"As you wish," replied the floating being.
Instantly, the area was covered in light and a huge vortex engulfed everything in sight. The two villains floated in mid air. Two portals opened up right before them, each leading to a different land. "You should go get that genetically engineered Pokemon on your side," advised the cloaked figure as he entered the left portal. The other mysterious villain simply chuckled and nodded his head as he stepped into a realm that we thought only existed in our wildest dreams.
******* Back on Final Destination*********
The stage was like it was before anything had ever happened. It was lying in the space, as flat as ever, waiting for more combatants to unlock the mysteries the universe. As fate would have it, three smashers lied unaware of what was about to happen.
The first to awaken was a young princess. She was dressed in a fine, light pink Hyrulian dress. She slowly opens her eyes and takes a look at her new surroundings. She rubs an aching pain on her head as she gets up. " Meh.... What was that all about?" she asked herself. She notices something different about her attire. "Oh freak! Where did I get this?" she gasped. "What's going on?" she asked as she examined herself. "I'm..I'm Zelda!?" Just then, she noticed two other Hyrulians coming to conscious as well. One was a familiar, valiant hero who wore a green tunic, wielding a Master Sword safely nestled behind his Hyrulian Shield strapped on his back. Further back was a Zelda's alter ego, Shiek, who was examining their surroundings.
Huwe's jaw dropped as she saw characters that she thought only existed in virtual reality. Link turned around and noticed the princes standing right across from him. "Well what do you know!" he said. "It's Princess Zelda!" He walked over to her slowly and with reverence. Huwe just stood there, not knowing what to say, what to think.
"Don't worry princess," said Link. "I'll make sure I return you safely back to Hyrule Castle."
"Wha?" Huwee responded in confusion. She couldn't possibly be the Zelda, could she? "But. I'm not Zelda!"
"Oh nonsense," said Link, " you certainly are, you look just like her." A curious thought rushed through his mind. "Could it be possible that the fall caused her to get amnesia?" he thought.
"She's not Zelda," answered the mysterious Shiek. "She's Huwe, and I would take it your Hieu."
Huwe was confused. How did Shiek know who she was? And Link is Hieu? "As in, Hieu from school?" she asked.
Hieu scratched his head in confusion. "That's odd," he said. He pondered for a couple of seconds. "Then, is it safe to assume that you are not Shiek.. But Eric?"
"Yeah, it's me." he answered.
"Gah!" exclaimed Huwe. "But, how? Is this a dream? It probably is!"
"Well," said Hieu, "I sure don't mind being Link." He took some more note at the stage they where on. "This sure isn't Hyrule, it looks a lot like."
"Final Destination," interrupted Eric. He seemed a little disturbed.
"I wonder how we got here?" asked Huwe
"It looks like we're the only ones here." confirmed Hieu in his normal, calm tone. "So what shall we do now?"
Huwe was curious. She wondered how come she was Zelda, and why Eric was Shiek. Could she transform into Shiek as well? "I wonder," she asked herself. "But, how would I be able to try out an attack?" she thought. "Maybe Eric will know," she thought.
"Hey Eric," she asked.
"Yeah?" he replied.
"You. wouldn't happen to know how, or if we could attack? You know, like in Super Smash Bros.?"
"I wouldn't know how," Eric said. "Why?"
"Well, I was wondering if I could transform into Shiek too!" She said.
"It's as simple as Down B," answered Hieu. "But I wonder how you would be able to do that?"
Huwe began to imagine herself playing the game. She concentrated her abilities as a smasher in the real world into her new body. She instantly shot out a Side Smash. Bolts of magic rushed through her body to the palm of her hand.
"Whoa!" Hieu exclaimed as he jumped back a little. "How did you do that?
"I.. I just imagined myself playing the game, as Zelda, and this game out!" she answered. She immediately attempted the transformation. Nothing. "What? Am I doing it right?" she thought as she continuously tried and tried to transform into the elusive Shiek. Her attempts all ended in failure. The ability just wouldn't work.
"What's wrong?" asked Hieu.
"I... I can't turn into Shiek!" she said. "I wonder... Eric, try turning into Zelda!"
"...... No thanks, I'm fine the way I am," he mumbled. It was bad enough for him that he was Shiek. Why push it any further?
Hieu quickly changed the subject. "So we're in the Melee world. This level should come to a point where the horizon is not blank space."
Once again, a bright star flashed in the sky just before the arena reached it's final destination. Only this time, a familiar dark warlock came crashing down right before the Hyrulians, right about the same time the stage began to shake violently.
"Ganondorf!" exclaimed Hieu. His adrenaline began to pump up. A chance to beat down on the villain of Hyrule had finally come to him, this time for real. He was pumped up and ready to smash him.
"Huwe stand back!" shouted Eric as Ganondorf held his ground. Hieu was struggling to reach him due to the intense rumbling of the stage. Ganondorf calmly stood there with a grin on his face. "Well it appears I landed here too late," he began. Hieu, Eric and Huwe were thrown to the ground by the force of the stage's violent, malicious shaking. " No matter. It only makes thing a lot more fun! Hahahahahaha!"
"What.are you talking ..about?" asked Huwe. Suddenly, the arena began to tilt just like it did earlier.
"I really wish I would have gotten here sooner. That way I would have had the pleasure of finishing you off. I guess I'll have to wait for now!" He charged his trademark Warlock Punch and ripped a hole in the dimension! "I'll catch you kids later," he said as he quietly exited the rotating stage.
"Hey guys.." Hieu said in a shaky manner. "Any ideas of what is happening?" He slowly began to slide down the tilting level.
"What the heck is going on?" shouted Huwe. Eric was already almost at the top. He leaned his body forward as he dashed to safety. "There's no way those two will make it with their speed," he thought. This was true, considering that Zelda and Link are two of the slowest characters in Super Smash Bros. He had to go down and help them. The level had already reached a 45 degree angle.
Hieu was already sliding down dangerously close to the edge. He tried to run back up, but it was way to steep. Huwe was on her knees climbing hr way back up, trying not to look down. Eric had to think fast. "HIEU! USE YOUR HOOKSHOT!" he commanded.
"Right!" Hieu was already griping onto the ledge of the stage. He grabbed his Hookshot, closed his eyes and hoped for the best. He then jumped back a little and fired his Hookshot right on the tip on the ledge. It dug itself deep inside the edge. Hieu dangled in midair as the rotation continued. He tightly held onto his Hookshot and hoped it would stay in place.
Eric saw that Hieu was safe, so he slid down to try and help Huwe. The level had almost reached it's limit. Time was running out. He reached out his arm to try and grab Huwe. He didn't know for sure if he could make the climb back up, but he had to give it a shot. Unfortunately, Huwe could not pull herself up. "Damn it!" said Eric under his breath. He had no choice but to turn back.
Huwe fell back down to the unknown abyss. She noticed Hieu dangling from his Hookshot. She moved herself towards him and grabbed onto his boot! The force of the pull pushed the hook of the Hookshot out a little, but it was still locked in place. Huwe sighed a sigh of reflief as she and Hieu hung there. The platform was nearly at it's 90 degree angle. Eric felt the wind rushing through his body as he fell back to the unknown.
"ERIC!" shouted Hieu. Eric vanished before their eyes.
Hieu began to loose his gripe on the handle. The platform hit the right angle. Huwe and Hieu swayed back and forth as the stage continued to rotate. Huwe knew that she was causing a lot of stress on Hieu and the Hookshot. She quickly came up with a daring plan. "Hope this works," she thought.
The Hyrulian princess threw herself back. "HUWE WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" shouted Hieu. Huwe then used Teleport to move herself back up. "Why didn't I use this earlier?" she wondered. She appeared right above Hieu and slowly drifted downwards. She moved herself towards Hieu again, but this time she knew where what she was going to do. She latched onto the Hookshot rather than Hieu.
"Phew," thought Hieu. "Good one Huwe." He was relived that he didn't have to have her weight on him. The force of the grab was too much for the Hookshot though. It lost it's place in the stage and ripped itself right out. Huwe and Hieu began to suffer the same fate as all who entered Final Destination.
*****Earlier.. Again******
The waters of Kanto are filled with many islands, all home to wild Pokemon. Some were as common as a Goldeen, others as rare and elusive as an Articuno. One of these islands once housed a laboratory. A laboratory where years and years of research was conducted in order to create what is possibly the strongest being in not only the Pokemon world, but all of Nintendo itself. The laboratory laid in ruins; all caused by the product of the ambitious project. Nothing surrounded this little island except ocean, with the only piece of land being near is Cinnabar Island, which was miles and miles away from it.
Resting in his birthplace, the psychic 6'7 Pokemon known as Mewtwo stood there. He came back to this island from his Unknown Dungeon to find the voids that filled his emptiness. He was sleeping standing up right on the exact same spot where his stasis tube once stood. He was dreaming of his past.
He found himself casually walking through the laboratory, unnoticed by the scientists that where hard at work. Monitors, mainframes and tubes surrounded the room, each vital to creating the ultimate Pokemon. Mewtwo chuckled as he walked around the area, witnessing his very own creation. "Fools" he thought. "Did they really think they could contain me? Did they have any idea of what they created? Why did they even bother!"
Mewtwo began to fill himself with mystical rage as he unleashed an amethyst wave of energy from his body. It covered the entire island. Scientists began to panic. Alarms went off. Computers and mainframes began to explode. Tubes shattered spreading vile liquid everywhere. Within the very instant these catastrophic events began, Mewtwo began to flash. Everything on the island began to compress itself. A giant explosion soon engulfed the area.
The smoke cleared as the dust settled. Debris of the lab where drifting in the ocean, which was poisoned with the fluids that were once in the stasis tube. Mewtwo stood there unaffected by anything that had occurred.
He began to chuckle as he looked at the remains. "See what you have created?" he said. "You have assured this world doom. I truly am the."
"Strongest Pokemon?" interrupted a voice. "Is that all you are?"
Mewtwo had never sensed this strange energy before. He didn't even bother to turn around to examine the intruder. He awoke instantly, but the presence was still there. He kept his back turned at this new being. "I believe we have not met," he said. "Who are you?"
"Listen here Mewtwo. That is who you are is it not?"
Mewtwo felt no sense of fear. It did not matter to him whether this thing knew his name.
" I can tell you your purpose. I can show you the way. If you agree to help me, you will truly understand who you are."
"And how is that?" asked Mewtwo.
" Come with me. You will find your own meaning if you do. Stay here, and you will continue to run along an endless path. It is your choice."
Mewtwo seemed surprised that this being wasn't forcing him to do it's will. He had a choice.
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