Happy Birthday Samus!
Just so you know, it's Marth/Samus, Zelda/Link and Pichu/Pikacyllia (Don't worry, you'll see). The other couples are just made up from the top of my head. ;) And also, Samus has removed her armour and she has red hair and freckles, despite what she looks like in Metroid Prime.
Plus, I dislike Ness very much, so he will be the one that characters take out their anger on and he will be frequently bashed up. Not because of Earthbound, that game was cool and all, but his character really sucks in Melee and he's an annoying little twerp in all the other Fics... so please don't kill me, Earthbound lovers!
Disclaimer: I claim ownership of nothing... except my words. :)
The Preparation
"There!" said Peach, as she hung the very last banner reading "HAPPY BIRTHDAY!" from the roof of the Great Hall of the Super Smash Center. "Samus will be so pleased!"
"She better be, do you know how much this has cost us?!" Wailed Marth, as he checked off 'Decorations' from his clipboard. "So far we have spent..." He paused for a moment while he counted up all the money they had spent. "... 4287.95!? OH MY GOD, IT'S WORSE THAN I THOUGHT!"
"Don't worry, hun." Zelda said comfortingly as she reeled in the birthday cake that her and Peach had baked especially. The words 'Happy Birthday Samus' had been iced on with red icing.
"Mmm, that looks great, Zel!" Link said, rubbing his hands together and licking his lips. He reached out a hand to scoop a bit off with his finger, but Zelda shot out her hand and slapped his before he could get within ten centimeters.
"Look, but don't touch, or you'll regret it." She hissed. Link whimpered and ran off to find Roy. Zelda sighed as she placed a large steel bowl over the cake, then drilled it down to the table, padlocked it, and then pressed a button which shot out Automatic Security Lasers all over the cakes circumference Oo. "No one is getting this cake." She said, smiling insanely. An eavesdropping Kirby snapped his fingers in disappointment.
"Marth!"
Marth spun around at the call of his name, but when he looked behind him, he saw no one.
"What the..." he whispered to himself.
"Marth! Down here!" cried a voice from down on the ground. Marth looked down to see Jigglypuff standing there, smiling up at him.
"OH! Jigglypuff, sorry, I didn't see you there..." Marth said, blushing. Jigglypuff's smile faded.
"Yeah, well, I'm used to it..." grumbled Jigglypuff. Her smile returned. "I was just wondering if I could do the entertainment. You know, a song?"
Marth cringed. If Jigglypuff sang, everyone would fall asleep and the party would become a bore. But if he rejected her... well, let's just say Marth did NOT want an unhappy Jigglypuff on the scene, either.
"Er... s-sure you can!" Marth said, half kicking himself for it.
Jigglypuff's face lit up. "Oh, that's GREAT! I know just the song to sing aswell!" Beaming, she ran off towards the girl's dorms, most likely going to practice her song. Marth sighed as he looked down at his checklist, and crossed off 'Entertainment'.
What's next?
He asked himself. Moving his finger down the list, he stopped at the word 'Games'. "Ack! I forgot the games!" He accidentally said aloud.
"Hey Mr. Marth!"
Again, Marth jumped and spun around, looking down to see Y'Link and the Ice Climbers looking up at him. "Hey, kids, what can I do for you?"
"Well, we just couldn't help overhearing you needed someone to prepare games for the party!" Nana said with a sly grin.
"Oh..." Marth said. He knew that this troublesome trio was up to no good. They never liked helping anyone before...
"Could we do the games, Mr. Marth?" Y'Link asked hopefully.
Marth shrugged. "Well... erm..."
"We'll be extra-good, we promise, and we have fabulous ideas for games that'll keep the party alive all night!" Popo pleaded.
"Uh... I suppose... but-"
"Thanks Mr. Marth!" The three squealed in unison, and they sped off before Marth could protest further. Marth slapped his forehead.
Music
... thought Marth. I need someone to do music...
"Marth, you should hurry up..." Fox said as he passed Marth. "Samus is due back soon, you know."
"WHAT?" Marth screamed. "But I thought Peach was taking her out to that restaurant she liked!"
"Uh, Marth, I'm still here, remember." Came Peach's voice from above him. She was standing on a ladder adjusting the balloons.
"But... but..." Marth stuttered.
"I couldn't leave Roy, he's in the hospital wing. Link fought him and he ended up with both his legs broken after he toppled off Fox's Airship. I wanted to stay close, since I'm the only one with any nursing skills around here... ya know?" She said, tilting her head to the side and sighing.
"Oh... I see... well, that's okay, but... who took Samus out, then?"
"Well..." Peach hesitated. "Zelda was busy, and Link was fighting... so... er..."
"Who went with her, Peach?" Marth asked sternly.
"Well... I asked... erm... Donkey Kong..."
Marth's eyes opened wide in shock and horror. "WHAT??"
"So... what exactly do you do for a living?" Samus asked DK over the diner table. Why DK had taken her out, she didn't know. She had made plans with Peach, but she pulled out at the last minute, for some reason.
"Well," started DK. "I used to just kidnap Mario's ex-girlfriend, Pauline, but when he met Peach, Bowser came into the story more than me. Then I released my own game on the 64... but it wasn't a very big seller..."
"I see..." said Samus, trying to sound interested and stifling a yawn. In actual fact, she was rather tired and just wanted to go home, but every time she asked DK if he'd like to go, he insisted she stay a little longer. She didn't want to hurt his feelings, but what would Marth say if she stayed too long with DK? Would he think that she... didn't like him anymore? Well, hopefully, she was just being paranoid...
"Of course, I have made appearances in almost all Mario games," DK continued, not noticing Samus's lack of interest. "Mario Party, Mario Kart and the original SSB." He looked at Samus, who had gotten dressed up for the occasion in a tight black dress, making her look very sophisticated, and had done her red hair so it cascaded over her shoulders like a crimson waterfall... she was pretty... DK felt himself blushing (Hmm, imagine a monkey blushing... O.o). She must feel very uncomfortable and extremely embarrassed to be sitting in a fancy restaurant with an overgrown, talking Ape.
Samus checked her watch. "DK, we really should get going, it's three o' clock, and we came here for lunch at eleven..."
"No! Stay... who cares!" DK said desperately. Marth would never forgive him if she came home early and it ruined her party.
"But I want to share my birthday with everyone, not just..." She paused, trying to think of a way to say what she wanted to without hurting his feelings. "Not just you... if you don't mind..." She got up from her chair and began walking towards the door. DK opened his mouth to speak, but she was already out the door. Panicking, DK pulled out his cell phone (Yes, the monkey has a cell phone. Got a problem with that? Oo) and dialed...
Marth massaged his skull and groaned. Things were NOT going to plan. Kirby had gone to the hospital wing after attempting to steal Zelda's cake, one of Peach's banners had caught fire after Pikachu, Pichu and Pikacyllia rehearsed lighting the birthday candles and Yoshi accidentally knocked over the biggest candle, and Luigi flooded the bathroom after trying to install an automatic air freshener in the cubicles. The stress was building up and it wasn't long before Samus would come back to the Smash Center, DK was the second most boring person in the world, next to Mr. Game and Watch. Suddenly, Falco came running up to Marth.
"Marth! Aye, MARTH!" He shouted.
"What now?" Marth sighed as he looked up to see Falco, clutching a mobile phone.
"You've got a phone call, it's DK."
"Oh, great!" Marth hissed sarcastically, taking the phone from Falco, who then ran off to help Fox lift some crates of food to the kitchens.
"Hello?" Marth said into the phone.
"Marth, it's me, DK..."
"I know, I know... where's Samus?"
"She... er... left..."
"WHAT?! Go after her!"
"I can't! She's already disappeared!"
Marth let his head sink into his free hand. He rubbed his face, and then rested his head on his hand in thought. "Did she say where she was going?" he asked DK.
"Well, she turned left out of the restaurant..."
"Okay, thanks DK."
"Sorry. Bye mate."
BEEP!
Marth then dialed a number of an old friend, the only person he knew who lived in town.
BRING-BRING!
Daisy hopped off the stepladder that she was using to help her reach the painting she just placed on her new apartment wall. She ran over to the phone, pressed the answer button, and then rested it between her ear and her shoulder as she fiddled with another painting.
"Howdy-howdy, Daisy speaking!"
"Oh, Daisy, thank god you're home!" came Marth's voice from the other end of the line.
"Marth! Hey hun, what's up?" She stepped back up onto the stepladder and returned to adjusting the picture of her castle, which she had sold off in an auction (Hey, Sarasaland was a hole, what Princess wants to live in a desert?).
"I need a favour..." Marth pleaded.
"What can I possibly do for you?" Daisy said politely, chuckling. She reached across and grabbed a pin from the table to stick into the painting, spinning slightly so the phone cord wrapped around her legs. She didn't seem to notice, though.
"It's Samus, we're throwing a surprise party for her, but she's on her way home. Can you... er... distract her for a while?"
"Sure! No problemo!" She grabbed another pin, wrapping more cord around her ankles. "Where is she?"
"Well... somewhere in town, we think..." Marth said anxiously.
"Oh, well that's helpful..." Daisy sighed.
"Please, she's most likely on her way here."
"I'll see what I can do, hun." She grabbed another pin, still not noticing the length of cord wrapping itself around her.
"Thanks a TON, Daisy!" Marth said, relieved. "Seeya!"
"Bye!" Daisy heard the familiar 'CLUNK' coming from her phone as Marth disconnected, she always waited for the other person to hang up first. She smiled, and then reached over to place the phone on it's hook. But she lost her balance, and then she saw that she was tangled up in the cord.
"Gyaah!" She let out a cry as she toppled of the stepladder and fell to the ground. The cord pulled tightly around her legs, and ripped the phone off the wall.
When she opened her eyes, Daisy saw that the painting had fallen off the wall, her phone had been ripped from its place and the stepladder was broken.
"Damn..." she cursed.
DK ran outside. He looked left, then right, then left again. Then, in the distance, among all the other Nintendo characters, he spotted her. A tall woman in a black dress with red hair, Samus, undoubtedly.
"SAMUS!" He yelled, but she turned the corner and went out of site. DK ran after her, pushing past Sonic the Hedgehog and Captain Olimar, past a stampede of Pikmin and a chattering Banjo and Kazooie.
Turning the corner, he caught a glimpse of Samus strolling into 'Zippies' on the corner of Mushroom Street. Pulling out his cell phone, he dialed Marth again.
Marth grumbled as the phone rang once more. He Pulled it open and answered. "Hello?"
"Marth, she's gone into Zippies, on Mushroom St." DK said frantically. There was some sort of commotion in the background.
"Great, get in there after her!" Marth yelled. "Stop her!"
"Erm... I'm kind of... stuck..." DK said meekly.
"What? Why?"
"WHY DID YOU DO THAT! THAT POOR CREATURE!" DK yelled.
"What?" Marth said. "DK, are you okay?"
"No... No, that wasn't me... I've... um... hang on-" DK paused for a moment. Captain Olimar was yelling at him, he had accidentally stepped on a Red Pikmin and killed it without realizing, in his haste to catch Samus.
"I have to go Marth, sorry!" BEEP BEEP!
Marth cursed as he hung up on DK. Whatever could have happened? There was no time to worry now, though. He decided to call Daisy, and get her to go to Zippies.
But after dialing her at least three times, all he got was a horrible beeping noise that sent a chill down Marth's spine. Somehow, Daisy's phone was either engaged... or disconnected...
Daisy changed quickly into her yellow mini skirt and pink tank-top, she had grown quite accustomed to wearing them because it made her look like a Daisy, not like a brown-haired Peach wearing a yellow dress. She slapped on her visor and placed her golden, tinted glasses on, covering her jewel blue eyes.
She ran down the stairs and out of her apartment building. "Taxi!" She screamed at the top of her lungs. "TAXI!!"
Jumping in front of the first Taxi she saw, forcing the driver to slam on the brakes, she jumped into the back and asked to go to the restaurant, simply because she expected Samus to be there for afternoon tea. She had no idea that she was supposed to be going to Zippies..
"Make it fast, and I'll give you a tip." She said, adjusting her sunglasses.
"You're on, sweetie-pie!" The chauffeur said happily. Daisy narrowed her eyes as she realised the driver was a spotty white dog with a bowling cap on, who looked slightly familiar... but she was in such a hurry she decided to ignore it. The canine-cabby slammed down the accelerator and sped off down the highway, moving between the traffic, and even doing things slightly illegal.
When they arrived in front of the restaurant, Daisy threw some cash at the driver, she wasn't sure how much, and sped out of the cab inside.
"Excuse me," She said to the waitress. "Have you seen a tall girl with red hair come in here?"
"You mean Samus?" Replied the waitress. It was Misty, from Pokemon! "Yeah, she went down that way." Misty said, pointing across the street to Zippies.
"Oh, great... thanks!"
When she was inside Zippies, Daisy jumped on the escalator, heading for the clothes department. If Samus was anywhere, that's where she'd be.
Samus walked out of the 'Diana Dylan' clothes shop, a fancy little shop with very expensive clothing. She could never afford anything like the dresses and gowns in there, but she liked looking at them, picturing that she owned every one and that she looked great in all of them.
Brushing her hair out of her face, she jumped on the nearest descending escalator and decided to head home.
Daisy was looking around, desperately searching for Samus's familiar face, when...
"Daisy?"
She looked to her left and right next to her, moving down, was Samus!
"Samus!" She squealed.
Samus waved warmly, but Daisy had a worried look on her face. "Meet me down there!" She yelled. But a woman was announced something on the P.A., a sale somewhere, at the same time, overriding Daisy's yell. Samus just smiled, not understanding, and waved again.
"NO! No... Samus! Samus, w-wait-!" Daisy started to push past the rows of people behind her, she was going down when the escalator was going up. "SAMUS!" Samus had gone.
Daisy jumped the rail and landed on the escalator beside her, and started moving down. Ignoring some gasps from the old farts behind her, she sprinted down to reach Samus.
"Samus!" Grabbing her on the shoulder and turning around, Samus had a shocked expression on hr face.
"Daisy?" She asked, puzzled. "That was quick... how did you-"
"Never mind... how are you?" Asked Daisy, linking her arms with Samus and pulling her in the other direction, much to the annoyance of a now frantic-to-get-home Samus.
"Bowser, please, now is not the time to kidnap Peach..." Marth pleaded. After Peach had finished her decorations, Bowser leapt out of the shadows and snatched her up. Mario was on the scene in an instant, and the two began to bash each other over the heads with parasols and fans... O.o
"Give-a up, Bowser!" Mario yelled in triumph. "You can never a-win!"
"Oh, you think you're so good, don't you, Mario?" Bowser hissed.
Peach sighed and shook her head. "I don't know why I bother with either of you." She grumbled.
"Grr!" Marth yelled as he stormed off in search for someone sane. As he turned the corner, he bumped into Roy, who was on crutches.
"Gyaah!" Roy bellowed as he fell backwards. Marth shot his arms out to try and catch him, but he accidentally grabbed on of Roy's crutches, making him hit the ground hard.
"Roy! I'm so sorry!" Marth cried as he bent down to pick up his friend. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah... I'm fine..." Roy said, rubbing his aching back as Marth helped him up. "But, I think I should just go back to the hospital wing... I just came out to see how everything was going..."
"Oh, we're fine..." Marth lied. "Don't worry about a thing... Here, allow me to take you back..."
Suddenly, a loud "SMASH!!" came from the Great Hall, followed by a scream.
"Is... everything all right?" asked Roy. Marth stuck his head around the corner to see that Bowser had smashed a chair over Mario's head, knocking him out, and causing Peach to scream.
"Yeeess..." Marth sighed. "It's all good, they're just practicing a play for tonight..."
"Oh..." mumbled Roy. "Well, I should be fine.. I'll see ya..." And with that, he slowly hobbled back to his bed in the hospital wing.
"Hey, Marth." Zelda said as she passed Marth. "Any luck with tracking down Samus, yet?"
Marth shook his head. "Nope, Daisy's looking for her now. I just hope she's found her."
"It'll all be okay." Said Zelda comfortingly. This actually reassured Marth, that is until Zelda let out an ear-piercing shriek that echoed in Marth's head, bouncing off the side of his skull and vibrating his brain.
"DON'T YOU DARE TOUCH THAT CAKE!" She wailed, dropping the box of party hats she was carrying and bolting towards Kirby and Yoshi, who had deactivated the lasers and were busy unscrewing the screws that held down the stainless steel dome Zelda had placed over her precious quintuple-layer strawberry cream cake. Kirby and Yoshi let out girlish screams and ran off in opposite directions.
Zelda, still fuming with rage, shot a ray of fire out of her finger that made a flaming force field over her treasure. Marth sighed and picked up the box that Zelda had dropped. If anything else went wrong, he thought he might cry. ; ;
"So, how you been, hun?" Daisy asked Samus as they strolled through the shopping center.
"Er... I'm good..." Samus said vaguely. Her mind was on other things... Marth, mostly...
"Well, I hope you've had a great birthday so far..." Daisy said. Samus snorted.
"Let's just say it's not what I had expected." She replied. Daisy raised an eyebrow. "It's just..." Samus continued. "Well, I expected this to be a great day, you know, since I was surrounded by all my friends, for once..."
"It'll all get better, soon, though." Daisy said without thinking. Samus, however, took no notice. Desperate to change the topic before she let out too much information, Daisy stopped at a little store and picked up a small figurine of a cow.
"Aww, how cute!" Daisy said, fumbling it around. She looked closer. "HEY! This things name is Daisy!" She raised a fist the cowering shop owner. "What are you trying to say!?"
"Daisy, can we go back to the Smash Center, now?" Samus said, yawning. "I'm really tired..."
Daisy sighed. It was killing her, leading Samus on like this, but she had to, so Samus's day could be perfect... well, eventually perfect, anyway.
"Well, I wanted to stay a little longer..." She saw a Diana Dylan shop out of the corner of her eye, so she grabbed Samus's arm and dragged her into the store.
"C'mon, let me buy you a birthday present!" She said gleefully, and Samus's negative attitude seemed to take a turn as they wandered though the many shelves of expensive dresses.
Thanks for reading... hopefully you'll read chapter two. :)
