"Okey-dokey, Paul, what will it be?" Marshall asked. "Have you and your cousin decided on an event yet?"
"Yeah. We pick a one-man stock team battle on Smash Bros. Melee." Paul answered.
"Interesting." Forest said. "We choose arm wrestling."
"I get your strategy." Paul said. "You think that just because Danny's a woman means she can't beat you in arm wrestling, right?"
"I could arm wrestle these two under the table!" Danny boasted.
"Bring it on!" shouted Forest.
"No, we have to do the coin toss first." Paul out a penny on his thumb and index finger, and flipped the coin. "Call it, Marsh!"
"Heads!"
The coin landed on tails. Paul picked it up and blew on it. "Hey, it really was a lucky penny. So Smash Bros. it is. No same characters. Since we won the coin toss, we pick ours first. I got Ganondorf"
"Come one, Paul! You know Ganondorf's my best character!" Marshall yelled.
"I know. That's why I picked him."
"I'll be Yoshi." Danny said.
"Okay, I'll take Dr. Mario." Forest said.
"And what about you, Marshall?" Danny asked. "Who are you going to be?"
"I guess I'll take Link."
"Alright, let Family Feud begin!" Paul declared. He put Smash Bros. Melee into his Nintendo Gamecube, unrolled four controls, gave one to each of his guests, and started the machine. Paul set the game for a one-man stock team match and everyone chose their characters. Then, the stage selection screen appeared.
"In the interest of fairness, we should do random stage." Paul said.
"No. If we do that, there's a chance we'll get a stage like Brinstar Depths or something." said Marshall. "We should all agree on one stage. What's a nice, flat, fair stage?"
"How about Final Destination?" Forest asked.
"Sounds good." Paul said. "Everyone okay with that?" Paul's guests nodded their heads and he chose Final Destination as the stage.
"Come here, Marshall! I promise to make it quick." Paul taunted. He maneuvered his character to Marshall's.
"Piss off, Paul!" Marshall yelled, but Paul wasn't about to grant Marshall's request.
Paul nailed Marshall with Ganondorf's Wizard's Foot, followed by a series of basic attacks. Paul went for a smash attack, but Law's character did a rolling dodge and countered with a smash attack of his own. He tried another one, but it was Paul's turn to do a rolling dodge and he ended up behind Law's character and landed a smash attack that sent Law's Link off the edge of the stage. Paul made his character jump off to try for the knock off, but what happened next could not have been predicted. They both hit each other at the same time; both of their characters lost their jumps. The only thing Paul and Marshall could do was watch hopelessly as their characters fell to the bottom of the screen and were eliminated. Marshall threw his controller in the air from frustration.
By this time, both Danny and Forest had done quite a bit of damage to each other. Danny tried an egg throw with Yoshi, but the egg was stopped by one of Dr. Mario's famous pills. Danny jumped up and tried the flutter kick, an extremely damaging move with Yoshi, but Forest's character blocked. A bob-omb, an item that looked like a little wind-up toy in the form of a bomb made famous by Mario Bros. 3, dropped from the sky. When Forest went to pick it up, it activated and blew Forest's character off the screen. The Phoenixes won the first round of Family Feud.
"Ha, you still lost." Paul teased.
"I was like 'hey, a bomb. Oh, sh-beep.'" Forest said, trying to be a good sport.
"Yeah, me and Paul both killed ourselves in the first twenty seconds of the game." Marshall said.
"I started to win until that bomb said 'hey, Forest is winning. Let's screw him over'." Forest said.
"So losers, what event is next?" Paul asked.
"Arm wrestling." Marshall answered all too quickly.
"Again with the arm wrestling?" Danny asked.