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Ultimate Tournament
Chapter 1
Green alien guts and blood were smeared all over Samus's visor, severely clouding her vision. A large screech echoed through the control room of this invaded space station, which originated from the large moth-like creature she had been fighting seconds earlier. Panicking, Samus initiated her Ice Missile, and launched three wild shots in different directions. The screeching stopped, which could only mean that she hit the creature.
Some water ran down her visor, allowing her to see again. An immediate feeling of accomplishment overwhelmed her as she looked at the motionless moth lying on the ground, covered in ice. Her mission was complete. All she had to do now was return to the Federation HQ. But this task would not be as easy as she had thought.
Seemingly for no reason, all the lights in the room went out. A few moments later, some red lights began flashing. A voice then echoed throughout the room, apparently from some speaker.
"Core failure… core failure… emergency lock-down and self-destruct sequences activated…"
The message kept repeating itself. Samus was utterly confused at first, not knowing what had just happened, and then looked over toward the center of the room. A horrified look spread across her face. The core was covered in ice, which was obviously from her missile.
"Twenty-five seconds to detonation," echoed the voice.
Samus looked over at the elevator that was going to lead her up to her ship, but saw no resolution there, for the auxiliary power didn't power the elevators.
"Twenty seconds to detonation"
She looked desperately around the room for some means of escape to the outer deck of the station at least, and found it on the other side of a doorway, which had a rapidly closing metal door descending in it, one that Samus would not be able to bust open. She began furiously dashing toward it.
"Fifteen seconds to detonation"
When she had almost reached the door, she noticed it was so far down it would be impossible for her to even dive under it. There was only one solution. She morphed into a compact ball and rolled right under the door, which closed a split-second later. She morphed back to normal and surveyed the area. To her luck, there was an alien escape pod waiting for her, about twenty yards away. She began dashing toward it.
"Ten seconds to detonation," the voice could still be heard saying, even from outside.
She reached the pod, and jumped in, closing the roof over her. She quickly surveyed the control panel. She found the launch button, and pushed it.
"Five…"
The ship's jet boosters began firing up, and getting ready to go at full power.
"Four…"
The ship began to hover off of the ground.
"Three…"
The jets took position in the back of the pod.
"Two…"
They began getting very fired up.
"One…"
With a large explosion-like "Boom," the jets released a large flame, and the pod launched itself away from the station.
"Zero. Self-destruct active."
The space pod had just escaped the vicinity as the space station began imploding, then exploding, hurling large chunks of metal and other heaps of scrap and junk into space. Luckily, none of them hit the pod. Samus sat back in her seat, relieved.
But her peace was soon interrupted by an odd transmission. All it said was "You have been chosen to participate in the greatest tournament of all time… the Super Smash Brothers Melee!" And with this, the pod's destination coordinates were re-programmed, to that of some unknown planet.
"What the hell?" Samus whispered to herself as she tried to fix it, but she had no luck. She just sat back once more, and let the pod guide her to the new destination…
***
But it wasn't just Samus receiving this odd message; all of the greatest heroes and villains of the Nintendo universe were receiving it, and all being gathered to this odd planet, the planet of Smashnor.
At first, when everyone had just arrived, there was much chaos. Nobody had any idea what was going on, and all there was was great confusion. When odd, purple, polygon-like creatures began taking them to hotel suites, one-by-one, the confusion just mounted. Finally, after a few weeks of this, everyone was gathered to a very large stadium in the middle of a desert.
When they arrived, fights broke out between bitter old rivals, but were quickly dissipated by the polygon creatures. After a few more hours of waiting, all of the lights in the stadium went out, and something odd happened. Something white began rising out of the middle of the podium they were all gathered in front of, something that looked like a… glove? Yes, it was a glove. Everyone stared at it with puzzled looks on their faces. They all thought it was a big practical joke of sorts, until it moved. First a finger, then another, and soon the thing jumped up and began hovering in midair.
Everyone was shocked for a moment, then became even more shocked when it spoke.
"Welcome warriors," it said "to the greatest tournament of all time! The Super Smash Brothers Melee! You've all been gathered here because you are the greatest, the best of the best!" Everyone in the crowd was too shocked to speak. The hand moved around slightly, giving the impression it was eyeing them carefully. It laughed to itself. "I suppose you all want an explanation of exactly why you are here. Well, I suppose I could at least say that."
It paused a few moments, as if preparing for its speech. "My name is Master Hand. Many years I have resided on this planet. I'm not sure how or why I was created, but that is irrelevant. After a while, I discovered that I had amazing power, and fighting ability. I wanted to use this to my advantage. So I began gathering many warriors…" he was cut off.
"You mean kidnapping?!" rang a rather high-pitched female voice throughout the stadium.
Master Hand quickly turned toward her, his arms (which were really just fingers) tensed up. "Princess Peach," he growled menacingly "please do not interrupt me while I am speaking." Peach looked at him with a small hint of fear in her eyes, and nodded. Master Hand continued. "Like I said, I began gathering many warriors, from many different universes and planets. My first challenger was a proud Saiyan prince, who I believe went by the name of Vegita. He put up a good fight and all, but I still defeated him, no problem. He was the first of my collection."
Confused looks spread across the faces of the people of the crowd. "What do you mean… collection?" asked an almost nasal-like voice, coming from a plumber wearing green garments.
Master Hand chuckled to himself. "I haven't shown you yet, have I?" He chuckled again, and motioned to a polygon creature standing behind a computer system, that probably controlled the stadium's features. It nodded, and the walls that blocked where people normally sat in a stadium rose, and the lights there came on. Once they had a good look at what was there, they all stood there petrified.
"These are my trophies, the souls of those who have lost to me."
"If we lose," said a fearful voice of a swordsman with long blue hair "at this tournament, will we become one of those?" Master hand made a motion that appeared to be a nod, and many people in the crowd became horrorstruck.
After a few minutes more of silence, a pilot-looking man spoke up, in a very cocky voice. "And what if we refuse to participate in this tournament of yours? What'll you do then? We could easily escape this stadium, and you know it!"
There was a brief moment of silence, one that seemed like hours to the crowd. Finally, Master Hand broke the silence with a soft chuckle, one that soon turned into a rather maniacal laugh. "You think you can escape, huh?" He said very cockily. "Have a look outside," he said, opening a large hole in the stadium. There were purple polygon creatures as far as the eye could see, and all were heavily armed and prepared to fight. "As you can see, I have taken precautions to prevent this from happening. You can't escape, so don't bother killing yourselves trying."
An odd and impossible to understand voice then rang throughout the now silent stadium. "Pika, pi pikachuchu pikachu?" Only a few there (other pokemon) could understand this yellow mouse's words. Surprisingly, Master Hand did as well.
"What are you getting out of this, you ask? Heh. More than you think. I am a very fair person. As I am looking for a challenge, finding that would make me happy. And to make you happy, and more willing to fight, I have decided that if by some small chance you defeat me, you can have the prize of all prizes… Immortality!"
Everyone in the crowd fell silent (again). Perhaps this is worth it, many thought to themselves. Master Hand spoke again "And you also get one more thing, my most prized possession." Everyone knew what he was talking about. "You get my trophy collection. And you will be free to do whatever you want with it. You could keep the trophies to yourselves, share them with others, and even break them to release the souls, if you wish. I don't care. Anyway; it's getting late. I will now explain the rules of this tournament, which I'm sure you are all very curious about. This will be a single-elimination, one-on-one, fight to the death tournament. If you defeat your opponent, which can be achieved by killing them or knocking them off of the fighting area into oblivion, you will move on. If you die, you will become a trophy, and will get a place in my collection. After one of you has defeated everyone else, you will face me in a duel of skill and power. Now, I bid you all a goodnight, and farewell. Next time you see me, there will only be one of you, and we will not be on such friendly terms. I have posted the match-ups and fighting arenas, which simulate your homes, on a billboard over there," he said, motioning to the large billboard erected a few yards to his left. And with this, he vanished.
After checking the billboard, everyone quickly went to bed. They not only needed time to sort all of this out; they also had to enjoy this night's sleep, being it could be their last…
Round 1
Mario vs. Captain Falcon ~Hyrule Temple
Falco vs. Peach ~Jungle Japes
Link vs. Samus ~Icicle Mountain
Crono vs. Yoshi ~Pokemon Stadium
Donkey Kong vs. Mewtwo ~Corneria
Ness vs. Bowser ~Brinstar
Luigi vs. Isaac ~Princess Peach's Castle
Ganondorf vs. Roy ~Emerald Hill
Dr. Mario vs. Zelda ~Flat Zone
Fox vs. Ice Climbers ~Fourside
Kirby vs. Pikachu ~Mushroom Kingdom
Jigglypuff vs. Mr. Game and Watch ~Fountain of Dreams
Skull Kid vs. Marth ~Poke Floats
Daisy vs. Waluigi ~Big Blue
Baby Bowser vs. Donkey Kong Jr. ~Venom
King K. Rool vs. Shadow ~Green Greens