"Oh, come on! You'd be great!"

"I know that! But I'm a side character, since when did Nintendo allow third-party side characters in Smash?"

It was a beautiful, sunny day at the Smash Mansion. The perfect wheater to hold a second audition for Super Smash Bros for the Switch. Sonic the Hedgehog and Cocoa Bandicoot were sitting in front of the entrance of the place. It was Sonic day to basically be the bouncer and Cocoa figured she'd keep him company while her brother was inside, auditioning with all the other video game characters. Why Cocoa of all characters? Well, remember back in chapter seven when I casually implied that the two were dating? Yeah, that's still cannon in this story. Let's keep rolling with it.

"Nintendo use to not let in third-party characters in Smash period," Sonic stated, sitting on the cement ground with his back against a giant flower pot that only had dirt inside of it. "You know how much I wanted to be in Melee? A lot. I tried bribing Master Hand during my audition and everything to get in that game! But I didn't, and I was stuck kissing humans in Sonic 06 instead. But that didn't stop me! I teamed up with Snake and we got ourselves into Brawl! It was a miracle! You could do the same thing if you actually tried!"

"Have you been able to get any of your side character friends into Smash?" Cocoa replied sarcastically as she leaned against a pillar made of cement and bricks. "Tails? Knuckles? You've been in three of these SSB games so far yet even you haven't been able to get your friends in; what hope is there for me?"

"Actually, I've technically have," Sonic said while shuffling through the multicolored wristbands he was supposed to give characters that wanted to come in. "I was able to convince Nintendo to let a lot of my friends be winnable trophies. They even let Shadow be an assist! -Mainly to please the emo crowd, but still! That's cool!"

Cocoa adjusted her ponytail and sighed. "That's also different."

Sonic nodded sadly. "I know..."

They both heard footsteps and looked over just in time to watch Phoenix Wright and Miles Edgeworth walk up to them. They were mumbling back and forth to each other as they approached.

"People don't like my character, Wright. I don't know why I let you drag me here." Edgeworth muttered to Wright as they walked up.

"Are you kidding me?!" Wright laughed back. "You're a fan favorite! People would lose their minds if you got in Super Smash!"

Edgeworth rolled his eyes. "Don't make me laugh," he replied as he crossed one of his arms.

The two finally faced the hedgehog and the bandicoot. Edgeworth was just about to turn around once he saw them, but Wright grabbed his arm and stopped him. "Hello!" Wright boomed while giving a wave. "I'm Phoenix Wright, Ace Attor-"

"Yeah, yeah, we know who you guys are," Sonic said as he rolled his eyes and flipped through the wristbands. "Give me a minute, I need to find you two losers bands,"

Edgeworth's left eye twitched as Wright kept a firm grip on his arm. "Wh-what did you call us?" Wright may the foolish mistake of asking.

Sonic and Cocoa shared a look. The two actually played the first three Ace Attorney games together and had quite the opinion on the franchise. While Sonic accidentally dropped all the wristbands, Cocoa looked up at the two lawyers and replied, "You heard him. You two are the definition of losers. Wright became a defense attorney just to repatch a friendship with some dud that he hasn't talked to since grade school, and Edgeworth became a prosecutor because of his daddy issues. You're now both stuck with jobs that, let's face it, neither of you really wanted and they involved being pushed around all the time. You two are not only losers but also idiots."

"And that's just scraping the surface of how ridiculous the 'adult' plot in your games are," Sonic added as he finally handed the two losers their wristbands and began pushing them into the mansion. "Have fun at auditions!"

Maintaining the annoyed look he's been wearing on his face all day, Edgeworth looked over at Wright and scoffed, "I told you this was a bad idea."

Wright ignored him and instead tried to face the animals. "Hold on! Hold on! I think we're both having second thoughts now!" Wright exclaimed before he and Edgeworth were shoved inside and the doors slammed.

"Too little, too late, spikey!" Sonic yelled back at them.

Cocoa shook her head as she helped Sonic pick up the wristbands on the ground. "You think they're dating?" Cocoa asked him somewhat jokingly.

Sonic actually took the question seriously. "Phoenix having a blinding crush on Miles throughout the games would make things make more sense," Sonic replied while handing one wristband each to Shovel Knight, Skull Kid, and Spyro the Dragon as they opened back up the doors and walked in. "But canon-ly that's not what happens."

"Oh, yeah. I remember that now." Cocoa said as she looked down the driveway. "Hold up. Did you invite some friends from preschool to this audition?"

"What?" Sonic, arms full of wristbands, asked. "What are you talking about?"

Cocoa pointed down the heavily cracked driveway towards three characters walking up it. It was Winnie the Pooh! And Piglet! And Rabbit! All three of them approached the entrance with the utmost confidence.

...While Sonic rolled on the floor laughing.

"Ahhhhhahaha!" Sonic cried as his sides began to hurt. "You- you've got to be kidding me!" He rolled over to his stomach and pointed towards the three beloved animals. "Don't tell me you three are here to audition!"

"Actually, I'm the only one auditioning today," Winnie replied proudly with his chin held high.

"Yeah! We're uh, only here for moral support!" Piglet added, who was small enough to come face-to-face with the hedgehog on the ground.

"It'd be nice if you'd quit laughing," Rabbit said, with his arms crossed.

"Oh my, aren't you just too cute!" Cocoa squealed as she reached over and picked Piglet up. She hugged him tightly while wearing the biggest smile on her face. "Oh, Sonic! You have to let them in! You just have to!"

Sonic was now wheezing from all his laughter. "Ahaha, Cocoa, I'll admit they're cute... But come on! They're from Disney Junior!"

"But we've had video games!" Rabbit retorted, pointing an accusing finger at Sonic. "So you have to let us in, right?"

Piglet poked his head out from under Cocoa's arms and gave Sonic a sad look. "Please, Mr. Hedgehog?"

Sonic finally got up from the ground. He finally understood that this wasn't a joke and now he had to lay down the harsh reality of things to these guys. "I'm sorry, fellow animals. But it's no use," he replied, shaking his head. "There's no way I can let you guys in. That would just be ridiculous."

Winnie the Pooh and Piglet sighed, but Rabbit scoffed. "You know what would be really ridiculous?" He asked the hedgehog.

Sonic rolled his eyes. "Oh, I would love to know," he sarcastically replied as he began taking Piglet out of Cocoa's death grip and placing him on the ground.

Rabbit smiled somewhat viciously. "You turning down someone from Disney."

Sonic's eyes widened. He forgot that these three were from the house of the mouse. Master Hand would kill him for not allow characters from a company that could buy Nintendo out into the mansion, and then not let him back into Smash Bros! Sonic quickly picked Piglet back up and began opening the doors. "My honest mistake! Of course, Winnie can audition!" he exclaimed overly-cheerily was handing Piglet and three wristbands to Rabbit as he and Pooh walked in.

"Oh, boy! Owl was right!" Pooh cheered was he tried to put his wristband on. "Bring Rabbit was the right thing to do, Piglet!"

Sonic slammed the door behind the three before Rabbit could say anything else to him. "Okay. So, that was almost a disaster. Thank goodness that craziness is over with-"

Guess who arrived right on cue? That's right! Me! At that very moment, Ness and I suddenly appear in the front yard. The second we do, I collapse to the ground. "YOU DIDN'T TELL ME WE WOULD HAVE TO RUN SO MUCH!" I yelled at Ness while I lied on the ground that was covered with dead grass.

"You didn't ask." was Ness lazy reply.

Sonic watched as I began retorting something horrible back at the child. "Okaaaay, so the craziness is not over yet. Well, alright. We can handle this! Right, Cocoa?" he looked over at his girlfriend and saw her put on one of the wristbands. "Whoa. What are you doing?"

Cocoa rolled her eyes at him with a laugh. "I'm going to audition for Smash, obviously."

Ignoring the screaming fit me and Ness were having behind him, Sonic scratched the top of his head in confusion. "Oh- okay! That's great! But... Do you mind explaining to me how your mind was changed in the past... Uh..."

"Fifteen minutes."

"Yeah! Fifteen minutes! Please explain that to me, I'm in the dark here."

While Cocoa retied her shoelaces, she explained: "If Winnie the freaking Pooh has a chance of getting into Smash, then I might, too. That, and I know who that girl and, I'm sorry, but you couldn't pay me to help you deal with her." Cocoa pointed at me, who was now getting chased by a baseball-bat-swing-Ness. "Odds are if I say two words to her I'll suddenly find myself in a portal heading to God knows where. You can count me out."

Sonic chuckled as he reached over and opened the door for Cocoa. "Good thinking. Good luck in there! Word of advice: Don't make any glove jokes. The judges hate those."

"Got it," Cocoa replied as she walked into the mansion.

Sonic waved as he closed the door. Once closed, he turned around and found me standing right in front of him with Ness under my left arm. "Howdy, the Hedgehog." I smiled at him and said. "How's my writing been treating you?"

"I would tell you, but I think you, of all people, should know." he crossed his arms and replied.

"Fair enough," I took a handful of wristbands and handed Ness over to Sonic. "Take this little guy inside and find me Palutena. I'll hold down the entrance while you're gone. Chop chop!" I clapped my hands as I sat down on the cement with the wristbands on my lap.

Sonic sighed but figured it wouldn't be worth arguing with me about such a simple task. He kicked open the door and walked inside, tossing Ness aside the moment he steps in there.

...I seriously thought that I would finish this fanfic before Smash for the Switch would be announced. Clearly, I was wrong...