Super Smash Bros adventures chapter 20
On Halloween night, things are pretty lively in the mansion. The Smashers are all dressed up in costumes. Everyone's enjoying their time playing games, eating candy and drinking punch in the ballroom, which is decorated with candles and pumpkins that each Smasher carved.
Mario looks around at all the different costumes and admires the creativity of some Smashers. Toon Link is dressed as a Cucoo, while Ness is a Starman, his costume made of silver tin foil. Kirby is a maximum tomato, and Zelda is a Great Fairy with shimmery wings.
"What are you supposed to be?" Mario asks Cloud, who doesn't appear to be wearing a costume.
"Me." the soldier answers simply.
Mario chuckles as the soldier walks away to another part of the main hall.
"This is a great party." says Link, who is dressed as a wolf.
"Yeah. Look at all of the candy I can eat!" Pit exclaims as he shoves a handful of Starbursts in his mouth.
"You're so childish." Dark Pit taunts, folding his arms and staring at Pit's Eggplant Wizard costume.
"Don't eat too much candy or you'll have cavities." Palutena warns. "Ugh! How do dancers walk in these things?" she motions down to her gold ballet shoes.
"Let him be, Palutena." Dark Pit smirks at his light counterpart, who is still stuffing his face. "I want to see Doc here pull out his teeth."
"I'm not a dentist, you know." says . "I didn't know my costume was that good!"
The dark angel's grin widens. "Exactly!" he says, a mischievous glint in his eyes.
At that moment, Sakurai steps onto the stage and gets the Smashers' attention. "Is everyone having a good time?" asks Sakurai.
Everyone cheers in response.
"That's great news." Sakurai says once the room quiets down again. "I would like to announce a mini Tournament. Whoever wins will get a big bag full of candy."
The Smashers are excited by this prospect and cheer wildly, clapping and stomping in appreciation.
Sakurai walks up to a machine that chooses the fighters randomly. "All right! Looks like our fighters this time are Pit, Toon Link, Luigi, and Shulk." He announces among scattered applause. The fighters go to the Smash room to do some last minute preparations for their sudden match-ups.
"The first battle will be Luigi and Toon Link." Sakurai informs, "The battle will be at the Gamer stage."
"Are you ready, Luigi?" asks Toon Link, his hand resting on the hilt of his sword.
The green-clad plumber nods, feeling just as edgy.
"Good luck you two." Pit cheers.
"Give us a good show." says Shulk.
Sakurai is about to set up their match when suddenly, the room is plunged into darkness. A wave of alarmed screams rises up from the crowd.
"Hey! What's going on?"
"What happened?"
"Aaah! Watch out!"
The lights turn on a few seconds later and Luigi finds that he is now alone in the Smash room. "Toon Link? Pit? Shulk? Where'd you go?" he asks, his voice trembling slightly. He then looks down and spies a portrait lying at his feet. Knees shaking, he bends to pick it up, and to his horror, sees Toon Link's face staring out at him, his eyes wide and his mouth agape with shock!
Luigi looks closely at the portrait. "This is like what happened to Mario." He mutters, running his fingers along the frame. He lifts his head and finds two more framed pictures lying on the ground. "Pit and Shulk too? Did everyone turn into portraits?" wonders Luigi, feeling a tingling on the back of his neck.
Heart pounding furiously, Luigi bursts into the ballroom, and his face pales at what he sees. The floor is littered with framed pictures of each and every Smasher, most with looks of horror or surprise etched on their faces. "Oh no, everyone is turned into a portrait." says Luigi.
"Luigi." Luigi's spine feels like it is made of ice as he hears a ghostly voice, like a whispering snake. He jumps so high that his head literally hits the ceiling.
"Who's calling my name?" he cries, his voice shrill and tiny. "Am I next?"
"I'm haunting you." The voice whispers, this time sounding about as pleasant as nails on a chalkboard.
Luigi screams really loud but then looks behind him, only to find Mario in his Boo form.
"Luigi!" Mario exclaims with relief.
"Mario, you're still okay!" Luigi cries, his fear leaving him slightly.
Mario nods solemnly. "I turned into my Boo form with the Boo Mushroom because I wanted to play a prank on Sonic, but then the lights turned off and everyone was trapped in these paintings!" he explains, shuddering at the memory that has once again burned itself freshly into his mind.
"Maybe your Boo form is what protected you." Luigi muses, tapping his chin in thought. "But then how am I still all right?"
"Because I want to destroy you." The ghostly voice threatens, catching the Mario brothers by surprise.
"Who said that?" wonders Mario, thinking of the horrible memories in his brother's mansion.
"I did." The voice responds. Mario and Luigi look around, and then Mario's breath gets caught in his throat as he sees a massive Boo with a gold crown and a long, pink tongue floating in the middle of the ballroom surrounded by at least a hundred Boo servants. He had hoped he would never relive the nightmare of the haunted mansion, but now it is staring him in the face, laughing and taunting him. "Remember me?" the royal ghost asks in a sinister tone.
"King Boo." Luigi spat, "So you're the one who turned all of our friends into portraits?" He felt way braver than he thought he ever would face this royal ghoul again.
"That's right! Lovely, aren't they? Your friends will all become a part of my new Smash gallery." King Boo spun in a slow circle, as if taking in the frightened faces frozen in paintings all around him. "It was supposed to be you versus me and my minions, but your pesky brother survived because of that Boo Mushroom." King Boo grits his teeth with irritation.
"We're going to beat you and save our friends." Mario declares as he turns back to normal.
"We'll see about that!" the ghost king declares, "Minions, attack!"
The Boos don't move. "Uh, Master, they're looking at us," one of them points out self-consciously.
"What-? Oh, right!" King Boo notices the problem. He rises in the air, summoning his power.
Crack! Thunder crashes overhead louder than a sonic boom, shaking the building, and the lights in the entire mansion shut off, leaving the Mario brothers into deepest darkness.
"Now, let's try that again!" King Boo cackles with glee as his massive Boo army advances on the two plumbers.
The Boos all charge at Mario and Luigi. "Luigi, don't you have something in that Bee costume of yours?" worryingly asks Mario.
"Um, um, oh yes I do." replies Luigi.
Luigi pulls a switch from the back of his costume and shines a bright light at the Boos.
"Oh no!" the Boos scream, vanishing away.
"That won't work on me." says the giant Boo.
"Luigi, get the Poltergust." says Mario.
Luigi listens to his brother and runs to his room to get the Poltergust.
King Boo summons two giant spike balls and throws them at Mario. Mario evades them with a dodge roll and runs back. King Boo summons two more spike balls and throws them at Mario. Mario jumps over one of them and reflects the other one back, hitting the giant Boo.
"How dare you." angrily says King Boo.
King Boo gathers the all of spike balls and throws them together. Mario jumps over all of them and continues running away until Luigi comes back.
After a while, Luigi hasn't come back. "Luigi, where are you?" worries Mario, who's tired from running around.
"Looks like your brother has chickened out." says King Boo, making fun of Luigi.
"Luigi wouldn't run away." Mario defends Luigi's honor.
"It seems like it to me. Looks like it's the end of you." says King Boo, getting ready for his final attack.
King Boo summons all of the spike balls he summoned and throws them at Mario. Mario was too tired to move and close his eyes. Suddenly, Luigi went in front of Luigi and sucks up all of the spike balls and shoots them all back, hitting King Boo and causing him to be dizzy.
"Luigi!" happily cheers Mario.
"Sorry that I'm late." apologizes Luigi.
Luigi starts sucking up the giant Boo. "Almost there." says Luigi, struggling to keep his vacuum trained on the giant ghost, who flails around madly in the air.
King Boo escapes the vacuum and Luigi rolls back into a wall. "I'm not going to be defeated like that again." says King Boo.
King Boo spins around and made five clones of him. "Now, which is the real me?" asks King Boo.
The King Boos surrounds Mario and Luigi and fly around them. Mario and Luigi look at each one of them, figuring out which one is the real one. The real King Boo attacks Luigi from behind, taking him out. "Luigi!" Mario cries.
"Now what can you do?" asks King Boo. "Your brother is out and you don't know how to use the Poltergust."
Mario thinks of something and has an idea with a spike ball that's behind King Boo. Mario jumps over King Boo, goes to the spike ball, and kicks the spike ball really hard, causing the King Boo to be dizzy. "Luigi!" Mario calls.
Luigi wakes up and sees King Boo dizzy. "It's time for you to go back where you came from." says Luigi. Luigi starts up his Poltergust and sucks up King Boo.
"Noo! I'll come back again!" cries King Boo.
Once the evil ghost vanished into the confines of the Poltergust, the lights in the mansion turn on. All the Smashers who turn into portraits are back into their normal selves. "What happened?" Toon Link wonders what happened.
"The lights went out and we turned into portraits." says Pit.
"An enemy from our world came by." Luigi replies to Toon Link's question.
"Is the tournament over?" asks Shulk.
"Nope. The tournament is just about to start. You four go to the Smash room and get ready." replies Sakurai.
Luigi, Pit, Toon Link, and Sakurai head to the Smash room and the tournament begins.