Super Smash Bros adventures chapter 25
Mario is fighting against Bowser at Battlefield. Mario jumps onto the top platform and throws his Fireballs at Bowser. Bowser jumps over Mario's red-hot Fireballs and attacks with a strong Air Slash. Mario jumps over Bowser's attack and surprises him with a Drop Kick, causing him to fall off the platform.
Bowser gets back up quickly and Mario attacks Bowser with his Air Punch. Bowser dodges, grabs Mario, and throws him offstage. Bowser jumps offstage and attacks Mario with his Air Slash, Mario air dodges and footstools onto Bowser's head to recover back on stage.
Bowser recovers using his Whirling Fortress move, Mario takes out his .D.D and sprays a powerful amount of water at Bowser, causing the monster to go offstage. Mario then uses his Super Leaf Cape, causing Bowser to fall into the blast zone. "So long, Bowser." says Mario, as he starts doing his spinning jump taunt.
Mario and Bowser arrive back at the Smash mansion. "That's the fifth time you beat me, Mario." says Bowser.
"Don't worry, Bowser. I'm sure that you'll win a fight against me one day." says Mario.
"I guess I should learn some new tricks to fight you." says Bowser.
Mario and Bowser went out of the Ballroom and spotted Palutena walking towards their direction. "Hey look, your girlfriend is coming this way." Bowser teases.
Mario turns a little red. "She's not my girlfriend." angrily says Mario.
"Well I'll leave you two lovebirds alone." says Bowser, who's heading to the gym.
"That, Bowser. I'm not going to hold back on our next fight." says Mario.
"Hey, Mario." Palutena greets Mario with a beautiful smile.
Mario turns even redder and tries hiding his face. "Hey, Palutena." Mario tries acting normal. "What's up?"
"I was wondering if you would like to go on a mission with me." says Palutena.
"Sure that'll be great." says Mario. "What kind of mission are we going on?"
Palutena takes out a paper and starts reading the paper. "Help me find my Baby penguin." Palutena reads the paper.
"Baby penguin? This sounds familiar." Mario starts remembering something that he experienced before. "Is it at a place called, Snowman Island?"
"Actually yes it is." says Palutena.
"I haven't been to that place for a long time." says Mario. "The annoying thing is that I always go there and the Mother penguin always loses her baby."
"Sounds stressful for you." says Palutena.
"It is. You'll know why when we arrive there." says Mario.
Mario and Palutena arrive at Snowman Island and Palutena starts shivering like crazy since it's under negative thirty degrees. "It's so cold here." says Palutena, who's wearing only a light green sweater and black jogging pants.
"I told you it'll be really cold here." says Mario, who's wearing a very thick red jacket and a red scarf.
"I thought my sweater and jogging pants will be enough." says Palutena. "Mario, give me your scarf since you have your jacket."
"What? No way I'm giving you this jacket." says Mario, showing his tongue at Palutena.
Palutena starts getting irritated and tries taking Mario's scarf by force. "Give me your scarf." angrily, says Palutena.
"Calm down." says Mario. "There's a cabin where we can stay inside for a while. Follow me."
Palutena follows Mario to a cabin. Mario and Palutena arrived at a cabin. "Here we are. Now we can have some hot chocolate and go search for that Baby penguin." says Mario.
"That sounds really good right now." says Palutena, as her nose starts running.
Mario and Palutena went inside the cabin. "Hello? Is anyone home?" called Mario.
"Who lives in here?" asks Palutena.
"A tall penguin called, the Racing Penguin. Every time I go in here we race on this slide and have hot chocolate." replies Mario, as he shows the slide to Palutena.
Mario and Palutena hear a loud voice. "Help!"
"That must be the Racing Penguin." says Mario.
Mario goes onto the slide and Palutena went on next. After riding the slide, Mario and Palutena found the Racing Penguin trapped inside a cage made of ice.
"Mario, is that you?" asks the Racing Penguin.
"That's right. Stand back so you won't get burned." says Mario.
Mario throws a Fireball at the ice cage and the Racing Penguin is free.
"Thank you so much, Mario and his friend." the Racing Penguin thank the two of them.
"What happened?" asks Palutena.
"A giant ice face with a red nose came in here and trapped me. Then it went towards where the Mother Penguin is. I don't know what happened to her." replied the Racing Penguin.
"A giant ice face with a red nose. Seems familiar." says Mario. "We'll go find that ice face and save Snowman Island."
"Thank you. I'll treat you two to my special hot chocolate later." says the Racing Penguin.
"Aww man. Do you have a jacket I can borrow?" asks Palutena.
"I'm sorry, but I don't. You should've brought something more than that sweater." says the Racing Penguin.
"Told you." says Mario.
Mario and Palutena got out of the cabin and start searching for the Mother Penguin and the ice head.
Mario and Palutena are hiking up the mountain, the chilly air stinging their cheeks and the deep snow tugging at their feet with every step.
"Mario, can we take a break please?" asks Palutena. She is ashamed to show weakness, but every muscle in her body aches from strain and cold. "This place is so cold and I never do any heavy work. That's what Pit's for."
"Sure. There's a cave over there we can stop in for a bit." Mario leads Palutena to a small cave in the mountainside. Relieved, Palutena drops to the snowy floor once they are inside. Mario gathered some wood and in a few minutes, they basked in the comfort of a roaring fire.
"That should keep us warm, don't you think?" Mario asks, but then notices that Palutena's still shivering. "Here." Mario says. He removes his heavy jacket and offers it to her.
"A-Are you sure?" the goddess asks, her teeth chattering. "Y-You might get sick."
"That's ok, I'll warm myself with my Fireballs." replies Mario, flames dancing in his palms.
Palutena smiles and accepts Mario's jacket. "Thank you, Mario." She says gratefully, pulling the thick coat close around her. The jacket was already warm since Mario had been wearing it, and she was glad for the extra heat.
"No problem." Mario responds, stoking the fire.
They sit in silence for a while, enjoying the heat and each other's company. "Are you looking forward to Christmas, Mario?" asks Palutena.
"Yeah, Christmas is one of my favorite holidays." replies Mario.
"Do you… have an idea of what you might want?" Palutena asks, trying not to sound too obvious.
"Well, I don't really know. I don't really care what I get, as long as the gifts come from the heart I'll be really happy." Mario responds. "Are you all warmed up? We have to go rescue the penguins."
"Yeah! I'm fine now." Palutena answers. Mario stands and kicks snow over the flames. The cave grew cold as the fire was extinguished, but they knew they had to keep going. They exited the cave and continued up the mountain, the cold seeming to battle them every step of the way.
They both were out of breath when they reached the top of Snowman Island where they noticed the shadow of something large and round looming above them at the very tip of the mountain, the giant ice face.
"Wait." Mario says, puzzled. "This ice face is a Sorbetti. This monster is not from here."
"How did it get here?" wonders Palutena, glancing around. The goddess then cries out in astonishment! "Mario!"
Mario looks over where Palutena is pointing and sees a large, ice cage containing two penguins. "That's the Mother Penguin and her baby," he informs, shocked to find them like this.
"We have to save them." says Palutena.
"Right," Mario says. He steps up to the cage and rubs his hands together, conjuring the hottest flames he can. But, then Palutena turns and gasps with fear, as the giant snow face rolls down the hill towards them!
Palutena warps out of the way, but the Sorbetti rolls toward Mario. "Look out!" Palutena hollers.
Just in time, Mario jumps away and lashes out at the snow face's red nose with his fist. But, the plumber aims wide and misses his timing, and the Sorbetti changes direction and slams into Mario with all the force of a boulder. "Ugh!" Mario grunts, pain and cold washing over his body.
"Hey! You! Over here!" Palutena screams, blasting the snow face with a few well-aimed blue energy spheres from her staff.
Enraged at the annoying projectiles, the Sorbetti abandons the fight with Mario and barrels down the mountain toward Palutena. Palutena narrows her eyes in concentration and uses her golden energy reflector, launching the giant snow head away from her. "Mario! Are you all right?" the goddess asks, hurrying over to her friend
Groaning, Mario stands again, only to find that the snowman head is rolling in their direction again. Mario clenches his fist and prepares his fireballs, but Palutena is quicker. She jumps in the air and deals a hit to the Soretti's nose with her staff as she has seen Mario try to do
The two Smashers didn't need much to tell that the monster was angry. The Sorbetti jumps and breathes a powerful blast of ice at Palutena, who is already frozen with fear. Mario dashes forward and intercepts the ice with his fireballs. "Ha!" Mario cries, landing a powerful Kick to the monster's nose.
The Sorbetti jumps up and down, utterly furious, shaking the entire mountain! Mario and Palutena try everything to keep their balance. The snowman head breathes cascades of ice crystals all around him. Mario and Palutena are sliding and stumbling on the slippery terrain, the snow impeding their movements further.
Mario gasps as he sees an ice shard headed straight for Palutena. He jumps in front of her and reflects it with his Super Leaf Cape, but shrapnel from the blast hits him in the face, confusing him. Mario wipes the tiny ice crystals from his eyes just in time to see Palutena charging towards the monster. "Hey, you overgrown snowball!" she shouts.
Sorbetti powers up and shoots a fully charged ice blast at her. Mario gasps, his heart going a million miles a minute. At the last second, Palutena reflects the ice blast, and it rebounds on the snow head, freezing the ground and air around it, rendering it trapped in ice.
Palutena looks over to Mario and grins. "Would you like to do the honors?" she offers.
"I would!" Mario answers, smiling just as broadly. He rushes up to the frozen snow head and deals a flaming fist attack that sends the giant snow head flying off the mountain!
"Nice one!" Palutena complements.
"We're not done yet," Mario says, walking over to the ice cage holding the Mother and Baby Penguin. He melts the ice with his fireballs, and Palutena helps with her light magic.
"Thank you so much, Mario." thanked the Mother Penguin.
"Not a problem." says Mario.
"Is the pretty lady your girlfriend?" asks the Baby Penguin.
Mario's face turns red and his jaw drops. Mario looks at Palutena, who''s looking at the other way, blushing, and feeling embarrassed. Why did they think Palutena and he were dating? "No, she's just a friend." Mario said gently, patting the little penguin on the head.
"Mario, we should probably head out now," Palutena says, noticing the sun is sinking below the mountains.
"Yeah, it's getting colder here now, anyway." Mario responds, and the two of them wave at the penguins and begin hiking back down the mountain for some well-deserved hot chocolate.
Later that night, Palutena is resting from her mission in her room, talking with Peach, Wii Fit Trainer and Lucina.
"How was your mission with Mario?" asks Wii Fit Trainer, stretching her arms behind her head.
"Were you able to find out anything more about what he might like?" asks Lucina, shining her sword.
"He just wants something that comes from the heart." Palutena responds.
Peach looks thoughtful for a moment, and then her eyes light up like stars. "I have an idea! You should make a gift for Mario." says Peach.
"Make a gift?" wonders Palutena.
"I'll show you what I mean." says Peach, who's excited to help Palutena to make Mario's gift.