Disclaimer: I do not own Nintendo, Smash Bros., or any of its third parties. I only own Purpy Draggo and the D3G S&P Ensemble.
IV: Training I
Nina, Dassi, Lee, and Kero had finished creating an attack plan for the Smash Bros. about an hour after Master Hand left them in the dorm. They were ready to present it to the fierce warriors who were currently standing outside behind the mansion.
"Attention, Smash Bros.!" called all members of D3G.
Unlike the previous times where Master Hand called for their attention, the band of brawlers immediately turned their attention towards D3G.
"Real quick everyone, since you haven't met us yet, we're going to introduce ourselves real quick. My name is Nina Galvez, and I am thirteen years old and Puerto Rican. I have the ISTJ personality type, and I am a practical fact-minded person who's reliability is unable to be doubted. My main instrument is the violin, but I also play the flute, trumpet, and piano at an advanced level. I use my violin skills in the Vienna Youth Advanced Orchestra as the concertmaster."
"I'm Dassi Durr, a thirteen-year-old Jewish female with an ESFP personality type. I'm an energetic and enthusiastic individual, and life can't be boring when I'm around. I play the viola most of the time, but I also play the clarinet, French horn, and piano at an advanced level, and I am Lee's assistant in the viola section of the VYAO."
"Hi, I'm Lee Dawson, fourteen years old, English, and ESTP personality type. I'm a perceptive and energetic person and I very much enjoy being on the edge. Like Dassi, I also play the viola, clarinet, French horn, and piano, and in case you didn't pick it up from her introduction, I am the principal violist in the VYAO."
"My name is Kero GuiYing Dee. I am fourteen years old, and I'm half Chinese half Filipino. My personality type is the INTJ type, and I am an imaginative and strategic thinker with plans for almost everything. I play twenty-four instruments, and these are: the piccolo, soprano, alto, tenor, and bass flutes, the piccolo, soprano, alto, tenor, and bass trumpets, orchestral, marching, and world percussion, the piano, the violin, viola, cello, double bass, harp, and the soprano, alto, tenor, and bass ukuleles. My main instrument is percussion, and I am the principal percussionist in VYAO."
"We are the D3G S&P Ensemble. We play chamber music in private and in public, and we are warriors when necessary." finished all four of them.
The four musical fighters heard greetings from all the Smash Bros. after D3G's introduction. After they ceased, Kero made an announcement.
"So, today is our training day. This is the day where we prepare ourselves to fight a battle that depends on the existence of the Smash Bros."
"We must take today seriously, because if we don't, then we'll be unprepared for this intense war." continued Dassi.
"Here's how this will work. We will begin by putting you all in battle formation. After you learn about how that will work, Master Hand, Nina, Dassi, Kero, and I will act out how Purpy is most likely to attack us, and we will tell you how to approach each situation." explained Lee.
"We will have four training sessions because there is a lot you will have to learn. We'll have a twenty-minute break between them, then we'll finish up." finished Nina. "Are there questions?"
"Yes. Will these sessions be long?" asked Wendy.
"They'll be as long a you make them," answered Dassi. "If you all take this seriously and learn, it should be short."
"How do you guys fight people?" questioned Terry.
"While that question isn't related to what's about to happen, we will answer it anyway. We have attachments that go on various spots on our instruments, which attach and detach from the instruments easily. These attachments are guns powered by electricity." began Nina.
"The attachments have transducers that convert sounds into electricity which powers the gun. When the attachment is on the instrument, the gun will shoot when the instrument is played. It will not shoot when the instrument is not played." continued Dassi.
"The ammo for these guns are small, very hard rubber balls. The attachments can hold twenty of them at a time. We all wish that they could hold more, but our instruments would have too much stress onto them if they held over twenty." explained Lee.
"We designed and built these attachments ourselves. One day, while we were playing music together, I had a theory that we could make our instruments into weapons by creating a small attachment that had the components of a gun inside. Means of an electric pulling device would pull the trigger. The music would provide the electricity.
"I created a design for these attachments, and then we built one. It needed a lot of experimenting on, but after a while, we found the best way to construct it. We built thirty-nine more of the perfected attachments." concluded Kero.
"How many formations are we going to practice?" interrogated Lucina
"Five." replied Lee.
"What are the formations?" asked Pit.
"We'll get to that." answered Lee.
"Why is there a drum kit behind you, Kero?" questioned Pichu.
"Because I will play it during our break and maybe during the training." replied Kero. "Are there any more questions?"
Silence.
"All right, then. Let's begin. The first thing that we will do is do some sorting. Everyone who mostly fights with their bare fists, take fifteen big steps to the left." instructed Kero.
A total of forty-seven brawlers separated from the other Smash Bros.
"Now, everyone who mainly fights with a sword or a handheld weapon like that, take fifteen big steps to the right." ordered Dassi.
Twenty-six sword fighters walked to the right. This left fourteen gunners standing in the middle.
"Wow, there are big differences in number between the two groups." commented Nina.
"Let's get started. First things first, we will practice the column formation. This is a formation where soldiers march in vertical single-file lines. We assume that there will be four lines. Dassi, Lee, Kero, and I will represent a line, and Master Hand will represent Draggo. I know that this sounds ridiculous, but go with it." said Nina.
"Here's how this will work. If we see the enemy's army marching in this formation, Nina, Dassi, Kero, Master Hand, or I will say 'Column'. If you hear this, this is what you will do. We will make a horizontal column. You will already be split up like you are right now when we arrive, so this will be easier. We will signal six fist-fighters and six sword fighters for each line. After we have made six lines, the projectile fighters will make two vertical lines of seven people, and because we will have one fist-fighter left over, they will join one of these lines. Each of these lines will stand on either side of our column." explained Kero.
"The reason that we chose this formation to approach their hypothetical vertical column is that we'll be able to bend our column and take them down simultaneously from the front, the left, the right, but probably not the back. This will help us get through the soldiers and then to Draggo." clarified Lee.
"When this column is made, we will wait for Draggo's army to march to us, if Draggo wants, our armies will speak to each other, then we will war with them. When the battle starts, the goals are first to eliminate Draggo's soldiers, then fight and defeat Draggo. Now, we'd like to see how you fight in this formation, so we will practice getting into this formation. Remember that we will signal you when it's your time to get into the line. Are there questions before we begin?" said Dassi.
"How will you signal us?" asked Y.L.
"We will point at a fist-fighter or a sword fighter and tell them to come to the line. We will trust the projectile fighters to make their own lines. Are there more questions?" replied Nina.
Silence.
"Let's begin."
"COLUMN!" signaled Lee.
Kero and Nina were lining up the brawlers and sword fighters, while Lee and Dassi watched the projectile warriors and made sure that they made their lines properly. Within one minute, this process was complete.
"Wow, I'm impressed with you all. You didn't trip over each other or get confused, and you all got into the column within one minute. Good job, Smash Bros." complimented Kero.
"We are going to practice that again, but we'll do it as a review in the next training session. For now, let's see your fighting style."
D3G and Master Hand got into a vertical column formation knowing that they were about to take a fierce beating.
"Begin!" shouted Dassi.
The Smash Bros. approached them. The projectile fighters stayed in place and shot from afar, while the brawlers and sword fighters fought with their own individual styles.
"OKAY STOP NOW!" yelled Kero.
They halted.
A beaten up Nina weakly said, "All right, you did good. I have no comments. Let's take a break."
"Yeah, we will go inside the mansion and fix ourselves real quick." said Master Hand.
"Let me grab my kit real quick." requested Kero.
Kero made his drum kit go back into its chip form, then went with his friends and the hand.
The video game warriors had a good first training session, and they must continue to have good training sessions.
So they can be prepared to win the war…