I can't believe we've had to go up to CHAPTER 5, just to see Daisy finally open her eyes to see that it's her almost-boyfriend's birthday.
Is Luigi not that important?!
What about the others and Mario, though?
Sorry, I'll stop ranting.
Speaking of which, let's see how much progress the two teams have made...
The Right Corner (Red, Princess Zelda, Lucas, Toon Link, Pit, Pikachu and Jigglypuff) had excitedly arrived to the Smash Mansion gourmet Kitchen to go forward with their plan to cook Petal and Villager a romantic meal.
Unfortunately, to their horror, the opposing team had gotten there first.
The Left Corner (Samus, Blue Ink & Orange Ink, Leaf, Ness, Sonic, and Dark Pit), had the exact same idea to cook a romantic meal for Villager and Turnip (I bet Zelda feels really stupid and wished that she'd used her telepathy powers to hear what was going on).
The other team had decided to cook the stereotypical "romantic" dish, spaghetti bolognese, like in Lady and the Tramp, as opposed to fish. Orange Ink and Blue Ink were busy in the kitchen, preparing the stove while their teammates gathered the ingredients. They noticed the Right Corner, gaping at them in awe, internally raging at the fact that the Left Corner had practically read their minds.
"Oh, I'm sorry," Orange Ink gurgled, batting her eyelashes all innocent like. "I'm afraid you've had your little brainwave far too late."
The rest of the team smiled smugly and folded their arms.
"Yeah," Ness nodded.
All seemed lost for the Right Corner. They grumpily stormed back into the Common Room, and slumped onto the sofa, feeling sorry for themselves. Was this the end of their OTP, Petal and Villager?
"All we've got now, is an empty box of chocolates," Red grumped, and he and the Pokemon narrowed their eyes at Toon Link, responsible for the disappearance of the treats.
There was a brief moment of silence, the whole team pondering in deep thought.
That's when Princess Zelda's eyes lit up after glancing at the empty box.
"I know," she said softly, as she took the box and lid from the coffee table, "We'll fill Turnip's box of chocolates with dead romantic messages, and say they're from Petal!"
Her teammates spirits were easily lifted by this little scheme. Anything for Petal to fall head over heels in love with Villager.
"Great idea! It's better than nothing!" said Pit.
Perfect timing too! The Left Corner's little spaghetti scheme went downhill pretty quickly. For starters, Dark Pit and Ness weren't focusing on the task at hand and were messing about, playing with the raw pasta. When they had finally got the cooker on and added the bolognese, Samus tried her hand at adding the salt, but being the heaby handed bounty hunter she is, she shook the salt too hard, and a TON of salt was added to it.
"Oops..." Samus gulped.
Leaf slapped Samus's hand away from the pot and frantically tried to get the salt out, but by her mixing the disastrous concoction, she made it worse.
"Oops? OOPS?!" Leaf screamed.
"YOU'VE RUINED MY BOLOGNESE!"
At these awful turn of events, Princess Zelda had strutted in antagonistically clutching the empty box of chocolates. The Left Corner scowled at the Hylian Princess, who had obviously showed up just to mock them.
"See? I just knew, Petal's the one for Vill. Oh well, sorry not sorry!" she jeered, and turned and sashayed out.
BURN! It seemed the Left Corner were waaaay behind! Samus slammed the empty salt tin on the Kitchen counter, while the rest of the team sat on chairs, outraged.
"Quitter!" Samus snapped at Leaf.
Samus sighed walked around the Kitchen to the fridge and opened it. Wait, wasn't that where Olimar...?
Oh no.
She pulled out a sweet tin from the fridge and shook it about in front of the others with a smug grin on her face. She knew what was in that tin, and Samus knew what to do.
OH. NO. SHE DIDN'T.
But she did.
Meanwhile, the Right Corner had gone on with their own plan (which didn't involve Petal gifting Villager maggots). Jigglypuff stealthily crept upstairs to Villager/Isabelle's shared room in the Mansion, and carefully placed the box full of messages and a card for Villager (which Zelda had written) on his bed, and quietly left the bedroom.
Little did it know, it was being watched...
By a black, mean-spirited angel and a blue rat-er, I mean hedgehog.
As soon as the pink Balloon Pokemon left and the coast was clear, Dark Pit carefully switched the box of messages with the "sweet tin". When he did so, he and Sonic laughed and snickered wickedly like little henchmen and fist bumped.
AND SO, LET THE TROUBLE, BEGIN... NOW!
During all these events, Luigi and Princess Daisy were still sat outside the Smash Mansion, bored. Villager had finally gotten back from Moray Towers to find that Turnip wasn't around, and just like Daisy predicted, boy, he was pissed.
"I can't believe it!" he exclaimed. "Turnip stood me up!"
He raged in between Daisy and Luigi and got inside the Mansion, slamming the door behind him.
The two-timing resident bustled into his side of he and his secretary's shared room, and flung his stuff away. Oh well, dating two girls does have it's disadvantages, as well, Villager thought. I just hope the others have done what I've asked and kept their fat noses out of my personal life...
Villager glanced at his bed and saw the "sweet tin" that "Petal" had put in his bedroom.
Oh, no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no... (sorry, that's me internally freaking out about what's going to happen next.)
Villager slowly did his trademark smile, as he went towards the present on his bed and read the card.
"Love and thoughts, sweeter than chocolate, from your sweetheart, Petal. Awww..." Villager cooed, blushing a tad bit as he closed the card.
Villager then picked up the sweet tin, pulled out a magnifying glass and studied it closely.
NOOOOOO!
Just below Villager, the Left Corner and gone on with Ness's previous idea to cook his fish Captain Olimar had caught with him. Ness fried the fish in the pan on the stove (which meant the whole Mansion was probably going to reek of fish), and stirred and flipped the fish about with a spatula while the others watched. While he did this in silence, a muffled noise which sounded like a high pitched scream came from upstairs. They looked up and smiled. For the Left Corner, it was obvious who was the one screaming. For the Right Corner, they were probably wondering why the heck Villager was yelling like Bowser Jr. in a tantrum.
"WHAT THE-! AAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGH! AAAAAAH!"
Upon hearing him, the Left Corner quietly celebrated by giving each other high fives.
"Mission accomplished!" Samus beamed proudly, as if she'd finished destroying a metroid or whatever.
The team then decided to rush upstairs to see how Villager was coping, leaving the fish to fry on its own.
(again) Little did they know, they were being watched...
By a yellow electric mouse.
Now it's time for the Right Corner to foil the opposing team's plans!
Pikachu ran towards the stove where the fish was still frying. The strong fishy scent filled Pikachu's nostrils and it began to gather saliva in its mouth. However, it shook its head suddenly to snap himself back into reality. Pikachu then used its electronic powers to crank up the heating up on the fish, and the dead animal started sizzling on the pan violently after this action. As it did this, the sounds of Villager's screams continued to echo through the walls.
"AAAARRRRRRGH! OHH, MANNNNNNN! OH, IT'S DISGUSTING! ARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGH! SOMEONE HELP!"
Very soon, both teams, Isabelle, Olimar, and a few other fighters, had burst into the room to Villager's rescue.
"What? What?! What's all the screaming about, mayor?!" Isabelle asked worriedly.
BTW, Isabelle is Villager's so-called secretary as he is supposedly the Smashville town mayor and she's her assistant, even though, Villager hates being addressed and recognised as the Smashville town mayor. Isabelle has convinced him and assured him that he'd be fine, but things hasn't worked out. Villager couldn't handle all the responsibility and expectations of being a leader. He's technically still the mayor now, he's just rather "inactive".
It's best not to mention it to him.
Ugh, this backstory sounds like a Fire Emblem storyline or something. But I digress.
The poor, two-timing resident was stood on top of his bed, wobbling like a jelly. He'd pointed a shaking finger towards the bedroom floor, and the fighters looked down to see a swarm of maggots, all clumped together in one big pack, slowly crawling away from each other, with the actual tipped over. The others groaned and shuddered at the sight of this.
"Are you-a kidding me?" Mario, (famous plumber, hero of the Mushroom Kingdom, and video game celebrity, in case anyone's been living under a rock for the past 37-38 years) exclaimed, putting his hand to his forehead.
Captain Olimar took a closer peek and noticed the insects he'd used to catch seafood with Ness, and wasn't happy with the situation as much as Mario was.
"My maggots!" Olimar whined, and bent down to pick up the wriggly insects.
As the explorer did so, all Villager stopped trembling, but he was still stood on the bed. In fact, all of his timidness and fear turned into absolute fury.
"Who. Did. THIS??" he demanded.
Orange Ink got cold feet, and swiftly turned and pointed to Daisy. "It was that flower Princess!" she gabbled.
Daisy had simultaneously turned and pointed to the squid kid, and yelled, "ARE YOU SERIOUS?!"
"You were the one who started all of this with you trying to meddle with Villager's love life!" Orange grizzled, jabbing her finger at the Sarasa
"Look, I didn't know you idiots would INTERFERE, let alone allowing the situation to go too far! If would've just-"
Before Daisy could argue, the whole room had exploded and started either blaming each other, and muttering about the whole affair. So now, everyone had FINALLY come to their senses and had realised that making decisions and organising things for Villager was a bad idea and a very stupid mistake. DUH!
But it wasn't over just yet.
Amidst all the commotion, Samus had approached Zelda way in the back of the crowd.
"Looks like you won't be catching Villager smooching that pink-haired bimbo anytime soon. We've won, Zelda. That's all there is to it," she hissed triumphantly.
Zelda gave her a little snicker.
"Oh, really, Samus?" Zelda put put her finger on her cheek and sniffed the air to catch the whiff of the fish she ordered Pikachu to char.
"Well, well, well! What's that I smell?" she almost said in a sing-song voice.
Wow. Just wow. That was some drama. Well, I did warn you!
First of all, I made reference to Villager's status as "Mayor of Smashville" just like in Animal Crossing: New Leaf. However, I gave this a more meaningful and personal thing for Villager. He's stressed about the idea of him being mayor, and doesn't know the first thing about having to manage a town. Isabelle sees him through and has tried to be a big help, but right now, it can't be helped. (Possible future story?)
One thing to point out, Villager's a bit of a drama queen, LOL. XD
The maggots from Chapter 1 is a plot device along with the fish that Ness caught.
I just thought of spaghetti when I thought of "romantic meal" as seem to see this dish everywhere in romantic media.
Also, Mario appears in this chapter, don't worry! For those of you Luigi haters :)
Stay tuned for Chapter 7, the finale of this story! Who will Villager really end up with? How will the ruined fish be dealt with? Will both teams give in? AND WHAT ABOUT LUIGI'S BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS?!
Find out... real soon!
PS. Merry Christmas, everybody! ^_^