Chapter 8: Phantom in the Dark.
I'm back! *crickets chirping*
Ok then lets get this show on the road! (*^∇^)ノ
It was the dead of night, definitely around midnight, the sky dark purples and blues the only light for miles was that of the moon. A figure stood atop of a hill overlooking the Smash Mansion eyes dead ahead at it's destination. At last it was time to return and claim the top again no one could rival his power, the figures eyes glowed a dark purple and floated off into the night…
The sunlight started flooding in on the land from the horizon and blah blah blah. The mansion was dead silent which is a surprise considering all the shit that goes down there. Lucina started feeling the warm sunlight on her face that was peeking through the curtains, she slowly opened her eyes to adjust them to the light, she sits up on her bed and yawns, stood up and saw Dark Pit getting his bow from the closet and head out the door. "hm that's strange he's usually a late sleeper?" Lucina thought to herself. She got up and headed to the bathroom she splashed some water on her face and changed into her usual attire. She was heading out the door when she heard some movement in the vents. Curious she removed the lid and peeked inside to see nothing which just confused her she swore she heard something. She was about to leave when she heard the noise again and when she looked again she came face to face with some giant cat eyes. She yelped in surprise but also managed to surprise the hero of winds who was mysteriously in the air vent. "Toon?! What are you doing in there?" she asks the little Hylian.
"uh, I um uh," was all he responded before throwing a smoke ball in front of him and running, sorry, crawling off.
"HEY!?" she exclaimed as he crawled away as if his life depended on it, she quickly placed the lid back on coughing a little from the smoke.
She opened the window to let the smoke out and headed out the room as it was quickly filling with smoke. She headed to the elevator and pressed the down arrow on it and waited for it to come down or up. With a little ding the door opened and Robin was in the corner with an open book on his hands. They exchanged greetings while Robin kept his full focus on the book. The door opened and they headed out into the hall heading towards the cafeteria, but when they opened the door they saw a huge commotion going on. Lucina stared dumfoundedly at the mess while Robin was still focused on his book. She saw Marth in the corner with his arms crossed and leaning against the wall not the slightest bit surprised. "Marth what happened?" she asked the blue prince to which Marth turned to face the duo behind him.
"Oh hey Lucina, nothing new really it's just our supply of food has run out and everyone is trying to scavenge what they can." He responded with a shrug.
"What really how did that happen we seemed to be fine yesterday?" she asks puzzled while Robin nods in agreement as he read.
"Well apparently we used up the last of the supplies last night during dinner" he responds casually and shrugs again.
Link comes out of the kitchen moments later with a box of granola bars and chewing on one. Then it seemed like there was a dozen pair of eyes staring at him while he started chewing a lot slower, he then slowly gulped and backed away hugging the box tightly. That's when half of the cafeteria rushed in his direction for his food making a giant dog pile. There was a huge cloud of dust with arms, legs and heads poking out of it every so often along with the sound of blows being dealt. Master hand appeared in the middle along with the Six and he snapped his fingers but it sounded like a thunder clap. Everyone stopped and stared at Master hand and he cleared his throat while adjusting his tie. "So Smashers as you all well know we ran out of food, something I forgot to mention last night but hey I am busy person."He begins rather smugly and proud but immediately after that many stated to shout at the gloved being.
"Master hand more like Bastard hand!"
"You trying to starve us now!"
"I'm a king I demand FOOD!"
"It is unwise to leave your soldiers without food"
"Oooh ooh oh ooooh ooooh oh ohhh!"
"Kick his ass!"
"Oh nein you didn't!"
"Loud aggressive bird calls!"
"Hyyyaah huuht heah!"
"Mutiny!"
"Smashers please settle down this problem can be handled easy pesy lemon sqeezy, so good news everyone today is shopping day." Master Hand says rather cheerfully looking around the room but getting nothing but blank looks.
"Shoot him!"
"Off with his head!"
"Smite Him!"
"Ohh ohhh ouhhh ouh!"
"Draw your blades and duel him!"
"To the gallows with ya!"
"Kick his ass!"
"Huuuhht hyaahh eeeaahh!"
"Angry bird noises!"
"Wololo!"
"Banish him to a gap between dimensions!"
"I say we tie him up to a pig and set it on fire!" Everyone immediately stops and turns to face DTL who had his fists raised in front of him punching the air. "what?" he says dumfounded as everyone just stared blankly at the dark cartoon character.
"Alright so we all know the rules, however I changed something, if your partners name is drawn then you go too understood, good!" He finished and the entire room erupted into loud groans as Master Hand made a large top hat appear and he reached in and pulled out a folded piece of paper. He put some small glasses on and unfolded the small paper and cleared his throat, the room turned tense as everyone huddled near the hand not even leaving any room to breathe. "Alright so lets see here C. Falcon your up, so that means Toon Link you go as well" he says as the paper vanished into thin air. Falcon didn't seemed too bothered with it but Toon formed his hands tightly into fists while gritting his teeth and turned and kick Ganon's left leg
"This is your fault!" he exclaims with a huff while crossing his arms, Ganon clutched his leg as he glared at the hero of winds.
"Why you little piece of-" Ganon looked about to strangle him but they stopped when they saw Master hand glaring at them or so it seemed that was what he was doing. He then reached into the hat again as everyone huddled together again anxious to know if they'll be fated to an ill fortune.
"Alright moving on!" he says moving his hand around the hat and pulling out a small paper, he unfolded it and adjusted his glasses before clearing his throat. "So Shulk your up so that means Raven you get to go too!" He says, both of the smashers nodded their heads in understanding they seemed more level headed then the last bunch. The small piece of paper vanished again and he put his hand back in the hat while the room turned more tense the ever before, it seemed everyone was actually holding in their breath as Master hand unfolded the paper and adjusted his glasses. "Ok so todays lucky winner is… Kirby?!" He said rather shocked and surprised and looked around the room surprise and all the veterans looked at him worriedly. "Why is his name even in here, I established that Kirby was banned from any and all trips to the supermarket no matter the circumstances!" He says as the little paper burned up while Ness did a fist pump in the back having dodged a massive bullet.
"hold on why does he get to skip out?!" Shulk protested and he was backed up mainly by all the newcomers.
"He did once and it was one of the greatest tragedies that occured of its time, and if you should all know it went a little like this." Zelda began as all the newcomers listened intentionally at what the hylian princess had to tell…
*Flashback
It was once again time for shopping the unlucky individuals happened to be Zelda, Ike, Meta-Knight, Snake, Pikachu, and of course Kirby. They all entered the store normally and tried to blend in with everyone else to not draw attention and they split up into teams of two. Kirby started walking down an isle that was littered with snacks and he began drooling. He pushed the cart and jumped on opening his mouth and began inhaling everything as he passed by…
A few moments into shopping the rest of the cast met in the front ready to leave until they heard the screams of customers and everyone running away in panic. They all get into a battle stance and saw Snake hauling ass from the back with a panicked look. "He need to move now!" He says as the place starts rumbling and shaking like crazy and they all quickly flee the building. They see a giant eye ball stare at them from the doors blinking several times before a giant pink mass rose from the building towering over everything and everyone. The colossal Kirby just looked around puzzled before burping, though from everyone elses point it sounded like a roar of a monster. They heard sirens blaring nearby as helicopters started surrounding the massive pink blob that started making its way towards the city burping loudly again.
Master Hand was in his office enjoying one of his sops when it was suddenly interrupted by a sudden news story. The reporter who was up in a helicopter started going on frantically about a giant blob that was terrorizing the city. The scene goes to the view of civilians all running for their lives in terror, the camera zooms out behind all the fleeing civilians to show the massive Kirby stomping his way through the city. He burped louder that time sounding like a sonic roar as he waved his stubby arms about. "what in the name of?!" Master Hand exclaimed as he rose from his seat…
*End Flashback
"And so Kirby has been excluded from any and all trips to the supermarket henceforth." Zelda finished while the newcomers all looked back and forth at one another. They turn to Kirby who was in the back seated on the floor coloring a coloring book and humming to himself. Master Hand reached into the hat again digging around to reach for the next lucky contestant.
"Alright lets see here, so alright, *sigh* I got to remember not to let Crazy write theses his handwriting is so sloppy, ok so it says…"
"Pittoo, so that means Lucina goes too!"
"Hold on a minute Bastard Hand that's not the name I'm registered under!" Dark Pit immediately exclaims afterwards.
"Alright so you lucky winners go prepare yourselves you have 10 minutes and meet in the front, chop-chop!" Master hand finished completely ignoring Dark Pit who was grumbling and vanished.
Those who were not picked quickly raced out of the cafeteria like there was no tomorrow. The rest just stayed in there in awkward silence huddled in a circle. Well that is until Falcon kicked down the front door to the cafeteria and everyone turned to face the racer, "COME ON!" he shouted and dashed out of the door, the rest followed afterwards. Lucina decided she didn't need to change and was heading towards the main doors until Raven stopped her.
"Hold on Lucina where do you think your going?" she asked turning the swordswoman around.
"Well I don't see a reason why I should change, these clothes seem fine to me?" she responded to the tactician. Raven however giggled a little and shook her head.
"My apologies Lucina but it seems they haven't explained things clearly, so allow me, see we can't go out looking like our normal selves. Why you ask? because as you my have know from the festival we have cherished fans that admire us. And in public if you are spotted by one it sets off a chain reaction and soon you get surrounded by hundreds of them, you'll be lucky if you ever see the light of day again or so the veterans say." She says getting closer to Lucina and then grabbing the sides of her face and shaking her gently.
"Even if the stories are true I don't have anything that wont stand out, Raven what am I to do?!" she asked looking at the tactician with worry but she simply waved her off.
"Worry not I happen to have an entire wardrobe full of clothes that will help you blend in!" Raven responded excitedly grabbing her hand and dragging Lucina towards her room.
*Later...*
When they arrived at the room Raven dumps a mountain of clothing on her bed and told Lucina to pick whatever she liked. So they spent like 8 minutes going through an entire wardrobe twice. Raven just sighs and picked up another shirt and Lucina shook her head and she face palmed. "Lucina there has got to be at least one thing here you can wear" she said going through the pile again.
"I'm not sure none of the "modern" clothing as you put it seems to fit my tastes, I can't see how people would even be comfortable in some of these clothes I mean look at this." Lucina said holding up a pair of short shorts and Raven just sweat dropped.
"Ok better idea!" Raven said blankly as she picked up two random items and started approaching Lucina with a psychotic smile.
"W-What are you doing with those?!" Lucina said worriedly as she backed up against the wall but Raven just kept slowly advancing towards her. "Don't you dare!" She says and starts running around in circles while Raven chased her around in an attempt to stuff her into something. And so after another 6 minutes Raven managed to stuff Lucina into a sky blue skirt and matching top with white and pink stockings, she also did Lucina's hair into two pigtails but funny thing is that Lucina ended up looking like a little school girl. And the fact that Lucina was sort of short was not helping either. She just stared at herself in the mirror with a large frown. Raven changed into some dark blue jeans a matching top and a black trench coat, while also doing her hair into a bun. She had to practically drag Lucina out of the room despite her protests.
They went outside to where the others where waiting impatiently Shulk was dressed in some black basketball shorts and a black muscle shirt and was wearing a black baseball cap, Dark pit was dressed into a grey puffy sweater to conceal his wings and grey sweat pants, Toon Link was dressed in a fancy looking black tux with a top hat and a monocle he also had a cane with a rupee on top and a fake mustache. They all turned when they heard the girls approaching and when they saw Lucina they all erupted into laughter even rolling around on the floor. Lucina just groaned and turned to face Raven who just giggled a little. "Oh what's wrong Lucy you look adorable!" she says pinching one of Lucina cheeks while she glared. So they were about to leave until a problem presented itself when they turned to face the smash bus
"So, how dose that carriage move without horses?" Lucina asked from the back of the group. Everyone turned to face her and exchanged awkward glances so they spent the next 5 minutes trying to explain to Lucina the concept of automobiles, and later who's driving was the problem currently present for the smashers at the moment until Toon spoke up
"I say lads we seem to be in quiet a pickle indeed, what do you lot say to me taking the wheel hmm? jolly good then!" He said getting into the drivers seat until Raven stopped him by grabbing him from the shirt and pulling him back down.
"I don't think so mister remember what happened last time!" she says reminding the little Hylian of the incident to which he smiled sheepishly.
FLASHBACK*
Master hand had assigned six unlucky smashers who where currently going shopping, and who consisted of Palutena, Toon link, Raven, Ike, and Link and Zelda to monitor the situation. It all started with a bunch of arguments about who drives since no one there was really familiar with technology, which is until Toon said he was able to drive and everyone was immediately against it but then everyone realized that Toon Link was the one out of the six who was most familiar with technology. Everyone gave each other concerned looks and finally decided for it against everyone's better judgment, so Toon took the wheel and told everyone to buckle in and took off and hey it actually seemed like he could drive everyone relaxed a little as they exited the mansion boundaries.
*L8R*
Toon was smiling to himself he was proud of himself too his driving was amazing everyone was praising him which made him form a cocky grin.He adjusts the review mirror and saw a whole flock of police cars behind the smash van yelling into their mikes to pull over. Raven and Palutena were hugging each other screaming in horror as the van zoom pasted many objects at top speeds barely missing them by an inch, Link and Ike where yelling at Toon to watch out for obstacles an other cars on the road. All the while Zelda was currently in the back having fainted from shock when Toon almost ran over a flock of people earlier, "where did you even learn how to drive anyways?!" Link asked the little Hylian hanging on for dear life.
"Grand theft auto!" he responds knocking a police car off the road that started pulling up along side them.
"WHAT?!" they all shout in unison, then all at once everyone told Toon to hit the breaks while pointing at a huge road block up ahead. He of course pressed his foot all the way down on the petal and started to laugh like a maniac.
*even L8R*
A loud knock sounded from the front doors of the mansion Master Hand of course went to answer it, though normally he wouldn't but the flashing lights outside had him curious.He opened to door to see two police officers holding Toon Link in their arms "sir dose this belong to you" one of them asked. He looked down and glared at the Hylian and said yes taking Toon Link from the officers. Toon just gave Master Hand a sheepish smile while a vein popped out of Master Hand and he started to turn red.
*End FLASHBACK*
That's when it hit Raven "where is Douglas?" she asked and everyone turned to look for the F-Zero pilot. He of course was heading out of the mansion fully dressed in biker gear he even had a biker helmet on. So without protest everyone decided on C. Falcon driving except Toon who threw a tantrum, yes C. Falcon was a expert at driving and all especially at top speeds but he had one weakness he can't drive unless.
"lets put on some motivation" he said and slipped in a CD into the slot and rock music started to play full blast as he put the petal to the metal. He was zooming past everything expertly unless there was a red light in which he would just honk impatiently, they make it to the store in just 5 minutes when it would normally take 30 he was that good he even lost the police in the first 2 minutes. Once they parked everyone got out and complimented Falcon on his driving while Toon crossed his arms and scoffed. Raven tells then they had to draw straws to see who gets partnered with who, Lucina got Toon, Raven got Dark Pit and Shulk and Falcon where in a group. There were three credit cards that were split between the groups along with three lists and everyone separated and went in through different doors. Lucina pocketed the card and looked at the list to see they were in charge of snacks.
Lucina stared around the large supermarket and saw many shoppers pushing their shopping carts around with things to be purchased. she was not used to this sort of setting as this market was a great deal different then those of Ylisse she was used to. She felt something bump into her and saw Toon pushing a cart. "Alright so here is the plan I'll go first and you push then you get a turn deal?" he said getting into the front of the cart.
"No its fine you can stay on" She tells him and started to push the cart while he just shrugged his shoulders.
"Your loss," he says plainly as Lucina went into the isle that said "Snacks" it was long and the selves were tall looking to be some where around fifteen feet. Lucina kept pushing the cart scanning through the items for the things she needed while Toon was in front pretending to drive a car. He eventually started getting bored at how slow the cart was moving and turned to protest. "Come on you call this pushing my grandma can push faster then this!" he protested, but instead of turning around to find Lucina, Sumari Gorah was standing there instead making Toon yelp.
"You want Push, I'll give you Push!" Gorah shouts and kicked the cart with all his might and Toon bolted down the isle at extreme speeds. Lucina returned to where she left the cart with a few boxes of crackers only to see it zooming down the isle at blinding speeds and Toon's screams echoing down the isle.
"TOON!" she exclained and chased after the speeding cart, Toon however seemed to be enjoying the ride and started to make the most of it, he extended his hand and let all kind of snacks fall into the cart crating a massive pile. Lucina tried to run after him as the cart was headed strait towards a pillar but she actually managed to pull the cart to stop just inches away from the pillar. Toon jumped off the pile of snacks on top of the cart and raised his hands in the air.
"Whoo! Let's do that again!" he exclaims but Lucina just gave him a glare and he slowly lowered his arms she then looked at the pile of snacks and then the list.
"Toon over half of the stuff you have in there is not on the list!" she told him scanning through the list again.
"So, do you actually want to spend hours looking for what's on the freaking list?" he tells her. She looked at the long list again the stretched to her feet and beyond while Toon just gave her a grin and walked away, she was going to protest but against her better judgment she didn't.
"I know I'm going to regret this later, I just know it" she says to herself while following after the little Hylian.
Meanwhile with Raven and Dark Pit...
These two where in charge of frozen foods and vegetation, Raven was pushing the cart down a large isle scanning through the list for things she still needed to get, all the while Dark Pit was following closely behind looking bored out of mind. "Alright Dark Pit we just need a ham and I think we just about finish this isle" she said turning to face him.
"Yeah whatever fine" he responded and walked further down the isle looking for a ham. He actually found a six pound ham and reached out to get it but then someone else reached for it too. They both separated from the ham and glared at each other "look pal I found this thing first so buzz off!" he said reaching for the ham again only to get his hand slapped by the other person.
"No I Ghirahim saw this delicious delicacy first, and no one tells me to buzz of, so now piss off kid go play!" he said reaching for the ham but Dark Pit smacked his hand away.
"Oh you want to do this!" Giraham said glaring at the dark angel who got up in his face.
"Hell yeah I want to do this bring it!" Dark Pit responded, and they both got in a fighting stance ready to pummel each other. Then they heard that countdown so common in smash battles oddly.
3.
2.
1.
GO!
BUT, Before Dark Pit could do anything he was dragged away by Raven. "Come Dark Pit it dose not matter we can easily find something to replace the ham." She says as Ghirahim stuck his tongue out at Dark Pit as he got dragged away and Dark Pit gave him the bird.
"Yeah that's right kid listen to your grandmother" he says with a sly grin spread across his face. Raven Stopped dead in her tracks and instantly spun around. There seemed to be a fire lit in her eyes as she glared at the fiend.
"You know what screw it!" she said as she approached Ghirahim rolling up her sleeves...
Then loud screams of pain and agony echoed down the isle as Dark Pit made a mental note not to get on this chicks bad side...
She returned moments later with the ham in hand and bloody hands "lets go." She says bluntly handing Dark Pit the ham and walking away.
"Yes ma'am" Dark Pit responds immediately and followed after the tactician away from the isle as she scanned through her list for the remaining items.
Meanwhile with Shulk and C. Falcon...
And these two are in charge of canned and boxed foods, Falcon was pushing the cart while Shulk examined what to get from the many rows of cans that there was and started asking Falcon for approval.
"CAN OF BEANS!?"
"THROW IT IN! ! !"
"CAN OF CANS!?"
"THRIW IT IN! ! !"
"CAN OF TUNA!?"
"THROW IT IN! ! !"
"CAN OF DOG FOOD!?"
"THROW IT IN! ! !"
"CAN OF MOTOR OIL!?
"THROW IT IN! ! !"
"CAN OF CORN!?"
"THROW IT IN! ! !"
"CAN OF TOMATO SAUCE!?"
"THROW IT IN! ! !"
"CAN OF GOOEY STUFF!?"
"THROW IT IN! ! !"
"CANS OF SODA!?"
"THROW IT IN! ! !"
"CAN OF HOT SAUCE!?"
"THROW IT IN! ! !"
"CAN OF THIS STUFF?!
"THROW IT IN! ! !"
"CAN OF FUDGE!?"
"THROW IT IN! ! !"
"CAN OF FRUIT!?"
"THROW IT IN! ! !"
After a while of this they reached the boxed food section, and they switched around and this time Falcon was asking the questions. Completely ignoring the childish screams coming from one side of the store, quickly followed by screams of pain from the other side of the store.
"BOXES OF CANS!?"
"THROW EM IN! ! !"
"BOXES OF SPAGETTI!?"
"THROW EM IN! ! !"
"BOXES OF CAT FOOD!?"
"THROW EM IN! ! !"
"BOXES OF PANCAKE MIX!?"
"THROW EM IN! ! !"
"BOXES OF ICE CREAM CONES!?"
"THROW EM IN! ! !"
"BOXES OF COOKIES!?"
"THROW EM IN! ! !"
"BOXES OF SMASHER SHAPED WAFFLES!?"
"OH HEALL YA THROW EM IN! ! !"
"BOXES OF ANNIHILATION!?
"THROW EM IN! ! !"
"BOXES OF BOXES!?"
"THROW EM IN! ! !"
"BOXES OF GIANT DINNER ROLLS!?"
"THROW EM IN! ! !"
"BOXES OF UNKNOWN CONTENTS!?"
"THROW EM IN! ! !"
"KIDS IN THE WAY!?"
"THROW EM IN! ! !"
Meanwhile back with Lucina and Toon Link…
The duo was currently heading towards the front to where the cashiers are to pay off their stuff. That is until they walked past the food court and a bunch of people dressed like Toon waved at him. "Well, well if it isn't Timothy you hooligan what brings you here?" one of them said he was a very tall man a little stocky too.
"Hello, hello what's all this then? What are you lot doing here you rascals?" Toon responded and approached the tall man and gave him a firm handshake. He lead Toon to the table and offered to join in their game but Lucina had no clue what it was, and of course for some reason Toon agreed immediately taking a seat and laughing with the rest. There was a twig thin man and another one who looked full bodied and the last one who was strangely silent and had a lock of silver hair covering his eyes. Lucina had a massive frown and set the cart aside and stomped over to Toon Link and grabbed him by the ear.
"Hey Timothy did you forget we have somewhere to be," she said about to pull him out of his chair that is until one of them spoke up.
"We'll Timothy and who might this be then?" the tall man asked Toon who shifted around nervously.
Toon Link completely forgot Lucina was there and started to panic, "oh this yeah we'll this us um..." he began while tugging on his collar nervously trying to come up with an answer. He looked towards the door and saw a family heading out and a little girl getting carried by her father. "Oh well this you lot, ill have you know will be my daughter, hm yes quiet tis indeed" he responded immediately afterwards.
"WHAT!? YOU TOON-" She began but didn't quiet finish as Toon threw a big bag of coins in her arms.
"Now, now dear daddy's busy why don't you be a sport and go buy some of those sweets you like some much hm, jolly good then!" he said waving her off. "I'll warn you lot I never lost before and that hasn't changed" he said taking his seat once more. Lucina tried to protest but the table was too noisy so she just growled in frustration and stormed off.
Meanwhile back with Raven and Dark Pit…
Raven and Dark Pit were currently on their last isle after getting the last thing off of the list. Not only that but they where currently in an argument. "Dark Pit it's too big, it won't fit, stop trying to force it in!" Raven said bluntly while watching the dark angel try to forcefully shove the ham into the cart.
"Nonsense there's always room!" he exclaims placing the ham in the cart only for it to roll off, he tried placing it in different location but no matter where he placed it, it always fell off. After a while of that he just started to punch the items in the cart.
"See I told you, you're just going to have to carry it" she told him with an amused look on her face.
He turned around to give her an unamused look but then looked up as an item caught his attention. One that will help with his dilemma and a huge grin spread across his face. He flew up and came back down with said item and Raven just gave him a 'seriously' look.
"There's no way in hell I'm going along with that!" she told him crossing her arms and turning her head.
"Ah ah ah, don't forget you actually owe me, because if I wasn't here you wouldn't have gotten half the stuff on that list" he said with his grin growing.
"How?!" she exclaims but didn't finish as he flew up towards the top of the selves that where unreachable got the last item on the list and came back down his grin bigger then ever. She just sighed in defeat and extended her arm for the said item oh what she wouldn't give for a pair of wings right now…
Dark Pit was proudly walking to the side of the cart he was a genius he thought to himself. All the while Raven was in the back with a large frown on her face. She had a baby carrier strapped around her chest with a ham in it whenever someone stared she gave them death glares. They finally make it to the front where they were waiting to purchase their items while Dark Pit was snickering…
Meanwhile back with C. Falcon and Shulk…
The two Smashers have actually gotten so much items that they had to push two carts now. Thing is these weren't like normal carts they where 7 feet long and 5 feet wide, wow, I know and they had two of them full of junk. They were both currently laughing pulling their carts until they saw the isle empty and the end like a mile away. They both faced each other with competitive glares and then started zooming down the isle at top speeds. They even failed to notice the two little kids on top of the mountain of food enjoying the race they even started ramming their carts together. Shulk threw a box of waffle cones at Falcons face and Falcon threw a plastic can of pudding at Shulk's head. They both make it to the front and the race ended in a tie both were panting and turned to glare at each other and then broke into a fit of laughter. They both gave each other a firm handshake and then glared at each other once again and started to arm wrestle. Even ignoring the fact that fellow Smashers were arguing 20 rows down or the commotion in the food court.
Meanwhile back with Lucina and Toon Link…
Lucina though she never say this but she was in love, never before had there been something like this in her life, she knew it, it was love at first sight. The bag of coins sat at the table nearby almost completely empty now, Lucina herself was wolfing down little pastry sweets that tasted like nothing she ever had before. Behind her was a large sign reading "Grunty's Pastries" and a flock of people in line waiting to buy some. Toon Link approached shortly after with his pockets stuffed full of money his 'friends' at the table staring in disbelieve. He cleared his throat but Lucina just kept on wolfing down the sweets like there was no tomorrow. "Uh dear we must be going now I have important business to attend to, yes" he said and when he reached to grab her arm she bit him. She turned her back to him and continued eating the sweets "you dare?!" he Exclaimed and whacked her on the head with his cane.
She snapped out of her trance and turned around looking confused and wiped the frosting off her face "Toon?" She says confused looking down at the little hylian rubbing his hand and glaring up at her. "what happened?" she said puzzled as he scoffed.
"What happened?! I tell you what happened! You bit me you savage beast!" He exclaimed in a huff and crossed his arms.
"Toon I honestly don't know how I got here last I remember I ate a little cupcake an old lady gave me." She told him holding her head as if she was trying to remember.
"Whatever we have to go lets just get the cart and leave" he said walking off towards the cart. Lucina looked around again and saw all the people buying pastries looking like a bunch of zombies she stood up and followed Toon. And in the corner a bear with a backpack was standing there holding a newspaper with eye holes cut out and a red bird poking out every so often.
"Would you like to try a cupcake?" The old lady came back offering her a free sample again seeing she wasn't in a trance like the others.
"Hey you're that old lady that gave me that weird tiny cake!" Lucina said crossing her arms and eyeing her suspiciously. "You're making all these people forcefully buy them!" She said motioning towards the line of zombie and the old lady just glanced at them.
"Nonsense dear, try it yourself to see" the old lady responds handing Lucina another cupcake. The person with the newspaper approached and the old lady turned to him and showed them the pastries. "Sir, would you like to-" she started but immediately stopped when she saw the bear lower the newspaper "Crap…" She finished. "Banjo!" The old lady exclaims and spun around changing from her kitchen attire to a witch's attire. She began blasting at the bear she called Banjo with her staff while he used the bird to fire off explosive eggs at the witch. Lucina just backed away confused and then tumbled backwards when the cupcake grew legs and crawled away. They both took off to the kitchen where a loud commotion was heard within and Lucina just stood up and hurried off. The zombified people turned back to normal too and and start to leave the place resuming to what they were doing previously. Completely ignoring the commotion going on in the back too, Lucina just speed walked away at that point.
Lucina catched up to Toon getting into line at one of the registers and she was actually holding her stomach feeling really sick, Toon looked up at her "what's wrong with you?" he asked raising an eyebrow.
"I think, I may, have had too much sweets..." Lucina groaned turning pale and holding her hand over her mouth.
"You think?! You almost cleaned out my entire smash fund I worked hard for those coins you know!" Toon responds lifting his nose in the air and walking away…
Meanwhile back with Raven and Dark Pit…
Who were once again arguing after they had bagged all the items and the cashier turned to face them again "That'll be $345.56 please" she said. Raven had turned to Dark Pit and he turned to her and raise an eye brow.
"The hell you looking at me for!?" he said crossing his arms.
"I gave you the card you moron!" she snapped back back.
"Nu-uh!"
"Yeah-huh!"
"False!"
"True!"
"Irrelevant"
"Relevant!
"Inconclusively!"
"Conclusively!"
"Nope!"
"Yup!"
"NO!"
"YES!"
"I don't even have pockets!" Dark Pit exclaims flailing his arms up in annoyance. Raven was about to say something back then stopped and started going through her pockets. And then when she reached in the pockets inside her coat she found it and took it out laughing nervously. The cashier took it and paid off the items and Raven was about to walk away when Dark Pit stood in her way grinning and held up the baby carrier. She was about to protest when he lifted up his hand "you lost the card remember" he said as his grin grew and she hung her head down in defeat.
Meanwhile back with C. Falcon and Shulk…
They had finished bagging all their items and Shulk paid off the cashier, the cashier then turned to the duo "would you like a receipt?" he asked. C. Falcon responded by latching on to the cashier and then separating from him with an explosion "YES!" he shouted. Not too soon after it felt like a hundred pair of eyes were on them and they sweat dropped slowly backing away. A little girl stood on top of a cart squealing and pointing at them "SMASHERS!" she screamed and a bunch of fan girls rushed at them. They both dashed out of there with their carts at full speed with a large crown of fan girls hot on their heels.
Meanwhile outside...
Raven and Dark Pit where walking back to the van but stopped when they saw it getting towed and police all over the area. They were soon met up by Toon and a very pale bluenette "Lucina what's wrong with you?" Raven asked in concern. Lucina was about to respond but turned green and took Toon's hat and puked in it as everyone else cringed. It was a colorful display of gooey mush all mixed with variant shades of brown.
"Ugh hey thanks for sharing!" Toon said putting the monocle in his pocket and put his fancy clothing in a bag going back to his green tunic and setting his green hat on his head. "Don't need these getting dirty as well" he said and then one of the officers spotted and pointed at Toon.
"THERE HE IS GET HIM!" He shouts and a whole squad of policeman start rushing towards his direction.
"OH CRAP!" Toon exclaims hiding behind Lucina, C. Falcon and Shulk ran into them shortly after and they actually stopped to laugh at Raven for a bit too. However a loud commotion behind them reminded them of their dilemma.
"GUYS WE HAVE A HUGE PROBLEM!" Shulk says motioning behind him to the large flock of fan girls advancing towards them.
Raven then turned to Falcon "Douglas you parked on a fire lane!" she said glaring at the F-Zero pilot, who just rubbed the back of his head with a sheepish smile. The cops and fan girls were quickly approaching boxing them in.
"EVERY SMASHER FOR THEMSELVES!" Toon shouted and was about to take off but Raven grabbed him by the collar and lifted him up.
"I don't think so mister!" she said glaring at him and shook him a little.
"This is it we're dead I'm too young I want to keep seeing the light of day!" Shulk exclaims suddenly starting to panic and was trembling and whimpering.
The smashers huddled together in a circle preparing for the worst, the enemy slowly drew closer this seemed like a dark day indeed for our heroes and heroines…
That is until a red and blue bus made its way through the crowd and stopped in front of the smashers. The window at the driver's seat rolled down to reveal the red clad plumber. "Quick get-a in!" he said and the back door opened and out jumped Ike, Lucario, Sheik, and Marth and helped the Smashers load the groceries until another problem popped up, there was two little kids in one of the carts. "Uhhh guys who are they?" Ike said pointing at the toddlers. Everyone turned to face the Monado wielder and F-Zero pilot who just stood there with sheepish smiles. None too soon a woman came out of the store with a worried expression "Mommy!" the little kids said and took off.
"We'll that solves that problem," Ike said before getting tackled by a fan girl.
"Crap hurry they catched up!" Shulk said they turned and saw the bus leaving.
"Last call for the smash express anyone not on board will be left behind!" Dark Pit yelled at them from inside the bus with a grin of amusement.
They all turned and look at one another before they dashed like mad after the bus, Ike specifically running ahead of everyone screaming like a girl. When they approached Sheik helped them get on board all but one. They all turned when they heard a loud shriek as Toon Link had apparently tripped over his own bag of clothes and fell. Ike and Marth were ready to jump out and help until he disappeared into the sea of fan girls. "What are you doing we have to go help!" Lucina told them making her way to the back of the bus until Marth placed a hand on her shoulder and shook his head "But?! He…"
"When this happens it's out of our control, but its protocol we can't help him now, if someone goes down Master Hand doesn't want more to get dragged down" Sheik said from the front leaning to the side with her arms crossed.
Lucina wanted to go anyways but Ike stopped her. "Its-a to late-a we must-a go" Mario said from the front although he had doubt he was after all the leader of the six so when he said something it was for the best. That is until Lucina saw a little hand poke out of the sea of fan girls and then a head. None to soon Toon appeared out and made a run for it his face showing nothing but fear his clothes were all ripped and he had lipstick marks all over his face. Lucina instantly jumped out of the bus and ran to help out the little Hylian whose stubby little legs weren't helping him evade his pursuers.
"Such a noob" Dark Pit says bluntly from the back of the bus with a grin of amusement. Toon Link was caught again but Lucina managed to take him away from his captors, she threw a smoke ball on the floor and that actually temporarily stopped the fan girls. She picked up Toon and made a mad dash for the bus the fan girls managed to get through the smoke and continued their pursuit. Toon link was throwing banana peels at them. He as pulling out of his bag but the last one he managed to drop and trip Lucina with him and they both went down.
Lucina stood up and gave the little Hylian a glare and he just laughed nervously. He was then grabbed from behind and dragged away but Lucina managed to grab his legs. Lucina was pulling on his legs to get him back but a fan girl was pulling on his arms to take him away. His little boots ended up falling off and Lucina fell backwards his gauntlets had also came off and the fan girl also fell backwards. Lucina quickly stood up and took off with Toon Link in her arms before the fan girl had a chance to stand up, Toon had actually started making faces at his pursuers. They were about to catch up again and the bus was too far away and she was getting tired and it seemed hopeless. She started to slow down after a while she wanted to keep going but her legs were giving up on her, Toon noticed and started panicking telling her to go faster. Lucina tried to keep going but it was useless that is until she found herself flying. She looked up and saw Dark Pit holding them both and flew in through the back door of the bus and crash landed with the other two smashers.
"Lucina that was reckless we could have lost you back there!" Raven exclaims in a panic.
"I… had… to… do… some… thing" Lucina responds trying to catch her breath.
"Your lucky none of the other Elite Six are here you could've gotten into serious trouble for that!" Shulk said placing a comforting hand on her shoulder and patting it. But then stiffened when he heard Mario clear his throat from the front. They all turned to see him staring at them through the review mirror. Marth and Raven gave him pleading looks on behalf of Lucina while he just sighed.
"I'll-a let it-a slide this-a once" he said focusing on the road again while everyone else let out sighs of relief, except Dark Pit who was in the back minding his own business. The rest of the journey was pretty quiet when they make it to the smash mansion and more Smashers came to help unload the supplies. As for the shoppers they headed inside for some much needed rest, Lucina herself headed towards her room and opened the door and threw herself on her bed. She felt her eyelids getting heavy and started to slowly close on her until everything went dark and she fell asleep...
*later*
She opened her eyes after hearing a loud sound and sees Dark Pit opening a large box and taking many things out of it. But what had her curious was the large flat panel he pulled out of the box she looked at the box again reading "40 Inch flat screen TV" on it. He attached something to the wall and hanged the TV there he turns and sees Lucina sitting on her bed with a confused look on her face. "Hey check out the new gadget we got for our room pretty cool huh!" he says as he finished setting up making sure the TV firmly held on the wall.
"Alright but where did it come from?" she said staring at all the things scattered on the floor.
"Well Master Hand actually gathered us and told us about installing these TVs into the room, all to watch battles from the comfort of our rooms. It also shows the roster and who is fighting who along many other things. The Six showed everyone how to work them too but your going to have to read the manual since you were passed out," he says with a grin.
"Alright sure where is it I prefer not to be left out" she tells him, he approached and dropped a manual on her lap the size of a dictionary with a large grin on his face. She just looked down at it in disbelief "This?! I have to read all this just to understand how to work that thing?!" She exclaims. He nodded his head while the grin on his face grew and she just sighed and threw the book aside. Dark Pit finished setting up and sat on his bed he turned it on and a roster displayed showing the days scheduled brawls.
Marth VS Shulk.
Luigi VS little Mac.
Palutena Vs Rosalina.
Raven VS Zelda.
Duck hunt VS Bowser jr.
Sheik VS Samus.
Mario VS Bowser.
Toon Link VS Villager.
And the last battle was Lucina Vs Link...
She had a scheduled fight and when she looked they where right after Lunch. She wasn't too worried though Link didn't seem like a tough opponent, he was just sort of a goof ball and a very clumsy one at that. She then heard Dark Pit whistle, "Whoo man you got Link you're in for one heck of a battle this guys pretty good. He didn't make it into the elite six for nothing, believe me he fought Palutena outside of smash to a standstill, though it was obvious he had the upper hand." He said and headed out the door snickering.
"So he managed to fight a goddess to a standstill and gain the upper hand, I wonder why the act is he trying to throw his opponents off?" she thought to herself. The bell sounded throughout the mansion signaling that it was time for Lunch.
Later...
Lucina was sitting at the swordsman table in awkward silence as they talked about the current battles that were going to take place for the day. All but Link, when she asked however they all told her he went to train for the up coming battle so it seemed he took his battles pretty seriously. When Lunch was over Master Hand told the Smashers to head to the arena for the upcoming battles the first up was Mario Vs Bowser the whole arena was erupting with cheers as the ultimate rival battle was underway. Both smashers appeared at separate sides of the area that form into the battlefield stage only one thought going through one if not both of them. Bowser gave a sinister grin he was ready for this, time to finally put Mario down his strength had almost tripled since the last tournament, the countdown then started.
3.
2.
1.
GO… … …
Define your meaning of war,To me it's what we do when we're bored.I feel the heat coming off of the blacktop,And it makes me want it more.Because I'm hyped up out of control. If it's a fight, I'm ready to go. I wouldn't put my money on the other guy,If you know how to know what I know.
It's been a long time coming, And the tables turned around.'Cause one of us is going, One of us is going down!I'm not running, It's a little different now.'Cause one of us is going,One of us is going down!
Define your meaning of fun,To me it's when we're getting done.I feel the heat coming off of the blacktop, So get ready for another one.Let's take a trip down memory lane, (Do you remember me?)The words circling in my brain, (And what you did to me.)You can't treat this like another all the same,But don't cry like a Bitch when you feel the pain!
It's been a long time coming, And the tables turn around. 'Cause one of us is going,One of us is going down.I'm not running, It's a little different now.'Cause one of us is going,One of us is going down.
This is hardly worth fighting for,But it's a little petty shit that I can't ignore.When my fist hits your face and your face hits the floor,It'll be a long time coming,But you got the message now.'Cause I was never going, Yeah you're the one that's going down!
One of us is going down,I'm not running. It's a little different now. 'Cause one of us is going,One of us is going down.
ONE OF US IS GOING DOWN!
Although most couldn't believe it Mario lost 5 to 1 in a stock battle. Mario never lost this badly he always managed to beat his opponent easy. Or at least when he lost he was always one stock behind unless it was a one stock battle. So of course Mario was shamed in that battle still he clapped for his rival that beat him almost effortlessly the crowd was even left in shock, Bowser of course was savoring his victory over his life long rival certainly all the training he did paid off his strength super tripled since the last tournament. Back in the Smasher reserved area of the tournament they too all stayed silent left in total shock over the battle that just took place. Mario came in soon after he put on a smile but it didn't take a genius to know it was forced, Peach and Luigi left with Mario out of the room shortly after trying to comfort the plumber.
The next few battles were one stock and carried on like normal. Marth won against Shulk, Luigi lost to little Mac, Palutena lost to Rosalina, Raven won against Zelda. Then it was the moment Lucina dreaded her name was called out along with Link it was time for her battle against the green hero. Robin and Raven walked with her to the portal room, she entered and was teleported to the arena while the crowd roared with excitement. Link appeared shortly after and the stage turned to the Bridge of Eldin. Link looked different too, his normal goofiness was not present he had a serious look of determination. Lucina felt like if she was there with someone else. He gave her a nod before the countdown started but for some reason it intimidated her.
3.
2.
1.
GO!
The Smashers quickly dashed at each other and their weapons clashed Link did a spin attack that forced Lucina to back away. He threw his boomerang but she dodged it and dashed at him but he rolled backwards and started to charge his forward smash. Lucina was confused he was too far away for that to actually cause any damage but then she felt herself moving towards him, it was the boomerang he threw. When she made it to striking distance he struck and before she landed he threw a bomb to increase her damage. She stood up and saw her opponent dashing towards her she sidestep his attack and countered with her forward smash. Then the orb that everyone new too well will guarantee victory appeared. Link threw his boomerang forward and jumped over it letting it drag Lucina away. Lucina let out a frustrated growl and dashed after the green clad hero who slashed at the smash ball that flew in her direction. He throws a bomb and some arrows at it but it still didn't break, Lucina jumps up in the air charging her neutral special and released it when she was right in front of it. The orb shattered and she was surrounded by a glowing aura as she landed back on the platform. Link had charge his bow fully and let go of the arrow, Lucina side stepped and activated her final smash dashing at full speeds towards her opponent. "this is it I have this battle in the bag I beat Link!" she thought to herself excitedly. But at the last millisecond Link just easily side stepped her attack a smirk across his face. Lucina could only stare in shock and disbelieve, "there's no way?!" she exclaims to herself. Link hit her with his forward smash making Lucina fly across half the stage and crashed in the middle. Lucina slowly stood up as Link was preparing for another attack but they both stopped at the sound of a horn being blown from behind Link. Lucina saw a strange creature riding a large boar storming down the bridge Link jumped to avoid it as Lucina barely managed to side step. She turned around and saw the creature drop something she knew all too well to be something hazardous, as she was told about stage hazards and bosses. She quickly jumped and then the bridge she was previously on collapsed she tried to make it to the other side but then saw a shadow go over her, she looked up and saw Link coming down on her with his blade. He makes contact and she goes strait down her heart started pounding as she looked down at the bottomless pit under her and disappeared in a flash of multicolored lights.
And the winner is… Link!
Lucina came out of the portal a little disappointed how could she have been so careless she could have managed. But in the end it was no hope Link was good she barely managed to keep up with him and so far theirs was the shortest battle. Raven and Robin where in the portal Room when she appeared and greeted her telling her she did an amazing job defending against Link like that. Link stepped out and approached too with his ever so cheerful smile. "Hey Lucina great battle, been a while since I had a worthy opponent!" he says approaching for a handshake and tripped right in front of them. He falls flat on his face and slid across the floor till he was at their feet. All three of them just stared and sweat dropped, he just stands up as if nothing happened and grabbed her hand and shook it.
"thanks I had fun as well" she tells him with a smile and he smiles and nods like an idiot.
"That's cool I got to run, see you guys later!" he says waving at them and turned only to run into a pillar face first. He separates from it rubbing his nose and turned around with a sheepish smile before he took off. "And I lost to him, but I know his little secret now he's trying to make people think he's stupid by doing stupid things. And it's all to throw his opponent off that's pretty smart I though he wasn't even going to put up a good fight well played Link." She thought to herself as they were walking away and headed back towards the Smasher reserved seats. The last of the battles continued on after that Duck hunt Lost to Bowser jr, Sheik lost to Samus and Toon Link won against Villager, soon everyone left the arena taking about the exciting battles that took place that day.
Later on when it was time for dinner Lucina and Marth were once again enjoying their meal outside; it was nice peaceful and quiet a slight breeze blowing as well the moon full. He was exchanging stories once again but about the good times he had back home, when they finished Marth asked her if she wanted to take a walk she of course agreed. And then asked about the battle with Link which seemed to throw Lucina off.
"What do you mean you were there as well?" she asked a little confused.
"I mean did you feel over confident in yourself, like if you thought Link would be no match for you" he replied shortly after.
"No, I, how? …" was all she managed to blurt out. Marth however just chuckled.
"I made the same mistake back in the second tourney" he replies with a slight shrug.
"Oh so he's always been doing the act" she said afterwards.
"Yeah since the start of the second tournament, everyone thought he was stupid and a complete moron. But then the fighting began he instantly became top tier completely throwing is opponents off when he dropped the act. I of course was his first victim back in melee I thought to myself how could I loose to this joker. And that had got to be the biggest mistake of my life I didn't take the battle seriously and lost miserably. But In Brawl however the act did work at first but then Meta Knight took him down." He explains as he stopped in front of a pond in the middle of the forest.
"And now I was his first Victim" she said staring down at her reflection in puddle.
"Well look at it from his perspective, word is he did horrible back in the first tournament. He was silent and dead serious, he hardly ever talked let alone laughed, everyone took him too serious and when they fought against him they gave it all they had. He wasn't that experienced himself as he didn't face that tough of challenge as his later reincarnations. Before you ask yes he is reborn every so often, but when he comes here he regains all his previous memories. So coming back he trained harder then ever and completely turned his personally around to not face that humiliation of the first tournament again." Marth explained to her and she nods while still looking at her reflection in the calm sparkling water.
"I see" she responds deep in thought, she then looks up and saw two glowing purple orbs staring at her...
*Back in the inside*
Everyone was enjoying their meal laughing and taking with one another, Lucario was heading back to his table when his eyes suddenly glowed briefly. He dropped his plate and headed out the cafeteria in a rush, everyone turned to look at each other with a confused look except for the six who also left after the aura pokemon...
*outside*
Lucina heard a sinister laugh in her head and movement all around her and she was confuse and kind of scared. Both she and Marth had their blades drawn and were back to back looking around. "Marth what's going on?!" she exclaims in a hushed voice, fear getting the best of her. But Marth knew exactly what was going on, they both look up and see a silhouette in the moon suddenly land right in front of them as they both quickly backed away. Lucina stood there as Marth got in front of her glaring at the crouching creature in front of them. It slowly stood up and extended its arm with eyes glowing a dark shade of purple. Lucina could only stare wondering what exactly was going on as she heard the sinister laughter again coming from the creature…
Oooh cliff hanger, Ok that's it for now ladies and jets, so my later chapters don't have much to fix, and just a few things to add that I wanted. So the next chapters should be coming out more faster now, meaning I should get back to where I left off last time. Good news for all my old readers too who have been anxiously waiting for far too long. I officially finish collage this year so I have that going for me, well then I guess I'll catch you all later, Toodles! (* ^∀^)ﾉｼ
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