That was a nice and much needed break. I'm back in the new year with a new chapter! Thank you TheShadowStarr23 and Ecenema for suggestions! I will not be needing anymore suggestions, so thank you all who have contributed in this story so far! There's a lot of my love in this! Enjoy!
And they proceeded. The spikes finally stopped following behind. Who knows what was becoming of Fox or where those who had fallen down were at. All the smashers knew was that there was only one way to go. Down another narrow hall. Except this prank was different. There was torches on the walls with an instruction manual on the wall. Pit grabbed it before anyone else saw, picking one of the torches off the wall and reading it aloud. (turn off the lights, make it dark. Campish)
"Guys, as usual, I found something. It looks to be the instruction manual for something. Possibly how to navigate through this tunnel. Not going to lie, I'm starting to hate this place." his voice echoed off the walls. There was panting and deep breathing all around. It was cold in the dark room.
"Hold on boy." Snake called out. "Give us a minute to catch our breaths. It's pretty chilly in here." he said, breathing to see white air coming out. They rested against the walls on the floor. For some reason, the smashers crowded around during the break, possibly for warmth. Pit held up the torch.
"I'm not sure how much more I can take." he sighed.
"We should almost be there. I don't see how much longer this could go. Obviously, Toon Link and Ness have put a lot of work into this." Corrin replied. Roy was snoozing lightly on his shoulder.
"It's not so bad. I-In a way, it's actually kind of fun." Lucas reassured. "I d-don't think that Toon and Ness would do this to be mean."
"Doesn't matter whether they are doing it to be mean or not. If I find them and beat their asses and I have good intentions still doesn't make it okay." Link said. Lucas looked defeated. Pit patted him on his back. Samus and Snake were slightly farther away from the group.
"It is pretty cold in here." Snake said to himself. Samus shook her head.
"No. Phendrana Drifts is cold. It's fine in here. Did crawling out of a microwave make you adapt to warm temperature?"
"No. And that's not funny Samus." He was smoking a cigarette.
"Sorry." The two stood in silence for a bit. "Hey Snake?"
"Yeah?"
"Do you really think that Master Hand will let you stay? I know he's a man, well, hand of his word, but to allow everyone else back to the mansion It seems like a lot. And I don't want you to leave." Snake looked up at the ceiling, blowing out smoke.
"I don't know Samus. But I do believe it'll all work out. I just got this feeling. And I don't like it, but I know that everything's going to turn out fine. And I don't mean by some fate bullshit. I think it's because I won't settle for less. We've got a good thing going on. We're a good team. And because of that, I think that we're going to be okay." It was silent again. "It was pretty funny when you swallowed those laxatives." Samus punched him.
"Fuck you it wasn't asshole. Go straight to hell." she bitterly turned away from him.
"Come on Sammy. Don't be such a bad sport. I was kidding around."
"No."
"Look, I get it. It's been a long time since I've seen you. Tournament Brawl was fun as hell. But, on the occasion that I don't stay, or I end up leaving early, don't mope. You still have access to-" Samus heard somebody say 'Friends With Benefits' and whipped out her gun so fast that the air nearly exploded. "Samus! Ignore them! This is important." Her eyes shifted to his face, gun still aiming at Marth's head. "Like I said, in case I'm gone, give me a call. I'm always here. I'm on break, so I'm not needed at, well, 'home' I guess." he told her. It may not look it, but Samus was reassured. And happy. Snake felt what looked to be a dust cloud poke him with something sharp. He grunted and kicked out, striking something and sending it across the room. The crowd erupted in laughter when Young Link took the stone mask off and began rubbing his face.
"Ow!" he mumbled. Snake growled.
"Now is not the time for that shit!" He yelled. He got off the wall and approached the group. "Who's idea was it?"
"Moving on!" Link got up, grabbed a torch and began to walk down the hall. Seeing that anything was better than an angry Snake, they got up and followed suite.
"Guys wait!" Pit called out. They turned around. "Under the instruction manual, there was a button."
"No motherfu-" many people called out. "We've pissed around with the buttons enough! Leave that shit alone!" Pit didn't like being yelled at. It sort of hurt his feelings. He was only trying to be helpful.
Later down the hall was a wall (and it rhymes!). Like a dead end. The had been walking for a good six or seven minutes now. The stone wall was just as dull as the others. It was really cold now, breath turning to frost as they all took breaths. Lucario looked back at the sulking Pit after searching for a way through the wall.
"Pit, what does the instruction manual say?" he asked.
"It's in another language. I don't know what it says." Dr. Mario took the piece of paper from him. Mewtwo, who had been telekinetically carrying Cloud, dropped him. Cloud started groaning and slowly began to wake up. Robin was still struggling against the ropes.
"Ugh...Wh-where am I?"
"Shut the hell up. The doctor's trying to think." Snake said. Cloud quickly got off the ground. He didn't remember what happened. It was peculiar for him to just randomly be lying on the floor. Mewtwo was staring daggers. Anyway, Dr. Mario studied the form, possibly reading it. He then crumpled it up and threw it on the ground in frustration.
"Every-a damn thing is just another endurance test!" he cried.
"Well, what did the note say?" Lucario asked. Everybody was staring at the Doctor. It was a lot of pressure. Be he's fine.
"Well, since I'm a doctor, I have-a learned a couple of languages in-a order to deal with -a patients who didn't speak my language. I-a used to speak-a pure Italian! But I have-a learned English, Spanish, French, Vietnamese, and-a Russian. It wasn't-a easy. But-a the note wasn't-an instruction manual. It was just a taunt message." he said. The note roughly translated to: IF YOU CAN READ THIS, YOU'RE NOT ESCAPING THIS HALL LOSERS!'. He told that to everyone.
"To hell with it!" Snake fussed. He began putting something together, pulling out retractable pieces out of his clothes. He then pulled out a giant, strange object. It looked like a cone except with the top cut off slightly. After he was finished, he put the missile into the gun and aimed it at the wall.
"Shit!"
"Puff!" Jigglypuff said over the radio. She had arrived at the entrance and was on her way to the group.
"Get down!" Link yelled, diving onto the ground.
"No Snake! Don't do it!" Samus warned. "They said we can't escape! Think smart, not raw fire-power!"
"Samus, I think I know what I'm doing." he said and fired the rocket. It flew straight at the dead-end. As it hit, the wall blinked blue and sent the rocket back at them. Snake's eyes widened. "Everybody RUN!"
"AH!"
"Shit! Again!"
"Roy get out of the way!" the ran over each other away from the rocket. The smashers tripped over each other, all landing on the ground. The missile flew over their heads, far to the other wall, which was closed. Link stood up.
"Gods that was close." he wiped the sweat off his forehead. Despite it being so cold, everyone's warm breaths in his face while cluttered together made him sweat a little. That and all of the excitement.
"Link, turn around!" Pit shouted.
"Hah! Real funny Pit. I'm not falling for that silly trick-"
"Get down you moron!" Corrin tackled him onto the ground, landing on Marth. The rocket flew over their heads again.
"Ouch! Get off!" Marth yelled. Link looked up at the rocket constantly bouncing off of the far walls, getting faster with each return.
"Guys, I'm scared..." Lucas said. They were trapped.
Toon Link
5:32pm
Boss Labs
Toon Link was watching the smashers progress on a giant screen. Ness was leaning on the chair Toon was sitting on. He was giggling to himself.
"Dude, all these years of planning has totally been worth it! I never thought we'd have pulled it off this well!" he smiled. Toon Link seemed to be thinking about something.
"Yeah...Doesn't feel right without Lucas."
"I understand how you feel, but I also think that he's made his decision. Besides, he's right there!"
"Yeah, duh. I know that. Should we help those guys out?" he asked, watching the missile bounce back and forth quickly.
"Nah they're fine."
"Somebody could get hurt."
"And?"
"Like, killed hurt."
"That one is not on us. That was Snake's fault. I'm not helping and I don't plan to. I'm more worried on what we're going to do with the smashers that we caught. You know, the ones who fell into the pit? They're already locked in a cage. Unconscious as well. No better time than now." he said. Toon Link hopped out of the chair and made his way to the back room.
"Well, I've had something special planned for them. It's not an ordinary prank, like many."
"Well, what is it?" Toon Link whispered in Ness' ear and his expression change to confusion. "Stop kidding around and tell me!"
"That's it!"
"Where'd you get them? You know, 'them'?"
"Oh, I had the three of them for a good while, ever since they were little. At least, age double by human years, since they were 16. Add three and multiply by two and...uh…"
"Divide 16 by 2 for 8 and then add three. 11 and then multiply by 2. 22 dude."
"Same thing. But they're getting old."
"Is the prank safe? At least, safer than the missile Snake shot?"
"Yeah, I had all their teeth removed and just fed them liquids. They've been happy for the most part."
"Interesting. Are you ready to set it up?"
"Yep." Toon Link replied.
"Who all fell into the hole?"
"I dunno. Hopefully at least four people."
"Well, let's go!" Ness said, opening a door and the two disappearing behind them. On the screen though…
Roy
5:38pm
Cooling Hall?
"Okay! To hell with this!" Roy frustratingly exclaimed and pulled out his paper replica sword. The missile was flying by and he threw it up. It didn't work and the paper sword fell to the ground. "Damn!"
"What were you trying to do?" Marth asked curiously.
"Blow up the missile."
"With it right next to us?" There was silence.
"Wow. You got a point." All of a sudden. Diddy Kong jumped up when the rocket passed and shot a peanut from his popgun. It hit the missile while far away and exploded it, sending debris and little shrapnel flying.
"Thank the heavens! Everyone is okay!" Pit laughed. A piece of debris pummeled Mario to the ground
"Nice job Diddy. I don't know why I didn't think of that." Samus added. The smashers slowly got off the ground. Zelda dusted off her dress. Peach swiped dust from her hair. Snake shot another missile-Waitaminute, that didn't happen. I meant Snake looked down with slight embarrassment.
"Snake!" Zelda confronted him. He raised an eyebrow.
"What?"
"You nearly killed us!"
"Yeah. And? How many times have you almost died thanks to tweedle dee and tweedle dum?"
"I-well-you…"
"Exactly. You should be more worried about us getting out of here." Robin popped up with excitement.
"Guys! I'm all better!" they were startled to hear her talk. Cloud went and deactivated Samus's rope gun.
"Well, good to kno-"
"Fooled you!" she said, lunging for Link. Captain Falcon chopped her in the back of the head and knocked her out.
"Huh, glad that's over."
"Thanks Falcon." Link said. He looked over at Zelda who refused to meet his gaze. Hey, do you think you could break the wall?" he asked. Captain Falcon looked over at the wall.
"I could try. Here goes nothing…" He ran to the wall, turned around and pulled back his fist. "FALCON," he slowly turned towards the wall. "PUN-" the wall reflected his fist into his own face. He flew back, tumbling over Yoshi and smashing into R.O.B.. Peach jumped over all of the bodies rolling on the ground. Snake stopped and took a good look at Falcon. Out cold.
"You guys remember that button we found? I suggest we hit it." Yoshi felt something moving under him. Robin woke up with her eyes low and frown on her face .
"Can you please get off of me?" Everybody looked suspicious. Except Link, who was frightened. She started feeling all around her body. "Wh-what the...where the hell is it?" She asked herself. Peach walked up with her sword, holding her hands out. It was kind of weighty in her opinion, but whatever. Robin alarmingly snatched it from her. "Hey! Give me that! Not cool!" she thought Peach took it from her while she was out. Mewtwo was extra suspicious. He jammed his hand towards the sword.
"!" he grunted.
"Yeah, he's got a point. How do you still have your sword?"
"Now that I think about it, Cloud, yours isn't paper. What are you two up to?" Zelda asked.
"I sleep with mine." she replied, not catching what she said. There was a quiet as a distant sprinting noise was heard. The far door opened and two smashers entered, one going as fast as they could. They stopped and watched him run all the way down the hall. He collapsed on the ground, panting and sweat dropping. He pointed at Robin through deep breaths.
"Wh-*huff* What are you? Some kind of *puff* fucking freak!?" Pittoo spat out and fell on the ground.
"Really? You ran all the way here for that?" Robin sighed with frustration. Snake was getting annoyed.
"To hell with the swords! Those two are in here somewhere and within our grasp and we're not going to get stuck in this hall! I'm pressing that button with or without you!" he trailed off, heading to the button that clearly told him not to push. Behind Dark Pit ran up King Dedede.
"Woah! Why you gotta run so fast?"
"Hey! Dedede! Where've you been?" Samus asked.
"Well, at first I went down to the edge of that there barrier on top! Then I found him and he was all bloody and beat up! So I brought him down to Master Hand and he fixed him up just fine! So we came down here!" he smiled proudly.
"What about the spikes?"
"Huh?"
"Fox? All of those spikes?"
"Oh! You mean those!" he said. "This here Dark Pit cut through them with his bow!"
"You're *huff* damn right I did." he got off the ground. Snake walked up to the button. He could hear the other smasher talking farther away. He scoffed and hit the button, although it clearly said, 'DO NOT PRESS'. There was a whirring noise Snake felt something move on the ground. The floor was moving backwards like a treadmill.
"Shit." He looked back to see the floor opening up. Fire began to spew upwards. He looked back with a troubled look on his face. "Hey Samus! I-uh...may have made a mistake!" he yelled. She looked back. There was Toon Link's voice over a speaker.
"Well well well! Looks like you couldn't figure out how to leave! Looks like we'll have to do this the hard way!" The floor began moving faster. Snake was running now. There was a grate over the fire pit so nobody would die. "Ever think to look on the back of the note? Too late now! All you have to do is run! For a long time! We won't make it easy though! We've prepared a present for you since you've made it this far! Ever heard of a banana cream pie?" Donkey Kong's mouth started watering.
"What is he talking about!?" Wario demanded to know. The ceiling opened and more mechanical hands came out. There was a small machine above each and every one of the hands. Out popped a pie.
"Shit!" Snake said louder as the treadmill floor sped up.
"Yep! I've made tons for those of you that has made it here! Sorry that it's a little chili in there! But by the looks of it, you won't be for much longer! Hey Mario, not sure if you're there or not, but talk about a treadmill grill am I right!? Enjoy the thrills!" the tape cut off and the treadmill was going faster. Samus angrily looked back at Snake.
"God damn it you asshole! Couldn't you wait ten seconds!?" she shouted. She picked the paper off of the ground as it was drifting backwards. She looked on the back and it read, 'DON'T LET IT GO OVER YOUR HEAD!" she looked at the very top of the wall at the high ceiling. There was a small switch with a troll face on it. Samus gritted her teeth and threw the paper down. She was running mildly fast.
"What the hell are we going to do!?" Roy asked. He was a little worried that he might get scorched. Cloud looked at the fire then stared intently at Robin.
"What? What!?"
"Are you kidding me!?" Pittoo fussed.
"I just got done running and now agai-mmph!" He got hit in the face by a pie. He tumbled backwards and slid under Pit. Pit slipped and fell on him.
"Hey! Watch it!"
"Get off of me you moron!" they were approaching the fire quickly. Pittoo pushed Pit off of him. "You twat! Come on!" he pulled Pit by his arm. Pit stumbled to his feet. Snake passed them up without a glance. He figured they'd be fine. They flung pies left and right, the hands that is. A pie flew right over Snake's head, hitting Pittoo again. "Gah!"
Corrin was running against the treadmill with full speed. He saw Roy falling behind and Marth speeding up. "Roy! Grab my hand!" He called as he jumped and stuck his arm into the wall. Roy dove and grabbed his hand.
"Thanks! What about those!?"
"Huh?" Corrin looked up to see six hundred pies heading his way. Not literally of course, but...uh..yeah. He gritted his teeth and flung Roy.
"Hey! What the hell!?" he flew through the air as Corrin launched himself off of the wall. He grabbed his leg and dodged the pies. He stuck his arm into the wall again. Roy was dangling.
"You okay?"
"Blood...rushing to mah brain…" he coughed out. Samus was nearly in the front, next to Lucas. She got an idea.
"Hey, Lucas."
"Y-yeah?" he replied through breaths.
"Can you freeze those pie machi-" she dodged a pie. "nes? It may make things less tedious-" she slipped on a pie and hit the floor. Get it? Banana pie? Slip? Okay...I'm sorry…*ahem* Quickly she scrambled to her feet, bumping into Yoshi who had Captain Falcon on his back. "Sorry." she said. Lucas thought to himself. That might work, but I don't want to ruin the prank...Forget it! I'll try! He jumped and shouted 'PK Thunder' and something that looked like a big snowflake flew up to the machines. It burst and ice covered it. The hands began moving slowly. One of the hands threw a pie. It flew through the air at fast speeds. Marth barely saw it coming and tried to dodge, but was too late. It hit him in the head, busting the pie into icicle shards and knocking Marth out. He fell to the ground exasperated and unconscious.
"Great! I made it worse!"
"Is he all right!?" Samus called. "Marth!" he was drifting behind on the treadmill. She sighed deeply and ran in the other direction, towards him. She quickly approached him (and the fire). She skid to a stop and picked him up. That chozo DNA is pretty dang useful. She held him in one arm, a foot or two from the fire. There were sounds like bricks breaking and the frozen pies were smacking everything around them. Samus ran as fast as she could away from the fire.
But the treadmill began to speed up.
"Oh fuck me!" she shot the ceiling. Several times. It chipped slightly, enough to fit a hand in. She used the whip on her gun and hooked to the ceiling. She was sweating buckets and heaving deep breaths. "Damn. This is exhausting! I swear that if I don't get a bath soon I'm killing someone." She said. She felt something warm though. She looked back to see that the tip of her ponytail had caught fire and was spreading. She patted it out as fast as she could. Despite her efforts, the end of her golden locks were singed black. Her blood was boiling. Everything started whirring down. The same perky voice sounded on the speaker. Toon Link's voice.
"Okay okay, that seems like plenty for now." The fire died down and the treadmill stopped. The hands stayed though and they waited silently. "Not so cold anymore now are you? Okay, I won't antagonize you since you're probably tired, so rest up and progress when you're ready!" the tape cut off and the door opened. Everybody was collapsed on the ground, panting and sweating. Bowser Jr. looked around and leaned back in his clown car.
"You guys sure are lazy." he said. Link jammed a paper sword towards him, breathing deeply.
"You weren't even *huff* fucking running! You were flying the whole *puff* time!"
"Yeah whatever." he curtly replied. Pit and Pittoo were nearly passed out on the ground. Link was on his knees. Dedede was passed out on the ground. Yoshi was feeling just fine. Sonic, like an ass, wanted more. Marth was out cold. Captain Falcon was out cold. Roy was tired. Corrin was sick of the shit. Ganondorf was going to murder those kids. Lucas was tired, but otherwise indifferent. Snake was kneeling on the ground, angrily panting. Robin was sitting on top of R.O.B. the whole time due to her crippling slow speed. R.O.B. was okay? Diddy Kong was trying to make sure there were no traps. Donkey Kong was eating some banana cream pie. It was tasty. Bowser was breathing flames, as if everybody didn't have enough of that. Rosalina was deep in thought. Peach was leaning against the wall, attempting to catch her breath. Luigi just wanted to go home. But he would never refuse an adventure. Unless it had ghost. Fuck that. Mario was back-to-back with , both thinking intently about something. Who knows where Bayonetta was. Shulk was really feeling it. Villager was glowing purple with dark aura. Probably had to use the bathroom. Double L. was smiling to himself. He missed this. Ryu considered it as a challenge. So...challenge completed? Something appeared at the door to the far left. Robin, Jigglypuff and Pikachu walked through the door. They saw most everyone lying on the ground.
"What in Sam Hill is going on here?" Robin (M) asked. Pikachu looked at him then looked back. Jigglypuff was ignoring him.
"It's about time you got here Jigglypuff." Snake waved. She smiled.
Sheik
6:02pm
Toon Link's Super Secret Passageway of Secretness (That's a Secret) Entrance Room
"What the hell happened here?" Sheik asked herself as she saw several bits and pieces of stairs all over the floor. There were still a couple of smashers hanging back. Like Olimar. "Hey. Olimar."
He looked over.
"Is everyone up there?" he nodded. "Why are you still here?" she asked. He looked at the stairs and remembers the screams. He shook his head. "Whatever." she walked past him and up the stairs.
Further in…
Sheik and Olimar ran into Little Mac, who was sobbing near the invisible hall.
"What the hell is wrong with you?" she asked. He jumped and wiped the tears from his eyes.
"Uh...well...I can't make it across this hall…" he sighed.
"Look at you. Blubbering like a baby." he looked down. She shut her eyes it frustration. "*sigh* Come on, I'll help you across."
Further in…
"There's a bunch of hair." She said as she pulled Little Mac up.
"Thanks."
"No problem. Look, it's the trainer." she said. Wii Fit Trainer was stretching her back. "Hey, WFT, what are you doing here? Where's everyone else?"
"Hm? Oh, they're ahead. I pulled something (a muscle) with that jump and ended up not making it to the door. I barely crouched into the corner before being impaled. Then the spikes retreated slightly." Sheik didn't understand none of that.
"I'll just take that as a yes. You coming?" she pulled out a knife and started cutting the hair out of the way, although there was a path through them already. "Where is this coming from?" Her eyes narrowed when she cut further towards the middle. Something inside opened and blinked back at her.
"Mph!" it called. She kept her distance and cut a little lower, revealing Fox's face. "Hi Sheik."
Further in…
Sheik walked through a door frame and approached another door. She opened it to see people pouring into another room. Quickly, she dashed after them.
"Come on! Keep up with me!" she called behind her. Wii Fit Trainer, Little Mac, Olimar, and a bad-hair-day Fox was following after her. "Hey! Wait!" she yelled. Yoshi turned his head to see a couple of things running in their direction. He tapped Mario on the shoulder. Mario turned around.
"What-a in the world-Guys! Wait!" he held out his hand and many of the others turned around. Mega Man peered over his shoulder.
"It's Sheik."
Finally…
"Yeah, I managed to help a couple of people get here." she told Snake, secretly sipping a cup of tea (you know, scarf/turban thingie. Can't see mouth and stuff). Peach was happy to break out her tea set at any moment. Nobody knows how she carries this stuff. I mean, she does pluck turnips out of solid concrete, so whatever. Snake stood up and stretched his back.
"Good to know. Nice work Sheik. Also, good to see ya." he said. Although it had taken all day, now was the first time they actually saw each other. Fox scratched his chin.
"Hey Sheik, there was a fortune teller that said you were fighting justice and whatnot. Where've you been?" he asked. She looked at Zelda as an escape route.
"Uh...sleeping."
"Sleeping? Really?"
"We'd better get going. It's getting late and we still haven't found the pranksters." She threw down a smoke bomb and disappeared. Fox was left dumbfounded. Robin began to enter the next room.
"Welp, might as well not miss a beat right?" She said, opening the door. "Besides, most of us have already been pushed to the edge. What's the worst that could ha-dear gods!" she screamed and pushed open the door. One-by-one were the smashers who fell in the bottomless pit. Lined up together.
In dunk-tanks.
Palutena began to pound on the glass when Pit entered the room. She was moving her mouth, but nothing could be heard.
"Lady Palutena!" Pit ran up to the glass.
"This bitch…" Pittoo shrugged (Those who fell in any kind of hole whatsoever were in a dunk tank of their own. Which would be Lucina, Greninja, Wario, Falco, and Palutena).
"Why are you screami-what the fuck is going on here?" Roy looked around. The rest of the smashers joined them in awe. And the speaker kicked back on. It was Toon Link's voice. Live this time.
"Hey guy-wait, can they hear me?" he asked. A distant voice called behind him.
"Yes dude, the speakers are on, go ahead."
"Okay. *ahem* Anyway! As you can see, there are five smashers locked in dunk tanks! And in order to release them, you have to hit the target with the balls! You can obviously see where they would go if you did hit the targets," he said. Snake looked at the floor. It was transparent. There were big creatures moving around underneath the glass panels.
"Oh shit." he said to himself. He wasn't the first to notice.
"Oh, I see you've noticed my friends! Don't worry, they're friendly! Kind of. Those are carpet sharks. All you have to do is drop your friends into the shark tank and then they're free! I'll be sure-" there was a loud ringing noise. Everyone covered their ears. "Whoops, sorry! I uh, dropped the microphone. Anyway, they'll need to swim to that opening over there," they looked at the corner of the room to see a large opening in the floor. "Yep, you guys are looking at it." Toon Link told. There was a voice in the back.
"Toon, quit explaining and let them figure it out! They're smart you know!" Everyone looked at Roy. He looked around.
"What?"
"Alright Ness alright. Anyway, you should be able to figure everything else out. The balls are in the bin next to the door, have fun! Also, one last thing, in case you don't want to save someone, you could always just exit through the door to your left. Okay, love you guys, see ya!" The speaker cut off. Bowser began to immediately walk to the door on the left. Peach stepped in his way and pointed in the opposite direction, shaking her head. He growled and walked away. Each of the smashers, except Greninja, had wet suits on so they could breathe underwater. The first to act was Pit.
"I'll save you Lady Palutena!" he ran and grabbed a soft ball. Palutena's hands shot up and immediately began signaling 'no'. She frantically shook her head when the ball collided into the target. The floor beneath her dropped and she fell into the water. Lucina watched in horror. Then she turned to the other smashers and also shook her head.
"Hey guys! Get a load of this!" Pittoo snickered, watching through the glass. One of the sharks swam over to Palutena and examined her. She smiled sheepishly and began slowly moving towards the opening. The shark opened its mouth and revealed it's toothless gums. She stared for a minute before continuing. She was almost there.
"She's going to make it!" Pit cheered.
"Look again Pit." Marth said. The shark closed its mouth around Palutena's upper body. Her legs kicked frantically. The shark made a face, as if she tasted funny.
"Holy shit! It's going to eat her!" Robin cried. Both of them. Pit screamed. The shark smiled. Although it probably wasn't the best time, but King Dedede was having a hard time concealing his laugh. Dark Pit couldn't breathe.
"Haha! Guys, the shark-pft haha! The shark is sucking on her like a blowpop! She's getting the suck!"
There was an explosion. The shark had exploded. The water turned red and Palutena swam out of the water. She crawled onto the ground and set her staff down.
"What the hell just happened?" Shulk asked. Pit ran over to make sure she was okay. Palutena took her helmet off.
"*huff* Curse those sharks." Little Mac's mouth was wide open.
"He-he was smiling!" he gasped.
"That bitch wasn't smiling after-" Palutena looked at Pit. "Err, I mean it wasn't smiling after it ate an explosive flame now did it!?" she retorted.
"You didn't have to kill it!" Sonic shouted. The goddess stamped her foot on the ground.
"Now listen here you little sh- she glanced at Pit's happy face. "What I meant to say was, have you ever seen the horrors that lie within a shark!? I was sucked on like a fudge pop!" Pittoo peaked around the corner.
"You know, nowadays, that's desired, you know?" he whispered. Her hands clenched into fists and she tapped her staff to the ground. A reticle appeared on Pittoo's face.
"You mind repeating that out loud?"
"Nah, I'm good." he shied away. She huffed and walked away. The other sharks in the tank hadn't even acknowledged the third shark's death.
"Well, I don't know about you guys, but I'ma hit me some targets, okay?" Sheik said. She grabbed a ball. "You know what, I don't even need these." She threw a single needle at Lucina's target and hit it. Either the needle was too light, or the target was stuck. "What the hell, I definitely hit it. Round two." She threw another one and there was same results. Lucina pounded on the glass and continued to mouth 'no'. Sheik looked at the target as if she would kick it's ass. Not that it has one.
"So that's how you want to play it?" She grabbed a ball this time and smashed it into the target. It didn't budge. "What the hell?" Roy stood up.
"You're not throwing hard enough. Watch this." He grabbed a ball and lobbed it, missing the target. "Shit, do over." he grabbed another ball and missed again. Samus nudged him over.
"Watch out, I got this." She hit the target head-on. Nothing happened. Everyone seemed to be ignoring Lucina's prayers.
"You guys are shit at this." Snake smiled.
"Really? Do you want to try?" Sheik asked. Snake pushed the ladies aside, Roy too, and grabbed a ball.
"You see, it's all in the arm." He drew his arm back as if to throw it. He tossed it to the ground and pulled out a shotgun. He blew the target to pieces and a crying Lucina was dropped into the tank. Without warning, the first shark gobbled her whole.
"You cheated." Cloud said. Snake rolled his eyes and continued to the next target. BAM! Wario fell in. BAM! Greninja fell in. He moved over to the last target. Falco gave him a very dirty look. Snake couldn't help but chuckled as he blew the last target to pieces. Falco jumped up and dove into the water. A shark was swimming in circles around Wario.
"Hey guys, where's Lucina?" Link looked around.
"Why do you sound so worried Link?" Zelda asked rudely.
"Why do you sound so jealous-" Link punched Dark Pit in the face.
"Just asking?" he scratched the back of his head. She stared him down.
"I'm guessing that she was eaten." WFT added.
"Yoshi!"
"Yoshi has a point. Maybe she already left." Robin (M) announced. Yoshi facepalmed, as that was not even close to what he said. Samus sighed.
"Don't worry, as usual, I'll be the person to save everyone…" She handed Peach her gun.
"Not so fast, I want some of that action." Marth said.
"But, your arm…" he looked down then up.
"What about it?" he asked. Villager rolled his eyes and pulled out a fishing rod. He tossed the cork into the water. The first shark darted towards it like it was a chicken dinner.
These sharks weren't the brightest.
He clamped his gums on it. Villager pulled the shark up and held it in one hand.
"Good lord! You're strong!" WFT was shocked. Villager put the shark into his pocket.
"What the fuck." Corrin said. He reached into his pocket and pulled out Lucina with both hands. Her helmet flew to the ground as she screamed and crawled away from him. Roy, Robin (both of them), Marth, Little Mac, and Shulk all ran to her side.
"What's wrong?" Shulk asked. Her eyes were wide with terror.
"HAVE YOU SEEN THE CONTENTS OF HIS POCKETS!? I DON'T WANT TO GO BACK! DON'T MAKE ME GO BACK!" She cried into Roy's shoulder. He mouthed 'what the f*ck is in his pockets' to Corrin. He shrugged.
"Hey Villager, buddy? What'cha got in ur pockets?" Robin (F) asked. Villager shook his head. "Welp, guess she's just crazy." Wario crawled out of the hole.
"Wah! Thanks for helping guys. I-a really appreciate it." He growled after taking his helmet off. Falco jumped out of the hole. He screwed his dome off and tossed it to the ground.
"Piece of cake. Was that really a prank or a warm up?"
"I wouldn't complain about not getting sucked on by a shark." Ryu scratched the back of his head. Falco added a 'hmph' and ignored him. Bayonetta walked through the door. Not the exit door silly, the door from the cooling hall.
"Alright, what did I miss?" she looked around. Lucina was sobbing in Roy's lap, Peach was playing with Samus's gun, Palutena was yelling at Pittoo, and Greninja was in the water playing with a shark. She shook her head and walked out. "Nevermind, carry on." she waved.
"Where the hell is she going?" Robin (F) asked. Probably just best to let her go. King Dedede pounded his hammer against the floor.
"Hey! Frog man! Are you coming or what? It's gettin' sorta late and I don't want to miss an episode of 'Good Burglar'!"
"Ooh, I-a love that show!" Luigi piped in. Greninja swam out of the water. He was soaking wet.
"Ninja! Greninja!"
"Yeah whatever let's go." Dedede interrupted. "I gots me a feeling that we getting real close to those two pranksters! If we keep going at this rate, we'll have em' beat by seven!" Luigi walked and began to open the door.
"The we-a should hurry if-a we want to end this-a fiasco." He opened the door. Only to shut it again. He turned his back to the door.
"What're you doing, go already!" Pittoo was rubbing his bleeding nose after Link had punched the shit out of him. Luigi's eyes were wide and he shook his head.
"Nope. It's-a dead end." Something about him said that he was lying. Sheik squinted.
"Luigi, I feel like you're lying to me."
"What? Luigi would-a never do that!" he forced a smile. She walked up to him.
"Move." he scooted over and nestled into the corner of the room, hands over his eyes. He was trembling. She scoffed and opened the door. Packed to the rim was ghosts.
Ghosts with bb guns. Sheik slowly closed the door. "Lets...Let's just go home…" she closed her eyes.
"What's behind the door?" Cloud asked.
"Okay, look, if we're going to do this, it's got to be one at a time. Who wants to go first?" Nobody raised their hand. Yoshi sighed and stepped forth. An unconscious Falcon was on his back. Sheik nodded. "Let's make this quick." she cracked the door open and Yoshi sprinted in. She closed it behind him. "Have fun in hell."
"Sheik!" Everyone yelled.
"What? He's dead, these things happen. Facing this reality is where the true challenge comes. I've simply already overcome it." Mario was getting real sick of her shit. There was a knock on the door. The door cracked open and the room was empty except for Yoshi and his unconcious Falcon. Yoshi burped. Everyone's eyes were on Sheik.
"Well, would you look at that? I fooled you guys so hard! The room was empty the whole time! Get pranked losers." She walked through the door.
Something about her said she was lying.
"She's-a lying!" Luigi called her out. "There was-a gh-" Sheik had her hand over his mouth in a second.
"I will bite your beating heart." she whispered to him. He changed his mind.
"Nope! Nothing! There was-a nothing in there at all! Let's-a go!" he ran through the door. At the end of the non-ghost filled hall was another door.
"Um, Samus?"
"Yes Peach? What is it?"
"Do you want this back?" she held up her gun.
"Oh yeah. Thanks." The smashers filled up the room. Nobody opened the door.
"Who's going to open the door?" Rosalina asked. Her luma wasn't doing it. Nobody raised their hand.
"Whoever opens this door may not survive." Ryu added. Yoshi sighed again and walked towards the door.
"Have fun in hell-" Mario swatted Sheik on the back of her head. "Ouch. Asshole…" Yoshi turned the knob. A large sucker-punch fist flew past him and punch Shulk in the balls again. It's a good thing that Yoshi had moved to the side. Shulk was rolling on the ground; high pitch scream in the air.
"If I see one more of those fucking fists, I'm going to smack the shit out of Toon Link and Ness." Zelda stared death at Dark Pit. He shrugged. Yoshi tried to open the door, but it was locked. Ganondorf and Donkey Kong punched the door in its face and it fell over. It had a bruise now. The two high fived. The room was a very large circle arena. Kind of like a gladiators pit. Mario stepped into the dusty area. His eyebrows were furrowed. His fists were clenched. He walked inside. They were all greeted by Toon Link's excited voice.
"Okay, hello again guys! I am super stoked for this one! This is the one that I've been waiting for ever since we started the day! Okay okay okay, jeez I'm so excited! Come on everybody, come in!" the smashers slowly began to enter the room. It was super large. Imagine a football field. One football field and a half in the shape of a circle and a dome ceiling. Once everyone was inside the door closed. A different door. Not the dead door. That door's dead. "Alright, I'm happy to inform you guys that this is the last pranking room! This is your final challenge! I am so happy! And guess what, it's not even a prank! Kind of ironic, don't you think? What you're doing here is not be pranked, no, you guys are going to do what you guys know best."
"Shopping!?"
"Gardening!?"
"Assassinating!?"
"Kidnapping princesses!?"
"Poyo!"
"Be a hero!?"
"Bein a great and mighty king!?"
"Taking it-a easy!?"
"Being a badass!?"
"Being the legend!? Wahahah!"
"Being sexy as hell!?" they all stopped and stared Ganondorf. He was triumphantly standing with the wind blowing his cape. I guess he hadn't noticed that he said that aloud yet.
"Okay, no to all of those. Especially the sixth one. You're going to be fighting! Now, there's two options. Have a single person fight a major challenge, or have everyone fight an infernal one together. Take your pick." they crowded into a group.
"You guys already know how this goes. We vote. Raise your hand for your choice." Snake said. "Who all wants one person to fight a major battle? Raise your hands. Okay...7...8...keep them up...Alright, put them down. Now who wants us all to fight an inferno battle? Marth, I swear to god, I will put my entire fist up your ass if you raise your hand twice."
Marth didn't raise his hand twice.
"Okay, put your hands down." Snake looked at the ceiling. "Although I would love to watch Falcon whoop some ass in a 1v1, I'm outvoted. Kid, it's going to be all of us in."
"Yay! I was hoping you guys picked that one! Now you get to fight, 'Dah Masterpiece'!"
"The masterpiece? Great, what the hell did you guys build this time?"
"Hehehe. Care to explain Ness?" Toon Link asked. They couldn't see it, but he shook his head. He was in the middle of eating something.
"Nah, you go ahead man."
"Ness, come on. Don't let me do all the work." Toon Link whined. Ness sighed and stood up. His footsteps could be heard on a solid concrete floor.
"*sigh* Give me the mic." Toon Link handed him the mic. "Okay, so since we get a bunch of money regularly from Master Hand, me and Toon have been building a machine of ultimate power for the past seven years. We've been working on it between Tournament Brawl and now. We just completed it a couple of months ago. After running several test and finding it to be the strongest machine ever, we decided to keep it in this secret area we bought. We certainly didn't build this place. Anyway, we had help from many scientist and engineers since we couldn't do it ourselves." he spoke. Mega Man gritted his teeth.
"Wily you bastard…"
"Eggman you bastard…"
"Bowser you-a bastard…" Bowser set Mario on fire.
"But yeah, a lot of work was put into this machine. We even added a function to reassemble it after you guys get done beating it to pieces. As long as it isn't too damaged. But anyway, it'll try not to kill you, but no guarantees! Have fun guys and I can't wait to see you! One last thing, in case you find it too difficult or somebody gets severely hurt, we will turn it off. You guys can do it! Channel your inner beings if you feel like you can't do it! Kay bye! Have fun in hell!" the speaker cut off and a hole in the floor opened. The ground began to shake. Lucina fell on her knees and DK stumbled onto the ground. Captain Falcon slowly began to wake.
"Hey...ugh...what's going on?" he asked. He fell off of Yoshi onto the floor. Dust fell from the ceiling rained down. Link struggled to stay up. Mario gritted his teeth. Lucario couldn't sense any life in the hole. Sonic smirked. Wii Fit Trainer stretched before the ass beating. Duck Hunt Duo cheekily smiled. Snake and Samus got back-to-back with guns in their hands.
"Sammy,"
"What's up?"
"Overall safety is what matters here. We need to look out for each other and everyone else. Got it?"
"Roger that. Just make sure I don't outdo you as usual."
"Really!? You think you'll do better than me? Did you shit some of your brains out as well?" he mocked.
"No, but I am much more capable when it comes to this kind of situation."
"200 dollars says I'm going to fuck this thing wide open."
"Deal. You just lost 200 bucks." The platform rose and the giant creature stood in the shadow. Lights all around the arena lit up, revealing the monster.
Six arms, giant hammers in two of them. Armed to the teeth with lasers and guns. As tall as the mansion. Every color imaginable. Blades sticking out of every limb and a tail with energy-blasting capabilities. Two heads. Mind reader. Soul eater. Nearly indestructible. The monster towered above them. It let out a menacing howl. It's name...it was marked on it's head, flashing like a police light. There was a drill on his forehead as a horn.
Nobody dared to speak.
Except for one.
"Well shit." Pitoo said.
VS ANAL DESTROYER 9000
Sheik threw needles at it.
Cliffhanger! Who doesn't love them? Almost done! My break is over! Happy New Year! Let this one be full of good times and grand opportunity! Make change for the better! Who's your waifu/husbando? Mines Princess Peach! He's so handsome! Buh-bye!