Re-edited on 4/4/15

Chapter 9: Ballot

Within the once peaceful temple of Lady Palutena, Pit and his army were running around, preparing for an upcoming threat.

"Men, block the doors! Seal the window! Save the food! The ballot is upon us!"

Coming into the main hall, Palutena walked in yawing. "Pit, what's with this?"

Pit franticly shook the Goddess. "Lady Palutena, run! The Ballot is coming!"

Palutena threw Pit's hands off her shoulders. "Woah, what's wrong?!"

"Remember that Nintendo Direct yesterday that we both thought was an April Fools joke?"

Palutena's eyes lit up. "You mean it was real? Did they say anything about Xenoblade Chronicles X?"

"No, they didn't. But they showed off Mewtwo and … Lucas is coming back!"

"Lucas? Ada boy. But why's that a problem?"

Pit looked around and yelled at a soldier to load the cannons. "Another one will come, and they're holding a ballot for people to put in their choices."

Palutena gasped in horror! "Oh no! Why didn't you say so earlier! We have to fight off the Goku-voters before they get here!"

"Not so fast, Lady Palutena!" Suddenly Viridi and Dark Pit crashed through the ceiling. "The Ballot clearly states videogame characters only. This will be my glorious introduction to the battlefield!" She turned to Dark Pit. "Commander Dark Pit, make note of how powerful my sickle will be against Bowser or the Dreamy Link."

"I'm calling it a scythe." Dark Pit said. "And you're already a background character in our 3DS stage. They probably won't add that furball right here also."

Then Little Birdie from Metroid Other M jumped from behind Dark Pit.

"He's just a clone." said Pit. "And what about all those third-party characters?"

Viridi yelped as Dark Pit twitched. "I forgot about those. They might ask for Crash, Spyro, or an Assist Trophy!" Little Birdie jumped into the Goddess of Nature's arms in fear.

"Or that cutie over there." Dark Pit pointed to the half-genie girl Shantae.

"Hey, I heard they were was this ballot for Smash Bros.. Are third-party characters welcome?"

With beating hearts in his eyes, Pit pushed everyone out of the way and held Shantae's hand. "Well of course. You came just in time to introduce yourself to the voters."

Shantae shyly looked away. "Aren't you friendly, blue-eyes. How about if we-"

Palutena then warped Shantae away, leaving Pit to fall over. "There's already a Smash Bros. fighter war coming, we are not causing a shipper one."

"Awwww, why not?" Then another random character showed up. This one was a brown-haired twelve-year old girl with braces and a sweater with a shooting star on it. "The names' Mable Pines. I'm a love expert." Without warning, the girl threw a powder in Pit's face, she jumped into his site acting cute, but Pit looked at a vase instead.

"Where have you been all my life?" Pit picked the vase up and made out with it.

"Aw nuts!" She threw the powder on the ground, but then noticed Dark Pit. "Take me with you."

"O.K., none-Nintendo characters out!" Palutena shewed Mable away. "And that goes the same with you, Godzilla."

Godzilla sighed and followed Mabel out the door.

After curing Pit, they discuss the certain war coming.

"Alright everyone." said Pit. "It appears our most likely and logical votes will be Roy, Wolf, Snake, Krystal, and King. K. Rool. These character votes will do nothing; but we have to look out for Goku, Spongebob, Master Chief, a Call of Duty soldier, and all those other people. We need to build both of our defenses to survive another rant invasion."

Everyone agreed. "And we don't have to worry about that space pterodactyl." Viridi then snuggled Little Birdie. "Isn't that right, Little Birdie."

"Uhhhh, Virdi, you know that thing will grow up to be…"

"Can it, Dark Pit. Let me have a moment!"

Pit went over both their armies' strength and weaknesses. "This is good. I think we may actually survive this."

"Oh I don't think so!" Then Hades appeared.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!" they all sighed painfully.

"What are you doing here?" asked Palutena.

"What a very good question, Pretty Palutena." Hades held out his arms. "I'm here to participate in this Smash Bros. Ballot. They cannot resist me."

Pit whispered to his friends. "He has a point, he's a fan favorite."

Palutena shivered. "How about if you go home."

"Hey, that's my joke!" said Pit.

"Take a look in your contract, Pit." Palutena held her staff at Hades. "You cannot be permitted in Smash Bros."

"That's right!" Then Magnus burst through the door. "If anyone's going to join, it will be me!"

"Or me!" Then Phosphora zapped her way in. "Just looked at me. All the boys will love me!" She eyed Pit. "You'll vote for me, cutie."

Pit blushed, "Well I um."

Then suddenly, Shantae returned. "I saw him first!"

"NO, WE DID!" Then all of Pit's fangirls rushed in and took him away.

"Ahhhhh, help!"

"There's always a catch to everything." Hades said as he laughed at Pit's dramatic exit. "Now that he's out of the way, you have no choice but to allow me in." Then suddenly the room went dark. "This isn't part of the plan."

Palutena lit her staff and sighed. "Who is it now?"

Then a gloomy girl with a tomb walked in. "I am Tharja. The center of the world for the avatar."

"Me?" asked Avatar Aang.

"No, I mean the avatar of Fire Emblem Awakening. I will make the battles more interesting."

"Hey hold up." Then Avatar Korra walked in. "Can't the avatar in that game also be a girl, then …" Korra then noticed Aang. "A-Avatar Aang! From the past!" she bowed to the boy. "I'm your next life, Korra! It's an honor to see you again. Well this is the first time you met me actually."

"And me!" Then Varrick shook Aang's hand rapidly. "The name's Varrick! I have big plans for the world and I want you to help!" Then he saw the wings on Dark Pit. "Scratch that!" He ran off, knocking Aang down, and examined Dark Pit's Wings. "These are amazing. How interested are you in making some money?"

Dark Pit pulled his wings back. "What's your deal?"

Varrick grinned. "I'm just trying to make me and Zhu Li even bigger." He then whistled. "Zhu Li, do the thing!" Varrick's assistant came in with a graph. "I want to make people fly using used gum as fuel. And you my friend will help!"

But then they heard a loud noise from outside.

"What was that?" asked Varrick. "Zhu Li!"

Everyone ran outside and saw a large, round structure had crash landed. "What is that?!" asked Aang.

Dark Pit looked at the craft. "It's the Death Star!"

"Wait a minute." Palutena noticed something odd. "Oh snap. It's the Death Egg."

Horror filled the Nintendo character's skin as the non-video game characters ran toward it.

At the Death Egg, everyone saw Sonic and Tails crawling out of the Death Egg's nose. "Tails, where dya think we landed?"

Tails looked around. "I would say we landed on another planet, but I think we're in another franchise." Tails said as he points to the Avatar.

"Uhhh, hi?" Aang was the first to greet them with Korra behind him. "I'm Aang, the bridge between worlds. And this is Korra, another me from the future?"

Sonic looked at the two and tried to process what Aang said. "Watching the show will make more sense, does it?"

Palutena and her gang met up with Sonic. "Hello Sonic. Looks like you've failed another one of Eggnik's plans."

Sonic gave her thumbs up. "Sure did. So how you've been?"

"Ugh, could be better. Nintendo announced a ballot for a new DLC fighter for Smash and we've been swarmed with those guys."

Palutena pointed at Varrick complaining with Viridi, Hades trolling Zhu Li, Mabel hugging Aang, Tharja threatening the reader to vote for her, and Godzilla reverting to his late original series phase.

"Did you say a ballot for Smash Bros.?" asked Tails. "Can I join?"

"No, it should be me!" said Knuckles from out the Death Egg.

"Or me!" said Amy Rose with a net to catch Sonic.

"You are all idiots, I am the only worth one." said Shadow.

Then all of Sonic's friends came out one by one as they ask to be part of Smash. Palutena backed away in fear as all her friends joined in.

"Oh no, it's starting!" shrieked Viridi as Little Birdie snarled at them.

"We must do something!" said Hades.

Palutena looked around and saw Varrick building a cloud-man. "I got it." Palutena slapped a note on Varrick's back and pushed him toward the Sonic characters. They looked closely as the note as it reads. 'I thought of Sonic Boom the game'.

"That's the guy!" shouted Sonic. "Get him!"

They all attacked Varrick, but Korra wind bend at them as Zhu Li used a flamethrower to burn Jet. Aang tried to stop the fighting, but Godzilla landed on him from dancing with a friendly robot. Mabel gasped and used her grappling hook to reach the Death Egg and grabbed the nearest giant robot to avenge her thirty-eighth crush.

Palutena and the others stood back as the fight continued. "They should finish themselves of soon and … how'd this even happen?!

The war was now over and all of Palutena's guards cleaned up and pushed the Death Egg off from Palutena's temple, with the non-videogame characters along with the Sonic characters inside.

"I feel so back for the normal Sonic fans." said Viridi. "Trust me; the annoying fanbase did get involved."

They all got back to the temple with Pit in a full body cast. "You know, I thought having girls fight over me would be enjoyable, but not if I'm the weapon."

Palutena sat on a couch, rubbing her temples. "I'm sorry this had to happen."

"Why is it your fault?" asked Magnus.

"I didn't do it, I just feel like apologizing." Then Little Birdie nudged on Palutena. "What is it?" The furball pulled her to a laptop and she read the content. Her painful and tired mood suddenly changed to happiness. "You guys, come check this out!"

Hades, Viridi, Magnus, Phosphora, and Dark Pit walked to the computer, with Pit stuck on the couch. "Let me see!"

They all jumped in the air with joy. "We've reached passed over 7,000 views!"

Everyone in the temple cheered for the delightful news. Even Pit broke from his bandages and danced around, only to suffer more pain.

"We … like to thank, ouch, you all for, my leg, taking your, painful, time to read this, agony, fanfiction." Then Viridi stomped on Pit's broken foot.

"We're not supposed to say that!"

Hades pointed to the viewer, enraging Viridi even more. "And for a special treat. We like to say that we will not be taking any more requests!"

Everyone paused and looked at Hades.

"It's a treat for us."

Palutena took the spotlight. "No really, we will not be taking any franchise requests. This whole thing is meant for fun for not just you but the author as well."

"Minus what he does in real life, he has other fanfictions to work on." said Viridi.

"It's not like what some of you suggested was terrible." said Dark Pit.

"Yes they are." said Hades.

"But, my butt hurts, all of this was written because of how, painfully, the author feels and what, we have no medicine, ideas he have."

"But if you have suggestions for his other work, just give him a PM." said Magnus. "In fact you should check them out too and give an honest review."

"They won't." said Hades.

"And about the Smash Bros. Ballot." said Palutena. "Please be serious about your choices. Sakurai and his team brought you the best Smash Bros. game to date. If you are unsure on who to pick, I suggest looking at the author's suggestion list on deviantart. You might find someone you want instead of who you're thinking."

"And no they are not all of his wanted characters." said Viridi.

"He goes by the same username." said Dark Pit.

"So is that all we have to say?" asked Phosphora. "Well then good bye!"

"Hey, is this the Smash Bros. auditions?" asked Goku.

End of Chapter

Turns out some companies, including Microsoft, are asking fans to vote for their own characters for Smash Bros., including Shantae and Banjo & Kazooie. Why'd I choose Mysterious Creature? Also this is getting close to 8,000 views.