Super Smash Exams

Ron Host and I are playing rock, paper, scissors, which I am winning every single time. "Ha ha! Rock crushes scissors!"

"Curses." Ron said.

"Well, Ron, give the recap while I continue to beat you." I order.

"Huh? Oh! Uh… okay. Last chapter, the Smashers all arrived back in the Smash dimension and spent the day eating and catching up, but I soon leave Master Hand with a note, the contents of which are unknown."

"Now find out what is going on this chapter!" I say. "Ha! Scissors cuts paper!"

"Grrrrr… Disclaimer: The author does not own anything in the story except for me, and the story itself." Ron Host said.

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Super Smash Exams

The smashers were all in the foyer/dining room of the mansion eating breakfast. "Man, I can't wait for the next tournament." Falco said.

"I have to admit it'll be pretty exciting." Roy agreed.

"Yeah the only tournament we had recently was that one right after Survivor was finished." Marth sighed.

"Yeah but that one wasn't any fun." Link said.

"That's because you lost to Pikachu in the second round." Zelda said.

"Hey!"

"Pika!" Pikachu stuck his tongue out tauntingly.

"I was surprised when Pit beat Ganondorf in the finals." Y. Link said.

"Oh well… uh…" Pit stammered.

"Hmph." Ganondorf grunted.

"Ah take your loss like a man." Samus told Ganondorf.

"Hmmm… where's-a Master Hand?" Mario wondered out loud.

"I don't know." C. Falcon said.

"Oooo oo ooo oo oo oooooooo. Yeah." DK said.

"Hesitating to give us some bad news? Yeah right." Fox said.

"Good morning Smashers." Master Hand said, coming in through the large double doors at the top of the stairs leading to the second floor.

"Morning." Most of the Smashers greeted.

"Anyways… Crazy Hand and I have somewhere to be today, you're free to do whatever you feel like today…"

"Yeah!" Wario cheered.

"That doesn't involve anything illegal…" Master Hand added.

"Grrrrr…"

"But you must all report back here around five PM." Master Hand finished.

"Huh? Why not just tell us about the tournament now?" Bowser asked.

"Oh, that's because we're not doing tournaments for a whi…" Crazy Hand started to say before Master Hand slapped him. "Ouch!"

"Let's go." Master Hand said, pinching Crazy Hand from behind and dragging him out the front door as if he were dragging someone by the ear.

"Ow ow ow ow ow ow ow…" Crazy Hand said.

"…"

"…"

"…"

"What was that about?" Zelda asked.

"I don't know, I'm not a mind reader." Ganondorf said. Everyone then looked at Mewtwo and Ness.

"Forget about it, Master Hand has learned how to shield his thoughts." Mewtwo told them.

"What about Crazy Hand then?" Meta-Knight suggested.

"Forget it… I've always lost IQ points every time I've tried to read that guy's mind." Mewtwo said.

"I know what you mean." Ness said. "Oh well… hey Y. Link, let's go to the arcade!"

"Sounds cool!" Y. Link said.

"Can we tag along?" Popo asked.

"Sure." Ness said.

"Awesome." Nana said as she and her brother followed Ness and Y. Link out the door.

"Oh, this-a reminds me. I need-a to stop by-a the post office-a." Mario said to himself.

"Mind if I come with? I have to pick up a package as well." Fox said.

"Of course-a not." Mario said as he and Fox walked out the door.

"Hey Zelda, you think you could help me restock the mansion, Kirby and Yoshi ate too much again." Peach asked, pulling out a purse.

"Sure." Zelda sighed.

Everyone else either decided to stay behind at the mansion, or go out and do whatever they set out to do. Meanwhile, Master Hand and Crazy Hand were in a dimly lit room with six other people, the only one that wasn't covered in shadow was Ron Host, the other five figures were hidden by shadows.

"Hmmmmmmmm… well if we have to do it… we'd better make sure we get a good grip on more than just fighting skill." Master Hand said.

"Oh of course, what good would testing veteran fighters be if their fighting abilities were the only thing we'd be testing?" A man's voice asked rhetorically.

"It wouldn't be much of a test that's for sure." Said a higher pitched voice, coming from the smallest figure in the room.

"It wouldn't?" Crazy Hand asked.

"With all due respect Master Hand, why is this guy your brother?" A very intelligent voice asked.

"He… has his oddities." Master Hand said. "But anyways… here, this is what I think needs to be looked for the most." Master Hand said, sliding a paper towards Ron Host.

"Eh… why not?" Ron said, before passing it down to one of the shadows.

"Good… good… yes this is just what is needed of a warrior." A gruff voice said approvingly. There was a moment of silence before all five figures nodded approvingly.

"You guys didn't even look at the paper." Crazy Hand said.

"Don't worry, your ideas are fine… and they fit perfectly with our ideas…" A female voice said.

"Very well, let's hear them." Master Hand said.

Meanwhile…

"Hmmmmm… I could use more parmesan cheese." Peach said, going through the shelves at the grocery store, it was very busy that day, people from all sorts of dimensions that lived in the Smash dimension were shopping today.

"What are you planning on serving tonight?" Zelda asked, standing beside the shopping cart behind Peach.

"Um… I was thinking of lasagna…" Peach said. She turned around and bumped in to another person. "Oh goodness!" The list and numerous contents went flying out of Peach's hand. The figure she bumped in to quickly used the basket he had in his arms to catch the stuff Peach dropped before snatching the list out of the air. "Oh I'm so sorry." Peach said.

"No that's okay." The figure said. The man stood about 5'10" in height, he had blonde hair, and his eyes were hidden behind sunglasses. He was wearing brown gloves, he had an unzipped vest, white T-shirt, and beige pants. "I should ask if you're okay."

"Oh I'm fine, thank you." Peach said.

"May I ask your name?" Zelda asked the man, staring at the basket he was holding in disbelief that none of his stuff in there fell over.

"Oh, my name if Felix, Felix Thomas." The man said. "And you two are…"

"Oh, I'm Peach."

"And I'm Zelda."

"Peach and Zelda? Aren't you two members of the Super Smash bros.?" Felix asked, taking the stuff of Peach's he caught in the basket and setting them in the cart for the two.

"Why, yes we are." Peach said.

"Wonderful, it's an honor to meet you two." Felix said.

"I haven't seen you around here before, you just move here?" Zelda asked.

"You're correct that I'm not from around here, but no, my friends and I are only visiting." Felix answered.

"Friends?" Peach asked.

"Oh believe me, I have a feeling you'll meet them very soon." Felix said as he turned to walk away.

"Hm… strange man." Zelda said.

"What makes you say that?" Peach asked.

"Well, sure he was nice and all but… I don't know… something about him makes me feel odd." Zelda told her.

Meanwhile…

Mario and Fox walked out of the post office, Mario was carrying three different packages stacked up on top of each other while Fox was carrying one smaller parcel in one hand.

"Sheesh, what exactly were you ordering?" Fox asked.

"I was-a picking up-a medical supplies-a… I was-a running short-a." Mario said from behind the packages.

"All of that is medical stuff?" Fox asked.

"Well… some of it-a is just-a stuff I-a ordered for myself-a." Mario said.

"Hey guys."

"Oh hey Roy." Fox said.

"Hello-a Roy." Mario said, again from behind the packages.

"You need a hand with that Mario?" Roy asked.

"This stuff isn't-a that heavy." Mario reassured Roy.

"But you can't even see." Roy pointed out.

"Good-a point." Mario said. Roy took one package under each arm and the three started walking back towards the mansion.

"Hm? Oh guys look." Fox said, pointing across the street. The three turned to find three people looking around confusedly, with an almost frightened bewilderment at everything around them. Well, two of them were looking around but one of them was reading a book with a rather dour face.

"Ah… middle ages guys." Roy said.

"People from-a those middle age-a dimensions always have-a the most trouble adjusting-a." Mario sighed.

"Yeah, I remember when I first saw a moving car." Roy said.

"Yeah so do I… man that was funny how you tried to tackle it but you just got dragged along with it." Fox chuckled.

"Watch if fur ball." Roy threatened.

"Oh man… that was priceless how you were clinging to the top of it while it was driving off, yelling at the top of your lungs." Fox was now starting to laugh.

"I'm telling you, put a cork in it." Roy threatened again.

"Hmmmmmm…" Mario looked at the three figures. One was a woman with long red hair in white armor leading a horse that had matching armor plates on it. The one reading the paper book was a boy with black hair, black robes, redish eyes, and a mark on his forehead. The last one was a young man that had blue hair, a red cape, and light leather padding over a blue jacket. He was carrying a sword in a sheath underneath his cape.

"You know… those guys dress kind of like you and Marth." Fox pointed out.

"Oh great… is it another one of those guys that have a Fire Emblem of some sort?" Roy asked.

"What odd devices these people use to get around." The woman with red hair said.

"Soren, do you know what these are?" The young man asked.

"I just found it… they're called cars." Soren said.

"Cars?"

"Yes, they're a very convenient way of travel according to this book that man gave me." Soren continued. A fierce gust blew in and the book was snatched out of Soren's hands. "Hey." Soren tried to snatch it and wandered in to the road.

HONK HONK

"Wait Soren!" The young man jumped out after Soren.

"They're-a going to get-a hit!" Mario yelled, dropping his package and jumping out.

"Ha!" The young man grabbed Soren and flipped out of the way of an incoming car. "Are you okay Soren?"

"Yes… thank you Ike." Soren gasped.

"Ike watch out!" The woman called.

"!!!" Ike turned around to find another one coming much faster. Ike put a hand on the hilt of his sword when a blue blur swept up both him and Soren and got him back to their side of the street.

"Hm?" Mario landed in the middle of the road. "That-a was fast-a."

"Wait I've seen that blur." Fox said.

"Whew… that was close, be careful you guys."

"Thanks…" Ike said.

"…" Soren stayed silent.

"Soren thank him." The woman told him.

"Thank you…" Soren said in a begrudged manner.

"I'm sorry, he's rude to everyone like that."

"That's okay." The blue hedgehog said.

"Hey Sonic! Nice to see you again!" Fox shouted from across the street.

"Hey Fox! Haven't seen you in a while!" Sonic yelled back. "Oh yeah, I'm Sonic, Sonic the Hedgehog." Sonic introduced himself to the three.

"I'm Ike, this is Soren, and this is Titania." Ike introduced everyone.

"It's nice to meet you." Titania said.

"Hey-a Sonic… I've-a heard about-a you. It's-a nice to meet-a you." Mario said.

"Hey, you're Mario right, it's nice to meet you." Sonic said. The two of them shook hands. "Well, it was great meeting you all but I've got to run for now, see you later." Sonic said.

"Okey-dokey." Mario said. "Oh, Ike was it-a?" Mario asked Ike.

"Yeah." Ike said.

"Be more-a careful okay?" Mario asked.

"Sure." Ike sighed.

"I-a hope to-a see you again-a." Mario said, waiting for the cars to stop to cross the street.

"Uh… Mario… I meant to ask, what was in that package you just dropped?" Roy asked.

"Doh!" Mario slapped himself in the face.

"What was it?" Fox asked.

"Steuben Glass-a." Mario sighed before picking it up and walking away.

"Ike, that Mario man was one of them." Soren said.

"Them? You mean…" Titania started to say.

"Those guys." Ike sighed.

"Our competitors." Soren said.

Meanwhile…

"Man, that was fun." Ness said as he, Y. Link, Nana, and Popo walked out of the arcade.

"Yeah, too bad we used up all of our quarters." Nana said.

"And then we used up all of our dollars." Popo continued.

"And then we used up all of our fives…" Ness continued.

"We need a bigger allowance." Y. Link added.

"Yeah." They all agreed before walking down the street. As they walked down the street, they passed by a group of three people. One was a large red and black robot, another was a bat in a purple outfit, and the last one was a black hedgehog.

Ness stopped walking the moment they passed by that group and slowly turned his head to follow that group of three. "Wait… what the…" Ness looked at the black hedgehog somewhat fearfully.

"…" The hedgehog also turned his head around and shot Ness a piercing glare before turning to walk back down the street.

"Yipe! It is him! Shadow…" Ness thought.

"Hey Ness! What's the hold-up?" Y. Link shouted.

"Uh… nothing." Ness said before running to catch back up.

"So… we meet again kid." Shadow said to himself.

Later at 5 PM

"I still want to know what Master Hand wants." Bowser grunted.

"Pichu…"

"Pyo?"

"Jiggly Jiggly."

"I doubt that's it." Marth told Jigglypuff.

"If it has something to do with a tournament why couldn't he say something earlier?" Wario asked impatiently.

"Yeah, I mean, we need to get one started so I can show you guys how awesome I am." Falco said.

"No, you mean how awesome I am! And how superior to Mario I am." Wario said.

"Oooooo…" DK told them.

"Who asked you!?" Both Wario and Falco shouted at him.

"Yoshi Yoshi."

"Yeah where is he?" C. Falcon asked.

"Okay Smashers, I'm here." Master Hand said, coming in through the front door and then going up to the to where the two sets of stairs led to the second floor door. "Anyways…"

"Is this about the tournament?" Ganondorf asked.

"No this isn't about a tournament." Master Hand sighed. "And there won't be any tournaments for a while now."

"What? How come?" Link asked.

"We haven't had a lot lately." Snake said.

"Well there won't be a Smash bros. tournament for a while because…" Master Hand paused for a moment. "In three days, none of you will be Smash bros. anymore."

"WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!?!"

"What's that about?" Samus asked.

"Why is-a thaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?" Luigi whined.

"What's going on?" Bowser demanded.

"Settle down settle down! Sheesh." Master Hand said. "While none of you will be Smashers anymore, you will have a chance to become Smashers again."

"…" Everyone looked at Master Hand curiously.

"After the Kefka fiasco, leaders from various dimensions, some that weren't even involved, petitioned for a way to make sure that there would be a way to stop future incidents like that." Master Hand said.

"But we did stop it." Peach said.

"Tell that to them." Master Hand said. "Despite it being against my wishes, it was generally decided that the current Smashers be disbanded, and that the Super Smash Exam be held."

"What is the Super Smash Exam?" Pit asked.

"It is a series of tests designed to test the strongest warriors from multiple dimensions to see if they are worthy of being members of the Super Smash bros." Master Hand said. "This, will be the first one of its kind." He added.

"I get it…" Mewtwo sighed. "You're saying that though we won't be Smashers in a few days, we can become Smashers again." Mewtwo said.

"Precisely." Master Hand said. "I have discussed how the test will work at length with a few people today, and here's how it will work." Master Hand said. "For the first little bit, these exams will be taken in teams."

"How does that work?" Wario asked.

"Never mind how that works, just decide amongst yourselves who will be on whose team before three days are over, they must be teams of three, Ice Climbers are the exception, and the test will be in four days." Master Hand said.

"Anything else we need to know?" Meta-Knight asked.

"Yes." Master Hand said. "You won't be the only ones competing for your titles, many very strong fighters will be here as well. Don't expect an easy test." Master Hand said. "That is all." Master Hand said.

"Wait... you can't-a tell us what-a we have to do-a for these-a tests-a?" Luigi asked.

"Sorry, but I can't give you guys an advantage over the others who are here to take the exam." Master Hand told him. "Rest up Smashers."

Meanwhile…

"Hey Tails, Knuckles!" Sonic said, walking in to a hotel room with two beds and a couch.

"Hey Sonic!" Tails said.

"Ha! I can't wait for these exams." Knuckles said.

"Neither can I. After fighting beside those guys some time ago, I always thought it'd be exciting to be in a team like that." Sonic said.

"Yeah… so who gets the beds?" Tails asked.

"…"

"…"

"…"

"Let's wrestle for it!" Knuckles shouted.

"Whoa!"

Meanwhile…

"You met two of them today? While shopping?"

"Yep, sure did." Felix said, going to the sink in the small kitchen and filling up a glass of water to the brim. Felix was talking to an African-American man that was about 6'0" in height and had a muscular build. "You sound worried Joseph."

"I do? Well… ah it's not important, just make sure you don't go revealing anything you shouldn't." Joseph said.

"Me? Joseph come on, we've all been keeping each other's secrets for a while now." Felix said.

"You're right, what was I thinking?" Joseph asked. "Lisa ought to be awake by now."

"Oh good." Felix said. "I'll go see how she's doing." Felix said, walking to a door past the small living room.

Meanwhile…

"Okay, so you guys are agreed then?" Ron Host asked the five shadows from before.

"Man… I wanted to examine the last test." The high-pitched voice whined.

"At least you didn't get the first test." The gruff voice sighed.

"You two shouldn't complain." The intelligent voice said.

"I know… I'm just disappointed that's all." The gruff voice said.

"Well, Master Hand approves of the tests, we approve of his ideas, and we're all set on who is examining what." The female voice said.

"All that's left now, is to wait on the ones to be tested and then…" The male voice paused, resting a bandaged hand on the table. "…the festivities will begin."

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"Whew… well that's all folks. What do you think?" I ask. Ron Host then came in.

"I don't care how cool those guys are, I always get the shivers staying in the same room as those five." Ron shuddered.

"Ah get over it." I tell him. "Well guys, as cruel as it is, this story will now go on hiatus until Brawl comes out. Don't expect an update on the very same day it comes out, but I will start updating this story once Brawl has been out for some time, after all, I need to play it first."

"How long do you intend to play it before you update?" Ron asked me.

"…" I look left and right before vanishing.

"Hey wait!" Ron yelled. "Uh... oh yeah! Felix, Joseph, Lisa, and the five figures I was with are all original characters by the author, to those of you who have seen Felix, Joseph, and Lisa in one of the author's other stories, please don't give any details of them in your reviews."