Super Smash Exam
"Okay Ron, before I kick you out of here to go lend a hand with Casey…" I start.
"Mmmmmmmm…" Ron Host moaned.
"… I need you to help me clarify a few things with me." I finish telling him.
"Like what?" Ron Host asked.
"Things about my OC's… and info behind the story… that stuff."
"Oh right." Ron Host said. Ron then cleared his throat. "Ah-hem… I, Felix, Joseph, Lisa, the three Sony boys, the X-bots, the Wii warriors, Casey, and other characters related to Casey that you'll likely see later in the story are all original characters by the author." Ron explained.
"Felix, Joseph, and Lisa are the three main characters of 'Chronicles of the Night' and are also central figures in 'Chronicles of the Dusk'." I continue.
"While Casey and others related to him are from 'Final Fantasy: Rise of Despair'." Ron says.
"The Felix, Joseph, and Lisa you see here are from 'Chronicles of the Night', not 'Chronicles of the Dusk'. The latter of which is set two years later." I pause for a breath. "In addition, anyone can use the Sony boys, X-bots, and Wii warriors and I won't care."
"But if you use any of the other OC's… well you'll have to ask Nintendogeek01 or he'll be pretty ticked off." Ron Host said. "And as for Mr. Game & Watch and R.O.B. the author has left them out deliberately."
"My apologies to Mr. Game & Watch fans but I just think the concept of him in a 3-D world, though it could be done, is just really weird and I don't feel like going there. And as for R.O.B. relax, I haven't really abandoned him, you'll see him later. Maybe not in this story though.
"Does that cover everything?" Ron asked. I shake my head in response.
"And lastly, as a bunch of reviewers have noted, this story is based off of the Chunin exam story arc of 'Naruto'. I mentioned this in my profile before I posted this story. While this story is heavily based off of the Chunin exams, there are differences. Most of which are more apparent near the end." I explain. "Now Ron…"
"Yes?"
"Do the disclaimer and get out there with Casey."
"Nooooooooo…" Ron groaned. "Disclaimer: The author does not own Super Smash Bros. or other franchises and video-games that appear here, he does own me, the story itself, and other OC's in the story." Ron then dragged himself out of the room.
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Take your Seats
"You're our administrator?" Asked the cartoonish Link.
"Yes and you are…" Casey scanned through a clipboard really quickly. "Hmmm… I guess we'll call you Toon Link."
"Toon Link? What kind of a nickname is that?" T. Link asked.
"That's funny." Tetra chuckled.
"Okay so you're the administrator, when does our test begin?" Wolf asked.
"Panther is growing tired of waiting." Panther growled.
"Patience. Patience people." Casey said. "Before we begin I'll need everyone to take a seat at a table. And NOT with your team mates at the same table as you." Casey instructed.
"Not-a with our team mates-a?" Luigi asked.
"Not with your team mates." Casey affirmed.
"Good luck Ike." Soren said to Ike.
"Good luck to you as well Soren." Ike told Soren.
"Good luck Lucario." The Pokémon trainer said to Lucario.
"You too Blue." Lucario told the Pokémon trainer.
"What kind of a name is Blue?" One of the Wii Warriors asked his partner.
"No clue." He responded before they split up to find seats.
"You two better not fail and make me look bad." King Dedede said to Sword Knight and Blade Knight.
"Good luck Aika, Fina." Vyse told his partners.
"Thanks. You too Vyse." Aika responded.
After a few minutes of shuffling around, switching seats, and some complaining, everyone finally found a seat.
"Hmmmmmm…" Casey looked up at the clock, it was fifteen minutes until eleven o'clock. "Okay… now as soon as he gets here…"
"I'm here! Sorry I'm late!" Ron Host shouted as he wheeled in a cart with a few boxes on it with some difficulty.
"Ah… Ron Host, I'm glad you could make it." Casey said invitingly. "Everyone, Ron Host shall be the co-administrator of this test so show him some respect as well."
"Hoof… that was… heavy stuff…" Ron said as he got the boxes off of the cart. "Okay everyone…"
"Pika?"
"Sit down and get ready for the written test!!!" Ron said excitedly.
"A written test?!?" Came the shouts of a few people.
"What does a written test have to do with fighting!?" Bowser yelled.
"I'm curious too." Joseph said, much calmer than Bowser.
"Quiet and you'll see." Casey said. As Ron and some random wire frames began passing out the tests with two, sharpened, number two pencils. "Do not turn over your papers until I tell you to begin." Casey said. He turned to write on the chalk board.
"…" A few people looked at the blank back sides of their papers while others watched Casey write on the board.
"First of all, there are nine questions on this test. Yes only nine. And unlike what a lot of you are used to, this test is based on a point reduction system."
"Point reduction?" Prince Komali asked.
"Yes, each of you starts out with a perfect score of 100." Casey said. He finished writing on the chalkboard, however he stood in the way of what he wrote. "For each question you get wrong you'll lose a certain number of points based on whether you failed to answer the question, or only got a question partially incorrect. The most you can lose on any question is ten points."
"But what about…" Nana began to ask.
"Let me continue." Casey said. "You will have one hour to complete these nine questions, and after the hour we'll evaluate your current score, and then the tenth problem will be given."
"What sense does that make?" C. Falcon asked.
"Naturally, your final score will be averaged with your team mate's score."
"Ugh…" Came the groans of a few people who doubted the intelligence of their partners.
"Oh yeah…" Casey said. "If anyone is caught cheating… twenty-five points will be deducted from your score on the spot! Ron Host and the wire frames will be watching you in the meantime as you take the test."
"…"
"And now for one last thing…" Casey paused for a bit. "If any single member of a team gets a zero, whether during the test or during the evaluation of your scores, the entire team fails the exam."
"WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!?!" Came the general shouts from around the room.
"Oh no…" DK groaned.
"WHERE'S THE LOGIC IN THAT!?!" Link yelled.
"That doesn't make sense!!!" Bowser Jr. yelled.
"I HAVE FURY!!!" Fawful shouted.
"My way or the highway." Casey said. "I have my reasons."
"Hmmm… strict rules considering this is only the first test." Rouge thought.
"Quiet down everyone!" Casey shouted to the people still talking. The wire frames and Ron Host stationed themselves around the room and held on to clipboards. Casey scanned the room to make sure that everyone had gotten their paper and pencils. "Everyone… begin!!!"
In response to that, everyone flipped their papers over and began reading the questions. All became quiet in the room except for the scribbling of a few pencils from very few people in the room.
"Okay… just look over this paper and find the ones you know…" Wario thought to himself. He looked at the first question.
"Oy… the first question is really complicated mathematics… jeez really really complicated." Ness thought. "Even I can't get the answer to this question…"
"I'm dead." Roy thought.
"…" Marth was scanning over the questions as fast as he could. After he was done reading them he set the paper down and stroked his forehead. "I… don't understand ANY of these questions… these questions are well beyond what they could possibly expect out of most of these people."
"Relax… I've got it covered for you two."
"Mewtwo?" Roy and Marth thought. Suddenly the two of them felt knowledge pour in to their heads. "Wait… isn't this cheating?"
"Surely you two have noticed." Mewtwo thought to them.
"…" They thought for a second.
"Uh… okay skip that one…" Bowser thought to himself.
"Ah crap… I don't understand any of these questions… there's no way Yoshi could understand these questions." Falco cringed.
"Are these questions supposed to be impossible?" Ike thought to himself.
"xy squared to the fifth divided by the square root of 927 all multiplied by 12x times the answer to f(x)…" Tails thought as he did all of the computations in his head.
"…" Omega, and all three of the X-bots were having no trouble going through these questions. Being robots and all of that.
"Hmmmm…" Mario thought as he looked over these questions. "These-a questions are-a far too difficult-a for a person with-a average, or even-a partial genius IQ to-a solve-a." Mario thought. He looked over at Ron Host who just wrote a name down on his clip board. "It-a looks like he caught-a somebody."
"Something doesn't add up here…" Fox thought. "When I went to school, cheating would have been grounds to make someone fail regardless of how well they were doing. So why only a twenty-five point reduction?"
"…" Meta-Knight had his eyes closed as he thought about this. "What if… I get it now…" Meta-Knight thought.
"Pichu…" He whined in his head.
"HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLP!!!" The Sony boys yelled at the top of their lungs.
"Agents are… goooooooooooooooooooo!!!" The Elite Beat Agents suddenly jumped from their seats and started dancing to "Let's Dance."
"Gah!" Ron Host groaned.
"Sony boys and Elite Beat Agents!!!" Casey yelled, silencing them both. "For this distraction… both teams fail!!!"
"NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" The Sony boys whined.
"Withdraw agents!" Agent J instructed. Both teams left the room.
"Harsh…" Link thought.
"Hey guys…" Ness telepathically spoke to the Ice Climbers and Y. Link.
"Ness… I'm kind of busy you know." Y. Link thought.
"No guys, listen. I've figured this test out. The point of this test isn't everything we were told."
"What does that mean?" Popo asked in his head.
"Don't you guys think that it's odd that we only get point reductions for cheating?" Ness asked them.
"Yeah… it is kind of odd." Popo agreed.
"The point of this test is to cheat and…" Ness goaded.
"To cheat and not get caught!!!" The other three thought. "Okay, but with all of these guys around the room we'd get spotted for looking around."
"Chilax…" Ness thought to them. "I've got you covered." Ness then began using telepathy to feed them the information.
"…" Casey looked around the room and noticed that a lot more people were scribbling down on their papers. "Good, looks like they all caught on…" He thought with a smile.
"…" Zelda closed her eyes as the triforce of wisdom glowed on the back of her hand. "Triforce of Wisdom, bring together the knowledge of all who are present." The triforce of Wisdom glowed some more and then Zelda opened her eyes and began scribbling on her test. As she scribbled the triforce glowed again. "Triforce of wisdom, share my knowledge with those of my choosing…"
"!!!" Link and Ganondorf suddenly received an unexplained click in their brains. The two of them began scribbling down on their papers.
"…" Luigi raised his hand.
"Yes?" Casey asked Luigi.
"Could I-a use-a the bathroom-a?" Luigi asked.
"Fine." Casey motioned for a wire frame to take Luigi. "Sorry, but given these tests, you need an escort."
"Okay…" Luigi sighed as the wire frame led him out in to the hall. Once they had gotten a good distance away from the class room, Luigi punched the wire frame behind the head and knocked it out. "Sorry…" Luigi said. He then pulled a semi-transparent cap out of his pocket and put it on his head.
"…" A bat was hanging from the ceiling looking at the paper of someone who was writing down their answers. It then gave off a high-pitched squeak that wouldn't be audible to normal human ears.
"…" Lisa, in her bundle of heavy clothing wrote on her test as the bat squeaked.
"Looks like Lisa caught on just fine." Joseph thought. He was writing down the answers to his test without any apparent method of cheating. "Now let's see… in a subroutine…"
"The math stuff was almost too easy… and well this stuff might be trickier." Felix thought.
"…" Samus smiled as a video feed crossed the high-tech contact lens she was wearing. "Good thing Snake was smart enough to set up spy cameras ahead of time."
"…" The inside of the visor of C. Falcon's helmet was also receiving a video feed, and some sunglasses Snake brought with him was receiving the same video feed.
"… aha! Finally in. Hey Olimar, Louie did you know that you guys have telepathic proof helmets?" Lucas asked.
"Lucas?!" Louie asked startled.
"Telepath proof… then how did you get in our heads?" Olimar asked.
"Had to channel my PSI power to the antennae on your helmets." Lucas said. "Now to help with the test."
"Chaos… control…" Shadow used Chaos control to drastically slow down time "I can only do this a few minutes without an emerald." Shadow got up and quickly grabbed Mewtwo's completed test ran in to the next room and luckily found a copying machine. He used Chaos control to get it running despite time being slowed down drastically. He made two copies, then placed the original test in front of Mewtwo, before placing the copies in front of Rouge and himself.
"Teams fifty-seven, forty-two, seventy, and twelve are out." Ron declared as four random teams left the room. The wire frames also removed a fairly large number of teams from the room.
"That's roughly a third of the teams disqualified now." Helmet thought as he looked around the room.
"Thanks Lucario…" Blue thought as he scribbled on his test.
"…" T. Link had a blue glowing stone that was pulsing in his hand. "You sure you didn't get noticed Tetra?" He whispered.
"Please… of course not." Tetra whispered to another stone.
"…" Soren was whispering what sounded like gibberish. A slight breeze went through the room. Two papers were blown next to Ike and Titania's feet. They dropped their pencils on purpose and picked up the miniscule papers as they picked up their pencils.
"…" Tails carefully calculated the trajectories of two miniscule folded papers in his hand before flicking them across the floor and almost like magic, they wound up next to Sonic and Knuckles' feet.
"Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh!!!" Wario thought in his head.
"How is anyone supposed to answer these questions!?!" Bowser thought in frustration.
"Mewtwo… I know we're competing with them but… how do you expect Pikachu, Jigglypuff, and Pichu to pass?" Marth asked.
"Hmmmmmm…" Mewtwo sighed in his head. "Fine… but only because this isn't the kind of situation they're made to handle." Mewtwo answered before telepathically sending information to the three Pokémon.
"Is there a problem… Vyse?" Casey asked when he noticed Vyse's hand.
"Yeah, my test seems to have disappeared." Vyse said as he looked at his desk. "And I went to the trouble of using my lens to zoom in on that Tails guy ahead of me."
"Hmmmm…"
In another room a moment later…
"Hmmmmmmm…" An invisible Luigi was running off copies of Vyse's completed test. "Three for-a me and-a Mario and-a Peach… maybe I should-a run a few more-a copies for our-a friends-a…"
Back in the test room…
"Okay, I managed to get a peek at the test of the guy next to me, and I transmitted the data to Falco's helmet… but how do I get the information to Yoshi?" Fox wondered.
"Even though I know what to do… I have no method of getting to Kirby and Pit." Meta-Knight thought.
"Palutena… what should I do?" Pit prayed in his head.
"Yosh?" Yoshi noticed that a completed test had been, oddly enough, slipped under his arm.
"Hm?" Mario noticed the same thing. Without anyone noticing, Vyse mysteriously found his, Meta-Knight, Kirby, Pit, King Dedede, Blade Knight, Sword Knight, Wario, DK, Diddy, Dixie, Kiddy, Bowser, and Panther got completed tests without any explanation. "Nice-a going Luigi." Mario thought as he looked at the completed test he received.
"I don't know where this test came from but hey… it's free." Wario thought.
"Looks like Leon did his job as well." Wolf thought as his cybernetic eye-patch switched from the view of someone else's test back to normal.
Outside the classroom…
"Whew…" Luigi sighed, still invisible. "A few of-a the guys-a had-a already figured it out-a, and well… I had to-a get-a rid of-a the extra copies-a…" Luigi thought as he remembered how he slipped copies to King Dedede, Sword Knight, Blade Knight, and DK's relatives.
BUMP
"Gah! Who else is invisible?" Came Leon's voice.
"Wait-a… aren't-a you taking the test-a too?" Luigi asked. Both of them were still invisible.
"You used the bathroom excuse too eh? Tell you what, I won't tell anyone if you don't." Leon said.
"Works-a for me." Luigi said.
Back in the classroom…
"Oo?" Diddy was confused as to how he got a completed test but he decided not to complain. Dixie was the same way, while Kiddy was teething on his pencil.
"…" Casey looked over the room one last time before looking at the clock. "Alright! Pencils down!" Casey said. Everyone dropped their pencils on to the desk as some breathed a sigh of relief.
"Don't get comfortable yet guys." Ron Host said as he and a few wire frames collected the tests. "Now we're going to take these tests and evaluate your scores based on your answers and whether we saw you cheating or not." He further explained.
"Be back in this classroom by one o' clock, that should give you an hour to go get lunch." Casey said. "Then be ready for the tenth problem to determine whether you pass or not." Casey and Ron then exited the room.
"Mama-mia…" Luigi sighed.
One hour later…
"I hope I did okay." Komali told Tetra and T. Link.
"Relax… if anything else I know Link and I got by." Tetra said.
"Yeah, and there's still the tenth problem." T. Link said.
"Oooo oo oo oo oooo." Diddy said to Dixie.
"Ah! Yeah yeah." She said as she nodded.
"Gaaaaaaaaaaaaa…" Kiddy gurgled.
"Well, here we are again." Ike said. Everyone had made sure they were back in the room by the designated time. They all took the seats they had sat at during the test just in case and waited patiently. Five minutes later Casey came in with Ron Host right behind him.
"I'm glad you all made it back." Casey said. "Now then… Ron would you give the bad news."
"Sure." Ron said happily. "Ah-hem, based on evaluations, the following teams have failed. Teams 198, 134, 152, and twelve." Ron said.
"Aw man…" A team of toads, a team of koopas, a team of Cornerian soldiers, and a team of waddle dees left the room.
"Now the tenth problem has its own rules so pay attention." Casey said.
"Its own rules?" Sonic asked.
"Yes its own rules." Casey said. "Try not to be frightened."
"What kind of problem is it if the rules are supposed to frighten us?" Joseph wondered as he looked at Felix and Lisa.
"Now then, it would be more accurate to say that this is more of a challenge than a problem." Casey said.
"Is that so?" Rouge asked, interested.
"Yes, you can choose whether or not to attempt this, but if you refuse to attempt this challenge, your score will be automatically reduced to zero." Casey explained.
"Would that still fail the whole team?" One of the Wii warriors asked.
"Yes it would." Casey said.
"Then why bother telling us this?" Falco asked.
"I have to agree with bird brain on this one." Leon said.
"Hey!"
"Who would choose to fail, much less cause the whole team to fail?" Samus asked.
"If you'll let me continue…" Casey said. "If you attempt this…" Casey paused for a moment.
"…"
"ONLY ONE MEMBER OF YOUR TEAM WILL PASS!!!" Casey shouted.
"WHAT!?!"
"The challenge is this…" Casey said. "You must engage in a three-way battle with your team mates, and the one who emerges victorious passes on to the next test."
"This is an outrage!" Roy shouted as he slammed a fist on his desk.
"Either one of you passes, or none of you pass… the choice is yours…" Casey said.
"…"
"Mario…" Luigi thought nervously.
"Oh no… this can't be happening." Peach thought.
"What kind of a test is this?" Olimar asked himself.
"This is freakin' sick!!!" Bowser Jr. wailed.
"I… I… I couldn't… bu-but no matter what choice I make I'll condemn my friends…" Pit thought.
"Pikachu…"
"Jiggly…"
"Decide… one of you passes, or none of you pass." Casey said sternly.
"It is either one, or none. Choose."
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"Man… tense huh… well tune in next chapter to see what happens." I say.