Super Smash Exam
"Nintendogeek01… I just got word from Matt." Ron Host said to me while holding a walkie-talkie.
"And?" I ask.
"Uh… I wrote it down for you." Ron Host handed a slip of paper to me.
"Hm?" I take the paper and skim over it quickly. "Holy crap!"
"I know… can you believe this?"
"Holy crap… Ron your handwriting is terrible! I can't read a word of this!"
"That's what you were exasperated about?" Ron Host asked. "But Nintendogeek01 what about…"
"Do the disclaimer and after that go take some writing classes." I order.
"But… oh… Disclaimer: Nintendogeek01 does not own any of the licensed characters or Game2002's characters, he does own this story and his original characters." Ron said. "Now what about…" He started.
"Go learn to write!" I shout.
"Oh…" He sighed.
A Night without Peace
"…" Felix was in the forest on his own. He readjusted his shades and looked through the darkness. "Sounds like someone's asleep down there." He thought as he looked down from his perch high above the forest floor. He hopped down, barely making any nose as he jumped down to each successive branch.
"Will be a Smasher…" One of the sleeping toads said in their sleep.
"Heh… dream on little buddy, dream on." Felix thought to himself with a smile as he quietly snuck up to them. "I can't believe they didn't leave anyone to guard them while they slept."
Meanwhile…
"Drat… we only got another Power Smash Ball." Pit sighed.
"Well, we still have the rest of the alloted time." Meta-Knight said.
"Pyo." Kirby nodded in agreement.
"Okay, I'll take first watch, I'll wake one of you up when it's your turn." Meta-Knight said.
"Sounds good…" Pit said with a yawn.
"Pyo…" Kirby then rolled on to his back and fell asleep almost instantly.
Meanwhile…
"Pika…" Pikachu was trying to stay awake while Pichu and Jigglypuff were asleep. They were keeping their Wisdom Smash Ball in a little backpack that could easily fit all three of them.
"Pichu…" He said in his sleep. Pikachu gave him a disturbed look.
"Pika pikaaaaa…" Pikachu finally decided to wake up Jigglypuff.
"Puff…"
"Pikachu. Chuuuu…"
"Jiggly." She nodded, she took the backpack and then stood up to stretch while Pikachu decided to lie down and go to sleep.
Meanwhile…
"…" Peach stared at Mario as he held his fireball. She couldn't recall when she had ever seen him this angry. "Good luck Mario." She said as she jumped to a nearby tree branch.
"Well, shall we?" The assassin leaped away and landed on another tree branch.
"HiiiiiiYAAAAAAH!!" Mario began springing from tree branch to tree branch, practically ricocheting through the tree branches. "HERE WE GOOOOOOOO!!" Mario rocketed towards the assassin, flipped and thrust a foot forward.
"Hm!" The assassin blocked the kick, Mario quickly threw two more kicks before somersaulting off the assassin's arm. Mario blocked a stretch kick from the assassin and threw a fireball at him. The assassin easily side-stepped the fireball and then ran in towards Mario. The second Mario landed he also ran toward the assassin.
"…" Mario threw the first punch. The assassin blocked it and revealed both blades. Mario and the assassin began trading punches and kicks with each other at a rapid pace. Each one of them blocking and dodging accordingly.
"He's still alive… but he's badly hurt." Peach thought as she wrapped some bandages around Luigi's head. "Come on Mario, you can do it."
"Ha!" Mario dodged three blade swipes and nearly hit the assassin with his firebrand move. A second before fire burst from Mario's palm the assassin somersaulted over the top of Mario. Before Mario even turned around the assassin vanished in a blur. "Hm?" Mario looked around frantically, only catching a blur snaking through the tree branches at very high speeds.
"Keep trying… try and try until I kill you…" The assassin thought.
"Hmmmmmmmmmmm…" Mario held both his palms out and caused a little smoke to emit around him. "Whoa!" The moment the smoke was disturbed he jumped back and avoided a powerful lunge that crushed the part of the branch he was standing on. "Super fireball!" Mario thrust both hands forward and sent out a barrage of large fireballs that exploded. "Hiyah!" Mario then finished it off with a larger fireball that made an even larger explosion.
"Most impressive…" The assassin tore through the branch and nearly caught Mario's leg with his blade had Mario not back-flipped away.
"He was-a only slightly burnt-a from-a that last attack-a… but at-a least he can-a be hurt-a." Mario thought.
"That smokescreen… he used it to tell where I'd attack from even when he couldn't see me move… my my how resourceful… I like it…" The assassin thought. The assassin crawled out of the branch and charged Mario again.
"Here we go-a!" Mario ran forward as well and the two got in to another exchange of punches and kicks.
Meanwhile…
"…" Night-Princess was crawling down a tree like a lizard towards a sleeping team of Mushroom Kingdom toads. Only one of them was awake and watching. Night-Princess was now just above the team and sat there waiting, as if expecting something.
Rustle…
"What was that?" The toad turned towards the bushes where he heard a rustle. He turned to wake his teammates when he stared Night-Princess right in the eyes.
"…" Her blue eyes changed to a glowing red with her iris turning a fiery orange in color. The toad tottered a bit before falling backwards asleep. When her eyes stopped glowing they were now a dark purple in color. Night-Princess then rummaged through his bag to find a Wisdom Smash Ball.
Meanwhile…
"Whew… these guys… are too strong…" Gasped a Rito birdman. He and his two companions were all bruised up and sweating profusely.
"Last chance guys, surrender your Smash Ball or we knock you out." Fox said as he, Falco, and Yoshi stood at the other end of the small clearing, looking as though they hadn't even battled.
"And don't even think about flying away." Falco said as he held his blaster and Yoshi tossed an egg up and down in his hand.
"Okay… fine you win…" The lead Rito gently laid a Power Smash Ball on the ground before the team flew away.
"Yoshi…" Yoshi whipped his tongue out and swallowed the Smash Ball to be safely stored in his stomach.
"But we already have a Power Smash Ball!" Falco griped.
"Good news is that this gives us a bargaining chip." Fox said. "Well, we'd better set up a night watch." Fox said.
"Yoshi…"
"What's eatin' you?" Falco asked.
"Yoshi Yoshi."
"Something feels out of place? Like what? It's not any of our friends are in over their heads right?" Fox asked.
Back to Mario…
"Hoo… hoo…" Mario panted. Both he and the assassin had a few visible marks on their bodies from their fight. Mario's only concern was that the assassin still seemed raring to go.
"HmmmmRAH!!" The assassin swung both of his blades with incredible force, sending out a shockwave towards Mario.
"Wah!" Mario did a spin jump to a nearby branch. The assassin then performed another shockwave. Mario jumped off before the branch was also shredded to pieces. Mario pressed his feet against the underside of a branch right above the assassin and then rocketed off of it. "I've-a got it-a!"
"Wah!" The assassin was caught off guard as Mario grabbed him around the waist as he dived past the branch.
"HA!!" As they dived past the branches Mario took the assassin by the feet, spun around and then hurled him downward.
"He's got him!" Peach shouted in excitement. Mario tucked and then fell towards the assassin.
WHUMP
"Gaaaaaaaaack…" The assassin received a ground pound right in the stomach. Mario jumped off of him and stared at the quivering body.
"Wait a minute-a…" Mario said. "HM!!" Mario stared in shock as the body turned in to a glob of mud before melting. "What-a the… whoa!!" Mario had to dive out of the way of dozens of knives that started raining down on him. Mario landed against a tree trunk and then did a spin jump off of it to land on a farther away branch. "Where did-a he…"
"…" The assassin rushed out with his fist drawn back.
"OOF!! AH! DOH! AAAAAAHHHH!!" The assassin punched Mario in the face twice, then in the stomach, and finished with a knee thrust right in his face. "Ooooooohhh…"
"This is all? This is all the hero of the Mushroom Kingdom AND multiple dimensions has to offer me? Pft… your name doesn't even deserve to be spit upon." The assassin said.
"…" Mario struggled to get on his hands and knees before the assassin kicked him across the face. "OOF!!"
"I'll just beat you slowly before I kill you."
"…" Mario reached in to his front pocket and pulled out a small flower that was red and orange in color. He ate the head of the flower and soon his hat and shirt turned white while his overalls turned red.
"Hm?"
"HIYAH!!" Mario suddenly got up and delivered a flaming uppercut to the assassin's chin.
"OOF!" The assassin was knocked in to the air slightly by this attack, high enough for Mario to grab him by the ankles and swing him around and around all the while burning his ankles.
"Get-a ready for this-a!" Mario hurled the assassin towards the nearest tree trunk with enough force to partially embed the assassin in to it.
"AH!"
"Mario already learned the firebrand technique in the Bean Bean Kingdom… so adding a fire flower to his powers just makes his flames stronger." Peach thought as she stared at Mario.
"…" Mario held his hands together and formed a very large fireball in his hands.
"Hm?"
"So long-a." Mario thrust his hands forward and sent the fireball flying at the assassin, tearing chunks off the sides of trees as it flew.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!" The assassin screamed right before the fireball hit him.
FWOOOOOOOOMMMMM
The assassin was engulfed by flames in an instant. "Whew…" Mario wiped his forehead as his fire flower powers wore off.
"Mario you did it!" Peach shouted.
"How's-a Luigi?" Mario asked as he jumped back towards Peach.
"He'll be fine, he just needs to rest for a while." Peach said.
"As-a long he's alive-a." Mario sighed in relief.
"…" The assassin's torched body leaned against the tree for a while. His fingers twitched violently before he pried himself from the tree and stumbled forward.
"Hm?" Mario looked over in horror. "No way-a… I-a figured that-a given his-a resistance that-a blast of-a fire would have-a knocked him out-a, but-a how is-a he moving-a?"
"I was wrong about you… yes you are most definitely strong." The assassin's voice was slowly changing, sounding less deep yet more sinister. The top portion of his helmet was blown off, and the left side of his face was burnt away, revealing skin that was far more pale, almost grey.
"Wait-a… I've-a seen you before-a…" Mario said as he looked at his left eye. It was yellow in color, and its pupil was snake-like in appearance. "You're-a…"
"!!" The assassin stared Mario in the eye and again paralyzed him. "That's right… we saw each other briefly before your friend Shiek battled me." The assassin said. "But there's no need to spoil the surprise for her is there?" He asked while looking at Peach.
"M-M-Mario…" Peach trembled.
"…" The assassin smile again before his neck lengthened. His head snaked towards Peach and Mario before head butting Mario square in the forehead.
"OOF!!" Mario fell back, unconscious from the blow.
"MARIO!!" Peach shouted.
"Ah… thank you for the fun and games… but if I'm not mistaken, I think someone else is looking for me right now. Besides… there's always later." The assassin said before sinking in to the branch.
"…" Peach looked at both of the unconscious Mario bros. She collapsed and held her head while closing her eyes. "Who was that? What is going on!?"
A few moments later…
"…" Matt looked around the forest intently. He thrust a juggling knife in to the trunk of the tree he was standing on and held his ear close to the knife. "Hmmmm… ah finally…" Matt removed the knife and tucked it away. He then jumped through the tree branches quickly.
At another tree, the assassin from earlier was leaning against the trunk of a tree, he then slowly melted in to tree, eventually leaving only his face and chest exposed. "…"
"Took me long enough to find you." Matt said as he landed in a connecting tree branch.
"Ah… the administrator of this test…" The assassin said.
"Your name…" Matt looked at the assassin with a wicked smile. "Your name is Orochimaru, correct?"
"Hm hm hm hm hm… correct." Orochimaru chuckled. "So good of you to take the time to learn about me and then come find me."
"I'm sorry I didn't have time to wrap a present." Matt said with a friendly smile. He reached behind his back and pulled out his weapon, it resembled a gun except that it had two blades on the bottom and top of the barrel. "But I thought that maybe I'd surprise you!" Matt said, his eyes gleaming with killing intent.
"Yikes… Matt means business that's for sure." Ron said. "What is to become of the Mario bros.? How have other teams been faring? And what is to come of this confrontation?"
"Find out next chapter."