Super Smash Exam

"…" I'm leaning back in my chair with a smile.

"What's up?" Ron Host asked.

"I was just thinking… it's kind of funny being underestimated sometimes." I shrug.

"It is? I thought you hated that." Ron asked.

"Well… I do most of the time but this time it's funny."

"Explain please?" Ron requested.

"Well, me drawing up the plot for this story for example. Very few people seem to realize that lately I plan my stories months ahead of time." I tell Ron.

"I knew that." Ron said.

"And as for my next story, that one's been on the drawing board ever since Brawl was first announced."

"Now that I didn't know, sheesh where do you store that info?" Ron asked.

"Ah just do the disclaimer, I've got a story to continue." I tell him.

"Fine, Disclaimer: The author does not own the licensed characters or Game2002's characters, he does own his original characters and the story itself." Ron disclaimed. "Say did you get my vacation request?"

"Uh…" I look over at a random fire on the floor that is burning papers. "It's been properly filed." I tell him.

…The Second Test goes on…

"Surprise me?" Orochimaru asked as if amused.

"Yeah…" Matt said, he then used his free hand to slide open two vents on the side of the gun. "SURPRISE!! FIRESHOT!!" Matt's gunblade began rapidly firing large fireballs that bombarded Orochimaru and the part of the tree he was attached to mercilessly.

"I've had enough of fire for one day…" Orochimaru sighed, feeling singed by each blast.

"Really? Then how about raw explosive power?" Matt asked. "Mog Rush." A small white ball flew out of the barrel right towards Orochimaru.

KABOOM

"ARGH!!" Orochimaru was blown straight through the tree and barely regained his footing on a branch away from Matt.

"BLIZZAJA!!"

"Hm? ARGH!!" A massive pillar of ice encased Orochimaru before exploding. "…" Orochimaru looked up in time to see Matt charging him with his blade poised to swing. Orochimaru jumped out of the way causing Matt to miss on his swing.

"Damn… almost." Matt cursed as the trunk of the tree in front of him was sliced clean through.

RATATATATATATATATATATA

"As I should expect." Orochimaru commented as bullets flew out from Matt's gun and tore through the tree branches. He could barely keep ahead. Finally the bullets tore through him.

"Couldn't have been THAT easy." Matt said. "Yep I knew it." He said as Orochimaru's body fell apart in to mud. He wheeled around and blocked a kunai attack, he took three quick slashes that were all blocked before somersaulting far away from Orochimaru.

"Ah yes… you are powerful, but you should be. After all, you are regarded as one of the five mightiest warriors of your world aren't you?" Orochimaru asked. He completely removed the remains of the Valuan helmet and gloves, he then grabbed his face and peeled it off, revealing his true face.

"That's a sick skill you know." Matt commented. He looked at Orochimaru's pale skin and yellow snake eyes along with his long black hair. "So, how long ago did you kill that team? And where are your so-called partners?"

"The team, oh merely a few hours before the start of this test. And my servants, now… why would I tell you that? Maybe if they had served their use I'd tell you, but they have yet to fulfill their purpose." Orochimaru answered. He then reached in to a pouch and pulled out a Wisdom Smash Ball.

"Your team was assigned a Power Smash Ball… what happened to that team?" Matt asked.

"They're alive, though merely at my whim." Orochimaru said before crushing the Wisdom Smash Ball in his hand.

"You know, whim is a pretty funny thing, because right now I think I could kill you at my whim." Matt said as he pulled out two Molotov cocktails.

"My my… for such a humorous nuisance you sure make such serious threats." Orochimaru commented.

"What can I say? It's part of my charm." Matt said with a grin. His look then changed to a dangerous stare as he threw the cocktails.

KABOOM

"You know, this isn't any fun if you keep running." Matt sighed as if he was playing a boring game.

"Know this, the Exams will continue, otherwise all of Smash Town will be destroyed." Orochimaru's voice echoed.

"Crap… and he can back that up too." Matt thought. He stood where he was thinking for a moment. "Okay, I need to get to the tower and make sure the Exams continue, and while I'm there I'll call in a favor." Matt then began bounding in a specific direction. "I've gotta wonder, how has this test been going so far for the contestants?"

A few hours ago near the start of the test…

"Man, lucky break that those guys had the Smash Ball we needed." C. Falcon said. He, Samus, and Snake were leaping through the trees.

"Now all we need to do is just make sure we get to the tower, and that should be a cinch." Samus said.

"Let's keep our guard up though, we don't know when something may happen." Snake said. "Hang on, I've got an idea." Snake reached in to one of his pouches and quickly put together a device that was in several pieces. "I'll send my sky camera up to scout ahead of us."

"Hang on." Samus scanned the camera quickly. "Okay, I can access the video feed, go ahead."

"Right." Snake let the camera fly in to the sky. They sat there motionless for a little bit.

"What's the hold up?" C. Falcon asked.

"Hold on… ah, there's at least six people up ahead according to the video feed." Samus said.

"Two teams… hmmmmm…" Snake pondered on this.

"Hey, what if we took them down?" C. Falcon asked.

"We'd chance losing our Smash Balls." Samus said.

"But we'd also chance reducing the competition later." C. Falcon said.

"Let's get a closer look at the teams, then decide on a course of action." Snake suggested. The other two shrugged and nodded in agreement as Snake leaped ahead.

After a few moments they quietly crawled up behind some bushes and peaked out from behind them. In front of them was a spacious clearing. On one side of the clearing the X-bot team was facing the other side of the clearing; where Shadow, Rouge, and Omega were standing.

"Surrender." The X-bot 360 E told Shadow.

"I don't think so." Shadow responded. Omega held out his team's Power Smash Ball.

"Objective sighted." X-bot said.

"Oh good, so you do have the Smash Ball we need." Rouge said.

"X-bot unit needs to avoid revealing nature of our spherical module." X-bot 360 scolded.

"Irrelevant, X-bot units shall dispose of life forms." X-bot 360 E said.

"Hmph…" Shadow flexed his fingers and stretched his neck a little bit before stepping forward. "You two just watch, I'll handle this." Shadow said.

"If you say so." Rouge said.

"Affirmative." Omega agreed.

"Is that guy nuts?" Snake asked from the bushes. "It's three-on-one."

"I saw this guy briefly… but I never got a full glimpse of what he could do." C. Falcon whispered back.

"From my scans, the X-bots all have a various assortment of weaponry, especially the X-bot 360 E." Samus said.

"…" The X-bot 360 E stepped forward, its finger tips opened up, two automatic weapons came from each arm, missile launchers opened up on its sides, shoulders, and shins, and four more gun barrels came from its chest around the "X" emblem.

"Advisory: X-bot 360 E's armor cannot be penetrated by conventional assaults." Omega said.

"I'll keep that in mind." Shadow said.

"Heeeee's mincemeat." Snake commented.

BAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAM

The X-bot 360 E open fired on Shadow.

"Is this all?" Shadow quickly weaved back and forth through the massive barrage of attacks, dodging bullets and missiles that were littering the ground with holes.

"Target moves at high velocity… change in battle strategy." The X-bot 360 E concealed all of its weapons as two vents opened up behind it. "X-bot X-terminator ray… fire!" The X-emblem on its chest glowed an even brighter green before a massive X-shaped blast of energy flew forward with Shadow charging it head long.

"At the frequency that ray is emitting it'll vaporize him." Samus said. "Is he nuts?"

"We'd better move!" Rouge said as she and Omega jumped to the side. All of them were blinded by the green light for a moment before the light died down.

"Target eliminated." X-bot 360 E said. "Surrender."

"You might want to rethink what you just said." Rouge said with a smile.

"Query: Why?"

"Chaos Burst!" Shadow suddenly appeared in front of the X-bot 360 E as a small purple dome of energy burst outward with enough force to knock the massive robot on to its back.

"Where'd he come from?" Snake asked in surprise.

"It's like he warped." Samus said.

"Whoa…" C. Falcon said in shock.

"Fire!" The other two X-bots aimed their hands at Shadow and began firing at him. Shadow however leaped at the X-bot. He back-handed it before kicking off of it and launching himself at the X-bot 360. He punched it twice before kicking off of it straight up in to the air.

"Chaos…" Shadow was in the air between the two robots as his hands glowed yellow. "…Spear!" He fired two bursts of yellow energy that pierced the two robots through their X-emblems. "Chaos boost!" Shadow then glowed a fierce red before dropping down in a ball towards the X-bot 360 E.

CRASH

Shadow punched a hole in to the X-bot 360 E's X-emblem before leaping out of it. As his aura faded he tossed a Wisdom Smash Ball up and down in his hand.

KABOOM KABOOM KABOOM

Each X-bot then exploded in succession.

"He completely destroyed them…" C. Falcon said. All three of them were shocked at this shock.

"Grrrr… as much as I hate to admit it, him plus his two partners might be out of our league by just a bit." Snake said.

"It's too much of a gambit, I say we just proceed to the tower." Samus said.

"I'm with you guys on this one." C. Falcon agreed. Samus rolled in to her morph ball and rolled away as the other two quietly crawled away.

"Well, we have what we need, let's go." Rouge said.

"…" Shadow turned and glared at the bush that Team Hunter was hiding behind. "Hmph… very well then." Shadow said before taking off with the rest of his team.

Meanwhile…

"Panther is displeased at how little a challenge that battle was." Panther said in somewhat overdramatized woe.

"Oh just stuff it already." Wolf groaned. "At least we got the Smash Ball we needed." Wolf said.

"Don't you ever get tired of saying your own name?" Leon asked annoyed.

"Panther is shocked that Panther's own team would snap at him in such a manner." Panther said.

"Okay, I'm this close to closing that mouth for you." Wolf growled. "Hm? Wait a second… do the rest of you hear that?"

"I don't see anything…" Leon said as his eyes darted back and forth.

"Panther neither hears nor smells anything."

"Hmmm… wait, what was that blur?" He asked as he got on his guard. Suddenly a small whirlwind whipped up around them as a blue blur kept running in circles around them.

"Wait… isn't this that hedgehog?" Leon asked.

"Grrrr… Panther shall…"

"Hm? Look out!" Wolf shouted. A ring landed in the middle of the group and gave off a blinding flash.

"Gah! I can't see!" Leon shouted.

"Panther's eyes!!"

"…" Wolf could still see out of his cybernetic eye-patch and looked around just in time to spot a large log flying at the team. Wolf jumped above the log no sweat, but Panther and Leon never saw it coming.

"Oof!" Leon grunted as the log landed on top of both him and Panther.

"Panther is very angry now." Panther growled.

"That does it!" Wolf pulled out his machine gun and began open firing.

"Whoa! Careful with that!" Sonic ran towards Wolf and kicked the gun out of his hand.

"Ha!" Wolf swung his claws at Sonic, only narrowly missing him.

"Whoa! Pretty fast." Sonic said, he then grabbed Wolf's bag before rolling through the nearest bushes. "But your fast isn't as fast as my fast." Sonic taunted as he took out a Wisdom Smash Ball. "See ya." He then dropped the bag and darted off.

"Get back here!" Wolf ran after Sonic firing his gun at him.

"Rah!" Panther finally pushed the log off of himself and Leon. Leon camouflaged himself while Panther stood up with his claws bared. "Where is the coward that attacked Panther?"

"Right here!" Knuckles came up behind Panther with a fist reared back.

"Hm!" Panther turned around just in time to receive a fully wound up punch right in the face. "Gah!" Panther fell backwards clutching his face as Knuckles ran off.

"I hate to hit and run, but I've got to catch up with my team." Knuckles said.

"I've got you in my sights now." Wolf was now blazing two machine guns as he darted through the forest after Sonic, whom he was barely keeping up with.

"Man, he's faster than I thought." Sonic said. "Whoa!" He somersaulted out of the way of some bullets before springing from tree trunk to tree trunk. "But still not fast enough."

"Sonic, where'd you go?" Tails asked. "Gack…"

"So you threw that flash bomb right?" Leon asked as he suddenly appeared, his tail holding Tails by the neck. "You tell me where your team mate went or things will get very ugly."

"Not if I can help it."

"Hm?" Leon turned around only to receive a gut punch followed by an uppercut from Knuckles. "GAH!" The consecutive blows forced him to let go of Tails.

"Thanks Knuckles." Tails said.

"No problem, now let's get moving." Knuckles said, grabbing Tails before gliding off.

"Leon, Panther, come in." Wolf said in to his radio as he kept pursuing Sonic. "Hey, do you two read me?" He then saw Knuckles gliding above him. "…" Wolf put his radio away and turned around. "Hmph… fine, we've still got a few days, I don't like letting them go like this… but it looks like I'll have to settle for this." Wolf thought.

Some time later…

"Finally here…" C. Falcon said. He, Samus, and Snake were wandering in the hallways of the tower, Samus had removed the Varia suit and was now in her zero suit.

"That test proved to be easier than I thought." Snake thought.

"Hmmm… but I'm kind of curious about that other team." Samus said.

"What other team?"

"Hm? Oh hey Roy!" C. Falcon said. Team Hunter turned around to find Roy, Marth, and Mewtwo behind them.

"How's it going guys?" Marth asked.

"Well we just got here." Snake said. "Were you guys the first ones here?"

"No… we were the second ones here." Mewtwo answered.

"Then who was the first?" C. Falcon asked.

"I think I know who." Samus said as she turned around. The others turned around and saw Shadow and his team proceeding down another hallway, completely ignoring the six former Smashers.

"Yeah, they were here before us." Marth said. "Well anyways, we'll be stuck here for a few days so how about we go find rooms to stay in for the time being."

"Sounds like a plan to me." Roy said.

"Don't mind if I do." C. Falcon agreed.

A few hours later…

"…" Matt was at the foot of the tower, he paused in front of it, stroking his chin in thought. "Hmmm… will this work? Yeah, yeah it'll work." Matt thought to himself. He pulled out a small radio and was just about to press the button.

"Who's there!?"

"Oh hey! And congratulations on getting here before day one was finished." Matt said with a grin as he turned to see Link, Zelda, and Ganondorf come up.

"Mr. Administrator?" Zelda asked.

"Bah formalities, loosen up a little." Matt said.

"Hey…" Zelda said.

"Anyways, just take the Smash Balls inside, you'll know what to do with them when you get inside." Matt instructed.

"Are we the first ones here?" Link asked.

"Nah, I hear three other teams inside already." Matt said.

"Three others!? I knew that we shouldn't have picked a fight with that other team before coming here." Ganondorf said.

"What are you talking about? You were the first one to suggest attacking them." Link said.

"And they didn't even have their Smash Ball anyways." Zelda added as they walked in to the nearest door.

"…" Matt waited until they were inside. He then turned around. "Congratulations!"

"Thanks, are we the first ones here?" Sonic asked as he stopped. Tails and Knuckles then caught up.

"Nope, four other teams beat you here." Matt said.

"Darn it." Sonic said.

"Hey we got here before day one was over." Tails encouraged.

"At least there's that." Knuckles said as the three of them went inside.

"Now that they're gone." Matt pulled out his radio and spoke in to it. "Casey, can you hear me? We have a very serious situation here." Matt said.

Meanwhile…

"…" Peach and the unconcious Mario bros. were in a tree that had some of its roots arching above the ground, offering some slight shelter. Peach had damp cloths on both of their foreheads and was trying her best to stay awake.

"…" Their breathing was a lot more steady now, a good sign.

"Oh… what rotten luck, Mario and Luigi are out of commission, and to make things worse I can't find our Smash Ball." Peach thought. "Oh… what are we going to do?"

Meanwhile…

"…" DK was looking around carefully, he put his head low to the ground before lumbering along.

"Why are we following the monkey?" Wario asked.

"Beats me." Bowser said.

"Ooooo oo oo ooo." DK said to them.

"Natural sense of direction? How do I know you're not making that up?" Wario asked him.

"King of Jungle!" DK said while striking a strange pose.

"For someone with a so-called good sense of direction you sure haven't done a good job at finding anybody to clobber." Bowser said.

"Eh…" DK paused to think for a minute.

"Bah! Forget it! I'm taking the lead now." Wario said as he stomped ahead.

"Uh-oh…"

Meanwhile…

"…" Felix was sitting on a tree branch with his leg dangling from it looking around the immediate area. "I don't believe it, the only team I found asleep had a Wisdom Smash Ball, the one we already have. I hope the others had better luck." Felix thought.

"I don't know why I let this monkey lead the way…"

"Hm?" Felix looked down and noticed Team Brawn. "That team… funny, but I think the gorilla is the smartest one on that team." He thought to himself. Felix looked up from his perch and noticed something else. "Wah… hey that's Princess Peach. Aren't those guys her partners, why are they unconcious?"

"Hm? Hey Wario… look." Bowser pointed through some bushes quietly.

"Hey… that's Mario's team." Wario whispered back.

Close by…

"That team of Ritos were the only guys we encountered the whole time, and they weren't that tough." Falco said.

"It's still too early to say the test is over Falco." Fox said as Yoshi sniffed around.

"I guess that's true." Falco said.

"Yoshi."

"A scent? Smells like some of our friends?" Fox asked.

Meanwhile…

"This is perfect, while Mario's unconcious we can take his Smash Ball." Wario said.

"I don't know… that'll make it so that Peach doesn't pass as well…" Bowser said.

"Hey, just think, this way you can prove that you are superior to Mario." Wario said.

"True… hey DK, let's go." Bowser said.

"Nuh-uh." DK said.

"Why not?" Wario asked annoyed.

"Oo oo ooo."

"Not fair to attack him while he's unconcious, hey his loss." Wario said.

"Nuh-uh." DK said again.

"More bananas?" Bowser offered.

"Okay!" DK was sold yet again.

Elsewhere…

"It's almost sun-up…" Night-Roller said. Lisa had slipped her heavy bundle of clothing back on. "And Felix isn't back yet."

"Is he okay?" Lisa asked.

"I'm sure he'll be fine. But still, we'd better go look for him." Night-Roller said.

"Okay." Lisa climbed on to Night-Roller's back before he started moving.

Back to Peach…

"Hm?" Peach looked up to see Wario, Bowser, and DK stomping out of the bushes. "Wario? Bowser? DK? What are you doing here?" Peach asked.

"I'll ask once, hand over your Smash Ball now, or things are going to get ugly." Wario threatened.

"What? But I can't give it to you because…" Peach began to say.

"Well, don't say I didn't ask." Wario interrupted.

"Sorry Peach." Bowser said. The three powerhouses began stomping forward.

"…" Peach got up and pulled out her frying pan. She wasn't sure that she could take on all three of them, but what other choice did she have.

"Ha!" Felix came running in and landed a flying kick to the side of Bowser's face, knocking him over.

"OOF!!"

"What the…" Wario nearly asked before Felix threw a palm heel that nailed Wario under the chin. "GAH!!"

"Oo!" DK threw a punch that Felix ducked and countered with a kick to his abdomen. "Aaaaahhh..." DK then fell over from the force of the kick.

"Hey you're… Felix." Peach said in awe. "That was fast…"

"Now now boys… you need to learn to play nice." Felix told the three guys he just knocked down.

"Augh… whoever you are… you're dead meat for that." Bowser growled as he and the other two got back up.

"Who do you think you are?" Wario asked angrily.

"Me? Oh, just someone trying to even the odds." Felix answered.

…notes…

"This chapter's longer than previous ones." Ron noted.

"Yeah, that's how I planned it." I answer. "Dear readers that I won't name. Bear in mind that I'm writing this story and I'll pace it as I see fit. I'm only human and I can't always have each chapter as long or as short as you like it, but you have my word that I'm doing what I believe makes this story more enjoyable for you."

"Can Felix really fight the three powerhouses we all know? And what of the other teams? Find out next chapter." Ron Host said.