Super Smash Exam
"Hello everybody!" I shout. "The opening author's notes today shall be aimed towards advertising."
"That's right…" Ron Host said as he read over his notes. "Ahem… today we are advertising the latest story by Game2002." Ron then held up a gigantic sign that had the title in large neon letters. "Rise of the Negativities."
"If you enjoyed such previous works like "Darkling" and "Armageddon: The Corruption", then you will surely enjoy "Rise of the Negativities", his next big multi-crossover story." I continue.
"Old Smashers and old enemies, new Smashers and new enemies, and a plot that the villains will stop at nothing to complete." Ron adds.
"Though it has slight grammar issues and it feels a little held back near the beginning, continuing to read this story is sure to blow your mind away and is most definitely worth your time."
"So check out "Rise of the Negativities" by Game2002." Ron Host finishes.
"Okay, now back to my story. Disclaim away Ron and get going, you have a part in this chapter." I tell him.
"Right!" Ron gets up. "Disclaimer: The author does not own the licensed characters or Game2002's characters, he does own his OC's and the story itself." Ron Host then leaves.
…The Pendulum Sways…
"Casey there's one thing I don't understand." Ron Host is in a room near the top of the tower. It's a nicely furnished room with a plush carpet, a plasma TV, a comfy couch and side tables at the corner of the room with potted plants. Ron is sitting on the couch, Matt is in front of a sliding glass door that leads out to a balcony, and Casey is standing right behind the couch with his back to it with his arms crossed.
"And what is that?" Casey asked.
"Wouldn't it have been better to capture those guys for… I don't know, information or something?" Ron Host asked.
"I thought of that at first, but I quickly decided against it." Casey responded.
"Why?"
"Think of it this way Ron." Matt turned around and walked toward the couch. "When I met Orochimaru he blatantly stated that he wouldn't tell me where his goons were because they hadn't served their purpose."
"Uh-huh…"
"But he would have told me their location if they had." Matt continued.
"Would Orochimaru do that if they had valuable information we could extract?" Casey asked. "Orochimaru's arrogant, but he's not stupid."
"Guess not." Ron sighed. "So even if you captured them you're sure they wouldn't have known anything?"
"Right." Both Matt and Casey answered.
"Well that doesn't make this any less of an issue." Ron Host told them. "He's making a move during the exams, that's a big weak spot isn't it?"
"Well… it's not like we're completely unprepared for a situation like this." Matt said.
"Regardless, it's better to proceed with caution." Casey said.
"So what? We do what he says for now and keep the exams going?" Ron asked.
"Boy, for a host you ask a lot of questions." Matt said with a grin. "But yes."
"Agreed."
"Okay then." Ron Host sat back. "So who's passed so far?"
"Here I've got a list." Matt handed Ron a clipboard.
"Hmmmm…" Ron skimmed over the list. "That's seven out of nine teams that consisted of the Smashers, those guys with the hedgehogs, that team that arrived with Mario and Fox's teams, the Blue Rogues… sheesh, this is impressive considering day three is only just starting."
"Say who do you bet will pass?" Matt asked Casey.
"The team with that boy. What was his name… Ike." Casey said.
"Why them?"
"He knew exactly what I would see in someone who would knowingly battle their allies for their own gain, his eyes reflect that of a mighty warrior." Casey said. "In fact, I'll bet he passes today."
"500 gil that he doesn't." Matt said.
"750 gil that he does!" Casey dared.
"Okay! 750 gil it is!" Matt agreed. They shook on it.
"Are you even allowed to gamble!?" Ron asked as he wigged out.
Meanwhile…
CLANG
"Grrrrrrr…"
"Grrrrrrr…" Ike and Pork had clashed blades. Pork was using his scythe-like blade to try and overpower Ike and his steel blade, but it was proving to be tougher than he thought. "RAH!" Ike then shoved Pork away, causing him to stumble a little.
"He's a lot stronger than he looks." Pork told Punk and Pix.
"I'm offering you the chance to surrender your Smash Ball or we'll have to take it from you." Ike told the pirate trio as Soren walked up behind him holding a strange book in his hand. Titania also rode up on her horse wielding an axe in her hand.
"I'm afraid we'll be taking yours." Punk said. "Get the other two, I'll handle their leader." Punk began open firing with his blaster. Ike ducked, rolled, and blocked the shots while making his way toward Punk.
"Gotcha!" Pix pulled out two different blasters and began firing shots at Soren.
"…" Soren proved to be surprisingly light on his feet as he side-stepped his way through the shots, opening his book as he did so.
"Here goes!" Pork pulled out a blaster much larger than his teammates' and began firing powerful laser blasts at Titania.
"Ha!" Titania lightly kicked her heels in to the horse's sides to get it to gallop faster. "Try my short axe." Titania pulled out another axe with a short handle and hurled it at Pork.
"Ha! Missed!" Pork ducked the axe. "OOF!" The axe acted as a boomerang and came back around and left a scratch in Pork's side. "That hurt…"
"Elwind!" After Soren had chanted some unintelligible words a cyclone kicked up around Pix.
"Hm!" Pix pressed a button on a device from his bag and erected some kind of barrier as numerous blades of wind flew in on him. "Gah! Had I not used my shield that could've smart."
CLANG CLANG CLANG
"Interesting technique." Punk complemented as he and Ike clashed blades.
"You haven't seen anything yet." Ike pushed Punk backwards and ran in towards Punk, he did a horizontal slash that Punk blocked, but Ike spun around and added a considerable amount of momentum to a second slash. Punk somersaulted over the top of Ike and prepared to slash Ike from behind.
"Got him." Punk swung horizontally.
"Hm!" Ike back-flipped way over the top of Punk, landed on the hand he wasn't holding his sword with, and sprang off of that back on to his feet. "Try this."
"Whoa!" Punk raised his blade as Ike performed two strong horizontal slashes, a downward vertical slash, and an upward slash that he used to lead him in to a back-flip. "Jeez…" The series of attacks left a few cracks in Punk's blade. "Regroup!" He jumped back and was joined by the other two pirates as Ike's team rejoined with him.
"These guys are stronger than we thought." Pix said. "Pork, use that weapon I made for you."
"Good idea."
"They look like they're up to something." Titania said as she got on her guard.
"Hmph… these buffoons won't succeed." Soren scoffed.
"Did he just insult us?" Pix asked.
"Hmph, we'll see how smart he is after this!" Pork said. A back-pack he had on him began to expand and form a large circle on his chest, the circle then extended in to a large cannon that Pork gripped on both sides.
"Look out!" Ike shouted.
"Fire!" Punk shouted.
BAM BAM BAM
KABOOM KABOOM KABOOM
The cannon shots left major explosions behind. "Did I get them?" Pork asked.
"What's that?" Pix asked. The other two looked up to see a steel blade twirling through the air above them.
"Hiyah!" Ike jumped out of the smoke, caught the blade while it was twirling, and came crashing down.
SHING
"AH!" Ike sliced right through Pork's cannon and hacked the barrel off of it, Ike then jumped up while slashing at Pork, back-flipping away as he cut the remains of the cannon off of Pork's chest.
"What!? Do you have any idea how much strength a person needs to have to cut through that metal!?" Pix shouted.
"Both of you! Open fire!" Punk and his team mates got out their blasters and began firing at Ike.
"Whoa!" Ike tried to block as many as he could but couldn't block all of them.
"TORNADO!!" Soren had a different book in his hands, this time his spell whipped up a large tornado that blew the three pirates backwards.
"Ah!"
"This could be worse." Pork tried to say optimistically.
"Hm?" Punk looked below them and spotted a small river. "Oh no! A river!"
"WHAT!? NOOOOOO!!"
SPLASH
"Hm?" The three mercenaries walked up to the river where the pirates landed, instead they saw a rooster, a cow, and a monkey with eagle wings. "What the heck is this?" Ike asked.
"Did those guys…" Titania looked at the animals.
"Mooooooooooo!!" Pork rushed Ike.
"Hmph…" Ike put his sword away, turned and grabbed Pork by the horns, he then quickly wrestled Pork to the ground.
"Wind!" Soren blew the other two away with a simple wind spell.
"I found their Smash Ball." Titania said as she pulled out a wisdom smash ball.
"Just what we needed. Let's go." Ike said.
"Moooooo…" Pork groaned.
Meanwhile…
"Hey look, it's sleeping." Some random Hylians said. Lucario was leaning against a tree sleeping peacefully.
"Let's look for its Smash Ball." Another one said. Two of them quietly snuck up to Lucario.
"Strange flower." The last one looked at a fairly large pink flower sticking out from the bushes that was still budding. "Hm? Whoa!"
"Whoa!" All three of them found themselves snatched up by the legs by three green vines.
"Ivysaur!" A small blue dinosaur like creature came out of the bushes.
"Hey!" The flower the Hylian spotted earlier was attached to its back.
"Great job Ivysaur." Blue said as he came out of the bushes.
"You were right Blue, just set a trap and eventually someone would come by this way." Lucario said as he got up.
"Ivysaur, get their Smash Ball." Blue said.
"Ivy!" he nodded as he extended a fourth vine from under the leaves of his flower, holding it out to the Hylians.
"J-just take it!" One of them stammered as he held it out. Ivysaur grabbed it and dropped it in to Blue's back-pack.
"Ha! A Power Smash Ball, just what we needed." Blue said with a thumbs up.
"That was easy." Lucario said.
"Okay, you can let them go Ivysaur." Blue said.
"Ivy." Ivysaur promptly dropped them.
"Ouch! Hey red, be more gentle."
"My name is Blue darn it!!" Blue shouted it.
"You know, it might help if you didn't wear red." Lucario pointed out.
Meanwhile…
"And you're sure they didn't see you?" T. Link asked Tetra as she held out a Power Smash Ball.
"Yep, those monsters didn't see a thing as I swiped it." Tetra said while giving a thumbs up.
"Raaaaaaah!" Some moblins came rushing in wielding their polearms.
"Ah!" Komali yelped.
"Go! I'll hold them off!" T. Link shouted. Tetra passed the Smash Ball to Komali as wings covered his arms, allowing him to fly off.
"Grrrr…" One of the moblins snarled at T. Link as he drew his sword.
"Hiyah!" T. Link rushed the first moblin, jumped his horizontal swing and did a vertical flip as he slashed the moblin over the head.
"OOF!!" The moblin disappeared in a puff of purple smoke.
"Just try me!" T. Link dared the other two as they glared at him.
Meanwhile…
"Ha ha! We… the Wii warriors, have acquired another SMASH BAAAAAAAALLLLLL!!" One of the Wii warriors shouted.
"Sh! What is with you and shouting things so loudly?" The leader asked him with a hushed tone.
"Sorry…"
"Hey guys look!" One of them pointed at someone lying on the ground.
"It looks like someone lying on the ground, he looks pretty beat up too." Another one commented.
"Let's check him out." The three of them got close.
"…" Wario lay motionless for a moment, but when all three of them got close.
POOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT
"UGH!! THAT SMELL!!"
"Got them!" Bowser came in with plugs in his nose and back-handed them all from behind.
"Oooooo!" DK came in with plugs in his nose as well and checked them for Smash Balls. "Ok!" DK held out both a Wisdom and Power Smash Ball.
"Ha ha! Excellent! They had both of them! Let's go!" Wario pulled out a motorcycle from seemingly nowhere and sped off, leaving the other two behind.
"Hey wait up!" Bowser shouted.
"Hey!" DK shouted before the two went chasing after them.
"Relax… we still have… two more days." One of the Wii Warriors groaned.
Back at the tower…
"Odd how most of the floors don't have windows." Samus commented. She, Mario, Link, Zelda, and Mewtwo were in a waiting room of sorts.
"I wonder if there's a reason for that." Link wondered out loud.
"If I could read the administrator's minds I would tell you." Mewtwo said.
"Yeah now that you mention it, when I used my Triforce of Wisdom to temporarily borrow knowledge from most everyone in the first test, I don't believe I received knowledge from the administrator of that test." Zelda added.
"That would mean he would have to have a significant amount of knowledge in the magical arts." Mewtwo said.
"Really? I overheard him talking with the administrator of this test and they said how the first administrator was the least knowledgeable of magic out of them." Felix said, walking in to the room.
"Hello-a Felix." Mario said.
"Hello." Felix responded, taking a seat.
"Hmmm… but if what-a Felix said is-a true… if-a the first-a administrator has-a the least amount of-a magical knowledge-a…" Mario started.
"And yet is still able to block the power of the Triforce of Wisdom…" Zelda continued.
"Sheesh, makes me wonder just how strong these administrators really are." Link said.
"It is a curiosity." Samus said. "Say… Felix was it? That girl that you and your other friend have with you… she normally wears heavy clothing, why isn't she doing that around here?" She asked.
"Well… it has something to do with what you were talking about at the start." Felix answered reluctantly.
"The windows?" Link asked.
"Why is-a that-a?" Mario asked.
"Sorry, not my place to say." Felix told them.
"…" Mewtwo looked at Felix. "Hmph… it's their secret to tell if they want, I'll say nothing."
Elsewhere in the tower…
"…" Lisa was holding a small necklace that had a beautiful diamond on it. She was in a pink T-shirt with a flower on it, white jeans and sneakers.
"My… that's a pretty gem." Rouge said, standing outside the room.
"It's… from Joseph…" Lisa said.
"…" Rouge couldn't help but eye the gem.
"…" Lisa was really uncomfortable with Rouge hanging in front of the door.
"Mind if I…" Rouge began.
"Please… can you leave me alone?" Lisa asked quietly as her eyes glowed red and orange.
"…" Rouge wasn't sure why, a moment ago she wanted that diamond necklace, but now she felt more compelled to do as Lisa asked. "Sure…" Rouge replied. "Strange… why am I listening to her?" She wondered as she walked away.
Meanwhile…
"Congratulations on passing!" Casey said as he gave Ike a pat on the back.
"Uh… thanks." Ike responded. As he and his team walked away, Casey turned to Matt.
"Okay, pay up Matt." Casey told him.
"Aw… fizz!" Matt reached for his pocket and handed Casey a somewhat small bag.
It is now the fourth day…
"Ha ha! We… the Wii Warriors! Have now acquired both SMASH BAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLS!!"
"STOP SHOUTING!" The other two yelled.
"Look!" A team of soldiers from Hyrule pointed at the Wii Warriors.
"Augh… you two go I'll cover our escape." One of them said as he pulled out a gun that had a nunchuck attachment on the back, and a Wii remote mounted on the front. "Taste my zapper!"
"Let's go!" One of the Wii Warriors shouted.
Elsewhere…
"Ugh…" Three Galactic Federation troopers fell to the ground as Punk, Pix, and Pork stood over them in their original forms.
"Good thing you had that hot water bottle Pix." Pork said.
"Otherwise that Jusenkyo curse would have affected us for the duration of the test." Punk added.
"Well, either way, we made up for the lost Smash Ball." Pix said.
"Shall we go then?" Punk asked.
"Yes!" Pork answered.
"That was a rhetorical question Pork." Punk told him.
"Sorry."
In another location of the woods…
"RAH!!" Panther gut-punched a helpless Cornerian soldier before elbowing him under the chin and knocking him out.
"W-wh-where did you go?" Another Cornerian soldier asked as he backed up. "Oof!" Leon made himself visible behind him and knocked him out cold.
"Too easy." Leon commented.
"Oof! ARGH!!" Wolf delivered a right hook to the last soldier, then grabbed him by the top of the head and slammed him in to the ground.
"That's that. Okay, check what Smash Ball they have." Wolf ordered.
"Ah ha! Panther has received the Smash Ball we need!" Panther exclaimed.
"Well, that settles that then." Leon chuckled. "I hope Falco is around for me to torture."
"We'll find out once we get to the tower." Wolf said with a grin.
In yet another location…
"Where'd that babbling moron go?" A koopa troopa asked his goomba partner.
"No clue, Hammer Bro. did you see him?" The goomba asked.
"No I haven't." Hammer Bro. answered.
"Mua ha ha ha! I have fury!!" Fawful was wearing his odd helmet with two jets on its sides and a mouth at the top of it. The mouth inhaled and spit out numerous green colored orbs that blew up in the faces of the three minions.
"AUGH!!"
"YOU WON'T STOP ME FROM MEETING MARIOOOOOOO!!" Jr. Troopa shouted as he ran in and knocked those three in to the air.
"Hmmmm…" Bowser Jr. walked up and examined the three minions. "Ha! They have the Smash Ball we need!" Bowser Jr. shouted.
"Mua ha ha ha! Now we shall have completion of this test that is second in these Exams of Smash!" Fawful ranted. "I HAVE EXCITEMENT!!"
Meanwhile…
"I can't believe that our King has been sleeping throughout this whole test." Sword Knight commented. Indeed, King Dedede was behind them snoring loudly.
"If he doesn't wake up soon we'll fail." Blade Knight responded.
"Ha… easy pickings." A Rito birdman and his partners were above the team.
"Try throwing bombs." One suggested.
"Here goes." One reached in to his bag and pulled out a bomb. He hurled the bomb down at the team.
"Aaaaaaah…" Dedede woke up with a yawn. "Okay let's get… hm? Yipe!" King Dedede stood up, opened his mouth, and inhaled deeply, sucking the bomb in to his mouth.
"Huh?"
"Pwah!" Dedede then spit the bomb back towards the Ritos.
"Ah!"
KABOOM
"That could have been wo…" One Rito began to say.
WHAM
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!" King Dedede used his hammer to whack the tree with enough power to uproot it and cause it to fall over.
"Don't mess with the King!"
"That was ironic…" Sword Knight said under his breath.
"No kidding." Blade Knight answered back.
"Ha! They even have the Smash Ball we need, let's go." King Dedede ordered.
Later in the day…
"You only caught four fish?" Nana asked Y. Link. Team Awesome was sitting next to a river with a small pile of wood ready to cook the fish.
"Yeah, the fish were very skittish today." Y. Link said sheepishly.
"But I can eat four by myself…" Popo groaned.
"Well, not much we can do about it." Ness sighed. Y. Link stuck sticks through the fish and set them over a pile of wood. "PK Fire!" Ness ignited the pile of wood and soon were cooking the fish.
"I bet the others have passed by now." Nana sighed.
"Yeah… But we haven't yet." Popo added.
"We just haven't fought anybody with the right Smash Ball." Y. Link said.
"Well there was that one team with Shadow." Nana said.
"No way." Ness said quickly. "He didn't go full strength on me that one time I fought him, and I'd rather avoid fighting him if I can." Ness continued. "Ugh… we gave ourselves too much time to set up camp and gather food."
"Maybe we could just keep looking around." Y. Link suggested.
"Maybe…" The Ice Climbers said simultaneously.
Rustle…
"Who's there!?" Ness shouted, pulling out his yo-yo.
"It seems as though I wasn't quiet enough."
"Hey you're that Helmet guy!" Y. Link said. True to his words, Helmet was standing in front of them.
"You here for our Smash Ball?" Ness asked defensively.
"Actually no, I just got both of mine." Helmet answered as he held his out. "I was just on my way to the tower, so I'll be going now." He said as he turned to the river to cross it.
"Wait!" Ness shouted.
"Hm?" Helmet turned around to look at Ness.
"Come on… I'll fight you for those Smash Balls." Ness challenged as he twirled his yo-yo.
"Heh… I don't think your heart is really in those words." Helmet chuckled.
"Huh?"
"If you really wanted my Smash Balls, you would have just attacked me while I wasn't paying attention."
"This guy's good." Y. Link mused.
"But… I do appreciate your honesty." Helmet said. He stood where he was for a moment while thinking. "Tell you what, I can help you find that last Smash Ball you need if you really want to pass."
"Really? No joke?" Popo asked.
"Really." Helmet answered.
"Hmmm… I guess…" Ness said. "But we will be watching." He warned.
"Fair enough." Helmet answered.
A moment later…
"So explain this again." Nana requested.
"As the last day is approaching, more and more of the participants are beginning to come up with new strategies to get Smash Balls." Helmet said. "So even if they don't have the Smash Balls they need, or if they have excess numbers of Smash Balls, they're making their way to the tower."
"I get it." Y. Link said. "That way they can wait on teams that do have Smash Balls, or bargain their way out."
"Exactly, or even meet up with a team that has a few of their friends in it and offer them Smash Balls and keep Smash Balls away from teams they don't like." Helmet added.
"That makes sense." Ness said.
"If we head for the tower, we're bound to run in to one of those teams." Y. Link said excitedly.
"Okay! I'm game!" Popo cheered.
"For now let's keep moving." Helmet told them.
The five of them continued to travel through the forest, the Ice Climbers occasionally climbing up to the tree tops in order to get a birds-eye-view. Ness would scan the area for minds, yet they were still having trouble finding a team. Night time was now approaching.
"Sheesh, we're this close to the tower and still nothing." Ness sighed.
"Hmmmm… I don't know, it still feels like we're being watched." Y. Link said uneasily.
"Popo…"
"Hold on Nana, maybe we just overlooked something." Popo said.
"Popo…"
"Could it be that we passed by a team?" Helmet wondered out loud.
"POPO!!"
"Yeah?" Popo asked.
"Look…" Nana said.
"Huh?" Everyone looked around them to find lots of figures coming out from the bushes. All of them resembled Nana, Popo, Ness, Y. Link, or Helmet.
"What the heck is this?" Ness asked as he looked around at the numerous copies of themselves.
"This doesn't seem promising." Helmet said as he put his hands up and got in a defensive position.
"…" Y. Link got his sword and shield out and stood in a fighting stance.
"Get ready Nana…" Popo said, gripping his mallet tightly.
"Right." Nana said with a nod.
"This is going to be a looooooong night." Ness added.
…Notes…
"Augh! Cliffhangers again!?" Ron groaned.
"Yep." I say. "Anyways, I have another announcement to make."
"What is it?" Ron asked.
"Lately "Chronicles of the Dusk", the story I put on pause to continue this story, has been stuck in my head. So after I complete this test I'm putting this story on a brief hiatus."
"Huh?"
"I'll put up one or two short story arcs for "Chronicles of the Dusk", and then come right back to this story, so it shouldn't take too long." I add.
"So wait, you're just jumping to another story then?" Ron asked.
"Yep." I say with a nod.
"And then jumping right back?" Ron asked again.
"Exactly."
"Oy… I guess I can't change your mind though can I? Well, find out what happens to Ness' team next chapter." Ron says.