Super Smash Exam

"Man… now that Ron is working with Cole on these preliminaries he's not around to do the disclaimer…" I sigh. "Good thing I have this tape-recording!" I then pull out a tape recorder and push the play button.

"Disclaimer: The author does not own the licensed characters or Game2002's characters; he does own his OC's and the story itself." The tape-recorder played.

"Now read on and see who passes these preliminaries."

…KO…

"Great-a job Mario!" Luigi said happily as he gave Mario a pat on the back.

"Thank you very much-a." Mario told Luigi.

"Look, the next battle is being decided." Peach said as she pointed at the large TV screen.

"And the next battle is…" Ron said, waiting for the names to stop. "Bowser!"

"Yes! Bring it on!" Bowser shouted as he jumped right off of the balcony and right to the floor.

"Bowser vs. Kung Fu guy!"

"What?" Bowser looked at his opponent.

"I will defeat you!" Some guy in a martial arts uniform shouted.

"Not you again! I clobbered you a few stories ago already!" Bowser griped.

"I will defeat you!" Kung Fu guy shouted yet again.

"Begin." Cole said.

"I will defeat you!" The Kung Fu guy began doing multiple flips and somersaults towards Bowser's position. Just before the Kung Fu guy was about to attack Bowser threw a jab in to his face and knocked him out instantly.

"Sheesh, once a bag of hot air always a bag of hot air." Bowser sighed before he lumbered off.

"The winner is Bowser." Cole said while everyone else just stared at the Kung Fu guy.

"That was sad." Vyse commented.

"Next match is…" Ron turned to the TV screen. "Lucario vs. Panther Caroso!"

"Understood." Lucario jumped down from his position beside Blue.

"Good luck Lucario!" Blue called out.

"Ha! Panther shall put this dog in his place." Panther bragged as he calmly walked down the ramp from the balcony, holding on to a red rose delicately.

"Ugh… drop the rose already." Leon sighed.

"I've never seen that kind of Pokémon before." Lucas said while trembling.

"You've seen Pokémon though?" Olimar asked.

"Um… yeah… w-we have trading cards at my home." Lucas said shyly.

"Mewtwo, what can a Lucario do?" Marth asked.

"Just watch. I already know how this battle will end." Mewtwo said.

"…" The two opponents stood across from each other and awaited the signal to begin.

"Begin!" Cole called out.

"Ha!" Panther rushed in and threw the first punch. Lucario blocked the fist and threw his own, which was also blocked. The two quickly entered in to an exchange of punches and kicks with each other, Lucario finally ducked one punch and thrust his palm forward.

"Force palm…" A blue aura blasted forward from Lucario's palm and blew Panther back a few feet.

"Impressive, but not as good as Panther." Panther said. He quickly regained his footing and ran forward even faster than before. "Grrrrrah!"

"Hm!" Lucario began blocking punch after punch, however Panther quickly gained the edge over Lucario and was beginning to land more blows on him. After so many punches Panther threw punch that smacked Lucario in the cheek.

"Ha ha!"

"Gotcha…"

"Hm?"

"RAH!" Lucario responded with a fierce kick to the side of Panther's head that sent him sprawling to the side.

"GAH! What?" Panther got up just in time for Lucario to run up with a fist drawn back. Panther barely raised his hand in time to block the punch, and even then he barely stopped it. "What is this?"

"Ha!" Lucario threw five quick fists before jumping and kicking Panther's chest twice. "Rah!" The second he landed he delivered a gut punch, a rising knee to his face, a right hook, and then he thrust his left palm. "Force palm!"

BAM

"RAAAAHHH!!" Unlike last time, Panther was sent flying backwards by the attack where he crashed in to the wall forcefully. "Ooooooooggg…" Panther stood up and stumbled forward.

"I suggest you surrender now." Lucario threatened.

"Whoa… that Lucario turned the tables quickly." Link said.

"What is this?" Peach asked.

"Lucario is a fighting and steel-type Pokémon." Mewtwo began. "It is unique in that the more damage it takes the more powerful its attacks become."

"Hmmmm… an interesting opponent, not one to take lightly." Snake commented with interest.

"Panther never surrenders!" Panther growled before running forward yet again.

"Don't you get it?" Lucario asked. He blocked and countered Panther's moves with ease as Panther continued to relentlessly attack Lucario. "Those blows you gave me at the start, I let you land those blows."

"Ha! Lies only meant to intimidate Pan-OOF!" Before Panther could finish that sentence Lucario kicked him right under the chin. "Grrr… GAH!!" Lucario then rammed his elbow down on top of Panther's gut. "Urk…" Panther then passed out.

"Pft… that was pathetic Panther." Wolf scoffed.

"The winner is Lucario." Cole said.

"It was an honor." Lucario said, bowing to Cole before walking up the ramp to the balcony.

"Next up is…" Ron started.

"Hopefully a more interesting match." Ganondorf commented.

"Omega vs. Egg-robot." Cole said.

"Nope, not interesting at all."

"…" A red robot that was somewhat egg-shaped stepped up as Omega stomped his way to the other side.

"Destroy all Eggman robots…" Omega said as his metallic claws spun around and around at the wrist.

"Begin." Ron Host said.

RATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATA

"…" The Eggman Robot was full of holes from automatic fire from the Gatling-gun like barrels that had replaced his hands. The barrels retracted as his claws reappeared.

"Objective met." Omega said as the robot fell to the ground.

"Omega is the winner!" Cole announced.

"He left holes in the wall!" Ron shouted in annoyance.

"Hm hm… that was easy." Rouge said with a smile as Omega rejoined her and Shadow.

"So who's next!? I want a battle!" Wario shouted.

"Wario vs. Random Toad!" Ron Host announced.

"YES!!" Wario shouted as he slammed a fist in to his palm.

"Urp… Mr. Administrator…" The Toad squeaked.

"Yes?" Cole asked.

"I quit!" The Toad then ran out of the room.

"WHAT!? HEY I DIDN'T EVEN GET A BATTLE YOU LITTLE TWERP!!" Wario shouted before running after the toad.

"Ummmm… next battle." Ron said, ignoring what just happened. "Link vs. Wii Aim!"

"Hey, my match." Link said as he jumped down from the balcony.

"You're up Wii Aim!" One of the Wii Warriors told his partner.

"No problem, I'll show him who's boss." He replied as he jumped down as well.

"Heh…" Link drew his Master sword and Mirror shield and took a fighting stance.

"You think you can beat my weapon?" Wii Aim taunted as he pulled out a gun that looked like a Wii zapper.

"We'll see." Link responded.

"Begin." Cole said.

"Fire!" Wii Aim pulled the trigger on the zapper and fired a laser beam at Link.

"A laser? Please." Link raised his mirror shield and reflected the laser back at Wii Aim as he ran forward.

"Whoa!" Wii Aim jumped to the side before taking another shot. However Link deflected this laser as well. "Change of plans." Wii Aim pressed the 1 button, the 2 button, and then the A button. "Rapid fire!"

"Whoa!" Link had to duck behind his shield as the Wii Zapper began firing lasers at a rapid rate.

"AAAAHH!" Luigi shouted as he ducked from the laser shots.

"Whoa! Watch it!" Night-Claw shouted as he side-stepped a laser.

"…" While he was behind the shield, Link pulled out a bomb from his magic bag. "Hiyah!" Link ran to the side before hurling the bomb.

"Huh?"

KABOOM

"Whoa!" Wii Aim was blown backwards a fair bit by the explosion.

"Ha!" Link ran out of the smoke from the explosion as he threw his boomerang. The boomerang flew towards Wii Aim and knocked his Wii Zapper out of his hand.

"Oh no!" Wii Aim shouted as Link drew his sword. "Or not!" Wii Aim then reached behind his back and pulled out a second Wii Zapper.

"What!?"

"Nice try." Wii Aim then fired the laser point blank in to Link's gut.

"Oof!" The laser had enough force to send Link flying backwards with a hole burned through his tunic and a burn mark on his stomach. "Ow…"

"Ready to quit?" Wii Aim asked as he picked up his other Wii Zapper and aimed them both at Link.

"Not quite." Link rolled backwards on to his feet and raised his shield in time to deflect more laser shots.

"I'll get you eventually!" Wii Aim shouted as he continued to fire.

"Not if I do this." Link placed a bombchu on the ground before letting it crawl towards Wii Aim.

"Not falling for that!" Wii Aim shot the bombchu and detonated it prematurely. "Hm? Whoa!" Wii Aim ducked under a boomerang and jumped to the side to avoid the boomerang on its return path. "Ha as if I'd…"

"Ice arrow!" Link then fired an arrow veiled in icy mist at Wii Aim.

"Gah!" The arrow froze him in his place, covering him in ice. "S-s-so cold…" He stuttered.

"Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!" Link drew his Master sword and charged forward.

"W-wait a minute! We c-can ta-talk this o-out!" Wii Aim shouted as he shut his eyes.

"Link isn't really going to…" Nana started.

SHING

"Huh?" Wii Aim opened his eyes and saw that his Zappers had been sliced in two.

"Well, that's all." Link said as he held his sword at the back of Wii Aim's neck.

"Link wins this match." Cole announced. "Next battle…"

"Grrrr…" A few minutes after the battle was announced, Wario came in to the room, grumbling to himself. "Little twerp didn't even let me fight…" Wario grumbled as he rejoined Bowser and DK. "What'd I miss?"

"Oooo oo Kunckles ooo oo!" DK told him.

"What!? I just missed Knuckles clobber somebody!?" Wario shouted.

"Ha! I bet you couldn't top that garlic breath!" Knuckles shouted at Wario.

"Say that to my face you dreadlocked freak!" Wario shouted.

"No fighting unless you have a match!" Ron shouted at the two of them as the screen began flashing more and more names.

"Titania vs. Night-Roller." Cole read from the screen.

"Good luck Night-Roller." Night-Princess told Night-Roller.

"You can take her." Night-Claw said.

"Thanks guys." Night-Roller said as he jumped down, landing smoothly despite the roller blades.

"We don't know what he's capable of, you'd best use caution." Soren warned.

"I won't forget that." Titania said.

"Good luck Titania." Ike said.

"Here's your steed ma'am." A random guy said, bringing Titania's horse in.

"Does she need the horse to fight?" Night-Claw asked.

"Don't underestimate cavaliers and paladins." Marth said from nearby. "They move swiftly, and they strike hard."

"Hmph…" Night-Claw shrugged as if he weren't impressed.

"Let's see what that tech can do." C. Falcon said.

"I've already scanned it." Samus said. "It's impressive for his time period, but nothing compared to my suit." Samus said.

"Your suit makes almost anything pale in comparison, that's hardly a fair comparison." Fox commented from nearby.

"Begin." Cole said.

"…" Night-Roller crouched lower as Titania charged forward.

"Ha!" Titania hurled her short axe forward. Night-Roller ducked under it as he rocketed forward on his roller blades.

"Try this!" Night-Roller threw a punch at Titania, however she quickly pulled her horse's reigns to the side and avoided the punch as she caught her short axe. Night-Roller used the momentum from his punch to whirl around, skate backwards and aim his fingers at her. "What?"

"Don't think I'm done yet." Night-Roller fired small bursts of energy from his fingertips rapidly at Titania.

"Whoa!" Titania pulled out another axe and used the broadside of the axe to block the energy blasts as she had her horse gallop forward. Titania threw her short axe again, which Night-Roller dodged yet again. However as he was dodging, Titania maneuvered behind him and had her other axe prepped to swing.

"Huh?"

"Ha!" She swung her axe at the back of his helmet, however there was a small blue flicker as her axe was deflected away. "What?"

"Sorry, didn't want to let on that I was using a force field." Night-Roller said as he turned around and punched her off of her horse.

"OOF!!" Titania landed on the ground roughly. "What a punch…"

"You givin' up?" Night-Roller asked as he held a hand over her.

"He… defeated her…" Ike said in surprise.

"Quite easily as well." Soren added as apathetic as ever.

"…" Titania cringed a bit before she took a deep breath. "I… I'll forfeit." Titania said reluctantly.

"The winner is Night-Roller!" Cole announced.

"Hey, you still put up a good fight." Night-Roller said, helping Titania up. "For just an axe swing you took a big chunk of power out of my force-field."

"You didn't need to say that, but thank you." Titania responded, shaking hands with Night-Roller.

"Okay, moving on…" Ron said. The screen began picking more names as the two contestants walked off. "Next is Sonic and Pork!"

"Here I go." Pork said as he jumped down, causing a slight thud when he landed.

"All right!" Sonic said, jumping clear over Pork and landing on the other side of the room.

"Don't lose yet Pork, we didn't come this far to fail."

"I won't!" Pork said as he pulled out his larger than normal blaster.

"Heh… just try and hit me." Sonic taunted.

"Begin."

"Rah!" Pork began firing large laser blasts at Sonic.

"Too slow!" Sonic zipped off to the side and ran around the room in a blur.

"Hey! Hold still!" Pork shouted. "RAH!" He then slammed the ground as hard as he could.

"Whoa!" This caused Sonic to lose his footing, plus with his added momentum he went crashing in to a wall as a result. "Ouch…"

"Gotcha!" Pork turned towards the wall and fired another laser blast.

"Wah!" Sonic narrowly got on his feet and avoided the laser blast that was fired at him. Sonic curled up in to a ball and aimed at Pork.

"Whatever you're doing it won't work!" Pork shouted.

BAM

ZIP

KABOOM

Sonic rocketed forward as Pork fired his laser, missing Sonic by a fair bit. Sonic then rammed in to Pork full force. "OOF!!"

"Homing attack!" Sonic then hurled himself back at Pork before bouncing down on top of his head.

"Ooooogg… huh?" Pork looked up and noticed that Sonic was running around him in circles, whipping up a small whirlwind. "Whoa whoa whoa…" Pork found it hard to keep his balance in this whirlwind.

"Try this!" Sonic then tackled Pork, ramming him in his face before kicking off of him.

"GAAAAAHHH!!" Pork then fell on to his back.

"Did that blue hedgehog just…" Pix began to ask.

"The winner is Sonic." Cole said.

"Yes Pix, yes he did." Punk sighed.

"Way to go Sonic!" Tails shouted.

"Ha! I would've just clobbered that pirate." Wario bragged.

"Yoshi."

"Okay, who's next!?" Y. Link asked as a bunch of people struggled to help Pork back on to his feet.

"We're finding out…" Ron said as the screen flashed more names. "The next match is… Roy!"

"Alright!" Roy said as he drew his sword.

"And his opponent is… Y. Link!"

"What!?" Y. Link shouted.

"No!" Peach shouted.

"Th-that's hardly fair." Zelda stammered.

"Pika!"

"No way…" Roy gawked.

"Mama-mia…"

"I… I have to fight Roy?" Y. Link asked.

"I don't want to fight Y. Link." Roy said.

"Both contestants, please come to the floor unless you both wish to fail." Cole warned.

"…" There was an uneasy silence as Roy and Y. Link reluctantly walked down the ramp from the balcony.

"M-M-Mario… this isn't-a fair-a…" Luigi stuttered.

"I know-a Luigi… I know-a." Mario sighed.

"This isn't right." C. Falcon said.

"I don't like it… but let's face it, there was always a chance of this." Fox said with a heavy sigh.

"This bites…" Falco said.

"Yoshi…"

"Y. Link…" Roy sighed.

"Yeah?" Y. Link asked.

"For both our sakes… don't you dare hold back." Roy said reluctantly as he gripped his sword tightly.

"I won't…" Y. Link said before drawing his sword and shield.

"Begin!" Cole declared.

…Notes…

"I'll confess, the fights are all planned out, but the order isn't quite so well organized. Regardless of that, only one of these former Smashers is moving on to the final test. So who will it be? Find out next chapter!"