The room itself wasn't too big, but not too tiny either. It had three bunk beds, eight dressers stacked against one wall, a mirror on the opposite one, and a small closet in a corner. The beds were themed around the six basic colors and even the wood holding them off was sectioned off in the spectrum. The red-colored bed, the top bunk closest to the door, already had a suitcase on it that was slightly spilling out with clothes and Pokéballs.
"I guess that's your bed." Lloyd said to Red while pointing at the bunk.
"Yeah, it is. I probably should've cleaned it up before you came."
"It's alright, I'm more likely to make a bigger mess while I'm here."
Red nodded as an answer before asking Lloyd about which bed he was going to sleep in.
"I think I should sleep in the green one." Lloyd answered while pointing to the lower bunk near the mirror. "It's color-coded to me, and whoever else ends up sleeping in here can match up to their own color."
"That's a good plan. I just picked the first bunk I saw and climbed up to the top. I guess it was fate that it was the color that matched me."
Lloyd acknowledged the end of the conversation and walked over to his bed. He threw his suitcase on top of it, accidently unlatching the sides from each other and opening it up, to which everything inside fell out. He crouched down onto the ground and collected all of the clothes before trying to fold them up and put them back in. Once everything was squeezed in, he pushed the whole thing to the corner against the wall and stuck his chigiriki in the gap between the wall and the bed. He turned to Red and asked him if there was anything else he needed to do.
"Well, I might as well show you how to use a map." Red told Lloyd. "You're probably going to need it, seeing as how it's the first day and you got lost when there were signs that pointed to the main hallway."
After a little while of studying the map, Lloyd made almost no progress. The rooms were covered in strange symbols and colors that didn't help him. The key on the back also wasn't much use. It DID give information on what everything was, but there were so many things to memorize that it was just about useless to even TRY to memorize it. The key took up at least three pages after all.
"I think you might be an experience learner." Red thought out loud.
"I think I am too." Lloyd agreed. "I'll keep the map for practice, but what's next?"
"You need to know where the main rooms are, like the dining area and restrooms. In case the ones you make friends with are in competitions, you have to learn where the rooms are. I can help you find them the first few times though.
"Awesome! Lead the way!"
Lloyd followed Red out into the hallway and around a corner that led to the stairs. The staircase itself was pretty tall, but seemed well-cared for. 'I kinda feel sorry for whoever has to clean the stairs.' He thought to himself. 'That's a long way up to carry a vacuum or something.' Right then he almost ran into Red on the last step. Apparently there was some kind of commotion at the bottom floor, and it just so happened that they had to travel right through it.
"Okay, time for a short lesson about the Smash Mansion and some of its older Smashers." Red began. "Don't get in the way of Link and Marth when they're ready to fight. Especially if they have any other sword masters around. What's going on right now is they've probably just got out of a recent competition, and it looks like it was a team battle. I think they were on the same side and lost."
Lloyd looked between the spaces of the others in front of him and saw the two swordsmen dueling in the hallway. Their weapons danced around each other, trying to land a blow. Link had a shield to defend himself, but was a bit slower. Marth had nothing to defend himself, but he was much faster and could easily dodge the attacks.
Lloyd was transfixed by the show in front of him. The two were so strong, very much experts in their weaponry. It was hard to imagine that they could lose a tag team battle, especially if they were working together. He would have tried to move closer to see, but the fight was interrupted by a shockwave.
Lloyd was thankful that he was near the back once the shockwave stopped everything. When he looked around after the dust fell to see what caused it, he noticed a small, round device in the middle of the hallway. I broke apart after a few seconds and exploded, leaving no evidence that it was there in the first place.
Everyone started leaving after that. Lloyd waited until the area was generally clear before he went to investigate the battle scene. Red was close behind him and even checked the floor and walls with him to see if anything was left behind, but nothing appeared. It was as if nothing happened.
"Well, I think we're out of luck to see what caused all of that." Red told Lloyd after a few minutes. "But we need to finish the tour."
"Alright." Lloyd agreed before getting up.
Red pointed to a door near the end of the hallway before speaking. "The floors are duplicated, and if you go up a floor and head over to that same spot, you'll be in a similar room. It's the bathroom, but be careful after a fight if you want to go in. Sometimes we get a bit too dizzy during out battles."
Lloyd took a mental note of the room before walking with Red. They exited the hallway and walked into a small intersection that led into three other directions. He followed Red to the right path and noticed that there was a room in front of them. The room had a bunch of seats in it along with a large T.V screen that was visible from where he was standing. He ran on ahead to get a closer look at the room and noticed that it was a living room. After gawking at the huge shelf full of games he was pulled away by Red to some other room.
They walked through another hallway before stopping in another room. "This is the dining area." Red told Lloyd when they stepped through the doorway into the large room. "When it's time for us to eat, food is prepared in the kitchen, which is right over there, and carried into here by whoever's job it is for the week."
"So we have to work here then?"
"Sadly, yes. We can't just live here and fight all the time. We have to take care of ourselves and others or risk getting dangerously hurt."
Lloyd nodded before following Red into another hallway to continue the tour.
Lloyd was shown basically every room in the whole Mansion, even the one he'd already been in. He learned how to tell which rooms are whose and when not to mess with them. He was taught to not run too far outside due to a strong force field around the place that would hurt if he ran too fast into it, and he was also told how to train in the Training Room.
Lloyd was given homework after the tour. It was to be able to find the dining area so they wouldn't be late for dinner. He closed his eyes to try and remember the path they took to get to where they were standing, and he chose a hallway that seemed to lead to their destination. He recognized hallway after hallway, each time he became more confident, and eventually he managed to guide Red to the dining area with little to no trouble.
"Awesome work Lloyd!" Red congratulated. "Although you seem to be understanding how to navigate in this place, hold on to the map anyway in case of an emergency. Crazy stuff happens here, and you never know what could come in handy."
Lloyd agreed to keep the map before sitting down at one of the tables with Red. It was only a minute or two of silence before they could hear noises coming from outside of the room. The door opened up and just about every Smasher left in the Mansion came running in and sat down at a table. It all happened so quickly that he didn't notice two others sit down at the table he and Red were at.
"Lloyd, meet Pit and Sheik. Pit and Sheik, this is Lloyd, the newcomer."
"Uhh… Hi." Lloyd greeted once he caught up to everything.
"Hello Lloyd." Sheik said.
"Hi!" Pit happily said to Lloyd. "So you're the newcomer, huh?"
"Yeah. I got beat by Red's Charizard on the Destiny's Bounty. It's pretty strong, and it's hard to fight when I'm not used to this place."
"I can understand that." Sheik told Lloyd. "When I first joined as Zelda, I had more trouble fighting than anyone. I am not used to fighting, only defending."
"I fight a lot of the time so I'm used to changing my battleground." Pit said. "The only thing that's hard for me is dealing with different items. I don't even know how half of them work."
"Me neither." Lloyd sympathized. "Like the Smart Bombs. They get thrown and just explode, but leave the terrain normal."
"I think it has some sort of weird sensor-radar thing." Red suggested. "Either that or the magic of this Mansion is stronger than we are."
"Probably the magic idea." Lloyd agreed. "I mean, everyone here comes from some weird alternate universe, some where magic exists and some where science is better. We have to have a bit of both here, so the bomb is science and the rest is magic."
"That makes sense." Sheik said while nodding. "The mixing components of both magic and science can cause dangerous results, so they separate and get sorted into different areas where the Hands see fit. It explains why the Mansion is still standing, yet we can get gravely injured anywhere on Earth."
"I have no idea what all of that means." Pit spoke up. "All I hear is 'magic science Earth magic magic science magic'. I just want to know when our food will get here."
"Be patient." Red calmly told Pit. "I'm sure it'll be ready soon."
"I don't like patience."
"Waiting is a good skill to have." Sheik said.
Lloyd noticed that Pit kept quiet after that. He obviously didn't know how to argue back to Sheik. But right then someone began shouting from the kitchen, and they seemed to be straining themselves.
"Out of the way! This stuff is heavy, and don't stop in front of the door!"
Anyone standing in the path of the main table quickly got out of the way and sat down in the chairs. Those who weren't in the way just stared at the door to watch the food come out. Right as the door opened, Wolf stepped out, holding all of the food. Everything was balanced in his arms, and it reached a height about triple of his own. It occasionally wobbled a bit to a side, and he had to try and get it to stay straight just to get to the main table.
Lloyd couldn't do anything but watch as everything got gently placed in a line along the main table. Some of the Smashers were talking to others, some were eyeballing the food, and some were watching Wolf try to place everything without fail.
Lloyd waited patiently until Wolf placed everything down. He waited a little bit more so the ones who were hungriest could get what they wanted before he got up. At the main table there were utensils for him to use, and all of the food was placed in a reasonable location for grabbing. He filled up his plate with foods native to Ninjago and went back to his table to eat and talk with his new friends.
Once everything was done for the day, Lloyd walked back up to his room. The only other thing that happened after dinner was a couple of matches, but he was a bit tired, so he just left. He found his way to his room without any trouble, and when he collapsed onto his bed he almost instantly fell asleep.