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Lucario walked into the room. The first battle had started, and three of the four will die here, in front of everyone's eyes. Pikachu, the Ice Climbers, Jigglypuff and R.O.B. were the four 'lucky' Smashers chosen for the fight. Because our 'friend' Tabuu was so 'nice', he also allowed us to make bets on the winner. Most bets were on Pikachu, although some people voted for R.O.B.. Lucario stood against the room's west wall. Being one of the few Smashers who couldn't legally speak-although he could telepathically-he didn't feel like trying to socialize. A tournament bracket was shown on a smaller screen to the left of the fight, and the right screen showed Tabuu's face as he commentated and mocked the fighters.
Some people around Lucario started to cry, and Lucario realized that he hadn't been paying attention to the fight. He focused on the screen, and saw blood splattered across the floor of Battlefield, and on the edge lay the dead body of Nana-one of the Ice Climbers. Without Nana, Popo couldn't fight as well, and no one in battle felt bad for killing her, he would kill them if they did. On-screen, Popo yelled something at the top of his lungs. "This is for Nana!" he yelled, rushing towards R.O.B. with his hammer held high. It looked like the robot was recharging after firing the laser that killed Nana, so this would be a perfect time to strike.
Popo swung her hammer with such force at the robot's head, that it came off and crashed into Jigglypuff, knocking her off the edge of the stage. Jigglypuff was known as the Balloon Pokemon, so either she could get back on the stage, or fail and die. Tabuu held up four cards with five faces-the five battlers. The faces of R.O.B. and Nana were crossed out, and as Jigglypuff failed to make it back on stage-with her running out of air while 'flying', her face was crossed out too. "Ooh! Looks like it's three down, folks." Tabuu said, acting as a stereotypical commentator for a game show. "Only Pikachu and Popo are left! Who will win?"
Pikachu and Popo stood at the two edges of the stage, each glaring while trying to figure out what to do. "Sorry about this Pika." Popo said, pointing his hammer at him. As he did, Pikachu scratched his ear. "Pika, pika!"
Pikachu ran quickly at Popo, electric flowing all around him. Popo, now cowering behind his hammer, held it like a baseball bat, preparing to hit a home run with Pikachu.
Lucario looked down. How can he be enjoying this? It's disgusting. Lucario said telepathically to no one. Marth, who stood only feet away from Lucario spun around. "I know. I've killed people myself, but most of us are innocent. We don't deserve to die." Lucario nodded, agreeing to Marth. Lucario looked down at the ground, tears in his eyes. My friend died. A long time ago. I'm secluding myself so that won't happen again. Lucario's paws started to glow blue with aura.
A horn sounded, and Marth spun around. People were crying and disgusted looking at the scene on the screen in front of them. Pikachu sat in a pool of Popo's blood, and his body parts were everywhere. Up front, Mario hurled all over Sonic's once-clean shoes. "Gross, dude!"
Tabuu's face lit up the screen as he held up four new cards: Mario, Wario, King Dedede and Fox McCloud. "Oh funk." Mario said, looking at his palms. "A crazy, stinky biker, giant penguin king that eats everything, and a fox with guns." Luigi patted his bro on his back, tears running down his face. "Good luck. See you in Cloud Land, brother."
As he said that, two large steel doors opened, and a crying Pikachu emerged into the room-dried blood and scratches all over his body. "Pii...kah." Pikachu gasped, before fainting from both exhaustion and disgust.