A/N: Hello Yello Readers! Next chapter of the Trainer and Psychic drabbles! This one consists of a failed experiment that Master hand had been trying to conduct, yet of course there was an interruption and the smashers were UNSURE OF WHAT CAME NEXT! This will be a continuous chapter part in the Drabbles.
On with the show!
"Well now I do believe we are finished!" the disembodied hand spoke out loudly to his counterpart. Crazy hand merely made thumbs up, and doing half of a circle in the process. What the both of them were currently up to was an invention of there's to attempt shrinking or enlarging objects. Of course they would call it a shrink ray but they wanted it to regrow at the same time. Not being hand held, instead it was a large ray gun of the sort pointed at something, like a target.
"This way we can preserve most of the water, so the smashers don't waste it like they still do." the hand said rubbing its fingers.
That was a true statement though. The smashers have been using too much water for their own good. At one point Princess Peach attempted making lemonade in huge glasses, only to have them all ruined by Wario who put a pinch of hot peppers in each of them. So many liters went into each glass, for each smasher, and almost all of them had their mouths burned off.
Then there was the incident with the ice climbers. They took about fifty gallons of water, and used the freezer item whilst it was in the air by Lucario, all from the pipes. They wanted to play with snowballs and make snowmen in the middle of summer, but only for about an hour did it last.
Then came the incident where the hot tubs weren't being filled with enough water.
The undeniably huge bowl of water that the children made just to have their own ocean in the backyard to watch. Didn't go so well when it went rolling down the hill. Land animals most likely had a feast that day.
The one incident where Master Hand could remember. It was the welcome to Smash party for the newcomers, so of course they had to welcome them somehow. Bowser Jr. and his koopaling siblings, Wii Fit trainer, Palutena, Shulk, Robin(s), and villager. Most of them didn't quite need that huge welcome for a pool party, but the koopalings LITERALLY insisted to Bowser for it to continue.
Master Hand spoke with the king koopa, and the party was thrown. A pool that ranged from twenty ft. wide, and thirty ft. long was something they all were impressed by. Most likely Crazy hand, used a ton of the smasher coins they saved up over the years.
All were relaxing, most of the girls playing volleyball, lying down on a bench to get their tans on, water balloon fights by the children, barbecues, almost everything they could think of.
The problem their: So much water being used up. For the pool, showering afterwards, water balloons, etc. Never has Master Hand seen so much water go for a good cause. Then there was an idea by Toon Link.
"Alright, newcomers gather round!" he called towards bowser jr. and his siblings and villager. Ness, Lucas, Red, Popo, Nana, Pikachu, Jigglypuff, and squirtle gathered as well.
"I promote that we have an initiation for the newcomers so they don't get any nervous being here!" he said. Setting an example for those who didn't understand he jumped into the pool. Making a scrunched up face at first, everyone was confused by what he was doing. That is until he finally relaxed, in content.
Ness himself didn't see why, until he saw the coloring of the water around toon link turn from blue, to yellowish. The others caught onto this, and jumped right into the pool with toon link. Save for Red, Wendy, and Pikachu whom didn't want to include themselves in the polluted water.
It wasn't until Samus lifted her sunglasses to watch them all doing their business in the pool. "Of course. It was bound to happen." she sighed letting her glasses drop.
"This is so embarrassing. The first day to this weird crummy place, and already my brothers are embarrassing me." Wendy commented hand smacking her face.
It wasn't until Bowser caught eye of all his children, save for Wendy, in the pool. Almost the whole entire water started turning green. His mouth went agape to his son's actions, the other adult smashers eyes following his gaze.
"IGGY! MORTON! ROY! LARRY! LEMMY! LUDWIG! What on Earth are you all doing?!" he shouted gaining the attention from almost everyone. "We're just following the initiation for kid smashers dad." Iggy said swiping a hand at his father. "Yeah don't have a cow dad!" Larry said eyes clearly smug. But the one thing that made them all shocked, especially the children in the water was something brown floating around.
"YEHHH!" they all shouted, even the children in the pool. "That's disgusting! Who's idea was this?" Mario asked. They wouldn't be surprised if it was Wario but. All of the koopalings, Ness, Lucas and the pokemon pointed at Toon Link. "What? I had to go!" he said pouting.
"Oh! There's my chocolate bar!" Lemmy said still in the pool. Of course he wanted another one , so he complied floating back onto shore being picked up by Bowser.
"Oops. I left my fruit punch powder in here also." Morton said putting his fingers together. No wonder the water turned greener than normal.
"Well no longer!" Master Hand said making a gesture that said 'EUREKA!' The invention of theirs was done, and looked good. The only question is would it work. "Get me a gallon of water from the kitchen!" the hand ordered.
"Blahhhhhhhckkkkkk!" Crazy said flying out of the laboratory. Master hand just sighed. Getting good help was something to oversee, but he needed it. "Just increase the size of a gallon, and there will be a practical lifetime supply of water. Just a nozzle with it and voila! Solves most of the problem with water. There was soda, juice, smoothies, coffee, but water was a huge necessity. 49 plus people there, and they can't go bone dry.
*BONK* Crazy smacked Master's hand in a fist, revealing the gallon. "Excellent. Thank you Crazy. Also, don't do that again." Pointing a finger at the other disembodied hand. Flying over to the target area, Crazy placed it like it was about to be squished, but it wasn't.
"Experiment 1: Water Preservation! Commence!" he said. With the press of a button the machine's three circles began glowing with the same colors of red, an orb building at the tip. "Alright things are going as pla- Crazy get over here before you get shot!" the hand said in a fit of anger. Crazy was merely picking at a nearby tool that wasn't used for this. Listening to the other, he flew by and watched from his distance.
The machine threw out a red laser that flew in the form of a spiral, encircling the gallon before engulfing it. Master Hand saw this part coming, so he pressed a few buttons and the back was drawn out, a lever was pulled and the gallon ended up on the other side just to be safe. As before, the red color started to make it glow in flickers, and the drink grew about fifty times it's size.
"Excellent progress." he stated making a motion as if their was a chin above him. Crazy hand 'lied' down thinking if the gallon were to explode then all the vegetables and flowers in their big garden, so whoop dee doo.
The gallon finally stopped growing, being at least a little bigger than the mansion itself. "Welp. Better get the smashers and gather them up-" Master Hand said, but was interrupted by the machine making a few sounds.
...
Many clinking sounds for that matter. Not considering something was wrong with the invention, he flipped his body over, and again back to its floating position. Calling to his counterpart they opened the sliding doors about to head on out.
The machine's nozzle started vibrating, and the three circles started turning yellow, in various patterns. The same orb that grew at the tip, except yellow. It separated from the nozzle, but not shooting like the red one did.
It just...
bounced.
Bounced here and there off the walls, the floor and even the other parts. Just the last second did it slip by with a 'FWOOP!', causing it to silently zoom past the hands. "Wh... What was that?" Master hand said out loud. "Echkkkk." the other said nonchalantly.
The yellow ball of light did miss them both, and end up on an elevator that Link was coming out of it. He was reading a magazine on 'how to obtain rupees elsewhere without destroying the inside of any other place.' He indeed noticed something zoom by him, but the elevator doors closed too quickly for him to see what it was.
"Aghhhh! BRAIN FREEZE!" a blond so happened to shout. Lucas out of all the smashers there, might have been the only one to get brain freeze from eating ice cream too fast. Save for Larry, whose top part of his head froze in general. Ludwig was the one to thaw him out.
"I told you not to bite at it so fast." said Red sweat dropping.
"I still can't believe I have to babysit ALL the smash kids on my own." Bowser said blasting some fire to thaw is bowl of coffee ice cream.
Not much of this was false. All the adult smashers had a small lottery on who would be the one to watch all of the children for one day, while the others went out to either have their own day of fun, shop for food for everyone, or attempt to shop for more plants and flowers for the garden.
Lucas himself secretly wished there could have been a COUPLE of sunflowers here and there, but somehow Master Hand preferred have chrysanthemums and blue roses to show off the Smash Mansion's pride.
He was never initially denied a sunflower or two, its just that the decision was never really finally set out. Red knew about why Lucas wanted sunflowers. Part of his childhood and family. He himself didn't know why they didn't get any in the first place.
"Oh come now Bowser it isn't the end of the world." Palutena chimed in levitating. "You have eight koopa children of your own you must be an expert!" she said taking a bite from her granola filled yogurt. AN eyebrow from Bowser piped up and watched the children. All having fun. Chasing each other around.
'Maybe I am.' he contemplated to himself. He watched Ness and Toon Link shooting each other with water guns. Squirtle chasing after from using Hydro Pump. Jiggylpuff half of the time, trying to strike when in the air. Wendy about to destroy the chandelier with several bullet bills.
"WENDY!" The king of Koopa's roar stretched out to the young koopaling. "This isn't our castle! We might just have to pay with our coins if that gets busted!" he said flailing his arms, spitting fire here and there.
"But daddy, this place needs more of a pink touch! I already hired some of the other koopas and shy guys to plant bob-ombs!" She said really sure of herself.
"Are you ready yet sis'?" Morton and Roy called out from behind a bullet bill launcher. "I REALLY hope you two aren't going to start that!" Bowser stated head hanging. Red and Lucas laughed at his children's antics.
"Being a dad must be a touch job. So many kids too!" the pokemon trainer counted the children. "Surprised he could take care of all of them without anything exploding." Lucas stated eating his waffle cone.
"To tell you the truth..." the pokemon trainer said outloud, "I never really got to meet my father."
This got Lucas' attention with one eye, raising his head. Being in a family with a mom and dad was something really enlightening. Losing a mother...
'At least he grew up with his mother.' was all he could think. "How come?" he asked. Taking a breath he started. "Well, my mom told me he was always on adventures and finding new things. Not even sure if he's alive." he said solemnly looking at the sky through the see through glass. "I'm sure he still is." Lucas said place a hand on his shoulder. Red indeed never met his father. In fact he didn't whether or not all pokemon trainers still had dad's. Just wondering what he looked like ercked him a little on the inside. Feeling Lucas' touch he looked down at the blond smiling.
"Don't worry! He's bound to be out there somewhere. I know my dad's still here, he never left but I know he still loves me!" he said grabbing a few napkins for him and the other.
"Wherever he is, I'm sure he still loves you like any father would love his child." he said, both looking over at Bowser and Wendy.
"Look I know you want to make some change to make it feel like home, but their rules y'know?" he said picking his only daughter up.
"Fine. I still wish I had Princess Peach for a mother. I want to her to teach me all the things there is to being a princess." she said daydreaming.
"Believe me, as much as I want that dream to come true, I don't think she'd ever marry me." he said looking all grouchy. "To me you are my princess. I can't make her teach you stuff, but you can ask her yourself. I might just spy on yah, if the mario bros end up intervening." To Wendy this didn't sound too bad. She has yet to learn about privacy matters of her own. She merely shrugged and thought it was just his excuse to watch Peach. Along with making sure none of them stopped her from learning.
"Okay. Thank you daddy. Might as well call Lemmy not to dump all of the goomba's from the-" they were interrupted by a sudden KABOOM!
"Play room." Both the koopa king and koopaling had themselves a laugh at their brother/son who rolled in like a wrapped hard candy into the living room. "Are you yourself ever going to plan on having children?" the blond asked head tilting at the taller boy. Blushing a little at the question he laugh-scoffed at that, but answered him reluctantly.
"To tell you the truth I never thought about that. I don't know what kind of father I could be." one finger to his chin. "I'm sure you'd make a great dad." he said smiling at the brown haired trainer. He just looked at the blond a little dumbfounded. Smiling too.
He always wondered how this boy, his best friend could look at all the positives of what's to come after everything that's happened to him. That's how grown up Lucas has become. A true person. To Red, even if he was taller and younger than Lucas, he sort of wondered if the blond was still a little bit of a child himself.
Almost like in a toddler sort of way. Not to be rude in ANY sense whatsoever, Lucas did somehow tend to always be by Red's side. Whether it be a surprise and he'd get frightened by the action, he would hug the trainer's legs out of instinct or how he felt happy whenever he wanted Red to pick him up for him to reach something a little high from a shelf.
Reading stories outloud wasn't so much of a thing to them, but on occasions when Red was about to head to sleep, the smasher children literally wanted a bedtime story of the sort. Only a week with the koopaling's and they wanted in. Yet Lucas would always be the one to lie down in the pokemon trainer's bed to fall asleep. Maybe, just maybe (and as ludicrous as the thought was) he could father a baby like Lucas.
Even if it was for a day or a few. Just wanting to see if he could handle the job.
"Daddy what's that noise? Speaking of which I have my jewelry to check on! Later Daddy!" the girl said pointing two fingers to the koopa king. Hopping from her dad's shoulders she landed in her koopa clown car and off she went leaving tire tracks to their room. "Well there she goes... Speaking of which aht is that noise?" He said outloud.
It was indeed the elevator, that was in the middle of the whole room almost a bad idea at the time. Donkey Kong was just about to board the elevator before he was startled by a sudden noise and yellow to orange sparkling attack.
"Oomf Oomf! (Shiny thing almost hit me! I dodge!)" he said boarding the elevator a little spooked. The shiny blast indeed bounced it's way from table to counter top to ficus, drinks almost everything. Only a few of the smashers hid under something not get hit.
Nothing seemed to make the projectile stop, so they claimed until it did hit something.
Someone for that matter. Right at the second it landed on a familiar blonds head, he was engulfed in the golden light.
"Wh-What's happening?!" Lucas stuttered. It was a shock to him that he was hit, but at the same time to the other smashers, his voice seemed to be... lacking in some way. "Red? Am I going to be okay?" he asked to the taller boy. Question marks, and sweat drops started appearing all over the back of his head, unable to comfort and give an answer to the blond.
"Uh-uh-uh, I don't know whats going on!" he said flailing his arms up and down. The more the light swallowed the blond, the smaller his shape began to be. Lucas tried to speak again, but something seemed to stop him. He licked his teeth, only to find them shrinking as well. Getting tinier and tinier. Mostly gums on his left and right.
"What's habening?" he said. The light faded away. Slowly shrinking all the way down to a toddlers stomach.
...
TODDLER?!
There, sitting on the blue turning chair sat a toddler-ish child in a red and yellow striped shirt, small sandals for his small feet, and the hair was barely making it's way up like it used to. It was almost as if it was just at its beginning to take shape into the natural swirl.
"L...Lucas?" Red stuttered a little shocked at the baby. "Who are you calling a baby?" the younger child asked to the taller boy.
"What the hecks wong with my voice?" he stuttered. Lucas felt like he was going to faint at any moment. He spoke like a young toddler... but was he in fact? He wanted to just sit down, to which he did, but rather quickly than what he was used to. Hitting his bum on the cold hard floor, he muffled an ow under his breath.
Just from the sight of his shorter legs he became more and more astonished. How did one blast of light possibly change the age characteristics of one person by so much? It didn't look like an arrow that Pit would use to launch in smashes, nor was it the sun salutation the Wii Fit Trainer does from time to time when everyone goes to exercise.
He cupped his face with his... now small hands. A little bit in shock, the toddler felt his eyes begin to water. Looking up at the others staring at him felt... so unnatural. Pokemon Trainer. Most of the Koopalings. Bowser. The other kids. He just wanted to hide away from their foreign eyes. He scrunches his face a little.
He felt the presence of someone in front of him, thinking it would be one of the koopalings ready to tease him, or mock him about his new height, voice and age. Even Ness for that matter.
Surprisingly, he felt himself being risen from under his arms, to be cradled by the pokemon trainer. He opened his eyes briefly to get a glimpse of him but...
He only saw his father. Flint.
"DADDY!" he cried out wrapping his arms around the brown haired boy's neck. He wasn't weeping just, a little soft crying, muffled, that could be heard by others.
"Shhhh, Shhhh. Don't fret Lucas. We'll see what happened." the trainer exclaimed. Though to him, this was foreign a well, but having the blond actually sort of fit within his arms, and could cradle the boy, he did just that rubbing Lucas' back. Hearing more footsteps come by, the blond's hand was taken by a soft hand. He knew this person.
Through tear stained eyes, he could have sworned he saw red swirled hair at the top, only to see it was Ness. He was smiling at the boy, reassuring him no one would laugh at him for his current state. This mostly made Lucas cry a little bit more, hiding his face in the Pokemon Trainer's neck. "Claus." was what the brown haired person heard, but no one else.
Stomps approached the three. "So you think you have what it takes?" he said motioning to the now younger child.
"To do what?" Pokemon trainer questioned the biggest koopa of them all.
"To attempt at being a Father." he said, head nodding.