SBS Time!
Guest: Ness' town is Onett not Podunk (that's Ninten's town).
Game2002: I already explained in the previous chapter that this change was made on purpose in order to explain why Ness doesn't live with his family, even though he currently lives in Onett. If you want to go "deeper," however, in my series, he is born in Onett, but he and his family moved to Podunk eventually.
TheWorldWalker: I have a question regarding Bowser Jr. Is it just him and the Junior Clown Car or is it all the Koopalings like how it is in Smash 4?
Game2002: Obviously, Bowser Jr. will be the main one. While I want the Koopalings to show up as well, I have yet to decide roles for them.
pgasniper: Since you're using the female Wii Fit Trainer, will you also be using the Male Wii fit trainer? I also want to know about all the other characters that have the very different alts, like the Robins, Bowser Jr. the Koopalings, and Alph.
Game2002: The male Wii Fit Trainer will only be making small cameos. Both the male and female Robin will appear, but the male one will be the prominent one. I do have ideas for the Koopalings and Alph, at least the latter.
There's a special announcement at the end of this chapter, so please do not miss it out.
Chapter 3
Definition of Heroism
After failing to rescue another victim, Captain Falcon returned to Smash Mansion to talk to the others about this.
"I do not understand… One moment, he was in this place, but then a moment later, he was in another place!" said Fox.
"Perhaps he's using something to keep his exact location from being found?" asked Captain Falcon.
"I suggest that we observe the video more carefully this time," suggested R.O.B. "Hopefully, we will be able to find out something that will give us an idea on where he is."
"Sounds good," said Fox.
After saying this, the three of them quickly rushed to the underground lab to look at the footage on the main computer. They paid attention to every single detail in the video, such as the background and even the sound, hoping to find something that would give away the Green King's location.
While listening carefully to the sound, Fox noticed something. "Wait a minute… This sound…" He then gave the headphone to Captain Falcon, who listened carefully and heard what the fox heard.
"It sounds like he's in a train or something…" said Captain Falcon.
"It would appear to be the case," said R.O.B., who was hearing the same thing using another headphone. "This is the very sound made by trains moving on tracks."
"So he's inside a train all this time?" asked Fox. "But how can he be inside one that has nobody but him and the victim? Even if he has his own personal train, the subway should be able to notice an extra train traveling around the place."
Captain Falcon thought for a while and then told R.O.B. to bring up the map of Fourside and show him all the locations the Green King was supposedly located at. After the robot did so, Captain Falcon observed the map carefully and then said, "R.O.B., pull up a map of the subway in Fourside."
The robot did as he was told, and after the three observed it, they found that none of the tracks went through the locations the Green King was thought to be in. "This confirms my suspicion!" said Captain Falcon. "He's using the abandoned track!"
"Abandoned track?" said Fox curiously.
"There was one particular track that got abandoned when there were complaints about its bumpiness," explained Captain Falcon. "Because there were several other tracks already, the officials thought there was no point in fixing it, since the locations it covers can also be reached using other tracks."
"Then I suppose you know where the abandoned stations are?" Fox asked the racer.
"I do, and I will go to one of them tomorrow and wait," said Captain Falcon. "This time, we're going to catch the Green King for sure!"
That night, as Mario and Luigi were getting ready for bed, the latter said to his older brother, "Forgot to tell you this earlier… Pipes R Us's Fourside branch wants me there to fill in for an employee tomorrow. Said he's going to a family member's wedding in Twoson…"
"Okay, so I suppose you have to get-a up early tomorrow, right?" Mario asked him.
"You bet," replied the younger plumber.
Captain Falcon had found the abandoned subway station of Fourside. In case he had to chase the train through the tunnel, he borrowed Ganondorf's motorcycle, the Black Stallion, as the Blue Falcon was too big to enter the subway. He managed to bring the motorcycle into the subway and was waiting for the Green King to send him another video and for Fox and R.O.B. to track him down again.
"He's gotta do this again sooner or later," thought the racer. No sooner after he thought of this, his smartphone received a video mail, and sure enough, it was the Green King who sent it.
"We're tracking him now, Falcon!" said Fox through the racer's communication device.
"I have returned for the third time!" said the Green King. "They say that employers can also influence the behavior of their employees, and I have very proof of it right behind me!" When he moved aside, all the Smashers who were watching the video was shocked beyond words at who he captured.
"LUIGI?!" Captain Falcon gasped.
"Oh god…" said Fox in disbelief. "That is someone we really have to rescue without fail!"
"MARIO! ANYONE! HELP ME!" screamed Luigi at the top of his voice while struggling as hard as he could to escape the chains.
"This man is an employee at the Pipes R Us Plumbing Service," said the Green King. "His employer told him to make his customer pay extra the way he sees fit, and he took advantage of it and demanded an outrageous increase in price from one of his customers!"
Suddenly, Captain Falcon noticed a train zooming by, and R.O.B. told him that the Green King just went by the station he was in. "I'm on it!" replied the racer as he got onto the Black Stallion and went after the train as fast as he could.
The train was moving very fast, but luckily for Captain Falcon, the Black Stallion's top speed almost rivaled it, so he was able to catch up with it. Captain Falcon pressed forward as hard as he could, and when he was close to the train, he jumped off the bike and grabbed onto a metal pole behind it. He was able to enter the train through the backdoor afterwards, and he wasted no time in moving from cart to cart to find the Green King.
"As punishment for demanding an outrageous increase in price, I shall execute you in the name of justice!" said the Green King as he pointed his gun at the screaming Luigi.
"I'M SORRY! DON'T KILL ME! PLEASE! HAVE MERCY!" screamed Luigi with a face full of snot and tears while struggling like crazy.
Suddenly, the door behind the Green King slammed open, and Captain Falcon came in with a gun in his hand. "Stop what you're doing at once!" he angrily shouted.
"FALCON! SAVE ME!" Luigi screamed when he saw his friend arriving to rescue him.
The Green King looked at Captain Falcon and said, "You are Captain Falcon, one of the Smashers!"
Captain Falcon looked at the Green King and saw that he was a relatively scrawny man with a black flattop haircut wearing a white t-shirt and a pair of dark blue jeans. "Let go of my friend at once! Don't you dare lay a hand on him!" the racer angrily said while slowly approaching the Green King.
"Evildoers like him must be punished, even if I have adored you people for a long time!" said the Green King.
"What do you mean?" Captain Falcon asked while lowering his gun slightly.
"Ever since I heard about your feats, I have become your biggest fan," explained the Green King. "Not a day went by do I wish I could speak to you in person and interact with you. The most I ever did was see you people walking around, but I could never muster the courage to get close to you and tell you how much I support you. You are my biggest heroes, and I have always wanted to become great heroes like you!"
"If you think you're being a hero now, then I'm sorry to say you're not! You're a murderer!" Captain Falcon told him.
"I am ridding the world of corrupted people who robbed us of our money and did things that harm people. This is what a hero does!" claimed the Green King.
"Killing people in cold blood does not justify what you're doing!" said Captain Falcon. "A real hero shows mercy!"
"No, a real hero is someone who will not hesitate to do anything that will bring peace to the world and make people happy!" said the Green King. "What I am doing now will change the world! When more and more corrupted businessmen die, businesses all over the world will be struck with fear and start giving customers what they want! Customers are always right, but businesses insist on giving them what they think they want instead! I have tolerated for so long various companies not giving customers what they really want! Nothing will change if we continue to simply voice our complaints! Someone has to step out to do something like this in order to make changes!"
"It doesn't matter whether or not businesses nowadays are doing things the right way or not or if customers are always right, what you are doing is wrong!" Captain Falcon told him. "What you are doing will make people reject you and see you as a heartless murderer! Do you think you can proudly tell your children and descendants that you killed people in cold blood and are proud of it?"
"People will realize that I am doing the right thing once they see businesses starting to listen to customers, and indeed, I will be able to proudly tell my descendants that I made the world a better place!" replied the Green King.
Captain Falcon growled in anger upon hearing this, and he said, "You're a sick and twisted monster! There's no way someone with a mindset like you can be a hero!"
The Green King stared at him in silence for a few seconds, and then he said, "I've always looked up to you people as role models. You were my heroes. I've always wanted to talk to you people face to face, and now I finally got the chance, but you disappoint me… I truly believed that you would praise what I am doing and lend me your support, but now I have learned that you people are nothing but frauds and sellouts!"
"We can say something similar as well," Captain Falcon said to him. "You've disappointed us, fanboy!"
"Help me already, Falcon!" cried Luigi.
Acting fast, Captain Falcon aimed his gun at one of the chains holding Luigi and fired a beam from his gun that instantly destroyed it. The Green King turned to Luigi and was going to shoot him, but Captain Falcon quickly shot him in the shoulder, burning him and making him drop the gun. The Green King quickly ran past Luigi after that and headed out of the cart.
After doing so, he detached the cart the Smashers were in to go on ahead with the rest of the train without them. Without the rest of the train to pull it, the cart Captain Falcon and Luigi were in began to slow down.
"Are you all right?" the racer asked Luigi as he freed him entirely.
"My life was flashing before my eyes…" said Luigi while trembling nonstop. "Thanks… You're… You're my hero!" And he hugged Captain Falcon tightly while sniffling.
"It's all right now," Captain Falcon said to him.
Captain Falcon and Luigi returned to Smash Mansion after the incident, and the rest of the Smashers who were at home immediately rushed over to Luigi to see him. Mario even came back from his workplace to see his younger brother. "Luigi! Are you all right-a?" Mario asked him in concern.
"I'm… I'm all right…" replied his younger brother. "Thanks to Captain Falcon… I'm saved…"
"How did you get captured? And why did he capture you?" Dr. Mario asked him.
"I was suddenly attacked as I was returning to my truck from fixing someone's sink…" explained Luigi. "He made me pass out using chloroform, and when I woke up, I was in his hideout inside a train… I think he attacked me because he overheard what I told my customer regarding the price…"
"What did you tell the customer?" asked Mario.
"The head of the Fourside branch wasn't going to pay me extra for traveling all the way there to fill in for the absent employee, but he told me to feel free to ask for extra from my customers…" replied the younger plumber. "That's exactly what I did… I asked for ten dollars extra after fixing her sink, and she wasn't happy about it, but she still paid me anyway…"
"And the Green King happened to be nearby and heard what you said, so he attacked you?" asked Captain Falcon. "Where does that customer live?"
"In an apartment…" replied Luigi. "I parked my truck right outside it, and the Green King attacked me just as I was getting into it…"
"Since he attacked you because he heard you demanding extra payment, that means he was in the apartment that time… That would mean he must live in that apartment as well!" deduced Fox.
"Sounds plausible," agreed Captain Falcon. "Even if he doesn't live there, at least we know a place to look."
"You come and take-a rest, Luigi," Mario told his younger brother as he led him away to bring him to their room. "You deserve eet afta going through such-a traumatizing experience."
"I'll cook up something warm and delicious for you soon," Peach told him.
"Thank you very much…" said Luigi.
The Smashers notified the police of what happened after this, and a search was made in the apartment Luigi went to fix the sink of.
However, despite a lot of effort put into the search, there were ultimately no results. Security cameras showed nobody suspicious anywhere near the room Luigi went into, and nobody in the apartment has heard of anyone called the Green King living there nor is there anyone living there with the word "Green" in his or her name.
After the incident with Luigi, the Green King stopped sending videos, and there were no more reports of people getting kidnapped or dead bodies with gunshot wounds found anywhere.
What the Green King did during the past few days did not do anything to change businesses, however; they continued to do things the way they had been doing all this time, even if customers didn't like them.
For now, the threat of the Green King had seemingly come to an end, but the police was still trying their best to hunt him down.
While it was true that the Green King had ceased activity for the meantime, it did not mean he had given up being a "hero."
If one knew where to search, he or she would be able to find him inside a particular place, standing on a platform in front of several people, all of whom looked very angry.
"Everyone! All of us are unfortunate victims of fraud products, unfair bargains, poor services, on-disk DLCs, and more!" the Green King loudly said to everyone. "Long have we tolerated these evil practices and voiced our complaints, but the developers have always turned a death ear towards us! I say it is time to fight back and show them that we are not sheep who will blindly accept whatever they give us anymore!"
The mob cried loudly in unison, agreeing with what he said.
"We shall rid this world of corporations that do not give us what we want!" the Green King said to everyone.
"We, the True Fans, are the only people who can save the world!" continued the Green King as he slowly raised his hands into the air. "We are the true heroes of the universe! We shall create a world where everyone gets what they want! We shall go down into history as the greatest heroes the world has ever known and seen!"
Everyone raise his or her hands while "roaring" in excitement when they heard this.
"Before I continue any further, there is someone here who asked for my permission to make a speech, so I will now give him the chance!" said the Green King, and then he moved away for a blonde man with neatly trimmed hair to come onto the platform.
"Hello, everyone! My name is Bill Gladoski, and I have a dream!" said the man loudly with a smile. "A dream where it is perfectly acceptable to attack and even kill people who don't agree with you!"
Upon hearing this, the mob raised their voice in agreement.
"Ever since I was small, I have always disliked people who think differently from me. I dislike something, but someone else likes it. I like something, but someone else dislikes it! Doesn't this make you very angry? It makes me very angry! So angry that I want to murder them! Of course, you will get into trouble for doing this, but what if the law allows this? It would seem that this dream will become a reality if we True Fans rise to power!
"Imagine! You get to mercilessly beat up people who do not agree with you, and nobody will stop or criticize you! Isn't that the most wonderful thing in the world? To be able to kill people whenever they don't agree with you on something has always been my dream, and I am so glad that it is coming true soon! Isn't this a wonderful thing?"
The mob responded with a loud yes while praising him for what he said.
"I have never gotten the chance to harm someone who didn't agree with me out of fear of getting into trouble, but now, I feel confident that I can attack someone fearlessly! At long last, I will be able to murder all those who think Man of Iron is a terrible movie, even though I think it's great!"
As soon as he said this, he was shot through the chest and fell off the back of the platform. Everyone turned to the person who shot him, and his killer said, "Man of Iron is a horrible movie! Screw you for liking it!"
"Hey! Man of Iron is indeed a great movie!" a person standing next to him angrily said, and he was immediately shot by him.
Immediately, chaos erupted. People started attacking and even killing each other out of differences in opinions.
"Pokemon Black and White is the worst! Die for enjoying it!"
"It's the best! Screw you!"
"The Fat Knight Rises is trash!"
"It's not!"
"Final Fantasy VII is overrated! Die for enjoying it!"
"NO! YOU DIE FOR HATING IT!"
As the chaos was happening, the Green King watched from a safe place with a smile on his face, though one couldn't tell due to his demonic mask. One person who wasn't participating in the chaos asked him, "Aren't you going to stop them?!"
"Justice is being carried out at the moment, so there is no reason to stop them," replied the Green King. "True justice is to be able to do things that satisfy other people and yourself! If the death of someone will make you and other people happy, then it is justice!
Billy, on the verge of death, slowly turned his body until he could see the chaos, and then he smiled while thinking to himself, "It's great to see people live out their dreams…" Then he closed his eyes as he breathed his last.
TO BE CONTINUED
Both the previous chapter and this one are based off the eighteenth episode of the first season of the TV series Arrow.
Special Announcement: The title for the next SSB story has been decided! It is called The Strike of the Overlord. Further details will be provided in future chapters. Stay tuned!
Trivia:
1. Dark Pit being in SSB4 is well received in Japan. He's pretty popular there, even getting a relatively high position in a poll for characters appearing on Nintendo platforms or something like that.