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Guest: Sakurai also made both the Kirby and Kid Icarus series. I've noticed that you made Sonic be in his Boom design pretty cool
Game2002: I already know that Sakurai made the Kirby series, but he DID NOT make the Kid Icarus series. It was created by Gunpei Yokoi, a fact that most people seem to forget nowadays.
Sonic IS NOT in his Sonic Boom design here. He's still in his mainstream design, just with the neckerchief from that spinoff.
I have added descriptions to the members of True Fans I think matter in the seventh chapter. Please check them out if you want to.
Note: This is the last chapter, so I will not be able to answer the questions of anonymous reviewers. Please keep that in mind if you want to ask questions but do not have an account.
Final Chapter
Guilt
Samus's gunship returned to the front of the department store at the same time a large amount of policemen arrived at the scene to arrest the True Fans members, all of whom were beaten up by the Smashers.
The four Smashers inside the gunship came out, and Mario and some other Smashers approached them. "Looks like you took care of everything here," said Fox.
"How did things go on your side?" asked Mario. "And where eez da Green King?"
"Nuked," replied Snake. "The bomb fell with him onto some rock out at sea. No way is anyone going to survive a nuclear explosion at point blank."
The others were shocked to hear this, and Link said, "What a way to go… I don't know whether to say he deserves it or to pity him…"
"If he really thought he was being a hero, something like this would never have happened," said Ganondorf. "He was blinded by selfishness, greed, and rage to listen to anyone else, so this ultimately led to his demise."
"Like I said before, some people are better off dead!" said Falco. "He had what's coming to him!"
"Everyone deserves a second chance," said Mario. "I feel bad that-a he wuz misguided… With such-a determination, he would've been able to be a real hero…"
They then turned to see the rest of the Smashers coming out from the department store and the police bringing out the True Fan members. Injured people were also brought out to be taken into ambulances.
The round and yellow being saw his wife and son coming out, so he ran to embrace them and told them that everything was all right now. Marth saw the blue-haired girl coming out, so he walked up to her with a smile and said, "Thanks for the help back there!"
"I'm glad to be of help!" she said with a smile.
"And nice skills with the mop too! The way you used it imply that you know how to use a sword, right?" Marth asked her.
The girl blushed and said, "Yeah… I have practice with the sword… There wasn't anything else for me to use back there, so I had no choice…" Suddenly, her smartphone rang, so she looked at it. "Please excuse me…"
She went away from him and answered the phone. "Hello? Dad? So you know? It's all right, dad. I'm all right. You don't have to worry about me! I had an easy time defending myself! By the way, dad…" She turned to Marth to see him talking to his fellow Smashers. "I met… Marth…"
"Thank you for your hard work in stopping these people!" the police captain happily said to the Smashers. "You people managed to save the day!"
"We're glad-a to be of help!" Mario told him.
The captain then turned to Wolf and his partners. "And for helping capture Pompus Rath, we will transfer the cash reward to your account as promised!"
"Yes!" said Leon happily.
"If there's any more scoundrels like him escaping from prison again, let us know," Wolf told the captain. "We'll be much obliged to return them to you!"
"What a sad state this world has become! A world ruled by evildoers!" said someone. Everyone turned to see that it was a handcuffed I am Life who spoke. "Evildoers! Villains! Scoundrels! They're everywhere! Ruling the world and oppressing people as they see fit! Heroes like us stood up to bring justice back to everyone, and the world turns against us!"
"If the world was ruled by so-called heroes like you, it is going to become a lot worse!" Link told him.
"Yeah! You think you're being a hero by doing all this? Even a five-years old kid can tell you're doing things that will get you into trouble!" said Ness.
"You people were motived by nothing short of greed and selfishness! You did all this just because you couldn't get what you want and believe that by throwing the biggest tantrum in the world, you can get people to listen to you!" said Mewtwo. "Do you think you will truly feel satisfied and without guilt if you succeed?"
"I dream of a world where everyone is happy and can get whatever they want," said I am Life. "The world in its current state can never achieve something like that as long as the forces of evil exist! We are probably the only hopes left in the world, fighting against this corruption! If only more people will see the light and realize the darkness they are currently living in, they will step up to continue what we started! Such should be the determination of all who seek justice!"
"Stop talking about justice and heroes if you yourself can't even do the right thing!" Falco angrily said to him. "If anyone else decides to follow your footsteps, we'll be more than happy to stop them!"
"Yeah! We will always be there to stop people like you!" said Toon Link.
"What a pitiful state this world has fallen into! A world ruled by rulers of darkness! Will light ever be able to shine through the thick clouds of darkness and bring real smiles to people's face again?" said I am Life as he slowly looked into the air.
"You're out of your mind! The world is better off without people like you!" Bowser said in frustration to him.
All of a sudden, I am Life raised his arms into the air and shook them while shouting out loud nonstop, "WOE! WOE! WOE TO THE WORLD! A WORLD RULED BY EVIL! WE FOUGHT TO THE END, AND WE FELL LIKE WARRIORS! WE ARE MARTYRS! WE ARE MARTYRS!WE ARE MARTYRS! WE ARE MARTYRS! WE ARE MARTYRS!"
Most of the other members started doing the same thing. "WE ARE MARTYRS! WE ARE MARTYRS! WE ARE MARTYRS! WE ARE MARTYRS! WE ARE MARTYRS! WE ARE MARTYRS! WE ARE MARTYRS!"
Some shouted different things, however.
"YOU PEOPLE MUST BE THOSE WHO LOVE SMASH BROTHERS BRAWL MORE THAN MELEE! CURSE THAT PATHETIC EXCUSE FOR A GAME AND ALL THOSE WHO LIKE IT! MELEE RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUULES! WAVEDASH FOR THE WIN!"
"IF IT WEREN'T FOR YOU A-, WE WOULD'VE BEEN ABLE TO CONVINCE NINTENDO TO GIVE UP ON THE DYING CONSOLE THAT IS THE WII U AND GO THIRD PARTY INSTEAD! I WANT TO PLAY POKEMON ON A SMARTPHONE!"
"CURSE YOU ALL! DEVILS! SPAWNS OF HELL! GO TO HELL! BURN IN HELL! DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIE, ALL OF YOU!"
"IF IT WEREN'T FOR YOU PEOPLE, WE WOULD'VE BEEN ABLE TO DESTROY MARVEL ONCE AND FOR ALL!"
"IF IT WEREN'T FOR YOU PEOPLE, WE WOULD'VE BEEN ABLE TO DESTROY DC ONCE AND FOR ALL!"
"I WANT THE AUTHOR OF THAT FAIL MANGA BLEACH DEAD! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
"I WANT THE AUTHOR OF THAT FAIL MANGA NARUTO DEAD! MUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
"WHY DOESN'T ANYONE BELIEVE ANYTHING I PULL OUT OF MY BUTT?!" screamed a member lying on a stretcher being taken into an ambulance.
"If only you people didn't stop us, I would've been able to force Capcom to sell Mega Man to Nintendo! YOU PEOPLE ARE DEMONS! MURDERDERS!"
"I exist for one purpose and ONE purpose only! To exterminate all those who do NOT agree with me!"
"If you think you can think of things better than me, then you cannot be any more wrong!" said the Thinker. "I am said to be someone who literally thinks in a way you cannot even began to comprehend, for the things I think of are things that one cannot easily comprehend because of the reason that it cannot be so easily comprehended! I think like the mind that can be said to be found in an age that is far beyond the comprehension of the mind! I think in a way that can be literally described as thinking in a way that you cannot even begin to literally think about! I think of things that you cannot even begin to imagine, for they are things that you cannot ever imagine about!"
"Jigglejigglejigglejigglejigglejigglejigglejigglejigglejigglejigglejigglejigglejiggle!" said Master Jiggler while "jiggling" nonstop on his back.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANGE!" shouted Noc out loud.
Some gnashed their teeth violently, growled like savages, and even barked like dogs. One even got onto the ground and dug his hands into a crack on it and attempted to pull it apart. "I'm going to open the gates of hell right now to send you all there! GO TO HELL!"
The Smashers and everyone present watched in disbelief at the True Fan members shouting and crying loudly nonstop. Clearly, not a single one of them learned their lesson and continued to insist that they did the right thing. Some of them even started attacking each other when they heard things they didn't like.
"DIE, MARVEL DRONE!"
"BURN IN HELL, DC F-!"
"DIE, NARUTO F-!"
"YOU GO AND DIE FIRST, BLEACH F-!"
"WE ARE MARTYRS! WE ARE MARTYRS! WE ARE MARTYRS! WE ARE MARTYRS! WE ARE MARTYRS! WE ARE MARTYRS! WE ARE MARTYRS!"
When the mansion shook, all those inside knew at once that the others were back. It was the mansion being raised into the air via large metal pillars so that the flying machines could enter the lab and garage located underneath the building.
Pichu, Jigglypuff, and Pikachu ran to the front of the bathroom of the first floor and stared intently at the door for their comrades to come out, as one of the entrances to the underground was accessed through there, with its entrance directly underneath the bathtub.
Just then, Game & Watch appeared from the living room and said to them, "They came in using the entrance in the garage!"
"I guess they're embarrassed to use this entrance…" said Pichu.
"I wouldn't blame them…" said Pikachu.
"The three Pokemon went into the living room to see that all the Smashers who went to America had returned, and shortly afterwards, some of the others in the mansion came to join them in the room.
"We saw what happened on television. How exactly did things go?" asked Peach.
"Somehow, we feel as if… How do I put it? As if we did something wrong?" replied Fox.
"What do you mean?" asked Zelda.
"Those people continued to insist that-a they were doing the right thing to the end. They have such-a strong determination… All they wanted to do eez to have businesses listen to them, which eezn't a bad thing. By stopping them, we feel like-a we crushed their dreams…" explained Mario.
"Still, that doesn't make what they did right," said Captain Falcon.
"Though I'm sure what they did will create an impact and actually make some companies start listening to customers more to avoid something like this from happening again," said Ness.
"But at the cost of going to prison?" said Ganondorf. "Even if they did achieve their goal, they end up not being able to get what they want. In the end, it's other people reaping the fruits of their success!"
"Guess we'll have to thank them, then!" said Bowser. "But seriously speaking, those guys are crazy! I've never seen people so determined on insisting that their destructive ways are right!"
"We are living in a time and age where people will commit acts of violence simply because they do not get what they want, if things don't reach their level of satisfactory, or if they do not agree with others," said Mewtwo.
"This makes people who steal, take over the world, and such look reasonable and even sane, doesn't it?" asked Marth.
"Well, at least you put an end to things," said Peach. "We should celebrate over this victory!"
"Only problem is the likelihood of copycat criminals…" said Ness. "Who knows if more people will be inspired by them to do similar things?"
"Sounds like something that may happen…" said Young Link.
"We'll stop them if they dare do something like that!" said Falco.
"Peach haz a point," said Mario. "Now that-a we have stopped theez people, we should celebrate! Whetha more people will do theez in da future or not, that's-a something to worry about when eet actually happens. For now, let's-a just be happy that-a we saved da day!"
"Right, we should be glad that we managed to save the day for now," said Captain Falcon with a smile. "Let's cheer up and hope that something like this never happens again!"
The others tried to be optimistic and agreed that they should be more cheerful about their victory. As everyone was leaving the living room to do their own businesses, Mario went up to Game & Watch and took out a picture while telling him that he met someone who claims to know him.
"You met Pac-Man?!" G&W asked in surprise when he heard Mario mention that person's name. "What a surprise! I know he's in America currently, but I didn't expect you to run into him!"
"He gave me theez picture as proof that da both of you know each otha," said Mario while handing him the picture. Game & Watch looked at it; it was a picture of the stick figure-like being himself posing next to a featureless circle with a missing piece in the shape of a triangle. The circle looked like an 8-bit sprite ripped straight from a video game.
"Wow! This picture brings back memories!" said Game & Watch with a smile. "This is a photo of us when we were still kids! I can't believe he still has this picture!"
"Did he really look like that-a when he wuz younger?" asked Mario, who was skeptical of the vastly different appearance of Pac-Man when he was younger.
"Yep!" replied Game & Watch. "He's a great guy! He's a big eater as well! I'm sure he'll get along with Yoshi and Kirby! Did he say anything else?"
"He sez he wishes to come to Eagleland to visit you someday, but he eezn't sure when he'll have da time," replied Mario.
"Hope he'll find a time to pay us a visit, then!" said Game & Watch. "I'll get in touch with him on the phone again. Thanks for letting me know this!"
"You're welcome!" said Mario with a smile.
A while later, Samus heard the phone ringing, so she went up to it, hoping that it wasn't asking if the place was Caesar's Pizza Palace. "Hello?"
"It's been a while, Smashers," said the voice on the other end. "It's me, Jim Smelton."
Samus was surprised to hear this. It was the president of Smelton Biotech Incorporations and the former Webmaster of Gamfax!
"Smelton! What are you doing calling us? And how do you know our phone number?" asked Samus.
"I looked up profiles of your friends on the net until I managed to locate your phone number," replied Smelton. "Does your phone have a broadcast function? There is something I would like to speak about regarding what happened today with the True Fans."
Samus told him to wait and then wasted no time in calling over everyone present at the mansion at the moment to the living room. When the phone was set to broadcast mode, they were all able to hear Smelton's voice and also communicate with him without using the handset.
"Not sure if some of you realized this, but the members of True Fans are mostly consisted of former Gamfax users," Smelton told everyone.
"Yes, we know that already," said Fox. "We have some children here who used to have accounts on that site, and they verified for us that this is the case."
"As the one responsible for the creation of that site in the first place and encouraging everyone who went there to voice their complaints regarding everything they can think of, I cannot help but feel guilty for what happened…" said Smelton with a hint of guilt in his voice.
"You don't have to blame yourself anymore," Captain Falcon told him. "You have already made up for your mistake by shutting down the website and no longer thinking of recreating the world."
"If only I never created Gamfax in the first place, none of this would have happened…" said Smelton. "I wanted to honor my ancestors by making the world a better place, and I believed that listening to the complaints of people would help me learn about all the faults of this world and therefore know what to do to make things better… When Porky created an A.I. named after Gamfax, I thought I would be able to finally make that dream a realization, only to create what you could call a monster…"
"Well, it did want to recreate the world to make it a better place, just that it meant the destruction of everything first, including you…" said Kirby.
"I thought that with both the A.I. and the website gone, everything related to Gamfax would be gone for good, but I should've known better…" continued Smelton. "When I heard about what Failhard did at the Tournament of Wonderful and Great Inventions, I remembered how vicious some of the people on the site were and wondered if any of them would be like Failhard, taking their borderline insane actions to the extreme and harm people… It ended up coming true…"
"You can thank us for stopping the True Fans, though!" said Falco proudly. "You don't have to worry about them anymore!"
"Indeed, thank you very much for stopping them before things went out of hand," said Smelton. "Even so, I still feel responsible for this happening in the first place…"
"I don't think there was anything you could've done," Ness told him. "Sure, you told people to voice their complaints, but you never told them to commit acts of violence, did you? It was ultimately their decision to do all these."
"Like I said before: this probably never would've happened if I never created Gamfax and told people to voice their complaints," Smelton reminded him. "By telling them to do so, I ignited the fire that set up their rage and hatred for everything they thought was wrong with the world. All it took was to add more fuel to it to make them take action, and Pompus Rath did just that…"
"It's all in the past now," Captain Falcon told him. "I don't think this is something that will become a global scale problem. Plus, what the True Fans did will perhaps make changes to the way businesses do things. In the end, you can say they got what they want."
"Though copycat crimes might happen…" said Toon Link.
"Let's hope that things will indeed become better…" said Smelton. "By the way, have you ever found out the real identity of the Green King?"
"No," replied Mario.
"His real name is James Grōnrīks," said Smelton. "He probably got his alias from his last name, which is Proto-Germanic for that name."
"That explains things… I was wondering what's so green about him…" said Yoshi.
"He lives in SkyHigh Apartment in Fourside," added Smelton.
"That's the apartment I went to fix the plumbing of when I went to work in Fourside that day!" said Luigi.
"So he must be present when he heard-a you asking for extra from your client," said Mario. "But-a how? The security guard there checked da cameras and saw nobody in da same hallway."
"I hacked into his computer and found out that he managed to hack into the security cameras of the apartment," explained Smelton. "He must've seen what one of you said or did using that method."
"That explains things…" said Luigi. "Why did he even do that in the first place?"
"Either he has too much time to kill or this is part of his plan to go after people he deems corrupted," said Game & Watch.
"I think this is all I want to say," said Smelton. "Again, thank you very much for what you did today. I would be filled with even more guilt if True Fans were to cause even more chaos…"
"You can leave problems like this to us!" Falco told him. "We'll stop those people for you if they dare do something like this again!"
"I fear that this is something that can't be stopped so easily," said Smelton. "As one of you said, there are possibilities of copycat crimes. People who learned about this may follow their steps to get people to listen to them. I fear that you have only won one of the many battles that may happen again in the future… People now are starting to kill for the sake of getting what they want…"
"I said something similar like this as well," said Mewtwo.
"For the last time, thank you very much for what you did today, Smashers," said Smelton. "I will also keep an eye out for this sort of thing and see to it that it does not go out of control."
"Feel free to call us for help if you need it!" Captain Falcon told him with a smile.
"Thank you very much for being willing to forgive me, despite all that I have done," said Smelton, feeling guilty but glad at the same time. "Also, Kouchou and Katsura are both doing well. I'm thinking of passing my position to the latter."
"Good to hear that they're both doing well!" said Young Link happily.
After they were done saying good-bye to each other, the call ended. "Well, let's hope he'll be able to sleep well tonight," said Captain Falcon. "It is indeed a burden to find out that something you created ending up being such a menace to the world…"
"If I rememba correctly," said Mario. "His ancestors came up with da name Gamfax when they attempted to end da tyranny of da village they came from."
"To think that a term associated with ending negativity and bringing happiness to people would end up becoming a term people nowadays associate with violence and cruelty…" said Marth. "When people hear Age of Gamfax nowadays, they think of a time when people caused violence and killed each other for no good reason…"
"It really is unfortunate regarding what happened…" said Mewtwo. "Not only did his ancestors fail their operation, but like you said just now, the name they came up with associated with happiness became one that was associated with violence, and the war they started in order to end tyranny became remembered as a time when people were violent and filled with bloodlust…"
"Smelton only wanted to make the world a happier place in order to honor his ancestors…" said Ness. "Look what happened…"
"If his idea for making the world a better place didn't involve telling people to cry over spilt milk, this wouldn't have happened!" said Dark Pit.
"You do have a point, but you cannot blame him…" said Pit. "Being exposed to several negative aspects in life might change people…"
"We don't know what kind of life he led that convinced him to tell people to do that, though…" said Young Link.
"Whatever the case is, the term 'Gamfax' has now changed for the worst and will probably be left in people's memories as something unpleasant forever…" said Ness.
Just then, they heard the doorbell ring, and Gunner said she would get it.
She walked up to the door and opened it, and standing out there was Palutena, dressed in a white strapped shirt, a long skirt of the same color, a straw hat, and a pair of sunglasses. She also had a golden wheeled luggage next to her. "Good afternoon, Goddess Palutena!" Gunner said to her.
"Hello! Are you people ready for your vacation?" asked the goddess happily.
THE END
Thank you very much for staying with this story until the end! I'm glad to see that all of you are sensible people who agree with me for the most part on the topic of this story!
Unfortunately, there is no way this story is going to convince the world to change their ways… People will continue to be angry and insult companies for not doing things correctly and even accuse them of various things without getting things clear first… Exactly how much do people know about doing business when they accuse them?
It's a sad world we live in… A world filled with people who cannot be satisfied and would rather whine and criticize than to praise and ask nicely…
If any of you feel like this story must be known to more people and want to post it somewhere else for others to see, feel free to go ahead!
And in case anyone is offended by anything in this story, I apologize to you now.
The next story should have all the remaining SSB4 newcomers making their appearances, so stay tuned!
God bless you all!
All characters belong to their respective owners. I own Parry, everyone in True Fans, Jim Smelton, Kouchou, and Katsura. Remember that I only mention notable OCs.
GAME2002 EXTRA SHOW
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"Lag… Would you say so?"
"I have the power to make all machineries lag just with a point of my hand."
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