A/N: Hey, guys! It's Chapter 2!
Thank you again to my beta, without who, this story would make less sense.
Read and Review! And, as always, Enjoy!
*Small Translation Note: Seinaru tawagota, according to Google Translate, is supposed to mean 'Holy shit' in Japanese. Since Marth is originally Japanese, I thought it was a small Easter Egg.
Twilight tripped, and fell splat on her face in the grass.
"Ow…" Twilight brought up a hoof to rub her muzzle, only to discover that it had turned into a hand.
Twilight quickly looked herself over. Her body and clothes had changed a little bit from the time when she was at the high school, but the overall shape had stayed the same.
Her hair was long, still purple with its pink and lavender highlights. Her skin had a tiny hint of a lavender tinge, but was mostly a light peachy color. She was wearing a dark purple t-shirt, with her cutie mark displayed on it. Her pants were either black or a very, very dark purple. She had on purple boots that went up to her knees, but her pants covered most of them. Her head felt odd, though, as if she should be wearing her crown.
She looked around for her saddlebag, but it had disappeared. Twilight frowned. Why did it disappear and to where?
Twilight sat up, a bit unused to her new form, and looked at the portal she had come through. It was a statue, with the oddest symbol she had ever seen.
It was a circle, but it was split down the left side, close to the edge, by a thick line and a thin line. It was the same deal vertically, down at the bottom with a thick and thin line, thin on top.
She then took in her surroundings. She was on an enormous lawn, surrounded by a forest which sprawled out behind her, with a gigantic swimming pool a few yards to the left. A huge mansion was next to it, even bigger than the swimming pool, and could have easily come up to almost half of the gigantic Canterlot Castle's height, but easily dwarfed its width. It was a red color, with white trim and a brown tile roof. There were many balconies, doors, and windows on the side facing the swimming pool.
"HOLY DIN, NARYU, AND FARORE!"
An unfamiliar voice rang across the clearing she was in, scaring the pants off her.
"OH MY PALETUENA!"
"SEINARU TAWAGOTA!" Twilight was unfamiliar with that language, making her even more confused and curious as to what the person was saying.
The first voice yelled out again, coming even closer. "RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! MAKE FOR THE KITCHEN!"
Twilight gasped. These people were in trouble! But what was going on? Twilight tried to stand, but she could make out shapes coming closer in the distance. What if she scared them and made them lose their footing? They could die! Celestia was right when she said this world was savage. Not even five minutes had passed, and she was in a predicament already!
"LINK, I SWEAR, IF WE LIVE THROUGH THIS, I'M GONNA KILL YOU!" That was the third voice, even closer than last time.
"WHOSE STUPID IDEA WAS THIS?!" The second voice called out.
"ASK FAIRY BOY OVER THERE!" Twilight could make out the figures now. They were all human, although they looked really strange.
The one on the right was dressed entirely in green, green tunic, green hat, and had blonde hair. He had on brown boots and gloves, with white pants and undershirt. He had a sword and shield strapped to his back. "HEY! YOU WENT ALONG WITH IT, PRISSY-PANTS," he yelled back.
The second one was dressed entirely in white, although the strangest thing about him was that he had wings. He was the shortest of the three, and had on black undergarments under the white tunic-like thing, and his hair was brown. "GUYS! IF YOU DON'T SHUT UP YOU WON'T HAVE ENOUGH BREATH TO MAKE IT TO THE KITCHEN!"
The other two were silenced quickly, and pulled ahead. Apparently neither of them had a death wish.
The third one had blue hair with a headband adorned with a light blue jewel, and had a long blue cape flowing out behind him. His clothes were all blue too, with shoulder armor, a blue tunic, blue pants, and dark blue boots. He had a sword with a green jewel embedded in the handle, and a red one in the end of it. It was odd though, because he was also carrying a gigantic sword, with a gold blade and a black handle, which looked way too big for him to handle.
Then she saw what was chasing them. Her jaw dropped.
It was a very ticked off man, with blue spiky hair, stark naked except for his boxers, who looked like he was about to literally explode. Quite rightly too, for he had somehow caught on fire.
"LLLLLLLLLIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNKKKKK," he yelled, eyes full of murderous intent.
"DinNayruandFarorewhenIdiepleaseacceptmysoulintotheSacredRealmandpleaseletEponarunfreeandkeepherawayfromIliaandletZeldalivealongandhappylifeand-"
"SHUT UP," the other two roared at the praying Link.
Twilight gasped, for they were running straight towards the wall of the mansion, and it looked like it would all end there.
However, Link had no plans to die today.
It looked as if he were going to reach for his shield, but he surprisingly pulled out something else. Instead, a lit bomb came, and he flung it forward. It exploded right on target, causing a crumbly hole in the wall to appear.
"Y'know, there was a door right next to it," the blunette with the two swords remarked, before he was dragged in by the human pegasus.
"NO TIME, MARTH," Link yelled, continuing to run full-pelt down the hall.
All four of them had ran in, and since Twilight was rather curious about how this was going to end up, she followed them.
Her new body was a cinch to run in, since she was used to it, and it seemed more agile than the last time.
Shrugging this off, Twilight entered through the hole, and caught the half-naked guy crashing through the hall in blind rage.
"WHERE DID YOU TAKE RAGNELL," he demanded, tossing a chunk of the wall he had grabbed in blind fury behind him.
"HOLY SHIT, WE'RE NOT GOING TO MAKE IT," Marth screeched.
Twilight ran up, prepared to try to do something if blood was indeed spilt, when the human pegasus shoved the blunette out of his way.
Twilight had a horrible viewing point, since she was behind the on-fire guy and the other three in front, but she could make out a little from over his shoulder.
The winged human had pulled out a super shiny shield, while Marth hid somewhere further in the room at the end of the hall. She could only see the behind of Link, who was conducting a frenzied search in a white box.
"LINK, the Mirror Shield's not going to last for much longer," the brown-haired individual yelled.
"TRYING, Pit!"
Just as the shield gave out, Link ran forward and shoved something in the attacker's mouth, holding it there while he let the attacker register what just happened. Marth grabbed a red cylinder, and began to spray a white substance all over the man in his undies. As he did so, the fire eventually went out, although it left the target doused in the white substance.
The man straightened, and pulled the blunette into a bone-crushing hug, while the other two looked on, very relieved.
"I forgiwf awll owf youwf," he said, his mouth obviously full, while Marth squeaked something about his clothes being ruined and dropped the can.
Twilight looked curiously at the other two. Up close, she could see Link had some of the pointiest ears she'd ever seen before. And another strange thing: All three of them had blue eyes.
She sneezed.
Oops.
All four of them turned to look at her, their eyes going wide and freezing in their stances.
Alright, make that all four of them had blue eyes.
She must have seemed like she'd been staring, because Pit elbowed his former attacker and whispered, although it was quite audible in the entirely silent hall, "Ike, your undies."
Ike blushed beet red and repositioned Marth so that he provided a more decent cover up.
"U-uh…w-wh…uhh…um…" Ike stammered, still red.
Link stepped in. "Who're you?"
Twilight broke out of her stupor, and remembered her manners. Curtseying, she said, "I'm Twilight Sparkle. I…uh… I'm here to see the Master Hand."
Something interrupted her introduction to the four men as a giant, floating, white, right hand came…well, floating in at that point.
"I heerd you are looking for ze Master Hand," it said, its ethereal voice and the fact that it was a floating hand scaring the bejeezus out of Twilight.
She gulped. "Y-yes. C-can you t-take me to him?"
"I eez da Master Hand," it said, seeming to bow, but Twilight couldn't tell. It was a giant floating hand, after all.
What exactly had she expected when she heard of the Master Hand?
… Not this, that was for sure.
"Oh. Well, nice to meet you, Master Hand."
"Thanks you." What on earth was with that accent? "Now, if youse needz to talks with me, can we pleaz retire to my offiz?"
Twilight nodded her head and followed the floating hand up the stairs.
If she had looked behind, she'd have seen the silent objections and the shaking of heads of the four men.
"Now, what do you want to see me for?"
She was seated in his office, on what appeared to be a giant…turtle. He had dropped the apparently fake accent, and was seated in a leather chair on the other side of the desk.
"Well, I have a bit of a problem. You see, I'm from another dimension."
"Oh, I figured that," the hand said, with an overexaggerated tone of grave seriousness. "Everybody in this world is from a different dimension."
"Well, I'm a princess from Equestria, and-"
"CRAZY HAND!" The door burst open then, revealing a floating, white, left hand, with its pinkie on the doorknob. Pieces of what looked like tape were hanging off of its fingers, and it seemed to be panting.
The hand behind the desk giggled madly, and floated upward.
Twilight's brain couldn't comprehend the situation. Two floating hands? What the heck?
"STOP FOOLING WITH THE NEW GUESTS! AND NEVER DUCT TAPE ME TO ANOTHER MICROWAVE AGAIN!"
The hand giggled again.
"Well, I'm sorry to make the sudden exit, Ms. Sparkle," the hand said as it leaned in close to her. The hand took her hand with his thumb and put his forefinger on the top of it, almost like he was trying to kiss her hand. "But now I must leave! Goodbye!"
Then he exited…via the roof.
Twilight stared up in confusion at the hole, and mad cackling could be heard fading into the distance.
"I'm so sorry about Crazy Hand," the other hand apologized, wiping the duct tape off its fingers. "I'm the real Master Hand, and I hear you have a situation?"
"Yes," she responded, switching her attention back to the hand.
"Why don't we come to my office? I'm sure that poor turtle would like a breather."
Twilight immediately got up off of it, and per invitation of the hand, followed him back out of the attic onto the fifth floor.
"I apologize for my brother. Crazy Hand needs to be kept an eye on, but he drives me insane."
Twilight nodded. Knowing two ponies who had younger siblings, she had heard many a complaint about their wild antics.
"Well, Ms. Twilight Sparkle, am I correct?" The hand gestured to a seat opposite him, and sat down in his own leather one. Twilight nodded in affirmation and the hand went on, "Please tell me about your problem."
"Well, I'm really a pony in true form, and I'm a princess from Equestria, a land dominated by ponies. My tiara, one of the six Elements of Harmony that keeps Equestria safe, has been stolen, and the trail led here."
The hand leaned forward. "Equestria? Now, I haven't heard that name in a long time. Please, tell me what you know about the tiara being stolen."
"Well, I was asleep and I had left it on my nightstand. The only thing that I can remember was a voice whispering 'Come find me where the stages are set and the smashers play.' Celestia, another princess, told me that it was probably taken here. I traveled through a mirror, and ended up here."
"I see. Equestria is a land dominated by ponies, and you're one of the protectors and an alicorn. Very well, I will help you."
Twilight gasped in hope, brightening a bit.
"I will have to disguise you as one of the Smashers."
"But what exactly is a Smasher?"
"A Smasher is one of the people who lives here, in the Smash Mansion, and who competes in tournaments. Luckily, they're all from different worlds, as you are, so it will be easier to disguise you. I take it you can fight?"
"If I have to…?"
"Good. Find the Princess Zelda; she will tell you more."
"Thank you." Twilight got up to leave, but was stopped short.
"Twilight…place your trust in blue…"
