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Chapter Five! Yay! We get to see Twilight brawl a bit in this!
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Tempers were rising among the Smashers.
Link was still acting like a butthead, and nobody could figure out why. Zelda was constantly on the defensive, yelling at anybody who told Link off about his behavior. Marth and Ike were stuck between a rock and a hard place, taking the brunt force of their friend's bitchiness, while dealing with a complaining and overly defensive Zelda. Twilight felt like it was her fault, as the blunettes always came to her defense when Link started to get snappy with her.
Everybody was stressed, and Twilight felt like she was trying to walk through a minefield: any one of them could blow up with anger at any given moment.
The only unaffected party seemed to be Pit. In fact, although Twilight could safely say it was her imagination, he seemed to be enjoying this ordeal. She caught him occasionally grinning evilly as the others fought.
She pinched the bridge of her nose as a new argument between her other three friends started.
This is getting RIDICULOUS.
"He's just tired!"
"That does not give him the excuse to be rude to Twilight."
"Maybe you guys should let up on him! He did nothing wrong!"
"Hey, boys, lay off of Zellie, huh? She's taken. Go find some other girl to take to bed. Although, Marth, you seem to be doing good in that department, right?"
"KEEP MY GIRLFRIEND OUT OF THIS, YOU BLONDE BASTARD!"
Twilight was saved as the P.A. system crackled online.
"All Smashers please report to the Tournament Waiting Room. The Smash Tournaments are about to begin. Repeat, all Smashers please report to the Tournament Waiting Room."
Twilight practically flew out of her seat and through the door, Marth and Ike right behind her. Pit came, smirking after them.
"Pit, why are you smiling like that," Twilight asked him, rather creeped out.
"Oh, just the way you were practically tripping over yourself to get out of there." He grinned oddly at her.
Twilight frowned, and then caught up with Marth.
"I didn't know you had a girlfriend."
Marth ground his teeth. "There's a lot you don't know about the other Smashers. Like how they can fool you long enough and then turn out to be a total ass…" He shook his head. "Sorry. I'm just worried and stressed…"
"We all are…" Twilight continued to try to cheer him up, eventually coming to the Tournament Waiting Room on the second floor.
She gulped. Ever since Link had told her about the Tournaments during Smash training, she had dreaded this day.
The Tournaments were a series of battles between different groups of Smashers, sometimes a battle royal or team battles. They were mostly for entertainment; great fun for the Smashers, most of who couldn't get a good brawl back in their own world.
The Smashers, Twilight had managed to memorize all of their names and attacks in the short time she had been here due to the Smashers Index, filed in and sat down in the seats provided for them.
One of the Hands, Twilight still couldn't tell them apart, though it was probably the Master Hand, was at a podium, reading from whatever list had the schedule for the Tournaments.
"Okay, so, up first we have Twilight Sparkle, Link, Pit, and Peach for a battle royal on the Delfino Plaza stage. Smashers, please come forward."
Twilight stood, along with the other three called, and walked to the glowing platforms in the front of the room.
"Oh," Peach squealed as she stood on the platform. "I can't wait! We finally get to see your moves!"
Twilight gulped. She wasn't too sure about this, mostly because everybody was watching her. The Smashers had a giant screen in the waiting room, as to watch the ongoing battle.
The podiums flashed blue, and Twilight was teleported to the Delfino Plaza.
Delfino Plaza was a sunny place, with a castle next to a beach. The Smashers were on a floating platform with four levels that whirled around the stage, sometimes dropping them off at various points.
Unfortunately, Twilight didn't have a chance to enjoy the scenery.
As soon as they were on the stage, both Pit and Peach had gone for Twilight. She was dodging his blue arrows and Peach's turnips as the stage floated around the Plaza.
Twilight knew she was in a bit of a pickle. Link already knew all of her attacks, and Peach and Pit were formidable opponents. So, Twilight was on the defensive, already losing and not five minutes in.
Twilight was backed up to the edge of the bottom platform. She broke out in a sweat, bending over backwards to try to avoid her attackers.
Suddenly, something green took out Peach from behind. Pit took a crucial second to look behind him, but that turned out to be his downfall.
Link had grabbed him from behind with his hookshot, and had slammed him down on the ground.
"Thanks," she gasped.
"Couldn't let my precious training go to waste, now could I?"
He shot at Peach with his bow, while Twilight regained her breath.
He stood up again, back still to Twilight. She looked at him.
"Link?"
"TWILIGHT," he screamed at her, "WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM?!"
Twilight flinched, looking like a deer in the headlights.
"You kind of HAVE TO fight if you want to LIVE! Now get a move on, or else I'll shove you off the edge MYSELF!" Link turned back to brawl with Peach, leaving the snarling Pit to Twilight.
She gulped, then hardened her resolve.
Pit's arrows came flying at her, but she flung up her arms, a circular purple shield forming around them.
"Okay, Twilight." Link's voice rang through her head, retelling her about the Smash Tournaments. "Based on what I can tell, you are either a magical-type Smasher, or you must be a pro at martial arts. Magical Smashers have a different type of brawling style than people like me or Sonic, that one hedgehog. I take it you are already trained in the magical arts, so all you have to do is apply that knowledge to the Smash attacks."
She then responded with her own long-range attack, a Side B, something that she had called 'Twilight Rain.' Sharp purple, pink, and white shards flew from her hands, flying in a hailstorm towards the angel.
Pit, caught unawares by the attack, took some damage. The damage indicator above his head flashed '29%'.
"Is she any good," Peach asked, shouldering her golf club. "Aw, I wanna fight her."
"You're opponent is me, Princess," Link said, rubbing his head. "You'll pay for that."
Twilight glanced at Link's damage indicator. 78%.
Peach giggled, further taunting the swordsman. "Oh, really?"
Twilight was forced backward a few steps as Pit launched an arrow at her, connecting with her torso.
"Owch…" Her damage indicator spun up from zero to match Pit's.
She tried to hit him with another Purple Rain, but he was prepared, and a blue shield flashed into place. The shards shot out in random directions before disappearing.
Clashing and yelling came from behind Pit, while he sighed and rolled his eyes.
"Too many distractions…" he muttered turning around to face the other two brawlers, loading another arrow onto his bow.
Twilight instantly knew what he was planning.
She leapt forward, yelling, and let loose a Smash attack. A lavender blast shot out from her outstretched hand.
Pit gasped, and took to wing just in time to have the blast miss him. He crashed on top of another platform, panting in a mess of white feathers. "Holy crap," he breathed.
Unfortunately, Twilight's blast hit the person she was trying to save. Link took to the air, screaming, before disappearing in the distance as a little white flash.
Twilight gaped in horror, at the spot where he had blinked out. Peach giggled, while Pit stared at her from under the cover of his wings.
"Looks like you killed him," Peach said, smiling her usual ditzy smile.
Twilight glared at her, scrutinizing her. 90%.
Twilight sent out her grabbing attack, a purple strand of magic, and pulled Peach to her. She grabbed onto the front of Peach's dress, and began to spin her around, before letting her go. Peach hung in the air for a minute, before Twilight forcefully kicked her. Panting, she watched the pink princess go flying off into the corner of the stage, before going up in a red flare of light with a scream.
"Guess it's just you and me then," Pit said, coming from behind Twilight, startling her.
He took up a stance, loading his bow with another light arrow. Twilight snorted, magic zapping between her fingers.
Tension crackled between them.
"HYYYYYYYYYAH!"
Twilight slammed her foot on the ground, and a white flash flared up. The force of it blew the little angel back, creating grooves in the platform. He tsked as he flung up a hand to protect his eyes from its blinding whiteness.
When the flash subsided and Pit dropped his arm, Twilight was nowhere to be seen.
"What…?" He checked his damage. 35%.
"A blinding attack that doesn't deal much damage, but allows you to escape unseen by your enemy. That's my A attack."
Twilight dropped down on top of Pit, planting her foot in his face and slamming him to the floor.
"Want to see my others?"
Pit sprang up and rubbed the dirt off his face. He growled, holding his bow out in front of him. He let out a yell and spun his bow around in his hand, advancing toward her. Twilight took a few steps back, when he pulled back, grinding his teeth.
Twilight took a deep breath, before going into her attacks.
"Side A!" She flipped onto her hands, balancing as she kicked Pit in the gut, before flipping back to stand right side up.
He skidded back a few feet, before launching more arrows at Twilight.
She dodged most of them, before sliding and knocking Pit's feet out from under him. She flipped up into the air, before slamming down on top of Pit. His damage rose steadily.
He snarled again, and fired his blue arrows one after another.
Twilight gasped, and flung her arms up in an 'x' across her chest, and a purple dome appeared around her. The arrows glanced off and disappeared.
Pit stood straight up, looking the dome over, gasping.
Twilight smirked. "Twilight Sky," she said, naming the attack.
Pit snarled again, before running forward and spinning his bow around in his hand.
Twilight responded with her Twilight Rain, and each of the attacks bounced off each other. She quickly ducked in the wake of the aftermath and kicked Pit again, shoving him off the edge.
He screamed in fury, flapping his wings, while Twilight quickly closed the distance between them.
She leapt up into the air, yelling, and slammed her foot down on the top of his head, shoving him down off the screen.
As he went up in the red flash, Twilight caught a flash of green.
She gasped, taking a closer look.
Pit's hair had morphed into a sick light green-colored, long, hole-filled thing, his ears had morphed into an animal's, and his eyes had turned a menacing, evil-filled, green color.
Red consumed him as Twilight recoiled in horror, falling down below the screen just as she was pronounced the winner of the first tournament.
