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Chapter 1.

Meta Knight.

1:00 P.M. 6/10

I couldn't help but sigh as I walked down the street. Man today was going by so slowly... the whole week was, it seemed like an eternity since I left Dreamland, but I knew it had only been a week and a half. (I'm sure everyone back home is freaking out, wondering why I left) I thought as I continued walking. Everyone back on Popstar had wanted what he had, he was famous all around the world for his sword skill, he had been promoted to commander of Dedede's guard, and had very good income coming in. To a normal person things would have seemed perfect, but I'd grown tiried of it all

The money just hadn't been worth waiting hand and foot on that stuffy little penguin. All he ever did was complain about how hard it was ruling a country, when he never actually did anything but make his servants do things he's too lazy to do himself. It didn't bother me at first, fetch a glass of milk for him, run his bath water every now and then and in exchange be in charge of a massive army and be known and feared world-wide. Might have been a deal I would have liked if Dreamland ever went to war with anyone. The military and big weopons were there for looks, if an opposing army attacked they'd have conquered everything in a few hours. And eventually I grew bored of it all, I had the best fighting skills around and I couldn't prove it because there was noone to fight.

One day however Kirby had decided to "visit" the castle, if you could call barging in and attacking any guard that tried to stop him, visiting. But that was unimportant, Kirby talked about a place on a planet called Earth where you could go and fight other strong people in front of large audiances. Apparently it was quite popular or something, he called it "Super Smash Brothers", and it immidietly interested me. I could finally prove to the universe that I was the best there was. So one night, I just left... didn't say a word to anyone. I snuck out during the night, and took a ship to this planet Earth. Noone knew I had left, and noone likely knows where I am now, although that will change when Kirby gets called back here.

Anyways, it didn't take long to find information on this fighting contest, and apparently I had come just in time as they were accepting new members. I quickly applied and I was accepted by the end of the day. They said Kirby had once spoken of me, and recognised my name when I signed up, but it didn't matter all I cared about was the fact that now I would be getting the respect I deserved... that is once I'd won a few matches.

That was sort of how I ended up doing what i'm doing now, walking down the street near lunch-time on a particularly hot day. Before the fighting seoson started up again, it seemed all the participants were allowed to take a vacation together. This year two people offered to let them all come and stay at their mansion, and a letter was sent out to everyone on the roster including myself. Even though i've yet to be in a real match I figured I'd tag along and see how my future opponents acted around one another. Maybe try to figure out their fighting styles or something, basically this vacation was nothing but recon work for me.

The mansion was where I was heading now, all this reminiscing I'd been doing was passing the time, quite nicely. I was getting close to the mansion though so I decided to actually focus on walking down...whatever street this was...(hell I don't even know what the name of this city is, all these human cities look the same to me) I thought as I continued walking. Man it was hot... about 20 minutes later I finally came to the right address, and looked up at the mansion. I almost fell over when I saw it, it was huge. A mansion seemed like an inappropiate title. It was almost as big as Dedede's castle, there were 5 or 6 floors, and it was really wide. It looked as if it could hold more then 100 rooms inside of it.

I cautiously walked up the drive-way and into the entrance. The place looked even bigger on the inside. I glanced around what was obviously a foyer, but didn't see anyone...odd.. I'd have figured someone would be greeting us at the door, I guess this place wasn't as fancy as I thought earlier.

"Hello? is anyone here?"

I called out, a few seconds later a man came out of a near-by room...at least he looked like a man, he was really white, and looked like he was glowing. I figured he was an albino or something, because even his hair was white, even though he looked like he was 18 or 19 years old. Besides that he looked normal, taller then me but not exactly tall by human standards, and he looked like he kept in-shape.

He looked me over for a few seconds before finally saying "Hello there...um..why are you here?"

"I'm here for some sorta vacation...I'm a Smasher" I replied.

"Really? I don't recognise you" he said

"I'm new, just got accepted about a week ago...the letter said everyone on the roster was welcome, and that includes me...names Meta-knight, Meta for short" I replied, slightly irritated at him.

He turned around and picked up a clipboard, apparently one with all the Smasher's names on it because after reading it he said " Well your on here..so I guess your telling the truth, theres no picture by your name, but your name's there... so in that case welcome to my mansion, my names Ultima".

(There's supposed to be pictures by our names? well seeing as how I've only been a Smasher for a week, I suppose they didn't have time to get a photo of me) I thought.

Right after I thought that Ultima turned to face the doorway he entered from and said "Hey Mell, another one's here."

a female voice talked back from the room "Coming Ultima".

I finally decided to examine the entrance to this mansion, although I noticed someone else walk through the doorway out of the corner of my eye, probaly just that girl that had just spoken. For a few seconds I looked around...this one room really seemed huge, the ceiling was really high...looking at it I bet there aren't any more rooms right here on the upper floors. There were plenty of decorative plants and stuff and there wer- unfortunly that thought was stopped mid-way as I finally saw the girl who'd walked in... if you could call her a girl. I immidietly jumped back, drawing my sword, keeping ready at my side and level with my head, my common battle-pose.

"Ultima what the hell is that thing?!?!?!"

I stared at what I had prevously thought was a girl, although it did have a femine like shape, it was clearly not human. Although it had a human-like shape, it had scales all over it's body instead of skin, like some kind of reptile or something. It's eyes were black, and it's hair was red, but their were two horns sticking out of it's head. But they weren't straight and pointy like a demon's horns would be. Instead they were curved near the bottom and laid flat horizontally a little ways over the creature's head. It's hands were enlarged, like they were swollen or something, and had sharp claws on them instead of fingers. It also had a tail, dragging behind it on the floor. Yet it stood up straight like a human, and if this was the thing that had spoken before, talked like a human too.

Ultima, after seeing me get startled jumped in between me and the creature as if to protect it.

"What do you mean? what are you doing?" he said.

"What do you mean what do I mean? that things not human it's a monster!"

The creature seemed insulted after I said that, and stared at the ground.

"Well of course she's not human, i'm not either" Ultima said.

After hearing that statement I stared at Ultima as well as the creature, ready to attack them both if nesseccary. "What the hell is going on here?!" I said, now raising my voice.

"Master Hand didn't tell you? we're not humans, we're an alien race called the Ilynine, all the others already knew" Ultima said, the creature behind him still looking at the ground, not saying anything.

(Master Hand? oh, the guy running the show... I've yet to actually meet him in person, all the communication between the two of us so far was either done through his secretary or had to be submitted in paperwork, apparently they'd forgotten to inform me of this) I thought.

But before I could say anything Ultima spoke again "Please lower your weopon Meta, I assure you we're kind people, afterall we're letting all the Smashers stay in our mansion."

I thought on those words for a moments, and sheathed my sword again, although I kept my hand on the hilt, for a few minutes, incase these two were lieing. Ultima relaxed, and the creature continued looking at the ground, I felt sorry for it for some reoson, it looked odd...yet it had a sense of elegance about it

"I'm sorry... I didn't mean to hurt your feelings, your appearence just startled me...what's your name?" I asked after about a minute of silence

"...Mell... welcome to our mansion, please make yourself at home" the creature muttered in a female voice as she walked back into the room she came from. So I was right, this creature was female.

"Don't worry about her, she'll be ok in a few hours...your not the first person to call her a name" Ultima said, seemly sensing that I felt bad.

I chose not to reply, and after a few minutes he said "Anyways, make yourself at home, pick out a room for yourself any room, theres plenty of them, and your welcome to everything in the mansion" after that he too walked into the room Mell walked into.

1:35 P.M. 6/10

I decided to look around first, following Ultima into a a fairly large living room with a few other people in it. It seemed I'd been one of the earlier ones to arrive. After walking around the ground floor a little I decided to pick out a room, I wanted one on one of the upper floors so I walked up the staircase and began looking at all the different ones. Surprisingly every room was different in one way or another. I'd have thought with as many rooms as this place had they'd have run out of designs after a while. And everything was so neat and tidy... I wasn't used to staying in a place this clean. Eventually I decided on a room on the third floor, it was simple enough. Two single-person beds, a closet, and a window looking out into the also very tidy backyard of the mansion. The view was nice, I could see the entire yard, and a little of the woods behind the yard, I could even see a pond in them. I spent a few minutes settling in, which also meant dirtying the place up some...again this mansion was far too clean for my tastes.

After that I went back downstairs, and into the kitchen. I was thirsty from my walk to this place, and Ultima did say I was welcome to everything in the mansion...that included food and drinks. I opened up the fridge and was surprised at all the stuff. They had every kind of drink imaginable, water, juice milk, tea, soda of every kind...you name it and it was there. The same thing with the food...and it was all organized...geez these people even organized their food. After gaping for a few minutes I decided on a simple glass of water, I got some ice and filled the glass up and decided to walk back into the main living room.

2:00 P.M. 6/10

Apparently in the 20 minutes I had spent finding a room, more people had shown up, as there was now somewhere between 10-15 people in here compared to the 4 that were in here on my last visit. I took a chair over to a corner near the door going to the entrance and sat down, I took my mask off so I could drink my water, and layed it on the floor next to my chair. I hated being seen without my mask on but obviously I can't eat or drink with it on. For a while I just sat their taking sips every now and then and gazing at other people doing various activities. There was a blonde-haired girl in a pink dress sitting on a couch and watching some cooking show on a television, cooking bored me so I quickly continued looking around. Mell was talking to a blonde-haired boy in a green tunic, she seemed to be in a better mood...that made me feel better. After a while I noticed a man, leaning agaist the wall in the corner directly across from myself. Almost all of his body and face were covered in a cloak, so I cound't see very much besides his mouth. He seemed kinda mysterious, but I knew I probaly did too, as I had noticed some people eyeing me, so I continued looking around. My attention quickly turned to someone wearing a suit of red battle armor, an arm cannon attached to it. For once it was someone I had heard of, Samus Aran, known around the galaxy as a great bounty hunter. I never knew she was in this organization. She was talking with someone I didn't know. It was an animal actually, short with mostly black fur but had patches of red here and there. Odd thing was it was wearing a pair of red shoes, and it stood up straight like a human. I decided to watch them for a while. It seemed like they were having an ordinary conversation until Samus suddenly slapped the animal across the face with her arm cannon, knocking him to the floor, and stormed off angrily. I couldn't help but laugh, afterwards I wished I hadn't as apparently the animal heard me and walked over.

"Hiya Kirby" it said " Why'd you paint yourself blue? pink really was your color."

I sneered at him and said "I'm not Kirby... anyone even half stupid could figure that out."

"You look like Kirby... alot... well if your not Kirby then who are you?" the animal asked.

I sighed knowing this stupid animal wouldn't leave me alone if I told him to go away and finally said "If you must know my names Meta-knight... Meta for short"

"Oh, Kirby's talked about you before...he said your a grouch that only thinks about himself and loves to talk about how powerful he is."

That last statement got me angry...very angry.. "WHAT?!?!? I'LL KICK THAT LITTLE PUFFBALL'S ASS SO HARD WE COULD ROAST HIM AND EAT HIM AS A MARSHMELLOW!!!!" I said, probaly a little too loud as people stared at me afterwards.

"Hey chill out chill out... my names Shadow, Shadow the Hedgehog you new around here or something?" he said clearly wanting to change the subject.

"...yeah, just got accepted about a week ago, decided I'd come along on this vacation to meet some other members.." I replied, trying my hardest to calm down.

"I see, well I've been here for about a year, this is the second one of these vacation things I've been too Master Hand, almost always throws us a curve-ball with these things and I guess he wanted us to meet some aliens...still I thought he'd told everyone in advance, guess not though."

It seemed Ultima or Mell had told him about what happened. I didn't reply to that statement...after a minute of silence he said "do you always have outbursts like that?" he said, a joking smirk on his face.

"Yes" I said, a serious look on my face...I always have a serious look on my face.

"Oh...I see..." he said, obviously he had been expecting me to make a joke back.

There was more silence... after about 4 minutes he seemed ready to walk away, and talk to someone else. I considered letting him do just that... but having someone else on my side, probaly wouldn't hurt...I beleive humans call them "friends". Still there was no telling with this animal... he very well might do nothing but nag me all the time.

I finally decided to speak, just as Shadow turned around to walk away " So what was up with Samus? why'd she hit you like that?"

"Oh Samus, she digs me" he said with his smirk returning to his face, "Still man, that arm cannon hurts...and her kicks...and her missiles...and her bombs." It seemed that wasn't the first time he'd tried to woo Samus.

"why don't you try another girl...one that won't injure you" I said.

"Like who?" he replied.

I looked back at the girl watching the television, "How about her?" I said

"Already tried, she hit me with a frying pan...and a turnip...and an umbrella...and high heels." he replied.

I continued searching the room, the blonde-haired boy in the green tunic that had been prevously talking to Mell, was now talking to another blonde-haired girl. This one was wearing a much more formal looking dress...and her ears were pointy for some reoson.

Regardless I pointed to her and said "Well how about that one?"

" Tried her already too, she hit me with a fireball... and more magic...and more high heels...damn those things hurt." Shadow apparently didn't give up easily.

I thought for a second and said "Well how about Mell, she's technically a female" I took a few seconds to wonder what the children would look like, I got some very disgusting images from that.

"She's Ultima's girlfriend, so she's taken" Shadow said.

I hadn't known that, Ultima was probaly mad at me too for insulting his girlfriend, it seemed today was a good day for not telling me important things. I looked around the room again...that was all the women in here... as I looked around I saw that the cloaked person that had been in the corner was no longer in the room. He must have walked out while I was speaking with Shadow, ah well I kept looking around, there was some kinda turtle looking kid, drawing in a coloring book on the floor.

Not knowing what else to talk about I said "Who's the little runt over there?"

Shadow turned and looked at the creature, "Oh that's just one of Bowser's kids, I've heard he always brings his kids to these vacations...all 8 of them."

I'd heard of Bowser... he was one of the few competitors I actually knew something about.

"How come a giant demon turtle guy can get laid but I can't?" Shadow said.

"I guess noone wants to a hedgehog for a boyfriend", I said finally finishing my glass of water, I set the glass down on the ground by my chair and put my mask back on.

"I'm gonna go back up to my room, I'll see you later" I said as I stood up out of the chair "

Ok" Shadow said, walking away. I turned around and went back to the entrance, to go up the staircase to my floor.

As I passed by the entrance however, I heard the sound of a door opening and turned around. A girl was standing in the doorway, of the door going outside, she was about medium height...and kind of skinny. She was wearing an orange sleeveless shirt, and some green shorts, her midriff was showing. She had a belt looped a few times around her shorts, and something that looked like a pouch. She had on gloves, some armbands on both of her arms, and elbow pads. A pair of goggles were around her neck, dangling a little above her chest. She had blonde hair, I couldn't really tell the length of it, I guess it must be long, because she had it braided, not much at first but it got more and more braided as the length went on, laying behind her head on her back. The front of her hair was pinned up, probaly to keep it out of her eyes.

She looked at me for about a second before saying "Hi!" in a perky and cheerful voice.

"Ummmm... hi?" I said. "Hi!" the girl repeated "I've never seen you before, do you work here like a butler for the Smashers or something?"

" NO DAMN IT, I'M A SMASHER HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO TELL PEOPLE?!?!" I yelled, I mean sure I'd only been in the program for about a week, and I hadn't been in a real match, but damn it being called a butler pissed me off, who did this girl think she was?

"Sorry, I didn't mean to make you mad...umm...well if your a Smasher what's your name?" the girl said. I was getting tiried of everyone wanting to get to know me.

"Meta-knight...Meta for short..." I half-said half-growled at her.

"Oh," she replied, "Hi Meta, i'm Rikku!" she said, her cheerful voice completely back. She obviously couldn't sense that I was still mad.

"That's nice" I said, not really caring, what her name was.

"I'm looking for someone, she's a fan of Super Smash Bros. and I figured she might have come by?" Rikku said.

I sighed "What does she look like?"

"Well", Rikku said, going into a long description of what this person looked like, I wasn't paying much attention since I didn't plan on looking for them anyway.

"Oh and her name's Yuna" Rikku finally finished.

"Fine, I'll look out for her" I lied, I had no intention of looking for her actually.

"Anything else" I said, an annoyed tone in my voice.

"Well I was kinda hoping to meet some of the Smashers myself" Rikku said, with a smile on her face.

(Great... a fan-girl...) " Their in there" I said, pointing to the room I'd just come out of "most of them still aren't here though."

"Ok, it was nice meeting you Meta!" Rikku said, dashing into the room.

"Whatever" I said back to her, as I turned to go up the stairs.

( Well that girl was annoying...she was too cheerful) I thought, as I went back up to my room to be alone. I prefered to be alone, maybe that was why I had negative thoughts about everyone here so far. One looks like a freak, one's a talking hedgehog, determined to hit on everything he can, and the other was so cheerful it was annoying. (Everyone here is a weirdo)...that was the only thought going through my mind, when I walked into my room and shut the door.

2:30 P.M. 6/10