Pikachu 'peeka'd' over the edge of the construction site to see what was happening to Mario. If Pikachu's mainly blank face were capable of showing emotions, he would have looked shocked at what he saw.
Mario's breath was driven from his lungs as he landed painfully on a girder. Pikachu fired a colossal lightning bolt. Mario used his famed agility to roll sideways, thus avoiding the deadly lightning bolt...and also causing him to roll off the edge of the edge of the girder. He freefell a tremendous distance... 3 metres. The abrupt stop to the drop was accompanied by a pop. This was because a hook had snagged his overalls, causing one of two buttons to pop open. Mario hastily unhooked himself (while keeping a firm grip on the hook with his left hand) and scrambled up so that he was clutching the rope that supported the hook, while using the hook itself as a foothold.
'Hold on' thought Mario. 'If I'm practically at the top of the construction site, whats supporting the hook'?
He glanced upwards into the sky. He didn't have 20/20 vision, but the sky seemed suspiciously devoid of possible supporting objects. The only things he could see were the sun, and a cloud somehow shaped like a pretzel, the latter of which could have possibly been interesting at functions such as a relaxing tea party, but while in the middle of a fight to the death, seemed unnecessary. Mario realised the hook must simply be suspended by Tabuu's will. Sure enough, the hook began ascending back up to Pikachu to keep the fight from getting boring. Mario had only a few seconds to come up with a strategy. He decided to put it to good use.
"Aw, hell yeah!" cried Marth, "He totes pwnd that mofo!"
"Marth, Mario survived. Look, he's rejoining the battle right now. And, what are you even saying?" asked an exasperated Ike.
"Would you mind keeping it down please?" requested Olimar, "I can't hear the battle." He stopped and considered for a moment.
"Actually, keep talking. It's bad enough that we have to people's gory, gruesome, deaths. I'd rather not have to hear them as well."
"Well, isn't that depressing?" complained Pit.
"Excuse me if I'm not bursting with joy that we're all going to die" snapped Olimar.
"Well, I'm sitting here trying to keep my sanity, and you're saying stupid things like that" retorted Pit in annoyance.
"I'm sorry to be blunt" said Olimar bluntly. "But that's the unfortunate truth."
"So you have no hope whatsoever?"
"If I'm honest, I've already mentally confined myself to the morgue. That is, if there's anything left of me."
"Excuse me if some of us haven't given up hope just yet! I have to believe there's a chance. That's the only way I'll ever stay sane."
Olimar sighed. "Then I envy you. I envy all four of you."
Ike, Marth and Pit all raised their eyebrows quizzically. Even Luigi managed to tear his eyes away from Mario's battle. Olimar elaborated.
"All four of you have a chance at winning. I, however, spent my battle either being tossed around, or lying unconscious while my Pikmin defeated my opponent for me. It was all pure luck. All of you though, have a chance. You have skills. I can do nothing that will help me in any way."
The conversation ended with the five current victors sitting silently, most of them depressed, and all of them contemplating Olimar's words.
"This is my opposition? I'm up against an animal!" cried Falco.
"I am noticeably bereft of mirth, due to the obvious fact that you yourself are an animal. However, even if you weren't an animal, your attempt at humour would still have failed, mainly because of the profoundly unsophisticated,and common sense lacking, way that you verbally articulated your imbecilic views, which by the way would not have coaxed even the most minute quantity of laughter from even another individual as illiterate and moronic as yourself."
Falco blinked a few times before saying "what was that about the beret of smurf, or whatever?"
"My statement was 'bereft of mirth'. As you will be when I knock you on your coccyx!"
Lucario launched a colossal Aura Sphere which Falco barely managed to avoid. Falco didn't miss a beat, pirouetting (though somehow in a manly way) and loosing several quick bursts of energy from his blaster. They all missed however, as Lucario's massive intellect allowed him to calculate the impetus of the energy blasts before Falco had fired them. Using this knowledge, Lucario leisurely stepped aside. Falco narrowed his eyes and clenched his teeth. Some serious stuff was about to go down. Falco backflipped over an Aura Sphere, somersaulted over another, barrel-rolled beneath a third, and lashed out a powerful blow to Lucario. Except Lucario had moved already. Falco groaned. Lucario knew what he was going to do before even he had figured it out. Then he came up with a tremendous plan. He would act completely at random, thus preventing Lucario from tracking him. It was a brilliant idea! He couldn't possibly fail! He was going to win! Lucario didn't stand a...
Falco was completely obliterated by an Aura Sphere as large as a house. Lucario yawned.
"Which primitive, unstategical opposition will I be required to fight next?"
Tabuu's voice as usual, came from nowhere.
"You will find out in due course. But for now I shall teleport you back to the Waiting Room."
"And me without my Power Suit" groaned Samus.
Sonic looked uneasy. There was no doubt in his mind that he would win, but he wasn't a ruthless cold-blooded killer.
"Well, let's just get this over with" said Samus.
In her defense, she did extremely well, considering the circumstances.
She charged at Sonic. Quick as a flash, the hedgehog kicked her in the chest, knocking her backwards off the ground. Before she had even touched the ground, he sped round her and kicked her in the back. Instead of sprawling on the floor, Samus landed in a forward roll, leaping up into the air, twisting while airborne, and lashing out with her only weapon.
The Plasma Whip coiled around Sonic's midriff. To break free, Sonic shot towards and headbutted her. Before she had time to fly backwards, Sonic finished the manouevre. The headbutt had actually been the early stages of a flip. He performed the flip so fast that his legs arced over and slammed the airborne Samus downwards.
She lay panting on her front. Sonic advanced nervously. Just enough time for her to fire the Paralyser. Sonic's reflexes kicked in, and he dived sideways. The very edge of the blast caught him narrowly. This narrow scrape didn't kill him as it should have done, but spun him round like an ice skater and deposited him on the floor. Still lying on her front, Samus planted her palms on the floor and kicked off with her feet, launching herself forwards. She kicked Sonic in the face as he got to his feet, knocking him to the ground. Samus landed on top of him, pinning him to the floor. Sonic spun into a ball, catapulting Samus over him. She landed painfully on her back. Her weapon flew out of her hands and right into Sonic's. Before he could decide against it, he blasted her. She screamed, her back arching as her body coursed with energy. Her suit absorbed most of the energy however, making the blast a lot less painful than it should have been.
Sonic gulped and acted before he could stop himself. He ripped a hole in the leg of her suit and pointed the barrel at the exposed patch. With nothing to protect her bare skin, the ensuing blast was too much. Samus Aran lay still at last. Forever.
Sonic gulped again. He was a murderer. What would Amy think? And Tails and Knuckles? Then Sonic decided. He kept the weapon, and vowed, that however many people he had to kill, he would do it. He was going to win, and meet his friends. And nothing would stop him.
King Dedede knew that he was victorious. Even if Ness had dodged the blast of energy (fired from a gun that Dedede had made a quick detour to collect when he saw it on the warehouse floor), the small boy would still be far too weak to put up a fight. But what he saw astonished him. Ness was still standing in exactly the same place, but was surrounded by a large purple sphere. But that wasn't all. He was actually standing strong now. It was crazy, but it seemed that the energy blast had been absorbed by the sphere, and then the sphere seemed to harness the power, and channel it into Ness, giving him newfound strength. Ness straightened up, filled with more energy and power than when he had started. Dedede swung his mallet with enough force to splatter Ness against the wall.
Ness leapt upwards as the horizontal attack neared. He landed on the end of the mallet and waited. Just when the mighty mallet struck the warehouse wall, he jumped. The force of the impact catapulted him high into the air. While ascending, he launched a PK Pulse upwards, smashing a hole in the ceiling. Then as he began to lose upwards momentum, he fired a PK Thunder. He arced it beneath him and hit himself in the sole of the foot. Dedede thought he was crazy, but Ness was launched upwards like a torpedo. He soared out of the warehouse and landed on the colossal roof. Then the roof exploded beneath him.