CHAPTER TWO

Snake heaved his luggage onto the first class cabin in which the Smashers would all be traveling in for the next six hours. He groaned; six hours with these people? Insane. What was even more insane was that he had accepted to do this. He looked around at his fellow team mates for the year, sitting down on the leather chairs and turning to neighbors to talk. The veteran fighters were reliving the funniest moments of the previous season, while the newer ones (excluding Snake, of course) were sitting quietly, looking at the returning fighters with awe sketched all over their faces. Snake sighed and sat down at the back of the cabin, away from everyone.

Peach sat down next to Samus and across from Mario and Luigi near the front. She loved doing this with people; taking trips and talking and making friends… And she would be the first to admit that she was cheesy, but she loved it anyway.

Wolf had put Nana down in the seat next to him (he gave her the window seat, of course) and helped Peach heave Popo into the chair next to Nana. Fox and Falco sat across from them, Falco still rubbing his sore wing.

Pit was helping people put their luggage on the racks above the seats, in return for a few feathers in their faces, which made Yoshi sneeze. Yoshi, Pit, Lucas, Ness, and Toon Link all sat down at the same table and started playing Blackjack. Captain Falcon, Marth, Meta Knight, and Red sat down and started chatting amiably.

Snake was just nodding off when a low, gravelly voice asked, "May I sit here?" Snake looked up to see Ganondorf standing above the empty seat where Snake had his feet up. "Yeah." He moved his feet and sat up.

"Thank you." The elf sat down across from Snake. They sat in slightly awkward silence for a few minutes, until Ganondorf moved, putting his elbow on his knee and his head in his hand. "What do you think of all this business?" Snake looked over at him, and then looked out of the window again. "Stupid." Ganondorf grinned, glad he found another person who really, truly, did not want to be here. "I agree. Also stupid that someone wants us to do a movie-"

"What?"

"You did not know this? Yes, well a producer apparently thinks it would be a great idea to do a movie with all of the 'smashers', in their quest to stop evil." Here Ganondorf grimaced and sneered. "And I get the lovely honor of being the evil one." He shook his head and spat, "Always."

Snake said, "Well, I can't be in a movie. If I was, my enemies would know exactly who I am, where I am, and my fighting skills would be revealed!" They heard Link speaking in a low voice and Zelda giggling. "And the fact that they are acting like two teens on a date is really bothering me also!"

"Agreed. What is your name, human?"

Snake paused, wondering if he could trust the dark elf. "Snake."

"Well, Snake, looks like we are going to be the only ones with some sense around here."

Snake smiled.

"Good afternoon, Smashers!" a bright, overly-cheery voice chirped. Snake and Ganondorf looked up. A lady who was dressed in a white t-shirts with a high neck-line and sleeves down to her wrists and a white skirt down to her knees. Her pink hair was curly and long, and she had a white cap on her head with the Smash logo printed on it in black. She was carrying a clipboard, and behind her, another woman in the same outfit, except she wore black and her hair was a bright gold. Which, Snake noticed, matched her eyes.

The second woman had her arms crossed and she looked tired and bored, while the first one looked extremely excited and hyper. They were complete opposites, Snake realized.

"So, so, SO sorry about that teensy-weensy little delay back there." She giggled, and Snake rolled his eyes. So did the second woman.

"Anyway, I have your schedules right here, and- oh! My name is April, and this here-" she gestured behind her- "is Chiarina. And she has your roommates." Chiarina didn't acknowledge her introduction in anyway. She just drifted past April and silently started handing the papers out, swiftly and was finished before April had even started.

Snaked looked at the paper. He chuckled. Some people were not going to be so happy with their roommates.

ROOMMATES FOR 2008-2009 SMASH SEASON

PEACH-SAMUS-ZELDA, ROOM 1

FOX-FALCO-WOLF, ROOM 2

MARIO-LUIGO-WARIO, ROOM 3

LUCARIO-PIKACHU-JIGGLYPUFF, ROOM 4

OLIMAR-R.O.B.-SONIC, ROOM 5

LINK-PIT-RED, ROOM 6

NESS-LUCAS-TOON LINK, ROOM 7

MARTH-IKE-META KNIGHT, ROOM 8

CAPTIAN FALCON-GANONDORF-SNAKE, ROOM 9

DONKEY KONG-DIDDY KONG- MR. GAME AND WATCH, ROOM 10

KING DEDEDE- KIRBY- BOWSER, ROOM 11

NANA AND POPO- YOSHI, ROOM 12

Shrieks of delight and small groans of despair filled the cabin. April looked on, a huge grin on her face, while Chiarina sighed. Ganondorf looked at the sheet. "Argh. Falcon. Just our luck, eh?" Snake peered over the seat at Falcon, who had the same look of anguish etched on his face that Ganondorf had. Snake chuckled again. "Yeah, and his too." Ganondorf checked over his shoulder, and laughed. "It will be an interesting year, then, won't it?"