It's been over a year since the last update. Huzzah. Who's still reading this? Has everyone graduated and gotten lives by now? Not me. One more year to go. Then I'll get a life. I can't believe I'm still doing this. Eternal Smasher, Penguin God, ptpeach, come back to me!!!!!

As you don't remember, Marth and Fox, accompanied by Pikachu and Yoshi, were following Pokemon Trainer to his "camp". Samus and Link were with Luigi and this fellow "Pit" to get water. Ganondorf, Master Hand, Mario, Peach, and others are waiting at the campfire for their friends to return. It's dark.

Chapter 4 - New

"How much farther is this place?" Marth complained, feeling blisters form on his feet. Considering the mansion had to blow up right after their interviews, the majority of the smashers were still dressed in proper and fancy attire. Shoes not excluded.

"My feet are killing me," Fox remarked, proving Marth's mental point.

"Not far from here, actually." The old, stranded fool known as Pokemon Trainer turned back to smile at them. "You all can ride on Charizard if you're tired, though."

Fox and Marth merely made faces. "No, thanks..."

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In another location of the forest, Link tapped his foot impatiently, watching the angel drink voraciously from the spring. The sun had set. "How long does it take you to get some damn water?!" he finally exclaimed. Samus shook her head, ashamed of Link.

"Oh, you all followed me?" Pit turned around, honestly surprised. Link just wanted to fall down from the guy's oblivious...ness. "Well, why are you still here?"

What's this guy's problem? Link thought. Luigi, however, voiced Link's concerns. "We were wondering if you could take us to your people." There was a small pause, and Samus shook her head again, this time with a sad sigh. "Er, that is..."

"You want to meet the others?" Pit asked, still unreasonably shocked by everything they did. "Well, why didn't you just say so? Follow me!" He ran away.

"Ah, wait!" Link and Samus followed closely behind. Luigi struggled to keep up beforing stopping altogether.

"Why are we running?" Samus called up to Pit. "Wait up!"

"This forest is dangerous," Pit mentioned, smiling dumbly. "I don't like to hang around too long."

Link frowned deeply. Doesn't running attract more attention? And don't you come to that spring everyday? You always run? You're nuts!

Samus glanced behind her. "We lost Luigi." The three continued to run.

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Ness had fallen asleep. Peach was staring at the dying fire. Mario, Ganondorf, Master Hand, and Roy couldn't help but think about food.

"The little one is asleep," Mario said, trying to save himself. "He'll never know what happened."

Ganondorf raised an eyebrow, glaring at Mario. "The kid's psychic, Mario. He'll know." Sighing sadly, Mario noticed Ness smiling to himself. The plumber cursed quietly.

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"This...??"

"Is where..."

"You guys..."

"...Live?"

Marth, Fox, Pikachu, and Yoshi stood in dumbfounded shock at the civilization before their eyes. There was a series of small huts, each constructed in a similar style. Tiki torches burned at each corner of the clearing. The beach could be seen, the huts set up far enough to avoid high tides. The forest was on the other side, partly shadowing the buildings with large leaves.

Beside each hut was a small basin of no-doubt fresh water, and they even seemed to have a laundry system set up. It was obvious they had been here for almost a year.

"Nice, huh?" Pokemon Trainer brought them out of their trance. "You're just in time for the feast, too."

"F-feast?" Marth asked, partly concerned, partly starving.

"Yeah!" Pokemon Trainer was immediately excited. "We just found this big ol' bird in the forest this morning. He'll be right tasty!" Pokemon Trainer ran off.

Yoshi licked his mouth. "That sounds good. Too bad we can't bring any back for the others."

What do you mean "too bad"? Marth, Fox, and Pikachu all thought in unison. "Let's go meet the others." Fox walked off.

*all mingle*

"Hi, I'm Pikachu!" the yellow rodent exclaimed unnecessarily to another Pokemon. "I've heard about you. You're Lucario! How rare!"

"...Leave me alone." Pikachu frowned, his new attempted-but-failed friend walking away from him.

"Diddy, huh? Another monkey." Fox shook hands with the giddy animal, looking off to the side in disdain. "Who's that?"

"That's Wario." The monkey made a disgusted and angry face. "I hate him."

"Yeah, he looks like a real..." Fox stopped looking. "I'm going to ignore him."

Marth wandered around the campsite, not interested in meeting new people. "Stupid civilization with all your nice things. You're just here to make us jealous, aren't you?" he mumbled to himself, kicking rocks as he headed for the beach.

Still quite a ways away from the water, he looked down at the swelling waves, taking a deep breath. "I want to get out of here so bad," he said to himself, blandly. Marth stepped close to the edge of a grassy area to look at the sand below him quite a ways. However, directly below the small outcropping were a pile of sharp rocks lodged in the sand, making Marth immediately lose control.

His foot slipped and he plunged off the edge. Well, I guess dying isn't that bad, he thought, closing his eyes.

Although a pair of arms caught him, Marth continued to pretend to be dead. "Are you alright?" Marth didn't reply, still embracing death. "Hello?"

"Oh blast it." Marth opened his eyes, glaring. "Who are you?" he asked, angry, but gasped when he saw the figure still holding him.

"I'm glad you're okay," the other man replied, gently setting Marth on his feet. "I'm Ike."

Marth stared at the man who, although taller than him, had the same colored hair and similar style of clothing he had worn. Only torn up. Ike was giving him an expectant look.

"Uh, my name's Marth." He extended his hand. "I got stranded here about a week ago."

"Wow. This island seems to capture a lot of people." Ike shook the prince's hand, giving him a hopefully unreadable and skeptical look in the dark. Just a week and he's already trying to kill himself. Try a year and then see what you think!

"Thank you for saving me," Marth said demurely, looking down at the sand. He mentally beat himself up for being saved by someone when he's supposed to do all the saving. "I didn't know what would've become of me after I fell off that cliff!"

"It's not really a cliff," Ike pointed out, and Marth looked at the tiny bluff, only about 1.5 times his own height. "But no problem."

"OH MY GOD!" Marth recognized Fox's panicked voice and jumped up the cliff towards the campsite.

An unconscious Falco was tied to a stick, about to be roasted if Fox weren't in the way. "That's my comrade! Don't eat him." Fox cringed. Never thought he'd have to say something like that.

Pokemon Trainer untied the blue-feathered one, Fox rushing to his side. "Good, he's alive."

Everybody around groaned though. "Way to ruin our feast," someone (WARIO) complained. Fox gave him a condescending look.

"I'm sorry, but now we don't have any food," Pokemon Trainer looked sad, trying to explain to Fox. "And we're all very hungry."

Yeah right! You all look like you have three-course meals every day! Fox stood. "Well, you can't expect me to sacrifice my friend for people I've known for less than an hour." He took a look around. "Just eat the Pikachu, or the monkey."

Diddy frowned deeply again. Pikachu began to cry.

"I don't eat Pokemon," Pokemon Trainer said, a little too proudly.

Everyone simply stared at the confrontation between Pokemon Trainer and Fox. It wasn't long before the silence was broken by the sound of approaching figures.

"Whoa, check this place out!" Link exclaimed loudly, walking into the campsite. Samus put a hand on his shoulder, stopping him. The three of them, Pit not included, stared at Falco's seemingly lifeless body and the hungry looks of everyone around them.

"What, are we not eating?" Pit asked Diddy, floored. "Why ever not?"

Fox clenched his fists. "Because your idea of food is my idea of a friend!"

"I fight for my friends!" Ike interjected. Marth gave him a weird look, but the others, used to it, ignored him.

"You mean, the feast is cancelled?!" Pit fell to the ground in shock.

"Why the hell is that guy so surprised by everything?" Samus whispered to Luigi, who shrugged.