Snake blinked at the package in front of him. He wasn't sure what to make of it or the name of the sender on the side, not to mention the logo which irritated him to no end.
Yo, Snake! Sorry bout Phantom Pain, but we here at the studio thought you might like this gift. It's somewhat dated but still pretty neat. Have fun.
-Your friend, Kojima Kaminandesu
PS: Your dad says hi :P
"What in the hell?"
Snake couldn't tell even how this message was even possible. But nonetheless Snake shook his head reaching for the package and walking back inside of the mansion.
As the soldier walked down through the main corridor he could not avoid the running Lucas, Ness, and Toon Link engaged in a game of tag. The trio ran past the soldier who-with his trained agility-maneuvered around the three skillfully avoiding anyone of them bumping into him. Snake sighed clutching the package closely as the three turned around the other corner.
"Whew. That was close."
"What was?" Samus piped up.
Snake, for some inexplicable reason, hadn't sensed the bounty hunter standing behind him and rather out of character jumped up. Both of his hands raised up along with the package which flew up in the air.
For several tense seconds time seemed to slow down as the two watch the package in the air. Snake's jaw dropped as he slowly screamed. Samus stared with a raised brow still not sure why he was being so dramatic.
As this went on Lucario had appeared from around the corner walking by gingerly. While he did spot his two acquaintances standing by with odd looks he wondered what was going on for the moment. But the usually alert steadfast Pokemon had failed to notice the incoming package slowly falling downwards.
"Lu-caaaaa-riiiiiii-oooooooo!" Snake made his way forward reaching a hand outwards.
"Why are you talking like that?" Samus wondered as the soldier slowly moved forward.
Lucario blinked at the oddity of the soldier as the incoming package landed. It made a loud thud as it hit the top of the Pokemon's head between both ears causing the Pokemon to yelp. Snake and Samus paused while the entire corridor suddenly went numbingly silent.
Mere seconds went by-enough for Sonic to run through to grab a snack from the kitchen and run back upstairs-before Lucario suddenly fell backwards as did the package. Snake ran forward lifting up Lucario who was limp.
"Hey Luc! C'mon wake up buddy! Hang on!" The soldier yelled out. He shook Lucario's shoulders while the Pokemon's head moved back and forth making a cracking sound.
"Snake... I don't think that's helping." Samus pointed out. Snake paused getting a good look at Lucario. The Pokemon's eyes formed into wide circles and his mouth was open with his tongue hanging out.
"Oh... my bad..." Snake let go of the Pokemon dropping him to the floor.
"Maybe we should take him to Master Hand." Samus suggested.
"What about Doctor Mario?" Snake asked. Samus raised a brow.
"Why?"
"He's a doctor isn't he?"
Samus paused for a brief moment. Snake blinked back at Samus while she shook her head.
"He doesn't live here anymore Snake."
"Really?" Snake asked.
"Yeah. And we don't always go to him for injuries."
"But I thought-" Snake was cut off.
"Not always. C'mon. You carry Lucario." Samus ordered as she lead the way. Snake grumbled hoisting up the unconscious Lucario over his shoulder and grabbing his package in his other arm.
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"GET READY FOR IT IS I! YOUR ONE AND ONLY HERO IS HERE FINALLY!"
The dining hall of the Smash mansion was ghostly quiet in response to the young man's declare. Frowning as a tumbleweed blew in from out of nowhere the young man cried out in frustration leaping onto one of the tables.
"Where is everyone? They told me this mansion was filled with the other competitors! Don't they want to see one of their newest teammates ready for action on the Wii U and 3DS!?"
The door to the dining hall then suddenly opened revealing one sleepy Falco Lombardi. Of course instead of the silence he usually expected around this hour-okay, noon, but he did enjoy his mid day naps-he was met with the sight of a young man dressed in a blue armor sort of suit. One arm looked like a cannon of some sort and their head was covered by a helmet most likely for cover. This should have been a dead giveaway to this person's identity but for the still groggy Falco that was not the case.
"Who the hell are you?"
The young man gasped glancing around spotting the anthropomorphic avian in the dining hall. Falco yawned sheepishly cracking his back breaking the light silence.
"Who am I? How do you not know who I am!?"
Falco blinked. "Um... should I?"
"C'mon-arm cannon, blue outfit, my awesome good looks!"
Falco squinted as the young man hopped off the table. Suddenly he began to recall certain images in his mind looking rather much like this young person. It was all coming back to him in these few seconds, he was remembering now. This young man was...
"Bomber man?" Falco snapped his feathers. The person gawked at the avian.
"How do you-no! I'm MEGA MAN! You know that one guy everyone wanted in Smash Bros but was left out but still appeared on the web in parodies and the like!"
Falco then recalled now perfectly. Now it truly came back to him recalling all the fan letters/complaints/hate mail/or spam received by Megaman fans wanting their favorite character in their fighting franchise. Of course not being much of a Megaman fan himself Falco rather brushed most of this off.
"Right, right, you're that guy. Um... welcome to the mansion. There's food in the fridge if you want some." Falco was about to turn the corner to walk into the kitchen until his blue cyborg smasher stood in front of him.
"Hold on! You're just gonna walk away now that I've finally made my appearance!? Where is everybody else? Don't you guys welcome your new members with any pride!?"
Falco stood back holding up his wings. "Hey, hey. What were you expecting some kind of a ceremony? People kinda just show up here and leave. That's how it is."
"But I'm MEGA MAN!"
"Duly noted." Falco glanced away from the blue cyborg.
"Come on fans have been expecting me to join for years now! Didn't you guys welcome Sonic and Snake with something big and grand?" Megaman questioned. Falco scratched his cheek.
"Uh... well... kind of?"
"What do you mean kind of?" Mega man questioned. Falco scratched the back of his head feathers.
"Well... actually Snake sort of appeared in one of the air vents Die Hard style and then Samus kicked him out the window for accidently crawling over her room."
Megaman wasn't sure how to take that. And from the look the avian gunslinger was giving he was sure he was not lying. Were things always this strange at the mansion?
"Yes." Falco spoke suddenly startling Megaman.
"W-what?"
"That look on your face. It was like you were asking if things were as strange as you thought they were. That's a yes." Falco responded. Megaman wasn't sure how to respond to this.
"So... then, what do I do now? without the greeting I should start getting in on the action right?!" Megaman asked enthusiastically. Falco backed away at how large the excited blue amored man could get.
"Actually... no one's really brawling. Everyone that's sort of staying here is out looking for ways to make more money for the mansion."
"...what you mean Smash Brothers is bankrupt or something?"
"Something like that..." Falco replied sheepishly. Mentioning that bit of information reminded Lombardi that he had yet to join everyone else in their schemes at trying to earn funds for the mansion.
"Alright then! I'll go out and get a job! You wait here Mr. Lombardi, I'll bring back so much cash that everyone will appreciated my appearance!"
And with that Megaman took off before Falco could respond. The avian stood there for a second before shaking his head and leaving the dining hall. There was no need to worry about Megaman, whatever he did he could probably handle himself.
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Link wasn't sure whether this was just ignorant or plain embarrassing. Sure he was aware of how this could be interpreted, or that his friends might've been playing a weird joke on him just to mess with him. But still at the end of the day this was the best opportunity to help raise the funds.
But why this of all things for him?
"Mommy! Mommy look it's an Elf!" a small child holding the hand of his mother pointed out as they walked on the sidewalk. Link inwardly cringed mostly at the fact that he was barely dressed up for the part but more so for the awkward stares he was receiving from everyone else.
"Oh look he's one of Santa's little helpers!"
Link's cringe somehow cringed further with his facial muscles tightening strongly. This was not what he had in mind when he somehow was convinced to do this!
"C'mon Link, it's not that bad." Ike remarked behind his humorously dressed compadre. Link glanced around glaring daggers at the fellow swordsman perched atop a bench calmly eating ice cream.
"Really? then why aren't you dressed as an elf then!?" Link nearly yelled out though somehow retained his light tone. Ike snickered at his friend while more pedestrians happened to pass by taking photos with their cell phones and other devices.
"The boss of the Christmas holiday store said he only had one outfit. And that one happened to be your exact size, it's all a big coincidence."
Link didn't buy that at all. Some how, some way, Ike planned all this. The hero of Hyrule knew it but wasn't sure how. Sure he was loyal to his friends and the mansion and would gladly do his part to help out with their current financial problems but why take on something so... humiliating?
And for that matter why did a Holiday store need someone to dress as an elf to advertize Christmas holiday apparel? It was the middle of November!
"OMG it's legolas!" a pedestrian cried out suddenly. Link blinked realizing said pedestrian was a young probably twenty something year old woman who happened to be gushing at the sight of him.
"Legolas?" Link was definitely sure this woman had the wrong franchise in mind.
"Oh this is gonna be good." Ike muttered while Link stared back in confusion.
Before Link could turn back around he suddenly was glomped by the pedestrian who didn't hesitate to smother their face in his chest. The Hyrulian was not sure what else to do but stared back down at the woman with an embarrassed blush.
"Uh-um ma'am I think you've got the wr-"
"Oh Legolas you're soft! I knew you'd be soft!"
Link wasn't sure how to respond to this. Ike of course fell off the bench clutching his chest as he laughed loudly. Many around wondering just what was going on with the elf "impersonator" and the strange fan girl around him.
Link could only wonder if the others had it a bit better than he did.
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"Pi! Pi pika-pikachu! Pika!"
Pikachu held up the flyer for the Hot Dog stand near the beach of Smashville. Of course the sight of the small chubby yellow mouse did not deter many young women passing by many of whom wanted to cuddle the hard worker.
Pikachu of course not minding for the most part found himself generating lots of customers for said Hot Dog stand which now found itself swamped with lots of customers.
"Boy hiring that Pikachu really helped me out there! We're making more cash than we do in a month!" said owner of the Hot Dog stand mentioned as he glanced over at Pikachu. Currently the yellow mouse was also having his picture taken alongside a group of women-the tenth time that had happened today. At this point why the Hot Dog owner hadn't thought of charging for Pikachu photos was a mystery while he continued to serve hungry customers.
Not too far away Squirtle and Ivysaur sat on a bench both eating their respective hotdogs. They watched their Yellow mouse friend as he continued to enjoy the spotlight while his fellow Pokemon friends sat idly.
"Squirtle... squirt... squirtle..." Squirtle sulked dropping his head. Ivysaur patted the water turtle Pokemon with one of it's vines as he ate his hotdog with another vine.
"Saur saur, Ivysaur, saur. Saur saur Ivy Ivy saur." Ivysaur finished glancing back at Squirtle who raised his head. He took another solemn bite into his hotdog before leaning back into the bench.
Then a shadow appeared over Squirtle's head blocking out the sunlight. Squirtle blinked glancing up to see a young brunette haired woman with blue eyes in a red dress.
"Oh my gosh you're Squirtle! Red's Squirtle right? Oh you're so adorable!" the woman complimented in something of a fangirlish reaction. This did not stop the blush creeping on Squirtle's cheek's as he scratched the back of his bald head (?).
"Squirtle...Squirt..."
"Hey is it okay if I take a picture with you? You just look so adorable!" The girl asked placing both hands together in gesture. Squirtle smiled standing up and leaping straight into her arms for her to catch. The girl squeed as she held up a cellphone to take a picture.
Ivysaur drank his soda quietly as Squirtle now too was getting attention. The grass type knew that would be all for the watertype to get out of his little depression with Pikachu getting all the attention. He wondered if they forgot why they were out here in the first place and if the hotdog vendor would remember that they weren't working for free.
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"Ah, it is so welcoming to have you all here today." Master Hand greeted politely. The visitor standing before him dressed in his simple half tucked t-shirt and jeans just merely blinked while reminding himself not to get freaked out by a giant floating hand. After all he'd seen stranger things before.
"It's... a pleasure to meet you, face to... hand."
"Yes. Indeed it is Mr. Drake. You and your friend will make great additions to our humble home."
"Um... but it's not confirmed or not. So I'm just gonna be a guest here helping out." Drake pointed out. The Hand's fingers rolled in a motion the human could best describe as a 'nod'.
"Well either way your addition will be a great help to us here at the mansion. After all we are facing our own financial difficulties and your expertise may just help us out of this."
"I see then."
Drake was about to ask what the Hand wanted out of him more when the doors to his office were kicked open. The Hand and Drake glanced at the entrance of Solid Snake and Samus Aran who carried along with them the unconscious Lucario.
"Hey Boss! Lucario here needs your help-oh my god what are you doing here!?" Snake had yelled out.
"Snake?" Drake asked staring at said mercenary who gawked.
Samus brow raised. "You two know each other?"
"Yeah... he's Nathan Drake. Main hero of Uncharted for the PS3."
"You're Snake! THE Solid Snake! I Missed you in Playstation All Stars bro!" Drake pointed out as he greeted the soldier of fortune. Snake grumbled to himself looking the other way.
"Yeah well... it was complicated..."
"But Raiden was there." At the mention of this Snake suddenly shuddered. Samus and Master Hand eyed him suspiciously before Snake then dropped into a huddled ball in the corner whispering incoherent babble to himself.
"Well then... what did you need Samus?" Master Hand addressed the bounty hunter ignoring the oddity in the corner.
"Ah, Lucario here was kind of knocked unconscious by a package." Samus lifted up the Pokemon by his armpits in emphasis. The Hand lowered himself a bit examining Lucario closer while drumming his fingers against his palm.
"Hm... yes those x's indicate he is unconcious."
'That was your first clue?' Drake wondered while Master Hand floated back up.
"Not to worry my dear Samus. I have just the thing for this situation."
Then Master Hand snapped his fingers sending a loud vibration throughout the room. In a few short seconds the sound of tapping shoes was heard outside of the office door before it was then open. Samus and Drake turned back around coming face to face with a young pink haired woman dressed in a nurse's uniform.
"Hello there! I can heal your Pokemon to perfect health!"
'What the-' Samus wasn't sure how to respond to the almost robotic politeness.
'Hello nurse!' Drake smirked to himself.
"Nurse Joy. We need you to take care of Lucario here." Master Hand pointed at the unconscious Pokemon.
"I see. Well I've got just the thing! One Max Revive should do the trick!"
Nurse Joy then pulled out a multi-pointed star looking object from her pocket. Samus raised a brow at it remembering that this was one of those strange items of the Pokemon Universe which weirdly had no explainable origin.
"You sure that thing'll help the guy?" Drake asked suspiciously eyeing the Max Revive. To him it looked more like a fancy little trinket he could pick up and sell for a nifty price at a Black Market.
"Oh don't worry. These help recover fainted to full health! They're rare but when you don't have a Pokemon center around these do just the trick." Nurse Joy then grabbed Lucario by his head and placed the Max Revive before him. Samus, Drake, and Master Hand all watched in anticipation, the three never having actually seen how this peculiar item worked.
But then the three gasped as the Max Revive began to glow a bright light illuminating the room. Said light began to cover Lucario before the Revive merged onto the Pokemon casting a peculiar glow before everything went back to normal. Now sans the bruise on his head Lucario's eyes opened wide awake.
"...what the heck?"
"Lucario! Thank goodness you're alright!" Master Hand sighed in relief.
"Um... thank you?" Lucario wasn't sure how to respond.
"It was Snake's fault." Samus pointed at the mercenary who gawked from where he was crouched in the corner.
"Was not! You were the one that startled me Samus remember that!"
Lucario stood up ignoring the banter that was sure to ensue between the two humans before coming face to face with Nurse Joy. The pinkette smiled stepping back and bowing.
"The Max Revive worked to a sucess. So you're back to perfect health!"
"I see..." Lucario, though glad with these Nurses devoted to helping Pokemon free of charge could never get over how eerily similar they all were no matter how many or how far away he'd met them before.
Hand then snapped his fingers grabbing the four smashers attention. "Right then, now that that is settled, we can get back to the matter of helping the mansion get back on track. Snake, Samus, you two have decided on what you will be doing right?"
Both soldier and bounty hunter froze. Sure it'd been awhile since Master hand had announced that each smasher would needto contribute to helping the mansion get back to financial stability but that did not mean many of the live ins had actually gotten around to it. The Hand sighed glancing at Nathan Drake and Lucario.
"Well at least I can count on you two to help us out. You'll be off then?"
"Yes sir. I'll be back in awhile. Don't wait up!" Drake said before stepping out of the office.
"Right... before I was knocked unconscious I was just about to head to my new occupation." Lucario sent a glare straight at Snake who stood behind Samus, much to her own annoyance. The Aura guiding Pokemon then left the office as well now leaving both soldier and bounty hunter to contend with the Headmaster.
"So... what have you two decided? Surely it'll be sooner than later... or else..." Master Hand began to appear much larger than normally. And the room became darkened as the curtains closed mysteriously on their own.
But both Snake and Samus weren't regular smashers. Hardened by their respective lives/journeys they'd faced much more dangerous sorts of things several times over and back. A giant telepathically speaking hand with powers both had yet to comprehend was nothing to fear.
Still... that didn't stop the sudden chill creeping up their respective spines.
"Right... well..."
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Omake Number 1:
Lucario had been sitting pleasantly in his armchair in the library when he suddenly heard a beeping noise. Of course Lucario didn't own a cellular phone or any actual device capable of such a noise so something definately felt off.
But it sounded a bit familiar. Rather much like the classic codec noise he'd hear fans of Solid Snake play whenever the mercenary recieved a call via nanomachines in his body.
Wait... that didn't mean...
Lucario then tapped the side of his head and was suddenly able to see the image of Solid Snake's face through his mind. Yes he did have the ability to read aura and other interesting related techniques but something like this a first for Lucario was strange.
"Wh-what the heck?"
"Yo Lucario! I see you responded to the codec."
"How is this even possible?" Lucario questioned, though he was somewhat sure he already knew the answer.
"Well... I kind of put nanomachines in your body while you were in one of your Jedi meditations so I can contact you in case of an emergency. So now you can talk to me or anyone else with the Codec system!"
Lucario gawked before frowning. He massaged his temples before letting out a sigh.
"Right... emergency, then you're calling me because...?"
"Ah right! Well, actually I need you to go to North Street, Smashville. And brign a drill!"
"A drill? Why?"
"No questions asked okay! Just a favor from a friend to a friend!" Snake hung up ending the call and Lucario able to see his friend via mind. Lucario blinked still unused to the strange technology before sitting up.
Later Lucario walked down North street of downtown Smashville. This sprawling city so affiliated with Smash Bros had gotten quite populous being quite crowded in certain spots. But it was easy for Lucario to maneuver as he carried a drill set in a red tool box.
'I'm here... but where the heck is Snake?' Lucario wondered as he glanced around. Then a sudden knocking grabbed Lucario's attention causing him to glance towards the right at a tall blue mailbox.
Of course most would just stare at the mailbox and glance away from it. But Lucario for whatever reason knew something was off about it. He closed his eyes allowing his 'Aura vision' to take control and sensing all life forms around him. And sure enough one said lifeform sat crouched within the mailbox.
"You've gotta be kidding me!" Lucario said as he stepped in front of the mailbox. Before he could check inside the small door which allowed envelopes and packages in was opened from the inside revealing the familair blue eyes of Solid Snake.
"Sup Lucario."
"What the hell Snake? How did you-" Lucario was cut off however as Snake shushed him pointing a finger.
"No questions asked. Got it? Just get me out of here and we'll be done with this."
Lucario grumbled. As much as he'd like to argue that something about this was off or how he'd like to question how the famed sneaking soldier could get so ridiculously stuck the Aura Pokemon knew he would eventually comply. And he did so lifting up the drill and proceeded to bust open his friend from the mailbox.
Snake would owe him big time for this.
FlyingLion:
I have a feeling I wrote Megaman off. Like completely off. Then again I never actually played any of the Megaman games-though I did play bomberman-so I know next to nothing about his personality or character. If you do mention anything I got wrong and you're a die hard Megaman fanatic or something like that please correct me on anything crucial.
Also including Nathan Drake from the Uncharted series came about after playing through Uncharted 2: Among Thieves like a bunch of times. I bought the game months ago but only now got around to going through it and it is a very fun game at that. It wasn't intended for Drake to be included in this but he sort of found his way in somehow, it'd be neat if he actually was in SSB4 but then they'd probably take his guns away leaving him only with his fists and his wits.
I also wanted to mention that I considered having the Max revive be an item you had to forcibly shove into a Pokemon's mouth for them to swallow and then revive. Thus that would've happened to Lucario here but something about that felt too cartoony and not my style. So I dropped it and made it be something more "realistic" or at least close to what I think happens in the Pokemon games when a Revive is used.