Super Smash Brothers: Reckoning

FutureCam

Authors notes: Plot, don't fail me now!

Disclamer: I. Don't own anything, other than copies of most the mentioned games. Except Kirby. Now, don't unleash lawyers, or I shall unleash a horde of badly-written Gary and Mary Sues! Let's see who wins that war, Nintendo! And Capcom! And Namco! And Ubisoft! And Sega! And...thats it.

Chapter three: A not so silent night

KABOOM!

"What the hell?" Samus shouted, startled

"I'm not sure what that was..." Peach whimpered "Sounded scary..."

"It came from the arena!" Zelda said "We should probably go check it out."

Samus nodded in agreement and grabbed her blaster and Zero Suit. There wasn't any time to get the Power Suit on. As the women crashed out the door, they ran into Nero.

"Hey, have you seen Dante?" He asked.

"No, but we heard an explosion at the arena. We're going to check it out." Peach explained

"Alright. I'm coming with." Nero said grimly, flexing the fingers of his Devil Bringer. "I swear, if our day job's caught up with us, I'm going to kill the old timer."

"Day job?"

"Demon Hunting. Quite fun actually."

"Okay..."

"We're here, lovebirds" Samus said sarcastically "Now lets find out what the heck happ-"

The group stared. Altair was standing in the center of the holofield, twirling...a grenade pin. Captain falcon was getting into a pod recently vacated by Solid Snake. Dante was watching with a grin on his face, clapping.

"Uh....Dante? What happened?"

"Altair was complaining about 'not getting a decent nights sleep' and 'those two morons treating miss Aran like an object'" - Samus blushed at this. - "and challenged them to a match. The explosion was when he ripped out the pin on one of the grenades in Snake's belt." Dante said, an evil grin on his face "That kid's good – I can't wait to see how badly Captain Falcon gets beaten."

"Neither can I" Samus said vehemently "Falcon's an Asshole" She added under her breath.

"Wow. And I thought Trish had a bad mouth." Dante muttered.

"Let's just watch the fight, no point in trying to get to sleep now..." Samus said

"Admit it, you just want to watch Altair!" Peach added. She shut up when Samus glared at her.

"Drop. IT." Samus growled.

"What's this about Samus and Altair?" Zelda asked.

Please, god, no...

"Samus has a crush on him..." Peach said in a singsong voice.

Resist...temptation...to kill....best friend...

"Keep it down, will ya? Fights about to start." Nero scolded.

"Sorry." Thank you, Nero. I owe you one.

"But don't think I didn't hear what Peach said myself, Lovergirl." Dante added.

"Oh, go to hell." Samus snapped at the Demon hunter.

"Been there, done that twice." He replied with a wave of his hand.

The room stared at him. The silence was incredible. Nero broke it first.

"He's not joking" He told them.

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Altair appeared on the Onet map and glanced around. As he was doing so, Falcon also appeared.

"Show me your moves!" He taunted.

"With pleasure." Altair replied. Quick as a flash, he drew five daggers from the holster on his right shoulder and threw them. None of them hit Falcon, but they did nail his clothes to the wall.

In the crowd, Dante let out a low whistle.

Altair drew his long sword, and hit Falcon repeatedly with it. Samus glanced up at the damage screen.

"One hundred percent already?" Zelda gasped.

"I told you the kid was good..." Dante said

Back on the stage, the warning sign flashed – one of Onett's trademark cars was approaching. Altair nodded at the still-pinned Falcon, and climbed up the side of the building. The car smashed into Falcon, dislodging him but putting his percentage up to 200.

As Falcon got off the ground, a smash ball appeared next to Alair's head. Flashing an evil grin at the doomed racer, Altair cut it in half.

The stage was suddenly filled with people. Captain Falcon looked everywhere, but he couldn't see Altair. When he did, Altair was right in front of him. He extended a blade hidden under his right hand, and smashed it into Falcon's chest, blowing him off the stage.

Dante clapped, while everyone else there stared in amazement. Falcon stormed out of the pod, only to stop when he saw Samus.

"Why, hello there, Samus. Mayhap you'd like to..."

"Shut the hell up before I beat the crap out of you?" Samus glared

"I'll do it for you, if you want." Altair offered, having somehow traversed the room in complete silence. Peach and Zelda jumped in fright at his sudden appearance. He gave them a look. "What? Stealth is my job."

"No thanks, this is personal." Samus growled, pointing her blaster at Falcon's head. He went crosseyed.

"Uh, sorry?"

"Not a chance." Samus said with a smirk, firing. Falcon flew back a few paces, before collapsing in a unconscious pile. Seeing the concerned looks of her friends, as well as Altair's raised eyebrow, she quickly reassured them that it was 'set to stun'.

"Whatever that means" Altair added under his breath.

"Oh, Altair?" Samus asked quickly, changing the subject "Why did you challenge them?"

Altair seemed a little uncomfortable.

"Well...uh...they were arguing over which one of them deserved to have you as a girlfriend most...and, um, I couldn't sleep because of it..."

"Oh, really?" Samus said, with an I-don't-believe-you look on her face.

"Okay, fine! I was sick of them treating a living, breathing woman as a object, okay?"

Samus knew this wasn't everything, but decided to leave it at that. Well, not really.

"Oh? And why should you care?" She asked innocently. Zelda and Peach shifted back a few feet – when Samus was innocent, something was defiantly wrong.

"Well....In my brotherhood, the Hashashin, we have a creed. The first part is stay your blade from the flesh of the innocent – however, this also applies to protecting the innocent from any blade, be it physical or emotional. So, I was merely following my beliefs." Altair said Wow, where did this come from? He thought At least she doesn't know anything about my orginisation, so at least she'll probably drop it now. I don't even know what I feel for her yet...

Samus felt like a blow had been dealt to her stomach – He didn't care, personally. Right now, crush or no, she felt like slapping him.

Nero probably saved Altair from a beating.

"We should probably head back before Master Hand finds out we're not asleep." He muttered "I'd rather face Sanctus again than that thing on a bad day."

"Who's Sanctus?" Zelda asked.

"Long story. I'll tell you tomorrow." Nero replied. "If you don't mind, I'm going for a walk around the grounds first. See you later." The white-haired demon hunter walked off. Dante told the rest not to follow him. He looked pointedly at Altair while doing so, who threw his arms in the air in exasperation and walked into his room. Snake and Falcon sulked inside as well.

**

Marth and Shiida stood uncomfortably outside MH's office. Shiida gave a glance at her new fiancée.

"How do you think he'll take the news?" She asked quietly.

"Probably not well. And if Crazy's in there, you can bet the entire mansion will know about it in minutes." Marth replied.

"Great..." Shiida moaned quietly. She let out a deep breath and walked towards the doors. "Lets get this over with..." She muttered under her breath.

Marth nodded, and knocked.

"Master hand, sir? Can we come in?"

"Coursecan!" A manic voice replied, followed by a large crash. Shiida stared at Marth in shock.

"Was that..."

"Crazy? Yes."

"At the party, he seemed...calm. Insane, but calm."

"He has multiple personalities. All of which are mad."

"Great..."

The two entered. They really weren't prepared for what they saw. MH was cowering in a corner, while Crazy was spinning around the room in a fist. Most of the filing cabinets had been knocked over. MH noticed their presence.

"Marth? Shiida? What can I do for you?"

"Can we...talk for a minute sir?"

"Of course! OF course!" MH said eagerly "Any excuse to get me out of this office!"

He flew out and slammed the door behind him. He let out a sigh of relief.

"Thank god, the moron thought he was a cowboy and somehow lasso'd himself to the fan."

"That's a new one." Marth said dryly.

"Well, what can I do for you?" the hand said, all buisness. Marth shifted uncomfortably.

"Well, you see, last night at the party, I...proposed to Shiida. And she said yes." He said slowly.

"Congratulations! So?"

"Well, um, we were hoping...if you could put us in the same room..."

"ABSOLUTLY!"

"Wait, what?!

"Well, if you're engaged, it's only proper. Only problem is, where to put you? Hmm.."

Shiida cut in.

"Well, Krystal could bunk with Fox. She's used to living with him and Falco anyway. And you could put Wolf with DeDeDe." She suggested "Then Marth and I could use Krystal's old room."

"Not a bad idea...I'll sort it out tommorow. Good night. And congratulations again!" The hand went back inside his office.

The couple stared at each other.

"That wasn't as painful as expected..." Marth said. Shiida giggled and nodded in reply.

The two began their walk back down to their dorms.

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Nero was walking on the grounds. His black boots crunched across the grass, and he kneeled down in front of a rosegarden. Kyrie's favourites.

He let out a moan of dispair. Where are you? Please be safe...

"Oh, she's not safe Nero." A deep, demonic voice came from behind him. Nero spun around, and came face to face with a tall demon. He resembled a black, dragon-skinned centaur with black scales. It had a large, two-handed axe on it's back.

Nero hissed out the creature's name.

"Beltazar. We banished you."

The demon laughed.

"You think it would be that easy? Foolish, foolish human." He said, shaking his head. "But, you still weakened me. And now, I shall weaken you."

He reached up behind his back, and Nero tensed, ready to fight if he drew his axe, but went limp when he saw what Beltazar held. It was a tall, young woman in white robes, about Nero's age, with brown hair. Her dress and hair was matted with blood.

"Kyrie..." He whispered, heartbroken.

"She's not dead yet, you know." The demon said, tossing the woman's body to the ground like an angry child and a hated doll. "I decided to give you some hope. Until we meet again, grandson of Sparda." The demon dissipated into smoke and drifted on the wind, flowing away from smash mansion. Nero crawled over to the comatose woman.

"Kyrie, it'll be all right. Someone can help, I promise." He whispered. Then, picking her up bridal style, he started to run towards the mansion.

"HELP! SOMEONE, PLEASE HELP ME!" He yelled into the night. He felt Kyrie's breath slow and her skin grow colder.

"No,no, no... don't go, I love you too much, I can't lose you again Kyrie...Kyrie? KYRIE!!"

AUTHORS NOTES.

So, yeah, Nero's storyline is going to be quite a bit darker than the others.

You've already met Beltazar – cookies to the first person to tell me where.

So, how was it? I'm still annoyed at the one review thing – Please, if you read, You don't even have to log in to review my stories.

One more thing – I'm considering replacing the Humor bit of the genre with something else. Maybe you could help suggest one from this list:

General

Adventure (There's going to be a lot of this near the end of Altair's storyline. You want hints, who does he fight in the last part of Assassin's creed?)

Hurt/comfort (Nero and Kyrie. Trust me, there will be a lot of this in the next few chapters.)

On another note, I'm starting a varient of the Truth or Dare stories featuring all the characters in this fanfic, and a rather accurate portrayl of myself! Unlike others, this one WON'T be in script form! Hiphiphurrax!

FutureCam, out!