Hello everybody, this is HyperInuyasha, and welcome back to Let's Write The Normals! It's been four days since the poll should have ended (why haven't I closed it yet?), so clearly, everyone's due for a new chapter! Meanwhile, I've started The War Against Giygas, and overall, people seem to like it. Man, I'm going to do a lot of writing over Winter Break.

ARC 10: THE GREAT BEACH FIASCO OF 2012 - PART 1

The Smashers were all gathered around the tv screens showing the leadership boards and schedules for all of them, with expressions of befuddlement on their faces; the screens only said, 'Come to the lunchroom when you wake up' on them. What could this mean? Is the Garlic King upon them? Another Subspace Emissary incident? They turned their heads when they heard the doors open; the Ancient Minister was coming in. And so the poor robot got bombarded by so many questions that he was crushed by their weight. Without a proper leader, the castle dissolved into chaos; a singularity of anarchy formed, killing the Smashers along with the entire dimension.

The End

Okay, that's not went down. Still though, the fighters were asking a hell of a lot of questions.

"What is the meaning of this?" questioned Lucario.

"Are we under attack?" asked Jigglypuff, climbing up on the other Pokemon's head to get attention.

"Are we not going to beat each other up today?" inquired Captain Falcon, climbing up on top of them; obviously, Lucario couldn't hold both of them and they all ended up falling over.

"NO, WE'RE NOT UNDER ATTACK, BUT YOU CAN STILL BEAT EACH OTHER UP IN WHERE WE'RE GOING." said the Ancient Minister.

"YES!" cheered the captain, stirring on the floor.

"Wait, where are we going?" asked Meta Knight.

"WELL, YOU'VE ALL BEEN WORKING AND FIGHTING HARD, SO..." Suddenly, the image on the screens changed; it was now showing a nice sandy beach stretching into a vast ocean, with the sun sailing overhead. "...WE'RE GOING TO TAKE A DAY OFF AT THE BEACH!"

All of the Smashers went into a clamor; this is too good to be true! "Whoa, seriously?" Bowser said in complete surprise.

"Did you hear that guys? We're going on vacation!" Red said to his Pokémon, who were in their Pokeballs and unable to hear him at all.

The Normals were ecstatic as well; even Meta Knight was giddy with joy. "It'd be nice, to step out of the castle a bit. Well, for anything other than a misadventure."

"Don't count your chickens before they hatch." advised a box shuffling around everyone's feet. "There are many ways someone can die at a beach. Drowning in water, drowning in sand, getting drowned in water because you're buried in sand, drinking too much water, angering a giant squid, angering a tiki god..."

"Calm down Snake, don't be a fuddy-duddy! Here, have some tea!" Peach took out a steaming hot cup of tea and poured it on the box, the liquid dripping through the material. Seconds later, Snake threw the box off of himself and ran away screaming.

"I don't think that's how you give people tea." said King Dedede.

"SETTLE DOWN EVERYONE. OKAY, SO I RENTED A BEACH HOUSE ON THE COAST, WHICH IS WHERE WE'LL BE STAYING. NOW, EVERYONE DECIDE ON A VEHICLE TO RIDE IN TO GET THERE AND I'LL GUI-" Before the robot could finish, he got trampled on by a mob of Smashers rushing to the castle's hanger, eager to start their morning at the beach.

The Halberd arrived (everyone chose to ride in that since it was practical) at a small cabana near the edge of the sea. The water was good, the sand wasn't littered with rocks and other small pointy shit, and the sun was radiating a healthy warmth. For breakfast, Toon Link kidnapped the local pig population and Peach served out tea; Captain Olimar's Pikmin were sadly used as a vegetarian option. After a delicious breakfast, everyone set out to have fun: some people went out for a swim and held races, a few others started a volleyball game with a Bob-Omb as a ball, a handful of Smashers were building sandcastles, and the rest sunbathed and chatted. Meta Knight was participating in the volleyball game, Falco was swimming, and Lucario was relaxing out on the sand; the only one not doing anything was Dedede, who was sitting alone at the steps of the beach house. Lucario, who was sunbathing nearby, noticed him.

"Hey Dedede. Why aren't you doing anything?" The Pokémon asked.

Dedede sighed. "Don't tell anyone this, but... I'm not very athletic."

"...Uh-huh."

"Yeah. I can't swim well, and I suck at volleyball; blowing up would suck." Dedede said as he heard an explosion from the volleyball court.

"Why don't you just sunbathe?"

The king gave him an utterly serious look. "How is laying around and letting the sun fry you 'fun'?"

"...You got me there." Lucario sighed. He looked over to a group of palm trees and an idea formed in his head. "Hey, I thought of something to do; just you and me, Dedede."

"Five points!" screamed out the Waddle Dee as he smacked into the palm tree; King Dedede and Lucario was doing a target practice-like game, with palm trees as the targets; they get more points if they go for the leanest parts of the tree.

Lucario threw an aura sphere at one of the trees and laughed as it hit. "Ten points!"

"Oh yeah? How about this!" Dedede wound up his arm and threw a Waddle Dee as far as he could; the little guy hit a skinny part of a tree.

"Fifteen points... ow..." The Waddle Dee slid off as Dedede gloated.

"Ha! I'm winning, chump!"

Lucario started to sweat nervously, feeling envious. He now knew how Falco felt that one time they all made breakfast; admittedly, King Dedede was a loser, and having him be better than you at something feels like a punch to the gut. Lucario gulped; he couldn't lose to Dedede.

"Okay, here I go..." Lucario summoned the energy to form another Aura Sphere; aiming for the leanest part of the tree, he threw the sphere, hoping that it hits. The Aura Sphere flew toward it... and ended up narrowly missing the tree. The energy ball continued to travel forward until it lost its power to defy gravity and sunk down into the sea.

"...Man, that was way off." commented Dedede.

"...Do I get a redo?"

Meanwhile, Lucario's Aura Sphere was still intact and traveling through the water, drifting downward. Eventually, the sphere reached the ocean bottom and hit something; then, the something blinked. Large yellow eyes opened and stared up toward the surface. It lifted its appendages from the sandy floor; the tentacles waved in the ocean currents as the giant squid growled angrily. Do fish growl? How the hell should I know, I hate biology.

"Who... dare... disturbs... ME!"

Back at the beach, Snake hung around the Ancient Minister at the beach, sitting on his box and smoking. Suddenly, the man cringed, as if he felt something horrible rising up.

"...My danger senses... are tingling..." he muttered.

"THEY'RE ALWAYS TINGLING, SNAKE. THEY ALWAYS ARE." the Ancient Minister replied.

"No, listen, I feel as if something horrific is going to happen, like, seven minutes and twelve seconds from now."

"...THAT IS ODDLY SPECIFIC."

"I don't tell you how to live your life."

To be continued...

Let's have a moment of silence for the poor people killed in the very recent Connecticut school shooting. Hey, I can hear you talking back there, 'people blaming this on video games!' Ugh... I heard about this in the middle of school; I hope no one judges me too much for crying... those poor innocent children...