Ah yes, let's celebrate Christmas with a chapter taking place at a sunny beach.
THE GREAT BEACH FIASCO OF 2012 - PART 2
While Lucario and King Dedede were playing their game of target practice and Meta Knight was participating in a deadly game of volleyball, Falco was out swimming. The water was nice and warm, and it didn't taste like it was pissed in (not that Falco would know). A bit further, Falco saw Luigi just bobbing in the water, floating in place. "Hey, Luigi, what are you scared about?"
"W-What if there are-a s-sharks here?" said Luigi, who was visibly trembling in the water.
"I doubt that the minister would invite us to a beach that's infested with goddamn sharks." stated Falco.
"B-But you-a never k-know!"
Falco sighed, facepalming. "Damn it Luigi... look, just swim out for a bit. Nothing will happen."
Luigi looked back from him to the horizon several times before nodding. He cautiously swam further out; upon seeing that nothing horrible was happening to him, he cheered. "You were-a right! Nothing will-a happen to me!"
The avian grinned. "See? It was all in your stupid, deluded head."
"Yea- AAAAHHH!" Suddenly, the plumber was pulled down into the watery depths by something.
"...Uh... Luigi?" Falco waited for a response from Luigi, but he got nothing. "...This isn't funny. Come out." There was still no reply; this could mean only one thing: something terrible was going to happen. Before anything else could happen, Falco started swimming back to the shore; he passed by the other swimming Smashers, who had apparently failed to notice Luigi's abrupt disappearance. He decided to go to Meta Knight first, who was in the middle of a rousing game of Bob-Omb volleyball. "Hey, Meta Knight!"
"I'm a little busy right now." The small knight huffed, hitting the Bob-Omb as it came over back to the other side of the court. Falco growled and as the Bob-Omb came back to Meta Knight's side, he jumped up and whacked the bomb into Ike's face.
Meta Knight's team cheered, while Ike's team was less than amused. "Hey, he's not on your team! That move was illegal!" Link yelled.
"Well screw you! Point to us!" Ganondorf, on Meta Knight's team, laughed.
"...Pain..." muttered Ike.
While the volleyball teams got into an argument, Meta Knight finally found the time to talk to Falco. "What do you need?"
"Meta Knight, I was swimming earlier and I saw Luigi get pulled into the sea by... something!" Falco elaborated. Then, in the corner of his eye, he could see something happening in the beach water. "Look!" He pointed Meta Knight over to the event; Kirby was innocently floating in the water with a beach floatie when he was suddenly sucked into the water.
"...Yes, that is certainly suspicious."
"No shit."
"Well, come on, we have to tell the others about this." said Meta Knight. The two walked over to an area of the beach filled with palm trees and they found Dedede and Lucario there, still chucking Waddle Dees and Aura Spheres at the trees.
"Hey guys!" chirped King Dedede. "Do you want to play?"
"No... and why are you two using those as throwing objects? Couldn't you have found some rocks?" Meta Knight questioned.
"...I guess we could have done that." Lucario admitted.
"Guys, sorry if this alarms you, but there's probably a fucking monster in the water that's trying to kill us." blurted Falco; Dedede and Lucario were indeed alarmed by this.
"Oh, I see. Well, then let me take a look..." Lucario used his aura vision and looked toward the ocean; he gasped in fright upon seeing what was there. "Um... it seems that there's a giant squid that's trying to sack everyone." Everyone else was as quiet and shocked as he was.
"...Huh, Snake was right for once." said Dedede.
"We need to tell everyone about this!" Meta Knight exclaimed.
"I doubt that they'll listen to us, though. Everyone just wants to enjoy a nice day at the beach, and hearing news about a giant squid wanting to murder the shit out of them would be unbelievable to them." Falco said.
"Yeah, they would probably keep themselves ignorant just so they could enjoy things." agreed Lucario.
"We have to tell someone though. I'm tired that we're always the ones solving these problems." grumbled Dedede. They left the grove of palm trees in search of the Ancient Minister, who was the only person that was likely to listen to them; they found the robot ruler back at the beach house, who was in the middle of a heated argument with Snake.
"I'M TELLING YOU, THIS BEACH IS SAFE!" the Minister said.
"This day is destined to end in disaster, don't be dense!" Snake yelled.
The Minister noticed the Normals and turned to them, looking at them pleadingly. "CAN YOU TELL SNAKE THAT NOTHING HORRIBLE IS GOING TO HAPPEN TODAY?"
"Actually, there's a giant squid in the water that's going to ruin our day." said Dedede. The Ancient Minister just floated there in awkward disbelief while Snake celebrated.
"Ha! I told you! I was right!" Snake said mockingly.
RUUUUUUMBLE
"...What was that?" said Falco. All of them looked out to the ocean; a giant tentacle was rising out of the water, clutching Luigi.
"Help-a me!" screamed Luigi. All of the swimmers noticed him, but it was too late; the tentacle slam down into the water and created a tidal wave, washing them away. Another tentacle appeared, this time holding Kirby, and made another tidal wave, which ended up hitting the sunbathers.
"What is happening!" screamed Zelda as she was washed into the sea with the other bathers. A few seconds later, more tentacles rose out, this time clutching all the swimmers and sunbathers, who were desperately struggling to get out of its grasp.
Finally, a head came out of the water; it was the giant squid, who looked a bit like Glooper Blooper, except way more deadly and giant. "How dare you disturb my slumber?"
"We didn't do anything to you!" shouted Zelda in his hand (tentacle; whatever), who had turned into Sheik. "Who pissed you off anyway?"
"I don't know... some blue sphere came out of nowhere and hit me on the head... for that, I BLAME ALL OF YOU!" The squid roared angrily, preparing to attack the volleyball players, who had just finally realized that there was a giant monster out for their blood.
Meanwhile, Meta Knight, Dedede, Falco, ROB, and Snake were glaring at Lucario, who was looking at the floor to avoid their gazes. "...Whoops?"
To be continued...
I'm not getting a Wii U for Christmas, but hey, it's not about the presents; it would have been nice though. Spend time with your families everyone, and have a merry Christmas!