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Chapter 3

Introductions and a Surprise Visitor

Barren and Cain stared at the large city ahead of them. It was composed mainly with sky scrapers and they looked like they were covered in silver. They weren't the only ones who were wowed by the sight. The majority of the warriors around them couldn't help but stare at the silver city. That's when barren notice something else, a large, purple glowing orb began to rise from the center of the city. Everyone stared at it in awe as it took to the skies. That's when they saw something else. The orb was in reality, a giant smash ball.

"Wow." That was all Barren could say. It was to beautiful to describe. The only thing that he thought was more beautiful was Dream Lake, but still. It was a marvelous sight. Kirby came up to the boy warrior.

"Well, what do you think?" He said in his usually happy tone. But Barren didn't say anything. All he could was stare at the large orb in the center. "That's the Royal Smash Ball. It's the power source for the entire city. It's power is limitless so there's never been a blackout in the history of Smash City. And, it's right on top of the Smash Mansion."

That caught Barren's attention. "The Smash what?"

Kirby giggled a little. "Don't worry. you'll find out soon enough." Barren shrugged it off. He noticed that the floating disks they were on were descending, but just a little. Barely noticeable, but still.

"I guess we're going to land soon." Barren thought. The discs turned to the city's direction. Eventually they stopped in front of a large golden door with the smash symbol on it. The funny thing is, Barren, Cain and all the other warriors, heard something on the other side. It sounded like... cheering. Barren could already tell what was next. He sighed "I had a feeling something like this would happen."

Cain turned to his cousin. "What would happen?"

Barren sighed again. "I'm glad that I came here, but I don't know if this is right. We're going to be fighting for hundreds of people's entertainment."

Cain wrapped an arm around him. "And that's the coolest part! Do you even understand what's happening? We're going to be on TV! These guys are going to love us!"

Barren removed Cain's arm from around him. "That's not the point. We're going to be fighting solely for entertainment. Where's the honor in that?" Cain immediately realized what Barren was trying to say. Barren took his training much more seriously then Cain or any of the other students. Anything thing that his grandfather taught him, he would do it ten-fold. He only believed in fighting for honor. In his eyes, he just became a puppet for millions of people.

Kirby, who overheard this conversation, turned to the two boys, a small frown was on his face. "Barren, it's not like that at all. Sure these people enjoy watching us duke it out, but we have a ton of honor. Even Bowser fights a fair fight. We all have different fighting styles and none of us let all these people's cheering go to our heads... well, Sonic might, but he's Sonic for crying out loud."

Barren put an uneasy smile on his face. "Thanks Kirby."

"No problem!" Kirby's stomach began to growl. "I'm hungry."

Barren chuckled. "Your not the only one, when does this thing open anyway?"

Kirby put his 'hand' on his 'chin'. "Well, if I remember correctly, it can open when one of the newcomers unlocks it with the key."

"What key?" Cain asked. Barren was about to say something when a small object fell on his head and bounced into his hand. It was a small golden key.

"That key."

Barren's disc moved directly in front of a small keyhole. Barren looked at the key in his hands and back at the key hole. He heard the cheering get even louder. He took a deep breath and slowly stuck the key inside the hole. With one turn, the gates began to open. A large light flashed in Barren's face as the door began to fully open. He shut his eye's so they wouldn't be harmed by the powerful light. When he opened them again, he couldn't believe what he saw. He saw people. Thousands of people. They were all lined up as if they were waiting for a parade. He saw confetti everywhere. They're cheering was so loud, Barrens eardrums almost popped. Barren noticed that the discs began to move forward. He didn't look very fond of all this. He actually looked like he was spooked. But Cain on the other seemed to take it rather well. He waved from side to side, his eyes sparkiling with joy. Barren sighed at his cousin's reaction. They were like Yin and Yang. Barren was the more cautious type while Cain was a lot more 'hard headed'. Barren sighed again. After a rather long time, Barren saw something. It was a large stage with both Master and Crazy Hand on it. Behind it: the largest structure of the city. Unlike the others, it was red and it had a large golden smash symbol on it. And on top of it: The Royal Smash Ball. Separating them was a long red ribbon. Barren stared at the two hands, but he actually didn't look so surprised. He had seen stranger. After sometime, the discs stopped in front of the stage. And one by one, the smashers walked to the center of the stage, only to be greeted by a very large amount of cheers.

Master Hand cleared his 'throat', making everyone in the city stop. Every thing became very quiet.

"Ladies and gentlemen," He started. "the smashers... are back!". The second said this, the entire city roared and yelled with pleasure. Barren and Cain covered they're ears due to the extremely loud sound. "130 warriors in a single fighting competition! The largest the world will ever see! 90 newcomers and the 40 original smashers of the years gone by!" The crowd cheered even louder, but Master stared at the fighters before him and noticed that a few of them were missing. "Unfortunatly there not all here at the moment, but either way, I'm sure they'll be here in time for the event!" Another cheer escaped the crowd. "And this year, we have a special treat:-" Be fore he could say anything, Crazy pushed him away.

"CoMmEnTaToRs!" He yelled.

Master got back up and shot a blur beam from his index finger, which blasted Crazy off the stage. "Crazy, can't you just do what we rehearsed?" The hand 'sighed'. "This year, we will be featuring commentators throughout all the matches of the tournament. They're composed of me, Crazy-"

"DoUgHnUtS!" Crazy yelled randomly.

"...Me, Crazy and three more special guests." Master snapped his fingers and three red chairs appeared next to him. "First we have a creature from the mushroom kingdom. He's been known mainly for his anger management problems and the fact he has a flower stuck on his head."

Can You guess who it is?

"Wiggler!" Wiggler fell from the sky and land on one of the chairs. There was a brief moment of silence. No one really expected to Wiggler there, not even the smashers from the Mario universe. But everyone took a few steps back when smoke started to come out of his ears. Master cleared his 'throat' again. "Next, we have hero from the land of Asgard. He' been known for his heroism, good looks and he weilds the hammer Mjölnir."

This one should be pretty easy.

"I present to you, the mighty Thor!" A large colemn of light appeared on the stage and Thor slowly dropped down to the stage. He was greeted by a very large amount of cheers, even from the some of the smashers. He smiled in response. A small amount of the smashers, or better yet, the heroes from the Marvel universe were a bit shocked to see the thunder god there, but they still applauded him, no less.

Thor turned to Master. "Master, I wish to thank you for allowing me to narrarate this marvelous spectacle."

"It's the least I could. And besides, I owe you for helping containing last year's fire incident." All eye's turned to the pokemon trainer, who put a cheesy smile on his face. Thor took a seat and Master cleared his 'throat' again. "Finally, we have a very special guest, all the way from Hong Kong."

At that, Barren tensed up a bit. "Hold on..." He thought. He turned his head to Cain. "We're from Hong Kong."

Cain raised rolled his eyes. "So what?" The strange thing is that while they had this conversation, they're mouths didn't move. They were speaking telepathically.

Barren looked to the reader. "Well technically Cain's reading my mind and talking to me telepathically. You see, he meditates a lot more then me (though you can't really notice) which somehow turned him into a telepath. Don't ask me, not even grandfather can explain."

Cain slapped his forehead. More '4th wall breaking'.

"He is known around as one of the greatest fighters of all time."

Barren shook his head. "Is he talking about... no, of course not." The entire crowd looked like they were about to burst of excitement. I'm pretty sure they already knew the answer. But Barren was still pretty weirded out. "I'm starting to think it is... but he would have told us... wouldn't he?" Cain shrugged.

Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to present..." A figure jumped from between the crowd and landed on one of the many chairs. Needless to say everyone couldn't believe who was there, especially Barren and Cain. "THE UNDEFEATED OF THE EAST, MASTER ASIA!" The crowds roars were even louder then the ones for the smashers. Barren and Cain couldn't believe it. They're mentor, they're grandfather had come to the same place he inspired them to go... and he didn't even tell them about it. Asia could be seen whispering something into Master's 'ear'. When he finished, Master looked pretty surprised. "Is that so?" Asia nodded in response. "Well this was somewhat unexpected." Master snapped his fingers, two of the discs to pick up both Barren and Cain. The discs positioned themselves so that they were both next to Asia.

Barren tried his best to keep balance, while at the same time, he glared at Asia. "Do you mind explaining me what's going on?" That was shocker to the entire city, even the smashers. No one would speak to Master Asia like that. He was one of the most respected warriors in the entire world. And now some fifteen year old id comes up and starts yelling in his face?

Asia gave a chuckle. "Now Barren, is that any way to talk to your grandfather?"

Silence filled the entire city.

Master quickly began to speak again. "Well, what do you know! The undefeated of the east's grandchildren are here as well!" Master tried to get the crowd excited again, but they were still in shock. "Um..." He looked at Asia. "Now what?"

Asia shrugged. "Just keep going."

"Well... why don't we have last year's winner cut the ceremonial ribbon to officially start the tournament?" Great choice of words. The second he said that, the entire crowd took they're attention off Barren ans Cain and began to cheer again. "(Well that was easy) Alright then! Meta Knight, will you please?" The smashers cleared the way for Meta Knight. He was greeted with a large amount of cheers, but he really didn't seem to mind any of it. Barren noticed how he actually looked a little like Kirby. Just a little. Meta Knight approached the ribbon slowly before unsheathing his sword. He seemed to just stand there for sometime. The entire crowd waited and watch with excitement. This was it. With one slash, the ribbon was cut into to pieces. The original roster clapped and the crowd cheered the loudest cheer anyone had ever head. "Welcome to Super Smash Bros. Unlimited!" The smashers proceeded to enter the building, but Barren and Cain dropped of the discs and confronted Asia.

"You've got some explaining to do." Barren said menacingly.

"Yeah." Cain cracked his knuckles. "And we're not leaving until you answer everything."

Master came next to the two. "Did I mention that they're are only 64 rooms while there are 130 contestants?" Cain ran off leaving a cloud of dust behind him.

Barren slapped his forehead. "That's Cain for ya. Can't live with him and I'd gladly live without him. But getting back to the point, you have some serious answering to do!"

Asia put his hand on his shoulder. "All will be explained later. For now, just go inside and pick out a room."

Barren's eye twitched. "Do I look like a six year old? Why didn't you tell me you were coming? Honestly, you embarrassed me in front of an entire ci-" Crazy grabbed him by the arm and started to drag him to the building. "Hey! Let me go! We're discussing a family matter!"

"AnD yOu DiDn'T gIvE mE aNy ChImIcHaNgAs." He replied.

"What?"

As the two were arguing, Asia turned his attention to Master. "It happened, didn't it?"

Master sighed. "I felt even before he came to me, but he's not even supposed to be participating! It's because he possessed the competitor, Nicky and Litnor as well."

"Calm down. We've defeated him once, we can defeat him again. Orvus will not carry out his plans today, nor tomorrow."

Master 'raised an eyebrow'. "You seem very confident in Barren. What do you see in him that's so special?"

"Only time will tell. And by the way, nice acting." Before walking to the building.

"Oh please, you should have seen me at last year's Christmas party." Master followed Asia. "But there's one thing still bothering me." "Remember how I said there were some fighters missing? Well the fighters I saw there were heroes, not a single villain. Well, except for Wario and Waluigi, but still. Do you think he has something to do with this."

Asia stopped in his tracks. He looked to his old companion. "If so, we should get prepared for the worst."