Chapter 7:
Round 1 - Match 1
The roulette began to spin faster and faster and every one was ready. This was it. The fourth smash tournament. Super Smash Bros. Unlimited! As the roulette slowed down. everyone tensed up. It finally reached a halt.
"The first match: Barren Rein VS Diddy Kong!" Master Hand exclaimed at the top of his 'lungs'. The millions of people being shown on the screens roared in excitement, as was Diddy Kong. Barren on the other hand didn't feel the same way. To be honest, he felt like he was about to faint. He barely understood the rules, he already met some pretty weird people and now he was in the very first round? This day just couldn't get any worse. Cain walked up to his cousin.
"You okay Barren? You're looking kind of pale." He asked. Barren shocked his head and told him he was fine, just a little surprised. After all, who wouldn't. Taking GIR off his shoulder, Barren handed the robotic weapon to Jake.
"Do you mind holding him for me?"
"Actually, I do." He replied, but Barren stuffed the robot in his hands before he could act.
"Will both competitors stand on the transporter." Master Hand called out. Barren walked towards the white circle at the center of the room, as did Diddy, but when Barren got a good look at him, he raised an eyebrow.
"Wait... I have to fight a monkey? Seriously?" Master Hand nodded. "That's just messed up. I don't want to hurt the little fella." He heard Diddy preform various monkey screeches, which he didn't understand a word. "I'm sorry, could you repeat tha-" He was interrupted by GIR jumping on his head.
"HIIIIIII!" He exclaimed. Barren yanked him of his head and glared at the bot.
"GIR! What are you doing!? I told Jake to-"
In a flash of light, they were gone.
"...hold you for me." When Barren's eyes fluttered open, he wasn't in the transporter room anymore. Instead, he was... at Dream Lake. Diddy kong was in front of him. He looked a bit dizzy from the transporter. Barren heard cheers and roars from above him. There were giant floating stands in the air. The millions of people he saw on the screens was nothing to the amount of people who were actually there. There were billions! He had never seen so many people at once. He also noticed that the other smashers were scattered throughout the stands, each apparently sitting next to people they recognised. In fact, he saw Cain talking to his other cousin. She was a sixteen year old girl neck long hair. She had beautiful green eyes and was wear a traditional green japanese kimono. She had brown sandals and her skin was pretty pale. The kimono had had three dragons covering it. One blue, one yellow and one red. The blue one started at her right shoulder, curved dwn her back and went back up to her left shoulder, the red on went from her right arm to the right side of waist and the yellow one went from her left arm to the left side of her waist. "Himawari's here?"
"Who dat?" GIR asked.
"My maternal cousin." Barren explained. "You see, Cain comes from my father's side of the family. She comes from my mother's. But what is she doing here?"
"Well, DUH! She came to watch you fight. She obviously knows what family means!" Barren stared at the robot.
"Since when did you start making se-"
"WAFFLES!" Barren's eardrums almost popped at the random statement.
"I stand corrected..." Barren looked around to see Diddy Kong, screeching to a certain crowd in the stands. Actually, this crowd was a bunch of apes. Funky Kung, Cranky Kong, Dixie Kong, Donkey Kong, and other simians as well "If I could only understand what they're saying..." In fact, Barren was paying so much attention to the, he diddn't notice GIR climbing up his shoulder. The little robot noticied something in his ear. Tapping it once, the screeches and monkey yells he heard were replaced with voices. Barren jumped back, shocked a bit. "What the heck?" He removed the device from his ear, causing the screaches to return. The deviced looked like some kind of earplug. "Must be some kind of translator... but where did it come from?"
"Who cares!" GIR said. "Maybe it's a gift. You know, from the guys who invited you here?"
"Are you making sense ag-"
"PEEEAAAANNNNUUUTTTTTTTSSSSSS !" GIR's scream was so loud, the entire stadium went silent and Barren knew he would have to get a hearing aid.
"Will you stop that!" Barren yelled at his robotic companion. As he yelled, two figures watched from with a floating room. Master Asia and Master Hand.
"Are you sure it was a good idea to give Barren that little devil?" The floating hand asked.
"Relax, GIR is much more than meets the eye." The kung fu warrior responded. "I'm sure the two will get along just fine." Master Hand 'shrugged' and drew his attention back to the stadium.
"Ladies and Gentlemen!" He bellowed, drawing everyone's attention. "Our first match will feature everyone's favorite little monkey Diddy Kong vs newcomer Barren Rein!" The entire crowd started to cheer. "Now let's find our where they shall battle." With those words, another giant roulette appeared on a screen floating in the sky. However, instead of fighters, it was hundreds of stages. It eventually stopped at a place called... "The Battlefield!" The crowds cheers were louder than ever. "An excellent place for the first match, wouldn't you agree Asia?"
"It's perfect." He replied bluntly. With those words, the floor Barren was standing began to morph before his very eyes. The small metal platform he was standing quickly transformed into a much larger plane floating in the air, with three platforms floating above it.
"Now lets begin!" Diddy Kong readied his peanut popgun, causing Barren's eyes to go wide.
"Hey, no fair! He has a gun!" He exclaimed, only for some wooden object to hit his head. To be more exact. it was a long wooden staff. The end of it was curled up into a ball and it was covered in a strange wind design. "The staff of the elements..." he whispered.
"Wat Dat!" GIR shouted in his ear.
"3!" Master Hand exclaimed.
Barren looked up to see his cousin smiling at him.
"Thanks Cain." He whispered. He took GIR from his shoulder and chucked him at Cain, who easily caught. "Take care of him."
"2!" Master Asia shouted.
Diddy was ready to pounce.
"1!" The entire stage roared.
"GO!"
The two competitors charged at each other. Barren swung his staff at Diddy, but he missed and the monkey took the opportunity to kick Barren in the stomach, sending him back a bit then proceeding to hit him various times with his tail. Barren grabbed it and gave make a kick to his left cheek, stopping his assault and allowing Barren to hit him with his staff. He then gave the simian another kick and before making a small orb of wind appear in his hand. "Kaze bureizu!" He yelled before slamming the ball into Diddy's chest. The monkey let a screech pain as he was sent flying back, Barren running after him.
"Well this is already turning out to be even better than I expected!" Master Hand shouted, causing the crowed to cheer once more.
Back to the fight, Diddy secured himself back on the ground and fired three shots of his peanut popgun at Barren. However, since the bullet were just peanuts, Barren smashed through them without any effort. "Hmph... Child's play." He said as his staff began to glow white. Diddy Kong tried to get out of the way, only to receive a punch in the stomach, a kick in the ribs and monstrous uppercut rivaling a Shoryuken, sending poor Diddy Kong flying. The monkey screamed in pain as he flew up and started to come back down. "If this is the best you have to offer, I'm gonna finish this with one strike!"
"As expected." The undefeated of the east proclaimed. "Barren's not going to let this battle go any further." The hand of creation look at him awkwardly.
"What do you mean? He's the fight's barely started."
"Ever since Barren first battle when he was a little boy, Barren has always made his battles as short as possible." Cain, sitting in the bleachers, nodded.
"Yep." He said. "The longest battle barren has ever had only lasted thirty seconds when he was four." He looked at a the timer being shown on the giant screen. it ha only been twenty six seconds. "I guess this is gonna take the record."
Barren held his staff like a baseball bat as Diddy came back down. "Sorry bud, hate to do this to you. Kaze sutairu, harikēn no kiba!" The staff made perfect contact with Diddy, sending him flying, the entire crowd watched as Diddy Kong was star KOed.
"GAME SET!" Master Hand called. The crowed roared in pleasure, as for the Kongs... well just say Cranky Kong was the only one happy considering the fact he and Donkey Kong bet three hundred bananas on who would win. Let's just say Donkey Kong wasn't on the winning side. "THE WINNER IS: BARREN REIN!" The cheers from the crowed ringed in Barren's ears. He didn't know if he should feel honored... or sad. He looked at the timer. Twenty nine seconds.
"Not this time." He said smirking.
"Barren has made to the next round! Now let's see who's next!" The roulette of fighters appeared once again. "And the contestants are..."
Winner: Barren
Once Again, sorry for the terribly long hiatus for a short chapter. My life is full of things to do, Fanfiction is more of a hobby...
Oh well, back to JOTKOH!