Ughhhhh. I'm sorry I haven't updated since... A few months? I dunno. *checks*
Five. Months. Holy shit.

Also, I changed my pen name. Sounds catchier than Shining Scales, eh?

Either way, I have no excuses why I didn't update. The only comment I have is that this is seriously overdue... But hey, I am updating now, aren't I?

...

You guys have every right to hate me. *hands out cookies that have "please forgive me" written on them*
Thank you for all the readers who have been patient with this story.

Anywho, here's another chapter of A Peculiar Predicament.

On with the story, and enjoy!


In Mario and Luigi's room, all hell was breaking loose-

"LUIGI! Fratello, what the cazzo are you doing?"

"THE GREEN THUNDER IS BACK, JUMPS-A-LOT!"

Hey! Let me finish!

"Luigi! SNAP OUT OF IT!"

"SHUT IT, MARIO! You always hog the damned spotlight! So I'll be having my time to shine. Have at you, paper-thin!"

"STOP MAKING FUN OF MY PAPER FORM!"

Paper Mario pounced on his brother, who was rampaging around the room in a black and green outfit. For those readers out there who know Paper Mario, you know who he is.

MR L. THE GREEN THUNDER. AWESOMENESS IN ALL ITS GLORY. Minus the brainwashing, that is. And the 2D-ness.

And Mario? Paper thin was the right word for it. Paper Mario was back in all his paper-ish epicness. Well, unless he was being folded into a paper airplane and flown across the room into a trash can.

Which he was. I blame Luigi.

"TAKE THAT, JUMPS-A-LOT!"

"STOP CALLING ME THAT!"

Mario unfolded himself and dusted himself off before pouncing on his brother once more. Luigi/Mr. L threw him off, before jumping on Mario.

Cue jump fight.

5 minutes later, the two brothers were faceplanted on the ground, Luigi having a seemingly endless amount of paper cuts and Mario looking like a history essay somebody gave up on and stuffed into the garbage can.

Ouch.

The green and black clad plumber groaned, grumbling about needing a new supply of band-aids. Mario was trying to uncrumple himself.

Once the paper cuts had stopped stinging and Mario was no longer a rejected math test, the two brothers turned to face each other. Luigi scoffed.

Biting back any sort of reply, Mario sighed and held out a hand.

"Truce?"

The younger brother scrutinized it, before reaching for it. Slowly, but reaching for it nonetheless.

"Let's just pretend this never happened." Luigi- Or better said, Mr.L- took it.

"Alright. Maybe. Just don't ever think of jumping me again- Or I'll send Brobot after your backside." He promptly smacked Mario's hand away and stalked down to the dining room.

Mario sighed and followed suit.


Pokémon Trainer (aka. Jason (aka. Red)) yawned and trudged out of his room, putting on his hat.

As much as I want to finish playing through Pokemon Y right now, first things first. Wonder how my Pokémon are doing?

He blinked wearily, and proceeded to drag himself towards the Pokemon's room, before stopping abruptly.

There were voices behind the door.

Agh, I gotta stop playing video games til midnight, I think I'm starting to hallucinate.

He rubbed his eyes and shook his head, approaching the door with growing caution.

What if someone's after the Pokémon? That'd be really bad! And I'd get pretty pissed if someone takes Squirtle, Ivysaur or Charizard... Not in the mood for this! Stop talking to yourself, Jason! You think too much!

... You're doing that again!

Jason groaned and threw open the door, readying a miniature super scope he always carried around, and gaped.

No burglars or something. And the kids didn't sneak into the room, either. Just the normal amount of Pokemon, but...

The voices. Were coming. From the Pokemon.

Jason yelped/shrieked (in a very manly way, of course) and dropped the super scope, drawing the attention of the Pokemon to him.

"Wha? Why is there another Pikachu?"

"He must be trying to replace me!" an unusually deep voice growled.

"Wait, doesn't that hat look familiar?"

"WHO ARE YOU?!"

Jigglypuff was looking at him oddly, Pikachu looked like he was about to kill someone, while Pichu was attempting to calm him down. Charizard, Squirtle and Ivysaur were whispering among each other, occasionally glancing at Jason and Lucario was just standing in the corner, arms crossed and just as composed as he always is, except for that hint of a smile on his snout. Mewtwo was absent, probably sulking somewhere. Typical.

"Hello, Jason." Lucario snickered. The other Pokemon either gasped, jaw-dropped or flat-out stared.

"Red?"

"Of all Pokemon, why a PIKACHU?!" that deep voice again.

"Sweet Arceus, what happened?"

"Pikachu, calm down..."

"Oh, so you're Jason... Sorry for not recognizing you."

"Red! You have a lot of explaining to do!"

Jason stared around speechlessly, before letting everything sink in. He looked down at himself.

Yellow fur. Short as heck. Eye level with Pikachu.

Shit.

I'm a Pikachu.

A Pikachu.

A FREAKING PIKACHU.

WHAT.

... You're talking to yourself again.

...

Squirtle and Ivysaur looked at him anxiously, exchanging glances, before looking up at Charizard who was clenching his jaw. He snapped out of his mental arguement and bit his lip.

Which hurt like hell, by the way. He underestimated Pikachu teeth. He yelped and nursed his bleeding lip. Suddenly somebody grabbed him by the scruff of his neck and shook him. Red gulped.

"Now explain how this happened." Pikachu growled at him in that same abnormally deep voice he heard earlier. Sweet mother of Azelf, was that yellow mouse terrifying. Squirtle and Charizard took a step forward to attack Pikachu, but Ivysaur stopped them.

"Let Red take care of this."

Said trainer "eep"ed and shook his head rapidly. "I don't know! I guees I woke up like this- I honestly don't know what happened!"

The electric-type sighed and let the Pokemon Trainer go. Pichu hurriedly came back with a cookie and gave it to Jason, who looked ever-so-slightly traumatized.

"I'm really sorry about Pikachu, he's awfully grouchy since he woke up with that scary deep voice." he squeaked, voice quivering slightly. Jason nodded absently and picked up his miniature super scope.

"I'll go report this... issue to the others. I have a feeling we're no the only ones." he mumbled. He then glanced over to Pikachu, who still looked upset.

"You can come with me, if you want." The Pokemon brightened up a bit and nodded. Was he PMSing or something? Either way, that was a pretty big moodswing.

Red shivered. "Let's go find the others."


Fox grumbled under his breath at the feeling of someone relatively small shaking him by the shoulders and screeching at him to wake up. Assuming that one of the kids had sneaked into his room again, he murred and buried his head in his pillow, asking for a few more minutes of sleep.

Upon which the pipsqueak seized one of his sensitive ears and pulled on it.

Hard.

Fox leapt nearly four feet in the air and let out a (manly) shriek, the figure falling off his bed to most likely hit the floor and be sent sprawling. Never mind that person though.

Upon that, he promptly got a pillow thrown in his face from Falco's direction along with the avian shouting a half-hearted and sleepy threat to cut his tail off if he didn't shut up. The vulpine yelped again and flailed in a futile attempt again to get the huge fluffy bundle off his face, falling off his bed-

THUD.

Ouch.

Now that the pillow was no longer obstructing his vision, he snapped at Falco. "The hell was that for, man?" he barked.

Falco sat up in his bed, looking a bit ruffled and very peeved. He was squinting, hardly able to make out anything thanks to the harsh sunlight from the window.

At least he wasn't as bad as Marth in the morning.

"Do you think I had a choice if you were screaming like hell was after you?!" the avian squawked back.

Fox blinked. Then he screamed again. (Sounded a bit manlier than last time, too.)

"SHIT FALCO, WHEN'D YOU TURN HUMAN?"

Falco sat there like a retard for a moment there, taking a few minutes to process the sentence, still squinting. His eyes were taking really long to adjust. Everything was all blurry... Fox looked like something similar to an orange dot. He glared at the window. Stop shining in my eyes, dammit!

"Uh, what'd you say?"

Fox just continued staring up from his spot on the floor.

The bird nearly screamed with frustration. "Fox, stop sitting there like the last retard on earth and answer me!" he seethed, eyes still staring holes in the curtains, as if mentally willing them to close.

Fox held up a shaking finger and pointed at the avian. Falco blinked rapidly, his eyes finally adjusting somewhat to the harsh sunlight that was tormenting him so. By the way, hadn't they closed the curtains last night?

Not looking back at Fox, since he was the damn person who woke him up in the first place, he looked at himself and let out a squawk of surprise, alarm and confusion.

No feathers whatsoever. At least noone would complain about his jet-blue feathers flying all over the place. His hands immediately went to his face. No beak. A nose was in its place.

And you know what he did?

He started laughing.

"Oh my god, this is awesome!" He exclaimed, jumping out of bed, sparing Fox a glance.

Oh. The avian smirked.

"By the way, You turned human too. More or less."

Fox jumped up and made a dash for the bathroom in their dorm. Another scream was heard a few seconds later. The pilot sure is doing a lot of yelling today.

"SWEET MOTHER OF SHIT."

Fox stomped out of the room, looking highly lost. Despite being human, his bushy tail swayed behind him and his ears twitched in an agitated manner. He was clutching his head.

"Why is this happening?" he wailed, flopping on the ground and rolling around pathetically. Falco laughed again, stopping his friend and helping him up.

"I don't know, but this is awesome!"

Fox paused. "Hey, something's wrong... His ear continued twitching sporadically."

The other anthro-turned-human blinked and stopped grinning. He raised and eyebrow. "What?"

"... Where's Wolf?"

Falco frowned and cocked his head to the side. "That's... A good question."

"Hey, over here you nitwits!" Fox snapped his head around so quickly that he almost got whiplash. It was that voice. The one that yanked on his ear painfully. Falco turned around considerably slower, looking slightly suspicious.

"DOWN HERE." The two looked downwards to see Wolf.

Chibi Wolf. Staring up at him with a glare that looked terrifying on normal Wolf but looked adorable on this one.

And Fox screamed in horror for the fifth time that day.


Marth looked down grimly, not quite knowing what to do. The girls had punted him (her?) out of their room shortly after they talked about the basics. Now he was left to simply wander the mansion, not sure how many people were up so far. He tilted his head to the side, pondering whether or not he should go to the kitchen where he heard the voices earlier that morning...

He (she? No really, I don't know anymore) sighed and ran a hand through his hair. Act natural, keep calm. Withstand any possible female instincts or impulses.

And do not under any circumstance, take his shirt off. The reasons should be pretty obvious.

Otherwise, they didn't tell him much. Some side comments about the fact that he was effeminate to begin with.

Marth snorted. It was just his luck that he got turned into a female, and he was positive that Sheeda wouldn't be happy with this if she finds out. But he had a feeling it would wear off pretty soon.

The question was: When?

He bit his/her lip and trudged to the kitchen.


THIS CHAPTER WAS A MONSTER TO WRITE. I know I kinda made the StarFox part really long. I wanted to make the Mario part longer, but it just slipped and turned short... Sorry. They'll get more of a spotlight later. And don't worry, MH still exists!

I'm not even sure what I should start the next one with, perhaps the revealing of the Ice Climbers? And Lucas, can't forget our favourite blond psychic.
And Toon Link. And Bowser. And Pit. Can't forget Dedede. And maybe Roy.

Yeah...

I think I'll put up a list of which Smasher is affected by what from now on.

Falco - Humanized
Fox - Humanized
Wolf - Chibified
Ike - Turned into a preteen
Marth - Female
Meta Knight - Humanized
Luigi - Mr. L
Mario - Paper Mario
Red/Jason - Pikachu
Pikachu - Abnormally deep voice
Zelda - Split into Zelda and Shiek
Samus - Male
Ness -
De-chibified

I think that's pretty much it. Tell me if I forgot someone!

Azure out! Until the next chapter!