Vanished

Disclaimer: I do not own Super Smash Brothers Brawl or any of the characters.

Summary: A Smasher has vanished after the match. Who is responsible?

Chapter 2: Vanished

"The winner is Pit!" the announcer declared.

The four Smashers were teleported back to the room. Sonic was not amused with the results. Technically, the score remained at 0 minus the fact that Falco couldn't keep up with the stage and ended up getting an SD resulting in his elimination. Mario, Sonic, and Pit had a perfect score of zero though, so it went to Sudden Death mode and Mario and Sonic knocked each other out before Pit could do anything resulting in the angel winning the match. He managed to hit Sonic once with his arrow before Sudden Death mode.

The plumber and the hedgehog were still glaring at each other. Pit sighed in utter annoyance. He didn't feel like he won the match, but at lease he won the bet against Sonic. There was no way that he was confessing today…or any other day because if he did...

"Good job, Pit!"

Pit glanced around, "Oh, hey Ash!"

Ash was the name of the Pokémon Trainer since in all the games he's been in; people could change his name so the Master Hand told him to stay with Pokémon Trainer. Ash Ketchum is his real name, but everyone else calls him Red. "That was an intense match."

"Between those two guys yeah," Pit said as he glanced back at the two rivals, "Sonic really knows how to finish a match with sonic speed."

"What happened to Falco?"

"He already left. He must be embarrassed about being the only one to fall off the stage."

The two teens waited for Mario and Sonic to stop giving each other mean looks. After five minutes though, they gave up and decided to leave the room. They said nothing to each other until they got to Pit's room, which he shared with Sonic and Ash. Most of the time though, Ash would go off somewhere with his Pikachu (who happened to be an original Smasher) and not come back for a while (a week at the most). Whenever he came back, his hair would always be messed up and his clothes were always misplaced. One time he came back wearing his shirt backwards. Today though, it seems like everything was in place…or so Pit thought.

"What's that mark on your neck?" he questioned.

"It's nothing!" Satoshi said quickly, "I just got injured recently by the fangirls."

There was a long silence in the room when he said that. The two weren't convinced at his statement.

"You don't have THAT many fangirls," Pit corrected, "And you don't even like girls."

"Shut up! You don't either!"

More silence filled the room. Pikachu didn't appreciate the silence going on between his trainer and his friend, so he got off his trainer's back and left the room to see Lucario (the Smasher that replaced Mewtwo at the last second due to a last minute injury).

Once the yellow mouse was out of the room, Pit asked, "Who are you seeing?"

Ash blushed slightly, "N-No one. I told you that it was a fangirl attack."

"…Where did you go?" Pit asked changing the subject. He was going to get who he was seeing out of him.

"Nowhere. In general…just took a-"

"What were you doing?"

"Training my Pokémon," Ash said quickly. He would blaze thought these questions to get him off his back.

"Where were you staying?"

"At a friend's house."

"Who were you with?"

"My best friend, his grandfather and his apprentice."

"Who's your boyfriend's name?"

"Gary Oak…shit!"

Pit grinned. It was only a matter of time to get him to spill the information. Ash was never good at keeping secrets anyway.

The angel saw his friend's face lit up like a red tomato. He couldn't help but laugh slightly to himself.

"D-Don't tell anyone!" Ash shouted, "If anyone finds out, then they'll tell Master Hand that I'm going out…with…an outsider…of the Smashers…"

"You don't have to worry about a thing. I won't tell anyone," Pit told him.

Master Hand past a rule to the Smashers and that rule was that no one could have a relationship outside of the Smashers group. You also couldn't have a homosexual relationship with someone especially if he's from another world. The reason for this (that he never told anyone by the way) is because he's worried about the audience's reaction as Master Hand knew that the audience was too immature to accept that some of their favorite fighters were gay. That's why if Master Hand caught you, then he would kick you off the Brawl lineup.

It scared all of the Smashers when Master Hand actually went through with the rule and attacked Roy when he figured out that the swordsman and Marth were in a relationship. Crazy Hand had to calm his brother down, but when he did, Master Hand kicked Roy out of the third game so he wasn't allowed to fight this third year. Since the fans were complaining about the Super Smash Brothers Brawl creator taking out a hot swordsman, they replaced him with two people which were Ike and Pit. Ike because he was from the same world as Marth and Roy except in a different time period apparently, and Pit because he had a similar appearance to Roy and that he would attract as many fangirls as Roy did in the second year. Master Hand doesn't care about what the two victims do now, since he already outed them and tarnished their relationship, and while they were rebuilding their relationship, it would take time for the two to be at the top of their relationship again.

Sonic mentioned however that if you were on Master Hand's good side, then you could probably get away with this rule. Recently however, Master Hand lost the will to trust any of the Smashers. Even the ones that were here the first year, but some of the original Smashers were aware that this might have been because of what happened during the Subspace Emissary.

"Gary doesn't need to be the one hurt because of Master hand…"

"I know…"

Nothing was said between the two before there was a huge explosion that caused the fire alarm to start. More yelling was heard throughout the mansion as the sprinkles were turned on in every section of the mansion. Ash had his hat to keep him dry as Pit turned his bow into the two swords and twirled it above him to avoid being wet.

"I can see that this place is still very lively…" Ash said with a laugh.

"The poor kitchen…"

In the kitchen, someone set the stove on fire while trying to cook and that happened to be the Earthbound boys. Ness was trying to teach Lucas how to effectively use his PK Fire on other things beside battles. When Ness used PK fire on the hot dogs he was frying without a frying pan, it looked cooked, but when Lucas tried his PK Fire, not only did he burn the hot dogs, but he set the stove on fire resulting in the fire alarm going off. The two boys just stared at the stove and back at each other. The water was going to be turned on soon in every room soon if they didn't do something. Luckily, Mario was near by after his staring contest with Sonic. He used his water pump Fludd to hose the fire down. The sprinkles still turned on though and everyone in the whole mansion was shouting and screaming. Poor Sonic was drenched it water and thought that the whole mansion would fill up. His voice went over everyone's screams as he ran through the hall trying to find a dry place in the "raining" mansion.

Mario scolded the two boys for burning the stove and expected them to clean up after themselves. The two boys stared at each other again when the plumber left and laughed. Their lunch may have been burned, but at least they caused some mayhem.

"What do you want to do next?" Ness asked his look alike.

"Baseball," Lucas answered.

The water turned off ten minutes later. Most of the rooms were soaked or filled with water. Some Smashers complained about how –insert object here- was damaged by the water. Pit and Ash didn't complain since they just opened the window and let the water in the room drain out to the bottom floor (and that probably got someone else below them wet). Sonic came into the room drenched with water. He looked liked a kicked puppy that was left out in the rain.

"I can't stand those brats!" Sonic complained as he collapsed to his damp bed, "They ruined my day!"

"How do you know it's those two kids?" Ash questioned as he took off his hat to prevent his hair from getting wetter than it already was and squeezing the water out of it.

Sonic looked at the Pokémon Trainer and frowned, "When did you get back?"

"Twelve minutes ago with Pikachu."

"You should have stayed away from the mansion longer…"

"I wanted to go back to see you guys."

"Your boyfriend is better than us…"

"-red vein- Well sorry if my FRIEND told me to go back and see you."

Pit ignored the two as they started to bicker. They were always like this. Whenever Ash got back from somewhere, he would fight with Sonic mainly because the Pokémon trainer could escape to somewhere without the Master Hand finding out. Sonic can't do that because unlike Ash, he stands out just as much as Mario. If he suddenly disappeared, punishment would await him when he came back. The blue hedgehog technically lost the freedom to go outside and run around the area and he takes his frustration out on Ash. Pit had tried to stop the fight one time and it resulted in him being in the middle. He decided he wouldn't be involved in this again.

Pit finished tiding up the room. When he did, the fighting stopped.

"New record…" Pit mumbled.

The two glare at him, back at each other and then turned away.

"How immature."

Many hours passed after Ash's and Sonic's usual fight. The whole mansion was dried up eventually thanks to Captain Falcon who was using his Falcon Kick to epically dry the rug without it catching on fire. Everyone else had to bare with the damp bed sheets unless of course they decided to switch it. They handed most of the laundry to Peach. The princess was like a maid to everyone in the mansion and no matter how many times Mario protest in her not doing other people's chores, she still did them with a smile on her face.

It was 11:50 PM as Peach and a few other Smashers were still awake. She was still doing the laundry when she heard a noise coming from the main foyer. She stopped whatever she was doing, grabbed her parasol, and headed toward the foyer. When she arrived at the foyer, she saw something terrifying and screamed.

The scream woke up all the Smashers except Donkey Kong who was a very heavy sleeper. Most of the Smashers either fell off their bed or screamed with Peach because they thought someone attacked them.

Ash hit his head on the wall and groaned softly to himself. Pit sat up immediately like his alarm clock went off. Sonic woke up and yawned loudly asking, "It's morning already?"

Pit rubbed his eyes before checking the clock, "Its 11:51 PM…"

"What the hell? Who screams this late at night?" Sonic questioned in rage as he got out of his bed.

The scream was heard again and this time, everyone knew it was Princess Toadstool.

"Women are so annoying…" Ash mumbled as he took the robe that was closest to him.

"We have no time to complain," Pit told the Pokémon Trainer, "Peach might be in trouble."

"There you go again being all paranoid…"

Another scream was heard from Peach resulting in Sonic shouting "SHUT UP!" to her but there was no way she could hear him.

All the Smashers ran out of their room to see why Peach was screaming. Sonic got their first and asked her what was wrong. She pointed at the thing she was screaming at and when Sonic looked, his eyes widened but didn't say anything.

"What happened?" Mario asked as he rushed to his princess' aid.

Soon everyone saw why Peach was so scared. What she pointed to was the wall. On the wall was a communicator of some sort pinned to the wall with a black rose. A message was on the tip of the thorn. That wasn't what Peach screamed at though. Behind the black rose was a message written in blood. The message read, BEWARE PIT.

Who the hell wrote that? Sonic asked himself.

What a sick joke. Ash thought to himself.

Fox recognized the communicator right away. He sped up to it and took it, "This is…Falco's communicator…"

The Smashers gasped. Fox instantly glared at Pit as soon as he confirmed that it was Falco's.

"What did you do to him, Pit?" Fox asked in rage.

Pit was still stunned at the message. The dream he had this morning and the message now is not a coincidence, or maybe he was just being paranoid. "I…"

Link was already behind Fox. He grabbed the rose itself and took the note and read it out loud.

Violets are blue.

Roses are black.

If you don't stop me now...

I'm taking you back.

Signed, BFF (you're so forgetful that you won't even know who it is)

"That's poetic…" Sonic mumbled as he rolled his eyes.

"Now is not the time for jokes," Zelda told the blue hedgehog harshly, "This message is directed toward Pit."

"Anyone can see that."

Too bad Fox couldn't. Thinking that his friend was killed by the angel, he rushed in to attack Pit. Ike reacted quickly and blocked a kick attack for Pit.

"Ike!" Pit called out weakly.

"Calm down Fox," Ike said sternly, "Pit obviously didn't kill Falco."

"Get out of the way Ike!" Fox shouted ignoring what he said, "This is personal."

Sonic sweatdropped, "Weren't you listening?"

"There's more…" Link continued, "It says, I didn't kill Falco and that he's just something that happened when we were all battling Tabuu."

More silence filled the room. By Tabuu, he was referring to the enemy that tried to drag the entire world into Subspace because Mario broke the rule of turning someone back into his normal puffball form when he lost a match outside of the arena. Tabuu had the guts to take over Master Hand and a few others but some Smashers like Bowser, Ganondorf, and Wario joined his side (or rather a possessed Master Hand as they hated being manipulated by Tabuu) to take the other Smashers down. If everyone didn't team up at the end, then the world would have been erased. Even though everyone did their fair share in the fight, Sonic just saved everyone at the very end while others like Jigglypuff, Wolf, and Toon Link didn't even participate in the battle. During the final battle though, Master Hand gave credit to Kirby, Luigi, Ness, King Dedede, Sonic, and Pit for finishing off Tabuu. Some Smashers were pissed off that Master Hand didn't praise them but Crazy Hand did for saving his brother.

Before any other actions were taken and before anyone was yelled at, Master Hand and Crazy Hand floated down the stairs of the foyer and asked, "Why is everyone still up?"

Mario explained the situation to Master Hand. The giant hand then ordered everyone to go to bed like nothing happened.

"Hope you don't plan to cover this up," Sonic said with a sigh.

"My brother won't allow something like this to go unpunished," Crazy Hand explained as he turned (or rather pointed) toward Pit who was the prime suspect (or rather victim) of the scene, "And some of you are going to be questioned."

Pit avoided eye contact with most of the Smashers. Great, it takes one bad prank from someone to get me on everyone's bad side…

Sonic and Ash glared at any of the Smashers but mainly Fox who was accusing Pit for doing this sick joke.

"We don't know even though if Falco is really gone or not," Wolf added as he tried to calm his rival down. It was futile though, "He might just be out."

"Falco would never leave without his communicator," Fox murmured as he took one last glare at the angel before rushing off to his room.

The other Smashers went back to their room when they were ordered to, but most were unable to sleep knowing that something bad had happened to one of them. Pit had it worse off though as he was being accused of being the one who turned Falco back into a trophy…if he was even a trophy.

"Don't worry about it," Sonic told him in a comforting tone, "It's only a joke. I bet Falco wanted get some fresh air."

"That's what you want to do," Ash told him.

"Shut up, you're not helping!"

Pit couldn't help but smile. These two knew what would cheer him up, "Thanks guys," he mumbled but he knew they couldn't hear him.

The three were unaware that the stalker was spying on them from the highest branch. He grinned when he saw that the trio weren't taking the threat seriously.

"Not taking things seriously was always your number one weakness," the stalker began in a low and dangerous tone, "And everyone around you will pay for it with your life."

The next morning the intercom called some Smashers over to see if they knew what happened last night. It came on during the time when Pit's alarm clock (which by the way was a Pikachu alarm clock that Ash bought him after the Subspace crisis) rang. It didn't ring this time. When Pit reached for the clock, he just felt the rough desk.

"Where's the clock?" he asked lazily.

There was no response since Sonic was already gone to see Master Hand to explain what happened last night and to ask him if he could go out running. Ash was still asleep as he was snoring quite loudly.

"Ash…where's the-"

"I WILL DEFEAT YOU PAUL! INFERNAPE USE FLARE BLITZ!" Ash cried out in his sleep.

When Pit covered his ears, he fell off the bed face first. Ash had many bad habits and shouting in his sleep was another. After the command, Ash went back to snoring.

Pit groaned as he crawled back into bed. He checked where the clock was, and it wasn't there and it wasn't because he missed the button.

"It was there yesterday…" Pit mumbled.

The angel glanced at the desk again and was shocked when he saw another black rose that was pinned to the side of the desk. There was another not on the thorn. Pit grabbed the note and read it silently to himself.

I know your secret.

Pit's hands began to tremble slightly. Nobody knew his secret except a few people. If the secret came out then Master Hand and everyone including his Goddess Palutena might…

I'm not even going to even think about that…

Me: TBC with 3518 words. Notes…

The major difference in Ash's dream than what it originally was is that I had Ash defeating Paul in his dream. However, I switched it to Ash dreaming of the battle in the D/P arc where he finally defeated Paul. Yeah...my opinion of Paul changed greatly than when I first wrote this.

Other things I changed beside Ash's name is basically explain why Master Hand didn't support the whole homosexuality thing in the first place. It's not that Master Hand is homophobic (as shown in later chapters) but he knows that the audience is ready for gay characters (but lesbian characters are okay).

Also the fangirl thing, the original joke about Ash not having a lot of fangirls was in comparison to Pit and Sonic. However, the joke now is that I looked online and Ash...is a character you're not suppose to talk about on forums without starting a flame war, so while he has his fans, he has an equal amount of haters.