Punishment
Disclaimer: I do not own Super Smash Brothers Brawl or any of the characters.
Summary: After coming back from Isle Delfino, Master Hand proceeds with the punishments of the three bailing Smashers, but is forced to wait due to the injuries. Lucas does not take Ness' disappearance well and Mario questions Pit's knowledge of the three Smasher's disappearance. Will Pit tell the truth? And when the punishment is given the next day, who will survive the horrifying (yet amusing) punishment? Will the punishment be too much for a certain hedgehog?
Chapter 6: Punishment
After the Smashers made it back to the Smash Brothers mansion (which they used the teleporter that was right next to the pipe near Sirena Beach's pipe) they went to the infirmary immediately. Crazy Hand knew of their return and told his older brother to punish Sonic and the other three (he doesn't know that Ness is gone) Smashers tomorrow since they came back with injuries. The Master Hand only postponed the punishment because of his younger brother's plea.
Dr. Mario and Peach (who was in her white medical gown) were relaxing in the infirmary before they arrived. Once they did appear, they got right to bandaging them. Until then, Pit, Ike, and Mario were forced to wait outside the infirmary.
"Pika!"
Pikachu ran toward the infirmary door upon hearing that his trainer had return. (Rumors spread fast around the mansion, so it's only natural that everyone knows what's going on). The yellow Pokémon wanted to see his trainer so badly, but the red light was still above the door. Nobody could go in until that light went away.
Pit took Pikachu into his arms and held him close. He whispered some encouraging words to the mouse Pokémon which only made him worry about his trainer's condition more.
The four Smashers didn't know how long they waited, but after a long wait, the red light disappeared. Peach came through the door with a smile on her face.
"They're okay," she told them with her cheerful smile.
The three human Smashers sighed with relief. Pikachu jumped out of Pit's hands and ran into the room to see his trainer.
Sonic was still unconscious on the medical bed, but Ash was awake but barely. His wrist was wrapped in a bandage and he had some band aids on his cheek, but in other words, he appeared to be fine. Sonic was okay as well, but he had a huge bandage on his injured leg and a medium sized bandage on his right shoulder. He was sleeping rather peacefully despite the bad news of Ness' disappearance.
"How are they?" Mario asked Dr. Mario.
When Smashers first saw Dr. Mario, they thought he and Mario were the same person. Dr. Mario turned out to be a completely different person. They turned out to be distance relatives (cousins of some sort). He is slightly older than Mario, and is more into medicine instead of saving the world, but he uses his skills as a doctor to treat others. He also prefers the color white over red. His fighting style is also different from Mario's. He dropped out of Brawl because he had to many patients to take care of.
"Both will be fine. Both sustained non-life threatening injuries, so I expect them to heal in a few days or so," Dr. Mario explained, "Red actually might recover in two days at the most."
"How so?" Pit questioned.
"That is what I don't know," the doctor told them, "But it has something to do with aura…"
"The aura that Lucario fights with?" Mario asked.
"Yes, but I don't see his connections yet."
Pikachu wasn't listening to the details of his trainer. All he knew was that Ash was okay.
"Sorry I worried you Pikachu," Ash mumbled with a small smile on his face.
Dr. Mario turned to Sonic, "Sonic's injuries were more serious, but he should be fine. I estimate that it will take a week at least to heal since he lost lots of blood…"
Pit glared at Ike, "I told you not to pull so hard!"
Ike avoided Pit's gaze. His cheeks were a very light pink that came from embarrassment of not listening to the angel's advice.
"The Master Hand probably will make it harder on his injuries…" the doctor added.
At the mention of Master Hand, the Smashers fell silent. How were they going to convince Master Hand not to punish them so soon?
Peach stood up and began to walk out the door. Mario turned to his princess and asked her, "Where are you going princess?"
"Someone has to tell Lucas that Ness is gone," she said calmly as she left the room.
Peach didn't have to tell Lucas that Ness was among the missing because the Ice Climbers and Diddy Kong beat her to it. The three Smashers saw Pit and the others without Ness and assumed that he was one of the missing and spread the rumor which later turned out to be true. Popo regretted telling Lucas though because when he told the PS boy, he shut himself in his room and refused to open it.
Diddy Kong was oblivious to why Lucas was upset and continued to spread the news to all the Smashers. The Ice Climbers stopped when they realized how distressed the blonde was.
Lucas and Ness were very close and they had the Subspace Emissary to thank. If one was hurt, the other one would be affected greatly.
Popo thought that if he was in Luca's place, would he feel the same pain? The male Eskimo turned to his long time partnered who was his also his sister. Would he be this upset if Nana disappeared suddenly?
Peach came by the room shortly after the two Eskimos left. She knocked on Luca's door. She got no response.
"Lucas, are you in there?" she asked.
Still no reply but Peach could hear someone sobbing on the other side of the door.
"Can you please open the door?"
"Go away…" came a week a reply.
Once Lucas spoke though, Peach knew that he wasn't taking the news well at all.
"Please sweetie. I can't help you if you don't open the door," Peach tried to persuade.
"GO AWAY!" Lucas finally yelled.
The sudden shout started the princess and Luigi who was just happen to be passing by the hallway. Upon hearing it coming from someone like Lucas, the younger plumber fled in the other direction.
The princess of the Mushroom Kingdom frowned. She didn't want to give up now but she knew that Lucas was going to open the door for her or anyone else anytime soon. After one last glance at the door, the princess began to walk away completely oblivious that the stalker was watching her every move.
The day was rather quiet after the sour vacation especially for Pit. Ash and Sonic had to stay in the infirmary for the night, so the angel had to sleep by himself in the room. It scared him a little because knowing that the stalker was among them, he would have to keep his guard up.
He heard a knock at his door. The angel waited to see who was on the other side. When he heard Mario's voice asking him to open the door, he got out of his bed and opened the door. The plumber had a serious expression on his face.
"What's the matter Mario?" Pit asked.
"There is something I need to speak to talk about."
"What is it?"
Mario held out the note that was attached to the black rose.
"Is that?"
"Another one of these threats? Yes."
"Why didn't you give it to the Master Hand? You out of all the people know that he'll be upset if you keep something like this from him."
"Before I give it to him, I have to ask you about something."
Pit gulped. He didn't like where the conversation was going.
"This threat says that you know who is making the others disappear. I wanted to confirm if what he says is true."
Mario expected Pit to answer his question sincerely. The angel wasn't going to tell him anytime soon.
If only it were that easy. Pit thought to himself, "I'm sorry Mario. I don't have any ideas on who is stalking me…"
Despite those words coming out of Pit's mouth, his face and overall body language said the exact opposite. The hero of the Mushroom Kingdom knew right away that he was lying. He didn't want to trouble the angel, but a matter like this was more important. What if the next person to vanish was his younger brother or his princess and he couldn't do anything to stop it?
"You're lying Pit," Mario said simply, "I need you to tell me the truth."
Pit shook his head, "I really don't know anything. If I did then I would have already turned him into the Master Hand!"
Mario's face was still unfazed by the angel's lies, "Please Pit. For the sake of everyone else, you have to tell me the truth."
Pit lost it right there when Mario wouldn't believe him that he didn't know, "I already told you that I don't know who it is! Why do you have to keep questioning me when I already gave you an answer?"
Mario jumped back from the sudden outburst. Pit noticed his mistake but didn't bother to apologize. He just glared at the plumber that he once idolized.
"It's late. I'm going to bed now," Pit said harshly.
"Wait!"
"Good night!"
Pit slammed the door on the surprised plumber. Pit had never snapped at anyone especially Mario. He once looked up to Mario ever since he saw the plumber defeat Kirby in a friendly match. He even turned the plumber back into his original form when he was a trophy. The angel followed him for the rest of the adventure until the very end when Sonic came and prevented Taboo from turning everyone into a trophy again. Pit technically switched his admiration from the plumber to the hedgehog. Some Smashers thought that this quick switching sides thing was the main reason on why Mario clearly disliked the hedgehog. That clearly wasn't the case though and only Luigi, Peach and Bowser (surprisingly) knew why he disliked Sonic.
Mario sighed. He wasn't going to get anything from the angel tonight or anytime soon. The plumber knew from experience that Pit was the type of teen that would tell one of their secrets eventually. He would just have to wait and pray that no one would disappear when it was time to tell them. He started to walk away from Pit's room, but not before checking his surroundings to make sure that no one was planning to sneak into Pit's room and attack him. Surprisingly when Mario left, the stalker wasn't anywhere near Pit. No, his plans were focused on getting rid of a certain hedgehog.
The night ended fast for the Smashers as morning came. Master Hand was already up and read to punish the Smashers. He announced on the intercom that Pit, Ash (Red), and Sonic come into his room pronto. All three of them woke up from the announcement but chose to ignore it. Dr. Mario and Pikachu did not want the two Smashers in bed all day, so they rudely pushed them off the bed. While not hurting Ash one bit, it made Sonic feel the injury in his leg again.
Dr. Mario was shocked to see that the Pokémon Trainer's injuries were already healed. Pikachu noticed this and jumped on his trainer with glee. Ash couldn't help but smile as he stood up with no problem at all. He turned to the doctor and thanked him for treating his injuries before he left to go see Master. The doctor turned to Sonic who was still complaining about his injuries.
"Are you getting out anytime soon?" he asked.
Dr. Mario seemed to have the same grudge as Mario, but unlike his younger relative, he refused to show it. Sonic felt like he was sweating a little as he stood up and proceeded to run, but his leg started to ache.
"You might actually want to walk to Master Hand's room instead of running," the doctor advised with an evil grin.
"You're evil. You know that?"
Sonic took Dr. Mario's advice and walked to his doom.
Pit had it better for him. Ike came by his room and told him to get out of bed. The angel instantly listened to the blue haired swordsmen and got dress. It was then did he notice that his yellow tunic that he wore sometime in battle was missing. Pit didn't think about that at the time and just stayed with his white tunic. He opened the door. Ike was on the other side and greeted him. The two Smashers decided to walk together, which Pit was relieved of. At least when he got his punishment, Ike would be there to cheer him up.
The only problem was when they passed Meta Knight in the hallway (who was awake before the announcement). The angel could hear the Star Warrior snicker underneath that mask he always wore. Some day…oh would he take that mask off just to see what his real face looked like and get a good laugh.
The two Smashers met with Mario in the hall who came along. His excuse was to see what type of punishment Sonic would get. Pit knew however that the plumber wanted to ask him about who the stalker was again. He prayed that he wouldn't though at least not in front of Ike.
Sonic, Ash, and Pikachu were already waiting for them in front of Master and Crazy's room. Ash looked rather nervous while Sonic kept his usual poker face.
"Good morning Pit!" Sonic said as he did his usual thumbs up to the angel.
"Good morning guys!"
"You're looking better."
"A good night sleep will make anyone feel better Sonic," Pit said as he turned to Ash and noticed that his injuries were completely healed, "It's good to see that you're injuries are healed."
"I know! It's amazing what intense training can do."
"Pika!"
Pit and Sonic seemed to bide Ash's white lie. Mario and Ike knew as soon as he said intense training that he was lying…at least partly.
All talk came to an end when Crazy came out his room.
"Master Hand would like to see you first Pit," he announced.
Pit turned to his friends for help. All but Ike turned the other way clearly saying, "You're on your own." Only Ike gave him an encouraging rare smile and told him, "You're be fine."
That was all Pit needed to enter Master's room unafraid. Crazy led Pit inside Master Hand's room and it was huge! You would expect that from two big hands of course. However once inside, Pit saw a man sitting on the couch. He was tall with black hair, brown eyes and a very stern face. He looked like that LME model Ren Tsuruga but much older.
"Whose that?" Pit asked Crazy.
"That's my older brother in his true form," Crazy explained, "He only appears in his human form when a Smasher does a serious offense."
Pit's eyes widen looking at Master and back, "THAT'S MASTER?"
"Yes. He looks annoyed, so I think you should sit down on the other side of him now," Crazy warned.
The angel had no choice but to obey as he sat down on the couch on the opposite side of Master. His solemn face was scarier than speaking to a big right hand.
Nothing was said until Master told his brother to guard the outside making sure that no one interferes. His younger brother happily obeyed.
Once gone, Master Hand went back to business, "You know what you and the other Smashers did wrong, right?"
"Yes…" Pit mumbled.
"Going outside the mansion without my permission is one thing, but getting yourself captured by an outsider is another-"
"It wasn't an outsider! It was someone inside the mansion!"
"Are you assuming that one of my beloved Smashers is stalking you? Am I hearing you correctly?"
"Yes…"
The Master Hand proceeded to yell at the angel, but he remembered something at the last minute and decided not to. Instead, he gave the angel a long lecture about protecting himself from others no matter what.
"Don't be the damsel in distress again," Master Hand told him, "It's already bad enough that Peach and Zelda are ones."
"They're princesses though…"
"And you're not and we're leaving it at that. Dismissed."
Pit was confused, "That's it?"
Master grinned evilly, "You're lucky. One of your friends convinced me in not to punish you. Therefore anything that has to do with these threats and your stalker is nothing on me until someone gets hurt. Dismissed."
Pit was too stunned that the Master Hand had to grab him by his wings and kick him out himself. Luckily Ike was standing in front of the door (Crazy moved out of the way when the door magically opened) when Pit was thrown out. The bluenette caught him in his arms as the door closed by itself.
"Pit, what happened?" was the first thing Ash asked as the angel thanked Ike for catching him.
"Nothing happened," Pit answered with a surprised face.
"Really? Master Hand didn't punish you?"
"No. He just lectured me and then kicked me out."
"That means I can come out of this unscratched!" Ash exclaimed.
Pikachu didn't agree with him when Pit added, "Someone else got me out of this."
Ash's hopeful expression fell.
"Who helped you?" Sonic questioned.
"That I don't know."
"Red," Crazy interrupted, "Master Hand would like to see you next."
Ash didn't seem worried at all. He assumed that everything will be all right. He walked into Master Hand's room and didn't return for ten minutes which was longer than when Pit stayed in.
Another five minutes passed and Ash still didn't come out. Pit and Sonic glanced at each other in worry. Maybe Master Hand was actually punishing Ash for not being able to protect Ness.
The Pokémon came out of the room eventually. He looked like he saw a ghost which wasn't common for him since there are such things as ghosts in his world.
"Ash what happened?" Sonic questioned.
The Pokémon Trainer looked at the Smashers and cried fake tears as he held a sheet of paper that rolled all the way down to the floor. The Smashers gasped.
"Master Hand wants me to undergo this training program starting today and will continue for a year for four hours straight…"
"That sucks."
"I'll never see Gary again!" Ash cried.
"Whose Gary?" Mario asked.
"One of Ash's friends," Pit answered. He prevented Sonic from calling Gary Ash's 'boyfriend' in front of Mario and Crazy Hand, but gave a quick love gesture to Ike telling him that those two were going out.
"What's the first thing on the list?"
Ash sighed, "A twenty stock match with R.O.B. later on today. A two against one match with Marth and Ike tomorrow and a three on one match against Peach, Zelda and Samus the day after that…"
"Ike, did you agree to this?" Pit questioned the bluenette.
"Yes. I would have to fight tomorrow either way."
"Can you go easy on me…or rather my Pokémon?" Ash asked.
"Can't do that."
"You suck…"
"Sonic, it's your turn," Crazy announced.
Sonic turned to his friends who told him to make it out of this alive since his punishment would be worse than Ash's training schedule for a year.
All was too quiet in Master Hand's room. The Smashers and Crazy said nothing. They waited for Master to say something. They didn't have to wait that long though since Master began yelling at the hedgehog.
"YOU IMPUDENT HEDGEHOG! HOW DARE YOU USE MY CREDIT CARD TO BUY YOUR CRAP! I SHOULD FEED YOU TO A BADGER RIGHT NOW INSTEAD OF KICKING YOU OUT!"
Master's screams were so loud that you would think there was an earthquake. The five Smashers gave up on the hedgehog and ran away from the area…for five minutes at the least.
Sonic's shouts were heard as well, but Master's Hand's voice dominated his. After ten full minutes, the shouts died down. Mario cautiously opened the door to the area. Crazy gave the signal that Master Hand calmed down. The plumber gave the signal to the others that it was all right to come back. They all slowly made it back to Crazy who sighed.
"Master Hand isn't going to forgive Sonic easily…" Crazy said with a sigh. "Why did he take his credit?"
The other Smashers looked at each other and then back at the door. How long would it take for Sonic to emerge from the door.
Ten minutes later and Sonic still wasn't out of the room. Mario got bored and began pacing around the room. Ash decided to look over that long list with his Pikachu and Ike (who wanted to see how much training he would be doing.) Pit sat down next to the Pokémon Trainer and read the list as well.
"I'll never make it out of this alive…" Ash complained.
"You say that now Ash, but I think you'll do well as it goes on," Pit told him, "And it's not like you'll be doing any of the fighting."
"Giving commands is just as tiresome as fighting," the Pokémon Trainer corrected.
Pit had nothing left to say to that.
All of a sudden, Sonic's scream was heard on the other side of the door. The Smashers jumped at the long silence being broken.
"GET OFF OF ME YOU RAPIST!"
Upon hearing that word, Pit and Ash rushed into action. Crazy wouldn't let them pass, but after a few more screams coming from the hedgehog, he decided to open the door for them.
The two Smashers stormed into the room demanding Master Hand to stop. The anger that the two felt though faded when they saw what was happening.
"Guys, he's crazy!" Sonic screamed as he got himself out of Master Hand's human grasp and ran behind the angel.
Mario and Ike were in front of the door and they were stunned.
"What the hell are you wearing?" Mario asked his rival.
"It looks…very feminine…" Ike added in a tone of disgust.
Crazy saw what his brother did to Sonic and gasped. He didn't think that his brother would actually choose that punishment!
"This is your punishment Sonic," Master Hand told him simply.
The punishment for Sonic was cross-dressing. The hedgehog was wearing a purple dress that had flower design that decorated it. His running shoes were switched with high heels that prevented him from running as fast as he always ran. He wore a purple hat also decorated with flowers. While his outfit was still a little girl's outfit (think about his appearance), it wasn't exactly feminine. The hedgehog still looked more like a female hedgehog than a male hedgehog.
"He looks…" Ash began. He tried his best to hold in his laughter.
"Cute!" Pit declared as he wanted to hug the hedgehog in between his arms because Sonic looked like those little dolls that one of his angel companions had in her room.
Sonic gave the angel a look that was mix of anger and embarrassment.
"I am not cute!"
"Have you looked in the mirror recently?" Ash asked finally bursting into laughter.
"Bastard…"
"The punishment," Master Hand continued, "Is that you will wear that for one whole week without taking it off. Until then, you can no longer train or run away. If you do then you'll face terrible consequences."
Ike turned to the Master Hand. His eyes widened upon seeing Master Hand's true form. Mario glanced at Master Hand and frowned. Master Hand only showed himself when something serious was happening. The last time was when the Smash Brothers Mansion was in huge debt when it first started out with eight fighters and had to increase the fighters to twelve to get more money coming in, but if Master Hand had a human form then did Crazy Hand have one too?
"It's great that a lot of you have seen my face again," Master began, "But I would like all of you to get the hell out of my room before I punish you all if you aren't already punished!"
The Smashers didn't need another word. They ran out of the room away from Master. Crazy Hand closed the door behind him.
"It's all right to change into your human form now Caito."
Crazy Hand obeyed as he magically turned into his human form. He only did when Master Hand requested it. Sure enough he looked much younger than Master Hand's human form. He had spiky blonde hair, brown eyes and a child like grin. You could say that he was a younger version of that LME actor Sho Fuwa.
"Do you think that you went too far with Sonic's punishment Michiko?"
"Not at all. This will teach him a lesson in not to mess with me."
"You never change, do you?"
"I will not tolerate rebels! He will learn his place here in Smasher Brothers Mansion and appreciate it!"
"Whatever you say. I think you're trying to play matchmaker though."
"Come on Sonic! You punishment isn't as bad as mine!" Ash told Sonic for the fifth time.
"My life is over…"
Pit felt sorry for the hedgehog. His image will be temporarily ruined for seven days. He thought it would be best for the hedgehog to stay under the covers to avoid further humiliation, but Master Hand wasn't going to let him stay in their room for the whole week. He would be humiliated by doing something rather girly…but if he were to do something like that, wouldn't Master Hand have a better excuse to kick him out?
"SONICCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC!"
Everyone froze. Sonic was the only one who showed a look of terror.
"Not Amy…" he murmured.
He proceeded to zoom off in one direction but when he tried to take off, he tripped on his high heels. Ash ended up laughing at the hedgehog for his clumsiness.
"MY DARLING SONIC!"
The pink hedgehog came out of nowhere and ran to her hero only to stop when she didn't see him. Not noticing anyone but Pit, she turned to the angel and asked harshly, "Where's Sonic?"
Pit looked at her in confusion, "What-"
"Where is he? He was just here a second ago!"
Pit pointed at the fallen blue hedgehog. Amy looked where he was pointing and gasped.
"3...2...1…" Ash began counting down as he covered his ears. The countdown was a warning that Amy was going to let a very loud scream.
The other Smashers moved back and covered their ears as the pink hedgehog let out a ear splitting scream throughout the whole mansion.
"And I thought Jigglypuff was annoying…"
"NO! MY SONIC IS WEARING A DRESS!" Amy screamed throughout the mansion. Everyone could hear her but chose to stay in their room to avoid the conflict that was about to happen.
At this time, the rest of the Sonic gang (which include Tails, Knuckles, Cream and her Chao Cheese, Shadow, Rouge, Silver, and Blaze) appeared behind the Smashers as a bunch of scenes started to unfold.
"Sonic, what happened to you?" Tails asked in worry.
"He pissed off Master Hand again," Shadow answered with an evil grin. Since he was an assist trophy, he had his way of gathering information without others knowing.
After hearing that though, they either laughed at the hedgehog's punishment, worried about him (Cream was the only one who was worried), or scolded him in general. Sonic felt more miserable by the second.
"I am not going to be generous again…" the hedgehog murmured.
"You only have to wear that for seven days, so I don't see what the big problem is," Ash told him, "I mean, I have to train…"
"In fifteen minutes," Shadow finished, "I suggest you leave now."
The Pokémon Trainer looked at the black hedgehog but decided not to move from his spot especially when Cream and Pit told Sonic's friends to stop laughing at the blue hedgehog. All of them stopped eventually except Knuckles who was enjoying laughing at Sonic in the ridiculous outfit.
"How can I not stop laughing looking at Sonic in that?" the red echidna asked, "It looks funny on him that I almost didn't recognize him."
Normally Shadow or Silver would join in at this point to make fun of Sonic even further, but not this time. They noticed that the tension between the two was becoming more suffocating by the minute. Ike also noticed the change in atmosphere coming from the hedgehog.
"Knuckles…I think you might want to stop now…" Silver told him.
"Why? Sonic's the one that's always making fun of me, so it's my turn to make fun of him!"
"I really think…"
"Are you sure you're not a gay Sonic because in my eyes you're a faggot."
That one word was all it took for Sonic to snap. Shadow knew that was the cue to back off. The blue hedgehog glared at the echidna hoping for him to drop any subject of homosexuality. Knuckles was oblivious to the glare and continued the insults.
What happened next was too fast for the naked eye for everyone, but Knuckles was left with a red slap mark on his face. The red echidna was speechless when he placed his hand on his cheek.
"You're a bastard, you know that?" Sonic asked in a threatening tone.
"Sonic?"
"I thought you of all people would understand how I feel about the subject..."
Knuckles frowned, "I didn't-"
Sonic wouldn't let him finish his sentence as he sped off toward the mansion door.
"Sonic!" Pit called out hoping that the blue hedgehog would turn around and come back.
The blue hedgehog continued running toward the door. He kicked it with his heels destroying it and left. Mr. Game and Watch's beeping was soon heard.
"Nice going Knucklehead," Rouge told him in a rather angry tone.
"Tch. Sonic will come back later."
"…Mr. Sonic was crying…" Cream said simply.
"Chao."
Everyone turned to the little rabbit and her chao in disbelief. They couldn't picture Sonic crying of all people? And over something as stupid as wearing a dress? It didn't add up.
Ash wanted to go after the hedgehog but when he looked at his schedule, he shrieked, "I got to go train now! See ya!"
Ash zoomed off in the other direction to the battlefield. The Sonic crew slowly disappeared as they went their separate ways. Mario decided to go get something to eat. Pit and Ike were left alone again. The angel wanted to go look for Sonic, but Ike assured him that Sonic would be okay.
"He'll come back in a few minutes," Ike ensured him, "He's that type of guy."
"I guess…"
The two wanted to say something more to each other, but they both couldn't find anything to say. With Mr. Game and Watch coming down the hall with R.O.B. to repair the front door and both making high pitch noises, the two decided that they would go back to their room.
The hours passed but Sonic didn't come back. Knuckles and the others began to worry for his wellbeing. The echidna began to regret calling him a faggot.
Once the moon started to rise, Amy decided to start a search party for Sonic. Shadow and Knuckles reluctantly agreed to search for the blue hedgehog.
"It's your fault that Sonic ran off!" Amy reminded him, "So you go look beyond the mansion!"
Knuckles groaned as he and Shadow proceeded to search the next village which was Smashville. In Brawl, you got to fight on the top of the village, but Smashville does exist. It's not all innocent as people think it is. The animals also get into fights as well as cause crimes like humans and that is where the police dogs come in. They protect the village as well as pay attention to the lost and found.
As those two left to Smashville, the others decided to search around the mansion knowing very well that Sonic wasn't anywhere around Smash Brothers mansion.
Meta Knight and Kirby, who were practicing their swords skill decided to join in the search after telling certain other Smashers about Sonic not returning.
The two knocked on the teen Smasher's room. No one was in at the moment.
"When one of their friends is missing, they just happen to be somewhere else," Meta Knight said with a sigh.
"Poyo…"
"Kirby," Meta Knight began in a serious tone, "You go check Luca's room. I'm certain Ash is in with him. I will and check Ike's room for Pit."
"How do you know of this?" Kirby asked already knowing the answer.
"I have my resources," Meta Knight answered.
You never tell me anything…
Sure enough, Ash was with Lucas. After his twenty stock match with R.O.B. (who finished the door repairs at such a speed), he did stop by the room to see if Sonic was in. Upon seeing that the hedgehog didn't return, Ash decided to cheer up Lucas which was something Peach couldn't do. It would be easier for him to comfort the blonde because he was one of Lucas closest friends.
"Hey Lucas! Can I come him?" he asked.
There was no response coming from the blonde.
"I'll destroy your door if you don't open it!" he threatened. It was obvious that he wasn't the patient type.
Lucas usually took Ash's threat really well. He opened the door to the room as Ash let himself in. The Pokémon Trainer instantly noticed the sorrowful expression on Lucas' face. It was the same face that he saw when he first met him.
"You look terrible Lucas."
"…Why are you here?"
"I wanted to check up on my best bud."
"You're lying."
"I guess I'm half lying. I did want to check up on you though."
Lucas said nothing as he laid back in his bed, "Just get what you need and go."
Ash frowned. He sat next to the blonde and said, "I'm sorry that I couldn't protect Ness."
"…It wasn't your fault…if I was there…then maybe…"
"You couldn't have had come even if you wanted to. If you want to blame someone, blame me. I was the only one that was with Ness when he was taken."
Lucas turned his head slightly to the blonde. He didn't respond.
"It's funny how we're talking to each other again when Ness was captured the last time," Ash said trying to lighten the mood, "We became the best of friends just like that. I protected you from those monsters…and you helped me recapture Ivysaur and Charizard."
"That was all you…"
"And you saved us from a certain death."
"…Meta Knight saved us back then-"
"Come on Lucas! You have to have more confidence in yourself. If you don't, then Ness won't be very happy."
Lucas gave Ash a pathetic look before sighing, "I can't help it. When I see something that scares me…I just panic. I'm not useful to anyone…and I feel like I'm a burden to everyone else."
"Everyone has their strengths and weaknesses," Satoshi began in a serious tone that surprised the PK boy, "The only to become stronger is to conquer them both. If we can't do something as simple as that, we can't move on with our lives and trust in ourselves."
Lucas gave Ash a hard stare. Since when did the Pokémon Trainer say something really serious?
"That was quoted from the great Gary Oak…" Ash finally said with a hint of sarcasm in his tone of voice.
"No wonder it was so good! You trying to say something serious always goes wrong."
"-red vein- Is that how everyone sees me?"
Lucas couldn't help but laugh. Ash really knew how to lighten the mood. Sonic, Pit, Peach and Kirby could also brighten the mood no matter what. They were the light of the Smashers. The blonde couldn't help but be jealous of these optimistic Smashers.
I pray for the day where I will be needed by everyone.
There was another knock at Lucas' door. It was obviously Kirby.
"Search party needed, poyo!" Kirby shouted, "Sonic hasn't returned! Meta Knight wanted me to get you guys!"
Ash instantly jumped off the bed and headed out the door. He asked if Lucas was coming or not.
"I'll be there…soon…" Lucas mumbled.
"Suit yourself."
Ash left the room making sure to close the door behind him. The blonde decided not to help in the search and instead buried his head in his pillow and began to cry, "I'm just a coward… "
Pit was with Ike during the rest of the afternoon. If it weren't for Olimar harassing the bluenette to bring the angel into their room, then they wouldn't be in the room watching an anime called Moon Phase right now.
Olimar wanted to see his roommate with the angel tonight not only to get them together, but to prove that Pit wasn't the person making the other stalkers disappear that Fox has already claimed him to be. In order to do that, he used his Pikmin to bug Ike into bringing Pit into their room. He gave up after getting electrocuted by ten yellow Pikmin and rammed in the butt by four purple Pikmin. Olimar would have poisoned him next after that.
He watched the blue haired swordsmen speak to the angel who wasn't doing anything in particular. Happy that they were together in his room, he decided to bring a movie for them to watch. Since Pit hated horror animes, so it would be better to bring a comedy anime that had romance in it. He would have brought Gravitation from the girl's room, but then Ike would know what Olimar was planning, so he just grabbed an anime that looked funny and he just happened to get the anime about vampires and psychic mediums. Luckily, just because vampire were involved didn't mean that they were sparkling vampires.
Olimar now observed the two watch the anime. Pit was instantly distracted by the anime to know that he was being inspected carefully. Ike turned his head every now and then toward Olimar giving him mean glares. The spacemen prayed that his roommate wouldn't find out about his plan.
"Wow! That vampire's cute!" Pit commented referring to the main female vampire of the series.
Ike said nothing but nodded his head in agreement. Chances were that he wasn't listening.
Meta Knight suddenly comes crashing into the room killing some of the Pikmin in the process. The warriors appearance made the Smashers jumped.
"Couldn't you knock on the door?" Ike asked rather irritated that the door was destroyed.
"Sorry," Meta Knight said quickly. He wasn't apologizing about the door though. He was apologizing for interrupting Ike and Pit's time together, "Sonic has not returned since this afternoon. There is already a search party going about and we need you to come help us."
Pit instantly panicked, "I knew I should have went after him!"
Ike grabbed his sword in the corner of the room and told Pit, "We'll finish the episode later."
"So you were listening."
"Not really. I rather watch it then look for some stupid hedgehog that couldn't even protect you."
"Sonic's not stupid!"
"It's great that you two are getting along, but can you please make it quick."
"Be quiet Meta Knight!"
"…Young people…"
Even with the help of Pit, Ike, Olimar, and Ash, they couldn't find Sonic within the perimeter of the mansion. Master Hand forbid them to check outside the mansion which wasn't helping.
Some other Smashers joined in the search around the mansion. Ike found it useless to search the mansion since it was obvious that Sonic wasn't in it whatsoever. If it wasn't so dark, then they would be able to search beyond it.
After an hour of searching, some Smashers started to give up. Mr. Game in Watch in particular gave up and left to replace the door that Meta Knight broke.
"We're not going to find him tonight…" Roy complained as he let out a huge yawn.
"I agree…" Ash said with a sigh, "I can't even see my hand in front of my face."
"We have to keep looking," Pit told him in the tone he used as a captain of the royal bodyguards.
The two looked at each other and groaned. Thanks to Pit, they would probably search until midnight and find nothing.
Silver suggested that they waited for Knuckles and Shadow to return since they would surely find Sonic in Smashville.
"Does it take them that long to search Smashville?" Amy asked impatiently.
"Smashville is a huge village Amy," Tails reminded, "It could take two days to search the whole town."
Amy continue to complain even after the two tailed fox explained to her how long it would take.
The wait finally ended when a blast of light appeared in front of them. Shadow and Knuckles emerged from the light with the echidna holding an unconscious Sonic.
"SONIC!" Amy and Tails cried out as they ran to them.
"What happened to him?" Blaze asked.
Knuckles gave them all a sad look. Shadow shook his head, "He's just unconscious."
"That's a relief."
"I don't know…" Silver said having his doubts. When he said that though, Knuckles flinched slightly. It was then did he know that something bad happened to him.
"I'm taking him back to the good Doctor," Knuckles murmured.
The red echidna rushed to the infirmary before anyone had a saying in it. Since Sonic was found though, most of the Smashers decided to crash for the night. One of the Smashers was the stalker though and was rather upset that the blue hedgehog turned up. Seeing that the hedgehog was critically injured though, he probably accomplished something tonight.
The Sonic gang was kicked out of the mansion due to not being in the game. Shadow could say since he was an assist trophy while Knuckles was an exception to Crazy Hand. Pit, Ike, and Ash decided to wait outside the infirmary hoping for some good news.
"It's amazing that Sonic is always finding a way to get himself in trouble," Ash murmured.
Pit had to admit that that was true. Compared to Mario, Sonic was always getting into some sort of trouble. This was probably why Ash got penalized, but he still didn't know why he didn't get his just desserts and only got a warning instead. Olimar suggested that someone cared about him, but the angel wasn't listening to the spaceman at the time.
Olimar was trying to pass the hint that it was Ike that got him out of trouble. The swordsmen sacrificed his time of training to fight against Ash. Ike decided not to tell Pit though. He would rather have the angel figure it out on his own, but at this rate, he would never find out.
Dr. Mario came out of the infirmary immediately and sighed, "He'll be okay."
"What happened to him Dr. Mario?" Ash questioned.
Dr. Mario let out an even bigger sigh, "I don't know. His friend won't tell me anything and Shadow obviously doesn't know what happened to him. All I know is that that dress he was wearing was torn. He had bruises all over his arms and his broken leg wasn't helping. I suggest he not fight until the end of the week."
"Six days of not running around huh?" Ike asked.
"Exactly. He'll go crazy but recovery is important."
"Why won't Knuckles say anything?" Pit questioned.
"That's what I want to know, but I'm not going into his or Sonic's personal business. If you want to know then you ask them."
Dr. Mario went back into the room with the three Smashers following him. Sonic was slowly waking up from his slumber. Knuckles (who was still in the room) watched as his friend slowly sat up.
"Sonic, you're okay!" Pit declared as he rushed over to his friend.
The hedgehog looked at the angel with emotionless eyes and chose to ignore him confusing him. Everyone in the room noticed this immediately. Ash wasn't too happy with his friend ignoring Pit (who was always in the middle of attention between the three).
"Don't give Pit the silent treatment after getting into some sort of trouble," Ash told him harshly. He didn't mean to push Pit out of the way when he went over to the hedgehog and touched him on the shoulder.
"Ash, it's okay," Pit said calmly.
"He needs to say something to you at least…"
Ash noticed that Sonic's whole body was like ice. He was shivering all over. The Pokémon Trainer didn't suspect him to be freezing but he along with everyone else was shocked when he shouted, "DON'T TOUCH ME!"
Ash jumped back along with the angel. That sudden outburst was all Dr. Mario needed to know to confirm Sonic's condition.
"I need to talk to everyone outside the room," Dr. Mario said simply.
Nobody had any saying to it. Knuckles looked at the hedgehog and frowned. Sonic's eyes weren't full of life anymore and instead full of fear and anxiety. Clenching his fist in anger, he left the room and then proceeded to leave the mansion saying that he had a time limit to how long he could stay in the mansion.
"What's wrong with him Dr. Mario?" Pit questioned after the infirmary door closed.
"…That outburst was all I needed to confirm what happened to him. The bruises on his arms, the torn dress, his expression..."
Ike knew what word was coming next. The other two younger Smashers knew it was coming too, but they wouldn't take it that well.
"I think Sonic was assaulted...sexually..."
Me: TBC with 8464 words. Notes!
1. Michiko means beauty/wisdom in Japanese. Master Hand's human appearance is bishonen which is where beauty comes from. His wise side will be shown later. BTW Caito doesn't mean anything. I just changed the K to a C.
2. Moon Phase is a vampire anime that focuses on comedy and romance then horror and suspense. It's about this photographer that sees this girl in a haunted castle of some sort when taking pictures and is determined to prove that she wasn't a ghost of some sort. He goes with his teacher and assistant for help, but the only come to confirm the magic powers that was surrounding the castle. The girl seems to be a nice person at first, but once her vampire side is revealed she expects Kazuki to be her slave which he refuses since he has a power that he is unaware of that allows him to resist the powers of a vampire. And so the comedy begins as Luna's (the vampire's name) family tries to get her back by any means necessary. The series just came out.
3. In the anime Hoshi no Kabii, Meta Knight participated in the war against Nightmare which was 200 something years ago and still looks the same. Since he 200 years older than Kirby, he consider and old person while Kirby is consider a baby (hence why Meta Knight can talk in the anime while Kirby can't.) Looking at the Smashers, Meta Knight is consider one of the oldest because of this if you don't count Pit (who's an angel) and Ganondorf (who's a demon). Meta Knight was talking to Olimar about this because Olimar is AT LEAST older than Samus. In his game Pikmin, it states that he has a wife and a daughter at least and has an ADULT job. I think the shortness makes him look younger than appears to be. Just like Meta Knight.
After looking at this chapter, I find it funny how Ash is the one setting off the raped victim again. First it's Sonic in this story and in Seizensetsu, it's Trip. Of course...the major difference is that Ash wasn't thrown across the room.
And thus Sonic's Heroic BSOD begins, I can guarantee that by chapter 39 (the one I haven't started working on), he'll be working back to what he was at the beginning.
So I changed some things though. Ash basically telling Lucas that he had to recapture his Pokémon instead of capturing them like most people think because I'm pretty sure they were his from the beginning. And changing "queer" to "faggot" because queer is only mildly offensive depending on the person and faggot is just outright offensive. And of course, I don't think a doctor would say it outright. He would probably say it in terms that a person can understand it instead of saying it outright and causing panic. Finally and more importantly, more jokes about Gary MOTHERFUCKING Oak.