Standing in my front yard I decide not to say goodbye to my dad, my schedule is already tight enough; I just hope he's not surprised of not finding when he wake up in a couple of hours, I left a small note to make a few things clear to my dad.

The letter had the instructions of how I would get there; first I place the letter in the ground, and after pressing a button that somehow appeared besides the letter through the night, a blue light of the size of my feet appears, my instinct tells me to step in it and I was right.

The light starts covering my whole body along with my stuff; it feels like my body is getting torn apart… without the pain thankfully, a white light blinds me but the feeling doesn't last too much. I decide to open my eyes and I discover I'm now in my destination.

I glance in my surroundings. I arrived in some kind of field. In front of me is one of the biggest buildings I've ever seen in my life, with the words 'Smash Brothers' on it, obviously that is where I have to go, but before I enter, I see that I'm not in the middle of nothing as I can see a city in the distance, which looks pretty futuristic in my opinion.

When I open the door I can see the view from the outside was half the story: a huge reception area, two flights of stairs at each side of the reception, a fancy fountain in the middle of the hall and a pretty luxury-looking golden color that cover most of this place are the first things I can notice. But what really attract my attention is that there are mostly robots-like things walking through the hall.

'Wow, this place surpassed my expectations by a lot.'

Indeed.

'Talking' with my brother someone bumped into us, "Lucas?" A giant glove hovers in front of me; I mean…a giant glove!

I jump backwards, "What the hell…"

"You must be Lucas, from Nowhere Islands, right? We've been waiting for you to come. You are the last one to…"

I stop listening, let's see: what are the odds to bump into a giant talking hand? I suddenly feel stupid…Is this some kind of illusion I don't know what my dad would say of me talking to a stranger hand.

'Lucas? It looks like the hand is trying to attract your attention.'

"Ah, Lucas, is something wrong?" the hand asks, finally snapping me out of my deep thoughts.

"Uh? Oh! Excuse me, is just that I wasn't expecting to meet… a giant hand?"

It laughs, "I thought the letter would give you the hint." That means he or she (I think 'he' fits better) must be Master Hand. Was he really expecting to me to believe that he is a giant hovering glove by only reading his name?

"Alright... Where I should let this?" I ask pointing to where my suitcase is.

"I'll show you in a minute but I want to check something, would you please come with me,"

Master Hand says beckoning me to follow.

We don't walk too much (correction, he is hovering) until Master Hand stops in front of a metal room with windows in each side of the door. He opens the door and we both enter. It look that this is a training room, it has dummies all around it, some of those are burned or already worn, there are targets, too, around the room and at the end, a wall with a decent number of weapons from a simple banana peel ('I wonder what's that for') to bazookas.

"OK, you see that dummy in the middle of those three," Master Hand says pointing his giant finger to a group of dummies and I nod

"I want you to use one of your PSI attacks into that exact dummy without damaging the other two, understood?

PSI… how does he know? Hmm, he sent me the letter, and he is the owner of this crazy organization, so that must mean something. It still it surprises me a bit.

"Sure," He then proceeds to get out of the room and I can see him watching me from one of the windows.

Now, what should I do? PK Love would be entertaining.

'Yeah it would be if you had control it… besides is your most powerful attack, better keep it for later.'

You're right, here I go.

I decide to go with a PK Thunder; a PK Fire would burn down the three dummies. I raise my left hand at the height of my brow. My hand starts shooting out sparks, and moments later I let go the powerful electric attack into my target. A white light fills the room and it's over for the poor dummy, which is now in ashes.

I turn to Master Hand, who gives me a 'thumb' up; I shrug at his expression as I open the door.

"Good job, Lucas, now let's go, I'll tell you where your room is," he says and we go back to the lobby. "Alright, this Alloy will you show where is your room and how to get there,"

So the robots are named Alloy, noted. The Alloy beckons me to follow, it takes me into a couple of enormous halls, into different rooms and after crossing a green area I finally see what looks like the rooms section. We pass some rooms with different numbers PR8, PR9, PR0 and we stop in the next one: PS1

Before the Alloy leaves me, it gives me a small card with my name, which I suppose it is to open the door since instead of a doorknob it have a slot with an image of how to slice the card properly. I know this because in the era of the Pigmask army I got to see one of these.

As I enter in my new room every meaning of fancy is now replaced by what I'm looking at. The place is enormous, a king sized bed a couple meters away from the door; in front of the bed a luxurious plasma TV supported by a wooden bureau; there's also an opened room aside the bed, where I think the bathroom is at, but my amazement fades when Claus decides to speak up.

'Lucas, I think we're not going to be alone in here, there's another bed at the end of the room.'

When I listen Claus' words my sight shifts to the other side of the room, where indeed another bed is in there. I curse under my breath. A roommate…I didn't see that coming. I just hope he or she is the silent type and not an annoying one that never shut up, I don't have time to deal with people like that.

I start unpacking my stuff, accommodating each thing carefully and filling the drawers aside my bed. I lie down in the bed and try to relax and plan the next thing to do, but before the calmness invades the room, I hear the door unlocking. I decide to open one of my eyes.

The door half-opens, a boy of my age, I would say, enters…skipping into the room with a small box in his hand. Since the bed where I'm is on the opposite side the door he doesn't see me until his red cap falls. He turns to pick it up and his eyes fixes on me. Now that he's facing me I can get a better view of him. We have similar clothing, only that the colors are a little different, with a blue and yellow striped shirt, denim shorts, a pair of red shoes and the red cap I mentioned.

"Uh, you finally came, I thought I was going to stay without a roommate," he said picking his cap up. "By the way, the name's Ness and you are…Lucas?"

'He seems nice'

"Nice" doesn't mean innocent, Claus.

I just nod. I think he was expecting an actual answer. He leaves the small box over his bed and walks up to the bathroom, then turns to me before closing the door "Let me change my clothes and I'll take you to the dining hall, am sure you are hungry,"

That would not be bad, in fact I'm starving. "Sure," I say. Ness then proceeds to change his clothes.

"Alright," he says opening the door of the bathroom. "Let's go,"

We exit the room, Ness closes it and we start walking across the hallway. "So, tell me Lucas, what food would you like, we have everything you can imagine."

"I don't really care, anything would be fine." …As long as I don't have to sit with him.

"OK… and do you have any reason to come or you just came for the experience and all of that?"

I sigh letting him hear me. The reason I came here…I will have to lie; the truth would only grow his curiosity. "You're a very curious person, and the experience,"

We continue our walk through numerous corridors until Ness stops in front of a double door, he turns his head then motions me to follow, he pushes the doors inwards to reveal another unnecessarily big dining hall. There's around 50 tables but not more than 20 people using them.

"Come in, so you can choose what to eat," Ness said

He leads to me counter where there is a wide variety of accompaniments in which looks like a salad bar. Over the counter a menu with the most requested dishes in this week and below that: the word 'menu' with the words 'Whatever you want'. That's silly…at least Ness said the truth, "…everything you imagine."

I stand in front of the counter thinking. I would order omelets but the only ones worth eating are my mom's. "I think I will eat a cheese sandwich," I say.

'I know the omelets bring you sad memories, but when this is over, I'm sure mom can cook a bunch of omelets for us!"

That would be nice… Hmm, I don't want to sound negative, but let's focus on "our" problem, then in restoring our world.

"You have infinite choices and you choose a simple sandwich," Ness said, and I roll my eyes.

One of the Alloy I saw earlier appears, Ness approaches to it. "I would like to order a steak,

please,"

"Okay smasher Ness, in a minute your order will be ready," The Alloy said in a monotone mechanical voice.

Now is my turn. As Ness strides behind me, I walk up to the counter to face another Alloy; this one is a green one with the shape of a ball, a white light in the center and it is wearing a chef hat. "I would like a cheese sandwich," I say to the robot in front of me.

"OK smasher… Starting recognition, this may take some minutes…" The Alloy says.

"Newcomer Lucas!" I hear Ness shout from behind me. "Stupid Alloy…"

"Smasher Lucas, your order will be ready in a minute,"

A minute later (literally) our dishes are on the counter, Ness picks up his stake, and I my sandwich. He tells me to come with him… something I would not like, he will just ask questions and try to appear friendly to me. However, I need to know the people I am living with, I may need a couple favors in the future.

In our way to the table, I can get a better view of the other people ('more like creatures') in the room; everyone is quite unusual. The first one to bring my attention is a green… ergh… dinosaur maybe? He have a big nose, along with eyes; light red spikes on his back and a disturbingly long tongue that he is using to devour all the food in his plate. Also accompanying him in the table, a small marshmallow-looking thing, pink with rounded hands, more big eyes and red shoes; instead of using a tongue, it is using his mouth to soak up all the food.

'Do you think they are fighters too?'

I don't know but the thought of getting soaked up is not nice.

I return my attention to Ness as I can see he finally decide where to eat, he sits down and before I do the same, I take a look at the people on the table… more unusual people.

'I would say 'unusual' is an understatement'

There are two persons on the table (if one of them can be considered a person), one of them albeit is not a green dinosaur or marshmallow, still has a strange sense of style. Said person is sporting a green tunic (which I can barely notice it is a tunic due to his sitting position), a brown belt, white meshes in his arms and legs. Like me he has blonde hair but I can't see his hairstyle very well due to his green hat that have the shape of a Christmas hat just without the cotton ball.

Aside him a dog-like creature: he has blue fur covering most of his body with the exception of his torso fur which is white and longer, along with this he have a spike in the center of his chest; his head is very similar to a dog's, with long pointy ears and a long nose; instead of hands he have paws, each one with a spike over it. Another thing that outstands are his eyes, they are red. He also has a black mask-looking line surrounding his eyes and ending in the back of his head along with two cylinder shaped black protuberances that one could easily confuse with ears, though I'm sure they are not. I have to say he's a quite cool-looking dog, hmph.

After Ness, I take a sit aside him. "Link, Lucario, he is Lucas. He is a newcomer like you Luc, but he just arrived. Lucas; Link, a former smasher, and Lucario, a newcomer," Ness said pointing to the 'green lover' as Link and the blue dog as Lucario.

"Hello Lucas, welcome to the Smash mansion," Link says.

"Hi," I respond.

I was expecting greeting from Lucario either but instead I look at him to see him with his eyes closed. I frown, now what is he doing? "Lucario, you don't have to do that each time you meet someone," Link says, rolling his eyes.

No more than 10 seconds later, Lucario opens his eyes again and turn to Ness, who nodded; he then turns to me to finally speak up. "Welcome, Lucas, nice to meet you," Lucario says motioning with his hand.

"Likewise," I say.

"I don't know you guys, but I think this is the part where you have to ask him stuff and that," Ness says. HMmm I think he tried to sound funny…which he didn't.

"Yeah Ness… Lucas, I normally ask this to every newcomer because Master Hand, you know the giant glove, usually forgets it; do you already have you first exhibition match scheduled?" Link asks.

Match? 'The fighting tournament'

"Uh no, I don't,"

"I am sure Master Hand forgot that little detail, but I'll tell him later so you can have the rest of the day for you,"

"OK,"

"So Lucas, do you any special skills or something? Just wondering," Lucario asked.

Should I let them know…I don't know if it's a good idea… Although, I'm sure they'll discover it eventually. "Yes, I am a physic. Well, my powers come from the mind,"

I can see that Link and Lucario have a slightly surprised expression in their face.

"Awesome, just like Ness," Link says. Ness, a psychic too? I thought the only psychics came from the Nowhere Islands. "How do you call it, Ness?"

"PSI,"

"PSI!" I couldn't stop myself from exclaiming that… how does he know PSI?

"Yeah, it's kind of a long history maybe for another moment…" Ness says, also his voice went from normal to a bit lower volume which caused silence.

"Well, I'm done eating, Link you should check that match stuff with MH," Lucario breaks the silence.

"Sure, I will see you later guys and nice to meet ya Lucas," Link says, picking up his tray and walking away.

Lucario also gets up from the table, "I have to show something to Ness, do you need something before we leave?"

'It's not a coincidence, Lucas…? After Lucario seemed to scan you, he wants to speak with Ness privately. Or is it just me?'

I know, strange… it can be cool-looking and that but I think I will have to keep an eye on Lucario. Show something to Ness… obviously his words won't reflect his future actions. "I'm OK, I will go to my room, I haven't finished unpacking," I tell the dog.

"Great, I will see you later Lucas, remember if you need something just tell me," Ness said before also getting up from the table.

I walk away; in fact I'm kind of tired already, since Claus is now inside of me, I feel like my mental stamina is consumed a lot faster.

I continue my way through numerous corridors trying to find the correct path to my room. After 15 or something minutes of just walking aimlessly I finally found it: the room PS1. I open the door with the card the Alloy gave me earlier today and I don't think twice; as soon as the door opens, I flop onto my bed.