Disclaimer: I don't own Super Smash Bros., Nintendo, and any characters or franchises represented within this story. I only own Nathaniel. I wish I did own Nintendo though.

Chapter 6: The First Time

I was awake before my eyes opened. I kept my eyes closed while listening to what was around me. Someone was humming a song, it sounded somewhat familiar but I couldn't remember it.

"Of course, that applies to most of my memories," I thought. I was mainly keeping my eyes closed since I was trying to remember what I just dreamed of. It had something to do with ducks and a grilled cheese sandwich, not entirely sure about context but the dream had something to do with those two.

Slowly, I sat up, shrugging off a blanket someone put on me. I looked over at the source of the humming to see Crazy Hand roasting something over a campfire. While I was unconscious, she apparently set up a camp, complete with a tent, a campfire, and logs to sit on.

"Are you sure that you should have a fire?" I asked, moving to sit across from Crazy on the other side of the fire.

"It's okay. The puppet fighters don't have enough awareness to see smoke and think of a camp. They're mostly set to patrolling certain area and guard Smasher statues," She replied, rather nonchalantly. "Want a s'more?"

I took the s'more she offered and started eating it. "What happened since I got knocked out?"

"Not much. I took care of the Pink Yoshi and I finished off Mario when you passed out. Then, since you weren't going to wake up any time soon, I set up camp to wait. And about that," She locked eyes with me, her tone gaining a harder tone, "You need to take better care of yourself. You got hurt pretty badly against Jigglypuff and you passed out when fighting Mario. If I wasn't there, they would have killed you!"

"Alright alright," I put my hands up trying to calm her down a bit as her voice reached a crescendo. "I'll try not to get killed. Quick question: why did I pass out? My injuries weren't that bad, right?"

"Yes, your wounds from the last fight were serious and you would have went unconscious from them but most likely, not until after the fight. Final Smashes take a lot of energy to do when you're not using a Smash Ball so you could probably only do one per day without straining yourself too much. I changed the system so the Final Smash meter is only filled once a day."

"Thank you?" I was a bit off-put by the terms I didn't know like Smash Balls and Final Smash meter but I'll ask about those later. "How did I heal so fast? And what about that tomato you gave me?"

"I used healing items to heal your wounds from the last fight," Crazy got up and walked over to the tent. "The tomato was a Maxim Tomato, it completely heals you. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to get some sleep."

"Wait!" I said, causing her to pause before turning to stare at me. "If you're sleeping in the tent, where do I sleep?"

She pointed to where I woke up. There was a sleeping bag and the blanket. "I get the tent since I set up camp and saved your butt twice already. Go get some sleep. I can't have you dying on me again because you're tired. You're my only help after all."

Crazy ducked inside the tent and zipped the entrance closed before I could respond. Begrudgingly, I walled over and threw myself onto the sleeping bag. I wasn't feeling tired so I just stared at the night sky. Stars littered the sky and galaxies shined in various colors.

"I wonder," my thoughts began to drift. "Is the sky like this in my world? Crazy said something earlier about me being from another world, right? I have to ask her about that too.

"Geez. The things to ask her is long enough already," I muttered out loud. I began to list off what I needed to ask her. "What smashers we have to fight, their abilities, her brother, Galeem, what he can do"

As I kept listing my questions, I felt my eyelids become heavy and soon, I drifted off to sleep.

The next day, we began to continue our journey after a quick breakfast and Crazy packing the camp into leaves (I still don't get how those work). After about 5 minutes, we stopped.

"Here's our next stop," she said.

We stood in front of some ruins, it looked like a pavilion with pillars circling around it. Blocking the entrance in front of us was another statue like the one that had Kirby. I walked forward to take a look at the nameplate.

Smasher No. 1
Mario

"Mario? He's the one who inspired the tournament and the original of the one we fought yesterday, right?" I asked Crazy.

"Yep. He's a well-balanced fighter but you should do alright. Since only one person can fight to awaken a smasher," She pulled out another leaf that turned into a lawn chair and sat, "I'm just going to wait here for you."

I tapped on the nameplate, causing it to glow. Around me, a bright green light rose from the ground as the statue began to glow and crack. Once the arena was finished, I stood facing off against Mario. Unlike the puppet fighter from yesterday, he had blue overalls on and his shirt and hat were red. Like the puppet fighter and when I fought Kirby, his eyes were glowing a murderous red.

"Let's go!" I shouted, rushing at Mario. He began running at me as well and right before we collided, he went into a baseball slide, tripping me. I shot to my feet, trying to swing at him but Mario pulled something from behind him and I was suddenly facing the other way.

"What?" I turned to face him again but Mario did the same trick again. "Stop doing that!"

"That's Mario's Cape," Crazy called to me, wearing sunglasses and holding a tanning mirror. "It can be used to reflect projectiles and turn enemies around."

"For how you acted last night, you sure aren't worried about me getting killed right now!" I was sent flying after Mario turned me around with his cape again.

"You're not in complete mortal danger yet! Besides, I can't always help you with fighting!"

I am going to get her back for this. I jumped over Mario as he tried to do another slide attack on me. When I landed, I immediately charged up another slash and let it go after a second. The blade lengthened enough to barely knock Mario back slightly. I ran forward as he slid back and swung at him again, knocking him back further.

"Shoot! I knocked him too far away. I can't reach him without charging but I need to keep up the pressure!" I thought. A solution struck me. I threw my sword as hard as I could at Mario. It bounced off his head and I dashed forward, catching the handle before it hit the ground and grabbing Mario's collar in the same moment. After striking Mario in the head again a few times with the butt of the handle, I slammed him on the ground and kicked him away.

While flying through the air, Mario righted himself and began shooting a couple of fireballs at me. I knocked them away with the flat of my blade as I ran, trying to get to where Mario was going to land. The fireballs slowed me down enough that Mario landed without an issue and he pulled out some kind of machine on his back. I faltered as I was trying to figure out what it did but I got the answer in the form of a mouthful of water. I got pushed from the machine shooting water at me before I noticed Mario glowing with a rainbow aura.

"He can do a Final Smash?" I leapt back. "This is bad. I don't know what his Final Smash is."

"He shoots a giant fireball!" Crazy shouted, sounding a bit panicked. She was standing at the edge of the barrier, her chair turned over as if she leapt out of it.

"What?" I turned to face her, which turned out to be a very bad idea.

"OH YEAH!" Mario shouted as his hands burst into flames. He slammed them together and shot out a pair of corkscrewing giant fireball that hit me dead on. Thankfully, like the fight with Kirby, the fire didn't actually set me on fire. However, I was sent flying back into the wall by the Final Smash.

"This isn't as bad as when Jigglypuff did Rest on me," I thought as I got back on my feet. Then I noticed something that put a smile on my face, my Final Smash was ready. I ran at Mario so I could use it but he kept jumping back and shot more fireballs at me which I knocked away with my sword.

"So he knows to stay out of my sword range," I thought carefully for how to get close enough to use my Final Smash. Then, I realized the answer was the same as before.

I dashed forward, dodging a few more fireballs. Once I judged that I won't miss, I threw my sword at Mario again, aiming for his head. He was prepared for the throw this time, pulling out his cape and swiped it at the sword, sending it back at me. Just like before, I caught the handle of the sword while it was in midair and I was close enough to Mario to let loose my Final Smash.

"Breaking Buster Big Blow!" I jumped, readying my blade as it grew bigger and bigger before slamming it straight down on Mario. Apparently, that was enough as the wall went down and Mario's amiibo landed on the ground, next to a brown bag?

"What's this?" I picked it up and took a peek. Inside was, gold coins with a cross insignia on them.

"Yahoo! I'm rich!" I started jumping for joy, until Crazy grabbed the bag from my hand.

"Are you joking? This is only about 200 Smash Coins," Crazy said. I kept a blank look on my face as she elaborated, "200 Smash Coins isn't that much, it's about 2 dollars in your world."

"I have no idea how the currency in my world works but I'm just gonna assume I'm not rich."

"No."

"Dream killer," I muttered under my breath as I went to pick up Mario's amiibo. Mario's amiibo looked like he was ready to fight, with a trail of fire coming from his hand as he stood in a fighting pose. As I looked at Mario, another memory came back to me.

I was at my uncle's house for Thanksgiving, which we did every year. I was pretty young, maybe 3 or 4. My sister was still crawling and I actually got along with my brother so that age range seems appropriate. My oldest cousin hadn't been born yet because my aunt looked about 6 months pregnant. My parents were watching football with my grandparents in the living room downstairs. Meanwhile, I was upstairs playing with my siblings.

My uncle came upstairs to check on us. My mom had two brothers but he was the only one to have gotten married. He had an intelligent look, clean-shaven with glasses and hair swept to the side.

"How are you kids doing?" He asked. My sister babbled something out while my brother and I responded with positives as we played Pokemon on our Gameboys. "Would you like to play a new game?"

"Yeah!" My brother cried out. I followed his response with the same reaction and my sister tried copying us.

My uncle walked over to the T.V. and went into the cabinet next to it. I was excited. I knew that was where he kept the games for the Gamecube like The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker and Super Mario Sunshine. Admittedly, those were the only two games that I played on the Gamecube but that was soon to change.

"Okay, here it is. Just don't tell your parents," my uncle put a disk into the system and turned on the T.V. The game loaded and announced the title of the game we were looking forward to play.

"Super Smash Brothers! Melee!" It was glorious. We played as all different kinds of characters. My brother mostly chose Pikachu, my uncle mostly played as Mario, and I loved playing as Kirby.

That was the first time I played a Smash Bros. game.

Several other memories flashed through my mind and with them, I felt more complete.

"Aren't you supposed to be a giant floating glove?" I asked Crazy.

"What?"

"Yeah. In the games, you were a big, white, floating glove that was insane," I elaborated, wiggling my left fingers. "You'd show up with Master Hand in Classic Mode."

"It's complicated," she responded, walking off.

"Then can't you un-complicate it?" I called out, moving to follow her when I got knocked off my feet by a blow to my side. I looked at what hit me while I was still on the ground and saw a giant robot.

"R.O.B.?" I questioned. I was familiar enough with R.O.B. to know that it normally wasn't so big, towering at about twice my height and the arms were a dark gray instead of their normal red. "Crazy!"

R.O.B. began to dash at me when an explosion blew up on his left arm. Unflinchingly, it kept charging at me and spun it's arms around as I rolled out of the way.

"We're fighting R.O.B.-" Crazy was behind me, trying to explain what R.O.B. can do before I gestured to stop.

"I remember most of what the Smashers can do. It came with the memory I just got. Oh yeah," I turned to point an accusing finger at Crazy. "You will tell me about that complicated issue someday."

I looked back at R.O.B. in time to see him charging something between its arms before shooting it at us. A top. I moved to the right while Crazy dodged to the left. Then, I noticed something strange.

R.O.B. had a light on its that indicates the charge of R.O.B.'s laser which charges over time. Right now, it was at a full glow, indicating a full charge. The problem is that it was too soon for it to be at maximum charge.

R.O.B. locked eyes with me before blasting out a colorful laser from his eyes. I ducked behind a pillar before peeking my head out. Fully charged again. This is bad.

"Crazy! His laser charges up immediately!" I cried from behind the pillar as R.O.B. began a barrage of lasers on my hiding spot. I also heard a series of explosions that seemed to come from where R.O.B. was sniping at me but I didn't feel like getting shot.

"He's barely flinching from my shots!" That was Crazy's voice. So, the puppet fighter is only paying attention to me? The explosions must be from her gun but that means she isn't under siege like I am. I sat down cross-legged and began drawing in the dirt with the butt of my sword.

"So, I'm here," I drew a circle with a stick man on one side, "and R.O.B. is over here." I drew a square on the opposite side of the circle. I didn't know where Crazy was so I couldn't draw her in the diagram. "If I want to attack, I need to be close enough to use my sword. But, R.O.B. is able to just pelt me with lasers so I'm at a disadvantage. The answer is simple though. I just need to close the distance between us."

My ears began to pick up something. R.O.B. wasn't shooting lasers constantly. There was a few seconds in between each shot. I thought back to R.O.B.'s animation in the game. Before each laser, R.O.B. would cock his head back then push it forward to shoot. If this R.O.B. was doing the same, that would explain the delay between the lasers I was hearing. A plan flashed through my mind.

I turned to face the column that I was hiding behind. The column looked to be in good condition on this side but I quickly amended that, making several small depressions running up to the top with my sword. Using those as footholds, I began to climb up, using my sword to make more footholds as I climbed.

"Good thing I'm not afraid of heights," I muttered, pausing right before the top. I could have put a little more thought in the climbing part of my plan as the pillar was connected to an overhang. The edge of the overhang was in reach but that would mean I would have to grab it, then swing my feet to try and get on top of it. "Wait."

I stabbed the pillar with my sword to use as a platform so I could have an easier time to get on top. Once I had gotten on top, I peeked over the slight incline to check on R.O.B. It was still shooting at where I was hiding. Crazy was some distance behind it, shooting from behind a different pillar.

"Well, no time like the present," I told myself, preparing to jump and start attacking R.O.B.

"You can't do it. Even if you get up close, nothing is going to stop R.O.B. from moving out of your range and with how fast the laser charges, it'll get at least five hits off at least," a little voice in the back of my head told me, rather cynically I might add too. I took the chance to look at the area around the robot. It stood in the middle of the pavilion with no obstacles surrounding it until the pillars. If R.O.B. dodges before I could get a hit on it, R.O.B. will be able to get some hits on me as I ran for cover plus, it would be aware of the trick that I'm going to pull.

"Then, I just have to end it with one hit," I shot back at the voice. "I may not have my Final Smash but Crazy has been shooting at it. It should be weak enough."

With that, I leapt off the overhang and rolled into a sprint in between the lasers. As soon as I got close enough, I jumped, aiming for R.O.B.'s head. The eyes glowed for a second but I landed on top before it could fire the laser. Holding my beam sword in a reverse grip, I stabbed straight down, right through R.O.B.'s lightbulb. Slowly, I felt R.O.B. die down.

"Is it dead? Did I kill it?" I asked out loud. My questions were quickly answered when the robot vanished into smoke and I fell.

"Ow!"

"Are you alright?" Crazy walked from where she was hiding and began to put the spirit into her tablet-thingy.

"Isn't that a Nintendo Switch?" I asked, checking my body for bruises.

"Yep. How much do you actually remember?" She finished with the spirit and picked the sack of money that the puppet fighter dropped.

¨Um," I put my hand to my forehead, trying to recall, ¨I remember some old memories, some Nintendo consoles, that one time in 9th grade where I was doing a presentation and completely botched it, and some fighters.¨

¨Which ones?¨ Crazy was inspecting something else that R.O.B. had dropped but I wasn't paying too much attention to it.

¨Mario, Kirby, R.O.B., Snake, Pac-man, Pikachu, Megaman,¨ I listed off before pausing, "There was also something about a guy named Shrek?"

"Who's Shrek?"

"Dunno, I just remembered something about him being in Smash?" I turned to Crazy, "What's that?"

"It's a Staff," Crazy held it up for me to look. It was about 3 and a half feet long, with what looked like quill tip at the end. On the other end looked like a yellow plume and a white ribbon wrapped around the main part of the staff.

Crazy somehow managed to put all of it in her bag before tossing something at me. It was her Steel Diver. "Since I now have the Staff, you could get some use out of a ranged weapon. Keep it."

Item Acquired:
Steel Diver

"Giving you a gun is a very bad idea," the cynical voice in my head whispered.

Ignoring the jerk, I asked Crazy, "Where to next?"

Save File 2: Saved

Party: Nathaniel, Crazy Hand

Items: Beam Sword, Steel Diver, Staff (Crazy)

Smashers: Mario, Kirby

Author's Theater:

Nathaniel: Hey everyone! This time, Crazy and I will be covering updates since MG is, well.

MG: *runs by screaming*

Crazy: Yeah. Anyway, some of the previous chapters have had some minor changes. Specifically, just fixing a typo but overall, nothing too major.

Nathaniel: *looks over list* He really is a moron, he missed a period here. Then, he completely skipped a word in this paragraph. Also, titles got added. Since, there isn't a winter special or anything,

C & N: Happy Holidays! The next chapter is in development!