Author's Note: Man, why didn't I do this earlier.

Gfish59: Clarence is an OC. Sorry for not making that clear.

Elysium: Yeah, I could see where you're coming from. I'm not too sure if I did a decent job of explaining a bit more this chapter but advice on how I could improve would always be helpful.

Guest: Thank you.

Disclaimer: I don't own Super Smash Bros. and/or any characters that'll show up in this fic. I only own Nathaniel, Oblivion, and Clarence.

Chapter 15: Rock n' Roll

"Nathaniel!" I jumped awake, turning to look for Crazy. She stood across from me, hands on her hips.

"Did something explode?" I asked, slightly worried.

"No," she sighed. "Clarence left before I woke up." I looked over to where he was sitting last night. The blanket was folded neatly next to the rock. "I guess you couldn't convince him."

"No." I got up and began to help pack up camp. "Why do you want him to join us anyway? We hardly know anything about him."

Crazy turned to stare, "You really weren't paying attention that much last night?"

"Nope."

"Clarence is from an Origin World, like you. His world is divided into 12 kingdoms. His is the kingdom of Laoth. Recently, the royal family of Amuria, a different kingdom, was overthrown by a guy named Garett who wants to unite all the kingdoms."

"What's so bad about that? Every country goes through a revolution at some point or another," I paused, trying to pick an example. "I think at least 5 countries in my world had some."

"The guy wants to unite them through force. From what Clarence told me, Garett has already conquered two other kingdoms and Laoth was being invaded when Clarence left."

"Okay. And?" I questioned as I put the sleeping bag away. "If he had any confidence in his kingdom, then they'll fight off the invasion fine. If they don't, that's just how the cookie crumbles."

"I asked him about that," Crazy said, "I think he's in love with the princess."

"How'd you know that?"

She paused, "He got that look people have when they talk about people they like."

"Dis-gusting."

Crazy just gave me a look at my stance on love before continuing, "Anyway, it's probable she'll be put to death if Laoth gets taken over."

"Why is he just a stereotypical brave hero that falls in love with the princess?" I turned to the sky before yelling, "C'mon life! Throw a curveball or something!"

"Don't be rude," Crazy admonished. "If we meet him again, you could drag more details out of him about his life."

We finished packing up camp before heading south. A thought popped into my mind. "How did Clarence get here? He told me that he was here because of Master Hand but that's more of a why. I don't get how."

She huffed. "Most likely, magic. My brother would have had a plan in case him and everyone else has been taken out. My guess is that it's a spell with a time delay. If a certain amount of time passes without him or one of the Smashers active, it would summon someone from an Origin World to help."

"Couldn't you have used that to convince Clarence?" I questioned. "Galeem has M.H. so if we defeat him, M.H. could send Clarence home."

Crazy stopped, "Excuse me for a moment please."

She ran to behind some rocks before I heard her screaming. A lot. Lots of cursing too. A lot of cursing. Some of it was even in languages I couldn't understand but the meaning was clear. I'm not putting any here because it would take up a lot of pages.

Crazy finally came out after an hour. "Right, so what were we talking about?"

"WHAT?" I yelled, "MY EARS ARE STILL RINGING!"

She clamped her hand over my mouth, "Stop screaming. Please."

"Oh right. Question. Do you think I'm here because of your brother's magic?"

We continued on south. "No. You lost your memories but Clarence didn't so unless the spell was damaged somehow, you came here through a different method."

"I'm hurt," Oblivion complained. "I'm the reason you're here but you're asking if you're here because of a giant hand."

"Sorry," I whispered.

The sound of rushing water broke my thoughts and I turned to find the source. It was a waterfall. Crazy and I walked closer to the waterfall and I began to check it out. The water flowed past several ledges and formed a river at the base which moved south past what looked like an old shack. There was a small island in the middle of the river which was large enough to cross to the other side. Looking, back up to check the ledges, I saw a Smasher Statue.

"Crazy! Look up there!" I turned to point out the statue, only to shriek. Before me stood the demon. Jigglypuff.

It dashed towards me and I rolled to the side, dodging a tackle. Jigglypuff lunged with a Pound and I jumped over the pink ball, kicking Jigglypuff away with the back of my foot. Spinning on a foot, I whipped out the Steel Diver and fired. The torpedo landed and the pink puffball blew up. The smoke cleared to reveal, nothing.

"The monster actually went down faster than before," I muttered. "Also, where's the spirit?"

My answer struck me in the head. I'm pretty sure you know what it is but another Jigglypuff hit me in the head with a Rollout. I got knocked to the side and I rolled to my feet, staring down the new Jigglypuff and the other one that came up from behind it and another one that, wait.

"One, two, three." I counted under my breath. "Oh no. I already had enough pink in my life already. Stay away you demons!"

I whacked one away as it floated towards me, only for another Jigglypuff to slam into my stomach with another Rollout. I bent over in pain and the Jigglypuff smacked me away with a Pound to my head. Recoiling from the hit, I yelled at the puffballs, "Stop doing Rollouts!"

I think the enemy actually listened to me, but they instead tried to use Sing on me. Backflipping away, I blasted them away with several shots from my Steel Diver. As they ran back to fight me, I swapped the gun out for Death's Scythe. Running to meet them, I hooked one of the Jigglypuffs with the blade and threw it at one before swinging at the third.

Giving the scythe a spin, I threw the weapon at the two that collided into each other. The blade easily cut through the two fighters, reducing them into nothing. I heard footsteps run up behind me and I spun, pulling out the Beam Sword and cut through the last Jigglypuff that tried to ambush me.

"That was still a bit too easy," I wondered.

"How much do you ignore?" I turned to find Crazy glaring at me. "I just fought Donkey Kong while you were distracted."

"Sorry. Where's the spirit anyway?" I asked.

She pointed her thumb over her shoulder at the shack. "Same thing as Anna. Let's not keep Darunia waiting."

"Sweet! Let's go buy stuff!" I moved to start running when Crazy used the scythe I threw to stop me.

"First off, don't forget your stuff please. Second, Darunia doesn't sell stuff," She tossed the scythe to me before starting to walk over to the shack. "Instead, he teaches the Boulder Style."

"You're kidding, right?"

I sighed, "What I'm getting from this is that I don't get a Killing Edge."

"Nope!" The living boulder of muscle and beard in front of us cheerfully answered. The shack's interior looked more like a dojo instead of shed. The Goron turned to Crazy, arms outstretched, "It's good to see you again sister!"

Crazy stepped back from the hug, "It's good to see you too Darunia. I think I can go without a hug."

"All right then!" Darunia turned his attention to me. "Who would this guy be?"

"I'm Nathaniel," I answered, slightly intimated. I extended my hand, "Nice to meet you."

"Nathaniel? You need to be a little boulder when introducing yourself!" He grabbed my hand, almost breaking it, before almost ripping my arm off from his violent shakes. "I take it that you're a friend of the Hands?"

"I guess so," I managed to get out before Darunia released my hand. "I haven't met M.H. yet, only Crazy so far."

"Crazy Hand," Darunia's face became serious as he turned back to Crazy, "What is happening? Did Ganondorf conquer the world?"

She cleared her throat a little before answering, "Unfortunately, I would prefer that over what's happening now. We have a new enemy named Galeem. To make a long story short, it's just us two fighting him. I need you to teach Nathaniel some of the Boulder Style."

Darunia began to look me over after hearing her answer, "Are you sure? This guy is not exactly too impressive."

"Oh sure, talk about me like I'm not here." Crossing my arms, I tried to stare down Darunia. Kinda hard since he's taller than me. "Do you want to fight me?"

"I'd probably break all bones if we did so no," Darunia calmly replied. He turned to Crazy, "I'll teach him some moves. Is there any other guys that you want me to coach too?"

"I tried getting one other guy to join us but he left," she explained. Crazy walked over to the wall before sitting down, "Wake me up when you guys are done!"

"What?" I got pulled to the middle of the dojo by Darunia who turned to me.

"Alright Nathaniel! Lemme tell you what the Boulder Style focuses on! The style emphasizes movement and strong defense! To start, show me what you can do!"

"Didn't you just say you could break all my bones?" I began to take several steps back. "Please don't break my bones, I need them for stuff."

He sighed, "We're not going to fight. How about, just give me a minute." The Goron rolled over to a closet in the back wall before coming back to where I was with what looked like a punching bag. "Here. Attack this Sandbag. I can't teach you the Boulder Style unless I know what you can do."

"So, no bone breaking."

"No bone breaking unless you keep questioning me."

With that, I leapt into action, attacking the Sandbag with my Beam Sword. For several minutes, the sound of me hitting the Sandbag echoed throughout the Dojo. Darunia said nothing throughout that period of time, only to yell at me to focus when my attention drifted. Finally, Darunia shouted, "Stop!"

I stepped back from the Sandbag, chest heaving. The Sandbag still looked to be in good condition, my sword not tearing at the exterior or making the bag burst.

"You move like you have rocks for feet," Darunia commented, putting the Sandbag back into the closet.

"I take it that's not a compliment."

"Nope. You need to be a bit quicker. Also, be prepared to shield after each attack."

"Wait," I paused. "What do you mean by shield?"

"Crazy didn't tell you about shielding?" Darunia asked, turning to me. Upon seeing my blank face, he gave Crazy a look before explaining. "Combat could be summed up into three actions you could do. There is attack, grab and shield. From viewing it in the Boulder Style way, shield is the most important out of the three."

"How do I shield?" I asked. "I think I saw a Puppet Fighter do it before but I'm not too sure how to do it myself."

"First, shut your eyes and focus your attention inward." I did as the Goron instructed. "Now, take up a defensive stance." Adjusting my feet's position, I crossed my arms in front of my body. "Next, imagine something like a shield covering your entire body."

Following the instructions, I imagined shields covering my body like a bubble. I felt nothing happen. Slowly, I peeked an eye open. "Nothing happened."

"That's because you did it wrong, Granted, my instructions could have been better but let's try again. Imagine a ball of energy inside of you and use that to create a bubble around you."

"Alright, focus time Nathaniel," I thought to myself.

"You need any help?" Oblivion asked.

"No, I got it," I mumbled, trying to shield again. Naturally, it doesn't work. "Fudge. Just give me minute to get it."

I closed my eyes and took a breath. "No, you're supposed to take deeper breath."

"Can't you just let me do my own thing?"

"No. Keep your eyes closed by the way."

I groaned, trying to recompose myself. "Eyes shut, deep breath aaaaaaaaand, focus." My arms shot up and I imagined the bubble popping up around me. Slowly, I cracked open an eye to see a red bubble encasing me.

"Finally!" Darunia announced. "I thought it would take you a while longer to get it!"

"Thanks for the vote of confidence." Dropping my arms, the bubble vanished.

"Now that we're past step one, let's get to work." Darunia pulled out a giant hammer. "Alright, put it up again."

"No, don't break my bones. Please!" I begged, stepping back.

"For the third time, I am not going to break your bones." Darunia swung the hammer over his shoulder. "I was going to do a demonstration but I guess I'll explain so you stop screaming. The shield shrinks over time and once it pops, you'll become stunned for several seconds. The shield also shrinks in response to getting shrunk."

Hefting the hammer, "If the shield gets hit by a strong enough attack, that'll also break it."

"So, I just have to be careful with what I shield against," I slowly said, working out the possibilities of how to use shields in fights.

"Yep! In this dojo, we strengthen you like bone! I keep breaking your shield to help strengthen it!"

"You just had to pick that metaphor, didn't you?" I muttered. "Although, how does the shield strengthening work?"

"I'm not too sure of the logistics but the Hands put a magic on dojos that helps to strengthen you upon filling certain conditions." Dropping the hammer onto the ground, Darunia roared, "Here, it's getting your shield broken! That'll help imbed the Boulder Style into you!"

"Alright, let's rock!" I threw up a shield as Darunia swung at me.

Save File 2: Saved

Party: Nathaniel, Oblivion(?), Crazy

Items: Nathaniel- Beam Sword, Steel Diver, Death's Scythe

Crazy Hand- Staff, Deku Nuts x2, Green Shell

Smashers: Mario, Link, Kirby, Captain Falcon, Peach, Bowser, Lucario, Villager

Author's Note:

I have something to ask you, the reader. At this point, I should have a poll up on my profile asking for which name I should use for Joker. Answering would help me a lot! Thanks for reading and see you next chapter!