A Walk Among Giants, Chapter 47: Trouble Brewing.
Alright folks, welcome back! Strap yourselves in because you're in for a wild ride!
A series of fortunate thanks to:
UltimateCCC: A dynamic duo such as them will always figure it out, they can't stay apart for long. Yeah Samus has her ways, and Samus has her days.
"And here's your tea, need anything else?" Pittoo asked, but she simply shook her head.
"No thank you" she calmly replied before she blew on the tea and took a small sip.
"Again I'm sorry for what happened earlier, wasn't expecting it to get so hectic…" He said while rubbing his arm slowly with an apologetic look.
"Water under the bridge," she says while turning to look next to her bed. There was a brand new golden case with her name embedded with blue gems for her sword. Of course it was bought with all their winnings since they had lots of extra cash now, and she made the decision that he didn't deserve nice things.
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The next morning she awoke suddenly in a dase, she didn't even remember laying down the previous night. Yet she was already well rested, worst yet it seems she missed her alarm as well. She quickly hops out of bed to get ready for the day, Dark Pit had gone already and like always didn't bother to wake her. "Why do I even bother asking him to wake me…" She groaned lamely, lately she seemed to have been over sleeping. She wouldn't complain much except for the fact she often would miss any and all planned activities in the morning. Right then the dark angel slowly enters the room, as if he deliberately was trying to keep from waking her. "You were already up and didn't wake me, again!" She says while crossing her arms.
"Oh uh, I just figured it was better if you slept in, I mean it was a very long day yesterday after all." He replied sheepishly.
"Well this is just ridiculous, look, the morning is practically over now!" She states while showing him her alarm with the time on it. "You seemed to have been up for hours judging by that stain on your shirt that dried up now." She points out while shaking her head.
"Right, that's what I was here for, thanks for reminding me!" He says with a snap of his fingers before rummaging through his closet.
*later that night*
"Once again sorry about this morning, here's your tea." he says, handing her the small teacup.
"Here's what I don't get, if you don't want to bother waking me why do you shut off my alarm?" She says before taking a small sip of her drink.
"I hate the noise it makes" he states simply with a shrug.
"You're not even around when it goes off!" She protests.
"Oh you just reminded me, we're out of tea, I'll go buy some more tomorrow." He says completely ignoring her and tossing his shoes aside. He jumps into bed and turns his back to her. "Now no more talking, I'm tired," he says before shutting off his lamp. She growls under her breath and quickly finishes her tea before getting into bed.
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The next morning she once again awakens in a slight daze, she picks up her head and sees that it's almost noon now. She buried her face into her pillow and let out a long drawn out groan. The door opens and in steps Dark Pit picks his teeth with a toothpick. She threw her alarm at him but he quickly ducks and it smashes against the wall.
"Again! You did it again! Why? WHY!?" She says angrily scrambling out of bed.
"Woah calm down, why are you getting mad?" He replied with a puzzled look.
"You know why!" She fired back.
"You're getting mad at me because I'm making sure you're always well rested?" He says while crossing her arms and giving her a look. "Man, talk about ungrateful, I do something nice for once and you take it the wrong way. You used to always be half asleep and tired until now, now you are always full of energy and more productive thanks to my efforts, and you're mad at me?" He adds while slowly shaking his head.
"No that's not it, it's that, that…"
"That?" He asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Why?"
"Why not?"
*later that night*
Here you're gonna love this new flavor, apple cinnamon, it's like drinking an apple pie!" He says while handing her the little cup.
"Just set it down on my stand" she says while scrolling through her phone.
"Ok, just dont forget about it, it'll be a real shame if it goes to waste." He says before he jumps into his bed. This time she had the upper hand on him. She set an alarm on her phone which thanks to months of reading manuals and guides courtesy of the tacticians, let her understand the contraption more. Like setting an alarm on her phone, and more importantly a password, so he won't be able to access her phone and shut it off. This time she had him, she sets it down after setting her alarm and takes a sip of her tea. She was surprised by it, it indeed was like drinking an apple pie.
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She awoke again in an instant and shot up in bed, "NO!" she shouts and turns around, she finds her phone sitting on the nightstand… With the battery taken out. "NOO!" She shouts again before throwing herself back into bed, the bastard was five steps ahead of her apparently.
He walks in shortly after wearing a stained bib which he tosses aside when he spots her.
"Why? Just why?" She groans.
"Why not?" He replies with a simple shrug before burping into his hand. He then walks over and starts rummaging through his closet. "You'll thank me eventually Blue, just you wait" he says with a smirk.
*later*
She had to admit though she was way more energized than the previous days or even months, as she rounded the corner she bumps into Raven carrying a stack of books and papers that go flying everywhere. "Oh gods, Raven, I'm so sorry!" She blurts out and begins helping the tactician gather her things.
"Oh it's quite alright, I shouldn't have been in such a rush, it's just lately I've been oversleeping and I am behind in my work." She says with a frustrated sigh.
"Doesn't Shulk wake you up?" She asks while scooping up more of the mess of papers.
"That's the weird part, lately he's been letting me sleep in, saying something along the lines that I deserve a break from all the running around i'm constantly doing." Raven explained with another sigh, "I really wish he wouldn't though, but he seems to always make sure I do." She adds making Lucina stop in her tracks for a moment as that sounded eerily familiar. Something didn't add up though even without alarms their internal clocks should be set to wake them early in the morning anyway since that's what they're accustomed too. And then it hit her, there was one thing that became a new and sudden occurrence that she's overlooked for weeks now.
"Say Raven quick question?" She says while the tactician looks up at her.
"Hmm?" She hums in response.
"Has Shulk been giving you tea before bed, you know the tea that supposedly helps you sleep better?" She asked while the tactician looked at her confused.
"Yes, why? And how do you know about that?" She replies, making Lucina drop the books in her hands. She has just stumbled into some sort of conspiracy she's been overlooking for a while now. Then she remembered a talk she had with Raven previously, where the tactician claimed she was getting the best rest of her life recently as well as she had. And she had completely overlooked it because it hadn't started to bother her yet. "I need to go" she mumbled and quickly walked off.
"Huh? But…" Raven says while looking at the books and papers sprawled on the floor. "What's with her?" Raven says to herself before she goes back to picking up the mess.
Lucina quickly rushed down the halls before she burst through the door of their room. She walked to the back where there was a small cupboard and she swung it open and started rummaging through it. Then she found it, the tea. She took the little box out and looked it over but it was just tea, there was no indication that it had any medicinal purposes relating to sleep. She placed it back in the cupboard and paced around while racing through her mind. Something was definitely up, but as to what she wasn't sure, it seemed that Dark Pit didn't want her finding out.
*later that night*
Dark Pit walks into the room while texting on his phone, (I can't wait!) He texts before pocketing his phone. He looks up and sees Lucina sitting in her bed with a cup of tea in her hand. "Oh hello Dark Pit welcome back," she greets casually.
"You made tea?" He says pointing at her cup.
"Yeah, I didn't wanna be a bother and have you making it for me all the time." She replies with a shrug.
"Nah it's alright I enjoy doing it you don't have to worry." He waved her off casually.
"No I insist" she says while he looked I thought for a moment.
"Ah but you don't know about the secret ingredient to make your tea better do you?" He says while crossing his arms.
"I KNEW IT!" She exclaimed internally. "Secret ingredient?" She asks while he smirks.
"Yeah here, I'll add it if you want," he says but she waved him off.
"Maybe tomorrow, I wouldn't want to ruin your special tea with so much consistency." She says.
"Nonsense it's impossible to do with how good it is." He assured her but shrugged him off.
"No really I'm fine," she says and before he could protest further she gulped it down in one go.
"Alright weirdo" he says shrugging and then heading off to bed.
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Her eyes snapped wide open, it happened regardless, she still slept through the whole night and into the late morning. "DRAT!" She exclaimed and slammed her fists onto the bed in frustration. "How?" She asked herself, he didn't get to put his special ingredient into it, she made sure of it. It was simply tea and sugar… "The sugar!" That's how he was doing it, the sugar was laced with whatever it was he was giving her. It was time to put an end to this and find out what was happening around here. She quickly gets out of bed and heads over to the cupboard and takes out a little jar with sugar. She takes a spoonful and eats it regardless of what its effects would be she had to know. She sat on her bed for a solid minute but nothing happened, and as more time flew by she became more and more frustrated. She growled to herself before walking off, changing out of her pajamas and heading downstairs.
The cafeteria was lively, nobody was drowsy and they all looked so full of energy. Lucina grabbed her food and sat with the other ladies but spaced out while going through her thoughts.
"Lucy?" She hears and snaps out of her thoughts.
"Huh?" She asked while looking around.
"Will you?" Peach asked.
"Uh, let me think about it," Lucina says nonchalantly.
"What's there to think about? you're either in or out." Peach says, puzzling the swordswoman further, she had no idea what she got herself into.
"I'm… In?" She replied slowly while nervously looking around.
"Ok then that's everybody!" Peach says while excitedly clapping her hands.
"Oh gods… What did I just do!?" Lucina groaned mentally.
"Then it's settled, Peach and I will handle the arrangements as well as Master Hand," Zelda adds.
"Samus and I will handle herding the others," Rosalina says.
"Snow and I will handle the grouping arrangements," Palutena spoke up next.
"I guess that leaves Lucina and I to handle the itinerary," Raven shrugged while patting the bluenette on the shoulder.
"For what?" Lucina asked herself again, until one thing completely caught her off. "We're out of tea…" She heard it clear as day, Rosalina whispering to the goddess.
"Oh, have you tried the peaches and cream? That one is my favorite personally!" Peach chimes into their conversation.
"It's ok but I personally preferred the chamomile tea," Snow says.
"What is happening!?" Lucina exclaimed mentally, they all started in about tea, and the one thing it all led to was them saying they've been more relaxed and well rested.
"You okay?" Raven nudges the bluenette who was staring blankly into space.
"I'm fine, why do you ask?" Lucina quickly replies.
"Well for one, you look like you just saw a ghost," The tactician replied.
"I think I'm going crazy…" Lucina whispered more so to herself than anyone.
"Pfft, join the club." Raven waved her off before she stood up and left for the day. As more and more smashers exited the cafeteria she glanced towards the back. Particularly the villains table, oddly there was a small gathering there that made no sense. Mario, Link, Pit, Ike, Roy, Ganon, Bowser, Toon Link, Fox, Falco and lastly the dark angel himself. They were all huddled around the table talking in hushed voices while pointing at one another. Just like the ladies had done prior it seems they were making big plans of their own. Then she saw something that made her mind start racing with conspiracies, tea. They were all being handed boxes of tea from a large duffle bag courtesy of Roy.
She wasn't crazy, and this proved it, Dark Pit was part of some conspiracy she was sure of now. And whatever it was it all revolved around that tea everyone suddenly started drinking. It was the perfect plan, if everyone in the mansion was out cold they could do whatever they wished more importantly wherever they wished. It couldn't be to secretly take over the mansion, with Mario and Link there and the others, so why were Ganon and Bowser involved?
She was so lost in thought she didn't realize she had been staring for a little too long. They all go quiet and glance back at her every so often while whispering. Dark Pit then steps out from the crowd and smiles at her while waving, but his eyes told another story. Like he was saying "what are you doing?" Or "stop what you're doing!" Either way she stood up and awkwardly left the room.
"This meeting is adjourned, we're too exposed here." Roy claps his hands together while they all nod at one another.
"We'll-a all convene at-a the same location and-a the same time-a," Mario says before tipping his hat and heading off.
Dark Pit shrugs and follows the rest of them out of the cafeteria through the back door. However once everyone was gone Roy turned around and snapped his fingers, "Ganon!" He says before the large Gerudo pins the dark angel to the wall.
"What the hell!?" He exclaimed in surprise.
"Have you been compromised?" Ganon asked sternly.
"What? No! How would I have been compromised?" Dark Pit blurts out.
"Idk maybe the fact that your partner was eavesdropping on us all morning, not to mention she's been questioning you more and more lately." Roy says while crossing his arms.
"Wha- how did-"
"You think we wouldn't notice?" Ganon scoffed at him.
"I have it all under control, trust me" he replied firmly.
"Be sure of it, we gave you the gift and we can just as easily take it away too!" Roy warns.
"I won't let anything happen, I need this, you have no idea!" Dark Pit assured them. Roy thought for a moment before he nodded towards the gerudo who let go of the dark angel.
"Good, we've come too far now to let a little slip up mess up our whole operation." Roy says before he and the large gerudo walk away.
"Dammit Blue…" he groans to himself.
*later*
Dark Pit walks into the room completely drained from the long day he had. Since the tournament has gotten more crazy since the end was announced smashers have been going HAM on all training and or matches to secure their top spots. Lucina was sitting on her bed calmly sipping on a cup of tea. "Where'd you get that from?" He asked while holding up a box of his own.
"Well we were out and Raven just so happened to have extra," she lied, as she actually went out and bought it herself. This will prove that it was the tea that made her drowsy. Dark Pit just tossed his box aside and sat on his bed while giving her a strange look.
"I think I might have to cut you off if you're resorting to taking tea from others when we run out." He says while she gives him a puzzled look, "I'm not insinuating anything, but, I think you might have a slight problem." He shrugged. She placed the cup down and took a few seconds to formulate a reply.
"I don't have an addiction, I just figured it wasn't worth the trouble of you having to go out to the market and get a box every time we run out." She said nonchalant, at least he claimed that's what he did but after what she saw today she wanted to see if he slipped up.
"I guess…" He replied bluntly before laying down on his bed and turning to the wall. Little did he know however she had other plans that night beside getting some sleep. She turned off the lamp next to her bed and got under her covers. What he didn't know was she had just drank some coffee loaded with caffeine so there was no way she was sleeping anyhow.
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Two hours in he got up and she shut her eyes in case he turned on any lights. However he just went straight to the bathroom instead, nothing strange there. She slipped out of bed after a hunched feeling and went to go check his bed. He had a large dark hoodie sitting on it most likely to wear and sneak out and be harder to spot. She got spooked when she thought she heard a hiss behind her, but when she turned there was nothing there, Dark Pit was still in the bathroom indicated by the cracks of the door being lit up by the lights inside. However in the next second the lights switched off and she quickly darted back to bed and got under the covers.
He comes out shortly after while putting on one of his shoes. "Yes, I followed the instructions, you think this is the first time I've done this? It's been a while now and I haven't messed this up once." He says while talking on the phone with someone. "Yes I used a whole canister, what do you take me for? An amature!" He says with a scoff, and then reaches up and pulls something out of the vent right above her bed. He shook it around and then tossed it aside, "did you hear that? Yeah empty can!" He says. She managed to squint slightly to see what he was doing but careful as to not give herself away. "Trust me she isn't going anywhere, well not for a few long hours that is," he says while turning back to face her. There was a scowl on his face as whoever was on the other end was hassling him. "Fine, you want definite proof? I'll give you definite proof!" He says with a massive grin on his face.
He walks over to her bed and puts his butt near her face before letting a huge one rip. While also putting his phone near so the person on the side could hear. And hear he would, as it was loud. The unfortunate bluenette however had to completely and forcefully lock her body into place and also stopped herself from breathing in else risk gagging. "Yeah you heard that?" He says with a massive grin, "and you don't hear any complaining do you? If she was awake don't you think she would've been barking her head off right now?" Pittoo said with a snort and a look of amusement on his face. "Trust me under normal circumstances, nobody would sleep through that, how do I know? Cause I had a whole bowl of brussel sprouts for dinner, that's how!" He said while snickering loudly. "Alright see you losers soon," he says before hanging up and putting on his large hoodie and quickly heading out the door.
Once she was sure he was gone, indicated by the door locking from the outside she quickly shot out of bed coughing and gagging and running straight out onto the balcony. She was taking in huge breaths of fresh air while still gagging every so often. That boy definitely had more than just brussel sprouts, whatever it was definitely didn't agree with him as it smelled like he died from the inside. Once she was able to finally breathe in without gagging she walked back into the room looking around for the canister he discarded earlier. She took it into her hands and turned on the night lamp next to his bed, and to her horror it was sleeping gas. The tea was all a cover up to throw her off. But why? What was the point of it all, and is that what was happening everywhere else too? She opens the door to his closet and takes out a spare oversized black hoodie from his closet and puts it on to conceal herself. The only way to bust this whole conspiracy open was to follow him and figure it all out. She turns off the light and makes sure to take her ID with her and slips into the halls and peeks outside making sure it was clear before heading out and locking the door behind herself.
She had to be extra careful as if she was spotted by Pittoo it would all be over and everything would get too complicated to look into. However if she was spotted by any hall monitor or ROB patrolling it would end much worse as being out of the room after curfew never ended well. She hears voices down the hall and she carefully rushed towards the end of the hall. She peeks around the corner and see's Pittoo there next to the elevator with Ike oddly enough, in his own oversized hoodie. "Are you as excited as me for this?" Ike says while patting his stomach with a grin.
"Are you kidding, this is going to be our best night yet! Since they finally got those ribs we were promised!" Pittoo says while rubbing his hands together. "You already know I'm going to devour a whole plate of those by myself!" He says licking his lips in anticipation.
"Ey don't forget to leave room for some of that new flame grilled chicken!" Ike says while looking lost in thought with a hilarious look on his face.
When the elevator opened up, Shulk was in there with several others holding up two bibs with cartoon pieces of meat on them. Pittoo and Ike take them and cram themselves into the cramped elevator. "To the basement boys!" Shulk says pressing the button and they disappear from view.
Since she knew where they were heading she decided she needed to check something first. She makes her way to the stairs to avoid all the rowdy smashers making their way to the basement. She was careful though as there could still be one or two loose from the pack. And she was starting to get the suspicion there wasn't anyone guarding the halls. Otherwise they wouldn't be so noisy and rowdy making their way to the basement. She makes it to the floor below hers and makes it to the specific door she was looking for. The tactician actually gave Lucina the code to the keypad to access the room should there ever be an urgent matter, and Lucina figured this was as urgent as it got. Once she put in the pin the door beeped and the lock clicked open. She turns the knob slowly and peeks her head into the room, it is dead quiet. She spots the tactician on the bed completely motionless. She quickly rushes to her side and begins violently shaking the tactician by her shoulders.
"Raven! Raven! Raven!" Lucina exclaimed but there was no response, she then saw the air vent above the bed… She reached up and the vent lid easily came off, there she found the empty canister. "Its happening everywhere…" Lucina says to herself in disbelief, and from what she gathered it was all to eat meat. Which made as little sense to her as it could. She figured there had to be a way to wake her. She rushes to the bathroom and fills a cup with cold water and walks back to the tactician. She takes a deep breath and braced herself for a shocked awakening. She throws some of the cold water right on the tacticians face but ultimately got no reaction. She then found the only plausible thing and just slowly poured the whole cup on the tactician's face, and again nothing. She was completely soaked and was still sleeping without a care in the world. She tried pinching her arm a few times and still got nothing no matter how hard she tried. She then pinched her nose shut which would always work guaranteed, but after a solid two minutes of no reaction she gave up on that too. It was definitely lights out for the tactician, with a blown fuse no less so those lights weren't coming back on anytime soon. Not wanting to give up she crawls on top of the tactician before slapping her across the face. With how loud the sound was she was sure she had stirred but there was nothing.
Lucina groaned to herself and paced around the room trying to figure out what to do next. The only thing she had was to go down to the basement and confront them all for their shady actions. She makes her way down the stairs and stomps towards the basement, boy she had some words to exchange with them, especially Pittoo of all people. "The shipment is fresh gentlemen, help yourselves!" She hears before she peeks from the top of the stairs and sees Toon Link welcoming two smashers into the villains basement hideout.
"Don't Mind if we do good sir!" Sonic says while he ushered Mega-man in.
She slowly makes her way down and before the door closes she sees Pittoo with his arm around Pit and laughing to himself. In his hand true to his word was a plate piled high with ribs. This pushed her buttons, all the secrecy and weirdness was all so they could all gorge themselves. She figured Pittoo was past the immature actions, but this was just a new line he crossed. What was the point of it all, Peach put in restrictions in foods for a reason right. That part she didn't really care for was more so the Pittoo still doing these childish things. She storms right up to the door and did the unthinkable, she kicked the freaking door open. That immediately got everyone's attention, in the wrong way of course.
"ALRIGHT WHERE ARE YOU, YOU-" she began and immediately stopped at the scene she saw.
They all looked as if they had seen a ghost, Roy even dropped his plate on the floor in shock. Lucina was stunned as well, they weren't doing it for some simple ribs… They had an entire buffet set up. There was a large table with everyone sat around it, in the middle large deep dishes full of the meatest meats like ribs, steaks, burgers, chicken, pork chops, lamb chops, rack of lamb, sausages, jerky, turkey, duck, rabbit, and at the end of the table an entire freaking pig with an apple in its mouth. Of course they needed the secrecy, if anyone found out they were hoarding all this food it wouldn't go down well for anyone. Starting with Peach personally giving each one of them their own specialized hell.
"Blue!?" Pittoo blurts out with a rib shoved halfway in his mouth. Everyone then turned to face the dark angel giving him dirty looks. She had no idea what to do, she actually had no idea what to say, she had no idea they had this huge miraculous plan for a meat buffet. The question was where did it come from, it's not like they could store it around anywhere it would go bad and the smell would be too noticeable. And more importantly how did they get an entire freaking roasted pig. She heard the loud screeching of a chair as Ganon stood up, he pointed straight at her and with a stern look on his face.
"GET HER!" He demanded, however much to her relief, nobody moved a muscle. Well at first, as after they all got over their shock they all stood at once and rushed at her.
"OH SHI-" she exclaimed and quickly turned and ran, she had apparently gotten into a bigger mess than she expected. Toon Link suddenly dropped on her from above landing on her head and covering her eyes in the process. However since she was going up the stairs which was a straight path it didn't really do much to stop her. And worst yet when she ran out the door Toon Link's giant head hit the door frame and he fell off. "I'm sorry!" She gasped while he groaned on the floor. She couldn't really check on him since Ike was coming up right after them. He had a fierce look on his face and was crawling up the stairs on all fours. She quickly turns and darts down the hall away from all the crazies, before a blue blur pushes past her and Sonic appears at the end of the hall ready to catch her. Luckily the staircase was to her right so she climbed up the railings instead of going to the end of the hall. She made it a good ways up before Ike grabbed one of her legs with an iron grip.
"You're not taking my precious chicken away from me!" He growls at her while she tries kicking his arm away but he is determined to pull her down. Worst yet, sonic rushed to the top of the staircase ready to knock her down from above.
Link, Captain Falcon, King Dedede and Falco show up and along with Ike start reaching for her. Up above Sonic was joined by Ness, Wario and Mega-man. They began trying to pry her fingers loose so she'd fall to the crowd below and be captured and then who knows. She was utterly trapped and began to panic as she was quickly losing her grip. Before she falls however she grabbed ahold of Wario's chunky arm as he grabbed her face to pry her off. The short fat man however was leaning over the railings so when she grabbed him he went over the edge. "OH FU-" Falco yells as Wario lands on all of them knocking them all over like pins. Lucina takes the opportunity to hop down and safely land on the pile of downed smashers. She then quickly rushed down the hall as Pikachu, Bowser and Fox were quickly making their way to her. "Dammit lardass get up!" Falco yells from under the pileup.
"I can't-a move! I ate-a too much!" Wario groans while flailing like a flipped turtle.
"You're too slow!" Lucina hears behind her and sees Sonic rushing straight at her, he was definitely going to ram into her. Thinking quickly she opens a nearby door leading to a utility closet and before long she hears a really loud thud on the other side. The door slowly closes again and a crumbled up sonic falls to the floor in a daze.
"PIKA!" The electric mouse rockets towards her and she takes that as her queue to leave. "Pikachu, you don't even eat normal food. Why are you with them?" Lucina exclaimed while getting chased by the rodent.
"Pika pi pikachu pi!" He replies. 'Because I like the companionship we all built down there' he basically replied. Which made sense she never saw anybody in a group that large came together in unison and in peaceful settings no less. It's always chaos but they all came together under one common goal… Eating unhealthy foods again. "Piiiiiiiiiika!" The rodent shouts as he supercharged himself and was rocketing at her at top speeds like a bullet train. However Lucina simply ducks and the electric mouse crashes through the window and disappears into the night. She then hears a loud angry grunt as King Dedede barreled towards her with his giant hammer raised. She quickly dashed down the hall again away from the large self proclaimed king.
She is suddenly caught in a large net and she turns to see Vill there staring at her with his blank smile. However having been in that predicament countless times in matches before she easily breaks free trapping the boy in his own net in the process. She then ducks as a giant hammer violently swooshed above her. Dedede growled again as he raised his hammer again slamming in on the floor hard, she however managed to roll away before she stood up dashed away from the mad king. She turns another corner and sees Mario there with Yoshi.
"Mario!?" She breathes out in disbelief, "you're head of the Elite Six! you shouldn't even be condoning this!" She scowls at him.
"Normally-a yes" he shrugged, "I love-a Peach and all, but-a her taking away my-a favorite foods is just-a cruel!" He states while shaking his fist, "and I will have-a my meatballs!" He adds before pointing at her, "Yoshi eggify her!" He commands and Yoshi makes a mean face before launching his tongue at her. She side steps it before heading down yet a diffrent hall. Problem was she began to tire out, there were too many of them and they all had something crazy up their sleeves to stop her. She had to keep dodging left and right to avoid Yoshi grabbing her with the freakishly long tongue. And he was fast too. She couldn't shake the little dinosaur, running was his thing after all. As she turned another hall she found herself unable to move and being forcefully shoved back. Waiting for her was Dedede who was now sucking in a large gasp of air and pulling her in. Once again quickly thinking on her feet she ducks behind Yoshi and Mario and they end up getting sucked into Dedede's large gut. And somehow he gets turned into an egg by Yoshi on the inside… No idea how that worked but it happened.
Instead of contemplating how such a thing was possible she made her escape. Before Ike appeared at the end of the hall she was in, he had a grin on his face and had his arms outstretched, ready to catch her. She turns to look into a different hall but that one had Ness and Toon Link coming down it while riding Charizard. She looks back the way she came and sees Dedede, Mario, Yoshi, Roy, Link, Cpt Falcon all making their way to her. "It's over for you, my chicken will be spared!" Ike proclaims as he is joined by Wario, Falco, and Pittoo. The one responsible for her predicament. They all slowly circle her before she pressed her back against a door, another utility closet. With no other choice she quickly locks herself inside of it. It isn't long before she hears the loud angry banging from the other side. And Ike goes on a rant about chicken, she ignores it and turns on the single bulb that's inside and looks around. There wasn't much of anything there, nothing to really help especially considering it wouldn't take them long to break in. And that's when she spots it… Her only hope… A small vent in the back, she could probably squeeze through if she really tried. And given her small frame it wouldn't be that difficult but challenging nonetheless. Just then a large chip of the door flies off and she sees the large sword retract. "Heeeeeeeere's Ikey!" She hears from the other side followed by a loud thud, the crazy chicken lunatic was trying to hack his way in with his sword. She grabs a shelf off to the side and tips it over completely blocking the door with junk and the large shelf. She then takes in a few panicked breaths before prying the lid of the vent.
"What was that?" Link asked after they heard the large crash.
She barricaded the door, we're going to need a new plan to get in there…" Roy says, snapping his fingers in frustration.
"Guys we need to hurry, the other will wake soon and if Lucina gets to them first we're all in for it!" Link says while looking at his phone.
"Dedede do your thing!" Ness says, pointing towards the large penguin.
"No!" Mario orders while holding up his hand, "I got-a better idea!" Mario says with an evil smirk. "Bring in the weegee!" He shouts as everyone begins cackling to themselves and they all step aside. Luigi steps out from the crowd with a very stern look of determination on his face. He closes his fist and clenches his ass as he begins charging up like he never charged up before.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
The loud eruption of the luigi rocket sounded like a clap of thunder that echoed loudly throughout the vicinity. He bursts forward at tremendous speeds and completely shatters the door and everything else in his path. They all rush forward and wave their hands in front of their faces to clear the smoke. But the room was empty, except for Luigi with his head completely buried in the wall, and leaving the wall completely cracked and shattered. "Huh? What? Where?" Ike steps in completely dumbfounded, the bluenette just seemingly vanished into thin air.
"I think we overdid it…" Ness says while tapping his fingers together timidly.
"No! Look there!" Falco shouts while pointing with his feathered hand.
"THE VENTS!" they all shout in unison.
"Toon get in there!" Link orders his younger counterpart.
"Are you nuts? look at the size of his head he's not going to fit in there!" Roy states. Link then turns to look at Ness who shrugged at him.
"Sorry pal, my noggin ain't made for this," He stated simply.
"Why do all you kids have gigantic heads?" Ike says more so to himself than anyone.
"Step aside, I got this!" Someone else comes pushing through them all.
"All right, Corrin!" Ike says, patting the newcomer on the back. He was actually sleek enough to squeeze through. Of course he'd be very eager to assist because after having the large secret meals the stuff served in the cafeteria makes him sick to his stomach.
Except…
"Hold on… Do you even know where to go? The vents are like a maze; they literally go anywhere and everywhere!" Fox interjects.
"Oh we will!" Mario once again chims in, "Bring in the hound!" He orders and everyone turns to the back to face Lucario. He nodded his head and closed his eyes while they began to shine a bright golden color.
"I have her aura!" He says and motions them to follow as he leads the way.
Corrin ignored them however and climbed into the vents, he had his own way to find the bluenette afterall.
Meanwhile…
Lucina pokes her head out to make sure the coast was clear before stepping out of the vent. However she quickly had to dash behind a curtain and hide as Lucas and Kirby walked by, she wasn't sure if they were part of it but why risk it. She had to get back upstairs, if she remembered correctly the effects of the sleeping gas should be wearing off soon. She enters the cafeteria from the back. If she makes it past it, it should lead her to the main entrance and near the main staircase. She was about halfway through when she heard commotion all around her, the lights were all off so it was a little hard to see. But she definitely heard murmurs and snickers all around her along with something or someone shifting around.
She turns around to come face to face with Bowser Jr who had an evil grin on his face. After getting over her initial shock she calmed down, there wasn't really much the little guy could do by himself, especially considering he didn't have his clown car. However things took a turn for the worst as the other koopalings began stepping out of the shadows and surrounding her. Larry, Roy, Lemmy, Wendy, Iggy, Morton, Ludwig and Bowser Jr all began circling her while they all snickered to themselves.
"Ok we can get through this like reasonable Ad- uh, Hu- um, reasonable well mannered individuals." She began while they all just looked at each other. "Ok here's the deal, step aside and I'll tell you where Peach hides all the sweets, deal?" She bargained. They all turned to their leader who seemed to be contemplating her proposal, after all they were always scheming to take all her sweets for themselves. After a while he seemed to have made up his mind and he took a few steps back with a grin on his face. Making Lucina breathe a sigh of relief, children could be so gullible sometimes.
"GET HER!" He suddenly orders while pointing at the bluenette, her eyes go wide before she is suddenly piled on by the koopalings. She began throwing them off but as soon as she did, others took its place. Ludwig then grabbed her legs, effectively tripping her in the process. "Hold her down, we're going to deliver her to papa nice and wrapped up!" Jr says while swinging around a rope in his hands.
"Oh no it's Peach!" Lucina suddenly gasped while pointing at the door. They all shrieked and scattered in an instant allowing her to break free of her bounds and get up again.
"FOOLS!" Bowser Jr shouts angrily, being the only one not to fall for it. "Get her! Get her!" He angrily shouts while hoping up and down. They all come out of their hiding spots and rush at her again but she had decided she overstayed her welcome and was making her way to the doors. She quickly exits the cafeteria through the large main doors before shutting them behind her. She could hear the thudding of their angry little fists from the other side. She grabs a baseball bat lying around conveniently and sticks it between the handles of the door, effectively locking it. Once she was sure it would hold she turns and runs the other way. Once she was in the living room she was stopped by a puff of smoke, it was Sheik, finally a friendly face.
"Oh Sheik, thank Naga!" Lucina breathes out in relief. "Am I glad to see you!" She adds with enthusiasm.
"Oh I'm glad to have found you too!" Sheik is a little too giddy though. She swiftly threw some needles pinning the bluenette against the wall.
"I have her in the living room." Sheik says while speaking into a walkie talkie.
"You!?" Lucina says in disbelief. Yes Sheik, see what nobody knew was the sheikah became a connoisseur of jerky. She even had the secret hobby of making jerky from scratch. Ever since she was introduced to it she became obsessed with any and all kinds of jerky. So when Peach and the rest of the Six suddenly announced they were switching to an all vegan diet, Sheik was less than pleased with news that she wouldn't be able to have her precious jerky anymore. That is until she overheard an interesting conversation involving everyone's favorite redhead. A secret underground operation where one could indulge themselves in meat again. She would go out and buy it, but the expenses were regularly checked (thanks to the villains buying questionable products in the past, like doomsday devices) and she'd end up in hot water.
"Pardon the pun, but what stake could you possibly have in this?" Lucina questioned the cloth wrapped warrior who gave her a sideways glance.
"More than you'd understand." Sheik simply shrugged before taking a large bag of jerky out and shaking it around. "I have been drying these for a long long time to let the flavor sit in, and I'm not about to let it all go to waste," She claimed. Lucina simply groaned to herself, just when she thinks she's seen it all the craziness of the mansion surprises her yet again. This time it was a jerky obsessed sheikah…
Sheik actually began going on a tangent about her jerky, her failures, her successes and also her valued secret flavor enhancers. And this gave Lucina the perfect opportunity to make an escape. Or at least she thought as Sheik instantly threw another needle at her stopping her in her tracks. "I wouldn't try that if I were you, you wouldn't get far anyway." Sheik warned her. But then an idea came to her as she saw the bag of jerky lying on a table nearby. She takes it into her hands making the sheikah stop dead in her tracks. "Ok you made your point, but let's be reasonable here, don't do anything stupid." Sheik tells the bluenette while slowly approaching her.
"Stop!" Lucina warns while holding one of the needles to the bag.
"Dont!" Sheik yells, "if you open that bag the flavor will escape and it will be ruined!" She states in a half panicked voice.
"Then step back or the bag gets it!" Lucina warns while holding the needle closer to the bag.
"Ok! Ok!" Sheik says while slowly stepping back with her arms raised, she put too much time into that bag to let it go to waste now it's supposed to be her greatest work yet. They then heard a loud commotion behind them as the others were making their way towards them.
"If you ever want to see this bag again you'll stop them!" Lucina says while Sheik looks back and forth in contemplating. Then she growls to herself as she knew she was trapped.
"Get out of here, now! save the jerky!" Sheik orders before turning around to face the coming crowd. Lucina was actually completely dumbfounded that her super crazy plan actually worked, she literally took a chance with that one. She quickly makes her exit and heads to the lobby. Sheik was a very skilled warrior so she might buy the bluenette a few minutes, depending on their luck. She could just as easily be overwhelmed and it would all have been for naught but she believed the sheikah had a few tricks up her sleeve.
The others all begin piling into the room while looking around and only finding Sheik. "Where is she?" Roy questions her and she points off into a different hall.
"She escaped that way" the sheikah replies plainly.
"I sense her aura this way!" Lucario states heading in the direction of the bluenette. That is… Until he received a roundhouse kick to the face. Throwing him against the wall and knocking out the aura Pokemon completely.
"Why? After all I did for you! After all we gave you? Why the betrayal, where is your allegiance!?" Roy states in a huff.
"My allegiance is to the jerky, not you!" Sheik states coldly.
"Awh crap… Lucina has her jerky…" Roy mutters before he too receives a kick to the face…
Meanwhile…
As Lucina nears the lobby a loud commotion is heard behind her, no doubt Sheik was giving them a hard time. She definitely bought herself a good couple of minutes there. She's about to make it before a lid to a vent falls from above and Corrin hops down.
"I'm afraid this is as far as you go" he states while slowly circling her.
"Not you too, you just got here and you're already mixed up in all these shenanigans!" Lucina groans.
"It wouldn't be like this if we weren't tortured during meal times, my new companions have given me a truly great warm welcome. A fest meant for kings and emperors, and I will honor that gift in any way I can!" He says sternly.
"Please just please be reasonable, I'm begging you!" She tried to plead but she simply crossed his arms and shook his head.
"Look, it's Master Hand!" Lucina suddenly exclaimed, pointing behind him. And he quickly whipped around only to see nothing there. She couldn't believe how that just worked and given her luck she'd take what she can get. In the time he was distracted she made a mad dash towards the stairs, once she was in the upper levels things would be easier and simpler for her.
Corrin however didn't find her antics as amusing and quickly got enraged, in an instant he transformed back into a rampaging dragon and darted after her. She had to quickly roll out of the way as a large torrent of water was shot her way. At the other end she saw the others making their way in and in particular, Gandondorf carrying an unconscious Sheik. Of course out of everyone there he'd know best how to deal with the sheikah. Roy was ahead of them and funny enough had a large shoe print across his face. "Don't let her escape!" He says in a panic. And for good reason too, the rest of the mansion was about to wake up from the effects of the sleeping gas.
She quickly begins ascending the stairs while they all make a mad dash towards her. "Not so rough, we need her conscious" Roy orders as they all began charging up their powers and what not.
"Wait Bowser no! We need her awake! NO!" Roy shouts in panic.
She makes it to the top of the stairs before a large shadow is cast over her. She only has enough time to look up and see a large spiked shell falling towards her. She lifts up her arms in front of her and is smashed flat before a scream could even escape her lips and everything goes dark.
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…
As she began to stir she heard muffled voices despite the person's being next to her. As her senses slowly started coming back to her her eyes slowly fluttered open. She was sitting on an old creaky chair of course in the basement. She was bound and gagged with literally anything and everything they could get their hands on. Ropes, chains, table cloths, curtains, sausage links, they did it all. She was completely bound from head to toe as they made triple sure she wouldn't go anywhere. Considering what was on the line for them it made sense they'd be extra.
"We can't just keep her down here forever, eventually someone is going to notice she's missing, and eventually we'll get someone else sniffing around!"
"What other choice do we have? If she goes free it's over!"
"No! I won't give up my chicken!" *hissssss*
"can't just make her disappear?"
"Yeah… Someone already tried that! And look how well that went for him."
"We can have Marth substitute in for her, they're practically so identical nobody will notice!"
"Hmmm, that would have been the case in the beginning, however we got people like Raven, Zelda, Palutena and Samus who'd instantly notice."
Currently there were a few of them arguing over each other while in the small room with the bluenette. Roy was impatiently pacing back and forth, Link and Shulk were basically at each other's throats, Ike was off in the corner rocking back and forth and cradling a bucket of chicken. Toon Link and Ness were apparently guarding the door or at least they're supposed to be, but instead the duo were on their phones playing a game. Lastly there was Marth and Mario who were both muttering in husher voices while leaning over a table. No doubt Marth was there to keep anyone from doing something drastic, like tying her to a rocket and letting gravity decide her fate. Something Toon and Ness discussed earlier before being barred from making suggestions.
"I got it, Bribery!" Link exclaimed while standing up straight and holding up his finger.
"Nah trust me, she doesn't take bribes… Believe me I tried… Boy did I try…" Toon Link muttered besides still being focused on his game. Just then Pittoo walked in looking moody as always, no doubt because he was getting all the blame for this ordeal.
"Well?" Mario demanded.
"It's all quiet for now, everything is basically normal up there. Well as normal as it gets, all things considered." He shrugged as he informed the group.
"Well while we're at it we need to tie up other loose ends before dealing with this massive loose end here!" Link says while crossing his arms and shooting a look at the blonde beside him. "Starting with you!" He says in a huff.
"Me? How am I a loose end?" Shulk says with a gasp at such an accusation.
"Well not necessarily you, but that partner of yours. She's been asking too many questions recently and not any of the good ones either!" Link states while wagging his finger at him.
"What are the good ones?" Toon asks his older counterpart who ironically stays at a loss of words.
"The point is, you're creating another loose end!" Link ignores Toon and goes back to Shulk.
"It was rocky at the beginning, sure, but I got it all under control after some very tough convincing that I was installing air fresheners." He assured everyone in the room who were giving him looks.
"Is that why you tend to smell like lavender nowadays?" Ness asked with a raised brow.
"Pretty much…" He replies while dropping his shoulders, "I have to manually infuse the sleeping gas with a lavender scent." He explained.
"So that leaves you, the other blue haired menace we have to contend with!" Link immediately flips his finger over towards Marth.
"Now what are you getting at?" Marth says while rolling his eyes.
"You know what, the fact that every night we run the risk of getting caught by the worst possible person, your partner!" Link huffs at him.
"well that's all well and good until you remember my partner is Samus Aran, you put her to sleep involuntarily and she'll put you to sleep permanently. And if you have an issue with that then you are more than welcome to solve it yourself." Marth states before walking off back to the table he was at.
"Hey wait a minute! Master Hand had the memory erasing orb! You know the one that flashes and erases one memory entirely of the previous event!" Link suddenly shouts with a large smile on his face.
"Well normally yeah, however it seems it's gone missing recently and whoever took it didn't leave a replacement as per the usual. And Master Hand hasn't really gotten around to making a new one." Marth explains making everyone drop their shoulders in disappointment.
"Oh ho, ho ho, ah… I totally forgot about that!" Roy laughs to himself while patting Marth on the shoulder.
"Meaning?" Link demands while crossing his arms.
"Oh nothing nothing, just remembered something funny, but you guys wouldn't get it." Roy waved them all off.
"Well what-a now boys? Because I ain't-a giving up-a my meatballs again!" Mario protests. More and more smashers start coming into the cramped room each pointing the finger at someone new about who's a liability and what not. Things started getting more heated to the point where some light shoving started getting involved. Voices were raised and suddenly everyone was out looking for themselves and treating everyone else as the enemy.
"GUY'S! GUY'S!" Link shouts above everybody on the table and shouting at the top of his lungs. "What are we doing? This dilemma is tearing us apart!" He says while they all look at one another. "This isn't what we formed this coalition for, it was to get together and enjoy all of life's wonders, wonders that are particularly in the meats and poultry category!" He says while everyone else now looks at one another with apologetic looks.
"I gotta say gents… this thing has gone too far… look what we've become, sad sad savages!" Roy chimes in while looking around the room slowly shaking his head.
"We all knew this would one day come to an end… Just not this soon!" Toon says while lowering his head solemnly.
"So then what do we do about that…" Shulk asks while jabbing his thumb back at Lucina, who everyone now noticed was conscious.
"Nothing… Gents, we do the right thing, we have to let her go before we go into even deeper water we can't get out of." Roy sighs before Ike shoots up from seat.
"But the chicken!" Ike exclaims with a huff and crazed look in his eyes.
"We'll figure it out bud, we'll figure it out, we always do!" Link approached the mercenary before patting him on the shoulder.
"Although whoever thought of the sock thing, that was pretty funny!" Ness snickered to himself. The sock he was referring to was the one half shoved into her mouth and kept in place by clear tape wrapped all around her mouth several times over.
"Oh yeah that would be me, I found that behind my drawer actually, I don't know how long it's been there but it was as hard as cardboard when I found it." Toon Link shrugged nonchalantly. Which was preceded by angry muffled shouts from the bluenette. So much she started going red in the face from her mini tantrum.
"I will never forgive you for this!" Ike says while firmly grabbing one of Pittoo's shoulders.
"If it wasn't him it would've been someone else, it was only a matter of time before this happened." Marth waved off the other bluenette, "you didn't realize it, but Raven was actually looking into your air freshener, Palutena was getting suspicious of Pit's sudden weight gain and sloppiness. Peach was already out to find dirt on you Mario for a good while now, however she believed you were going out to the city to gorge yourself. Not to mention, Ike you always smelled of chicken, a fact that kept getting pointed out to you by the Wii Fit trainers very often. You all didn't realize it, but you all were sitting on a landmine waiting to go off." Marth informs the group who all look at one another again with guilty looks. Again they were all distracted by the bluenette once again screaming her head off, or at least trying too.
"Should we untie her now? Or…" Shulk asked while looking around.
"Obviously" Dark Pit remarked before he started undoing the tape around her mouth, however once he did she immediately spat out the sock.
"Are you guy's stupid or do you all just share one collective brain cell!?" She shouts at them.
"Maybe we should've kept the sock in," Ness remarked while crossing his little arms.
"What's with the insults lady?" Ike says coldly.
"I have every right to do so you crazy bastards, and more importantly you literally have everything at your disposal to reverse ALL of this!" She states while they look at one another puzzled.
"You-a don't think we've freaking tried-a before!" Mario fired back while placing his hands on his hips.
"He's right, Peach's tyrannical hold over the cafeteria is ironclad unbreakable." Link remarks solemnly, clearly they've been fighting a losing battle.
"Not necessarily, every major decision requires the vote of at least four of the six members to pass. You literally have half the members before you now." She motions with her head towards the trio of Marth, Mario and Link.
"Tried, didn't work… One of us always folds into their favor…" Link sighs while motioning between them all.
"Well you got a slight opening, Peach is too power hungry to listen and Samus's is too cold. However Link, you have no idea how much Zelda actually cares for you. Despite all your shortcomings, she still speaks very highly of you, with the right attitude and mature complexion you can sway her to your side." She tells them while they all look at Link.
"Link, I swear if you mess this up…" Ike says from the back again with that crazed look of his.
"Now as for Peach's tyrannical rules, Robin, yes I see you there in the back." She points him out trying to stay in between Cpt Falcon and King Dedede.
"Erm… Just so you know I'm not really a part of this," he says while chuckling nervously to himself.
"You took the meat brothers oath!" Roy states while smacking him in the back of the head. "Don't try to save face now, you're in this just as much as anyone else!" Roy crossed his arms while shaking his head.
"Not cool bro!" Ness shouts from the back.
"As I was saying," Lucina continued. "Robin here as read *all* the rules even those instated for the Elite Six. Whatever rules she's using to her advantage, he can certainly find any and all loopholes to them. And Peach as tyrannical as she is cannot go above those rules for her own benefit. Master Hand is very, and I mean very strict about his rules, so Peach trying to defy any of them will not sit well with him.
"You-a know… This just might-a work!" Mario states while pumping his fist in the air. All the others around him too started getting excited.
"Link, go woo your lady like she's never been wooed before!" Roy points at the green glad warrior. He nods furiously before making his way through the crowd while they all high fived him.
"Mario, Marth, you guys need to oppose Peach and propose that meat be reinstated in our menus. She can't say no without putting it to a vote, as per the rules, the rules!" Roy chats as they all make their way out of the room chanting and hoo'ing and whatnot.
"Uhhh guy's… Aren't you forgetting something!?" Lucina shouts. Of course she was still completely bound to her seat.
"I got you" Marth suddenly appears while taking out his little switchblade and cutting her restraints.
"You knew this could be solved so easily, so why didn't you?" Lucina asked him, as actually this whole plan of hers was something she got from something Marth himself remarked. It was more so to himself than anything however the structure for the plan was there."
"I had my reasons, and believe me they were good ones" he shrugged as he cut the last of the restraints. "Now if you'll excuse me, I'm most likely going to be caught in an hours-long debate over this issue." Marth sighs before walking off. Just then Pittoo pokes his head into the room with a sheepish smile.
"You!" Lucina glares at him…
A few moments later…
*SLAM*
Peach set down a large book in front of her before taking a seat. "So… it appears as though there are some individuals who are unhappy with the way things are being run around here!" Peach says in an irritated manner while glaring at the three men across for her. "No to mention the many, many rules that were being broken in that basement. And the subsequent consequences that are to follow!"
"Well-a dear… Quite frankly… You're-a rules have-a been bad for-a morale." Mario says while timidly tapping his fingers together. "Oh but I love-a the way you run things!" He immediately blurts.
"Nice save dingus!" Link hissed at him and he lowers his cap in shame.
"Well naturally the civil way to solve any matters of conflict is to put it up to a vote, as per the rules." Marth says, specifically noting the last part for the pink princess.
"Seems rather pointless, but alright have it your way." She rolled her eyes.
"The motion of any and all meats and poultry based food to be reinstated to the menu is now on the table. All those in favor?" Marth says while he and Link raised their hands while Mario smiled sheepishly. Of course that was because of the intense stare he was receiving. Knowing he'd most likely fold, Link stomped on the plumber's foot, making his hand shoot up in the air. The intense look he got because of it made him shrink in his seat.
"Well that's us three, now it's up to you ladies." Link says motioning to the trio across from them. Things were certainly getting tense, as if it would be a tie, it would automatically be broken by the person in charge of handling the food… Thus Peach would negate the notion.
"Against!" Peach instantly says before taking her seat and shooting Mario another look. Poor guy looked like he was dying inside. Link turned to Zelda and mouthed the words 'I love you' to her while making a heart with his hands. He had earlier had a really heartfelt heart to heart with the princess about how much she meant to him and how devoted to her he was. He was so sure he got through to her so much so he was stupidly grinning to himself. She smiled at him sweetly as she seemed to have gotten his vibes of pleading with her.
"Against" she said, making Link's jaw hit the floor and starting making weird noises from the loss of words. It was over, the whole plan fell apart then and there as it all relied on the princess's vote. Peach began to smile sinisterly to herself as she knew the votes were now in her favor and she could overrule the votes in her favor… "Link you know I care for you and I know you were hoping otherwise, but in the longrun this is what is actually good for you, whether you realize it or not." She says while Link continues to squeal out in horror.
That is… Until they all shockingly heard, "Im for it" coming from the end of the table.
"YOU WHAT!?" Peach shouts while whipping around to face the bounty hunter casually leaning back in her seat.
"I said I'm for it." Samus says once again, Peach looked like she was literally about to burst into flames with his red in the face she was.
"Why would you do such a thing!?" Peach demanded.
"Simple, the whole operation going on is no longer functioning as intended." She explained while she brought up a hologram.
"You mean you were behind the whole thing?" Link asked puzzled.
"We actually were." Marth chims in.
"How? Where and why!?" Peach says completely flustered.
"Simple" Samus began, "Haven't you noticed how much things have calmed around here recently. When was the last time a large-scale shenanigan occured." She explained, Peach looked to her fellow princess who simply shrugged at her.
"It was the perfect plan," Marth says, "They weren't up to anything because everyone was so hyper focused already thinking they were up to something big. Not only that but allies and foes alike all came together to corroborate the whole thing. This was huge, and a never before seen feat we had accomplished." Marth explained looking rather proud of himself for that.
"Why-a weren't we-a clued in then?" Mario asked while lifting his arms up.
"Well no offense to you, and also seriously no offense to you," she began by motioning towards the plumber and then the green clad hero. "But should we have told you both, you would've made it painfully obvious that it was all a ruse thus giving the whole thing away." Samus states, Mario thought it through for a moment while Link shrunk in his seat remembering all the operations he completely blew.
"How did this all even start?" Zelda asked puzzled.
"We'll actually a while ago now I happened to have caught Roy trying to smuggle in about a wheelbarrow's worth of meat products in." Marth replies while everyone sort of nodded along as that made total sense.
"And I actually happened to have run into Marth while he was figuring out what to do with it." Samus adds, "that's when he proposed this crazy scheme of his."
"See originally I was going to have some sort of hideaway where they could indulge themselves, however it would only be available to a small group, and that small group would only be allowed in for good behavior or stuff like that." Marth continued while showing them some schematics of his original plan.
"However I proposed a scheme on a much larger scale, one that would in turn make our jobs and thus our lives much easier. See when you tell someone not to do something that's the very thing they're going to want to do. We just took that concept and twisted it on its feet in a way where we were in control." Samus interjects and she shows them their established plan.
"Is that why they were able to so easily get away with it all, despite all their blunders?" Zelda asks.
"Who do you think has been shutting off ROB every night?" Samus states while crossing her arms, "and we didn't have to worry about any mess, or brawls, or explosions for that matter. They were so passionate about their operation they cleaned up any and all evidence of it. Sometimes unironically making the place cleaner than it was before. Not only that but the kids stopped pulling pranks, the villains stopped trying to make everyone miserable, idiots stopped being idiots, and overall life has been more simple for us." Samus explained.
"Yes yes that is all well and good however let's not skip over the fact you both broke several rules, not to mention the very big one we all voted on together!" Peach states while pointing her finger at them.
"You'd think that however, no, we did not. See the new rule instituted that all meat and poultry were forbidden to be consumed in the cafeteria, furthermore your jurisdiction of said rule only applied to the mansion itself. As far as the basement goes it's stated, apart from world domination and insidious actions towards another, the basement is actually all free game and in control of the villains. Thus meaning their little get togethers down there were not breaking any rule, despite what they might've thought." Samus corrected her and even showed her the written rulebook for extra measure.
"This… This isn't right!" Peach huffed.
"What about curfew? One of the biggest rules was surely broken." Zelda interjects again.
"Wrong again, we didn't do this on our own, we actually decided to run this whole scheme by Master Hand and he loved it. I mean haven't you noticed the nightly Mii patrols just suddenly stopped. That was all the work of MH, well except the nightly patrols outside then it would've been too suspicious." Marth explained while they all looked at each other in shock.
"Master Hand? Captain grumpy, Mr no fun allowed, that one? He actually went along with a scheme?" Link says in complete disbelief.
"You are more than welcome to ask him about it." Samus simply replied.
"So then if it was all going so well why stop it now?" Zelda asks and Marth sighs while slowly rubbing the back of his neck.
"Unfortunately, Lucina and Dark Pit blew the lid on the operation which stirred the pot which led into chaos." Marth replied, looking none too pleased.
"He started being too suspicious around her and naturally her curiosity got the best of her." Samus adds while slowly shaking her head.
"But I thought we all came to an understanding earlier did we not?" Link turned towards the prince.
"Just for a moment. That is until some of the more dedicated and fanatic of the group decided to go their own ways. As in, the plan was not to involuntarily take the ones who were getting curious and lock them up somewhere, and or just plain intimidation." Marth explained while running his hands down his face.
"We don't condone extortion, intimidation and especially blackmail. So we had to pull the plug at that point." Samus says.
"Just one more thing, was the sleeping gas really necessary? I mean with sound proof walls what was really the odds of one of us waking up." Zelda asks while shrugging her shoulders.
"About that," Samus begins, "that was more so just supposed to be for Peach here since the crazy lunatic had motion sensors and sound monitors installed in the kitchen. And no matter how hard we tried, someone always had to go in there to get something. Meaning Peach would've been up and things would've gotten messy." Samus explained, "but someone here got caught by the others hauling one of the gas canisters in, and then they all thought it would be great to do it to all their partners and all the others not involved." Samus adds while shooting a look towards Link.
"Those things are heavy! And I had to carry them four flights of stairs to avoid detection fyi!" He complained while throwing his arms in the air.
"I propose another vote, but before we do Mario why don't you come sit here with me?" Peach says before giving Mario a sweet innocent look.
"That won't be necessary," Samus says while holding up her hand.
"She's right Peach, I'm with them now so the vote still wouldn't be in your favor." Zelda says making Peach go red in the face again.
"You traitor!" She huffs at her fellow princess.
"Well there's more to it than that, we won't change the menu completely, weekdays will be vegan options, and weekends starting with friday the menu will be like before." Samus tells the little pink tyrannical monarch.
"Fine" Peach states simply while crossing her arms.
"Wait, today is friday so that means… FEAAAAAAAAAAST!" Link yells at the top of his lungs before he gets up and runs out the room with his arms in the air.
"Well with that out of the way, I guess this meeting is adjourned." Samus simply waved them off before the hologram in the middle of the table disappeared and the lights came on.
Later at Lunch…
"To our little Lucy!" Ike raised his cup in the air while nodding to the bluenette.
"HERE! HERE!" They all cheered in unison, they each had a large plate piled high with meats and other kinds of junk food. After the Six eventually came out of their meeting room they told everyone the news of the changes. And it actually worked, because many of them now had something to look forward to during the week and also others claimed it will help them work up an appetite so they don't get bored of the meals.
"Hey man, don't forget us! It wasn't easy there for us!" Link says, "it was like fighting a rampaging vicious sparkly pink dragon!" He adds.
"Yeah sure to Link and Marth" Roy raised his cup.
"Yay…" They all said rather bluntly.
"That's it?" Link crossed his arms, did I mention the dragon part?" He reiterated.
"Let's not forget none of this would've happened in the first place if it weren't for you two!" Shulk says, making the green clad hero sink in his chair.
"Hey Corrin?" Ike says.
"Yes?"
"Yes?"
They both look at him in unison.
"Yeah we're going to do something about that, just like we did with the Robins' that time." Shulk says while stroking his chin.
"Way ahead of everyone, after much discussion and many hours of thought. I'm proud to say that you may all now refer to him as Corvis." Roy informs everyone.
"Oh neat I sorta like that!" Pit says.
"It's ok."
"Sure"
"Better than nothing"
"Derp"
"To Corvis!" Ike shouts and they all raise their cups again.
"Oh come on!" Link exclaimed.
"Alright then enough talk, lets chow down!" Ike says. And then Lucina was horribly reminded why she stopped sitting with them at the beginning of the tournament. All utensils were tossed aside and everyone was grabbing fistfulls of food and shoving them in their mouth. However after all she's been through here at the smash mansion and having come this far, she shrugged and tossed her fork aside before doing the same. Because why not, if you can't beat em you join them.
Heeeyyyyy everybody, sorry for the hiatus, plain and simple tho classic case of no mojo. But I'm back now, hopefully for a while now. Anyway hope you enjoyed and have a wonderful day you lovely person, and once again thanks for reading!
Toodles! (*＾▽＾)／
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