ROAD TO EVO 2K22
The morning sun shone through the window of Mario and Luigi's quaint house. As the brothers were quietly asleep, a knock at the door woke them from their slumber.
"You've gotta be kidding me!" yelled Mario. "I was having that dream again!"
"The one where you're throwing vegetables at a giant frog?" Luigi groaned, just barely able to get out of his bed.
"No, it was different this time! I swear it!" Before the brothers were able to start their sibling quarrels, the door knocked once more.
"Mario? Luigi? Something very important came in the mail for you." Upon entering outside, Parakarry was sheepishly dragging his bag across the ground. "I don't know how, but the guys upstairs did something bad."
"What, ya mean overpricing 25-year-old games and drip-feeding them out for content?"
"No, no, not that again. The thing is, EVO is coming up, and we aren't invited…"
Mario saw the letter and was shocked. Nintendo, despite massive success and fan appeal, backed out of EVO 2022. "I-it can't be. We were doing so well! It was free advertising, why would Nintendo do this?"
"Mario, I think this is just a misunderstanding. Obviously, this is a thing against our parties. It's not like our friends got uninvited, right?"
"It's true! It's true!" said a flying green parrot overhead. "Everyone got the memo!" Squawks screeched out holding onto the same letter.
Hyrule's loyal postman soon followed, clutching onto a bunch of letters. "I had to get here from Gerudo Desert, so appreciate this!"
All of a sudden, many different people came up and starting shouting, those across various dimensions, times, and galaxies are roaring at the new unfairness that happened.
"Certainly, ya have to know somethin', Mario! You've been in talks with the bosses for the longest time!" squawked Falco.
"Paisanos, this is much of a surprise to you as it is to me. I never got the memo. Honestly there hasn't been an EVO in years and I think this is all a big misunderstanding."
Mario tried walking back inside when all of a sudden, the blade of Masamune was positioned around his neck. "Many of us have waited for this moment, and now is when you take it from us, plumber boy?" Sephiroth questioned as Luigi started pulling on his overalls nervously.
"Mario, I don't think this is the right approach to calming this literal horde of people we have on our hands! We gotta do something!"
The man in red sighed as he walked back to the crowd. "I ain't the smartest guy out there, but I know there's some way we can get in. We have friends in the FGC that can boost us. Ryu, Ken, Kazuya and Terry are going to this event, right? We just need a friend of those dudes to vouch for us."
"For US? Are you insane, Mario?" growled Bowser. "In case you haven't noticed, shortstack, there's like 100 of us that have been denied! How are we gonna get all of these losers in?"
Suddenly, a blue spot in the middle of the crowd made himself known. "I'll do it," Mega Man responded.
The super fighting robot shuffled out and started to examine a device on his hand. "Me and Ryu go a long way back, so all I'd need to do is pull a few strings and we could get in."
As Mario was about to regain some kind of hope, a pelican flew in. "Pete! You're here!" Isabelle swooned as she ran to hug him.
"I've got some more bad news, missy, apparently there's a new head honcho at EVO." Mario impatiently snatched the letter and started reading.
"Oh no."
"What?" the crowd asked.
"Sony's in charge now."
The Smash Brothers couldn't know what to make of this. Sony? Partnering with Nintendo? They've always hated each other! They had differing views!
"I know that sounds bad…" Pete sheepishly exclaimed before Mario started throwing a couple of fireballs at him in primal rage. "Wow! Any of those things were to hit me, I'd be roasted."
Why? WHY? Out of all the companies Nintendo were chummy with, Sony was definitely the last on their lineup.
"Um… can't we have anyone that can negotiate with Sony?" Luigi questioned. Mario then had a bright idea.
"Someone who's done deals with Big Blue, huh? I think I know just the guy."