Enjoy this next chapter! Disclaimer: I don't own SSBB.
Chapter 6: Potions Includes Food
Marth, Ike, and Roy were able to know a bit more about Miru and Makato and a little bit of Mikoru. As they left Ike's room from their mild conversation, a line of Smashers was formed right near Ike's room. And R.O.B happened to be the last one in line.
"Hey R.O.B, what's the line for?" Ike asked, tapping his robotic shoulder.
R.O.B gave a 270-degree turn with his robotic head, computing the information Ike asked. "Since Miru's appearance from bird to human, everybody wanted some potions. However, the limit you can get is five."
"Interesting. . ." Marth said. "It seems Miru's debut sparked the Smashers. . ."
"Proposal: Ike and I should catch a hotel someday and explore the human body," R.O.B said, as his body made all sorts of spinning moves, rotating all around.
Ike answered R.O.B with a smack on his robotic head with a leak. "You're not human, gay bot."
"Popular with a robot, aren't you?" Miru said.
"Shut it, bird brain."
"What was that?"
Roy blinked a couple of times and pointed to the leak in Ike's hand. "Where did that come from?"
"Let's get in line. I want to try out some potions." Marth said.
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After the long wait, the swordsmen and Miru were right at Makato's door, seeing a cart of potions. Makato stood by her door and waved at the four of them.
"There's enough for everyone to try, but you can only take up to five," Makato explained. "These potions have a time limit which is two hours, and they're pretty powerful. If you're having trouble or you want a normalized potion, I'll be in my room."
"Potions. . ." Ike stepped up to the cart, fixated on the labels of many different types in their small glass bottles. 'Let's go with two love potions, a sleep potion, a baby potion, and a shrink potion.'
"So many kinds." Marth grabbed two troll potions, two love potions, and a sleep potion.
"I can't wait to test them out." Roy grabbed two shrink potions, two love potions, and a paralyzed potion.
Miru stood by Makato watching the three swordsmen getting potions.
"I hope this potion thing goes well. . ." Miru said. A feeling of uneasiness rushed through Miru, peeking his head up, and searched the halls.
A silhouette of someone's shadow crept near Makato's room, before vanishing away.
"Is there something wrong?" Makato asked.
"N-no. . . Everything's fine. . ." Miru said.
(oOoOoOo)
Kitchen
Ike decided to go to the kitchen to make some sweets, using the potions he got. It wasn't just him, but Marth and Roy as well. Soon, Mario, Pit, and Samus entered the kitchen to do some cooking.
Kirby joined the kitchen with a bunch of small Smashers, all in a group to make a bunch of homemade food. It seemed with the crowd in the kitchen, everybody had the same idea. Potions in food would become a great disguise.
It was a kitchen after all.
Not a living room.
"Hey move it!"
"Someone pass me the damn butter!"
"Hey, who spilled the milk?!"
"I'm starting to have that side cramp again!"
"This kitchen is too crowded!"
"Who farted?!"
"Stop stepping on my foot!"
"I need cheese!"
"Dammit! Someone dropped the flour!"
"Who's touching my butt?!"
"I think I'm bleeding!"
"Here is a bandage- -wait you're da one who stole the blender you son of a-!"
"I forgot the salt!"
"Amateurs. . ."
(oOoOoOo)
After the world's most crowded kitchen in the history of SSBB mansion. . .
Kirby's big group came out of the warzone kitchen with a bunch of flour, liquid stains everywhere on their bodies.
"Now's the time, my brethren," Kirby announced to his group of little Smashers. "We shall combine our creations into a giant food platter and serve it out to the Smashers. And do we know what they'll turn into from the food we've made?"
"BABIES!" Everyone answered.
"And what good way to see them at their weakest state." Jigglypuff nodded.
"After that, we'll trap them in Kirby's room. Then, we'll have baby stew- -I mean, we'll have the mansion to ourselves!" Yoshi corrected himself.
"Shut up, guys! We can't just scream our plans out loud or people will hear us." Ness said in a deep tone. "I'm finally sixteen years old for only two hours!"
Kirby lowered his voice right after. "Ok, now Pink Squad Group-"
"I don't like our team name." Toon Link interrupted.
"Us too! We should be called the Ice Pops." Popo and Nana suggested.
"No way! We should be the Poké Moké." Jigglypuff, Pikachu, and Squirtle suggested.
"What the heck?! We should be the Bouncy Banana Rana." Diddy Kong said.
"We should be Momma's Boy." Lucas and Ness suggested.
"I think we should be Black Things." Mr. Game and Watch said.
Everyone looked at Mr. Game and Watch with a silent stare, not knowing what to say.
Toon Link cleared his throat to avoid any more of the awkwardness. "Uhh, you're the only one that's black. . . I think we should be the Legend's Best Sweets if you asked me." Toon Link suggested. Everyone looked at Toon Link with a smile on their faces.
"Hmm, good job, Toon Link. You do have a brain! From now on, we're Belgium's Lustful Meat." Kirby said.
"It's Legend's Best Sweets."
"Same thing! Let's go, gang!"
The Legend's Best Sweets grabbed plates from the kitchen and a table with wheels on them so they could put the food on the table. Kirby made star cookies, Jigglypuff made cupcakes, Ness made mini pizzas, Lucas made spring rolls, Ice Climbers made frozen yogurt, Yoshi made Belgium waffles, Pikachu made hamburger sliders, Toon Link made dumplings, Squirtle made smoothies, and Diddy Kong made banana cream pies. The combination of salt and sweet would melt anyone's nose.
"Okay! When we see a Smasher, they must eat! We'll shove it down their throats if we have to!" Kirby exclaimed.
As the Legend's Best Sweets walked away from the kitchen with their rolling table of food utopia, Ike came out of the kitchen with a plate of fresh-baked, frosted sugar cookies. Each colored frosting represented the potion in each cookie just so he wouldn't get confused. The pink cookies had a love potion, the blue cookies had a baby potion, and the purple cookies had a shrink potion.
Marth came out of the kitchen with a plate of muffins. Just like Ike's strategy, but different muffin flavors.
Roy came out with a sandwich platter. The same with Marth and Ike's strategy but with meat. Turkey, roast beef, and ham. Not even a vegetarian sandwich. . . how dare he! Smh.
Samus, Pit, and Mario came out of the kitchen with their homemade cooking on a plate, mixed in with potions. Once the Smashers got out of the kitchen, they took glances at each other and their dishes.
Ike let out a cough before showing his plate of frosted sugar cookies to the prince. "Hey, Marth, want a cookie? It's tasty." Ike smirked.
"Hahaha. . . Why can't you have the first taste?" Marth then asked.
"I will."
"Taste it."
"I will."
"Taste it."
"I will."
"Taste it."
"I will." Ike grabbed the frosted pink cookie and placed it in his mouth; eyes still locked onto Marth's.
"See, there is nothing wrong with my coo-" Ike paused himself.
"What's wrong, Ike?"
"Let me take you out," Ike answered, taking a step forward to Marth. Hearts were floating above him, popping like bubbles every second.
"M-mama mia!" Mario gasped.
"Bruh. . ." Roy covered his mouth.
"Oh God. . ." Samus muttered.
"This is bad for my angelic eyes." Pit said.
Marth feeling a high wave of embarrassment began to back away from the mercenary in heavy love. "Heh. . . Hahahaha! Very funny, Ike. Lay off the drugs. Please, Ike."
"The only drug I need is you." The mercenary's eyes sparkled with a hot burning passion for the prince.
"That's gay! Stop it! I'm a heterosexual male!" Marth exclaimed, shoving Ike away. Ike then grabbed his hands, and pulled his arms closer, till they were face-to-face.
"Things are getting. . . spicy," Roy said, watching with Samus and Mario.
"Mmh." Samus, Pit, and Mario nodded.
"G-guys! Do something! Stop watching!" Marth burst out. Marth felt his head being pulled in from the mercenary noticing his lips getting closer to his own.
Marth reacted quickly, uppercutting his chin in a fast blow. Ike tumbled back from the blow, slipping on his feet and to the ground.
"You f-faggot fucker! I'm taking you straight to Makato!" Marth let out a frustrating sigh and grabbed his legs, dragging him to Makato's room.
Samus stood in place, shocked. "So, the love potion is that powerful, huh. . .?" She murmured to herself.
Roy's brain was partying with what he had witnessed. 'Man! Wish-I-had-my-camera! I'm sooo going to enjoy my two hours with Makato!'
(oOoOoOo)
The Legend's Best Sweets
As they headed to the nearest room, they came across Sonic walking casually as he whistled to the Sonic X opening song.
"Hey look, it's Sonic! Hey, Sonic, come here." Kirby started to wave his little palm thing over to the hedgehog.
"Hey, Kirby, what are you kids up to, and Link?" Sonic noticed Toon Link's strange appearance, looking like Link, but his eyes were different.
"I'm not Link! I'm Toon Link! I drank a potion to look a little older!"
"And for your information Sonic da Hedgehog, I'm sixteen. I feel great!" Ness said with confidence.
"Never asked. Never cared." Sonic shrugged.
"We're giving away free food to all of the Smashers. Would you like to be the first Smasher to have a treat? Or a snack?" Kirby said.
Sonic gazed at the food, smelling the food while he licked his lips, for his hunger grew gradually. Then he looked back at the group of kids, as they showed their creepy snickering and grins.
"They all look soooo delicious!" Sonic picked up the dumpling and took in a big whiff. "Should I eat some of those waffles that smell sooo scrumptious? Or maybe I should have the star cookies, no no no! I should maybe get those delicious dumplings with some extra pizza rolls. And a lovely fruit smoothie. I almost forgot! About those yummy hamburger sliders. Maybe the sweet icy, fruity, frozen yogurt will fill me up. So much food! I don't know what to choose!"
The Legend's Best Sweets sweated like crazy when Sonic started to describe the food that was on the table. Their own food that they'd cooked up.
"Hmm, I can't finish this all by myself. . . hmmm, I wonder who will help me feast on this AMAZING, DELICIOUS- -I said, delicious way too many times- -WONDERFUL, GREAT, food that you guys made? Hey! I got an idea: Why not you guys help me eat-?"
"Fuck yeah we're eating!" The Legend's Best Sweets shoved the hedgehog out of the way and pigged out on their own food that was meant to be a trap for the other Smashers. Idiots.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" Sonic noticed a sudden change from the Legend's Best Sweets to the Legend's Best Babies.
"Waaaaah~!"
"Goo-goo."
"Abububbubububu~!"
"Ororororororororo!"
"Wow! Would you look at that! Cute babies. Too bad nobody's gonna change your diapers for two hours." Sonic laughed, zooming away from the baby situation.
(oOoOoOo)
After That. . .
Marth dropped Ike's legs once he made it to Makato's room. Marth knocked on her door, only to be told to wait a brief minute.
"Just standing right next to you is torture enough," Marth growled. Ike slowly got back on his feet, recovering from the chin blow.
"Damn, I don't know why you hit me when all I ever did was love you," Ike said, cracking each side of his head.
Marth's face burned in rage but kept his fist from socketing Ike's throat. "Ike. Say one more thing and I'll kill you."
"Why can't I take you out? What's wrong with me?" Ike crept his arm around Marth's shoulders. Marth slapped it away, leaving a sting on Ike's palm.
"You're a man! That's why! Not to mention the sight of you acting like this makes me want to drink my own puke."
What felt like forever for Marth was only a minute for Makato as she opened her door. "Sorry about the wait, Marth."
"It's all good. Please get this idiot a normalized potion." Marth pleaded.
Makato looked at Ike, noticing the hook around Marth's arm. "Oh. . . for Ike?"
"I don't need it." Ike shook his head.
"Yes, you do," Marth said.
Makato went back into her room and handed Marth the normalized potion. "Here you go."
Marth then popped out the cork and handed it to Ike.
"Drink this Ike," Marth ordered.
"I said I don't need it, Honey."
"Fucking call me Honey one more time- -! Ike. . ." Marth let out a laugh of pure anger. "If you- -I can't believe I'm saying this- -if you love me, then you'll drink the goddamn potion. Ok?"
Ike stared at the potion, taking in what Marth said. "Alright. I'll drink this. Anything for my Marthy, Warthy, Larthy-"
"Drink it!"
Marth couldn't wait for a second and did the favor of shoving the whole drink down his throat, making the mercenary choke along the way. Five seconds later, the hearts popping from his head disappeared. A dark settling gaze showed up on Ike's face.
"Get your hands off me." Ike shoved Marth away the moment he was back at his regular self.
"I'll let that slide. . ." Marth sighed in relief. "Finally, it's over. Oh, Makato. . ."
"Yes?"
"Will he. . . remember any of this?"
"In terms of this certain time limit potion, yes," Makato said.
"Well, that's not good for you, Ike." Marth smiled, with veins popping around his forehead. "I need you to forget those dreadful things you've said to me."
"If you die, then I'll forget." Ike crunched his knuckles. Makato watched the two in a panic, as they began clawing each other's throats.
"Ike, Marth, please calm down! If you want, I can give you a memory loss potion. But all of your memories will be erased. . ."
"I think we'll be fine." Marth and Ike released each other's throats.
Ike glanced at Makato remembering the cookies he left downstairs. "I'll be right back."
"Same here." Marth followed Ike as they both hustled to the kitchen.
Roy made it up the stairs holding his sandwich platter as Samus stalked his steps from behind.
"Hey! Makato!" Roy ran up to Makato while keeping his sandwich platter in check.
"Hello, Roy." Makato paused herself from closing her door. She stepped outside of her room and met with Roy that had a bright smile spread across his face.
"Uh, do you want a sandwich? I made them! Here!" Roy grabbed a ham sandwich and handed it to Makato. "I bet you love ham! Have a ham sandwich!"
"Oh. . . ham." Makato trailed, smelling the pig product up her nostrils. "I'm sorry, but ham is the last thing I would want to eat. What about the roast beef sandwich?"
'Crap! I put the paralyzed potion in the roast beef sandwich! What am I going to do?! I can't break her fragile little heart!' Roy's panicked. "Well. . . you see umm-"
"Roast beef? I'll take one." Samus' voice peeked from behind. Roy and Makato looked over to Samus, taking the beef, lettuce, cheese, and bread.
Makato heard a slight screech from Roy's lips.
"Ah, wait- -Samus-" Roy couldn't stop her from eating the beef sandwich as she finished it in a couple of bites.
"Pretty good, Roy. . ." Samus commented.
Samus tried to move her arms and legs but she couldn't after consuming the sandwich. Not only her limbs, but her lips froze.
"Wow, Samus!" Roy let out a nervous laugh. "Don't you love to play freeze tag!"
"RRrr..y," Samus grumbled his name out.
"Did you put a paralyze potion in the sandwiches?" Makato asked Roy.
"Only in the beef sandwich!" Roy confessed. "I wanted you to have the ham sandwich so you could fall in love with me for two hours- -never mind that! I couldn't give you the beef sandwich because you would get paralyzed!"
Makato didn't say anything for a while before showing a soft smile. Roy's face burned up a cherry color, expecting a different reaction.
"I'll get a potion for her paralysis," Makato said, heading back into her room.
"Ay Caramba. . ." Roy's face cooled, taking a glance at the bounty hunter. "I tried to warn you. . ."
". . ."
(oOoOoOo)
By the time Marth and Ike came back to Makato's room with their homemade treats, the area around them was filled with baby Smashers crawling around.
"What the hell? Where did these things come from?" Ike shoved Baby Lucas with his foot over to the side of the wall.
"Hey, be careful. They're babies. . ." Marth warned.
"Personally, Baby Yoshi is my favorite!" Roy said, picking him up from the ground. He then gave a gentle rock. "Aww! You're so cute! Goochie, goochie, goo!"
"BLEH!" Vomit rained on Roy's shirt from the rocking.
"Ah. Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!" Roy stiffened from the vomit glued onto his shirt. He carefully set the baby down and focused his attention on his shirt.
"This is why I hate kids," Ike said.
Makato came back with the paralysis potion in her hand. Her eyes darted towards the ground, seeing the Smashers, but in baby form.
"Aww. . . Babies." Makato smiled. "I'll have to get a bunch of normalized potions for them. Marth, can you give this to Samus?"
"Oh, sure." Marth set his plate of muffins down and took the potion from her hands. "Is there something wrong with her?"
"Her body is paralyzed so she'll need this," Makato said, walking back into her room.
Marth walked up to Samus, noticing her walking position stance. "How did you get paralyzed."
"She ate the beef sandwich I made," Roy said.
"Like why. . . why would you do that? Honestly. . ." Marth pulled the cork out from the bottle and titled Samus' chin upward. "Once everyone has a little bit of power, everybody's sinister. Like seriously."
Ike rolled his eyes from his comment. "Acting like you're the only angel in this house."
"Yes, I believe I'm quite the angel here." Marth poured the potion gently into Samus' throat. With the whole bottle empty, Samus was able to move her arms and legs again.
Samus shot a glare toward Roy. "Roy, why didn't you tell me when you put paralyze potion when you know I like roast beef sandwiches?"
Roy gasped, showing a wide shoulder shrug. "Bruh! I don't know! You came out of nowhere!"
Makato left her room once more with a bunch of normalized potions for the babies. "I'll need some help feeding them."
"Sure." Marth, Roy, and Samus said.
Ike cringed at the sight of a smaller version of Kirby, while mini puffball gave him a mischievous smirk.
"Pwoyo. Get ready. . ." Baby Kirby said.
"For what? Huh? What can you possibly do?"
"Uh. . ." Baby Kirby paused. "I don't know."
After all of the babies were back to their regular selves, the Legend's Best Sweets disbanded themselves and went their separate ways.
"Thank you so much for everything, Makato." Marth picked up his muffin platter and walked towards the potion princess. "Experimenting with these potions was quite a roller coaster."
"Yes. I'm glad you guys enjoyed them."
"And. . . for your hard work. I want to offer you a nice blueberry muffin." Marth offered her muffin that was fused with a love potion.
"It looks delicious! Thank you!" Makato grabbed a blueberry muffin from Marth's plate.
"Hey! I made cookies! Take the pink one. For your. . . hair." Ike also offered her a cookie from his plater.
"Thank you, Ike. It smells great." Makato gleamed at the sweets she received from both of them.
Makato took a bite from the blueberry muffin and then a bite of the frosted pink cookie. As she ate, Marth and Ike side-eyed each other. Ike knew that Marth knew that they knew they gave Makato the same type of potion in that specific sweet.
It was only a matter of seconds before she would change.
Five seconds passed.
Ten seconds passed.
"Huh?" Marth and Ike were confused.
"What's the matter?" Makato asked.
"Uh. . ." The two bluenettes looked at each other before looking back at Makato.
"Shouldn't you be. . . feeling something?" Marth slowly asked.
"What do you mean?"
"Like here. . . I don't know. . ." Marth placed his hand on his heart. "Doki, doki. . .?"
"Hmm. . . is that so? Well, I do love the treats you've made for me." Makato walked up to Roy's platter and took a bite of the roast beef sandwich.
"Wait-! That has-!" Roy exclaimed.
Even when five seconds passed, she continued to eat the sandwich. That was when Marth knew that Ike knew that Roy knew she drank something to neutralize her own potions.
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After a long day of potions, dinner finally came around the corner. Chinese take-out with fortune cookies.
As much as Ganondorf didn't care about fortunes, for some strange feeling, the fortune inside the cookie called out to him.
'Don't waste a single second.'
Ganondorf smirked at his fortune. He looked over to Makato who ate beside Miru from across the table. He then caught a glance from Miru who had his eyes on him.
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Makato's Room
"Princess, do you want me to stay by your side?" Miru asked. "I can't shake this strange feeling. Somebody's watching you. . ."
"I'll be fine, Miru. You should get some rest." Makato yawned.
"Are. . . are you sure? May's tomorrow. Please, Makato. . . Sorry. Princess Makato."
". . ." Makato felt the crack of his voice but still shook her head. "If something happens to me, I'll let you know. Ok, Miru?" She placed her hand on his shoulder, assuring him.
Miru gave a slight bow. "I understand. Well. . . have a good night."
(oOoOoOo)
May 1st
3:00 A.M
Knock Knock
Makato adjusted herself in her bedsheets from the first couple of knocks.
Knock Knock
This time her eyes were half-opened. She rubbed her eyes and lifted herself, gazing at the front of her door.
Knock Knock
"Miru. . .?" A yawn escaped her lips. The knocking never stopped even when she called out in a quiet voice to the door. She slipped out of her bed and slowly walked over to the door in her pink nightgown.
She took in a deep breath before cracking the door at an inch, only to see a dark figure.
"Miru?" She asked.
No response.
Makato couldn't see their face due to the darkness outside the hallway. With no other choice, she slowly cracked the door halfway.
What felt like a baseball bat thrust straight into Makato's stomach, causing an unpleasant, sharp gag from her throat. She curled herself into a tight ball and held in her stomach from the excruciating pain, throbbing over and over. Before she had a chance to look at their face, her knees dropped and her eyelids grew heavy, collapsing right in front of their feet.
Ganondorf stared at her lifeless body and looked back at his fortune.
'Don't waste a single second.'
