Origins: The River City Girls
River City
"Let's get out of here," groaned Riki, the black-haired hero of River City
"I'm starving, let's get a Merv Burger, you girls wanna join us?" asked Kunio, the other half of hero the heroic duo of River City asked.
Their two girlfriends, the bubbly Kyoko and the brash Misako couldn't have been happier. The fewer questions that were asked about why they'd dropped in on the boys' spa day, raving about them being kidnapped, the better. Wordlessly, the two girls wrapped their arms around their boyfriends, heading to the group's favorite Merv Burger location, the girls discreetly fist-bumping as they walked. However, if they had paid a bit more attention, they would've seen a duo of parka-wearing children, one clad in blue, the other in pink, leaping from building to building, tailing them from a safe distance behind…
Merv Burger, Crosstown, sometime later,
"YOU DID WHAT?" shrieked Kunio,
Misako immediately facepalmed. Of course, Kyoko had accidentally let it slip that they had taken out Sabu's daughter and her henchmen today. Of course she had. Now, the date was ruined.
"So you just… decided we were kidnapped?" Riki quietly grumbled.
"BUT WE GOT A TEXT!" shrieked Kyoko, thrusting her phone into Kunio's hand, who had to wobble the Diet Spite he was actually holding to recover it.
Quizzically, Kunio thumbed through her texts. Most of which were from mutual acquaintances pointing them in the right direction, with addresses included. He would have to remember to hit each of them with the Spinning Piledriver later for this nonsense.
Finally, he found it. A text that simply read, "Riki n' Kunio r kidnapped lawl," from an anonymous number no-less.
"So, you got a text from an anonymous text from someone just saying we were kidnapped, and so you…" Kunio trailed off intentionally, to let one of the girls finish.
"We took down a criminal empire!" shouted Misako excitedly,
"As one does," mumbled Riki, covering his mouth to hide the smirk forming from it.
"You didn't stop to think it was a prank?" asked Kunio, his voice betraying absolute bewilderment now, "From Mami and Hasabe perhaps?"
The girls looked at each other, "Oh my God" said the duo simultaneously.
Riki was openly snickering at them now, shaking with laughter. Kunio's expression was just blank, now slack-jawed with shock. Riki spoke up after getting his not so subtle crack-up over the situation our of his system, "Think of it this way Kunio, we probably would've had to have dealt with Sabuko if they hadn't. That gives us six months to hit the gym while those idiots scramble."
"I mean yeah," said Kunio, finally acting normal again, "You did save us a ton of trouble. That's why you're our girls, right Rick?"
"Yeah, completely," said Riki, his eyes now soft and loving.
"Awww, Ricki-poo…" cooed Kyoko.
"Heh," smirked Misako, "I'll take my reward in the newest Blue Japan Puroresu DVD."
"This year's best Best of the Superheavyweights Tournament right? That's doable. I'll even throw in a Hiromu Tanahashi shirt for your trouble, cause you're the Ace Bomb of my heart."
"God, you're such a dork, but I love ya, and that's what matters," said Misako, an uncharacteristic sweet smile on her face.
"God, you're both dorks" Riki chided, playfully shaking his head.
"I know right?" Kyoko joined in.
Just as the foursome shared a hearty giggle. the doors to the Merv burger flung open, aggressively smacking the walls nearest to them. As the heroes of River City looked up, registering the commotion, their table levitated into the air, sliding directly into the boys, as both table, Kunio, and Riki slid helplessly to the opposite wall, taking out pedestrians in their unwillingly wake the table pinning the male contingent of the group to the wall. As the girls swung into action, they were flung to the ceiling. It was then that Misako noticed the purple-haired, shadow aura wielding punk causing the commotion,
"Oh God, it's Yamada."
"That creep?" asked Kyoto, "What could he want?"
"I'm sure if you give him five seconds he'll start monologuing."
"ATTENTION RESIDENTS OF RIVER CITY…" bellowed Yamada.
"And there it is." Misako groaned, rolling her eyes.
"And there you are," sneered Yamada, "Snarky even in the face of my great psychic power."
"Sir, this is a Merv's," whined a pimply-faced employee from behind the cash register, who's mouth was promptly covered with a telekinetically manipulated slice of lettuce
"Any more interruptions from you fools? I mean, lord knows you've probably got something stupid to say Misako."
"Nope, fresh out of quips for now," said Misako, "Get on with whatever you're gonna say.."
"Yeah!" agreed Kyoko, "The longer this goes, the flatter my soda's gonna get!"
"As I was saying," hissed Yamada, "You girls messed up my payday. But, you also created a power vacuum, and the only one powerful enough to take advantage of it is ME, the great YAMADA! The first thing on my list of to-dos is…"
"Do your laundry?" asked Kyoko.
"No, to take you out, to avoid a repeat performance."
With a dismissive wave of the hand, the girls were suddenly freed from the ceiling, hanging in the air. Suddenly, they were hoisted upside down.
"Prepare girls, for the ultimate Tombstone Piledriver. May you…rest…in….peace."
"Ugh, an Overtaker reference? 1991 called, it wants its wrestling reference back!" whined Misako.
"Can't you at least come up with a little something more modern? Like the Bomb Ace?" asked Kyoko.
"Trust me, honey," Yamada growled, "The only thing that's going to be a bomb is what your heads splatter on the floor of this fast-food restaurant!"
As Yamada began to snicker to himself, suddenly the large bay windows of the establishment exploded as two children in parkas, one in blue, and one in pink, kicked their way through it. Without a word, the two children simultaneously used ice breath to freeze each of Yamada's hands. As The River City Girls fell, the children leaped into the air, the blue-clad one grabbing Misako, and the pink-clad one grabbing Kyoko out of the air and landing them back safely unto the ground.
At that moment, Yamada broke through the ice, "Ah, so a couple of Eskimos have come to join the fight eh?"
"Actually, we prefer the term Inuit," quipped the one in blue.
"Not the time Popo, get into position," barked the one in pink.
"Right, sorry Nana," said Popo.
The two stood back to back, their hammers out in front of them.
"SQUALL HAMMER" they both shouted
They began to spin at an alarming rate towards Yamada, who immediately brought his hands up to block.
"KYOKO, follow me!" shouted Misako.
The two girls were stepping in synch now. Misako jumped into the air, Kyoko following suit. They both jumped off of the parka wearing duo's heads and executed a perfectly synchronized Double Dropkick. The force of the blow sent Yamada's forearms, which were up to block, colliding with his nose, which immediately broke it. In landing from the dropkick, Kyoko managed to roll behind Yamada, so as he turned, staggering from dizziness, Kyoko kicked him in the crotch, clasping his jaw with both her hands, turning around, and sitting down. The force of the blow sent Yamada staggering, this time into Misako, who effortlessly hoisted Yamada onto her shoulders in a sitting position, throwing him down on the ground.
"Ahhh, Stun Gun into a Powerbomb. Such a fun combo to hit," giggled Misako, wearing a vibrant smile, feeling the adrenaline
"I KNOW! The Leaping Nuke Guardians ain't got NOTHIN' on us!" whooped Kyoko.
"God Riki, how did we ever get so lucky?" dreamily sighed Kunio, who'd been watching the whole scene along with Riki.
"Honestly, I wonder that at least twice a day," remarked Riki as he helped Kunio move the table that pinned them to the wall.
"The Buff Twins are right, we need to learn cool stuff like that," remarked Popo.
"I agree," said Nana with a warm smile, "Girls, I'm Nana, he's Popo."
"Yo!" said Popo with a playful salute, "We want to invite you to a fighting tournament."
"That sounds like it rocks, count us in!" Misako cheered
"I agree!" said Kyoko with equal enthusiasm.
"And," said Nana, "We double as a peacekeeping taskforce, and so to bolster our roster with talent on that end, we're inviting auxiliary members, who have full use of the amenities. Riki, Kunio, do you want to come along. We're all going to be sharing a three-bedroom suite,"
"Dope, we're in! Riki?" asked Kunio,
"Sounds fun. We're in."
"Excellent, welcome to the Super Smash Brothers," Nana said.
Nana typed in a code, and the six stepped through the portal, to a silent mansion in the dead of night.
"Why's it so quiet?" whispered Kunio,
"Because it's nighttime, dummy," snapped Misako
"Smash exists in its own dimension and has its own timezone. It's pretty weird when you think about it."
"Yeah, we've been recruiting all day, and you guys were the last one. You'll have the weekend to get acclimated, and then the training begins."
"Why were we the last?" asked Kyoko
"Because we're the coolest!" quietly cheered Misako.
As they had done on the walk to Merv Burger, the girls fist-bumped, their respective beaus on their arms, except this time on the descent up the staircase. With their arrival, ROB cataloged the final open slot from the control room. The greatest roster in the history of Smash Brothers was completed. Everyone was here.
(AN: Hooray! We're finally done with Origin chapters! It's been a year and a half, but we made it gang! The first arc is done! Thank you to everyone who reviewed and read. Thank you to my friends at the Super Smash Prose, the best SSB Fanfiction server on the planet (the link is QYdhYnM come join us) for inspiring me and pushing me on. But if this sounds like the end, baby you ain't seen nothin' yet. Our next arc will be a two chapter mini-arc The Weekend, then we'll get into the much-fabled Physics Week, and then the tournament will truly begin! Things will only pick up from here, so read and review on! Special thanks to Plissken the Serpent for jumping in with a last-minute beta editing job.)