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Chapter 2: Introductory
The fighters from the Mushroom Kingdom were immediately deposited in front of an enormous mansion that looked more like a castle than anything else. On the front door of the mansion, the smash emblem stood proudly. Beside the oaken front door stood a person that seemed to be made entirely of purple wire, but with the same emblem as the front door on its face. Mario looked back at Luigi and Yoshi, and they nodded. Mario walked forward to the wired person, followed by the other two. Before Mario could say anything, the wire man started speaking.
“Hello there, smashers, I am a wire frame, servant of Master Hand. He is the owner of this mansion and organizer of the tournament.” He spoke this in fluid Italian to Mario and Luigi. “Before you go inside, allow me to give you this.” In his hand he held two small earpieces. “This is your translator,” the wire frame spoke, “Set the language you speak on the device, and you will hear everyone speak to you in that language, and you will be able to understand them.” Mario and Luigi took the translators, set them to Italian, and placed them in there ears. “You may now enter. He opened the door and Mario Luigi walked inside. The wire frame then turned to Yoshi and spoke calmly: “Yoshi yoshi yoshi. Yoshi yoshi. Yoshi. Yoshi. Yoshi yoshi yoshi.” He then handed another translator to Yoshi. Yoshi placed it in his ear and proceeded inside.
The Mushroom Kingdom gang looked around. They had stepped into a quite majestic entrance hall. The walls were covered with majestic paintings and there was a beautiful chandelier hanging high above their heads. The furniture was all extremely elegant, and the walls were coated with majestic gold paint. In the front of the room, there was an electronic screen that was blank at the moment.
“Wow…” Yoshi murmured in awe.
“Hey, these translators really work,” breathed Mario, also taken in by the beauty of the room. “Well!” he said, jarring himself from his trance, “Let’s go make some friends.” They each walked off in separate directions.
Mario walked over to a red velvet sofa where a man in green with long ears was sitting beside a fox. He plopped down next to them. “So,” Mario asked, “are you guys here for the tournament?”
“Yep,” replied the large eared man. “Name’s Link. I’m from Hyrule.”
“And I’m Fox, a Starfleet captain,” replied the fox.
“I’m Mario, from the Mushroom Kingdom. So what’s your story? Apparently you have to be a pretty good fighter to get into this thing.”
“Well, I’m from a kingdom myself, called Hyrule. I basically protect it from evil. Some call me the Hero of Time.”
“Heh. Small world. I tend to protect and rescue the princess from my kingdom, Peach.”
“Ha! Even smaller world! I’m always saving the princess from my place! Her name is Zelda.” The way he said it caused Mario to think.
“Sorry to intrude a little, but you like her don’t you?”
“I-uh-well…” Link trailed off nervously.
“Ha! You do, don’t you!” Mario smiled and pointed at Link.
“Shut up!” Link play-punched Mario in the arm. “Hey! I bet you like that princess of yours!” Link cried.
“I-uh-well…” After realizing what he’d said, they all burst out laughing.
Fox calmed himself first, and then told the two about some of his adventures and his loyal crew.
Meanwhile, Luigi had found himself a spot next to a blonde woman with a full suit of armor on, and a man with a red helmet on. They had already talked for a bit. “So, Luigi, you’re pretty cool. I can’t believe you do all those sports,” Samus said.
“Yeah, it’s really awesome,” added captain Falcon. “I’m a racer myself, actually.”
“That’s cool,” remarked Luigi. “What kind?”
“High speed races mostly, in F-Zero machines.” Luigi nodded, pretending to know what this meant. “So Samus, what do you do?”
“I’m a bounty hunter.”
“Really??? Me too!” cried out Falcon.
“Awesome.”
“So do you guys know anyone here?” asked Luigi.
“Not really,” they both replied. “Do you?” Falcon asked.”
“Yeah, I do,” Luigi said. “Look over there. See the red guy that looks like me? He’s my older bro. And that green dinosaur is Yoshi. He’s from me and my bro’s place, too.”
“That’s pretty awesome,” said Captain Falcon. “So you guys must be pretty amazing fighters, huh?”
“Well, we do our share of adventuring, trumping evil kings, the works.”
“Heh.” Captain Falcon smirked.
“Well, it seems to me that everyone is pretty friendly around here. I think this tournament is gonna be fun,” Samus murmured, half to herself.
Over in another part of the room sat the others. Kirby, Jigglypuff, Donkey Kong, Pikachu, Ness, and Yoshi had already bonded. Kirby, DK, and Yoshi because of their insane love of food, and Ness, Jigglypuff, and Pikachu because Ness loved cute animals. Each one seemed to get along well with the others.
As they were talking, they heard a whistle from the front of the room. In front of the screen floated a giant, white, gloved hand. There were a few gasps of awe, and a squeal that came from either Ness or Pikachu. “Everyone, your attention, please.” As if he didn’t have it already. “I am Master Hand, coordinator of this tournament and owner of this mansion.” Looking around the room, he saw a few scared looks. “Please, you have nothing to fear from me. Now, let’s get down to business, shall we?” As he spoke, he snapped his fingers, and 12 chairs appeared in front of him, lined up, in one row. Again, more gasps. “Please, take a seat,” Master hand spoke warmly. From left to right, this was the order: Fox, Link, Mario, Luigi, Samus, Captain Falcon, Kirby, Yoshi, DK, Jigglypuff, Pikachu, and finally, Ness. “Alright then!” chimed Master Hand. “Your rooms have been taken care of, and will be given to you after we see the tournament standings. There are training areas where you can spar with my wire frames or each other. There is also a break the targets training are, and a board the platforms area. For those of you concerned about safety, there are automatic shields on you that will prevent you from being harmed during any fight. Now, let’s go to the screen, which will show who is fighting who. He waved his hand toward the screen which was now lit up. Everyone stared at the board.
This is what it read:
1st Round:
Luigi vs. Jigglypuff – Hyrule
Donkey Kong vs. Fox – Dreamland
Mario vs. Kirby – Planet Zebes
Link vs. Pikachu – Saffron City
Ness vs. Yoshi – Mushroom Kingdom
Samus vs. Captain Falcon – Kongo Jungle
The smashers all had different reactions. Luigi breathed an inward sigh of relief. He had looked at Jigglypuff earlier and decided that she would probably be easy to handle. Donkey Kong and Fox really didn’t know anything about each other, but it looked like a match of small and speedy to large and lumbering. Mario figured he could probably win the match, but there seemed to be more to that pink puffball than met the eye. Link also thought he could win his match, but he heard about Pikachu’s electricity and was wondering how easy it would really be. Samus and Falcon, having already forged a friendship, were a little disappointed. They had hoped both would last a little longer in the tournament. Ness and Yoshi looked over at eachother, but because they were to far away, they couldn’t exchange words, but their look signified that it would just be a friendly fight, and may the best man-or dinosaur-win.
“Oh well,” said Samus. “It’ll be a good fight, with no grudges held.”
“Yeah,” replied Falcon. “And I won’t go easy on you just because you’re a woman.
At this, Samus let out a laugh. “Right. And I won’t go easy on you just because you’re a man.
After Master Hand had explained some more rules, everyone headed off to their rooms, energized about the days to come.
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