Against All Odds, M (MP, V, CH)

[Pik]

By Charity and Nathan Vasquez, and Dillon Decicio.
This is an unofficial, fanfiction, Super Smash Brothers novel.

Prologue

Female Narrator: When worlds come together and fates collide, remarkable things happen. And when unlikely friends join forces for the cause of heroes, fear subsides and darkness diminishes. Never in a million years would anyone have imagined that a rough-and-tumble band of warriors from different worlds would join forces one day, under such an unexpected organization as the Super Smash Brothers.

But who are the Super Smash Brothers? Well, I think every one of us would define them differently. We all see this place and these people from our own point of view, so I won't try to explain the way I think of them. Rather, I'd like to reveal where they came from...and how this all began.

The organization of the Super Smash Bros. came into being on a planet called Minerva, a planet with more than enough room for growth and expansion, but with enough populous that the Super Smash Bros. would become well known and the word would get out. The organization was founded by Captain Falcon, who decided to, with some of his endless winnings from F-Zero races, build a stadium to serve as a battle arena. He had this theory that if people liked to watch racers exploding into flames in fast-paced action, they'd love it even more if people pummeled each other's brains out for the common good of entertaining the crowd. Of course, pummeling involved, but certainly was not limited to, multiple explosions.

Captain Falcon invited some of his friends from the races to try their hand at battling in the stadium.

He was surprised at how many people died. Especially this one guy, named Fox McCloud.

Male Narrator: Hey, whoa! What are you telling these people, Samus? Nobody died! Well...besides the first few janitors and announcers, but that was only because we hadn't worked the bugs out of the automatic sprinkler system/crime-prevention plasma cannon!

Samus Aran: That's a technicality. People died, and Falcon WAS surprised.

Male Narrator: You're poisoning the minds of these people with falsehoods and lies! ...Why doesn't this surprise me again?

Samus: It's the truth. Mostly. Only a little bit is SLIGHTLY embellished.

Male Narrator: I'm not dead!

Samus: That's the part that I decided to embellish.

Fox McCloud: Well these people need to know what REALLY happened.

Samus: I know, that's why you should leave and let me do the talking.

Fox: (ignoring Samus) Falcon's friends soon contacted some of their friends, who contacted their friends, etcetera. Well, eventually the word of the Smash Stadium started getting out across the entire galaxy, and people everywhere knew who we were and watched us battle each other from every corner of every star system. Some people were even crazy enough to come to us for vacation.

Samus: Hey. I really thought I could get away with a week of relaxation until I met YOU.

Fox: Yeah. Then weeks became months, and months became years because you just couldn't live without me, heh heh.

Samus: In your dreams, McCloud.

Fox: I would never dream of anything involving you. Those are all nightmares. (He got an elbow to the ribs.)

Samus: You're dragging this out! Nobody's ever gonna know anything about the Smashers if you don't shut up and start talking.

Fox: ...Uh...What?

Samus: (pushing him to the side) Nevermind. So anyway, long story short, the Smash Stadium quickly became an organization filled with complete and total lunatics, such as Fox here. (Now she got an elbow to the ribs.)

Fox: Captain Falcon stepped down--

Samus: He was overthrown.

Fox: I was trying to make us sound NICE.

Samus: And you thought I was over-embellishing? Ha!

Fox: ... Falcon was overthrown--

Samus: Brutally.

Fox: Would you knock it off?!

Samus: Sorry.

Fox: (glaring) ...and Mario took over. No sooner had that happened though that trouble started brewing.

Samus: That term is majorly cliched. (Fox began to speak but Samus clamped his mouth shut.) A highly advanced race of mechanical warriors was sweeping through the galaxy, making it their goal to destroy all life on the surface of every planet, and build extensive factories in the planet cores to further their own race. We, the Smashers, found out about it before they reached Minerva, and under Mario's lead, we decided that since we all had enough experience saving worlds, galaxies, and kingdoms, that we could fight off this enemy force. We built a space station, using Captain Falcon's money, and launched it. We sought out the Econos, as the mechanical race was called, and clashed with them in space and on the surface of a planet called Rylan IV. We found the Econos had many different models of warrior, but all of them were designed in some way or another, after animals and creatures from other planets, maximizing the body design and fighting capabilities of their forces.

Fox: It was tough to get around their well-balanced battalions, but what can I say? I'm a great pilot.

Samus: And so modest too.

Fox: Yup.

Samus: We managed to force the Econos to retreat to the ice rock of a planet known as Galacia, and they hid from us there, in the mountains. Mario sent a team of Fox, Link, and I to hunt them down and flush them out. What we found was a stranded squad of anthropomorphic-and-possibly-part-Lylatian fighters who had built a small military base. We also found that the Econos had already been threatening this planet before. We joined forces, flushed out the Econos, and then "rescued" the stranded fighter squad in exchange for them leading us to the Econ homeworld. When we got there, we were forced into a huge battle in orbit around the desolate planet, and tensions began running high between all of us. I made the decision to sneak off and invade the planet by my lonesome in a suicide mission to find and defeat the Econ commander, Kronade.

Fox: That was one of your more emo moments.

Samus: Shut up. People hated me back then.

Fox: You mean they don't anymore?!

Samus: Well now I know they're just jealous, so I don't take it personally.

Fox: Who'd be jealous of a tin can with beach ball shoulders?!

Samus: ...Says the guy who searches deviantART for images of me without my suit.

Fox: WHAT?! I do not!!!

Samus: That's not what the forensic computer analyst said.

Fox: ...You hired a forensic computer analyst to SPY on me?!--

Samus: ANYWAY! I made my way into the planet's factory core, and was captured...and nearly killed.

Fox: (grumbling) Yeah, and you'd be dead now if Ridley and I hadn't saved your butt and helped you defeat Kronade....The moral of the story- never trust a woman to do a man's job.

Samus: WHAT?! You couldn't have done it by yourself either!!!

Fox: No, I couldn't have. It would have been too easy that way, so I would have asked someone to tie my hands behind my back first!</>

Samus lunged to attack Fox, but he stepped to the side and Samus tripped. Fox stepped on her back.

Fox: After we defeated Kronade, we had to escape the factory core before things self-destructed.

Samus: (from the floor) Which didn't surprise me at all.

Fox: Apparently, the other Smashers forgot about us and planned to blow up the planet to get rid of the Econos once they won the space battle.

Samus: Also not surprising.

Fox: We escaped though, and when we arrived back on the SSB Base, we got to watch fireworks. Everyone gave me medals for my bravery.

Samus: (throwing Fox off of herself and standing up at last) Dreaming again, I see. You don't have any medals.

Fox: Not since you snuck into my trailer and STOLE them!

Samus: I wouldn't want any dirty old medals that touched YOU at one point in time.

Fox: I bet you sleep with them at night because you wish I was there.

Samus: You better hope that we're not lined up in any matches together for a few weeks, McCloud!

Fox: (ignoring Samus again) With all that said and done, we returned home and left our space station base on Rylan IV, before all of us went our separate ways.

Samus: The Smash Brothers disbanded. Tensions were too high and we all needed to return to our homes and jobs to save more galaxies, planets, and kingdoms. We left the Stadium, thinking we'd never return. Boy how wrong we were.

Fox: As soon as Captain Falcon completed missions elsewhere and made more money, he came back to the Stadium, and started to revamp it. He built a theme park, malls, hotel suites. You name it, he built it, and soon the Stadium became a huge vacation spot again. Some of us got curious--

Samus: You know how curiosity kills things.

Fox: --Exactly, and we got caught up in Stadium life again. Before we knew it, we were all back together, and even MORE people began joining.

Samus: Which brings us to today. We're all a big happy family making a living killing each other.

Fox: Every family should take at least one night a week to do that. It really does bring people closer together.

Samus: Precisely. Screw the therapists who came here and tried to tell us how unhealthy this place is.

Fox: I like the media better.

Samus: Now THEY know what they're talking about. But...speaking of talking, weren't we doing something?

Fox: (pointing outward) Forgot about our audience already?

Samus: Oh! Right. Well...they're all caught up now. We should probably start signing autographs, then get back to work.

Fox: You do that. I'm going to go save the day again and be everyone's hero, as usual.

Samus: (putting her arm around Fox's neck and messing up his hair) And win more nonexistent medals?

Fox: They exist. I bet YOU don't have any medals. (He growled at her and pulled away.)

Samus: I have plenty.

Fox: That you STOLE.

Samus: Oh, you wanna start that again? It's ON now! (She began walking to the door.)

Fox: (following) Bring it!

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Disclaimer:

Without Prejudice. The names of all characters contained here-in are the property of Nintendo. No Infringements of these copyrights are intended, and are used here without permission.

Fan characters (none of which have appeared... Yet.) are the property of Charity(Shadow the Hedgehog), and Nathan Vasquez(SwiftChocobo) and Dillon Decicio.(Pik, Pikmin Knight, PikminMaster(7))

[Occoris]

Moved from "Fan Fiction Shelf" to "Fan Fantasy" due to projected M rating.

- on the not-moderating hand- I found myself somewhat amused :3

[Pik]

I seemed to have missed the restricted access thing. Oops. No big deal, IMO.

I'm only copying stuff that's already on DevArt anyways. And I refuse to put a disclaimer on each chapter. *lazy* If it's there once, it obviously applies to the whole story. It would also appear I let some things slip in my editing, I call that laziness too. *Fixes it and that's the last of the work I intend to do on my birthday.*

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Against All Odds
By Charity and Nathan Vasquez, and Dillon Decicio.
This is an unofficial, fanfiction, Super Smash Bros. novel.
Chapter 1: Minerva

The sun's warm rays shone brightly, nurturing the lush greenery that the emerald planet was famous for. Minerva, a celestial body of seemingly perpetual plains and miniature oceans of fresh water, was a utopia of sorts. Small though it may have been, the entire planet flourished in the caresses of a consistently moderate climate. With only one major city on the planet's surface, the vast expanses of soft grass and the purity of the few but gorgeous oceans were unspoiled by human habitation. The air, crystal clear as the waters, smelled fresh and alive.

Samus breathed deep. Inhaling natural, unprocessed oxygen was a refreshing luxury. It felt good to not have to wear her helmet all the time.

The huntress stood atop a grassy knoll looking out over the open plains and the Smash Stadium. The view was absolutely breathtaking. Like living on the countryside in the middle of nowhere, but with the convenience of the planet's single city near enough to see the edge of its silvery skyline, the gently rolling hills of Minerva appeared to extend forever in every direction. The occasional tree or grove broke up the never-ending carpet of grass, but there were no true forests to hide the beauty of the fields. Samus relaxed, reveling in the feather-soft kiss of the breeze. She could faintly hear the clanking and hemming of construction equipment as it continued its work in one of the Smash Stadium's many theme parks.

The Smash Stadium was Minerva's main attraction. Home to the now legendary Super Smash Brothers and a wealth of amusement areas, the Stadium and its grounds spread out over several hundred acres and boasted opportunities for the wildest, most enjoyable vacation in the galaxy. The main building towered ten stories into the air and was connected to the stadium itself with a three story tall, glass-walled bridge. The main building housed a thousand hotel rooms, the "Living Legends Museum", gift shops, a casino, a mega arcade, restaurants, an expansive children's play place, a bowling alley, an indoor pool, and many other basic and luxury amenities.

The grounds flaunted a trailer park for staff members and long-term guests. Aside from that, the land surrounding the stadium was occupied by over a dozen racetracks of varying size and shape where fans watched fast-paced Mario Kart races. Several tennis courts and golf courses provided a haven for many sports fans, and eight memorable theme parks appealed to all vacationers. There was even an impressive boardwalk where the Stadium grounds backed up to a roaring freshwater ocean.

The Smash Stadium itself was by far the greatest attraction of all, and was the pride and joy of everyone who worked hard to keep it running, including the nearby city. Even with the capacity to seat over one hundred thousand people, the great coliseum was nearly always packed out. For the patrons who had to be seated a great distance from the action, four massive screens were installed to ensure the best experience for everyone. The floor of the stadium was metal, and as each fight began, the floor would open wide, releasing one of twenty-nine hovering battle stages for the Smash Brothers to clobber each other upon.

A loud cheer erupted in the distance, followed by the chanting of Mario's name. Samus smiled as she brushed a strand of blonde hair out of her eyes. The fights were going quite well. The battles had not been canceled due to construction. There was no reason to deny the public of the star attraction. Besides, as long as the fights continued, the Bros. were making valuable money and pleasing adoring fans. What could be more important than that?

The voice of the loudspeaker carried out into the otherwise silent hillsides. "THIS GAME'S WINNER IS . . . . MARIO!!!" It barked. The crowd exploded into unrestrained applause as Mushroom Kingdom music began to play.

Samus sighed. It was time to head back for lunch. The others probably missed her anyway.