Things are gonna pick up now!

Must be of, let's say...Mature age to read this but not really.

Ch 3 The First Supper

"Attention Fighters." Both Roy and Ludwig shot up from the sudden rumble of Master Hand's voice and they looked around for the source. Suddenly, a television popped up from the wall in the middle of the room and on the screen were the two beings in their true gloved form.

"Wait, we had a TV this whole time?" Roy frowned.

"Vell, zat explains zis remote I found…" Ludwig held up the device.

"You mean ya found a remote and didn't bother trying to switch it on? What the Jaydes do you think it's here for!? A back scratcher?"

"Never you mind! Now hush! Zis could be important!" He snapped. He ignored his brother's grumbled curses as the hands spoke up.

"Since tomorrow afternoon will be the first time some of you fighters will be meeting each other we've decided to have a welcoming dinner that will be much like our traditional farewell banquet."

"Unfortunately unlike the last dinner there will be precautions to make sure the food won't be tampered with. He, hee." As Crazy spoke the two brothers can hear Bowser shout something about what he meant by 'tampering' and Ganondorf's bellowing chortle.

"With that being said I hope this dinner will be more civilized. Try to dress in your best attire if you plan on making a good first impression on the new additions to our family."

"Or if you want to intimidate them with your armor, fangs, and weapons!"

"Until then you are still restricted to your rooms. If we catch any of you offenders sneaking out your rooms again you will be facing our new 'Cruel Fighters' and trust me, you don't want that. Have a good night!" The screen went off without as much as a flicker, abruptly cutting off the message as soon as he finished.

"Cruel fighters? Who the heck are they?" Roy asked as he snatched up the remote from under Ludwig's uncaring snout.

"Apparently zey're here to keep us in check." He answered as he returned to his papers. "I vonder who zey are. Zey must be quite skilled if zey are guarding a house of fighters…"

Seven Little Clones

"It's time to change shifts." A tall, thin man with red eyes, red tinted sunglasses, and pink hair looked at the clock. "Of all the days to have the same shifts. I hope she won't be too mad watching the kids much longer."

"Hm?" A young woman next to him with sleepy green eyes and green hair looked up at him. "She loves watching them. Besides, it's only been a minute. They probably just stopped for a-Oh, here they are." She smiled and waved as three others wearing the same combat uniforms walked through the doors.

"Sorry we ran a little late. We had to meet up with Master about the dinner tomorrow." The girl with black framed glasses finished tying back her brown frizzy locks as she spoke.

"You two will be working again tomorrow morning. Then we'll take over with Mukade, Mathew, the purple guy, and Jeff." The other girl with brown hair and earrings explained the schedule the third girl had.

"They wrote down the agenda for the next week too." The girl with wild black hair and bright blue eyes held out the last paper just as the man with white hair and teal eyes finished his rounds. "He said something about it being the only nonnegotiable schedule."

"Hm. That's pretty much everyone. Do they expect something terrible to occur?"

"Meh, better safe than sorry." The girl with glasses shrugged as she started to activate her gun arm. "Guess we better get started. Master told us about one of the fighters in section FEEB planning a break soon."

"Yeah, you need help with that?" Her sister asked.

"No, but if you're coming anyway don't forget to put your sword on stun this time." She narrowed her eyes.

"Yeah, I mean you were almost fired for nearly killing that guy with the pointy moustache in section MZ…" The green haired one added just as she, her husband, and brother-in-law were about to leave.

"And Shulk…" The pink haired man added before waving a farewell. "Well, have a good night."

"You too."

"Yeah, we'll try."

SLC

"You snore worse than dad." Junior complained as he swallowed another bite of the breakfast pastry that was brought that morning. "I'm serious just go ahead and record it. It's like sleeping next to a thwomp playing jump rope."

"Yeah, well at least I don't drool like a fountain. It's like your pillow is a sponge now."

"Actually you both snore." Bowser corrected as he opened Ganondorf's special right door to check on the two youngest. "I'm very glad these walls are sound proof."

"Ours aren't" Roy opened the left door to speak. Ludwig wasn't about to say something until he noted Bowser closing the door leading to Junior and Larry's room.

"Ve could hear Ganondorf talking in his sleep again. Every . Agonizing. Detail. Zen again if anyone could be heard over sound proofing it vould be you loud mouzs."

"Hey, not cool son."

"You're just jealous of my wonderful dreams." Ganondorf walked out of the bathroom with a towel wrapped around his waist. Water dripped off his muscular body and eerily undone hair onto the carpet. "My sexy, bloody dreams."

"Ugh." Ludwig made his usual displeased face at him. "Honestly, you have no decency vhat so ever and I'm not even going to ask vhy you choose zose vords to describe your filzy dreams."

"You're lucky I talked him into putting on a towel." Bowser retorted.

"Damn straight they're filthy." He even did a little dance just to tick him off but shimmying his feet caused his only covering to slip to the floor... "Whoops."

"I, I believe I've just lost my appetite."

"Huh. Then can I have that?" Bowser pointed to the half-eaten food in front of him.

SLC

"Um. Princess Zelda?" Wendy couldn't believe how stupid she was at that moment. Why was she so scared to talk to a pointy eared-humanoid? Why did she cower under her strong stern, blue-eyed gaze? She looked fragile compared to her. Maybe this royalty had some sort of oppressive powers or something. Ludwig would be able to tell, she had to ask the first chance she got.

"Just call me Zelda." Her tone was boarder line sweet as she stopped mid sip of milk. She was slightly amused by her awkward behavior. She didn't think any kind of associate of the Koopa King would be shy at all.

"Right, Zelda." Wendy mumbled. She didn't notice her smile due to the distance between them. She decided to retract any further breach of silence. She cut into the breakfast in front of her, eating the way Ludwig and Iggy always did since her usual way was just as sloppy as Larry's. She glanced ever so slightly to see the other female was eating her eggs and some kind of meat just as neatly.

"That looks good. What is it?" Zelda was half curious half mischievous as she glanced at the pastry at the other end of the room. She was the type to toy with such withdrawn people but decided to go easy on her. She had a feeling if she pushed too much it could end badly and she didn't want to have to live with an enemy for over a week. The food was an egg shaped flaky buttery crust drizzled with caramel and red colored sauce. In the center was a blue fruity filling.

"Mm?" She shot a wide-eye look at her with the spoon still in her mouth. She gulped the bite down and answered. "It's, just a Sweet Baby."

"A what?" She was genuinely set back by the name. Where she came from food was usually called what they were like Cuckoo eggs and Dodongo steak or something made up Gooshma (A sort of stew).

"A Sweet Baby? It's uh, what did Lu say again? Ugh. It's like a Dark Land tradition or something. It's usually filled with sweet stuff like berries or chocolate but people like to make them with meat, veggies, and cheese mostly. There's some kind of stupid story behind it but I don't remember what it is."

"Hm, I see. Dark Land tradition?" She thought deeply about it. The curiosity was starting infect her mind. She had to find the library as soon as possible, maybe they added some Dark Land books if any. She had already read all the others and she was eager for some knew information.

SLC

"Yay! Yay! I can't wait to see the other's again! And new people too!" Lemmy hopped onto his ball with his usual bursting amount of zeal.

"Yes! Yes! New subjects! How exciting!" Iggy watched placed his claw on his static orb thing to make his hair stand up before switching it off. "I can hardly wait to meet them."

"Eh, Right, meeting new people. They could be nice, but mostly mean. I mean they have to be mean, right? What kind of fighter isn't mean? I guess they could be nice when they're not fighting. If they were good at controlling their anger? I mean, there is a way. I do it sometimes. I think about something that makes me really mad when I want to fight and then I feel better after I fight. It's kinda relaxing ya know? Though I guess there are better ways to make myself calm and relieve stress, but I-."

The door swung open with Bowser on the other end. He was wearing black suit coat, pale orange undershirt, and red bow tie aside from his normal spiked cuffs. "C'mon guys! Ya ready for the big dinner?"

"I am!" Lemmy cried cheerfully as he leapt from the ball into the King's large arms. He hugged onto the smallest one with a laugh.

"Aw, how nice." The sarcastic voice caused Bowser to growl as he turned to Wario. "That's so sweet I might just throw up candy canes! WA, WA, W-WAH!" He reached to rub his big nose after Bowser Kicked Lemmy's ball into the wide man's face. "Errr. Why are you so dressed up?" His voice muffled from his hand. All he wore was his biker clothes.

"Lu kept bugging me to wear something 'Zat vould make me more presentable'." He said mockingly.

"It's better zan looking like you do every ozer dinner." He defended as he walked out of his room. He had on a black suit coat, dark blue vest, white under shirt, and a red poofy thing that tucked into the vest. "I only vish Roy vould take ze same advice." He shook his head as Roy walked out the room too. He wasn't wearing anything other than his shell and shades.

"Dad, what the Jaydes are you wearing?" He asked.

"Yeah, you look like a fat, spiky penguin!" Ganondorf boasted.

"That's it. I'm taking it off! Grr-ah!" He didn't feel like going back into the room so he just set Lemmy down and tore off the clothes and let the shreds fall to the floor.

"That's more like it."

Ludwig only sighed in disappointment before mumbling how glad he was his father was still wearing his shell.

"Um. What just happened?" Larry opened the door just in time to see it and know why it was occurring. He half considered just closing the door and staying in his room for the rest of the night but Junior forced the door open all the way as he rushed past.

"Dad's just giving in to peer pressure, that's all." Explained the second oldest.

"Quiet Roy." Bowser snapped.

"Alright, let's get going! I want to get to the food before fat-ass Dedede eats everything again!"

"That was Kirby, Ganondork!"

"You wanna go, Fatman?!" He raised fists as they were surrounded by mystical darkness.

"Eh? Let me think…" He squinted one of his eyes and a let out a very rude poot from his rear before running off in the direction of the dining room.

"That fat little-!" Ganondorf ran after him leaving the others fanning off the pungent stink.

"Disgusting!" Wendy cried as she covered her mouth. She didn't expect running into such a thing when she opened her door. "Who died after throwing up?"

"Wario, who else?" Ludwig coughed after handing his sister his spare handkerchief. The rest of the family began to walk away to the dining room but he stayed behind to properly deal with it so the other guests wouldn't have to. He took out his wand and created a gust of wind to blow it into one of the open doors. "He can deal viz his own smell for once."

"He enjoys it nauseatingly enough." He turned his attention to the woman's voice and saw Zelda in the doorway. She wore her hair up with an elegant ball gown of purple and gold decorated with the triforce on her back and white gloves reaching her upper arms. "You know how to use magic quite well." She complemented wondering to herself just how he would react to her and studied his face carefully. What she noticed first off was that he was doing the same.

"Vhy zank you, your majesty. I appreciate ze compliment." He bowed. "I have no doubt you are just as skilled."

"Hm, I knew it." Wendy whispered. She trotted off to join the others knowing her brother would follow as soon as he was done being annoyingly elegant.

"I think your friend is leaving you."

"Hm? Wendy? My sister is not vone to vaint around. She is much like ze ozers in zat regard. Zey should learn to be more patient." He grumbled the last bit but pushed the aggravated thought away once they started walking.

"Sister? So are you all related then?"

"Yes, ve are all Koopas. I'm Ludwig Von Koopa, and you are?"

"Zelda." She was surprised he didn't reach to kiss her hand as was the action of suck ups.

"Zelda? I'm so sorry."

"Sorry? About what?"

"You are ze vone zat has to deal viz zat boar Ganondorf more zan any vone else." He shook his head but shot a surprised glance at her once she started laughing. "You're amused by him? I take it he hasn't done any real harm or are you just zat heartless toward ze endangerment of your people?"

"Heartless?" A smile grew on her face. This conversation would be interesting after all. "Hm, no, he hasn't actively hurt anyone. He merely tries to enslave them through fear of the monsters he controls. No one gets hurt unless they challenge his simple rules and it has never been anything life threatening. Tell me Ludwig, do you question all your new acquaintances so harshly?"

"Hm." He scrunched up his snout. "No, I apologize but I despise monarchs who have no concern for zeir responsibilities. Ignorant royalty is vhat guillotines are made for."

"And your Father isn't one of them?"

"No, believe me. I vould never allow it. Being ze Second in Command gives me some assurance in zat. My brozer Roy is head of ze military so ve often sit in viz Fazer and ze heir Junior in most of his meetings."

"Second in command? Shouldn't that be the heir's position?"

"He's still too young to fully take ze position besides title so I have to occupy it for him. I have to show him zings and teach him about it until he is old enough."

"I see. What will you do once he is old enough?"

"I don't know honestly, I haven't really zought of it. It's a long vay from now." She could tell he was lying about the first part of his statement as he glanced away. She thought about what those plans could be. She couldn't have been further from the truth.

"You must feel some loathing toward him for it. Taking your place, after all, aren't you the oldest?" He hesitated for a moment, giving her a hint of a false notion. But he turned and looked into her stern blue eyes with his pure blue ones with the upmost seriousness.

"I vould never loathe my little brozer for such a selfish reason. If zere's vone zing my Mozer taught me is to protect my siblings at all costs." That put an end to the conversation as they were not far from the room. "Forgive me Zelda, but zis is vhere I take my leave." He said as he bowed once more and pushed open the doors to the large dining area. He joined the rest of his family at the table.

"Hm. What do you want then?" She mused to herself. She took in the atmosphere as pushed open one of the doors slightly. The large room was currently occupied by one large wooden table in the middle. This table would be used only during special events, other times it would be lots of different circular tables. The doors leading to the cafeteria line flew open with different waiters and waitresses bringing out drinks and appetizers of various kinds.

The walls were painted with Renaissance style scenes and cherubs. At each corner were statues of women and men holding or doing different things. Next to the statues and around the table were positioned several different people dressed in Smash Brothers combat uniforms.

"They must be the Cruel Smashers I've heard so much about." She studied every one of them. "They, don't appear to be that professional…"

"What took you so long?" Ganondorf mumbled as he sipped something blood red most likely a form of wine.

"I had a very interesting conversation." He sat next to him since Roy was other side of the seat. "Vhat did I miss?" He asked the Koopa next to him.

"One of the Cruel fighters had ta threaten that blonde guy."

"Vhat, Ganondorf didn't attack any vone?"

"I have a feeling he might soon." Roy glanced at Wario who was seated next to Mario who was seated next to Luigi who was seated next to Bowser who was seated next to Ganondorf.

"Hm. I'm just vondering vhy he hasn't already." Roy only shrugged in response.

"What the hell!?" Luigi glared at Wario as a silent cloud drifted about them. "Don't make me bust a fire flower in your ass Wario!"

"It wasn't me it was Ganondope!"

"Alright, that's it! You're goin' down tubby!" The tall muscular Gerudo shot up with his dark magic ready.

"Hey, sit down punk!" Shouted the woman with brown frizzy hair. She held her sword in position for a strike.

"After I KILL Wario!" He lunged at the man as he started to run off.

"Jade, set to stun! I MEAN IT!" The girl with glasses warned her as she darted after the two. "Jeff, help her!"

"I don't need no damn help!" She lunged at one of the runners only to slice through the table in front of Princess Peach.

"Oh, My!"

"Aw man," The man with orange dyed hair and beard sighed. "She's gonna hit me again I just know it." He said as he ran with tranquilizing brawling gloves ready.

"Then Mukade, hold her back! We don't need her causing any casualties!"

"Got it!" The teal eyed man nodded. He shot Wario just as he ran by and brought the whole line of attack to a halt. The rest of the dinner was tame compared to that and it left every one realizing this event will be just as wild as the last few if not worse.