Smash Hall: City of Smashers

[slomoto]

Peter watched as Jim shuffled back and fourth with the large stone structure with his hands. It was not a sidekicks place to intervene in such things. Also, he was making sure amongst all of the shuffling crowd didn't accidentally step on one of his feet. "Oh, um, I'm Peter." He said in a saint tone to the giant hare. "This is Earthworm Jim: the galaxies' mightiest invertebrate. Have catastrophe. Will travel."

[xenomina]

Peach continued her healing duties the best she could. There were still plenty of people hurt, and she was beginning to really feel a toll from using so much of her healing magic. Nevertheless, she wasn't going to stop helping out until she had either fainted from using up all of her magic, or someone forced her to step back and rest. All she could do was hope that help was on the way.

[Topaz Mutiny]

Salvation. A pious word in any language, and it was the same among Pok?mon. When Pikachu noticed his call had fortunately been answered by the sounds of groaning rocks, he expected one or two boulders to be lifted, not the whole pile. Fear gave way to shock, shock gave way to relief, and relief gave way to tiredness, and a very greatful Pikachu.

Having been slumped down after his successful attempt at getting someone's attention, Pikachu glanced up to his savior as he was addressed. He was free, free from the small confines of his prison by... some kind of imp-thing. And better yet, he was rescued a second time by yet ANOTHER GIRL. Of course, these thoughts were only fleeting and half-considered, as he was far too relieved to care about whom had saved him.

His eyes welled, and as the imp checked him out, he grabbed onto her and started spouting what sounded like gibberish. Very happy gibberish, but gibberish nonetheless. His hug barely had any strength in it, as he was so weak from the incident. Despite that, he was certainly making one thing clear: Midna had made this claustrophobic Pikachu very, very happy.

[Stoney]

"Wh -- HEY!"

Midna actually recoiled when she was accosted by a pair of grubby yellow paws all of a sudden. She tried backing away and discovered to her chagrin that the mouse had a death-grip on her. The sudden stream of nonsense that the animal sobbed at her didn't help matters, either. Midna winced a bit, wondering where her wolfen translator was when she needed him.

Ugh, she was probably getting all kinds of rodent germs now. Hands that had previously been trapped in the grimy and gritty depths underneath those rocks were now attached to her skin. She wrinkled her nose a bit as she resolved to take a bath later.

This wasn't the time to worry about such things though. Even though the experience was less than pleasant, she could still sympathize with the animal's feelings of relief and gratefulness. Din knows that Link had evoked such feelings in her over the course of their adventure: the sudden release of tension combined with the euphoric realization that things would be okay created an overwhelming deluge of emotion that temporarily wiped out rational thought. Even if this mouse was just a simple animal, it was still able to feel and express such things, making it more intelligent than Midna had given it credit for.

The animal needed comfort and assurance...but she could provide that while maintaining a respectable distance. Right now her own modesty was very much insisting that the rodent let go of her.

Forming a hand out of her fiery red hair once again, Midna quickly stretched her third arm over Pikachu until she grasped his lightning-bolt tail. She gently but firmly pulled him off her and into the air before setting him back down a foot away.

Then she leaped into the air herself, hovering a meter off the ground so the animal wouldn't get any more funny ideas.

"Um...there, there," She replied awkwardly to the mouse's noises as she patted its head between the ears with her third hand. "You're, uh, you're welcome." She sighed, wondering if the mouse could even understand her if it didn't speak her language. Oh well. "I'm looking for someone right now, so I don't have time to stick around." The animal was injured, but that other girl who dashed off just now seemed hellbent on fixing that, and more importantly, she'd known precisely who and what the mouse was. What had she called it? Peek-a-boo?

Well, regardless, the situation would be fine now without her interference. She needed to resume her search for Link now, and...

...Hey, wait a minute.

Midna hesitated, her visible eye blinking at the mouse while she wondered if it was even worth the effort to ask (she already felt silly enough by just talking to the thing as if it understood and comprehended her). But then she countered her own doubts with a single question: what did she have to lose? Well, besides dignity.

"Um, have you seen a tall man with elf ears in a green tunic around here? He carries a sword and a shield with him, and, uh, he wears this silly little pointed hat." She briefly mimicked the shape of it with her hair. "He's my friend and I've lost track of him."

[Mage]

When Laharl saw Pikachu, he started to walk over to the electric mouse with his hands places lazily behind his head. "Yo, there you are." Laharl wondered what happened to him during all that destruction. "Glad to see you made it, you sure are a tough one...huh?" His red eyes then looked over at Midna, what was she; some kind of new demon type? Too small to be a humanoid yet too big to be a lesser demon. "...Who the hell're you?" The demon boy rudely asked the Twili girl.

[SHM 128 III]

Slippy nodded at Peter.

"Yes, we met Jim and Peter during our reconnaissance mission on that new planet ROB 64 found. It... Um... Actually, it'd probably be easier to save the explanation for the official debriefing onboard the Great Fox. Heaven knows I'm having a hard time believing what happened there..."

Surveying the damage again, the toad turned back to Peppy.

"So, what do you need assistance with? Clearing debris? Assisting the injured?"

[AnT]

"Assisting the injured, we might as well, Slippy." Peppy pointed his thumb at the princess behind him. "I'm not sure how long her highness can keep up with her magic, and the medical crew should be here at any moment."

The hare turned, walking up toward a person who was on his rear, looking woozy. Peppy held up two fingers for the man to see if man wasn't brain-damaged. Seeing how he's fine, Peppy patted his shoulder as he stood up, and then walked back to the toad.

"By the way, where's your ship? And Falco? My sensors didn't detect your Arwing where you were." He could very well guess what Slippy did with it, but he still hoped he was wrong. And as for Falco, he probably went on his loner self, like always. If he did that, that might meant the mission went on like Hell.

And boy, he had no idea how close he was.


"Uh oh..." His mechanical arms and legs were starting to loose its balance as Jim skidded to the left. "Steady...steady..."

"Jim!!!" Something that the princess was trying to control, but the worm's pull was also dragging her. "Hold it together!"

"Must..." Gritting his teeth as tight as a pickle jar, Jim tried to lift the statue. "...not...cause...collateral damage!"

But alas, the giant statue slipped off his fingers....slamming right into the vast lawn with a thundering boom. Luckily, the statue landed with no cracks, but it did rolled on some small trees, crushing them like wooden cans...

...as well at it shattered a small statue completely covered by the trees. A certain skinny plumber, the statue was.

"Uh...oppsies..." Grinning, nervously, Jim held his hands behind his back and quietly sneaked away.

[xenomina]

Speaking of princesses...

Peach was having a hard time now helping out with the wounded. She could feel her tapping out the last of her healing magic with her last patient. She felt tired and dizzy as she wobbled towards the next injured person right by the entrance to Smash Hall. As she got close, though, her body finally lost it's strength...

And the princess of the Mushroom Kingdom fainted right there on the steps of Smash Hall, too exhausted to do anything else now.

[Topaz Mutiny]

Pikachu was slightly disoriented as he was picked up by the tail and placed on the ground nearby, but recovered enough to take in more of his surroundings. The Pok?mon sighed in response to Midna's 'welcome', and the pettings. Sure, he didn't necessarilly like being treated like that, but right now he was just glad to be out of that rubble.

Pikachu looked up when he heard a familiar voice, and smiled brightly, though weakly, at Laharl. Bunny-ears survived! "Ka-chu-pii." Pikachu pipped waving at Laharl, happy that his new friend had survived his old friend's wrathful attack. As Midna began speaking up again, Pikachu looked toward her attentively. Tall with pointy ears? Funny green cap? That sounded like...

"Pik-uu!" the yellow mouse stated, nodding in response. Hopefully it was indeed Link that this imp was searching for. "Pikachu pi Pik-uu."

[Stoney]

Midna's eyes lit up with something akin to hope as the little mouse nodded at her. "Wait, what? You've seen him?" Never mind her surprise that the mouse apparently understood her; he knew where Link was! "Could you tell me, please??"

Then a voice spokee up from behind her.



Midna turned and arched her visible eyebrow at the rude little boy, clasping her hands together behind her head. “My, you've got quite the tongue for someone your age,” She drawled, an easygoing smile on her face. “You're addressing royalty, you know.”

She wondered if she should say her real name. Part of her felt oddly trusting of these people, but another part – the majority – concluded that caution was necessary in this alien environment and that she shouldn't reveal any of her cards yet unless she was sure she had a good hand.

...Er, she thought that was how the metaphor went at least. She didn't really know much about Hylian Poker yet...well, regardless, the point was the same.

The imp's mouth twisted into a devious little smirk as she said the first name that popped into her mind.

“I'm Princess Zelda of Hyrule. Who're you?”

[Topaz Mutiny]

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After recovering from a pause when Pikachu heard that sentence escape the imp's lips, the electric mouse started laughing. Uncontrollably. The Pokémon very well knew that she was not who she was claiming to be, and even if she really was royalty, trying to pass off as ZELDA was just plain hilarious. In fact, it was so funny, Pikachu ended up bending double onto the floor, where gravity then made him roll onto his back, still laughing.

Apparrently Midna had 'revealed her cards' by not even showing them.

[SHM 128 III]

Slippy opened his mouth to reply, only to be rendered completely speechless when he saw Peach collapse. After a moment of stunned silence, he hurried over to the fallen princess.

"Your highness!" he called out as he quickly knelt beside her. Granted, they were technically from completely different worlds, but he still felt it was only polite to refer to foreign leaders properly... even if they were currently unconcious.

"Peppy, get over here!" the toad yelled, gently trying to shake the princess awake, "Princess Peach fainted!"

[slomoto]

Peter instantly sprung into action. Quickly he darted to the nearest shop, purchased a bottled water, dashed to the princess' side, opened the bottle, and took a long drink from the bottle until it was empty. Peter shrugged. "What? I saw it on a TV show..." 8

[Mage]

When Midna addressed herself as the noble princess of Hyrule...who might I add Laharl hasn't even heard of, this only caused the demon to smirk at her while crossing his arms to make him look big. "Well now, what a coincidence, your Majesty. You are talking to royalty too!" He thrust his right arm out, making his scarf flow slightly. "I am Laharl, Overlord of the Netherworld!" Thus came the trademark..."AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!" The overconfident overlord threw his head up high, showing his sharp teeth while he laughed.

Before anyone knew it, a large battalion of ambulances swooped in the scene, and a Nurse Joy came out of the van managing the recovery. "Take anyone injured and put them in the vans, we have to get them into high emergency care!"

"CHANS!" The pink egg carriers agreed with their leader, and ran off helping out as many people as they can. Alas, the cavalry has arrived!

[Stoney]

Midna's eye twitched, ever so slightly. All this laughter was giving her a headache. Not even Ganondorf did it this much, or this loudly.

“Hang on a second.”

She floated down close to Pikachu's ear and whispered into it: “I can put you back under the rocks, you know.”

The rat found her alias hilarious for some reason. Midna could only think of a few reasons why, and barring the possibilities that the animal didn't understand her claim or was simply insane, the most likely reason was because it knew for sure she was lying.

Midna's mind raced. The mouse knew what Link looked like. Maybe it knew what the real Zelda looked like, too. Link had mentioned to her that the Princess was present during that war last year, as was Ganondorf. Since nobody could die here, Zelda was probably still around even now.

Luckily, she'd planned for something like this.

“There's a reason I don't look like I'm supposed to,” She continued whispering to the electric rodent. “This form is the result of a curse by Ganondorf. Not a laughing matter, I assure you.” It wasn't a lie, AND it would explain her appearance. An elegant solution.

She turned back to Laharl and ascended to meet his eye level. “Okay, sorry about that.” She smirked, crossing her legs and arms as she mimed sitting in a chair again. “Nice to meet a fellow royal, but our titles don't really mean much in this place from what Link told me. I don't have any followers here, and all you've got is that big blue thing.” She gestured at the Prinny following closely behind Laharl with one hand. “I'd say we're about even with all the other people here, right now."

She gave him a toothy smile. "So here's the deal; I'll just call you 'Laharl' and you just call me 'Zelda', 'kay? None of this your Majesty crap."