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Super Smash Brothers: ONLINE LOGIN #2: Oopsy Daisy
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"So did you play SSBO?" I heard Shannon's voice pierce through my dream.
"Mmmm..." I grumbled, snuggling my head deeper into my arms. I've never stayed up so late on a day when I had to be in class by seven in the morning and stay on campus all day... not a fun thing to do.
She giggled and turned back to the teacher. "I don't know why I thought you did. For some reason, you're just acting like I did the first time I played. I stayed up all night and was very sleepy the next morning. What time did you go to bed?"
It took me a few minutes to answer. "Like... two... I think."
I glanced out from under my arms to see Shannon tensing up. Looking to the other side of me, I saw my professor staring me down. "Well, well, well... This is a sight to be seen." He spoke, tapping his foot. "I've always thought you to be a morning person."
"I was... until today." I replied dryly. I wasn't in the mood from my teacher's wise cracks right now, so I just put my head back down in my arms and closed my eyes.
He sighed and began to walk away. "Well, all right, I tried. Atleast I know you're not such a bad student..." He muttered, returning to the front of the class.
After he returned to the board, my mind slid back into the world of dreams. The next sound I remember hearing was a mass of voices and chairs moving, waking me up just as the class was starting to get out. "I really think you should play." Shannon said to me as we walk home from class. She lived a few blocks away from me, so if our schedules permit, we sometimes walked home together.
"Super Smash Brothers?" I ask, slightly out of it. Too busy thinking about how sleepy I am, I suppose...
She nodded. "Yeah."
I wonder if I should tell her? Ugh, but then... all she'd want to do is play with me online. I just want to play Super Smash Brothers as a hobby, not as an addiction. "Nah, not my style of a game, you know that." I replied.
"Yeah, just shooters and sports games for you right?" She said with a laugh. ...I never touched a shooter in my life... but sports game were kind of fun. "Anyway, I'm going out with Mike and Jan today. Wanna come?"
"Nah... I've got a paper due for writing class in a few days. I wanna finish it today."
Shannon shrugged. "All right then. I'll see you tomorrow!" She waved to me and began to head down the street to her house, leaving me to walk home alone.
Once I get into my house, I dash up the stairs and flick on the computer switch. I had to type some paper... a critical analysis or something of a book we read. The Scarlet something... the only I thing I can remember from that book was that she had a red A above her bosom... since the word, 'bosom' made the guy next to me giggle. Regardless, after I bullshitted through the paper, I decided it was too late to head out with Shannon and others, so I double clicked the Super Smash Brothers Icon and went online.
I typed in my account name and password and was about to click the load character button when I saw a flashing 'New Mail!' next to the 'Forums' button. "Eh? Mail?" I clicked on the forums button and it brought me to the website's official message board. The board itself was sorted into five groups:
Official Game Discussion - Where you talk about the game. Like where to find certain things and whatnot. Rumors - All online games have rumors of mysterious rare weapons and glitches, and this is where to find the latest ones. Trading Center - A place where players can post items they've found and try to sell them over the forums, and check prices. Art Center - Where people go to post fanfictions and fanart of the game. Events - A message board where only moderators made posts about upcoming events in the game.
I didn't have time to check any of the new posts as a pop-up showed up reading, 'New Mail!' "I wonder who it's from?" I asked myself, clicking on the 'read' button. It brought me to a new screen, where two messages waited.
UNREAD: Welcome to Super Smash Brothers Online! - SSB:O Staff UNREAD: hey - The Earth Bounded Warrior04
Clicking the first message made the following pop-up.
Thank you for signing up with Super Smash Brothers: Online! We hope that you enjoy your time playing the game legitimately and we welcome you to the Super Smash Brothers: Online community. Check out the official site and forums for updates and events on the game, and expect fun times in the future!
-SSB:O Staff
If you are not sure why you have received this message, please contact us at http://supersmashbrothers .com/helpandsupport
Just a welcome message I guess..." I muttered, clicking the delete button. I clicked on the next message and read it quickly.
Hey there newbie.. It's Ness. Link yelled at me for not staying to teach you how to play. Oh well. I asked my friend to meet you today and teach you anything you need to learn. Her name is Daisy. She'll be waiting in the Mushroom Kingdom, in the field to the east. Peace.
I deleted the message and closed down the forums. "So that little brat did something nice for a change? I might have to consider thanking him."
Selecting load character, I picked my single avatar, Marth, and log into the game
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--Mushroom Kingdom--
Marth appeared in a flash of light in the middle of the busy server town. He was once again facing the mushroom shaped fountain, but this time from the east side. "All right, so Ness said she should be waiting in the field?" He said to himself, looking around. "So which way is that?" Confused, the swordsman began to wander around the town, looking for any signs leading towards this field.
"Hey, you." Marth turned to see a Gerudo woman approaching him. Her armor was open, seemingly to give her lots of room for moving, leaving Marth to assume she was a fighter.
"Are you Daisy?" Marth asked, confused.
She shook her head. "No. I just wanted to know what weapon is that. Did some higher level give it to you? It's not something a newbie would have. Can I see?" Before Marth could answer, a screen popped up reading:
>ABBY THE SAVOIR wishes to trade with you! >Yes/No
Ignoring the fact that savior was spelled wrong, Marth clicked yes and it brought up another screen. On one side it showed Marth's item list and five empty boxes. On the other side it showed another five empty boxes. "Okay, do you know how to trade?" Abby asked. Marth shook his head and Abby sighed. "Click on your weapon and drag it to one of the boxes."
Marth glanced through his small list until he found his weapon. He clicked it with his mouse and dragged it into one of his open boxes. "Like that?"
"Yup." Abby replied. "Hmm... Falchion... I've never heard of that sword." The other empty boxes quickly turned from black to white. "Okay, now click the button that says 'Accept'."
"Uh, you sure?"
"Yes! Just do it!"
Marth was about to click accept when a friendly and familiar voice filled his ear piece. "Hey there Marth!" He turned to see the tunic wearing Hylian, Link, approaching them with a bright smile on his face. "Whats up?" Link glanced over at the Gerudo. "Who's she?"
"None of your beeswax, pansy." Spoke the woman, crossing her arms. "Okay, just click accept and I'll be on my way."
"Okay, sure."
"Hang on a moment!" Link said quickly, stepping the way of the two. "Marth... what are you doing?"
"But out!" Screamed Abby, trying to push the Hylian away.
Marth was confused. "Uh, I was just showing her my weapon in the trade menu thing. I was about to click accept and let her look at it."
"Were you now?" Link asked, raising his eyebrow. Marth nodded and the swordsman sighed. "Marth, click cancel." Before Marth could protest, Link quickly jumped in, "Just do it."
"Don't!" Objected Abby, stepping closer to Marth. "I wanna see it."
"Erm... sorry." Marth said, closing the trade menu.
Once he had done that, Link turned to Abby and gave her a glare. "Shame on you, trying to scam a new player out of his weapon!" He pushed Abby back.
"Scam?" Marth asked, confused once more.
"If you had clicked accept, you would have traded your weapon to her." Explain Link. Marth let out a weak 'Ooh' as Link continued to glare in Abby's direction. "It's people like you who are going to drive new players from the game before they even start it."
Abby laughed and crossed her arms across her chest. "Please! You're thinking of the PKers. I just wanted to see that item, thats all." She raised an eyebrow. "And what are you going to do about it, anyway?"
"Report you for trying to exploit a new player." The shocked look on Abby's face amused the Hylian. "What, you didn't know you could get banned for that?" He said with a laugh.
"Aah!" She yelled, taking a few steps back. "Erm, no, I was, uh, I just wanted to see that weapon. I've never seen it before. Uh, I gotta go! Bye!" Abby turned and dashed out of the town and into the white portal, hopefully never to be seen again.
Link smirked as the scammer disappeared. Turning to Marth he said, "You know, you really can't get reported for that! She must have been kinda new herself. Hehe." Link flashed a big grin.
"You sure are a happy person, huh?" Marth said, giving a grin of his own.
"Nah, I just role-play one." He explained, laughing slightly.
Marth didn't quite know what role-playing meant, but decided to ask him later. "So, um, whats up?" He asked Link.
The Hylian shrugged. "Not much. I just came on to go level up a bit earlier today. No work today, haha! Oh, and to give you my GID, of course." The same pop-up from last night asking if Marth wanted Link's Gamer ID showed and Marth quickly accepted. "Okay, cool. I'm going to log off a bit now. I need to get dinner ready. I'll see you on later, though."
"Okay bye." Marth waved to his friend as he disappeared. Just as Link vanished, he slapped his forehead. "Oh yeah! I should have asked him where this damn field is!" Grumbling, he looked around the town. "Maybe someone will be nice and help me." Marth only took a few steps until he was confronted by an odd looking player. He was small and had a mushroom for a head. "Um, excuse me, could you tell me where the field thing is?" Marth asked, bending down to look into the beady eyes of the little man.
"What fine weather we're having, don't you agree?" He spoke with a smile.
"Uh..." Marth looked up at the sky. It was the same bright blue as yesterday, with the same smiling clouds and the same birds flapping back and forth. "Yeah... I guess... But that didn't answer my question."
"I bought a new item at that shop over there. I think he ripped me off!" Said the man this time.
Marth looked puzzled. "Well, are you new? You can try and threaten him by saying it's against the rules to steal from newbies."
"What fine weather we're having, don't you agree?" He repeated.
Marth raised an eyebrow. "Huh?"
"Gosh darn it! I think I broke my toe..." Said the little creature as it began to wander away.
The swordsman stood up in a panic. "Wa-Wait! You didn't answer my question!" He was about to go chasing after the man when he hear muffled laughs from behind.
"That's an NPC, dude." Came one random voice.
"NPC?" Marth asked.
"Non-Player Character." Came another voice. "It means it's a computer character. It only says certain, programed things."
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I felt my face become warm once more. "Oh..." I muttered, lowering my head in shame. It went even lower once I heard the other voices asking,
"Isn't he the same newbie from yesterday who couldn't move?"
"Yeah thats an odd avatar. Never seen one like it, hard to miss."
"Maybe he's a hacker?!"
"A newbie hacker."
The laughs and taunts of the other players were... very annoying. "I don't even know why I let them get to me." I spoke, covering the mouth piece of my headset. Oh well... might as well ask them... "Do you know where the field is?" I ask to a passing blue turtle like pokemon named Squirty.
The pokemon nodded. "Over there." He said, pointing to the east.
"Thank you!" I say quickly, getting up and dashing towards the field. I really need to read the guide book before playing next time...
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Marth dashed out of the main city and into a large, open field of grass and flowers. The meadow was surrounded by a mountain range on all sides expect west, which lead back to the city. Along the side of the mountain were trees and rocks, which some players were sitting under or ontop of. Some NPCs, those little mushroom men, wandered the field, but other then that, the players remained still. The only building on the grass plain was a small tent with the word 'QUEST' written above it. It was much quieter compared to the city, very peaceful. "I guess players come here to relax." Marth muttered, walking out onto the field.
As he explored the field, he came to a rock where a lady sat with her back turned to him. "You Marth?" He heard the woman ask.
"Uh, yeah..." Marth said with a nod. "Are you... Daisy?"
The lady stood up off the rock and turned to face the swordsman. She wore a yellow dress with her green jewel in the center of her chest. Her brown hair appeared only a few shades darker then her tanned skin. She smiled and nodded. "Yup."
Character: Daisy Race: Human Level: 42 Class: Healer/Arcane HP: 330 MP: 450
Marth smiled. "Okay, nice to meet you!"
Daisy nodded again and looked over Marth. "Ness was right. You are pretty weak looking. And you're only level five? I see... well, we have a lot of work to do. C'mon."
>DAISY invites you to join her party! >Yes/No
Marth clicked yes and joined Daisy's party. "All right. Now lets head out." She said, walking towards the town. "Got any ideas of which area to go too?" Daisy asked, looking back at Marth as they walked.
He shook his head. "No, I only just started the game. The only field I know of is Goomba Plains..." He confessed.
"Mmm... kay." She looked back to the road ahead of them. "I've got an idea then. So, how do you know Ness?"
Marth rolled his eyes. "Well, a nice guy named Link came to help me out yesterday. Ness was already in his party, so I got stuck playing with him." He let out a slight sigh. "He doesn't like me very much, though."
Daisy giggled. "Yeah, it takes a while to break that cold shell of his."
The two walked back into the main circle of the town only to be greeted by a large swarm of people gathered at the north gate. Beyond this gate was the large white castle Marth had seen on his first day in the game. "What's going on?" Marth asked as the two stopped behind the large crowd.
Beyond the gate was a small balcony where a pink figure stood. Daisy let out a low growl when she released what was going on. "That bimbo is just announcing a new event. Nothing special, let's keep-"
"Event?!" Marth said, his face lit up with excitement. "That sounds cool! I wanna find out about it." Before Daisy could protest, Marth had disappeared into the crowd, trying to get a better view of the show.
"Ugh... newbies."
From the other side of the gate, a tall, slender woman in a pink dress watched the group of players continue to grow. "What a large group we've got out there." She spoke, a smile forming upon her face. "Well then... shall we begin?" She reached down to her right and picked up a golden crown, which she set upon her blonde hair. "Open the gates!" Her voice echoed through-out the server as the gates flung open, allowing the mass of players to charge inside, smashing everything in their way.
Poor Marth never stood a chance being in the front of the pack. "You okay?" Daisy muttered, leaning over the trampled Marth. "You should never stand in the front."
"Mhmm..." Marth agreed, trying to stand up. Once he regained his balance, the two continued over to the group of players to watch the rest of the spectacle.
"Player's of Super Smash Brothers: Online!" Announced the lady in pink. "I thank you for your continued support of this game! It's time now to announce a new event!" The crowd erupted into cheers, with people chanting the name of the administrator.
Character: Peach Race: Human Level: 1 Class: Mage HP: 50 MP: 90
Daisy let out a low growl as Marth began to get caught up in the chanting. "Stop it! Don't chant for that witch!" She said, pushing his fist down.
"Why not?" Marth asked, confused.
Before she could answer, Peach began speaking once more. "As a way to celebrate Super Smash Brothers: Online reaching over twelve million users, I have been given permission to revive the first quest ever issued to the game - Attack on the Castle!" The crowd once again began to cheer and chant, some even using items that caused little explosions. "As many of you know, Attack on the Castle was the first event ever in the game, and was the opening day event, cleared only by the Legendary Hero. But now, you too can earn your place in the game's history!"
"Attack on the Castle?" Marth asked, confused.
Daisy shrugged. "I started playing the game slightly after the first few months. I missed that event..."
"As with all events, there will be amazing prizes." She explained. "Great prizes will be issued to all those who can complete the quest. But only the first person who completes it shall be known as The New Legend!" The crowd gave another round of applause, but stopped once she continued talking. "As I speak, the games developers are working a new area, with new puzzles and challenges for you to face, so don't think it'll be the same quest as you did one year ago! And do not expect to win easy, my friends! For not only will you have to over come the traps and puzzles, but you must overcome your fellow players as well! And among them will be the original Legendary Hero himself!" Peach glanced down at a pair of humans, who besides their size and facial structure, the only visible difference at first glance was that the taller, thinner one was wearing a green shirt and pants and the smaller, fatter one wore red.
"Ugh, I really hate her..." Daisy muttered, heading to leave. "Meet me by the portal Marth." She said as she disappeared.
Peach glanced back up to the crowd. "My money is on them, but do not lose hope! Who will rise to the challenge become The New Legend!"
The final roar of the crowd was like nothing Marth had ever heard before. "I didn't think people would get this psyched about an online game." He said with a little smile creeping on his face.
"Thank you for your time! Please continue to play the game fairly and check the updates section for any news on the event! See you next time!" And with that, Peach gave one last wave to the crowd and disappeared back into the castle.
Marth made sure to get out of the court yard before the mob managed to smash him again. He walked up to the portal, where Daisy was standing there waiting for him. "Took you long enough." She said, turning to the portal.
"Soooorry." He muttered, rolling his eyes at the healer. The screen went black, the only words flashing were 'Your leader is selecting an area'. After a few moments, the screen changed and Marth found himself in an area... he had not expected.
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"Wha-What kind of area is this?!" Marth exclaimed once loading into the field. "I was expecting smiling clouds and happy music... are we in hell?!" The two were standing ontop of a black rock, which was floating in the middle of a sea of lava. The sky wasn't cheerful and blue, but dark and purple. Black steam rose into the sky from lava and the sound of it burning against the rock ran through Marth's ears. The background music itself sounded deep, evil, much like the theme song of some giant final boss that looked a turtle and was 'King of the Koopa's'.
"Lava River... Level 15 Area?!" He turned to Daisy, his mouth wide open. "You nuts?!"
"No..." Daisy replied, glaring at Marth. "I'm an expert healer. Don't worry, you won't die."
"Thats what they said last time..." Marth muttered to himself.
Daisy turned and sighed. "Lets go..." She took out her weapon, a long rod which looked very much like an oar. At the top of the paddle was a green jewel, surrounded by golden ones in the shape of a sun. The jewels were on both sides, striking Marth with awe.
"Cool weapon!" He announced. "Is it good?"
"It better be for all the gold I spent on it..." She muttered, turning to her right. "There is the bridge." Daisy pointed to a group of rocks floating up out of the lava. "Let's go before other players reach the dungeon first!"
The two crossed the first bridge of rocks and began to head east. As they continued through the sea of black stones and lava, a large jet of stream erupted from a crack in the rock, striking Marth and knocking him onto the ground. 50 DAM appeared above his head. "What was that?!" Marth said in a panic, trying to reach for his sword to fight off the unseen attacker.
Daisy turned and pointed her staff at the fallen swordsman. "Life Up Alpha!" She exclaimed, healing the warrior. "It's call an area effect. Certain Area's have effects that can help or hurt your character."
Marth stood up and brushed some soot off his armor. "Ah, I see." Just as Marth had finished, a white orb emerged from the ground. "Daisy!" He called out, pointing to the orb.
The healer turned around just in time to see a large creature be born from the orb. It was a bird-looking spawn, that stood over twice the sizes of the other two players. It's wings were burning with flames and it let out a large roar that shook the screen. "Hellborne Phoenix." Daisy said, taking a few steps back. "All right then. I'll weaken it with some magic, then you finish it off, okay Marth?"
"Can I really take something that high of a level?!" Marth asked, taking a step back himself.
"Never know until you try..." Daisy whispered.
"What was that?"
"I'm sure you can do it!" She lifted her staff into the sky and called out, "Thunder!" The black clouds in the sky parted and down came a thunder bolt, striking the phoenix dead on. It was a major hit, doing almost over 100 damage. "Ha, and I'm not even an Arcane." She said with a smirk. Daisy then pointed her staff at the bird. "Shock!" She called out, causing an electric shock to shoot out of her staff. The damage was less, only doing 40. But yellow dots appeared around the bird, and it began to rock back and forth. "Okay Marth, he's stunned!" Daisy explained. "Finish him off!"
Marth gripped his sword and nodded. "Right!" He lifted his blade and charged at the Phoenix. "TAAAKE THIS!" He called out, stabbing the Phoenix hard in the chest. DAM 1, it read. "Erm..."
"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?!" Daisy screamed from behind. "Why didn't you use your special attacks?!"
He turned with a confused look on his face. "My wah?"
"Watch it!" Marth turned back only to see the beast deliver a terrible poke right into his body, sending him flying backwards. His's HP dropped to almost nothing in a spilt second, to which Daisy quickly called out, "Life Up Beta!", healing the swordsman wounds. As Marth began to stand up, Daisy stepped in between him and the phoenix. "Ugh, it looks like I'll have to finish this one." She muttered, pointing the staff at bird. "HYDRO PUMP!" Daisy exclaimed, causing two powerful streams of water to fly from her staff and strike the bird.
The creature let out a scream of anguish as the water evaporated into steam, and with it, so did the monster. "450 EXP! Awsome job, Daisy!" Marth cheered.
Instead of boasting, Daisy turned and sighed. "I wish Ness had told me I was power leveling you..." She said, looking at the swordsman with a frown.
"Wha?"
"Nevermind. Do you know how to use special skills?" Marth shook his head no and Daisy rolled her eyes. "All right, here is how you do it. Press the start button, which'll bring up your item list. Then press the X button on your controller to bring you a list of your skills."
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I did just that and it brought me to a list called 'Special Attacks'. There was only one attack on the list, and it read: 'Dolphin Slash'. "I think I see it." I spoke into the head set, highlighting the skill. A small description appeared below it, explaining that it cost 15 MP to use. "What's so cool about this?"
"Special attacks, or SP Attacks, are attacks that use your MP to deal a higher number of damage to an foe." I heard her voice explain.
"How do I use them?" I asked. I knew she was more then likely going to explain, but meh.
I hear a sigh and then her say, "Highlight the attack you want. Now push the R button." I did what she asked, and a sub list showed up showing a picture of the second yellow joystick on my controller point up, down, left and right. And then it showed the same four pictures, but also the R button. "You can have up to eight skills open at a time. You use these skills by using your second joystick. You set four skills to just moving the joystick only, and the other four to moving the joystick while holding down the R button."
"I get it." I replied, setting my only skill to the 'up' motion of the joystick. "Okay, let me try this..."
"DOLPHIN SLASH!" I heard Marth scream on the game. Daisy let out a yelp as I watched as my character slashed her across the chest, dealing ten damage. Oops.
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Daisy quickly healed herself and punched Marth on the head. "Idiot!" She screamed. But her angry face quickly turned into a reluctant looking smile as she spoke, "...Well, at least you got the attacks down."
"Sorry." Marth apologized. Daisy shrugged it off and began walking again. "Hey, can I ask you a few questions?"
"Are they long?" She asked, stopping in her tracks. "Eh, nevermind, just ask."
Marth nodded and began to speak. "Well... first off, about your job. I couldn't choose be a healer. Or Ness's job, a psychic. What are they?"
"Job Extensions." Daisy answered. "When you reach level twenty, you'll be given a choice to change your class to either two or three others, or stay the class you are now. In your case, you could either choose be..." She paused to think, the continued, "...a Paladin, a swordsman who can use healing magic. Or a Dark Knight, a swordsman who uses death magic. Or you could stay a swordsman. If you choose to follow a certain path, though, your current skills are locked and you're given new skills for the job. And you can't gain any more skills for your original job. You only gain moves for that class."
"I see." Marth replied. "And Ness's job, Psychic is one of those jobs?"
"No. Psychic is an Advance Job." She explained. "You'll have to talk to him on how he got it though, I'm not too sure of the requirements myself."
"And how do you get that second job thing? Like you have Arcane?"
"At level twenty also, you can choose a sub job. These subjobs give most of the basic skills of that job, even though you aren't that class. For example, I'm a healer. We use magic that heals. Yet I used offensive magic to attack that monster. Offensive Magic is something only an Arcane class can do. So now, even though I'm a healer, I have attack skills also."
"Oh! I got it!" Marth said with a smile. "Thats cool."
Daisy nodded. "Yes, it is. But... well, even though I have the same magic as an Arcane, I'll never be as strong as them, since I'm a healer, not an Arcane. Likewise, an Arcane/Healer will never be able to heal as well as I can." She gave a smile. "That all?"
"One last question." Marth said, to which Daisy nodded. "What's up with you and Peach? Are you like... ex friends who are fighting? You don't seem to like her... but you guys have like the same avatar."
Daisy's smile quickly faded into an anger. She gritted her teeth and balled her fist, speaking with venom sliding off her tongue, "Oh, no. No, no, no. That... BITCH... I didn't copy her, no. SHE COPIED ME! Peach is one of the newest admins to the game. And she copied MY avatar! MY AVATAR! WHERE IS THE FAIRNESS IN THAT?!" Daisy exclaimed. "She only changed the color around a bit. Besides that, it's a total rip off. And on top of that, she's one of the most popular system admins in the game. So you know what everyone says when they see me?" Marth nervously shook his head. "You're nothing more then a Peach clone! ARRRGH! I've been playing this game since the third month it was out, and I copied HER?! AAARGH!!"
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I swear, I have never been so afraid of an online character in my life...
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"That is why I joined the guild, 'I HATE Peach!' It's a guild of players who think Peach is just a bitch who likes playing with normal players instead of doing her job."
"Guild?" Marth asked.
Daisy looked shocked. "Wow, your newness doesn't seem to stop, huh?" Daisy began to bat her eyelashes and blow kisses to Marth. "Hows about you join my guild and I'll tell you all about them?"
"Erm, I think I'll pass."
"Hmph, fine." She turned and began to run across another path of rocks. "C'mon, let's hurry!"
The duo raced through the fumes and stones, stopping to battle a Hellborne Phoenix here and there. Daisy constantly had to be the one giving the finishing blow, as Marth would just rush into battle and forget to use his special. Besides from a few curses and an intentional zap to the head, Marth and Daisy made a great team and made it the boss's dungeon with Marth gaining two more levels, bringing him to level seven. "Here we are." Marth said, standing infront of a group of descending stairs heading beneath the lava and stone.
Marth was about to enter the stairs when Daisy put her hand infront to stop him. "No, someone is in there. We can't but into their battle."
"How do you know?" Marth asked. Daisy pointed to a red floating orb. "Oh?"
"When it's red, people are fighting. When it's blue, it's empty. You should wait until they finish fighting to get the full benefit of the battle." Only a few moments passed before the orb turned to blue. "Okay, lets go." Daisy said, running down the stairs and into the darkness.
"Wait up!" Marth called out, quickly chasing after her.
They didn't know it at the time, but as they left the main field of Lava River, an voice loudly rang through out the area: "Attention all players in Lava River!" Came Peach's voice. "We've detected a glitch with the final boss in the area. We will be shutting down this server in a moment to address this problem. Please log out now and save your data. Thank you."
Marth and Daisy ran into a dark bluish purple room. It had no windows, four rocky walls and the only light in the area was generated by the game itself. "We here?" Marth asked, looking around the small room.
Daisy looked puzzled. "Yes... we are. But there should be a boss here called Koopana." She took a few steps more into the room and looked around for any signs of the boss.
"Maybe it hasn't respawned yet?" Marth suggested.
The healer shook her head. "No, they wouldn't let us in if it hadn't spawned." They explored the chamber for a bit longer until Daisy announced, "All right, maybe it's a glitch. Let's head on-"
Before she could finish her sentence, the room erupted into a fit of static hisses and crackles, much like the first time Marth created his character. "Ack!" Marth screamed, falling back.
Daisy brought her hands to her ears in a vain attempt to block the noise. "What... What the hell is going on?!" She exclaimed.
The whole screen began to break apart, lines of static running up and down their computer screens. Before long it seemed that the room itself was starting to become corrupted, as patches of the purple stone began to transform into ones and zeros and grayish spots of static. Infront of them, a dark purplish orb appeared. It quickly took shape as the same thing that Marth had seen on the cover of the game, the circle with the off-centered cross figure inside it. From within the circle, a bright purple crawl shot out, grabbing the side of the ring. "Is this the boss?!" Marth asked, grabbing his sword.
Daisy stood in shock. "I... I'm not sure!"
Another purple claw shot out from the circle and grabbed the other side of the ring. The approaching figure then pulled itself from it's prison and jumped onto the floor with a large thud. Marth and Daisy gasped at what stood infront of them. "Is that a... A MONSTER?!" Marth screamed.
The figure that stood before looked nothing like the monsters Marth and Daisy had fought on their way here. It looked more like a mess of purple wires slapped together in a certain shape. The wires took the figure of what seemed to be a giant turtle, standing atleast two feet taller then the duo, with spikes growing from it's shell. It had long claws and short legs, and tt's face was covered by the same insignia that it had crawled out from. Marth rolled his mouse over the beast, which read it's name to be "WirFra./BOWZR"
"I've never seen a monster like that before!" Daisy shouted, lifting her staff. "Ma-Maybe it's some kind of rare event?"
"Maybe..." Marth agreed. "But... I don't think so."
The monster let out a loud roar, which filled the player's headsets and monitors with static once more, before the epic battle music finally began to play in the background. "Okay Marth, stand back. I'll take him out!" Said Daisy, stepping forward. She lifted her staff into the sky and called out, "THUNDER!" A bolt of thunder shot down from the sky and struck monster for a direct hit. Once the smoke had cleared, the two could see a big red, 0 DAM! floating above the creatures head. "What?! No, that was a direct hit!" Daisy yelled, stepping back in shock. She pointed the staff again at the beast. "FLAMETHROWER!" She exclaimed, causing a burning pillar of flames to shoot out and consume WirFra./BOWZR.
"Got him!" Marth cheered.
"Wait..." When the fire died down, the purple wired monster was still standing there, his HP having not gone done an inch. The words 0 DAM! once again floated over its head. "What's going on here?!" Daisy screamed, confused of how her two direct attacks did no damage to the beast.
The monster let out a roar and charge at Daisy, lifting its right claw and slashing it across her chest, sending her flying backwards and rolling across the dungeon floor. Daisy's HP fell rapidly into orange and she was struck with the bleeding effect. Marth gulped and turned to the monster. "What is this? This can't be a normal monster!" The beast looked at him and charged, lifting his claw and preparing for another strike. Instead of dodging, however, Marth lifted his sword and charged at the monster. It swung its huge claw at the swordsman, who ducked under it's swipe and then struck the monster's side with his blade as he ran by. The damage floated above its head: 10 DAM! "I hurt it?"
Daisy stood up and called out "Life Up Gamma!" A dark yellow aura covered her body and she was back in the green HP. "It must have some sorta magic tolerance." She explained, gripping her staff once more. "Marth, you'll need to do the damage. I'll heal you from behind!"
"Right!" Marth turned around and charged at the beast once more. "Time to try my special skill, DOLPHIN SLASH!" When Marth's avatar reached the monster, he quickly jumped upwards into the sky, his blade flashing blue, and slashed the monster in a vertical strike up his body. MAJOR HIT! appeared above the monsters head. 20 DAM! When Marth landed, he gave two quick jabs with his sword, dealing 5 and 12 damage respectively before the monster slashed him and sent him flying towards the other end of the room.
"LIFE UP BETA!" Daisy called out, healing the red bar of Marth's health.
The swordsman stood up and charged once more, managing to slash the beast twice. The monster then lifted his claw, causing Marth to duck down, but instead of a swipe across, the monster picked up Marth and began to bite into his avatar. "ACK!" He screamed, watching his HP bar drop quickly with each bite. If it wasn't for Daisy's quick healing after each bit, Marth would have died atleast five times.
The beast dropped Marth to the ground and turned back towards Daisy. "Damn, I arggoed it with my healing." She muttered, readying herself for an attack. It let out another static filled roar, after which it began to charge at the healer.
"No, you're fight is with me." Marth exclaimed, standing up and charring at the monster once more. He jumped into the air and lifted his bald above his head, preparing to ram it right into the monsters skull. But the monster turned around to face Marth and thrusted his claw into the air, piercing Marth's torso.
"Marth!" Daisy exclaimed, watching his HP fall into red. Before it hit zero, she cast a healing spell, but it recovered no health. "What?!" The beast stood there for a moment, as Marth's HP bar reached zero. As it did, the area around where the claw had pierced began to shake and turn to static. "What the... thats not how players die in this game. What kind of attack was that?!" Daisy asked no one. The beast threw Marth's broken body over to the healer and it landed on the ground infront of her. She dashed up to her fallen party member, gasping after she laid eyes upon the wound. In the middle of Marth's avatar was a gray hole, filled with static and random floating number ones and zeros.
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"Marth! Oh no, Marth!" Was the last I heard before my screen went black.
I let out a sigh and stare at my blank screen. "I really need to gain more levels." I muttered, wishing I had been able to do more. But... that sure was weird... was that a special event? It had to be. I reached over and looked at the case of the game. I saw the very same insignia that the beast had crawled out of on the front cover.
"Yeah, it had to be an event." I answered myself.
A few moments past and I kept staring at the completely black screen. I was waiting for the annoying 'You are dead!' message to scroll across the screen, so I could warp back to town. No way Daisy could kill that thing. But... it had still not shown up. When I died with Link and Ness, it appeared almost instantly. Raising an eyebrow, I leaned in closer to check the screen. "What's going on-"
Before I could finish my sentence, giant bright red letters appeared on my screen. I fell back in my computer chair in surprise, letting out a small, "Woah." at the brightness of the words. But that 'Woah' turned into a 'What the hell?' when I saw what words were flashing on the screen.
SYSTEM ERROR! SYSTEM ERROR! SYSTEM ERROR! CORRUPTION! CHARACTER DATA CORRUPTED! ATTEMPTING TO RECOVER! SYSTEM ERROR! ATTEMPTING TO RECOVER! SYSTEM ERROR!
Files of all sorts began to fly across the screen as I sat there in shock. "What just happened?" I asked no one, staring blankly at the flashing words. For atleast two minutes, I sat there sweating, watching the words flashing.
If they can't recover my data... will Marth be... deleted?
At the end of three nerve racking minutes, the words had disappeared. I wasn't too sure what that meant, as the screen remained black. Then some words popped up on my screen:
Character Data Recovered!
And just as suddenly as they appeared, a new message began to scroll, complete with annoyingly depressing music:
You are dead! You are dead! You are dead! Please wait for a party member to revive you! Grabbing my mouse, I went to go click on the choice to return to town. However, before I could click on it, color came flooding back to my screen and my avatar was revived. "Well, thats odd." I muttered, picking up my controller and headset.
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Marth's first sight upon returning to the game was the worried face of Daisy as she hunched over his body. "Oh, Marth! You're revived! Thank goodness." She exclaimed, backing away from the swordsman to give him room to stand.
"Yeah, I'm okay..." Marth replied, standing up. He wondered if he should tell Daisy of what happened after he died, but his thoughts were interrupted by the reminder of the beast that had killed him. "Daisy!? Where, Where is that thing?" He exclaimed, picking up his sword. Daisy didn't answer, but instead looked to her right. Marth followed her eyes and was shocked to see a tangled mess of purple wires laying on the floor at the very end of the chamber. "You killed him?"
"Well, I...erm..." She paused, her face looking slightly confused. But it quickly changed back to a boastful smile. "Of course I did! Did you think I could be defeated by that thing?! Haha, no way!" Marth rolled his eyes at the healer and was about to say something when a small bright light began to glow over the tangle mess of wires. "A chest?" Daisy asked herself, taking a few steps forward. Light began to take form and in its place was indeed a chest. On the screen the words began to flash:
>MVP: MARTH
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"Oh... wow." I said in confusion. If Daisy had been the one to kill it... shouldn't she be the MVP? I wonder...
"Open it Marth!" My thoughts were broken by the sound of her voice. So I simply shrugged it off and made Marth open the chest. It flash a golden light and two orbs shot out, one hitting himself and the other hitting Daisy.
You've found The Stone of the Void! Flashed across my screen.
"Aw man!" I heard Daisy mumbled. "I didn't get anything. Did you get an item?" I made Marth nod and she quickly began to whine. "Ooooh, no fair! What did you get? Can I see it, please?"
Before I knew it, Daisy had already opened up a trade window with me. I accepted and showed her the item. "Here." I said, placing the item up. "I don't know what it does. Do you?"
I heard Daisy let out a few low noises that sounded like her player was trying to find something out. "I've never heard of it. Here, give it to me. I'll do some research on it and get back to you on what it does. Here I'll even give you this. Use this to get out of here." She added an item called a 'Warp Pipe.'
"But-"
"Think of it this way." She began to say. "Either you trade it to me and we both leave here alive, or I take it and I leave here alive." Was she threatening me? "Well?"
I sighed and reluctantly gave her the stone. "Sure, whatever. I have no clue of what it does, it'll be more useful to a higher level character anyway." I said, closing the 'TRADE COMPLETE' window.
Daisy began to jump about in glee with a huge smile on her face. "Yey, yey! Thank you Marthy." She said, winking at my avatar. Kinda freaky... "Just so you know, this counts as a good enough bribe to not kill you." ...Wha? Before I could say anything, her staff was pointing right at Marth's face. "You see..." She said, her voice changing to a slightly lower and darker tone then before. "Ness really asked me to take you here... so I could PK you and make you never want to play this game again."
PK? I've heard that before... oh, right, that Abby girl mentioned it... I have no idea what it is, but I had a feeling it couldn't be all that good. Figures... and I thought Ness was being nice. "But, I've never heard of this item before. So it must be pretty rare. And I got it with you so... I think I'll keep you around for a while. You might be good luck." She gave a wink as the words appeared on my screen,
>DAISY has given you her Gamer ID! >Give yours?
"Take it, Marthy." She said in a flirtatious voice. Rolling my eyes, I clicked on the accept button and sent her my own Gamer ID back. "Aw, how sweet of you. Well, why don't you log off or something for the night? I'm done playing with you. I'll contact you tomorrow or something. Have a nice night." She pulled out a green orb which transformed into a warp pipe. "See ya." She waved to me and disappeared down the tube, leaving me alone in the chamber.
"What a freak..." I muttered to no one. I looked over at the clock and saw it was getting late. "Ah well... I guess I'll log off for the night then." I said, opening my item list and using the Warp Pipe.
After I returned to town, I logged off, wrote a quick thank you e-mail to Ness, and shut down the computer. Flopping onto my bed, I began to recall the events that had just happened. "That was so weird... what happened to my character data that almost deleted it?" I asked the ceiling. "And that item... was this all an event?" This was only my second day playing... and it already seemed that I had found myself mixed up in a hidden event. Or maybe it was a glitch? But then why would I get an item? Ugh who knows... I turned onto my side, sighed and closed my eyes.
What a weird game.
