Chapter 1: Once Upon A Time…
It was a regular day, in a regular village. The weather was regular, the people had regular schedules and followed them in a regular fashion, wore regular clothes, talked about regular topics, had regular jobs, and overall felt fantastic. Or regular. Whichever is more comedic. All in all, only one word could sum up the regularly quaint feeling the village and all of its inhabitants had…
Generic.
The green-clothed swordsman stood up. The large, blue, muscular pig beast roared with might, and swung its spear down at the swordsman. Backflipping just in time to avoid pain, the swordsman then rushed forward with his sword, planting it deep into the beast’s heart. The spear-wielding pig coughed up blood, then slumped over, dead.
“Whoa, nice, Link!” Link looked over his shoulder. His companion was a short, blonde-haired boy wearing an orange jumpsuit. He had a blue headband on his head with an emblem resembling a leaf emblazoned onto it. “You’re really good! That Moblin didn’t stand a chance, man!”
Link nodded in pride. His swordsmanship was improving, he thought… It looked like cutting all that grass every Saturday hoping that Rupees would pop out actually paid off after all. He never got any Rupees. Dammit.
“So, what do you have to say to I, Naruto Uzamaki, treat us both to a hot bowl of ramen?”
Being a silent protagonist, Link said nothing.
“Um, hey, Link? You listening?”
Link continued to say nothing.
“Oh, God dammit, man! Can’t you say anything?!” Naruto then stormed off, punching trees out of his way as he advanced towards the village. Link shrugged, and walked after Naruto.
After finishing with their ramen, Link and Naruto walked home.
“So Link, you’re going to be at the Generic 42nd Anniversary Festival, right?” Link smiled and nodded. “Great. Though I really wish you would actually speak for once in your damn life, I’m still glad you’re going. See, Sakura’s gonna be there, and, well, it’s kinda embarrassing going alone.”
Link laughed a bit to himself. Embarrassing? You’re a Gary-Sue, you shouldn’t need to get embarrassed if you can kill freaking Captain Falcon with your pinky finger!
“Hey, what’s so funny?! You laughing at me?!” Naruto raised an eyebrow and fumed at Link. Raising his hands in defense, Link gave Naruto an innocent look. “Oh, those puppy dog eyes aren’t gonna work on me!” Naruto made a rushing tackle at Link. Sidestepping it, Link smoothly dodged, causing Naruto’s inertia to carry him into Link’s front door at full speed. Denting it with his Gary-Sueness, Naruto stood up with an indignant yet ashamed look on his face.
“Um, sorry, man… I’ll pay you back later. Gotta run!” With that, Naruto had used his ninja skills to escape. Link rolled his eyes, and turned back to stare at his now broken door. Pulling out his Ocarina of Time, he placed his lips on it, and began to play the Song of Time.
“Oh, those puppy dog eyes aren’t going to work on me!” Before Link knew it, he was watching Naruto attempt to tackle Link’s past self. Link threw himself at Naruto in hopes of preventing him from smashing into his door, but due to Naruto’s extreme Gary-Sueness, Link simply bounced off, hurdling into a nearby bakery’s window. Standing up, Link wiped blueberry pie filling off of his face, only to see his past self playing the Song of Time. When the past Link warped back into the past to give his own attempt at this, and fail, the present Link merely stood up and took the back door.
Link awoke to an incessant pounding on his back door. He assumed that since whoever was knocking noticed that the front door was smashed in, and decided to go around back. Was it those damned tax collectors again? No, it couldn’t be. He offed the last one who visited just a week ago.
“Hey Link, wake your lazy ass up!” He recognized that voice. It was Naruto again… “Dude, seriously! The festival’s about to start!” Link sat up, yawning. Then it finally dawned on him that the festival was, in fact, starting. Scrambling into his favorite green tunic, he put his cap on and walked outside to meet Naruto.
“About time. We’re gonna be late, man!” Naruto reprimanded Link for sleeping in.
“Gyaaaaaaah!” A loud shriek was head from above.
“What the f-“ Before Naruto could drop his F-bomb, a large, red, lizard-like creature landed directly on top of Link. The creature’s weight was massive, Naruto guessed, as Link was instantly on the ground choking as the lizard got off of him.
“Guilmon, you idiot. What were you doing up in that tree?” Naruto scratched his head.
“I’m sorry, Naruto and Link,” Guilmon began to apologize, “But there was a bird with a piece of bread in its mouth, so I followed it around for a few hours because I wanted to eat the bread because I was hungry, and it flew up into that tree, so I followed it up into the tree, and I fell down, and I’m still hungry…” Guilmon rubbed his stomach in hunger.
“Why not just go eat at the festival?” Naruto looked puzzled at Guilmon’s complete obliviousness to the festival.
“Ohhh, that’s right! I’ll go right now!” Guilmon ran off towards the festival. Naruto looked back at Link and grinned.
“Well, shall we go? Sakura’s waiting.” Naruto helped Link off of the ground.
“Eeeeeek!” A loud feminine scream could be heard in the distance.
“AHHHHHHH!!!” An even louder, high-pitched shriek accompanied the feminine shriek. Naruto and Link both took a double take in the direction of the scream. What they saw made their jaws drop.
“Kagome, Miroku… and Tails?!” Naruto couldn’t believe his eyes.
“Please, come back! I want you to bear my children, that’s all!” The monk clothed in deep purple robes called out to the people he was chasing.
“No, Miroku, you perv! How many times do I have to say no?!” The girl clad in a schoolgirl’s uniform replied angrily to Miroku as she continued fleeing.
“But I’m a guy!!” The two-tailed orange fox declared.
“Tails is a guy?” Naruto said, shocked. He then looked over his shoulder, and saw a black hedgehog with red-topped spines leaning against a stone wall. He was fiddling with a knife with one hand, and twirling a gun in his other. “Shadow, a gun I can understand, but why a knife?”
“Oh, that…” Shadow looked from the knife to Naruto. “Yesterday was the anniversary of Maria’s death. Sonic gave it to me as a present.” At this, Naruto struggled to stifle his laughter.
“Oh, a present, right… Well, I gotta go. See you at the festival.” Naruto walked away, nudging Link on the shoulder, signaling for him to follow.
An explosion could be heard in the distance.
“What the hell was that?!” Naruto exclaimed. He then looked up, and saw a giant laser that strangely resembled a disco ball speeding towards the center of the village. He then looked even further up, and saw a huge, purple orge-like thing floating high in the sky, silhouetted by the moon’s glow. As the creature pointed his finger at the village, he shouted to the very top of his lungs for all to hear…
“SHOOP DA WHOOP!” Another laser beam was shot out of his finger. As it speeded towards the village, Naruto grimaced in disgust, and turned to his side.
“Hey, buddy, wait a minute!” He snapped his fingers, and then the author of the story, Daniel Mullins, appeared, accompanied by his co-author, Matthew Savage.
“What the fuck IS this shit, huh?! Come on, the Dark Genie from Dark Cloud?! What are you thinking?!” Naruto began to cuss the authors out.
“Well, sorry!” Danny threw his hands up in defense. “All I was trying to do was write an epic fanfic, is all.”
“This isn’t a fanfic,” Shadow mumbled, “it’s a monstrosity of anime and video game crossovers.”
“Yeah, Danny. No offense,” Matt whispered to Danny, “but it does seem pretty odd having Sonic, Digimon and Naruto characters in the same setting.”
“Shut it, Matt,” Danny whispered back, “and besides, I only put Guilmon in there to piss you off.”
Guilmon glared at Danny. “I heard that! What am I, chop suey? Speaking of which, I’m hungry…”
“As long as there are some women here,” Miroku mused, “I’m not complaining.” Then, a hoarse, high-pitched voice rang out from behind Miroku.
“Oh, can I be in it?!” A very short being with a white mushroom cap with red polka-dots waved at the authors.
“Fuck you, Toad!” Everyone there yelled at Toad.
“Awww…” Toad walked away, bummed out.
“That settles it,” Naruto threw his fist up in an indignant excitement, “instead of following this crappy generic storyline, everyone’s gonna go on a search for an idea that hasn’t been used yet! It’s gonna be our generic quest for an original idea!”
And with those words, one of the oddest crossover mashup fics has begun…