Mario Golf

***Mario Golf*** is an ongoing fanfiction centered around characters from the *Super Smash Bros.* series, with a heavy focus on Mario. Written by Billy Scranner, it has been serialized on fanfiction.net since August 2019. Mario Golf can be read here.

The first chapter of *Mario Golf* is self-explanatory enough, beginning with the titular Mario playing a game of golf with his brother Luigi and their pet dinosaur Yoshi. The story quickly takes a drastic turn, however, shifting its focus to a dark cabal called the Villainoct and their search for an omnipotent artifact known as the Stargazer.

## Plot Synopsis

During a lovely game of golf with his brother Luigi and their pet dinosaur Yoshi, Mario finds out that Bowser is after Princess Peach once again, and once again he goes off to stop him. Things get strange, however, when Mario realizes he is in an alien simulation run by an intergalactic terrorist group known as the Space Pirates. Aboard the Orpheon - a Space Pirate research frigate - Mario encounters fellow captive Toon Link. Toon Link informs Mario that they are both clones, the former being a clone of Link and the latter being a clone of the real Mario. Toon Link and this Mario, who Toon Link dubs Dr. Mario, set off to escape the Orpheon.

Meanwhile, the real Mario defeats Bowser in the real life version of the simulation. As Mario and Peach leave to celebrate, however, Bowser notices a space ship falling from the sky, about to crash into Peach's castle. Bowser tries to warn Mario and Peach, but the two are skeptical. Bowser is forced to protect Mario and Peach in his shell as the castle is destroyed by the space ship. The three of them confront the space ship's owner, Meta Knight, who tells them about the prophecy of the Smash Brothers. The prophecy describes the Stargazer, the soul of an individual who had the power to reshape reality. The prophecy goes on to name two opposing factions - the Villainoct, a gang of villains led by the dark lord Ganondorf who will pursue the Stargazer; and the Smash Brothers, a group of fighters led by the Super Smash Brother who will unite to stop the Villainoct. Meta Knight, believing this fateful meeting to be the beginning of the Smash Brothers, enlists the others in his quest to defeat Ganondorf's forces. After deciding that Meta Knight's ship - the Battleship Halberd - will be necessary in defeating the Villainoct, Mario contacts his old friend Captain Falcon. A washed up racer from the future, Captain Falcon is deemed the only person who could help fix the Halberd in a timely manner. After eventually convincing Falcon to help, Mario and the gang set off to pick him up from Brooklyn.

Meanwhile, Kirby and King Dedede, residents of the far off Planet Popstar, search for King Dedede's missing cake. After an aggressive encounter with bounty hunter Samus Aran, it comes to light that a group of alien parasites known as Metroids have been dispatched onto Popstar by the Space Pirates. The Metroids, it turns out, are the culprits who stole Dedede's cake. The three of them join forces as the Star Allies, and set off to hunt down the Metroids.

Meanwhile, Luigi wins a gas station lottery, earning a luxurious Romanian mansion in the process. Luigi asks his acquaintance Wario for advice, who informs Luigi that the whole situation is a blatant scam. Still, the two decide to venture out to the mansion anyway to get back the money Luigi spent at the gas station. Things get out of hand, however, when the mansion turns out to be a ruse to lure them into a mystical undead castle, owned by the ancient vampire Count Dracula. Without much of an option, Luigi and Wario set off to try and leave somehow.

Meanwhile, legendary soldier Solid Snake infiltrates a dummy oil tanker carrying a classified military weapon, Metal Gear RAY. The tanker, the *USS Discovery*, had been infiltrated by a group of Russian mercenaries along with an old enemy of Snake's, Revolver Ocelot. Snake walks in on Ocelot betraying the mercenaries. Ocelot blows up the tanker and shoots Snake, rendering him unconscious. Snake awakens in Inkopolis, a city 12,000 years in the future run by squid-like humanoids known as Inklings. After escaping Ocelot's clutches, Snake sets off to return to the present and stop Ocelot.

## Characters

### **Smash Brothers**

* Mario
* Luigi
* Princess Peach
* Bowser
* Dr. Mario
* Toon Link
* Meta Knight
* Captain Falcon
* Kirby
* King Dedede
* Samus Aran
* Wario
* Solid Snake

### **Villainoct**

* Ganondorf
* Ridley
* Wolf O'Donnell
* Dimentio
* Medusa
* Dracula
* DJ Octavio
* Revolver Ocelot

## Chapters

### **Act I**

* Chapter 1: Level 1
* Chapter 2: Level 1 Again?
* Chapter 3: Something's Not Right
* Chapter 4: This One's Real
* Chapter 5: The Smash Brothers
* Chapter 6: The Doctor Is In
* Chapter 7: The Pleaser of Crowds
* Chapter 8: Gourmet Race
* Chapter 9: Collision Course
* Chapter 10: Mario Explains Time Travel
* Chapter 11: The Cold-Blooded Little Girl
* Chapter 12: Trouble on the Tracks
* Chapter 13: Akumajo Luigi
* Chapter 14: Rx: Take As Needed
* Chapter 15: The Manhattan Tanker Incident
* Chapter 16: Scalplatoon

## Trivia

* As of Chapter 16, the word "golf" has been said in *Mario Golf* exactly one time
	+ This excludes the additional two instances of the phrase "golfer" in the first two chapters, as well as any instances of the title
* *Mario Golf* is structured in a similar manner to The Subspace Emissary, the adventure mode of *Super Smash Bros. Brawl*. Namely, like The Subspace Emissary, *Mario Golf* bounces between multiple groups of characters along loosely connected subplots that all tie into one antagonistic entity.