Lucario's stomach growled as he stepped into the main hall of the Smash Colosseum. The grand hall featured several television displays, multiple staircases leading to a magnitude of doors, and a viewing area for the audience unable to find seats in the various stadiums to watch the fights live. It was a new tournament, and characters all across the Nintendoverse were bouncing around the hall, some were veteran fighters such as Mario an Samus, some were the newcomers from the latest "Brawl" tournament like Lucario himself and Wolf O'Donnell. Hundreds were lined up at the registration zone, hoping to get into what was being called the biggest tournament to date. The word "Royal" was plastered on the banners hanging from every wall. This fight was going to be huge!
The pokemon had registered like other previous fighters months in advance and ignored the line up. As he walked past, a blue vixen excitedly walked away from the front of the line, Lucario could only assume she had just been accepted into their ranks. He watched for a little while and thought about congratulating her until she walked up to Fox McCloud. Lucario had a little beef with the vulpine, he was close to winning the tournament in Brawl, but Fox beat him with what he considered a cheap move when Fox was so close to defeat. His stomach growled louder at the sight of the vulpine, and Lucario was unsure if it was from the hunger or the anger, but he knew that if he faced Fox this year, things would be different. Lucario had been practicing a new ability with his trainer. Thanks to the help from his trainer's Sviper and Ekans, Lucario inherited the trait of being able to swallow opponents whole and alive, and Lucario was very much looking forward to devouring Fox and putting him in his place, but he couldn't eat him yet, he'd have to wait until he got onto the battlefield with Fox. He just hoped their match would be quick, or he might end up stuffing himself with other fighters by the time he got to Fox! He ignored them for now and continued on down the main hall.
A commotion had started around the area where battle rules and chosen fighting styles like multi-man melee and Metal Combat were chosen and Lucario's curiosity had gotten the best of him. There were new rule sets to the roster to go along with all the new faces! The standard tournament circuit was filling up fast, but everyone had a choice if they wanted to battle there, or try their hands at the Challenge Circuit. There was the multi-man melee as always, an extended "Boss Battle" mode, and a few new ones, such as Capture the Flag, and one that caught Lucario's eye rather quickly called "Humiliation Mode". Lucario read the description to himself. <Humiliation mode...Ever want Wario to clean your socks? Samus to do your dishes? Challenge your fighter to Humilation! The ultimate test of wills and honor! The winner will "enslave" the loser, who will have to suffer the humiliation of doing your house work! Disclaimer: Winner may choose to do with the loser what ever they desire. Do not accept the challenge if you are not prepared to meet the demands if you end up losing. Choose opponents carefully> Lucario smirked to himself, this sounded like his kind of thing!
But now he had a decision to make....