It had been two months since prom had literally gone up in flames. Zelda and Ike had been the only two students to suffer any injuries, fortunately. Zelda had broken her wrist and gotten another concussion from her fall, Ike sprained his ankle from his jump, and they both had some pretty heavy carbon dioxide inhalation. Luckily none of the damage seemed to be permanent, though their lungs would probably never be quite the same.

Even still, many parents were furious. Zelda's and Ike's parents led the charge of course. Smash High was sued, Principle Ganondorf was fired, and many of the chaperones were suspended for not doing a better job of ensuring all students had gotten out before the fire got really bad.

Other than that things had eventually become relatively normal again. For awhile Ike and Zelda were the talk of the school, yet again, but things had begun to die down. Zelda definitely wouldn't miss all that extra attention from her peers, but she was glad to be getting a lot of extra attention from her parents lately. They were both home more than ever, not only for dinner, but also to spend time with her on the weekends too. They loved having Link over, just as his family loved having Zelda over. This was probably the happiest she had been all year.

"You guys ready for this?" Marth asked the group of friends. Zelda, Link, Marth, Lynn, Daisy, Luigi, Peach, Roy, Pit, Palutena, Ike, and Samus were all huddled together at the edge of the football field, looking out to where hundreds of chairs had been set up in front of a stage in the center of the field. The bleachers were full of parents, family members, and friends. Graduation was here at last.

"I'm honestly not sure." Daisy admitted nervously.

"I know, it feels like we've been waiting our entire lives for this, yet it came so fast." Palutena agreed, shaking her head.

"High school graduation." Luigi muttered. The rest of the group nodded in agreement as they watched teachers direct their peers on where to sit.

"Well, you know what they say, college is way better than high school anyway." Ike told the group light heartedly.

"Yeah, I mean you guys thought my high school parties were fun? Just you wait for college parties!" Roy exclaimed excitedly. "And college babes!" To which Peach elbowed him.

"We are all going to Super Smash Bros Brawl University right?" Link asked, to which everybody nodded.

"That's pretty much the dream school round here." Marth said excitedly.

"It's true! See, nothing to be sad about guys! We can all still hang when we get to SSBB Uni!" Lynn chirped.

"Honestly! I can't wait to be done with high school." Peach agreed with a relieved smile. "This is the day that we're officially free!"

"We should probably go find our seats, guys. The ceremony's starting soon." Pit reminded them, checking his watch nervously.

"Awe, Pit. Always such a goody-good." Palutena teased, grabbing his hand.

"Hey!" He said defensively. "I'm not a goody-good, I just prefer to avoid trouble."

Everyone laughed and began to head towards the seats, chattering excitedly about what college would be like.

"Hey Samus." Zelda called, hanging back slightly from the group. The blonde turned in confusion, then walked back the few paces to where Zelda still stood.

"Yeah?" She asked.

"I was wondering...since we'll all be going to SSBBU next year and probably hanging out a lot more... do you think we could start fresh? Maybe...even be friends?" Zelda asked tentatively. Now that she was with Link and Samus was officially dating Ike, there was no reason for them to have beef anymore. She and Samus had always been teammates and gotten along fine until all this drama happened.

"Yeah, I would really like that." Samus replied with a grin. Zelda returned the smile, "Me too."

"You slow-pokes coming?" Ike called to them. The group had stopped walking and were all staring at them.

"Yes!" Zelda shouted back. The two girls ran up to join their friends, Zelda taking Link's hand and Samus taking Ike's.

The graduation ceremony was bittersweet. High school had been full of fun and crazy memories, this year especially, but Zelda was looking forward to what college and the future would hold. She couldn't wait to experience it all with her very best friends in the whole world and her amazing boyfriend. What could possibly go wrong?

The End.