Ok, so here's the deal. When I was 10, my brother received Super Smash Bros. for the N64. It was a lot of fun; we both enjoyed it. At that time, I came up with this crazy idea to make them into Gym Leaders to replace the other Gym Leaders, who were out of commission for events that happened in the anime. Even though it was the start of the story, these events still occurred before then for reasons that were eventually formed later on. The Gym Leaders consist of 8 of the 12 original Super Smash fighters, including the unlockable characters. Obviously, Pikachu and Jigglypuff are not Gym Leaders but there is 1 Pikachu owned by 1 Gym Leader and 1 Jigglypuff owned by another. The 8 Gym Leaders and the major settlements in the Kanto region they're representing are of the following:

Fox-Pewter City
Mario-Cerulean City
Kirby-Vermillion City
Capt. Falcon-Saffron City
Link-Celadon City
Donkey Kong-Fuchsia City
Samus-Cinnabar Island
Ness-Viridian City

The badges of each Gym Leader consists of their symbols in the Super Smash games.

Fox-the Starfox symbol aka the Starfox Badge
Mario-the Mushroom icon aka the Mushroom Badge
Kirby-his star icon aka the Star Badge
Capt. Falcon-his falcon icon aka the Falcon Badge
Link-the Triforce symbol aka the Triforce Badge
Donkey Kong-his initials aka the DK Badge
Samus-her Screw Attack icon aka the Bounty Badge
Ness-the Earthbound symbol aka the Earthbound Badge

This was always one of my favorite pastimes when writing this story and as absurd as this idea may seem, it's been a lot of fun coming up with this and it has   become an important event for my story in more ways than 1.