The Subspace Emissary's Worlds Conquest (Megaman Legends Arc)

[DededeCloneChris]

Chapter 132: The Mansion's Mascot

Smash Mansion

The afternoon soon went by and night came in.

Lucario's Room

For once, Lucario felt comfortable for the fact that Chris was going to sleep with him in the night as every day before. The Aura Pok?mon yawned out loud as Chris laid down his head on the pillow.

"I'm going to have some nightmares with the rain in the city..." Chris trailed off worried. "I hope I don't have any..."

"I'll be close to you to wake up from any nightmare," Lucario reassured him. "I'd wish to enter inside and beat that nightmare for you."

Chris chuckled. "You're the Aura Pok?mon, not the Dream Pok?mon."

"It's not bad to try," Lucario said.

Chris chuckled heartily before he yawned. "Well, thank you for cheering me up. I'm going to sleep for now."

"Good night, Chris," Lucario said, waiting for the opportunity to pull Chris closer to him when the World Traveler fell asleep.

"Good night...Lucario..." Chris trailed off before he soon felt asleep.

The Aura Pok?mon waited a minute before he slowly pulled Chris to him with his right arm. When the World Traveler's head was pulled beneath Lucario's neck, the Aura Pok?mon placed his snout above his head and sighed before falling asleep.

Unfortunately, somebody scratched the door of the room and Chris shook his head and woke up slowly. "W-who is it at this time?" Chris asked as he noticed Lucario was sleeping above him. "(You did it after all, didn't you...)" he thought as he got out from the bed and opened the door.

Lucario smiled as he grumbled a little.

"Repede?" Chris said confused.

Lucario's eyes opened in a snap and he sat up to see the dog sitting down across the door.

"What do you want?" Chris asked as he knelt down.

"Woof woof," Repede said.

"..." Lucario glared at him.

"Do you want to sleep with us?" Chris asked.

Repede nodded.

"Okay. You can sleep on the floor."

Repede seemed to ignore that as he jumped straight to the bed and laid down.

"Grrrr..." Lucario grunted.

"Huh? He wants to sleep on the bed?" Chris asked.

"He's sleeping above my legs," Lucario said.

"But you don't feel him at all, right? You're a Steel Pok?mon so you don't feel almost anything or anyone."

"Well, that's tru-"

"Then let him sleep with us."

"B-but Chris..."

"What?"

Repede opened one eye to look at him.

"I-I think he would be fine on the floor," Lucario said.

Repede showed his fangs a little.

"But I think he's a very well trained dog. He won't do anything bad to us at all," Chris responded.

"(To you at least,)" Lucario thought as Repede seemed to snicker silently.

Chris laid down on his bed and Lucario noticed that Repede moved even further between the 2. "He wants to sleep between us? I'm sorry but you can't do that," Lucario said.

"I don't mind," Chris said.

"What?"

"I don't mind," Chris said as he stuck his hand out and rubbed Repede's head. "I think he seems cute for doing this."

"(You've got to be kidding me,)" Lucario thought in irritation.

"Good night...Repede..." Chris yawned before he fell asleep.

Due to Repede's presence blocking Lucario from pulling Chris to him, the Aura Pok?mon glared at the dog and decided to have a "friendly" talk with him through telepathy.

"(You might like him, but I don't like you,)" Lucario said.

Repede snickered and chuckled...rather evilly.

"(Why are you snickering like that? It seems evil.)"

"(It's because I am evil,)" Repede said.

Final Fantasy IV DS - Disbelief

"(What?)" Lucario asked.

"(I am evil, Lucario,)" Repede said with a smirk. "(My whole purpose in my life is to break bonds between friends. It is my mission to change the people by my skills and actions.)"'

"(What the hell do you have in mind?!)" Lucario asked in rage. "(Are you planning to make Chris forget about me?)"

"(You're pretty clever.)"

"(What?! So it's true? Why?!)"

"(He seems very innocent to me,)" Repede explained. "(Yet I can see you're like the people who get jealous very easily. I do this for amusement. I left my master, Yuri, to achieve my purpose in life.)"

"(To make people forget about who they like more for somebody else like a filthy bastard like you?)"

"(Bravo.)"

"(You...sick...BAAAAAAAAASTAAAAAAAAAAAAARD!!!)"

"(Hold your horses, pal,)" Repede warned. "(Chris already likes me a lot, and he wouldn't like to see you killing me, right?)"

"(I would love to see you death by my hands AND aura!)" Lucario yelled.

"(And you would love to see Chris hating you for murdering a person he likes like me?)"

Lucario stammered and closed his eyes in disgust.

"(I thought so,)" Repede said with a smirk. "(I have you right where I wanted you to be. You're a helpless pup and I'm the strongest and biggest leader dog of the pack.)"

"(You're NOT going to get away with this blasphemy!)" Lucario said through gritted fangs.

"(Too bad,)" Repede continued. "(I'm also trying to get everyone here to like me in order to piss you off even more than you are. Isn't it amusing?)"

"(IT'S NOT AMUSING!)" Lucario yelled in fury.

"(Oh no, the pup is angry. I need to leave the pup so it calms down and doesn't bite my legs off...strong legs of steel,)" Repede taunted. "(Good night, puppy. I'll see you outside while your master gives his attention to me inside the house.)"

Music stops

With a yawn, Repede felt asleep with a grin.

Lucario narrowed his glare at him as he showed his fangs with utter rage. He wanted to kill Repede right away, but Chris would see and hate him forever in his life without forgiviness even if Lucario tried to apologize.

Lucario looked down."(Dammit... I need to do something else before it's too late...)" he thought worried as he looked outside to the moon.

Sonic's Room

The hedgehog looked restless as he looked outside to the moon. "Oh no... Very soon, I'll change and turn into a beast..."

His stomach grumbled.

Persona 4 - Border of Insanity

"A-aah!" Sonic grunted as he embraced his stomach. "N-no...  I-it's starting..." he muttered as he gritted his teeth.

The hedgehog walked around recklessly and he pushed a vase to the floor in order to break it. Sonic paced around the room as he held his stomach, grumbling even more and he let out a cry of pain to the roof.

The light of the moon shone a small portion of the room and Sonic punched the wall several times in time to try and become numb to the pain inside him.

His mouth started to leak out with long drools as he tried to stop it, but the grumbles became louder and louder that the room echoed with them. Sonic grabbed his head and yelled louder to the roof with an agonizing pain.

It was happening...

Sonic felt horrible...

Everything seemed to be spinning around him...

He closed his eyes tightly and dropped to his knees in pain as he grunted, grunted, and grunted more.

Suddenly, the door of his room opened. The hedgehog looked at the person standing behind it between his fingers and small but wild pupils.

"Would you shut up?" C. Falcon asked in irritation (as he wore a white T-shirt and blue boxers with his emblem on it (and oddly, his helmet)). "People are trying to sleep in this floor!"

"Y-you..." Sonic muttered. "H-help me..."

"Help you?" C. Falcon asked.

"Y-yeah... I-I'm gonna transform into a monster shortly... W-warn the others, hurry!"

"Turn into a monster..." C. Falcon trailed off as he shook his head. "Good night. Stop acting like that, dude. You're embarrassing yourself."

The captain left the room as he closed the door. Sonic looked shocked that he embraced his stomach in pain and yelled out once more. "Shut UP!" C. Falcon yelled.

"What do you think you're doing, idiot?" Dark Super Sonic asked.

"I-I'm transforming into that beast you mentioned..." Sonic muttered before he let out a cry of pain. "OH GOD...it's happening..."

"What? You wish...and myself as well. You're making a fool out of yourself."

Sonic looked weak as he gritted his teeth in pain. "What did you say?! URGH!!!"

"It's not even full moon, retard! It's new moon!"

Music stops with a scratch

"URGH?! ...Say again?" Sonic asked.

"I made a mistake about the time of the moons in here. I thought this was still YOUR world with the time I thought until I remembered this was ANOTHER world with a different time of the moons. Go and look outside."

The hedgehog dragged his feet on the floor and looked through the window.

Sure enough, it was new moon and not full moon.

"Now you see? You've got more days before full moon kicks in."

"T-then why I'm feeling weak?" Sonic asked with a glare.

"You dumbass. Nobody eats a watermelon WITH milk during dinner; both cause you gastric problems inside your stomach and probably give you poison and the latter didn't take place for my luck. You thought I was actually changing you from the inside? Think again."

"...So then why did I walk around the room and pretty much destroyed some things?"

"That was just you making a fool out of yourself. I would say it was priceless to watch but you're way too dumb to notice my laughs to you."

"..."

"You were being an idiot in a few words."

"You little..." Sonic trailed off before he felt more grumbles inside his stomach. "U-ugh..."

"By the way, eating a watermelon with milk not only can cause poison..."

Sonic felt uncomfortable with the grumbles.

"...It gives diarrhea as well and it happens most of the time," he said.

The hedgehog made a weak look before he dashed to the bathroom.

But nobody has ever seen Sonic using the bathroom so it was unclear if he used it because his screentime just ended now.

"And I'm supposed to be stuck in here within his mind..."

The next morning...

Outside

Tales of Symphonia - Romany Caravan

"Since I think it would be best for us to wait and explore around the forest for the others," Estelle began as she and Rita were outside. "I think it would be best if one of us went out while another one stayed behind."

"You go out," Rita replied without thinking.

"Wha...?" Estelle said astonished.

"There's a whole lot of Blastia in here and I don't wanna lose this opportunity," Rita said as she took out a familiar diagonal-shaped device. "This thing has all my attention now."

"B-but isn't that the same one that you tried to "ask" for yesterday?"

"It isn't," Rita said with a smile. "I found another one with that weird bird guy. This Blastia was inside his left sleeve. The bastard, he tried to hide it from me."

"(But did she steal it instead of asking for it?)"

"And I kind of grabbed it when he wasn't looking. He won't miss this though."

"Has anybody seen my Reflector?" Falco's voice called from inside. "Hello? Noboby has found it laying somewhere?"

Estelle looked bored at her.

"Was that Yuri just now?" Rita asked as she looked behind Estelle.

"What? Really?" Estelle asked as she turned to the forest. "Where?"

"I think he went further inside! Estelle, go and get him here!" Rita said.

"Yuri!" Estelle smiled and ran to the forest in excitement.

"..." Rita sighed. "Gosh, it's really easy to convince her with lies. At least she won't bother me with my Blastia research."

The Genius Mage focused her attention to the device as she walked inside.

"Coming through," Rita said as she passed Chris and Lucario.

"Okay, you stay out here and train all you want," Chris said. "I'm going to be inside and give a new look to our room."

"Why?" Lucario asked.

"Have you seen Peach's room? She decorated it with all kinds of wallpapers and even Link decorated his. I don't want to look normal with out room. I asked Master Hand to take here some posters from my room and he should have them by now."

"Don't you want me to help?"

"It's okay," Chris said with a smile. "After all, you want to train all the day, right? I won't bother you with your aura training at all so you can train in peace."

Suddenly, Repede appeared right besides Chris.

"He's going to give me some company while I decorate," Chris said. "You can thank him for that."

"(More like murder him when you're not looking,)" Lucario thought with rage.

"Lucario?"

"What?"

"You seemed to be staring at Repede for an awfully long time. Is he bothering you?"

"Oh yes. Chris, he is evil and he wants to make you forget everything about me so he can live with you and throw me outside. I didn't think he was good the first moment I saw his disgusting face with that horrendous scar on his left eye."

This is what Lucario wanted to say. Unfortunately, this was just a mere illusion and a lie since he didn't say this.

"N-no..." Lucario lied.

"...Ooooh, I get it now," Chris said.

Lucario smiled a little.

"Repede is not female," Chris said.

Lucario got confused.

"Is time for you to find your soulmate? Because Repede isn't a girl."

Lucario's pupils shrunk. "What?"

Repede snickered silently.

"Lucario, I told you that you can't have someone to love right now. You need to wait like 4 or 5 years to have someone. I don't know how Pok?mon love works, but I think you need to wait," Chris explained. "Besides, you can't love a dog, let alone Repede."

Repede opened his mouth and looked down like he wanted to laugh.

Lucario started to shake a little in rage.

"Um, why are you looking like you're going to erupt?" Chris asked.

"My aura is getting unstable," Lucario said through gritted fangs. "I must calm it down and build it up the right way before anything else happens."

"Oh, okay then!" Chris smiled. "We'll leave you alone so you can train. Train harder! I can't wait to see you lift up 5 trees without effort!" Chris said happily as he went inside (with Repede) and closed the door.

Lucario turned his back to the door and looked up to the sky.

"GUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRR
RRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" he roared in extreme fury.

The door opened quickly and Chris peered from the inside. "Lucario?"

Lucario was sitting down in a meditating position. "Yes?" he asked, looking over his shoulder.

"I could have sworn you were roaring out loud. The furniture inside shook as well. Are you sure you're fine?"

"I'm fine," Lucario said with a nod. "You need to leave me alone."

"...But can you train a little bit further away from the door instead?" Chris sugested. "Train under a tree for example."

"I'll do that," Lucario said.

The World Traveler nodded and closed the door.

Lucario looked to the clouds above the city and sighed. "...I must calm down and meditate in peace. If I can't do this, I'll have to go to the valley and train there..."

He showed his fangs a little.

"But if I leave that filthy imbecile with Chris..." he trailed off as he had a vision of Repede licking Chris's face as the World Traveler laughed loudly. "I won't rest assured at all..."

He saw a vision of Repede's grave and he smiled a little.

"Much better..." he said with a sigh as he closed his eyes.

However, something weird happened in his vision.

"Repede!" Estelle appeared within the vision and hugged the grave. She was apparently crying loudly. "Why?! Why were you killed?! WHY?! W-who did this horrible thing to you?! REPEDE!"

Lucario opened his eyes and stared at the think cloud that had his vision with the grave and the crying Estelle on it. He shook his head in frustration and made the cloud disappear.

"How did that even appear out of me?" Lucario asked confused before he stood up and walked away.

But he had to make sure about Repede's actions on Chris so he used his aura to see every single movement inside the mansion while he meditated. This was going to slow down his training, but he didn't care.

"(Let me see...)" Lucario thought as he examined the mansion with his aura. "(There is Meta Knight in the bathroom...without his mask?)"

He shook his head and tried to concentrate.

"(There's that girl with the goggles examining Falco's Reflector and...)"

The auras of Rita and Falco showed them and Falco found Rita with his Reflector. The Genius Mage seemed to ignore him and she ran away to a corner. The avian got angry and he chased her down until Lucario was able to listen to a chant.

"O disturbing power now unleashed, mete thy judgment upon the evil before me! Violent Pain!"

He saw Falco's aura running away from 15 arrows of darkness while Rita continued to walk away to her room.

Lucario frowned to himself as he concentrated more. His aura was growing weaker as he expected, but he had to make sure.

"(...)" He found Red, Squirtle, and Ivysaur's auras with 3 unusual and new auras coming from the 6th floor. "(...UGH! W-what in the world is this aura?!)" he cried out in pain as 1 of the 3 auras seemed to be completely disturbing, twisted, flashing, distorted, uncontrollable, wild, and impatient. The Aura Pok?mon opened his mouth and tried to yell and grabbed his head like he had a sudden headache and tried to concentrate the hardest he could do to stop focusing in that extremely disturbing aura.

Smash Mansion
Barry's Room

Barry blinked in confusion and looked at the 3 trainers. "Ever felt like somebody is watching you from outside?" he asked.

"Um, no?" Red responded confused.

Outside

"(I must...focus...out of that...aura...)" Lucario struggled until he focused his vision in the lower levels of the mansion and panted heavily. "(I-I should...forget about it...)" he recommended to himself as he focused more.

Lucario found Link writing some kind of note before he put it in his pocket and walked away.

"(...)" Lucario kept focusing.

Sonic's aura seemed to be perturbed since the hedgehog looked scared.

"(...)"

And he found them in the command room.

Command Room

"Okay," Master Hand began as he gave Chris the wallpapers. "Here are the things you asked me to get for you from your room."

"Thanks," Chris said.

"By the way, have you considered yet?"

"What?"

"About the time skip."

"U-um..." Chris looked unsure. "...But is it okay for me return to the real world and wait until Tabuu makes his move?"

"I don't see why not," Master Hand said. "I can call through your Wii or DS. I can always stop the time there when you come back. I figured out that you would be a little homesick about your home so that's why I'm asking you this."

"I don't know..." Chris said unsure.

"Just think about it," Master Hand said. "It's good to have to go back sometimes and relax to get prepared for anything else. Give it some thought, why don't you?"

"(That would mean I'll have to go to school again...not that I'm complaining...)"

The World Traveler walked away to his room with Repede following.

"(Time skip?)" Lucario asked to himself.

Lucario's Room

Once he opened the door, Repede laid down on the floor and yawned before falling asleep.

Chris chuckled. "I hope you return with your previous owner because I think Lucario has an eye on you."

Repede opened his eyes.

"I shouldn't spend that much with you because that would make Lucario feel jealous," Chris explained as he unrolled a wallpaper. "But I think he can handle it," he chuckled.

Repede blinked for a moment before he went back to sleep.

"(...)" Lucario didn't know whether to feel good or feel worried.

That's when he decided to go back to his training.

Chris went to Repede and rubbed his head. "However, you're very interesting. You're well trained and all that. Your owner must have trained you very well."

Repede whined a little.

Repede had a previous owner than Yuri but he died. It is unclear how Repede managed to be Yuri's dog.

The World Traveler looked below his bed.

A musical note came out from his head as a sign that he was excited.

"Now, where am I going to plug the Wii and the PS2? Oh god, I can't wait to do that with..."

He stood up and looked around.

"...Where again? There's no TV or phone in here... I don't want to play in the living room because it would be embarrassing to let anyone else see me..."

At that moment, DK came in.

"Hi there!" DK said as he went to Chris. "What are you doing?"

"Trying to find a place to plug my consoles," Chris explained. "Wait, how's the band up there?"

"We had a really good time up there," DK said. "We couldn't stop playing our theme during all the night. Too bad we didn't get to fight to help you."

"Aaaaaaand, did Medli and Makar say something about that?"

"They looked kinda pale," DK said. "And after that, they passed out."

Chris got shocked.

"Or fainted? I think they fainted."

Chris sighed in relief.

"Oh, by the way," DK began as he touched the wall. "Hmm..."

"What are you doing?"

"Oh, here it is!" DK said as he pulled a small door and revealed several buttons on it. "Did you know that each room has this, right?"

Chris looked surprised for a moment. "Er, no. Master Hand didn't say anything about that."

"Okay, let me show you."

DK pressed a button and part of the center of the wall moved and revealed a plasma TV behind.

"...Wow..." Chris muttered.

"Let me go for something more stylish," DK said.

He pressed another button and small speakers flipped at the corners of the ceiling.

"Like it?"

"...Depends..." Chris said.

"Okay. There are the plugs in there. The remote control is right over..." DK looked below the buttons. "Here."

He turned on the TV and nothing came in.

"Signal is weak or what?" DK asked. "Hmmmmm. Oh right, the city got destroyed and the TV station should be out as well."

"Wait, how do you know all about this?" Chris asked.

"Because of yesterday?"

"No, I meant technology."

"Oh, Chris! What do you think I am, a caveman or something?" DK asked with a laugh.

"W-well..." Chris looked embarrassed.

"I know a lot about this stuff," DK said. "Just because I'm a gorilla doesn't mean I don't know anything about hi-tech stuff. Diddy knows as well."

"Oh..."

"...Oh, I get it," DK said. "You thought I was just muscles and no brain, right? Well, that's half a compliment."

He walked to the bed and put his hands underneath.

"Not here!" Chris yelled.

"Aww!" DK said sarcastically. "You're no fun at all!"

"O-okay, thank you for helping me out."

"You're welcome," DK said as he walked away. "Invite me over to play with you, okay?"

Once he left, Chris's DS rang.

"Good job!" Kawashima said. "Your partnership with DK has increased by some points. Keep it up!"

"(That reminds me about the others as well...)" Chris thought. "...Back to decorating. I need to get done soon."

Outside

The winds brushed the grass as the aura wielder meditated in peace. He didn't want to think about Chris or anyone else rather than training his mind.

It was very hard for him.

"(I have to go to the valley...)" Lucaio thought. "(It's going to be easier if I go there, but that dog is around and he could take advantage of my... I need to stay focused...)"

"So, I heard you hate the dog, right?"

The Aura Pok?mon opened his eyes and fired a fully charged Aura Sphere to the top of the tree to create an explosion. He grunted and showed his fangs in rage before a figure fell down.

"...Pikachu?" Lucario asked.

"Great going, idiot!" Pikachu yelled with a glare. "You first KILL before SPEAKING, right? Goodness gracious, I was about to die because of you!"

"I'm not in the mood to be talking with you right now," Lucario said as he sat down and continued meditating. "I must train in peace."

"Lucario, I'm not stupid," Pikachu said. "You hate Repede, right?"

"..." Lucario didn't want to respond.

"You can't hide it from me," Pikachu said darkly. "You can't shake off the thought about him being with Chris rather than you, right?"

"..."

"Trust me, I know about this very well," Pikachu went on. "You want to murder that dog, but Chris is in the way, right?"

"..."

"I used to be the center of attention for Ash... Actually, I'm still the center of attention," Pikachu said. "He could call Buizel out but he prefers me over anyone. Heck, I'm the reason why he doesn't like to take Snorlax with him."

"..."

"I'm sticking with him forever because he doesn't want to let me go," Pikachu said. "You want to have the center of attention like me, right?"

"..."

"You can't hide it from me," Pikachu said with a smirk. "You can't hide it fro-"

The Aura Pok?mon grabbed the Electric Pok?mon by the neck and shoved him directly to his red glaring eyes. "Let me recall, what did I say before? Leave me alone before you stop breathing...forever."

"I-I-I-I-I'm good, I'm good, I'm good, I'm good!" Pikachu pleaded as the grip got tighter. "P-p-p-p-please, let me live!"

"Hmph," Lucario grunted and released Pikachu from his grip before returning to meditate.

Pikachu ran several feet away from him. "Just remember! Come to me if you feel uncomfortable! I have the answers to your problems!"

"Whatever..." Lucario muttered as Pikachu jumped inside the window and got inside the mansion.

[DededeCloneChris]

Command Room

Persona 3 FES - Living with a Determination

Master Hand decided to hold a private meeting with all the Smashers, interrupting their everyday affairs.

"Ahem," Master Hand began. "Now, we need to be more private."

The hand snapped his fingers and the way to the hallway disappeared and left them trapped inside the room.

"Hey, why are you trapping us in here?" Nana asked.

"Because Demon Girl Rita would find this place and never leave it for that matter," Master Hand said. "I'm sure everyone agrees, right?"

"Hmm..." Chris looked unsure.

"...Get him out as well," the hand said.

Repede got up with a grunt and walked outside when the hand made the way clear before he vanished it.

Lucario seemed to chuckle for a moment.

"Okay, that aside," Master Hand began. "I'm aware that you guys know our current status, right?"

"Let me recap," Link began. "The city is destroyed, Rita said we're weak, there no more worlds out there to save, no Star Spirits need to be found anymore..."

"Damn," Roy said. "The first 2 things bother me the most."

"Unfortunately, this doesn't mean this is the end for our missions," Master Hand said.

"Tabuu is still plotting to take over our worlds," Zelda said. "We must take him out soon."

"That's going to take a while though," the hand said. "I don't think you guys are ready to fight him."

"What? You think he got stronger or something?" Falco asked.

"...Hey, where's your headgear?" Fox asked.

"Guess..." Falco said as he pointed as his semi-burned vest. "Anyway, did he get stronger or something?"

"Unfortunately, yes," the hand said. "Tabuu isn't stupid at all. He should have been preparing for another assault like the one we planned. What I'm trying to say is that you're bugs compared to Tabuu himself."

"Thank you for being so nice," Ness said sarcastically. "It really helps."

"Now, do you think he's going to invade our worlds again?" Samus asked.

"Nope," the hand said. "He already lost interest in your worlds. He doesn't have anything left to invade and conquer."

"...So it's time for the final showdown?" Snake asked.

"Maybe..." the hand turned. "...Maybe not. Actually, no."

"What else is there to save?" Squirtle asked. "It's not like there are many other worlds that we haven't seen yet."

A sound of a bell rang in everyone's mind.

"...Wait," Marth began. "Didn't we get to explore some unknown worlds before?"

"3," Mewtwo said.

"There was Lloyd's world..." Roy trailed off.

"There was Vivi's world..." Lucas trailed off.

"There was..." Pit shrugged. "...Laharl's world..."

"And there are a whole lot of worlds out there as well," Master Hand added. "Tabuu is much more interested in these worlds as well, thanks to Mr. Ihabe Alof Odgamhes."

"What does that mean?" Chris asked.

"Mr. I Have A Lot Of Games."

"...Wait, it's my fault?"

"Partly...I mean, yes."

Chris glared at him. "Oh, wait just a minute, why should it be my fault?"

"Face it," the hand said. "Our last help outside had to have a lot of videogames, or worlds, for Tabuu to conquer. You technically opened a lot of worlds by your appearance in here."

"I-it's not my fault I like to pla-"

"Anyway, thanks to Chris, our hands are as full as Kirby's empty black hole," Master Hand said. "Our work ISN'T going to end at all."

"A-as long as he stays away from the videogames based of cartoons, I'm fine with it..." Chris muttered embarrassed.

"Videogames based off cartoons?" Toon Link asked.

"Companies outside think that they can exploit their cartoon characters by creating poorly made videogames. Unfortunately, I bought one and didn't find anything fun with it..." Chris explained. "...And thanks to that, we have a lot of videogames starring a humanoid sponge living in the ocean..."

"...How messed up is your world?" C. Falcon asked.

"How messed up are the people in my world, you mean..." Chris said.

"O-okay, enough of that," Master Hand said. "What I mean is, you guys will have to go to a lot of unknown worlds from now on."

"But they're unknown, that's the problem," Pit said. "It's like getting lost in a forest."

"We GOT lost in a forest," Sonic said annoyed.

"Why do you guys have to ask for so-obvious answers?" Master Hand asked with a chuckle. "Fortunately, Chris's endless addiction to videogames (Chris: Hey!) are going to be a big help in those worlds. He's our guide."

"...Um, sorry for interrupting, but..." Olimar played with his fingers. "...Does that mean he's the leader?"

"...He WAS already the leader from the very beginning," the hand pointed out.

Chris blushed. "M-me, the leader?"

"My boy," Master Hand began.

Link aimed an arrow at him.

"H-hey, what are you doing?" the hand asked.

"Dare to finish that sentence and this arrow is getting through that glove of yours," Link treatened.

"I was just going to say that he can be and can NOT be the leader if he wanted!" Master Hand explained. "He could be the guide and, you know, someone else could be the leader instead of him!"

"..." Link narrowed his eyes at the hand and lowered his arrow.

"This peace is what ALL warriors strife for!"

"THAT'S IT!" Link yelled loudly as he started to fire arrows at the hand, who disappeared and laughed for a while as some of the Smashers chuckled. "Hey!"

"Don't listen to them," Zelda said from behind him. "They don't know our pain at all."

"But father! What if something happens to you?"

"Where is that hand?" Zelda muttered as she prepared her Din's Fire (as some more started to laugh). "I must send him to hell now."

A while later...

The hand had several arrows and several burn marks around his glove as the Hyrulians looked satisfied. "Punishment aside," Master Hand said annoyed. "There are many worlds out there that will someday be targeted by the Subspace Army and we, soon enough, will go and attack back."

"That would mean we'll have to partner up with the people in those worlds, right?" Mario asked.

"Most definitely," Master Hand said. "Every videogame has its heroes and heroines. It's a hunch that we're going to meet some of them at some points. Think about it, meeting new people like Etn..."

The hand grumbled.

"...Like Flonne, for example."

Most of them hmm'd.

"Then I'm going to be excited to meet some of them," Peach said with a chuckle. "I can't hardly wait t-"

"HOLD ON YOUR HORSES, everyone!" Master Hand interrupted their thoughts. "However, you'll have to follow the rules of traveling that we have in here. Some worlds may allow some, while others prevent some from going in. We HAVE to mix well with those worlds if we don't want to perturb the storyline of each one!"

"What do you mean by that?" Diddy asked.

"Ugh, let me give examples," the hand grumbled. "Suppose that there's a world full of blood and zombies and Peach wants to go there."

The princess gulped. "I-I wouldn't want to go in a place like that..."

"It's an example," the hand reminded her. "But there are some people that can go in there because they go well with that world like Snake."

"Why me?" Snake asked annoyed.

"Because I suppose you have spilled someone's blood on the floor a lot of times before."

"Tsk..."

"Now there's a world that has many cutie things and Wolf wants to go in there."

"Why would I go to a child's dream?" Wolf asked with a glare.

"It's an example, people!" Master Hand said annoyed. "Now, people like Pichu and Jigglypuff go well with that world."

"They're going to think I'm so childish then..." Pichu muttered.

"You see the examples?" the hand asked. "Some people go, some don't. It's very basic if you ask me. Sending Ike to a futuristic era means suicide to the storyline."

"...Hey, was that supposed to be offending?" Ike asked.

"You touch buttons and you make something go boom," Crazy Hand explained.

"...What?"

"J-just don't touch anything that looks too complicated for you," Roy explained.

"With that aside," Master Hand began. "Some of you are perturbed that you're weak, right?"

"Culex was very annoying..." Jigglypuff said. "...We were not very strong to hit him one time..."

"Well, remember what I said about the stickers?" Master Hand asked. "I think it's time to put these babies into use to buff all of you."

"What? Using stickers? Hand, are you high?" Snake asked.

"I'm 100 percent not high, Mr. I Smoke A Lot."

Snake grumbled and tossed his cigar to the trash can.

"Anyway," Master Hand began as he took out a small trophy stand. "See this beauty? This is the Trophy Stand."

"That looks like a coin more than a stand," Yoshi said.

"It's a little bit big, but that's not the point," Master Hand pointed out. "Right now, this Trophy Stand belongs to...let's see underneath...oh! This one belongs to Red and his Pok?mon!"

"Wohoo?" Ivysaur said confused.

"Okay, it's time to give you some examples about the usage of this," the hand went on. "Let's test your strength with something heavy for Squirtle to carry."

The hand snapped his fingers and an iron cube appeared on the floor. It reached Squirtle's height.

"So do I carry it?" Squirtle asked.

"Yes, go ahead. Try to carry it."

The Turtle Pok?mon tried to carry it and he lifted it up. However, he started to tumble at the sides. "I-it's heavy! I can't hold it any longer!" Squirtle yelled before he let the block fall on the floor.

"Okay, it's heavy for you." The hand took out a sticker. "Now, let's see what happens if we stick this..."

The hand looked at the Bidoof sticker.

"Er, where did this come from? I don't remember creating a sticker with this doofus before..."

"Jirachi gave it to me..." Chris pointed out.

"Whatever," the hand said as he burned it and took out a sticker of Max from Advance Wars. "This stickers increases attack power plus 8 for arms, meaning that attacks like punches and palms will increase."

Once the hand put the sticker on the stand, Squirtle and Ivysaur felt something.

"Did you feel something?" Master Hand asked.

"I feel like I used steroids in 1 second," Ivysaur said.

"Ivysaur!" Red yelled.

"What? I'm saying what I'm feeling right now!"

"Squirtle, just carry that block!" Master Hand ordered.

The Turtle Pok?mon lifted the block above him and he didn't tumble at the sides anymore. "...Look at this!" Squirtle said as he moved around. "It doesn't weight too much anymore!"

"That is the power of the stickers," Master Hand said as he removed the sticker and disappeared in thin air. "Oh, removing stickers means that it'll disappear forever until you get a new one."

"W-wait a minute..." Squirtle began to tumble. "M-my strength!" He let the cube fall above his right foot. "SQUIIIIIIIIIRTLEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!" he yelled loudly as he sat down and rubbed the red spot on his foot.

Pikachu rolled his eyes. "We learned a long time ago that yelling our names is stupid, remember?"

"M-my foot..." Squirtle moaned in pain as the cube disappeared.

"But I think that's way too little," Nana said.

"Let me explain more," Master Hand said. "There are around 600 of stickers with different effects for each part of your bodies or attacks. Some can use some specified stickers," he said as he took out a sticker of Fox from Star Fox Command. "Fox can only use this one to increase the attack power of his tail plus 18."

Some of them chuckled and Fox glared at them. "What's so funny?" Fox asked.

"No offense, but looking back, attacking with your tail seems stupid," Link said. "I mean, seriously? Is your tail hard o-"

Fox didn't give a second to Link to evade a low attack with his tail that made the Hyrulian trip and hit his head on the desk. "Oww!" Link moaned. "What was that for?"

"And it didn't have a boost of power, so be warned," Fox warned him with a grin.

"(I DO think it's stupid to attack with the tail...)" Chris thought.

Master Hand chuckled. "O-okay. Next, we have this." He took out a sticker of Flag Man from Game & Watch. "This kind of sticker boost special: indirect attacks plus 4 and only Mr. Game & Watch can use this one."

"Indirect?" Luigi asked.

"You know, those items that you can't control directly? Like some Assist Trophies. There are stickers like those who increase special: direct attacks like Ray Guns."

The hand tossed the sticker away and put a bunch of stickers on the stand. The Pok?mon, however, didn't feel that stronger. "Hey, how come you put a lot of stickers and yet we didn't get that strong?" Ivysaur asked.

"Because I just put a lot of stickers that raise the same attribute," Master Hand explained. "You see, just because you add stickers that increase the same attribute doesn't mean you'll get stronger. Only the sticker with the greatest boost will take effect and you need to vary the increase in attributes with different stickers." He peeled the stickers off. "Moving on, e have the space."

"You can't stick more stickers when it's completely empty of space, right?" Ness asked.

"Correct! It's necessary to think about the space that you use. You can't put another sticker above another because it won't work."

"But I don't think it's going to be enough to defeat guys like Culex," Mario said.

"That's why I'm going to cheat a little bit," Master Hand said. "If Chris can, he can increase or decrease the space of the stands and decrease the size of each sticker respectively. However, that's going to cost you a lot of coins so get fighting."

"Are you going to give us those stands? I wouldn't mind to be prepared for a surprise attack," Meta Knight said.

"Nope," the hand said. "You can't have these."

"Wait a minute," Diddy began. "What's the point in showing that to us if you're not going to give it?"

"You guys think I would give it away so easily?" Master Hand asked.

"It's YOUR responsibility to help us, isn't it?" Pichu asked.

"Haha, no," Master Hand chuckled. "I mean, it is, but you guys need to earn it first."

"But we need them now!" C. Falcon argued.

"Look, nowadays heroes think they can get away with their work and get anything for free! Well, I'm breaking that rule now!"

"They just recently started to say that..." Mario muttered.

"If you want these, then you'll have to fight for them!" Master Hand said.

Mostly everyone looked at each other and they seemed to be preparing to tackle each other to death.

"Not that way, you barbarians!" Master Hand yelled. "I meant the Classic Mode I spoke about a while ago!"

They stopped from fighting.

"The Classic Mode will be opened tomorrow, and you guys will have a fun day beating the skull out of each one. The musicians already prepared one track for each stage so its going to be fun."

Some of them cheered and whistled.

"Do they act like this?" Chris asked as a mutter.

"You've got to love their love to battle," Master Hand whispered. "I'm going to cheer for you tomorow."

"Yes..."

A record scratched.

"Wait, what again?"

"Everyone is going to be busy fighting for their Trophy Stands and YOU sir will fight too."

"M-me?" Chris asked unsure.

"Yeah! You'll fight them and they'll fight you!" Master Hand pointed out. "It's not too serious. Everyone will have 5 lives and nobody dies in an official match. There are some points where you'll have to fight a pair with a partner of your own, or sometimes you'll fight a giant character."

"...Giant?!" Chris asked in shock.

"Yes, like, 15 feet tall?"

"F-fiftheen?!"

"Imagine a 15-feet tall Yoshi and you'll get the idea," Master Hand said.

Chris had a vision.

Chris's Vision
Yoshi's Island

Music stops

Chris looked up to see a 15-feet tall Yoshi staring down at him. "Hello," Yoshi said in a deeper tone.

"..." Chris whimpered.

"Don't worry!" DK yelled as he and Diddy appeared behind him. "We're going to take that dino down!"

"I'll start with Chris," Yoshi said as he jumped INSANELY high and used Yoshi Bomb right above the World Traveler.

"YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEH!!!" Chris screamed.

Smash Mansion
Command Room

"YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEH!!!" Chris screamed.

Master Hand slapped him with his index finger. "What's wrong with you?" Master Hand asked.

"I-I had a horrible vision..." Chris whimpered a little.

"But you're okay about fighting giant characters, right?"

"I-I guess..."

"Good! Then you won't mind fighting 3 giant characters!"

Chris got a shocked look.

"1 metal character, 2 partners, and 2 team battles!"

"..."

"And you can only use 1 job, randomly."

"...Fine..." Chris said depressed.

"Well, everyone's done with my announcements," Master Hand said as he snapped his fingers to make the way visible. "YIKES!" he yelled in a high pitched tone after he saw a distracted Rita looking down at a headgear and snapped his fingers to disappear the way.

"There she is!" Falco yelled. "Give me my headgear!"

"Shh! Everyone to the emergency exit!" Master Hand yelled.

"There are no emergency exits in here!" Pikachu yelled. "And I'm not scared about a girl with meteors!"

Master Hand snapped his fingers and made an exit at the side of the room himself. "There is one! Run!" the hand yelled before he went through it as he screamed.

The Smashers looked at Crazy Hand. "What?" he asked.

"I thought you were going to follow him," Roy said.

"Oh, should I? Oh well. DAIHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" he yelled as he went through the exit.

"...Sometimes I wonder if Master Hand is serious and intelligent..." Samus muttered.

Mewtwo frowned and opened the way to the hallway as Rita seemed to have walked away. Everyone started to leave the room to different parts before Sonic was stopped by Pikachu.

"A note?" Sonic asked bored as he read the note.

Full moon will come in 10 days. You better get prepared.

Sonic got a shocked look. "W-who gave you this?"

"It was on my hand as always," Pikachu said. "Sorry, I didn't see who gave it to me."

"T-this guy is a darn stalker! Who is it?!" Sonic asked with a glare as he grabbed Pikachu and shoved him to his eyes (eye?).

"H-how should I know?" Pikachu asked as he pushed Sonic away from him.

"Grr. I need to find out who the stalker is before it's too late..." Sonic said depressed.

"Um...sure..." Pikachu said confused before he left the hedgehog.

Hallway

"Maybe it's time for..." Chris muttered as he took out his DS and inserted Final Fantasy III. "I'm going to defeat that dammed Iron Giant this time..."

Unfortunately, he stopped right in front of Rita.

"..." Chris blinked at her.

"Hey..." Rita looked down at the DS. "What is that you have there?"

Oh no.

"E-er..." Chris stammered. "N-nothing..." He started to back away.

The Genius Mage tossed the headgear back and started to walk towards Chris. "Let me take a look at it," she said in a treatining voice.

Falco appeared from behind. "You! Give me m-"

He stopped once he noticed his headgear going right on his head and got placed around his head, perfectly on its place.

"..." Falco looked at his headgear and shrugged before walking away.

"I-I don't have anything of importance for you!" Chris yelled as he backed away.

"You have a very interesting Blastia on your hands," Rita said as she adjusted her goggles. "You must let me take a peek of it!"

"N-no!" Chris yelled back. "You're going to dismantle it little by little!"

"I'm going to dismantle i-" Rita gasped and blocked her mouth.

Chris's eyes widened as he looked at the screen and found Kawashima in it.

"RUN! LET ME LIVE!" Kawashima suggested and pleaded respectively.

"Hey! That Blastia just talked!" Rita said with more curiosity.

Star Ocean: Till the End of Time - I'm the No. 1!

"YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEH!!!" Chris screamed for the DS's life (and Kawashima's) as he ran away from the Genius Mage.

"Hey! Come back here!" Rita yelled as she gave the World Traveler chase.

"K-keep your hands off my DS!" Chris yelled before Rita began to lash the tip of the scroll at him.

Honestly speaking, the tip of the scroll was hard as it made small cracks on the walls.

"Give me that Blastia and I won't hurt you!" Rita yelled.

"Well, stop swinging that-" He ducked to evade a hit. "-paper around!"

"Not until you give me your Blastia!"

"Do you really think I'm going to do that?"

"No! That's why I'm going to take it off from you!"

"You're evil!"

"You're greedy!"

"I'm protecting my stuff!"

"I'm going to give it more special treatment than you!"

"By dismantling it? Hell no!"

"C'mon! You're going to be happy!"

"Just shut up and leave me alone!" Chris yelled and screamed loudly for his dear life.

"Okay, you asked for it!" Rita yelled as she began to chant while she ran after the teen. "O flickering blaze, burn! Fireball!"

Several fireballs were flying towards the World Traveler and he screamed to get someone in there to help.

"Y-you! Help me!" Chris yelled to the Ice Climbers.

"Oh my god," Nana said scared as she used Popo as a shield for the fireballs.

"What are we playing?" Popo asked excited as Chris ran pass them.

"Protect your sister from the fireballs!" Nana yelled.

"Sweet!" Popo exclaimed before the fireballs hit him and burned him before the Genius Mage passed them. "Cool! Did I win?" Popo asked before he fainted.

Nana sighed in relief.

"D-don't hurt me with your magic, please! You're going to kill me!" Chris yelled.

However, his shouts fell to deaf ears.

"O caprice of innocent waters! Champagne!"

Chris saw water appearing from his feet and he jumped right over a passing Kirby. The magic accidentally confused Kirby for Chris and several explosions of bubbles burst around the Star Warrior that he got knocked out.

"KIRBY!" Chris yelled as Rita jumped over the puffball. "SOMEBODY!"

"Just give me that Blastia!" Rita yelled. "It's so easy to do!"

"For you at least!" Chris yelled.

[DededeCloneChris]

"What's so hard about giving me a piece of Blastia?" Rita asked.

"It's hard because it's not going to be back in one piece!" Chris yelled.

"Ugh!" Rita grunted as she prepared another spell. "O merciles conflagration, burn the very souls of my enemies! Crimson Flare!"

Chris saw a sphere of heat and flames appearing right in front of him that burst into flames before creating an eruptio of flames from below. The tower of flames blocked him from getting further and he looked behind where an anxious Rita was about to trap him.

"Give me that!" Rita yelled with a creepy grin.

The World Traveler found the stairs and went up in a hurry. Rita slid on the mattress a little to turn to the stairs and chase the kid (Chris: Teen!).

"Okay. You're pissing me off now!" Rita warned. "You can't get away! Demon's Lance!"

A lance of pure darkness appeared behind and above Chris before it got fired at him, but it didn't hit him and instead it stabbed Snake's chest through, who seemed to be walking out from his room.

"Snake!" Chris yelled.

"..." Snake glared at Chris. "This is why I hate this place," he said before he fainted.

"..." He looked down at him. "...Should I tell him that his butt is clearly visible with that...um...crack?"

"There you are!" Rita yelled as she narrowly missed Chris with the tip of her scroll.

"Save me!" Kawashima pleaded before the teen turned and ran away.

"O mother praised for her indigo light, break apart and raise thy clear new voice! Aqua Laser!"

"Can't you say anything else than, "O"?!" Chris asked in annoyance as water began to appear behind him before it created a laser of water that chased him. "OH MY GOD, SHE'LL HIT ME THIS TIME!"

Yoshi appeared from the corner of the hallway.

"OH MY GOD, HUGE YOSHIS!" Chris yelled and screamed as he turned around behind Yoshi and ran away.

"What's happ-" Yoshi got interrupted as the laser of water pushed him to the wall and knocked him out before Rita ran above him and towards Chris.

And Rita tried another spell. "O demon who crawls the depths of the earth, gore my enemies and crush them to dust! Riot Horn!"

The floor began to shatter as some sort of energy from the earth came out like a mole and chased the teen's feet quickly. Chris jumped over the chasing earth that took Pikachu and Pichu inside it before the floor spat them out, knocked out of cold.

"I-I'm sorry!" Chris yelled.

"You're dead the next time I get you..." Pikachu muttered before he fainted and got kicked away by Rita.

"Daddy..." Pichu fantasied. "Is that...you?"

"Shut...up..." Pikachu muttered quickly.

"At this rate, you're going to kill anyone in your way! Stop it!" Chris yelled.

"No way! That Blastia you have there is even better than any crap inside this place!" Rita yelled.

"(What if I show her a PC?)" Chris thought. "(...No, she would find out about the real world and I don't want th-)"

"Grant them thy undefiled purity! Splash!"

Water came from below Chris and it prepared to fall down as a small cascade. The World Traveler's eyes widened and wished for something and...

...No, he couldn't be thinking about sacrifing someone to save himself, right?

Oh, wait, Pit came in.

"SAVE ME!" Chris yelled and pleaded.

"H-hey! W-what's happening?!" Pit asked before the World Traveler passed and made him the Splash's new target before it rained down on him like a cascade that knocked him out. "Palu...tena..." Pit muttered before Rita stepped on his wings and continued her way to Chris.

"Oh, come on!" Chris yelled. "Why do you have to be dramatic?!" he yelled to Pit.

"O unnamed and unmerciful queen of thorns... Ivy Rush!"

Vines with thorns came out from the floor and they chased the World Traveler.

Zelda appeared from the hallway and she found the 2 running at her way. "Oh no, what now?" she asked with a frown.

"Help me! Save me! Get me away from Rita!" Chris yelled as he passed Zelda.

The princess looked down and noticed the vines wrapping her legs before spreading out upwards and wrapping her waist, arms, and hands to the roof. The princess yelled in pain as she was held in an uncomfortable position with hands up like she was inside a prison.

Rita passed by the side and continued her mission to get the DS.

"...Anyone?" Zelda asked half-scared. "T-this is very uncomfortable for my tastes..."

Crickets began to chirp.

"H-hello?"

Unfortunately, nobody answered her back.

"W-wait," Chris said between pants. "H-he could save me!"

Outside

Below the same burned tree, Lucario was meditating in peace as the winds gently moved the grass around him.

Nothing could interrupt his meditation.

...Oh, screw it. You know what happened after that.

"LUCARIO!" a familiar voice yelled from inside the mansion that Lucario was able to hear.

"...?" Lucario opened his eyes.

"SAVE ME, LUCARIO! PLEASE!"

"Chris?" Lucario asked before standing up.

"I'M GOING TO DIE! PLEASE, SAVE ME!"

"Chris!" Lucario yelled before he went inside and looked for his trainer.

One of the many hallways

Chris panted heavily as he ran across the halls of the mansion with the anxious Rita who wanted to have a peek of (or have) the DS on her hands.

"I'm not going to give you this!" Chris yelled. "What's wrong with that?! I just want to defeat that stupid Iron Giant that has been bothering me!"

"I don't care about an Iron Giant or whatever the heck it is!" Rita yelled. "That thing is going to be mine before this day ends!"

"Can you give it a rest with the whole "Blastia" thing?!"

Rita gasped and accelerated. "Are you insulting Blastia?!"

"N-no!"

"That does it! You're dead!" she yelled with rage.

"I was already dead the moment you decided to chase me!" Chris yelled.

"I'm going to throw you my most powerful spells so you get turned into ashes!" Rita yelled.

"I presume you're going to use a fire spell?!" Chris asked.

"DAMN right I will!" Rita yelled with a creepy laugh.

"GUUUUUUUUUUUUAAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!!!"

"(T-that mighty roar...)" Chris thought with toon tears as Lucario came from below the floor by shattering it with his right fist and appearing right in front of him.

"Yes! Go through the floor instead of using the nearby stairs!" yelled an angry Jigglypuff before she walked away in the lower floor.

"Lucario!" Chris hid behind his only salvation. "P-please, stop her! She wants to kill me!"

"Nobody will kill you, ever," Lucario said as she glared daggers at Rita.

"Get out of the way, blue dog!" Rita warned. "O seething fire, be as a holy beast to devour the wicked! Flame Dragon!"

A huge fire fragon's mouth appeared right in front of Rita and it roared loudly. The 2 noticed that the dragon completely covered its way from where Rita was to their way.

Basically, they could only run to the opposite side.

"...Oh my goodness..." Chris whispered as the beast of fire roared. "RUN!"

The World Traveler hung to Lucario's shoulders with force as the Aura Pok?mon turned and ran away as fast as he coul-

"USE EXTREMESPEED, DAMMIT!" Chris yelled.

Lucario blushed in embarrassment before his speed dramatically increased. The dragon of fire didn't have a chance to catch them.

"Oh, increasing your speed?" Somehow, Rita was able to see them getting away even faster than before. "Dragon! Go faster and burn them!"

The dragon roared in agreement and it began to accelerate its speed at Lucario's speed. Both of them looked behind and gasped after the dragon was about to catch them.

"GO!" Lucario yelled as he grabbed Chris.

"W-what are you going to do?!" Chris asked.

"Live for me!"

"What the hell?! You're not going to di-"

The World Traveler was tossed across the hallway and Lucario opened hi arms to the dragon before he got engulfed by the searing flames that made him roar in extreme pain.

"LUCARIOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" Chris yelled loudly before the dragon disappeared and left and knocked out Lucario on the floor. "...Olimar?"

Chris found Olimar several feet away from Lucario. Apparently, he appeared from his room with his Pikmin and got burned severely. His Pikmin, however, were unnaffected as they were 3 Red Pikmin.

"...I suffer a lot in here acidentally, right?" Olimar asked as a mutter. "This universe is so cruel..."

The Pikmin looked at each other before carrying their leader's dead carcass back to his room before closing the door.

Chris looked worried for Olimar before he noticed Rita running above Lucario. "Hey! You can't just stomp on hi-"

"I have you where I wanted you to be," Rita said rather evilly.

Music stops

"What?" Chris asked.

"There's no way out for you to run away," Rita said. "Look behind you."

The World Traveler looked behind him and there was the wall, 2 others walls, and the hallway that was blocked by Rita.

"Oh no..." Chris muttered as he started to back away to the wall from Rita. "S-stay away from my DS!"

"No," Rita said. "I must have that with me right now. Give it slowly to me and I won't hurt you."

"But she will hurt me instead!" Kawashima pleaded.

"I-I can't!" Chris yelled as he touched the wall with his back. "I-I can't let you hurt my digital instructor!"

Kawashima cried toon tears of happiness.

"...And my current levels for Luneth, Arc, Refia, and Ingus! Do you know how hard was for me to get to lvl. 79? Ages! Ages, I tell you!"

This is just a side information that isn't official, but Chris finds it hard to train his characters since there are no monsters who give a lot of experience at higher points, except for the dragons in the mysterious cave of the Iron Giant and those are such a pain in the a-

"Give it to me," Rita said in annoyed tone.

"No!" Chris replied back.

"...Okay."

"W-what? Y-you found forgiviness within yourself or something stupid and cheesy like that?" Chris asked excited.

"No, I said okay as confirmation to kill you off."

"Oh, I see."

Wait, that didn't sound good...

"Wait, what?!"

Chris saw his last 10 minutes of running away from Rita...

He was going to remember those who perished by Rita...

Popo by the fireballs...

Kirby by the burst of bubbles...

Snake with the demon lance on his chest...

Yoshi by the laser of water...

Pikachu and Pichu by the earth...

Pit's heroic but sudden speech by a cascade of water...

Zelda by the vines with thorns...

"I'm still living!" Zelda yelled. "O-oww..."

And lastly, Lucario by the dragon of fire...

It all ended.

"Die!" Rita yelled as she unrolled the air. "O merciles conflagration, burn the very souls of my enemies! Crimson Flare!"

"A-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!" Chris yelled loudly as an extreme heat began to manifest above him.

And the scene was blinded.

Chris was dead...

...

"...Hey, what the crap?" Rita's voice was heard through the blinding light.

The scene was shown again and Chris seemed to be perfectly fine as Rita looked confused. She could have sworn that she was going to cast Crimson Flame to burn the teen to ashes.

"...Huh?" Chris opened his eyes. "D-did you die with me too and we're in heaven?"

"Hell no!" Rita yelled angrily. "M-my scroll! I-it's gone!"

"(OH, THANK GOODNESS,)" Chris thought with a long sigh.

"GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR..."

Rita blinked in confusion after hearing some angry grunts and she turned around and found Repede with her scroll and Blastia Book laying beneath him. The dog barked angrily at the Genius Mage and he bit the book's cover and showed his fangs at Rita.

Repede probably stole both items while Rita gave Chris a chance to spoke his final words.

"Y-you dog!" Rita yelled. "G-give me my things back! O-oh no, the cover is getting torn by your filthy fangs!"

"GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR, woof, woof!" Repede barked angrily.

"L-leave my book alone or I'll burn you down!" Rita yelled.

"H-how?" Chris asked. "D-don't you need those 2 items to use magic?"

Chris had a point, but Rita gritted her teeth in anger at the obvious answer.

"L-look, give me my things back!" Rita demanded.

Repede's fangs were getting deeper into the cover. Rita gasped as she knew if they went any further, they would rip the pages inside and all the research she has been doing could be easily bitten off by Repede's fangs.

"N-no! D-don't do that!" Rita yelled as she started to sound like she was pleading. "W-why are you acting like this today?!"

"Woof, woof, woof!" Repede barked at Chris.

"W-what of him?!" Rita asked. "W-wait, you don't mean I should leave him alone, right?"

Repede nodded.

"What the hell?! H-he isn't your owner! Yuri is your owner!"

The fangs went deeper.

"S-stop!" Rita pleaded. "F-fine! I-ll leave the kid (Chris: Hey!) and his stupid Blastia alone! G-give me back my things!"

"Grrrrrrrr..." Repede grunted one last time and tossed the almost-bitten book back to Rita. The Genius Mage quickly went for her scroll and glared down at the dog.

"You are so gonna pay one of these days..." Rita muttered through gritted teeth. "I'm going to tell Yuri this once he returns...got that?" she asked before turning away, grunted, and walked away from the 2.

"..." Chris felt to his knees and wiped some tears. "R-Repede..."

The dog looked back at him and walked to Chris. Once he got closer, Repede started to lick Chris's tears and whined a little.

"Repede!" Chris cried in happiness and hugged the dog. "T-thank you so much for saving me!"

Repede whined and smiled a little.

"I-I didn't know you would come to me! Y-you're so awesome, Repede!"

"..." Lucario opened his eyes and little and looked at the 2. "(What? W-why is Chris hugging him?)"

"I-I could've been dead if it weren't for you, Repede..." Chris muttered. "...Thank you so much...really... Thank you very much..."

Lucario's eyes widened and felt like 20 anvils fell on his back before he lost consciousness.

Everything became hazier for him...

???

".u..rio..."

"U-ugh..."

"L.ca......"

"Ugh..."

"Lucario?"

"...?" Lucario opened his eyes and looked at a white ceiling.

"Lucario!" Chris yelled and hugged his Pok?mon. "Thank goodness you're okay!"

Infirmary

"C-Chris?" Lucario lifted his head up and looked at the bandages wrapping up his waist. "W-what happened?"

"You were knocked out with some first-degree burns by that girl," Mario explained right beside Lucario's bed. "Fortunately, you managed to survive."

"But how did you..."

"Mario still has his experience as a doctor even if he's not Dr. Mario right now," Chris explained. "He cured you."

"...But..." Lucario glanced around the room and found the previous "Rita Storm's cassualties" laying down on several beds around.

"I just got pinched by some thorns!" Zelda yelled from her bed. "I'm not that badly hurt! Oww!"

"Zelda!" Link yelled as he was sitting down on a chair. "You shouldn't try to force yourself out from the bed!"

"Link, I'm not that badly hurt, got that?" Zelda asked annoyed.

"..." Lucario shook his head. "Are they going to be fine?"

"Oh, yes," Mario said. "They will. They went through worse compared to this."

"I thank Repede," Chris said as Repede got up and looked at Lucario. "He stopped Rita from rampaging through the mansion... Oh, Master Hand came here earlier and he decided to postpone the matches until another new advice comes up."

"He said he would like to begin them once Rita is away from this place..." Mario trailed off. "...I remember he was trembling. Oh, you're going to stay here for the whole day until tomorrow so your wounds heal."

"...And I can't use Heart Containers?" Lucario asked.

"We're empty of that," Mario said. "Master Hand said Crazy Hand used them all on himself so he could find out if his brain could be healed. We know that's not true at all and there aren't any left now."

"..." Lucario looked at Chris. "Heal me."

"Hmm... Sorry," Chris said. "I won't."

"You what?!" Lucario asked bewildered.

"Think about it," Chris said as he moved away and revealed Pikachu on the other bed, looking at Lucario. "You get to talk with everyone in here so I decided to let you talk with them."

"B-but..." Lucario looked at Repede.

"Don't worry. Repede is going to give me company tonight."

Chris wasn't understanding him! Oh noez!

"You can stay here and rest to heal your wounds."

Wait! You're not understanding, jackass!

...

...I should stop saying what Lucario was not thinking.

But this was remotely close, remember that.

"B-but..." Lucario stuttered.

"You're going to be fine," Chris reassured him. "You can continue training tomorrow once morning comes in, right, Mario?"

"Yes," Mario nodded. "Just rest for today and you'll be good to stand up tomorrow."

"Well, we'll be going now," Chris said as he stood up. "I'll wait for you to recover."

"(But can't you stay here with me?!)" Lucario thought scared about Repede, who seemed to be grinning evilly at him.

"See you!" Chris said with a chuckle as he walked away with Repede.

"I'll stay here for a little while longer," Mario said.

"..." Lucario looked at him.

"...I'll...go for the first aid kit for Popo."

"Give me more!" Popo yelled from his bed.

"Shut up!" Nana yelled. "You're a little bit hurt but stop saying that!"

"Give me alcohol! Money! Women!" Popo hyperveleated.

Lucario sighed and hit the back of his head on the pillow.

He turned his head to Pikachu. "...Help me..." Lucario said.

Pikachu nodded several times. "...You won't regret it..." he muttered.

"I meant Popo shutting himself..." Lucario said.

"...Chris plus Repede?"

"..." Lucario thought for a moment. "...Help me, please..."

"You won't regret it..." Pikachu repeated.

Lucario turned his head around and found Jigglypuff glaring at him from her bed. She had bandages around her forehead. "What happened to you?" Lucario asked.

"A blue dog with a freaking spike on his chest made a hole on the ceiling and it collapsed on me after a while," Jigglypuff said. "Besides the broken parts of my hands, I'm pretty much dandy like sunflowers."

"..."

"I'LL KILL YOU ONCE I GET OFF FROM THIS BED!"

Lucario groaned and covered his face with the pillow as the Balloon Pok?mon swore to prepare his grave.

Outside

A target was the first thing shown before an arrow hit the center of it.

The camera pulled back and the target was removed from Raven's face by his right hand. "Good job," Raven said. "Looks like you've mastered my technique, kid."

"Yes!" Toon Link lifted his bow in happiness.

"Hmm?" Raven looked at the forest and saw Estelle coming out. "Hey, was Estelle skippin' inside the forest?"

"Raven!" Estelle yelled. "I found someone!"

"...You were lookin' for someone?" Raven asked.

"Yes!" Estelle nodded happily. "I was able to find someone!"

"Okay, but say it already! Don't leave me hangin'!"

Behind Estelle, Karol appeared from the forest and sighed. "Good thing you found me, Estelle. I didn't like to be inside a cave all alone."

Karol Capel is a young boy of Dahngrest that has joined many guilds before, but unfortunately his cowardlyness resulted him from being kicked out until he found Yuri and the others to create the guild called "Brave Vesperia," in which he is the (proud) leader of it.

"Hopefully I removed that spider living in your hair," Estelle explained.

Karol's face turned a little bit purple. "H-hey, don't remind me about that! Is it my fault that my hair is like this? I-it's style, you know!"

"Karol, kid!" Raven yelled as he waved a hand. "Good to see ya back in one piece!"

"Huh?" Karol looked at the old man. "Raven! You're alive!"

Raven fell anime style. "...Estelle told you everythin', didn't she?"

Karol and Estelle ran to them. "Raven! So is Rita inside that mansion?"

"A-and the dog as well..." Raven said as he got and scratched his forehead.

"Alright!" Karol said with a smile. "We just need Yuri and Judith before we return to Dahngrest!"

"I-I'll check around some more before the evening comes!" Estelle said eagerly before she ran back to the forest.

"...Goodness, when is she going to admit her feelings to Yuri? It's very clear if you ask me..." Karol said. "...Oh! Sorry, I didn't see you!"

"...Meh..." responded Toon Link.

TO BE CONTINUED...

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"Chris's True Dog. It can't be Pok?mon? Lucario won't have a chance then..." Pikachu said with a frown.

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Chris, Lucario, Mario, Luigi, Peach, Yoshi, Pikachu, Pichu, Jigglypuff, Mewtwo, Red, Squirtle, Ivysaur, Donkey Kong, Diddy Kong, Samus, Kirby, Meta Knight, Link, Zelda, Toon Link, Fox, Falco, Wolf, Captain Falcon, Olimar, Marth, Roy, Ike, Ness, Lucas, Pit, Ice Climbers, Snake, Sonic

[DededeCloneChris]

Chapter 133: Chris's True Dog

Smash Mansion
Outside

"Karol, this kid is Link," Raven said. "I've been givin' him bow lessons."

"(SOMEBODY says my true name...) O-oh, nice to meet you, I guess," Toon Link said.

"Raven? You were giving him bow lessons?" Karol asked.

"It's my way to say thanks for shielding me for Rita until she appeared," Raven said. "Well, he seemed more interested than anyone in there."

"Anyone in there?" Karol asked. "So are there more people?"

"Yeah," Raven nodded. "But I'm warning ya, they're not normal at all."

"..." Karol decided to go to the doors to open them.

Room

That night...

"..." Karol slowly opened his eyes and felt a pillow underneath his head. "...Where...am I..."

"Good, you're awake," Rita said as she read a book.

"U-uah!" Karol's heart skipped a beat of horror as he sat up. "R-Rita! W-what just happened?! H-how did I get here?!"

"Shut up!" Rita yelled as she slapped Karol to calm him down. "I saw you fainted in the front door of this place and I dragged you all the way here in this empty room!"

"W-what? Why did I faint?"

"They told me you saw that puffball and you fainted after he said "hello" to you."

"W-well, I remember something round and pink below me..." Karol recalled. "B-but how come you're acting so normal?"

"I have everyone here under my foot," Rita said as she didn't look at him by her interest in reading her book. "These guys are very weak compared to us so they seem to hate me, and they're scared as well."

"Who wouldn't..." Karol muttered.

"What was that?"

"N-nothing..." Karol looked around. "S-so, it's night already? It was about to be afternoon!"

"You get scared so easily that you almost fell into a coma," Rita said. "Sheesh, when are you going to get more brave?"

Karol blushed embarrassed. "Y-you wait until I grow up!"

"I don't have time."

Karol sighed and hit the pillow with the back of his head. "...Well...are you going to stay here with me?"

"I'm not your babysitter."

"Rita!"

"I'm going back to my room. My room is just to the left," Rita explained as she got up. "Estelle is resting in her room next to mine after she couldn't find the other 2. Rest for now so you can increase your guts to meet those weirdos."

"...Hey!" Karol said before Rita closed the door. "Ugh, I knew there was something I was enjoying when she wasn't around..."

And with that, he decided to sleep for the night.

Infirmary

Lucario seemed to be grunting as he slept through the night...

Dream

Lucario found himself in an open field. The Aura Pok?mon looked around the place in confusion.

"Where am I?" Lucario asked. "What is this place?"

"Luuuuuuuuucaaaaaaarioooooooooo!" called a voice from behind.

"Chris?" Lucario asked as he turned around. "Is that you?"

"Come over here! I'm just below this tree!" Chris laughed heartily.

Lucario smiled and ran to the direction of the tree he found on a small hill with Chris sitting down below the shade. The Aura Pok?mon reached his trainer and looked down at him.

"What are we doing here?" Lucario asked with a small smile.

"Just sit down right next to me," Chris said. "I want to enjoy this time with you. I know you want to, right?"

"You read my words in my mind," Lucario said with a chuckle as he sat next to Chris. "But, seriously, what are we doing here?"

"I wanted to enjoy our final time together, that's all."

"Oh, I see," Lucario nodded. "So are we just going to stare at the field and..."

Something hit Lucario's mind.

"...Enjoy our final time together?"

"Yes," Chris nodded. "I decided to set you free."

Lucario's eyes widened. "W-what? Why?"

"You seem to be more relaxed when you're away from me, so I'm letting you go away."

"C-Chris! I-I don't enjoy being alone! W-why are you saying that all of a sudden?!"

Repede appeared behind the tree and looked to Lucario.

"Since Repede likes to be with me more than you, and that you enjoy to be alone, I'm going to set you free by breaking your Pok? Ball." He took out Lucario's Pok? Ball and Repede destroyed it with his fangs.

Lucario's mouth opened in shock as the remains of the sphere fell down to the grass.

"No!" Lucario yelled. "T-this is all his doing! Chris, he plans to take me away from you by befriending you!"

"Too bad," Chris said.

"W-what?"

"I like Repede more than you."

Lucario's pupils shrunk in horror.

"He likes me more than you."

Lucario almost felt heavy.

"And you can go away."

Lucario took several steps back and shook his head many times. "N-no! T-this can't be happening at all! C-Chris, I don't want to leave you! N-not like this, understand me!"

"You heard him," Repede said as he suddenly gained the ability to speak. "Go away, puppy."

"Don't tell me that!" Lucario yelled in rage. "I don't care about this anymore! I'm going to kill you right now!"

The Aura Pok?mon tried to make an Aura Sphere, but nothing appeared. "What?"

"Didn't you say you needed to go that valley of yours to train your aura rather than having an eye on me?" Repede asked with a smirk. "You're way weaker than me right now."

"N-no!" Lucario yelled back.

"Go away," Repede said with a glare. "You've lost your chance now. Get away before I kill you myself."

"C-Chris! H-how can you be so silent about this?! R-Repede is an imbecile!"

"Because I don't care about you anymore," Chris said.

Lucario's right eye twitched.

The sky suddenly turned black.

"I care about Repede and only him, not you."

"By the way!" Master Hand appeared from behind the tree. "Repede is officially a Smasher!"

"What?" Lucario asked confused.

"He's taking your spot."

"WHAT?!"

"Think of it!" Master Hand said. "I'll get more publicity by letting a dog like him fight in the matches!" he said happily. "Besides, he gave a good beating to that darn Prinny!"

"Everyone is happy then," Repede said.

"Not me!" Lucario yelled.

"Oh, I meant to say Smashers and not forgotten ones."

"Who is he?" Chris asked as he looked at Lucario.

"Wait! T-this is stupid!" Lucario yelled. "How did he forget all about me just now?!"

"Because he doesn't care about you," Repede said. "Go away, puppy."

"N-no..." Lucario said as he started to back away. "N-no! No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"

Infirmary

"N-no, don't leave! I beg you! R-Repede is an idiot!"

"LUCARIO!" Pikachu yelled and slapped Lucario.

Wrong idea.

"O-oww..." Pikachu muttered after slapping the Steel Pok?mon.

"U-ugh?!" Lucario opened his eyes. "W-where am I?!"

"Back in the world where at least I'm far calmer than you," Pikachu said annoyed. "Don't yell like that! There are people sleeping in here with you, you know!"

"A nightmare..." Lucario trailed off.

"Oh, let me guess, Repede and Chris, right?"

"Y-yes..."

"Oh, I knew it," Pikachu said.

"You did?"

"Yeah," Pikachu nodded before he removed his mask and revealed Repede's face. "You're still in the nightmare, pup. MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"

Infirmary

"UAH!" Lucario yelled as he sat up and looked at an annoyed Pikachu on his bed. "W-was that another nightmare?!"

"Lucario, calm down!" Pikachu yelled. "Everyone's sleeping at this hour!"

"T-thank goodness it ended..."

"Oh, by the way," Pikachu began as he showed him some rumbles. "Chris destroyed this during the morning in the field. Master Hand said he wanted you out by tomorrow."

"...Oh no..."

Repede came from the door. "You're lucky to be here one last time, idiot."

Infirmary

Lucario woke up from his nightmares and looked around.

Silence...

"...Everything seems fine now..." Lucario muttered.

Silence...

...

"Damn right it is!" Popo called as he suddenly sat up above his bed. "Party!"

Multiple Popos came from the door and they started to dance above the beds. Lucario watched confused as more Popos came from within the bed sheets and started dancing with the other Popos.

And they apparently were singing a song from Chris's world...

...Perfectly.

Infirmary

Lucario sat up with an annoyed look. "Is this another part of the nightmare as well or what?!" he asked with a furious grunt. "I'm sick of it! And when did Popo learn to sing that awful song from Chris's world?!"

"Would you shut up?" Pikachu asked as he woke up and glared at him. "I was having a good dream with lots of ketchu-I mean, battle with Ash as we lost the Sinnoh League..."

"...And was that a dream because..."

"Look! Just shut up and rest!" Pikachu yelled before he sighed and continued to sleep.

"..." Lucario waited a moment of silence before he went to sleep with a sigh of relief. "Finally..." he muttered.

Sonic's Room

"9 days..." Sonic muttered with a sigh through his fangs as he tried to sleep.

"Oh, c'mon. It's going to be a lot of fun," Dark Super Sonic said.

"For you, but not for me," Sonic said through gritted fangs.

"Dude, you'll like to see their brains out on the floor. I'm gonna wipe the floor with them when that time comes."

"I'm certain that won't happen!" Sonic yelled. "Just leave me alone!"

"Can't do that, sorry," he said sarcastically.

"Why did I have to fall in those fake emeralds anyway? I knew you were going to bother me again!"

"Am I a plague to you?"

"How did you know?" Sonic asked as he rolled his eyes.

"You're the plague here."

"And you're the worst."

"Likewise."

"Good. Let me sleep."

"Good night, dumbass."

Sonic grunted one last time before he fell asleep.

However, he didn't notice the person watching him from a small portion of the door before the person walked away and closed the door in silence.

"I must do something...and fast..." the person muttered before disappearing in the dark hallways.

The night went on...

Main Lobby

Tales of Vesperia - United Oath

The next morning...

"I'm off to search Yuri and Judith!" Estelle yelled. "I'm certain I'll find them today!"

"Just go!" Rita yelled from the hallway.

"Okay!" Estelle said cheerfully as she left the mansion.

Chris watched as the door got closed from the sofa as Repede laid down close to his feet. "Why do I think Rita didn't mention about what she almost did on me to Estelle?"

Repede whined.

"Of course..." he muttered. "She didn't want to be scolded by Estelle..."

A moment of silence fell in.

"(...I don't remember from which game they came from...)" Chris thought. "(If I recall, I haven't heard any notice about them at all... Are they from another platform?)"

Repede's ears perked up and he looked at the stairs.

"Man..." someone said from the steps of the stairs. Chris turned around and found Karol as he yawned. "I didn't see anyone weird like the puffball in my way here..."

"...And just who are you?" Chris asked confused.

Karol blinked and looked at the teen. "Oh, pardon me. I thought I was the only one in here."

"You and almost 30 more people like me, though."

"W-what? Thirty?" Karol asked a little bit surprised.

"This mansion has a lot of unique people living in here. How did you get in? ...Who are you?"

"M-my name is Karol Capel," Karol said. "I-I got in here because Rita found me fainted close to the entrance yesterday."

"You know Rita?"

"You know her?"

"She...let's just say I got in her bad side."

"Did she try to kill you for something?"

"..."

"...By the look of your face, I can tell..." Karol said with a shudder. "But you lived?"

"R-Repede saved me from her..." Chris said as he looked at Repede.

"Oh, Repede!" Karol smiled happily. "Gosh, thank goodness I found you!"

Repede whined a little.

"Yuri has been so worried about you!"

"I think I remember his name..." Chris trailed off.

"Wait," Karol looked at the 2. "Repede is awfully close to you. He'd normally stay away a few feet from strangers."

"He will?" Chris asked. "I think he likes me..."

"...Wow..." Karol commented. "Estelle should be jealous of you, then."

"L-let's not talk about that..." Chris said embarrassed. "B-but I think Repede is a very good dog. You know, he likes to sleep with me in my room."

"That's...surprising," Karol commented. "I hope Yuri doesn't get jealous either."

"Who's this Yuri?"

"He's Repede's owner," Karol said. "Yuri is pretty laid back and he is sometimes clumsy in some situations. He worked as a knight before but he turned down the job to live a much easier life." He got in a thinking position. "But, to be honest, he hasn't mention anything else than that. He evades some questions all the time..."

"..." Chris had no idea about this Yuri.

"O-oh, sorry if I mad you look confused," Karol apologized. "So, is Repede really hanging out with you?"

Repede nodded.

"...What did you do to him?" Karol asked. "He normally likes to be around witth Yuri and only him."

Repede showed his fangs. "Woof, woof!"

"H-hey! You don't have to get angry at me either!" Karol said.

Repede grunted and laid down as he glared at Karol.

"Now he hates me for something I said accidentally..." Karol trailed off before sighing. "...Well, anyway, I think you met Estelle already, right?"

As the 2 continued to talk, Pikachu peered from the stairs and looked at the 3. "Targets adquired. Cosplayer talking with crazy hairdo with scar dog at 10."

"Why do you have to talk like that?" Lucario asked as he appeared from behind him. "Who is that kid?"

"Shh!" Pikachu tried to push him back. "They're going to see us!"

"I don't think we have to hide."

"Look, who's helping you here?"

"Apparently, you."

"Apparently? Just listen to me!" Pikachu whispered before they moved back.

"Haven't you met anyone else in here?" Chris asked.

"N-no..." Karol said. "I-I remember something pink saying hello to me..."

"...Remember?"

Karol blushed. "I-I got startled by that! It's not my fault I haven't seen weird creatures that talk like that!"

Repede looked at him and snickered a little.

"B-Ba'ul is another monster though! I know he understands us but this is completely different!"

"You don't have to get scared and...faint..." Chris trailed off. "The people in here are all friendly. If they look odd to you it's because they're like that. They may look weird but they're good."

"I-I hope what you say is true..." Karol gulped.

"Speaking of which, here comes Jigglypuff."

Karol turned around and looked down. "U-uah!"

"Yes! Get scared by probably the most weakest Pok?mon ever!" Jigglypuff said before her eyes became full with tears. "Nobody appreciates me... U-huh..."

Chris hesitated and hugged Jigglypuff. "I-it's okay... You don't have to cry..."

Jigglypuff sniffed. "T-thank you..."

"(Stay calm, Karol, stay calm...)" Karol thought.

"Okay..." Chris showed him Jigglypuff. "Karol, this is Jigglypuff. She's a Pok?mon that likes to sing (and put people to sleep when she doesn't notice)."

"A...what?" Karol asked confused.

"...I have not a complete idea either..." Chris said before Jigglypuff glared at him. "Y-you had to be related to the mysterious world of Pok?mon..."

"..." Karol was a little skeptical. "O-okay, I'm standing up so I'm good now..."

"Well, if you managed to stay calm with her, the others should be better to talk with."

"Just don't offend me or I'll slap you," Jigglypuff threatened.

Karol sweatdropped. "I-I already learned my lesson!"

"Aww, sweet mornings without chaos..." Master Hand said as he came from the hallway. "Don't you agree? I love when nothing blows up when...I...um..."

"G-GIANT FLOATING HAND!!!" Karol screamed before he took out a big axe from the bag he was carrying. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!"

"What is the meaning of this?" Master Hand asked before the kid leaped to him and started to axe him down. "Hey! Oww! Ouch! Stop it, hey! Oww!"

The hand floated around the move to shake Karol off, but it was useless as Karol tried to stay on him to finish him off.

"S-stop!" Chris yelled. "H-he's good! Y-you don't have to kill him! ...Jigglypuff, are you laughing?"

"E-er, no..." Jigglypuff said while she blushed. "W-what makes you say that?"

"A-ha," Pikachu got an idea. "Lucario, stop that kid and his axe from murdering the hand."

"What could happen if I help?" Lucario asked.

"Who knows..." Pikachu half-closed his eyes. "You could get the chance to ask Master Hand about letting Repede go..."

At that mention, Lucario quickly jumped towards the hand.

However, just before he jumped...

Rita came from the hallway (as she was examining a Pok? Ball) and she looked up. "What the hell is happening now?"

"R-Rita!" Master Hand yelled as he stopped from running around in the air.

Karol fell down...

...And Lucario passed right above the hand and fell down to the floor.

"...Uuuumm..." Chris looked confused at his Pok?mon. "Lucario...what are you doing?"

"...Ugh..." Lucario got up and shook his head. "I...I wanted to help him..."

Rita didn't seem to understand the situation, but she got an idea. "Did Karol attack you because you scared him?"

"He went axe on me if you mean that," Master Hand said. "And did he get in while I was not looking?"

"If he did, then let him in."

"What?"

"Do you dare to go against me?" Rita asked with a glare.

"N-no, ma'am..." the hand said with a shudder.

"Good," Rita said as she closed her eyes. "Karol, apologize to that guy."

"H-hey, wait a minute! H-how can you be so calm when you know that a giant hand is in here?!" Karol asked.

"I told you before, and I don't need to explain myself again," Rita said. "But just don't go nuts on anyone in here so they don't get more bad impressions about us, got that?"

"W-well..." Karol tried to calm down. "I-I'm sorry..."

"..." Master Hand looked somewhat miffed.

"Everyone's happy," Rita said before she looked at Lucario. "By the way, don't be stupid and make out a fool of yourself like that again."

"(Grrr...)" Lucario grunted in his mind.

"No wonder why you're clumsy as well," Rita said before she walked away.

Red came from the other side of the hallway. "Has anyone seen my Pok? Ball?"

"Er...I think I saw it upstairs..." Chris said.

"Oh, thank you." Red walked up to the stairs and left.

"Why did you lie to him?" Jigglypuff asked.

"He doesn't stand a chance against Rita more than anyone here... I-I mean, no offense..." Chris said.

"Okay, okay..." Master Hand looked at Karol. "You can stay in here but don't destroy anything in the process. We've had a lot of problems in the past and I don't want to suffer anymore."

"..." Karol nodded worried.

"I'll go for now..." the hand said before he floated away.

Chris turned to Lucario. "I think you should go out and train some more."

"B-but..." Lucario trailed off.

"But? You're all right, correct?"

"Y-yes, but..."

"...You're weird..."

Lucario's eyes widened in shock as Repede grinned.

"W-who's that guy?" Karol asked half-scared.

"His name is Lucario. He's a Pok?mon like Jigglypuff here," Chris explained.

"(H-he looks somewhat scary for my tastes...)" Karol thought with a gulp. "N-nice to meet you, I'm Karol."

Lucario looked at Repede licking Jigglypuff's face. The Balloon Pok?mon giggled with some laughs.

"Who is this dog?" Jigglypuff as she smiled to him. "He's kind of cool."

It seemed that Repede was gaining the upper hand again...

That made Lucario use Extremespeed and disappear from there.

"H-hey! Where did he go?!" Karol asked surprised. "He didn't even say nice to meet you to me either!"

Chris sighed. "Sometimes he acts so weird...but today he is going overboard..."

Back with Pikachu hiding in the next floor, Lucario looked down in shame.

"Dude, you just embarrassed yourself in front of him," Pikachu said. "That's not helping at all."

"H-how was I supposed to know that Rita would stop the hand from running around?" Lucario asked. "I was focused on him and not anything else..."

Pikachu sighed. "Well, Repede is smart. He's got Jigglypuff now, a person you have yet to spend the time with."

"S-she doesn't want to see me, remember?" Lucario asked. "Not that I care about..." he muttered silently.

Pikachu glanced at the 4 who apparently seemed to be enjoying their time. "This is going to be a lot harder than I thought it would be. Repede could outsmart us if we're not careful... Wait, they're moving outside..."

"Anyway," Karol began. "I think I can hold my ground here for a while. Would you care to...well...spend the time outside with me? I'm just a newcomer to this place so I don't want to look unfamiliar with anyone."

"Sure thing," Chris said. "Let's go outside then. Jigglypuff, do you want to come?"

"Umm..." Jigglypuff wondered before she looked at Repede. "...Sure."

Was it Lucario, or did Repede know that he was being watched by them? The dog grinned at the Pok?mon before they went out.

"Grrr... Grrrr... GRRRRRRR!!!" Lucario grunted more and more furiously as he showed his fangs in utter rage.

"Lucario, knock it off!" Pikachu yelled. "He's trying to make you fall in his trap!"

"Ugh..." Lucario closed his eyes and shook his head in shame. "...Should we follow them?"

"Well, you need to train your aura so that could be a perfect excuse to go out..." Pikachu said. "Let's follow them."

[DededeCloneChris]

Outside

A time passed after they decided to go out. As usual, Toon Link always took the opportunity to train his bow's skills with Raven.

"After masterin' that technique, I think we hafta move to another one," Raven explained. "Though this is going to be the last one."

"What?" Toon Link asked. "Why?"

"It's not too late before Estelle finds Yuri and Judith and go back to Dahngrest. You gotta enjoy good ol' Raven a little more."

"..." Toon Link looked worried.

"..." Raven tilted his head a smiled a bit. "Don't worry, I'll think about comin' here when I have the time."

"...Thanks..." Toon Link said with a nod.

"Okay!" Raven said energitally. "Time for you to know Raven's last lesson! Check this one out!"

Raven shot an arrow to the air at a high height. The old man looked at Toon Link.

"Well, you should see what I'm gonna do," Raven said with a wink.

The old man saw the arrow coming down at a slower pace.

"...Um...for what was that for?" Toon Link asked.

It was not long before Raven shot a fast arrow to the same arrow, making it somehow fall down faster like if he shot the arrow from high above and got stuck on the ground.

"Did ya see?" Raven asked. "I made the arrow go down much faster than before like if I was up there."

"But..." Toon Link looked confused.

"If ya think it only works for one spot, you're wrong."

He started to shoot several arrows at the air, and one by one, he shot more arrows.

Toon Link looked carefully as the arrows themselves descended but not straight. They all took different angles in a second and struck the ground at different far away spots across the grass.

"...Wow..." Toon Link muttered.

"I'm telling ya," Raven said. "This one is very hard to master."

"How do it master it?! How do I master it?!" Toon Link asked excited.

"Hesitant, aren't we?" Raven asked with a chuckle. "Okay. I'm going to explain ya how to do this. Everything is in the arrow itself."

"How?"

Raven took out an arrow and showed him the small blade on the top. "See the outline of outside? The iron of it helps to do this."

"Really?"

"Think you have a ball," Raven said. "Now, if you want to make that ball go up and right combined, you have to hit the ball from the opposite direction. Arrows are not the same, but I managed to make my own variation."

"Uh-huh..."

"Now, with an arrow it's very different. There's a high chance of failling and it took me quite a long time as well."

Toon Link looked down.

"But with my help, I'll assure ya that ya will master it faster."

"If you say so..."

"This technique is useful to fool your enemies," Raven explained. "You can shoot it behind your back and let your enemy get closer to you, then you turn, shoot the right angle, and BAM! You hit the eyes right in the middle! I'm telling ya that this technique is useful."

"I have a question."

"And it's also hard to make it go the way you want it to go," Raven said. "Your arrows are almost the same as mine so it's going to be a little bit easier. Movin' on, hitting the arrow at the right corner is very hard. A very small spaced hit could make it go to a totally different direction."

"T-then I'll start now!"

"Good. Remember this," Raven began. "You'll have to master it very soon. If it takes you long enough, then train during the night."

Without further talks, the toon swordsman started his arduos training.

Several feet away from them, Karol decided to explain more.

"At first I thought those guys were some sort of small Entelexias," Karol said.

"What are Entelexias?" Chris asked.

"They're very powerful creatures that are living as monsters, but they understand and talk human speech. Many wars broke out because of them and...well...I'd rather not talk about that..."

"Why?"

"Because those wars left very disastrous results. There's this big gaping hole that used to be a mountain and I got really scared once I had the chance to see it with my own eyes."

Repede yawned and slowly drifted off to sleep.

"I'm sure you've been living with them for quite a while without getting scared like me," Karol said. "Isn't it kind of weird to live with such people?"

"What's wrong with that?" Jigglypuff asked with a glare.

"N-nothing," Karol said as he shook his head.

"O-of course it's weird to live with such people," Chris said. "But...I guess I got used to it (because they're videogame characters...as yourself as well...)"

"Oh," Karol said. "I understand it. Just...are there more?"

"More than you imagine," Chris said. "I mean, I live with all kinds of people: monkeys, heroes, dinosaurs...thingies, birds, foxes, and many more."

From a tree, Pikachu peered them. "Targets are sitting down a tree. Me thinks Chris is developing romance at 12."

"Grrr..." Lucario grunted from behind the tree as he meditated.

"I-it's just a joke..." Pikachu gulped. "Anyway, dog is not moving as he's just sleeping close to them. Nobody else is in sight...oh wait..."

Karol's eyes widened. "O-o-o-o-o-oh my god! A-a-a-an angel!"

Pit looked bored. "Is he another of those people who thin-"

"I-I'm dead! Oh no, I'm dead!" Karol screamed. "I knew there was something odd with this place! R-Rita would have been killed everyone in here but she can't because she's dead as well! Aaaaaaaaaaah!!!"

"Karol!" Chris slapped him. "Calm down! No one is dead here!"

"B-but there's an angel in front of me!" Karol screamed.

"Can't you make those wings disappear for once?!" Chris whispered as he blocked the kid's eyes.

"No!" Pit yelled. "This is how I am! Accept it or just forget it!"

"Who's saying that I'm not accepting it?!" Chris asked. "Karol can't!"

"Duaaaaaaaah!" Karol screamed.

Repede seemed to be getting fed up by the screams that he barked at Karol to shut him up.

"There's too much yelling in here!" Jigglypuff yelled.

Pikachu was watching the whole event and he got another idea. "Lucario, shut the kid!"

"Why?" Lucario asked.

"I think Chris wants to have more silence instead of screams and barks. Go now!"

Lucario sighed in shame before he got up and ran to the 5.

"Shut up!" Chris yelled as he blocked Karol's mouth and stopped Repede from barking. "Phew..."

"...What are you doing?" Pit asked to Lucario who was about to lean one hand to Karol's mouth...

...And he stopped right in front of Chris's hand.

"...Weren't you training a minute ago?" Chris asked.

"I...ah..." Lucario couldn't find something to say as Pikachu facepalmed from behind the tree. The Aura Pok?mon pulled his hand back and blushed a little. "I...was bothered by the screams..."

"...Well, I stopped him now..." Chris said as Karol seemed to be calming down. Chis removed his hand and the kid sighed.

"I'm...fine now..." Karol said. "...I'm not dead...nobody here is dead...and I just got scared again..."

Repede seemed to be pleased at Lucario's stupid move.

"...W-well..." Chris shifted his eyes. "...You can go now..."

"Y-yes," Lucario said with a nod as he slowly turned.

He narrowed his eyes at the grinning Repede before he walked away to the tree with Pikachu.

"That was pretty weird..." Pit said.

"Weird?" Karol repeated. "Y-you're an angel that's walking the same earth I'm walking!"

"Just because I'm an angel doesn't mean you're dead!" Pit yelled. "I hate when people discriminates me for what I am!"

"Pit, calm down!" Chris yelled. "Karol isn't discrimnating you! He's just not used to meet people like yourself!"

Back with Pikachu, he was rubbing his arm after Lucario hit it for embarrassing him.

"You're not helping at all," Lucario said as he glared down at him. "You're making me look embarrassed in front of everyone."

"Y-you have to react faster!" Pikachu yelled. "You're too slow at reacting!"

"You better come up with something good or else I'm going to kill you."

Pikachu's eyes widened. "O-okay, but stop threatening me..."

"..." Lucario sighed. "Just...don't fail again..."

"I'm trying to..."

"What?!"

"I-I'm doing it!" Pikachu yelled.

"You better..."

"(One screw up and Ash will have my cousin for the rest of his life...)" Pikachu thought before looking back at the 5. "Let's see, the kid calmed down and he made friends with Pit somehow..."

"J-just how many different people are in there?" Karol asked as he tried to forget about his embarrassing screams. "There aren't any demons, right?"

"Etna would have been one..." Pit muttered.

"What?"

"L-look, even if some look weird, they're not bad or scaring," Chris said. "Everyone is good and you don't have to be afraid of anyone. Pit should be the only most shocking person of the whole mansion."

"I-I hope so..." Karol said. "N-no offense either..."

"None taken," Pit said.

"A-anyway..." Karol continued. "I think I need to meet everyone so I can get used to the new faces. Estelle seemed pretty happy unlike me."

"And Rita has everyone under her foot," Chris said. "Bastard..." he muttered.

"I understand if you hate Rita," Karol said. "But if you try to get to her, you could end up liking her."

"She almost killed 6 of us," Pit said.

"...Oh..." Karol responded. "Guess you made her mad for something then."

Chris looked away embarrassed. "Do you want to go inside now?"

"Oh, okay."

Pikachu watched the 5 going back inside.

"Luc, they're going in," Pikachu whispered.

"My name i-" Lucario got interrupted.

"Do you want to follow them?"

"...It's Lucario," he said. "And...fine."

"Good, good... We'll have to make sure you're out though. Chris thinks you're meditating so I'm going to be your eyes."

"I can use a little bit of my aura to se-"

"I'M GOING to be your EYES, okay?"

Lucario frowned before he nodded with a sigh.

Main Lobby

Pit and Jigglypuff decided to leave the 3 as they went to different directions.

"Rita ended up burning the whole first floor," Chris said as they sat down.

"For?" Karol asked.

"Because the hand was being an ass to me."

Both of them nearly hopped after hearing Rita's voice from across the sofa. She was busy clicking on a virtual screen above what looked to be one of Samus's Super Missiles.

"R-Rita! Y-you almost made my heart jump out my mouth!" Karol said in shock.

"Where did you get your hands on that?" Chris asked.

"It was laying around..." Rita lied as she didn't look them.

"...Really?"

Rita glared at him.

"I-I'll be quiet..."

Repede showed his fangs to her from the floor.

"Look, you dog," Rita said. "You better put your nose somewhere else that isn't of my own turf, got it?"

"Woof, woof!" Repede barked angrily.

"Rita, did he do something to you?"

After a long debate of explanations coming from Rita and Chris...

"Fine," Rita said extremely mad. "I kind of wanted to take something from him but that's that."

"..." Karol looked bored. "Yuri is so going to be on Repede's side then."

"Whatever, I don't care anymore..." Rita said. "...Oh, lookie here. I found something good within this Blastia..."

"L-leaving that aside," Chris said. "Nobody here is dangerous at all."

"So true," Rita said with several nods as she was still messing around with the screen she made appear above the missile.

Chris closed his eyes half-mad. "You can get along pretty well if you try to."

"If they bother you, mention my name," Rita said.

"That only works with Master Hand!" Chris yelled.

"Really? Oh, I thought it worked for everyone too."

"Just ignore her," Chris whispered. "Thought there are some people you shouldn't try to spend the time with that much because they... How do I put it?"

"They what?" Karol asked.

"They hate kids like you."

Both of them looked at their right and found Wolf looking down at Karol. The young axe wielder looked at him straight to the eyes.

"N-n-n-n-n-nice to meet you..." Karol stuttered.

"Tsk." Wolf frowned. "Who let this kid in now?"

"Knock it off," Rita said as she didn't look him. "Karol's scared because you're half-wolf."

"Not to mention you're a thug..." Chris muttered.

At that moment, Karol passed out and fainted.

"Kids are weird each day..." Wolf muttered with a frown. "Hey you, the goggles girl."

"What?" Rita asked.

"Don't act so innocent to me."

"(Does she look innocent to you?)" Chris thought bored.

"Give it back."

"I don't know what you're talking about," Rita said, closing her eyes. "If you're done bothering me, go away."

"Not unless you give me back something that is mine and only mine," Wolf said with a glare.

"I don't have anything," Rita responded before returning to her research.

Wolf walked right in front of her, crossed his arms, and looked down at her. "Listen, pesky girl. You try to act so funny around me and I'll claw that throat of yours out."

"Ooh, I'm so scared," Rita taunted. "The mutt is gonna punch me. Help me, somebody."

"Enough about this," Wolf said. "Give me back my gun."

"Hmm...let's see..." Rita put a finger to her chin and looked above. "A gun? I do remember a gun with an useless knife attached to it..."

"...You didn't do anything to it, did you?" Wolf asked as he narrowed his eyes at her.

Chris was watching this closely as he tried to wake up Karol. "(I don't know why, but this conversation is getting interesting all of a sudden... I-I'm not wishing for Wolf's death either!)"

"Besides taking the knife out? It's pretty much normal," Rita said as she continued to look at the missile.

"You little..." Wolf muttered through gritted fangs.

"R-Rita, I think you should stop taking things away from people without asking for the-" Chris stopped talking after the Genius Mage glared at him. "G-go ahead, I meant..."

Wolf frowned at Chris before looking back at Rita. "Give it back or I'll kick you. I don't care if you're a stubborn girl."

"Hmm," Rita hmm'd.

Chris didn't like where this was going at all...

Pikachu, who was still watching the scene from the window, decided to call Lucario. "Lucario, you should get Wolf's Blaster back to him."

"Tell me why," Lucario said as he continued to meditate.

"Chris doesn't want Rita to get mad like yesterday. If you advert her chaos, Chris will feel happy and relieved."

"I'll do it and fast," Lucario said before he stood up and used Extremespeed.

Unfortunately for Lucario, Repede had enough of the event about to unfold that he quickly went to Rita and dug his mouth behind her back.

"Y-you dog! Not again!" Rita complained as she tried to push the dog away.

Chris looked at his right and found Lucario. "What are you doing here? I thought you were training."

"I..." Lucario felt a deja vu moment.

He arrived late 3 times...

...And Extremespeed wasn't that extreme at all.

"What the..." Wolf just watched the dog looking for his Blaster behind Rita. The Genius Mage tried and tried, but Repede was stubborn in getting the Blaster.

A cry of pain came from Repede as he got his mouth out and covered it with his paws and laid down.

"W-what the..." came as multiple responses from Rita and an awakened Karol.

Wolf looked confused at this. "Why did the dog do that for? He just got himself hurt by the knife."

"(...Wait...)" Lucario looked down at Repede before he smiled a little. "(He got hurt by the knife...)"

Yes, it seemed that Repede failed to complete his task...

"Repede!" Chris yelled as he knelt and examined the dog. "A-are you all right?! A-are you hurt?!"

Oh, wait a minute there...

Repede whimpered as he uncovered his mouth and showed a long cut across his lower jaw. Blood started to come out and Chris panicked a little. "Y-you poor thing... L-Lucario! Go and get the First Aid kit!"

This was ABSOLUTELY wrong...

Not only Repede hurt his mouth by accident and caused Chris to feel worried about him...

...But Lucario was going to be the ONE to bring something to heal his wound.

This just turned out much more bad to Lucario that he expected it to be.

"I-I..." Lucario stuttered in shock.

"Oh no, blood is starting to come out!" Chris yelled. "Lucario! Please, help him!"

Pure frustration...pure frustration was the only thing Lucario was feeling insid-

"Lucario!"

"Y-yes!" Lucario nodded as he ran away to get the kit for Repede.

Repede whimpered again and Chris rubbed his head. "I-it's okay, you're going to be okay. Hang in there, please!"

"Kid, the dog is not going to die," Wolf said. "Don't get that worked up either. That reminds me."

With a swift move, Wolf snatched his Blaster back from Rita's back as well as the knife. "H-hey!" Rita said.

"Tocuh my thing, and I'll touch that throat," Wolf threatened before he walked away.

"Hmph..." Rita frowned angrily.

Lucario came back with the kit and he dropped it to Chris. "Lucario!" Chris yelled.

"I-I'm sorry..." Lucario said ashamed. "I-it slipped from my hand..."

Without further interruptions, Chris started to treat Repede's wound as Lucario walked away with a furious but silent grunt.

But why was Repede grinning for a moment? Was that his plan all along?

"..." Karol looked at Rita while Chris was busy. "Rita..."

"Don't think I didn't see that," Rita said. "The dog isn't that reckless around knives because he uses them to fight."

"Yeah..." Karol whispered. "Repede doesn't whimper either. Come to think of it, he's acting a little bit weird today..."

"He got himself that long cut? I doubt he would even get such a bad wound like that," Rita said before she wondered. "Maybe the kid is the reason..."

"Huh?"

"Forget what I said," Rita said. "But just to be sure, keep an eye of the dog's weird attitude."

"Okay, I'll do that."

"I don't want Yuri to scold me for his behavior."

"You're going to get scolded anyway... Wait, do you even get scolded?"

"There, there..." Chris interrupted as he rubbed Repede's head. "That bandage will keep the blood in. You're fine now."

Repede whined and wagged his tail.

"W-what the heck? He's wagging his tail!" Karol whispered. "He never does that, ever!"

"Look, I'm not that worried about the dog's behavior," Rita whispered. "You can get worried for him, though. Watch him closely."

"He's fine," Chris said to them. "He's going to be all right."

"T-thank goodness," Karol said to sound normal. "H-hey, I want to see the mansion a little bit more. Can you show me around?"

"Oh, sure," Chris said with a nod. "Repede will have to follow us so he stays out of trouble."

Repede felt stupid for a moment, but he had to agree with a nod.

"Sure thing, I don't mind," Karol said as the 3 went to the hallway and left Rita alone.

"...I can't hardly wait to see Yuri back..." Rita said sarcastically before she returned to see the missile.

[DededeCloneChris]

Outside

"Repede's so smart," Pikachu remarked. "He can outsmart us very WEEEEELL!!!"

Lucario shoved Pikachu to his face. "Listen to me one last time! I'm sick of getting embarrassed in front of Chris and everyone! You better have something good the next time or else I'm going to make sure you die by my hands!"

"L-L-L-Lucario! P-please, calm down! I-I'm doing my best to help you out! W-why would I want to make you look stupid?!"

"Grrrrrrrrrrrrr..."

"I-I mean, I don't want to make you look stupid!" Pikachu said. "J-just give it some time!"

Lucario dropped Pikachu to the grass. "You better have something...or else..."

"I'm as good as dead underneath a grave, I know..." Pikachu sighed in relief. "We'll have to keep moving around to stay sure."

"I had to help him above all..." Lucario muttered embarrassed.

As the 2 changed to another location, Sonic was looking up to the clouds below another tree. The hedgehog was trying to figure out how to solve his problem with Mr. I'm Your Dark Self and the transformation in 9 days.

"What could I do?" Sonic asked as he folded his arms and leaned to the tree. "Pretty soon I'll be scratching my neck with my foot or worse..."

"Oh, who might you be?"

Sonic turned his head around and looked up. "...Who're you?"

Estelle appeared from the other side of the tree. She looked very happy, and even more than she was before. "Guess what! I managed to find Judith!"

"...Hurray..." Sonic said.

In truth, Estelle was able to find Judith, who looked normal, even around the hedgehog.

"Oh, sorry if we interrupted you," Estelle apologized with a bow. "I-I didn't think you wanted to be alone..."

"Hmm..." Sonic just closed his eyes.

"..." Estelle looked excited. "Judith, do you mind if I go and get Yuri next? He's the only one left to find and I can't wait to reunite everyone again!"

Judith is a Kritya, part of a hidden civilization that hides from humans and the world itself. She's sees battles as something fun and she always displays a happy attitude to anyone, as well a being carefree. She's very skilled in combat with her lance. She may look bored, but that's the way she looks like.

"Always you and your cheery attitude," Judith with a smile. "Okay. I'll try to settle in this place."

"Thank you!" Estelle said happily before she went back to the forest.

Judith chuckled. "That's the Estelle I know," she said with another chuckle. "Well, she said Karol, Repede, Raven, and Rita are here. I wonder where they are inside."

"..."

Judith looked down. "Oh, I'm sorry. I forgot you were resting here. Are you sure you're fine?"

"Meh..."

"I'll take that as a yes," Judith said. "Hmm. Do you mind if you show me around?"

"..."

"The silent type, huh?" Judith asked. "Well, I just hope you don't stay outside for so long."

"..." Sonic opened an eye to her. "Why would that be?"

"Oh, you're awake for this little info," Judith said with a small grin. "You should't stay here until night because...monsters appear..."

"Monsters?" Sonic asked.

"Uh-huh. There are some odd things happening around here." Judith rubbed her chin. "I know this sounds weird, but those monsters started to appear some days before, and they seem to appear at night. I had to be always at guard for any of those night stalkers."

"...And?"

"And I was able to hold my ground," Judith said with a smile. "It was very fun."

"...Sure it was..." Sonic said before closing his eyes.

"Just be careful out here at night," Judith suggested. "I don't think they attack houses unless someone bothers them."

"Sure, sure..." Sonic said before he yawned and fell asleep.

"..." Judith tilted her head. "You look cute when you sleep."

Judith looked at her right side and found someone rushing towards her. The person slid on the grass and stopped right in front of her.

"Hello there," C. Falcon said with a grin. "I knew you were going to appear sooner or later around these parts."

"You saw me from the 4th floor of that mansion when I came here, right?" Judith asked with a look of amusement on her face.

"Ouch, you have a sharp eye," C. Falcon said with a chuckle. "I like girls like you."

"Well..." Judith put her hands behind her back and looked at him by the side. "I wouldn't mind if you showed me around. I want to know if there are any rooms inside that place. Would it be okay if I stay here for some days?"

"Absolutely!" C. Falcon said as he took her hand. "Follow me. You'll love this place as much as I do."

"Heheheh," Judith chuckled. "I think I'm going to have a lot of fun myself."

"Sure you will..." C. Falcon said. "Sure you will..."

Sonic opened his eyes and watched the 2 entering the mansion. The hedgehog just sighed. "He's gonna show his moves to her..." He remembered something as he looked up. "I think I heard him saying that line over and over yesterday during the night... Meh, I'll leave him."

As he closed his eyes, he recalled what Judith said to him.

"(Monsters appearing at night? Weird...)"

Living Room

A time passed, and afternoon came faster than expected as Chris, Karol, and Repede were sitting down on a sofa of the living room (or at least Repede was laying down).

"Okay..." Karol said. "I already met 2 guys with big noses."

"I-I told you Mario and Luigi are like that!" Chris said. "They're humans!"

"Yeah, well, that didn't look too human to me," Karol said. "Secondly, I met the knight."

"That was Samus's armor. She was inside of it...though I wonder why she isn't outside of it."

"Thirdly, I met the dinosaur."

"Fortunately you didn't faint."

"He seemed kinda cute...I-I mean, he seemed normal," Karol said. "Fourtly, I met those kids with the huge heads."

"...I rather not talk about Ness and Lucas..." Chris said.

"And lastly, I met that cold guy with the long crack on his rear."

Chris chuckled as well as Repede. "S-Snake said he was going to get another suit than that one..."

"And lastly again, I met the masked one..." Karol gulped. "I-I think he was far scarier though..."

"That was...his dark voice..." Chris said.

"I-it sounded pretty deep to me..." Karol shook his head. "But over all, I think I managed to get used to this place. It's kind of cool actually."

"Thank goodness," Chris said. "No more screams then?"

"I-I was just surprised!"

"Should I recall the times before this one?"

"No!"

"I was just asking..." Chris said before he chuckled silently.

"Well," Karol hopped off from the sofa. "I want to see if Estelle can find Judith and Yuri so we can go back to Dahngrest as soon as possible. We need to go back soon or else Alexei will cause trouble for everyone."

Alexei was a high ranked Imperial Knight (knights of Estelle's home) and was honored by all until he decided to unveil his true reasons and kidnap Estelle for a power she has within herself. Fortunately, Yuri and the others managed to save Estelle from becoming a lethal weapon to the world.

"Who?" Chris asked.

"A very bad guy who looked like a good guy..." Karol looked down. "I never knew the guy very well, but to know someone who suddenly betrays the loyalty they're in is just...so sudden and enraging..."

"..." Chris looked down.

"Let me ask you something," Karol began. "Does anyone here look like they're going to betray you at some point?"

"N-no..." Chris responded.

"Well..." Karol looked unsure. "...I think you can change the people's minds so they don't betray you. They may look like good guys until they stab you on the back by betraying you."

"I..."

Repede showed his fangs and growled at Karol.

"I-I'm not saying someone here is going to betray you very soon! I-I'm just saying a prevention!"

"Woof!" Repede barked.

"I-it's okay..." Chris said. "I know nobody here wants to betray anyone. Wolf already did once but because he had no choice."

"I see..." Karol sighed.

"...But I trust them so much," Chris said. "If they ever betray me, they're going to feel a great remorse for doing that."

"Optimism is always good," Karol said with a nod.

"Thanks..." Chris said with a nod. "...I'm surprised."

"Huh? Why?" Karol asked.

"You're very smart for being younger than me. It's really surprising to me."

Karol grinned and scratched his nose. "Heheh, am I? A great leader like me should give out examples to others. Brave Vesperia should be recognized by all!"

"...Did I make you say all that?"

Karol blushed. "W-well, it's your fault! You made me go this way!"

"And right over here," C. Falcon began as he entered the room. "Is the room where you hang out with somebody. Now, do you know with who I want to hang out?"

Judith came in and chuckled. "I don't know. You seem to be looking at me weird."

"Oh-ho-ho, you have very good eyes."

Chris looked bored...

But Karol looked happy.

"Judith!" Karol cut in.

"Karol," Judith said with a small smile. "Good to see you again. Hey there, Repede."

Repede seemed to smile a little.

"...Where did you get that bandage on your mouth?" Judith asked.

"He cut himself with a knife he was trying to grab," Chris said.

"...Really..." Judith eyed Repede for a little while. "...I guess it happens."

"(So she knew right off with a single look,)" Karol thought with a nod. "Good to know you were found."

"Who said I was lost?" Judith asked.

"L-leaving them aside," C. Falcon interrupted. "What do you want to do now?"

"(Hey!)" Chris and Karol thought annoyed.

"Just relax," Judith said as she sat down on a sofa. "I'm so tired..."

"...Ooh, me too," C. Falcon said as he sat on another sofa. "I'm getting too warm myself. I should take my suit o-"

A pillow was thrown to his face by Chris.

"Sorry, but I rather relax now." Judith sighed.

"..." C. Falcon tossed the pillow away. "Okay, okay..."

Outside

"So he didn't do that much after all..." Pikachu said. "Well, that's good."

"No, it's not," Lucario said. "Repede likes Chris, and Chris likes him more than me..."

Pikachu noticed the depressed look on Lucario's face.

"L-Lucario, I don't think Chris likes Repede much more than you."

"You're not right. I've seen everything he has done and I just made myself look stupid..." Lucario sighed. "I'm not worthy to be with Chris anymore..."

"Whoa whoa whoa." Pikachu moved his hand forward. "Lucario, Chris like you better."

"You're saying because you want to cheer me..."

"No, I'm honest," Pikachu said. "How long have you been with Chris?"

"Ever since the summer of the last year," Lucario said. "He always spent the time with me, but he looks happier with that dog..."

"...You're his first Pok?mon, right?"

"Yes."

"...That explains everything and solves your problem."

"Why?"

"Lucario, when you get the chance to be the first Pok?mon of your trainer, there's a high chance that Chris won't drop you for another person...or dog in this case..."

"Sure..." Lucario trailed off.

"I'm telling the truth!" Pikachu yelled. "Ash always gets new Pok?mon in each month but he never stops from letting me out and rest on his shoulder. He doesn't let me inside my Pok? Ball because I don't want to. Ash likes me a lot and I like him a lot as we-"

"You're here and not with him."

"...B-besides that, Ash will like me for the rest of his life because I'm his first Pok?mon to get! You're Chris first Pok?mon and he won't stop from liking you the same as Ash does with me!"

"..." Lucario closed his eyes.

Pikachu made a worried face. "If you think I'm lying to you, I'm not. I'm talking through after years and years of experience. In my opinion, you're far better than any other Lucario I've ever met."

"You only met one."

"Partly," Pikachu said. "That Lucario was a wuss compared to you. I mean, he had to undergo aura training because he didn't know how to use it when he first evolved, but you follow the trend very well."

"...That aside..."

"O-oh, right," Pikachu said with a nod. "Chris will like you more than Repede an any bastard he dares to take care of."

"...Just maybe..." Lucario said. "...But the idea of Repede being evil bothers me."

"Yeah, you told me that," Pikachu said. "That dog is sinister, I tell you. We have to do something about him."

"But what?" Lucario asked. "What we could possibly do against Repede? I can't attack him, I can't look good with him around, I can't get Chris's attention, I can't achieve what I want, everything is useless against Repede..."

"...Wait just a minute," Pikachu interrupted as he wondered something. "Didn't the pink-haired princess said something about Repede having an owner? What was his name? Yuri?"

"I know what you mean," Lucario said. "But we don't have a clue about how he looks like."

"True..." Pikachu closed his eyes and turned around. Lucario looked at him before looking forward. "Dammit! If only we had something like a lead to this Yuri guy, then we could persuade him to do something with Repede..."

"Yeah," a voice said. "I wonder why you are wondering about my lost dog."

"..." Pikachu opened his eyes and looked up. "...Who the hell are you?"

Somehow, Lucario grinned with a chuckle...

...

YES, he grinned at the person's shadow.

Main Lobby

Raven got inside and sighed after he left Toon Link training by himself. "That kid has a lot of guts, I tell ya," he said to no one in particular. "...Hey, isn't that... Judith, dear!"

The old man found the 5 on the nearby sofas of the lobby and he ran in front of Judith. "Aw, good to see ya again around these parts, Judith."

Judith chuckled. "So Rita didn't kill you after all."

Raven sweatdropped. "Yeah, remind me of my awful moments, why don't ya?"

Judith chuckled in amusement. "Nice to see you again."

"...Oh well," Raven said as he looked at them. "Guess it's not too late for Estelle to find Yuri."

Repede whined.

"You want to stay with him again, right, pooch?"

"Woof, woof!" Repede barked.

"Oh, I'm glad," Chris said. "I can't wait to let Repede go with his owner. I bet he's very worried about him."

Repede whined and jumped to Chris to laid down his head on his legs. "Woof, woof!" Repede barked happily.

"Er...I guess he likes me as much as him..." Chris said unsure.

"..." Raven tilted his head. "(The pooch's actin' weird today...)"

Rita came from the hallway (examining a Super Scope 7) and looked at the 6. "...Oh, Judith is here..."

"Rita," Judith said with a smile. "I'm glad to see you well."

"Oh well..." Rita moved his shoulders up. "Good, I guess..."

"Sooo..." Karol trailed off. "It's just Yuri and we're done here, right?"

Rita looked annoyed. "Yeah, he comes in and we leave this mansion full of Blastias that I haven't examined yet."

"Rita, you can't go around and take everything for you only!" Karol said (he probably was fine to said that for the fact that Repede, Raven, and Judith were in there). "You'll have to stop that very soon."

"Who're you to tell me what to do?" Rita asked with a glare. "You're just looking brave because the old man and Judith are in here, right?"

Karol gasped and shook his head. "N-no, what makes you say that?"

"A very repetitive hunch I have," Rita said sarcatically. "You get in my research, you get out burned."

Karol whimpered a little bit.

"(So much for the leader of Brave Vesperia...)" Chris thought bored.

C. Falcon looked at them. "W-wait, you'll leave soon? But I haven't shown you all the mansion yet!"

"Don't worry," Judith said with a chuckle. "I bet I enjoyed it while it lasted."

"Besides," Raven interrupted. "She likes to hang out with someone else."

"Not you, that's for sure," Judith said.

"...Y-yeah..." Raven said bored.

At that moment, Kirby appeared from behind the sofa.

"U-uah!" Karol yelled. "I-it's that...creature again!"

"Um?" Kirby tilted his head confused. "You're the kid who fainted yesterday."

"H-hey! Don't say that!" Karol yelled.

Rita looked away. "Sheesh, he's just very docile, Karol..."

"I think he's cute," Judith said. "And very."

Rita blushed. "W-well, I think he is...and that's that! Nobody dare to say something else to me!"

"W-why can't everyone else get surprised like me?" Karol asked.

"We get surprised, not scared," Raven said.

"The old man is right," said a voice. "That's very typical of you, Karol."

"Hey!" Karol yelled annoyed. "T-that's not true! I-I get surprised and not scared! Why can't you support me, Yu-"

The kid stopped from yelling and most of them blinked surprised.

"...That voice..." Raven muttered surprised.

"Oh god..." Karol blinked surprised. "T-tell me my ears aren't deceiving me..."

Rita looked at the door. "Oh, he's here."

"I guess Estelle managed to find him," Judith said.

Repede got a shocked look and looked up.

From the door, Estelle, (a grinning) Lucario, Pikachu, and what looked to be a long purple-haired swordsman stood inside and looked at the other group. The swordsman walked to them as Karol's smile grew wider with excitement before he leaped from the sofa and hugged the swordsman tightly.

Raven just leaned his head back and grinned. "Welcome back."

"We missed you a little bit," Judith said.

"Yeah," Rita nodded simply.

"Yuri!" Karol yelled happily. "Good to see you here at last!"

"I-I was able to find everyone..." Estelle said as she wiped a tear. "I-I'm so glad I did it..."

"...So..." Chris trailed off. "...He is Yuri then..." he muttered.

Repede blinked surprised before he jumped off from Chris and walked to his owner. Yuri looked down at him and smiled a bit.

"Hey there," Yuri said with a wink to his dog. "Looks like you got lost for quite a while, haven't you, Repede?"

Repede whined silently as Lucario chuckled in triumph.

TO BE CONTINUED...

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Chapter 134: Night's Dark Future

Smash Mansion
Main Lobby

Tales of Vesperia - United Oath

"So Repede," Yuri began. "How have you been all these days?"

"...Woof, woof!" Repede barked happily and nodded.

Okay, something was off from this little talk...

"Wait," Karol began. "I don't know why, but why do I think you know something that we don't, Yuri?"

"Man," Yuri said as he scratched his head. "You noticed then?"

"Notice what exactly?" Raven asked confused. "I'm afraid I'm not understandin' this at all."

"He could be meaning about Repede," Judith said. "Is that what you mean, Yuri?"

"Heh, right," Yuri said with a chuckle. "It seems Repede enjoyed his personal vacation very much as he wanted."

Music stops with a scratch

Dead silence fell in the room as everyone looked at each other.

"...Pardon me?" Rita broke the silence. "Did I hear well? The dog took a vacation by abandoning us?"

"Yeah," Yuri said. "Cool, isn't? Dogs like him want to take vacations once in a while."

"Woof, woof!" Repede barked happily.

"Wait, what?" Chris asked. "B-but Repede was lost and..."

"Who're you?" Yuri asked.

"I-I'm the one who found Repede outside some days ago. My name is Chris."

"Oh, I see..." Yuri looked back at Repede. "He seems to be very pleased for his vacation in here. Did you take care of him?"

"Y-yes, I did. He's been with me all this time."

"Oh, I see," Yuri said with a nod. "Guess he enjoyed his stance in here very much."

"...This...is..." Lucario muttered as he seemed to get furious.

"Lucario?" Pikachu asked. "Are you okay?"

"No...I'm...not..."

Yuri turned around and looked at Lucario. "Man, what are you? Or, who are you exactly? I haven't met guys like you ever in my life unless you're an Entelexia."

"GUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!"

The Aura Pok?mon roared in extreme fury as almost everything inside the mansion shook violently. Yuri stepped a few feet away from the angry Lucario as some of the others looked somewhat surprised at the sudden action that he decided to make just now.

"Whoa!" Yuri said as reached for his sword. "You're mad and turned into a monster?"

Chris glanced at the fainted Karol (because of the roar) and looked at Lucario a little bit worried. "L-Lucario! W-why did you just ro-"

"SHUT UP!" Lucario yelled angrily. "THIS IS...VERY STUPID!"

"W-what is stupid?" Chris asked as Kirby hid beneath him.

At that moment, half of the Smashers came from the hallways and even upstairs after the roar. The guests in there looked around as the others looked at them.

"..." Yuri just looked. "...Er..."

"..." Chris shook his head. "W-what is stupid?"

"I've been trying ALL DAY to expose that bastard's true intentions!" Lucario yelled as he pointed at Repede with a glowing hand. "That dog shouldn't be allowed to live that easily on my watch!"

"..." Rita looked at Repede. "Well, we think the same things."

"Rita!" Estelle yelled.

Repede merely blinked.

"Don't bring that stupid nonsense again!" Lucario yelled. "Chris, and everyone in here, Repede wants to separate people from each other by liking him!"

"Oh noez!" Popo screamed. "It's the end of the world!"

Nana slapped him.

"Repede told me last night that he wants to do it himself!" Lucario yelled. "He even said that he was evil!"

Everyone looked at Repede, and the dog merely looked back at them.

"Chris, he wants to separate me from you by making me look stupid while he attracts you even closer to him!" Lucario yelled. "Even if he's a trained dog, he's a trained dog that wants to cause despair to people!"

"...Oh..." Judith said with several nods. "Continue please..."

"Don't let him make you think he's good in any way," Lucario said as he glared down at the dog. "This imbecile has to die before he does more foolish things around here!"

Lucario raised his glowing hand of aura, showed his fangs at Repede, and many of them gasped.

"Whoa there!" Yuri interrupted as he grabbed Lucario's hand in the air. "You're not going to hurt Repede on my watch."

"And who are you to tell me what to do and what is right?!" Lucario asked with pure rage. "He is a bastard, and you know that very well!"

"Repede's been a hero of The Capital for a long time," Yuri said. "I doubt he's evil."

"What?!" Lucario asked.

"You hear me," Yuri said. "Repede here is a hero of the people of the lower quarter."

The Capital has its castle on the highest point, followed by wealthy mansions and houses, that are then followed by a big section called the lower quarter, where many poor people (as well as Yuri and Repede) live.

"This bastard is a hero?!" Lucario asked with rage. "I'm not going to believe that stupid lie!"

"You're talking with his owner himself," Yuri pointed out. "Repede is the leader of a pack of weak dogs that once were ordered by bad and strong leaders. They caused panic to the weak, and even caused havoc to the people of the lower quarter."

"...Ah!" Karol got up. "You mean that story?"

"Okay, I'm not going to go that much into detail," Yuri said to everyone (who seemed to be interested at this sudden explanation). "Long story short, Repede decided to become strong and protect everyone by defeating the leaders...and now he's their boss."

"..."

A dead silence fell in as Repede sat down proud.

"...Hmm..." Marth rubbed his chin. "...Admirable."

"Yeah," Roy said. "Who would've thought that he did it?"

"That was incredible," Zelda said. "I can't believe Repede became stronger to protect his loved ones."

Many of the Smashers began to praise Repede's action as Chris seemed to be really impressed by the stor-

"SHUT UP!" Lucario yelled. "I can't believe you're all believing that false lie! So he defeated some useless dogs and what?! That's just a cloak to hide his annoying attitude!"

"Hey you," Yuri began. "Stop being a smart ass around Repede."

"What did you just say?! GRRRRRRRRRRR!!!" Lucario grunted with pure fury at Yuri.

"Hey," Link interrupted. "You shouldn't start a fight in here, Lucario."

"Who's asking you?!" Lucario asked. "Repede needs to die right here!"

"H-hey!" Karol glared at Lucario. "You shouldn't be acting like that towards Repede!"

"You better shut your mouth," Lucario threatened. "Repede only that so he could get away with anything he wanted in front of everyone. He shouldn't go unpunished!"

"B-but Repede is a good dog!" Estelle interrupted. "I-I don't see why he needs to be executed unfairly!"

"Unfairly?! Have you been listening to what I was trying to say all this time?!" Lucario asked furiously. "Get in that stupid little head of yours that Repede is nothing but a big bastard!"

"H-hey!" Estelle glared at him. "You should not dare to yell at me again!"

"You're being a fool for believing in that dog!"

A sudden big argument erupted between Lucario, Yuri, Estelle, Karol, and even most of the Smashers in the lobby. Everyone was against Lucario's ideas that grew more and more violent as time passed. The Aura Pok?mon argued and argued loudly about murdering Repede while everyone else argued and argued...as well.

And for Rita, Chris, C. Falcon, Repede, Raven, Judith, and Kirby...

"My my," Judith commented as she saw the argument. "We're surely grumpy today, aren't we?"

"Hmm," Rita said simply. "I want to see if someone dies today."

"T-that's kind of cruel..." Kirby commented.

"Sorry, but sometimes I do enjoy pointless ramblings like this one."

"Man," Raven said as he cleaned his right ear. "All this argument is makin' me feel tired."

"Kidding aside," Judith began. "Repede is clearly a good dog."

Repede whined.

"I know," Judith said with a nod. "You're not a bad dog, are you?"

"Woof, woof!" Repede barked.

"I dunno how to talk Repedish," Raven joked. "So I'm afraid I don't understand that much."

"?" C. Falcon looked at Chris getting up. "Where are you going?"

Chris took a deep breath and looked at everyone arguing against Lucario. "SHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUP!!!"

Needless to say, they didn't stop, or Chris can't yell that loud.

"..." Chris blinked worried.

"You hafta yell louder than that if you want to stop all of them," Raven suggested. "Have anythin' good in mind?"

"..." Chris looked at Repede before looking at Lucario. "...I have an idea."

"I can't believe you support that filthy son of a-" Lucario stopped arguing as he saw Chris rubbing his cheek with Repede's head. "Chris! You get away from that filthy mutt because I'm going to k-"

"Lucario, shut up!" Chris yelled as he stood up.

Everyone else stopped arguing between themselves and looked at the World Traveler.

"B-but Chris!" Lucario yelled. "D-did he do something to you to hate me?!"

"What the hell are you talking about?" Chris asked with a glare as he walked to Lucario. "The only imbecile I'm seeing today is you and not Repede!"

"Dramatic gasp!" Popo said before Nana slapped him.

"W-what?" Lucario asked in disbelief. "N-no..."

"What is wrong with you?" Chris asked. "You're not like this at all, Lucario! Why are you acting so weird today to the point to think about killing everyone and Repede?"

"Because Repede..." Lucario trailed off.

Pikachu sighed and walked to Lucario's side. "Chris, Lucario is jealous of Repede because he spends more time with you as Lucario trains outside but he doesn't because he has to maintain an eye on Repede so Lucario could stop him from getting closer to you so Repede could "take you apart" from Lucario."

"..." Everyone looked at Lucario.

"In a few words," Pikachu began annoyed. "Lucario is jealous of Repede!"

"Pikachu!" Lucario yelled. "Why did you say that?!"

"Oh, now I get it," Yuri said. "You're jealous of my dog because he's spending time with that kid (Chris: Teen!), right?"

"I..." Lucario looked away.

"What are you?" Yuri asked. "Are you some kind of dog to him?"

"He is a dog to him," Falco said.

"What?!" Lucario asked.

"Admit it and face it," Falco began. "You act like Chris's dog around him."

"T-that's not true!"

"Oh, that's so true, alright!" Chris yelled angrily. "Lucario, I knew you were jealous of Repede the first moment he appeared a few days ago!"

"Y-you..." Lucario shook his head. "T-that's not the point here! The point here is that Repede is an evil bastard who wants to make you forget about me!"

"..."

"..."

"..."

"..."

"..."

"...Is that it?" Chris asked.

"...Yes..." Lucario said.

Chris looked at Repede. "Okay, I believe we need to sort everything out to reach to a final verdict or something like that," he said. "If Lucario is right, Repede is going to be punished, but if Repede is right, then Lucario is going to be punished."

"..." Lucario and the others remained silent.

"Repede," Chris began as the dog looked up to him. "Are you evil as Lucario says?"

Repede whined and shook his head.

"Are you sure?"

"Woof!" Repede barked.

"..." Chris turned to Lucario. "Now, do you have a contradiction to that?"

"I do," Lucario said with a glare. "When he first slept with us, I talked with him through telepathy and he clearly said that he was evil and wanted to make everyone here forget about me, including you, Chris!"

"...Is that true?" Chris asked.

"I listened every single word of what he said. I'm not lying."

"..." Chris turned to Repede. "Is that true, Repede?"

Repede shook his head.

Yuri, Raven, Karol, Marth, Roy, Link, C. Falcon, and even Pikachu held a furious Lucario from reaching Repede as the Aura Pok?mon grunted and growled angrily while the 8 tried to keep him away from murdering the dog.

"Lucario!" Chris yelled as he slapped Lucario (and got his hand red, but became numb to it). "Stop it!"

"LET ME GO AND KILL HIM!" Lucario demanded as he tried to get himself out from the 8. "THAT BASTARD HAS BEEN PISSING ME OFF FOR A LONG TIME!"

"Ugh," Chris gave up. "Rita!"

"What do you want now?" Rita asked (as she seemed to be minding her own business rather than the argument).

"Teach Lucario a painful lesson so he can stop his ideas from murdering  Repede."

"Ooh, no way," Rita said as she shook her head. "I'm not going to let you order me and tell me what to d-"

"I'll give you Fox's, Falco's, and Wolf's Blasters, Reflectors, and even headgears."

"Deal," Rita said satisfied with the idea.

"Hey!" the previously mentioned Smashers said angry.

"Why do we always have to resort to violence?" Estelle asked. "Why can't we talk things calmly?"

"Estelle," Rita began as she opened her book. "Some things should be better resolved through violence. In this case, violence is the answer."

"Y-you're saying that because it's going to benefit you!"

"And I'm not giving anything to her either," Fox interrupted with a glare.

Rita sighed. "Fine! I'm going to stop this once and for all!"

"Bu-" Chris wondered for a moment. "...Oh, it's going to work for you though."

Rita stepped in front of the furious Lucario as he tried to get off from the 8. Lucario seemed to be completely out of his calm self because he was biting the air in pure rage.

"...Times like this call for more painful moments..." Rita said before she glared forward. "I'm so gonna make you hurt!" she called out as she spun one time and called for her Over Limit. "Everyone, get the hell out of here and leave this guy to me!"

"W-why's that?" Raven asked scared.

"I'm gonna use my Mystic Arte on him."

"W-what?" Yuri asked.

"Oh, you'll have to receive the attack though," Rita said. "I can't let the dog-thing get away that easily."

"..." The 8 looked at each other worried.

"W-wait, what?" Karol asked worried.

"We're gonna get hurt by Rita," Yuri summarized. "Better resist this one."

"Oh man..." Roy sighed.

"What the heck are you all waiting for?!" Rita asked to the Smashers. "Or do you want to die?!"

"Rita!" Estelle yelled. "I thought you were going to stop him!"

"I-I mean, do you want to get hurt?!"

The Smashers remembered the horrible fate that Matthew (the pogo-sword) went through by Rita and they ran away from the lobby.

"Here I go then..." Rita said as she made sure that nobody (except Lucario, the 8 restraining him, and herself) were the only ones in there.

The whole lobby turned empty with a blackish red as a background with the others and Rita, who moved her hands to the front. "O power that lies at the root of all creation," she said as she put her hands closer with closed eyes as she spun around 1 time and spread 4 spheres of earth, water, fire, and wind across. "O memory inscribed in ages past!" she yelled as the spheres of elements began to shine brighter. "Hear my call and arise before me!" she called out before she opened her eyes. "Ancient Catastrophe!"

The spheres suddenly shot at their intersecting point and exploded into a huge explosion of elements. The Aura Pok?mon roared in extreme pain as the other 8 resisted, but then they later screamed loudly in pain as well.

"GUUUUUUUUUUUAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGHHHHHHH!!!"

"Die, you beast, die!" Rita yelled through all the blindness of the catastrophic attack.

A blind (as mentioned before)...blinded the whole place...

Several minutes later...

"Oh my god..." Chris began as everyone else reappeared from the hallways. "...This was much even worse than I thought..."

In a few words...small, few, smart words...

The whole lobby looked pretty much like crap, even crappier than it was the last time. Holes, huge cracks, sand where the sofas used to be, holes to outside, windows broken, and even cracked floors made up the lobby...

Or what used to be the lobby.

But, see the bright side. The lobby was the only room destroyed.

"..." Chris walked to Rita. "Did I even tell you to BLOW UP the whole lobby?!"

"You asked me to give him a painful lesson, didn't you?" Rita asked as she pointed at the unconscious 9. "Well, I did."

"B-but not the whole lobby as well!"

"Meh, you should have said so then."

"Ugh..." Chris gave up again. He looked down at the extremely hurt Lucario (and others). "...Looks like you're calmer now."

"..." Lucario didn't want to look at Chris.

"Estelle," Rita began. "Heal the 8 except the dog."

"R-right..." Estelle said with a nod.

Several minutes again...

"One last time," Chris said. "Since Lucario can't virtually hurt Repede, let's try this again."

"Or just ask Repede the last question again," Pikachu suggested.

Chris looked at Repede. "Repede, for the last time... Is it true that you talked with Lucario?"

Repede nodded.

"Is it true that you said you were evil?"

Repede nodded.

"...Wait..." Chris shook his head. "L-let me ask again... Is it true that you're evil?"

Repede shook his head.

"This is not making any sense at all now..." Karol trailed off.

"He said he mentioned he was evil," Chris summarized. "But then he said he wasn't evil."

"I see...he's lying even more..." Lucario muttered on the floor. "...The...bastard..."

"Repede," Yuri began. "Since I'm the only one in here that understands you even more...did you do this because..."

Repede nodded. "Woof! Woof, woof, woof. Woof, woof, woof, woof! Woof! Woof! Woof! Woof! Woof, woof! Woof, woof, woof, woof! Woof, woof!"

"..." Yuri smiled and nodded. "Oh, that's very clear then!"

Everyone else in the room seemed to be receiving short fuses inside their brains as they didn't understand anything Repede said.

"Repedish," Raven said to no one in particular. "Nobody understands Repedish unlike Yuri here."

"I-I'm afraid I don't understand," Zelda said worried. "I-I couldn't understand anything he said..."

"I think NOBODY understood the dog," Ness said.

"I did," Yuri said.

"Will you just explain what he said?!" Chris asked utterly irritated. "I'm sick of all this nonsense about Repede! I want to see if he is right or not to punish the right culprit!"

"Settle down," Yuri said. "Repede was playing around with "Lucario" all the time."

A record scratched.

"...So Repede was just pissing Lucario off out of amusement?" Chris asked.

"Nah, more like having amusement with him," Yuri said before Repede barked more. "He said that "Lucario" was pissing himself off all the time by his crazy ansuptions."

Lucario tried to get up and attack Repede, but his injuries said otherwise and he fell down silently.

"..." Chris wondered for a moment. "Repede asked you for a vacation."

"Yeah," Yuri said.

"He wanted to have amusement."

"Yeah."

"He found this place, and he instantly knew Lucario liked me."

"Yeah."

"So he played and made Lucario uncomfortable to see what Repede could find out of amusement from him while Repede stayed with me."

"Yeah."

"Repede just acted a little bit weird around me so Lucario could never take an eye out of Repede."

"Yeah."

"And at the end, Repede became satisfied after you came here."

"Woof, woof!" Repede barked with a nod.

"He said it's true," Yuri said. "Repede was just playing around your dog (Lucario: I'll...kill you some of these days...) to find fun."

"..." Rita walked to Yuri. "Ahem. You do know that was so unrequired, right?"

"It was?"

"Of course," Rita said mad. "Because of your dog, we ended up leaving Dahngrest to later fight that previous commandant. You know how problematic is that?"

"A-and we were so worried about him as well!" Estelle added.

"Yeah, I know," Yuri said. "Guess Repede took his sweet time."

Repede barked.

"He said he had enough."

"That's pretty much very anno...wait a minute," Rita began as she eyed Yuri. "How the hell do you know what he's saying? All I heard was barks."

"I understand Repede very well," Yuri explained. "...But I don't know if he understands me."

Repede whined.

"Y-you little... D-don't make it more confusing that it already is!" Rita yelled before she turned and crossed her arms. "Anyway, since all the "gang" is together, can we leave this place already? I'm getting sick of getting annoyed by everyone in here for taking their things for just some minutes."

"You do know all of them have contradictions that you won't admit, right?" Karol asked bored.

"Y-you shut up!"

[DededeCloneChris]

"Finally!" Pikachu spoke. "The wars between these 2 are done!"

Everyone began to talk with each other as Chris went to Estelle and looked to Lucario.

"Can I ask you to heal him?" Chris asked.

"I-is it okay now?" Estelle asked. "I don't want to see anyone dying...let alone Repede."

"No, Lucario won't kill anyone..." Chris said as they looked at Lucario. "He seems very ashamed of his actions now."

"...Okay..." Estelle said before she concentrated her healing magic. "Holy power, come to me! First Aid!"

A light appeared right inside Lucario and his wounds were healed to the half. He started to get up with some grunts.

"One more, wait," Estelle said. "Holy power, come to me! First Aid!"

And Lucario was fully recovered as he was able to stand up. However, he noticed Chris standing in front of him.

"I'm...so sorry..." Lucario said worried as he looked away. "I guess my rage blinded me to the extreme today..."

"Oh, it did," Chris said...

...But there was something wrong with the tone of his voice.

"Why are you sounding like that?" Lucario asked.

"Lucario," Chris crossed his arms. "I understand that you were jealous of Repede all this time, and I hope we're clear that you won't kill him either, right?"

"I...won't..." Lucario said.

"But," Chris continued. "There's something I won't forgive you, ever."

Lucario started to look even more preocupied. "W-what?"

"You told me to shut up."

Lucario's eyes widened. "W-wait, t-that was just a little mistake of my part. R-remember that my rag-"

"And not only that," Chris continued. "You started a whole racket right in this place, and you even let me to ask Rita to calm you down by using magic."

"S-she was..."

"And finally," Chris continued. "You tried to kill Repede at least 3 times today. I recall that you weren't going to after the first time, but you didn't hesitate to do it at the second part."

"When was the third time, then?" Lucario asked.

"I saw you wanted to get up."

Lucario's pupils shrunk.

"But you were injured."

"I-I didn't want to ki-"

"And your eyes were focused on Repede."

"H-how did you notice all that?"

"I know you very well," Chris said simply. "And you know me very well."

"W-well..."

"Kneel down."

Lucario gasped out loud and everyone in the room stopped talking and looked at them. "W-wait! C-Chris, please, not in front o-"

"Kneel down or I'll make it worse! You haven't seen what else I can do to punish you!"

"Hey, what's happenin' now?" Raven asked.

"N-nothing!" Lucario yelled. "Y-you don't need to see thi-"

"Kneel down!" Chris yelled angrily.

"C-can we do this but in another place tha-"

"KNEEL DOWN!"

"Ugh!" Lucario gasped and he quickly knelt down. He apparently looked very scared (to the point of trembling in horror).

"...I'm sorry for asking, but what's happening?" Zelda asked.

"Oh, nothing," Chris said as he walked behind Lucario. "Don't mind this at all."

"What are you going to do?" Pikachu asked.

"This little disobedient bastard (Lucario: I-I already said I'm sorry! Forgive me!) needs to be punished so that little head of his learns what he shouldn't do around people."

The World Traveler slammed his kick on Lucario's back and he left it there.

"U-um..." Pichu looked unsure. "W-what kind of punishment is that?"

"Oh, don't worry," Chris said with a smile. "This punishment is going to hurt me even more than Lucario."

'R-really?" Lucario asked as he looked at him over his shoulder.

"...Actually, no," Chris said. "I don't get the meaning of that at all. It's going to hurt you even more than me."

The World Traveler did the unthinkable...

He grabbed the 4 appendages hanging from Lucario's head and the Aura Pok?mon gulped and began to sweat.

"Let me remind you again," Chris warned Lucario. "We already did this once back in our house where you almost killed my aunt."

"I-I thought she looked rather shady! I-it's not my fault she had a creepy laugh!"

"Don't make me do the punishment worse," Chris muttered. "Good thing I saw the light of your Aura Sphere behind the closet before you could harm her. I adore my aunt because she took care of me ever since my parents..." Chris shook his head. "I shouldn't go further into details..."

"Y-yes...hahahaha..." Lucario faked a laugh. "C-can you let me go of my appendages?"

"Let me re-think what you did today," Chris thought for half a second. "Nope."

And the pulling began.

"GUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGHHH!!!" Lucario roared in pain as his eyes widened and his head began to rise.

The others watched somewhat scared about the punishment. But Chris continued as his hands hung to Lucario's appendages very tightly.

"Are you sure you're not going to get that furious again?!" Chris asked angrily.

"Y-yes!" Lucario said as he tried to nod. "I-I won't kill anyone unless you say so!"

"I want to hear true emphasis for those words!" Chris yelled as he pulled even harder.

"GUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!" Lucario roared more in pain as some even began to block their ears.

"Are you sure you're not going to get that furious again?!" Chris repeated.

"I-I'm very sure!" Lucario cried out. "K-killing people without good reasons is bad! I-I understand very well!"

"Gosh, look at his eyes," Ivysaur whispered to Squirtle. "They're getting full of tears."

"Of pain," Squirtle whispered back.

"...Got any popcorn?"

"Nope."

"Snap."

"I want to hear even more emphasis than that!" Chris yelled.

"W-why isn't enough for you?!" Lucario cried out.

"SHUT UP!"

More pulling.

"GUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!" Lucario cried out even more in pain.

"Are you sure you're not going to get that furious again?!" Chris repeated.

"Y-yes! I-I'm very sure..." Lucario started to cry. "I-I understand very well..." He sobbed. "P-please, no more... I-I'll think before doing the next time... I-I promise a-and it's my word..."

"..." Chris felt apologetic. "...Phew, it's over."

The World Traveler let go of Lucario's appendages and he pulled his foot back to him as Lucario got up and rubbed his appendages with one hand before looking at Chris. "I-I'm very sorry...really... I-If I get like that again, I'm going to remember what will come to me as punishment..."

"You sure will," Chris said as he nodded several times. "But it'll be worse, I tell you."

Lucario's eyes widened. "I-I understand..."

"...My god," Red began. "That was some serious punishment..."

"I know how to punish Lucario the right way," Chris said as some sort of creepy look made his face. "You could say I know how to punish every single Pok?mon..." he muttered.

Pikachu gulped and he blocked his cheeks.

Pichu grabbed his little tail.

Jigglypuff took out a scarf and wrapped it around her mouth (and herself).

Squirtle hid in his shell (that shook).

Ivysaur had a better idea and hid behind Red.

Red rolled his eyes.

Worried, Pikachu walked to Lucario. "Did it hurt? I-I mean, do you think they can be taken off from your head?"

"I-I don't think so..." Lucario said. "They can't be pulled off from my head...but it really hurts if someone pulls them very hard as Chris does..."

"Ouch..." Pikachu muttered. "...You have my condolences."

"...Okay!" Chris said as he suddenly looked enthusiastic. "Everyone learned something new today, right?"

A dead silence fell in, and some Kricketots peered from the windows and chirped a little before disappearing.

Tales of Vesperia - United Oath

"...That we really should mind our own business," Rita said as she broke the silence. "Otherwise, you'll end up severely punished."

"And why do you say that? Because I don't see why it applies to you as we-" Karol stopped before Rita glared at him. "I-I mean, you're absolutely right!"

"I knew it."

"Since Repede is not guilty of anything," Yuri began as he looked bored at the Smashers. "...What the hell are you guys? Or, who are you?"

Some of them (mostly the anthros) seemed to glare at him.

Yuri seemed to be pretty confused to see a robot.

"Oh, knock it off..." Samus said.

Chris shifted his eyes. "...Oh, forget it! I'm not going to give another tour in here!" he yelled. "You're on your own!"

"Hey, what did I do?" Yuri asked a little bit surprised.

"Nothing..." Chris shook his head. "Wait, where's Master Hand? I thought he was supposed to come after Rita was going to blow up this lobby."

"By the way..." Olimar walked to Chris and gave him a paper. "I found this on the door of his office."

"..." Chris looked at the note.

To my true house's tenants and not the other people:

I'm going to relieve my stress from commanding you guys by taking a vacation to Delfino Island (with my brother) and stay away for a while. I know this is very sudden of me, but I want to relax for a little while. Don't worry, I don't think Tabuu will have an eye on the 2 of us because he wouldn't think about invading Mario's world again.

...

And no, I didn't take this vacation to hide from anyone. Don't say otherwise or ELSE.

Your truly,
Master Hand.

P.S.: Advice me if those guests leave the mansion so I can think about coming back sooner.

P.S.S.: The cocktails in here are the best of the best.

"Oh, you have got to be kidding me..." Chris muttered. "Does anyone know about this?"

"I passed the note around," Olimar said.

"...Well, this turns the mansion into some sort of vacational spot," Chris said. "And it's afternoon so we should do whatever we want."

The World Traveler noticed that many of the people in there began to disperse around the mansion.

Judith seemed to be gone (and Chris thought C. Falcon might had something to do with her since he wasn't around).

And, if it was irony or not, Chris saw Yuri (with Repede by his side) talking with almost all the swordsmen.

"Well..." Chris trailed off. "I think we can rest assured today. What do you think, Olimar?"

Olimar was gone.

"Oh, sure! Leave me talking to me alone!" Chris yelled.

He turned around and found an ashamed Lucario.

"..." Lucario looked at him. "Are you...mad at me?"

Chris sighed. "...Just don't let your mind make you think weird things, okay?"

"..." Lucario nodded silently.

Chris looked worried. "If you want, you can follow me and drop your training for a little while."

"..." Lucario walked closer to Chris and nodded. But still, he looked ashamed.

The World Traveler looked worried before he decided to walk to their room as his Pok?mon followed.

As with Yuri and the swordsmen...

"So your last name is Lowell," Marth said to Yuri. "Funny, that's my last name too."

According to an anime based of the games were Marth appeared, his last name is Lowell. As an extra, the anime also pointed out that Marth's tiara once belonged to her sister, Elice.

"I thought mine was original," Yuri said with a chuckle. "Hey, I've noticed there are some...unique people living in here. You guys used to them?"

"Oh, we're very used to see "unique" people," Link said. "It's very common to us to meet people like them."

"Guess that was obvious since you live here," Yuri said. "By the way, this might sound odd to you but..." He paused for a moment to think if it was fine to talk about something that happened to him. "...Have you seen any nocturnal beasts?"

"Nocturnal beasts?" Ike asked. "I don't recall seeing any kind of creatures like that."

"If you mean some small machines with big eyes..." Marth trailed off.

"No, those nocturnal beasts didn't have those features," Yuri said. "Some few days ago, these rare monsters began to appear at night in the forest where I was sleeping. Apparently, they were very hostile the moment they locked their eyes on me and went so far as to cut down the tree I was leaning to."

"Care to explain more?" Link asked.

"Yeah. Anyway, these beasts were not that dangerous though. I was able to defeat some of them so I could hide away in the bushes. I wanted to find out more about these creatures but I couldn't find anything."

"Hmm..." Roy wondered. "But are you sure you didn't find anything else?"

"Besides the fact they appeared at night and seemed to be staring at the moon while I was hiding, no," Yuri explained. "But man, I haven't seen anything like them. I've fought many monsters before but these ones looked rather...ominous."

"So," Marth began. "You're saying these beasts only appear at night."

"Yeah."

"And they like to stare at the moon when nobody is around."

"Well, I was around but they dropped out the hunting they had on me."

"..." Marth focused. "...Nocturnal beasts that appear at night and like to stare at the moon..."

"Is the part of staring at the moon that important?" Roy asked.

"...It is," Marth said with a nod. "Think about it. What kind of monsters like to stare at the moon when nobody is around? Have any of you met monsters like or does anyone in here know about them?"

"How did they look like?" Ike asked suddenly.

"Well, their looks were the most surprising parts," Yuri said. "They were all black, they had blue and red outlines wherever they turned around. Some of them were smaller but they were a lot, and some of them were big with big maces but they were very few compared to the smaller ones."

"So, does anyone know?" Marth asked.

"No," they all said.

"The Twilit come close, but they're not like that," Link said.

"Since Link is the only one here who has fought different kinds of monsters than any of us," Marth began. "We don't know any kind of monsters like that."

"Oh," Yuri said as Repede yawned. "Then maybe you should be careful if they try to ambush you at night."

"But..." Marth wondered more. "What kind of creatures are they?"

"Living nightmares," Yuri said. "Because they interrupted my dreams." He looked around. "...Where's the dog guy?"

"Who, Lucario?" Roy asked.

"Yeah," Yuri said before he looked at Repede. "Honestly speaking, Repede seems to be rather ashamed for making Lucario feel jealous of him. I went a little bit too far at him that Repede understood what he did."

"Woof!" Repede barked.

Link looked bored at Yuri. "Translate that."

Yuri chuckled. "He said that he thought about what he did all these days and he wants to apologize."

"I was with Lucario's side though..." Ike muttered to himself.

And so, the day went ahead. It seemed that Yuri and Judith managed to cope well with some of the Smashers as Karol did. Estelle was very happy to reunite the guild together. However, Yuri propossed to return to Dahngrest the day after this day so they could resume where they left on.

Sure, they weren't going to forget what they found in the Smash Mansion...

I mean, Kirby must be something or someone that is not easy to forget. What about the theory of the black hole residing inside his stomach...?

Oh, forget what I said.

The afternoon went on...and eventually night came in.

Raven's Room

The old man was resting on his bed as the night went on. However, he couldn't shake off the feeling that he forgot something...

"Hmm..." Raven wondered. "What did Judy say? Monsters appearin' at night?" he asked to himself before turning. "Heh, that's some crazy idea of hers. Besides, there isn't anybody out there at this hour."

With that, he drifted off to sleep and began snoring out loud.

Or, to make it more understandable, he couldn't shake off the feeling that he forgot SOMEONE out there...

Outside

Environmental Noises

An arrow fell down to the grass, but it didn't descend fast.

"D-dangit!" yelled an exhausted Toon Link. "T-this is the 168th time!"

Around the tired swordsman, the whole field around him was covered by what looked to be 336 arrows across the whole plain. Toon Link panted heavily after he couldn't master the technique that Raven wanted to taught him.

Of course, it would be victory if Toon Link mastered it.

"T-this is harder than I thought..." Toon Link said as he panted. "B-but I need to do this..." he muttered. "Or Raven is going to leave sooner before I complete this..."

As he panted heavily, some bushes shook.

"Huh?" Toon Link turned around. "...Did those bushes shake just now?"

Toon Link shook his head.

"M-maybe I'm starting to hear weird things..." he muttered before he looked at the sky and prepared his bow.

Although he turned his back to the sky, he couldn't see a bright eye staring at him through the bushes...

Lucario's Room

This night was completely different for the World Traveler and the Aura Pok?mon.

Why, you ask?

Simple.

1) Chris was still a little bit angry at Lucario.

2) Lucario was ashamed even after he received his punishment through his appendages (and thus he ended up having them half-bandaged).

And most important of all...

3) Lucario was resting on the floor while he was sitting close to the bed.

Lucario sighed. "(This is what happens when I get enraged...)" he thought as he glanced at Chris. "(I know I should deserve this but...the fact that Repede was deceiving me...)"

"..." Chris moved a little.

"(...This is somewhat unfair to me...)"

"..." Chris sat up and he looked very tired.

Lucario looked at him. "It's...what? 12:54?"

"Hmmmmmm..." Chris grumbled as he got out from the bed.

Lucario opened his mouth a little as Chris walked to the door. "W-where are you going?" Lucario asked.

"Bread...juice...now..." Chris said groggily before he left the room.

"..." Lucario thought for a moment before following Chris.

Hallway

As Chris made his way to the kitchen, Lucario tried to reason with him.

"I-I know I was being a total idiot this day..." Lucario said behind Chris. "A-and I know I shouldn't have yelled at you for no reason either."

"Hmmm..." Chris grumbled.

"B-but don't you think you're taking this a little bit too far for me?"

"..." Chris seemed to be thinking. "...Maybe..."

Oh, there was hope for Lucario before 1:00 PM could hit.

"S-so, are you going to stop hating me?" Lucario asked (a little bit excited).

"...No..." Chris responded groggily.

Lucario gasped silently. "B-but I can't take this anymore... Please, forgive me today..."

"..." Chris stopped...but then he continued walking.

"...I beg of you..." Lucario whispered sadly. "If there's something I can't take very well, it's that you hate me..."

"..." Chris walked down the stairs, and Lucario had to follow.

Kitchen

"...Lucario..." Chris muttered.

Lucario knew what was coming to him. "Y-yes?"

"..." Chris opened the fridge. "...I..."

Lucario nodded.

"I..."

"Yes?"

"..." He closed the fridge. "...I don't know what to eat..."

"..." Lucario's eyes widened as he seemed to breath in and out. "...I'm want you to forgive me...I follow you all the way here...and...and yet..."

You knew where this was going, right?

Unfortunately...

"Lucario!" Chris suddenly spoke as he seemed to be fully awakened.

Lucario blinked confused. "W-what?"

"You were going to get into a fit of rage, weren't you?"

Lucario gasped. "I-I wasn't! I-I swear I wasn't! P-please, forgive me!"

Chris sighed. "Look, I made this up so suddenly because I wanted to see if you could AT LEAST wait for someone to get to your point! You need to be patient before someone helps you!"

"I-I knew you were going to say that..." Lucario said as he chuckled nervously. "I-I was just..."

"You're so bad at lying," Chris muttered. "Shame on you."

"..." Lucario quickly hugged Chris with his right arm. "J-just forgive me! I-I want you to forgive me so badly!" he yelled loudly.

"L-Lucario!" Chris yelled through Lucario's grip. "Y-you're going to kill me that less but still powerful brute force of yours!"

Lucario let Chris go. "I...just want you to forgive me..."

"..." Chris sighed. "...Maybe tomorrow..."

Lucario looked down.

"If you can wait until then, it's going to be better."

"...I'll do it," Lucario said.

"I'll wait to see if you can do that."

Both of them looked at the table and found Meta Knight.

"He takes a lot of time to calm down," Meta Knight said.

"W-what are you doing at this hour?" Chris asked.

"Can I ask the same as well?"

"..."

"...He has a point..." Lucario muttered. "I don't think you suddenly woke up to test me because you can't wake up when you want."

Chris looked down. "...I don't know either..."

Lucario frowned.

"Maybe I need to eat something..." Chris muttered before he opened the fridge.

"But then, what are you doing at this hour?" Lucario asked.

"I wanted to relieve myself of the sudden events," Meta Knight explained. "I thought it would be a good idea to stay here and eat while everyone was sleeping. I could relax tha way, but then you came out of nowhere and didn't even notice me."

"...Oh..." Lucario muttered.

"..." Meta Knight looked away. "Well, just don't try to do something weird tonight. You 2, and Toon Link, are the only ones awake."

"He is?" Chris asked as he closed the fridge (and took out a yogurt).

"Yes," Meta Knight said. "But I haven't heard of him for about 10 minutes ago."

Chris looked at the window. "I hope he...what's he doing outside again?"

"He's training his marksman's skills."

"Oh," Chris said as a big shadowy figure walked nearby the window and blocked it for a moment. "...Well, I just hope he doesn't get too tired or..."

The other 2 seemed to be staring out as well.

...Wait just a minute...

"...W-what was that just now?!" Chris asked panicked.

"Hmm," Meta Knight muttered. "Then what I heard from our guests was true after all."

"W-what is true?" Chris asked.

"I heard from them that some monsters appear during night and that they roam about to attack any stranger," Meta Knight explained. "I thought it was just some kind of stupid thing, but it looks like I was wrong."

"A-are we going to fight them?" Chris asked. "I-it's very late..."

"In truth, they have been roaming around the mansion for quite a while now."

"What?" Lucario asked. "Why didn't you do anything?"

"Because they don't seem to attack people living inside houses," Meta Knight explained. "It's like a typical monster. They don't attack you unless you are inside their turf."

"B-but I'm still worried..." Chris muttered. "What if they decide to attack?"

"They won't," Meta Knight said. "Unless we bother them, then we'll have to fight."

"There are monsters walking around the mansion," Lucario reminded the Star Warrior. "We shouldn't be standing around without doing nothing."

"They're monsters if they attack people," Meta Knight said. "However, do you see them attacking someone?"

"I..." Lucario trailed off.

It was not long before one of the big shadowy creatures carried Toon Link over its spiked shoulder. The little swordsman seemed to be tied up with a bandage on his mouth, and he was struggling to get off.

Once he caught an eye on the 3 inside the mansion, he mumbled loudly to get their attention.

"..." Meta Knight looked outside and found Toon Link in his moment of help. The Star Warrior unsheathed Galaxia. "And it seems they're monsters."

"Duh," Chris muttered.

Then he remembered.

"Link!" Chris yelled. "H-he was being taken by them somewhere!"

"If that is true, then those monsters know how to think," Meta Knight said. "In which case...someone is controlling them."

"W-why?"

"Think," Meta Knight said. "Those monsters would have annihilated Toon Link by now, but they're instead kidnapping him, correct?"

[DededeCloneChris]

"W-well, they seemed to be kidnapping him..." Chris nodded.

"And why would they do that?" Meta Knight asked. "Why didn't they kill him? Or why didn't they eat him if they could?" He looked back outside. "They know what they're doing because someone told them to do this."

"But they didn't attack anyone in here," Lucario said.

"Because they want to patrol more than go right in here and start a riot," Meta Knight said. "They seem to understand that there are many of us here and that they feel outmatched."

"...Meta Knight..." Chris began. "...I can't believe you know all that."

"I understand, listen, and know a lot," Meta Knight said. "I don't want to show off, but many have said that I-"

"T-they're taking Link away!" Chris yelled in panic to remind them.

Meta Knight just sighed. "Let's go out and save the kid."

Outside

The 3 got out from the mansion and spotted a large group of the mysterious monsters taking Toon Link inside the forest. "Y-you over there!" Chris yelled as he pointed his sword (because he was using the Swordsman job) to the creatures. "L-let go of Link!"

All of the monsters turned to him.

Chris whimpered. "H-he said it!" he yelled as he pointed at Lucario who frowned as a response.

"MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!" Toon Link yelled before he fell down. "MMMMMMMM!!!"

"Hmph." Meta Knight glared at the monsters (but then again, it was difficult to see if he was glaring). "We fight them, now."

Tales of Vesperia - A Formidable Foe Stands in the Way

The horde of monsters didn't hesitate to charge at the 3 (leaving a struggling Toon Link behind) and the trio prepared to fight.

"L-let's see..." Chris studied the enemies. "T-there are a lot of small monsters while there are at least 5 big ones..."

"This could be quite a predicament," Meta Knight commented.

"W-why?"

"Comparing to the bigger ones, the smaller ones outmatch them by their numbers," Meta Knight explained. "There are at least 50 of them."

"T-those claws they have look dangerous..." Chris commented with a gulp.

"Every single feature of them is dangerous," Meta Knight said.

"Why don't we call the others?" Lucario asked.

"No need for that," Meta Knight said as their enemies were getting even closer. "There's a chance to defeat all of them by being just 3..or 4 if we count Toon Link."

The trio looked through the horde and found Toon Link trying to get free from his ropes.

"Someone needs to go there and help him," Meta Knight said. "2 will fall behind and distract the monsters."

"I-I want to be rescuer!" Chris yelled.

"I knew that," Meta Knight said. "You would just get scared by those things."

"Hey!"

"They're here!" Meta Knight yelled. "Go now!"

"I-I'm going!" Chris yelled as he ran around the horde...

"...Wait..." Meta Knight muttered as the whole horde turned to Chris. "No!"

"W-what?" Chris asked as he looked at the side and found the horde of monsters focusing on him. "O-oh no, don't tell me they want t-"

"Run to Toon Link, quick!" Meta Knight ordered as he and Lucario rushed towards the monsters. "These monsters know how to attack!"

Chris screamed loudly as 10 of the smaller monsters accelerated to him. The World Traveler spun around and tossed a bomb.

"S-stay away from me!" Chris yelled as the bomb made contact with the monsters.

However, the bomb just made them back away before resuming their task.

"UAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!" Chris screamed as he ran to Toon Link.

"No!" Lucario yelled as 5 of the 10 monsters leaped to Chris and pushed him down to the grass.

"Aagh!" Chris yelled in pain before the monsters began to slam their pincers on his back. "AAAH!!! AAAH!!! AAAH!!! AAAH!!!" he screamed continuously as the monsters hit his back in perfect rhythm.

"This is impossible..." Meta Knight muttered. "These creatures can fight very well rather than the monsters we've fought before."

"THEY'RE GOING TO PAY!" Lucario yelled in rage as his hands got covered in a flaring aura. "GUUUUUUUUAAAAAAAAAAARRRGGGGHH!!!"

The Aura Pok?mon leaped to a big monster of darkness and prepared to slam his palms on its head.

"DIE!" Lucario roared as he descended above the monster.

But the most unexpected of the things that he didn't have in mind happened...

His aura disappeared. He felt like some part of himself completely vanished.

"W-what?!" Lucario looked shocked at his hands. "N-no, this can't b-UGH!" He was suddenly pushed away by a big black mace from the monster, making the aura wielder slam his back on a tree. "U-ugh... N-no..." Lucario muttered as he tried to call his aura. "N-no. W-why? W-why is this happening now?"

"Lucario!" Meta Knight yelled within an ambush of the smaller monsters. "What is taking you so long to fight here?!"

"M-my aura disappeared!" Lucario yelled. "I-I can't fight if I don't have my aura!"

Meta Knight was punched by the back by one of the monsters. "And that means?" he asked as he slashed a pincer away.

"M-my brute force disappeared completely..." Lucario said ashamed. "I should have gone to the valley after all..."

"LU-CA-RIO!" Chris yelled between hits. "I-I-I NEED YOUR HELP!"

"C-Chris!" Lucario remembered and he got up. "I-I have to try again... GUUUUUUUUUUUUUAAAAAAAAARRGGGGGGGGHHHHH!!!" Lucario roared loudly as he charged at the crowd of monsters.

Unfortunately, a big one of them looked over its shoulder, turned around, and slammed its mace right above Lucario, forcing him to stay pinned down on the ground as he yelled in pain.

"Lucario!" Meta Knight yelled as he continuously slashed the pincers fastly. "Can you hear me? Lucario!"

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!" Lucario was being attacked on his back as the monster banged and banged its big mace on him. The Aura Pok?mon was rendered useless against this action of brutal strength.

"Ugh!" Meta Knight was attacked by one of the smaller monsters since it leaped to him while he was attacking one and slammed both pincers right on his head. The masked knight shook his head one time before 6 leaped to him and piled up above him.

Music stops

There was no chance to win now...

Chris was being brutally punished on his back as he tried to get up.

Meta Knight was being overhelmed by a swarm of the monsters.

And lastly, Lucario was suffering the same as Chris, but with more pain.

Worst of all, the other 4 big monsters and the rest of the creatures surrounded the 3 to make sure nobody interrupted. These monsters knew how to attack in groups.

Toon Link watched in horror as the 3 couldn't fight back anymore. The swordsman tried to get by using his feet. However, there was the fact that his mouth was blocked by a small tape, and that he was tied up to his shoulders.

"(Everyone!)" Toon Link yelled inside his mind. "(H-hold on! Give me some seconds to get off from this thing! Ugh!)" He struggled to untie his ropes, but it seemed that there was no way as he fell down. "(Damn these ropes, darn those monsters, DAMN THIS TAPE! DAMMIT!)"

And Chris couldn't see more...

"(Anyone...)" Chris thought as he sobbed, becoming numb to the pain on his back. "(I...I'm so sorry... I-I can't go on...)"

"Chris!" Kawashima yelled from his pocket. "If you lose this fight with the others, then a life is going to be taken out of you!"

"(...Does it really matter...)" Chris thought. "(E-even if I come back to fight again...I'll end up like this and...)"

He started to cry in his mind.

"(I-I'm...I-I'm going to die now...and nobody else can hear us...)" He sobbed silently. "(N-no...)"

"(What did I do wrong?)" Meta Knight asked to himself. "(I should have woken up the others to help us... I didn't know these monsters could perform very well in battle and obliterate us...)"

"(C-Chris...)" Lucario thought. "(Don't...die...before...me...please...)"

A sudden silence fell to the 3 as they seemed to be fainting...

...

...Complete...silence...

...

...Absolute...silence...

...

...Nothing...

...

"Take this, Frigid Blast!"

"(Huh?!)" the 3 thought at the same time as some of the smaller monsters were pushed back by a blast of ice (in the shape of an X) and cringed in pain.

"C'mon, wind! Knock 'em around and cut 'em down! Wind Blade!"

A razor wind sliced the monsters that were banging on Chris's back away, and it also reached Toon Link's ropes for bit, enough to cut them in half to set the small Hylian free.

A howl was heard before a fireball slammed on the big monster's back that made it stop from attacking Lucario. Lucario took advantage of this time and he quickly got up as soon as he could and ran away to a safe spot.

"O divine spear, run my enemy through! ...Holy Lance!"

Several spears of light came out around the pile of the smaller monsters that were above Meta Knight and each of the spears struck all of them through (except the masked knight) and made them disappear into dark spheres. Meta Knight quickly got up and jumped out from the crowd of monsters.

"...You?" Meta Knight asked.

Tales of Vesperia - Undying Resolve

"Hey," Yuri spoke as he juggled his sword a bit. "Sorry for being late."

"What are you doing here?" Meta Knight asked.

Out of some miracle, Yuri, Repede, Estelle, and Raven appeared just in time to save the 4 from being brutally murdered by the monsters. The masked warrior watched as Repede carried a weakened Chris on his back while Toon Link followed. As for Lucario, he decided to reunite with all of them by taking advantage of the commotion of the enemies.

"T-thank you...Repede..." Chris muttered before Repede whined a little.

"Oh my..." Estelle said worried. "You're very badly hurt! I'm going to heal you!"

"Well, do it quick," Raven said. "Those monsters didn't like our intervention for even a bit."

"H-how did you know we were in trouble?" Chris asked.

"Repede here heard all the screams from our room," Yuri explained. "He alerted all of us to go outside."

"Rita, Judith, and Karol should be here in a moment," Raven said. "Though we could take these guys out before they arrive here."

"Okay, here's the plan," Yuri began. "Estelle, support us by using magic. Heal the guys here first before focusing on the fight."

"O-okay!" Estelle nodded.

"Raven, Repede, and I will give a frontal attack. If you guys can fight again, don't hesitate in lending us a hand."

"I understand..." Meta Knight nodded.

"Here they come. Estelle!"

"R-right away!" Estelle nodded to heal the 3. "O brilliant angels, grant us your favor! Nurse!"

2 aquatic nurses began to stroll down the field and everyone (except the monsters) recovered at least 60 percent of their healths.

"L-life!" Chris cheered as he stood up. "I-I won't die after all!"

"Why would you?" Estelle asked.

"Er...forget what I said..."

"Here they come again!" Meta Knight yelled. "This time, I won't give mercy..."

"I-I wouldn't give mercy in this situati-" Chris stopped once the masked knight pointed his sword directly at his throat. "Y-you're so right..."

"A big one is coming!" Estelle alerted.

"(Since close range combat isn't that very good to me...)" Chris thought before he changed jobs to the ISOKFMG. "O twisted door of distortion, open wide! ...Negative Gate!"

A portal of pure darkness appeared right on the big monster of darkness. However, something was wrong as it grumbled...in pleasure.

"Huh?" Chris said confused. "That didn't work?"

"W-wait, how did you do that?" Estelle asked. "And how did you change clothes so fast?"

Chris gasped in his mind. "I-I was wearing these clothes already."

"Of course you weren't!" Estelle pointed out. "And that was magic like Rita's Negative Gate as well! How can you explain that?"

"Estelle!" Yuri yelled as he was being ambushed. "Get yourself together and give me a hand in here!"

"I-I'm sorry!" Estelle called out. "Come, o silver light! Angel Ring!"

A big ring of light surrounded about 6 of the smaller creatures before it quickly shrunk and pushed them together before a small explosion of light burst right in the middle of them. The smaller creatures shrieked in pain before Yuri came close to them.

"Brutal Fang!" Yuri yelled as he started to use his left fist and hit every single creature close to him. He managed to land about 22 hits in total before continuing his combo. "Shining Fang!" he shouted as he quickly spun his sword up and down his right hand while he rose it upwards. The smaller creatures shrieked more in pain before they vanished. "You're done," Yuri said.

"(Maybe I should study their weaknesses if they have...)" Chris thought before he changed to his Scholar job. "Now..." He opened his book and studied the enemies. "Hmm..."

"H-hey!" Estelle began as he looked at him. "H-how come you're dressed as a scholar now?"

"Estelle!" Yuri called again.

"(Oh, for the love of...) I-I'm coming!" Estelle yelled as she ran away to Yuri.

"...So that's it..." Chris muttered. "It was so obvious... Their weakness is light!" he yelled at the group.

"So obvious!" Raven yelled from afar before he chanted a spell. "All my heart, baby, all my love. ...Get outta here! Arrivederci!"

Light came from beneat the the big monster before glowing lights of winds rose up and pushed it to the air for a moment before falling back on its feet. The monsters grumbled in pain as it locked an eye on Raven.

"Wait..." Chris looked further in his book. "...The name of the smaller enemies are...Nightmares..." He glanced at the bigger ones. "And according to this book, those are powered-up versions called Titans..."

It hit Chris.

"...Then that means..." The World Traveler stared at his book in surprise as his eyes widened more and more. "...I have the most reliavable book ever with every single information about all the enemies in all the worlds if I get to study them!"

A small fanfare sounded out of nowhere before it stopped.

"Um, Chris..." Lucario called from behind. "Did you...find any more information?"

"Well..." Chris looked back at his book. "All of them can absorb dark attacks, and they cannot be hurt by psychic attacks either because the darkness in their bodies confuse psychic powers."

"..." Lucario looked down.

"...Wait, what are you doing here? I thought you were going to disable all of them with the others."

"I..."

"Look out!"

Chris was suddenly pushed away in time by a slam of the maces from a Titan. The World Traveler rolled on the grass and shook his head once he stopped rolling.

"W-who did that to me just now?" Chris asked as he adjusted his glasses. "Karol?"

"H-hey there..." Karol greeted as he got up and dusted off his bag. "You were going to be crushed under that thing's mace and I arrived just in time."

"Oh..." Chris got up. "Thank you, then... Lucario!"

Chris remembered that Lucario was just behind him and that could have meant something...

"..." Both of the kids (Chris: Screw it, I am not going to complain again) watched the mace rising up from its place. There was nothing there, and the monsters glanced at the 2.

"T-there is absolutely no way that Lucario was finished..." Chris said.

"You're right," Lucario said from behind them. "All because of her."

Both of them looked at his left and found Judith. "Thank goodness I arrived in time to take him away from that thing," Judith said.

"Oh, thank you so much..." Chris sighed in relief.

"Unfortunately," Judith looked back at the Titan. "That guy wants more."

"O blade of noble light, overpower even indestructible evil! Blade Roll!"

A huge blade of light circled right through the Titan's waist and it grumbled in extreme pain before it fell back and vanished into nothing. Just behind it, Rita was flipping through the pages of her book before walking to them. "You should be thankful. I decided to come here rather than sleeping," she said a little bit irritated.

"Always, ALWAYS like that..." Karol said bored.

"Anyway," Rita began as she looked at the horde. "Are these the monsters you spoke of?"

"Yes," Judith said. "Though they came a little bit prepared than last time."

"Oh well," Rita said. "Time to get working on them. I want to use my magic for SOMETHING more useful than killing the guys in here."

"Rita!" Estelle from afar.

"Oh, you..." Rita grunted. "Forget it, alright?!" she yelled before she ran to the battle.

"I may as well go in," Judith said with a chuckle. "It looks fun." With that, she ran to the monsters before leaping high up. "Luna Beam!" she yelled as the symbol of a moon covered her and shot down a shockwave above some Nightmares.

"H-hey! Wait for me, you guys!" Karol yelled as he took out his axe from the bag he was carrying. "Havoc Thunder!" he yelled as he jumped above a Nightmare and slammed his axe down with a thunder.

"I-I am going too..." Chris said to Lucario. "But what about you?"

"I..." Lucario looked down. "...I will explain later if you don't mind..."

"..." Chris made a worried look before he ran to the battle. "Feel sick within your being! Poison!"

A green atmosphere fell on one of the Titans, but it didn't seem to get sick at all.

"Curse the rate of getting sick by Poison!" Chris cursed.

"Watch out!" Raven said as he used Violet Snake (a simple violet snake that floated in the air for a moment) on a Nightmare. "C'mon! Dance with me!" he yelled as he used Just Like Dancing by gracefully using his bow as some sort of other weapon by spinning around the enemy before kicking it away.

"Burn them to ashes. Fire!" Chris cast Fire on a single enemy. "I need to wait a little bit longer to cast another spell..."

"Let me help!" Toon Link yelled as he jumped above Chris and stabbed his sword on the Nightmare's head.

"O power that tries souls, shine! Photon!" Estelle called out from afar to trap the same Nightmare in a sphere of light that later exploded, along with the monster.

"One down," Toon Link said.

"Some 36 to go..." Chris tried to guess with a sigh. "Oh no, Judith!"

Both looked at Judith as she was being surrounded by 2 Titans.

"Let's play, shall we?" Judith asked.

The Titans didn't like to play and so they slammed down their maces on her.

However, it turned out that Judith was very agile since she dodged both blows and jumped on the maces before jumping straight to one Titan. "Luna Rondo!" she yelled as she spun her lance around her 2 times with wind power slicing the Titan's face. "Surdering Moon!" she yelled to make a moon image appear on its face to shatter it hardly with her spear.

"Need some help?" Yuri said as he came closer.

"Not at all!" Judith yelled. "Luna Rise!" She used another technique once she landed back on the grass and attacked the Titan from behind. She quickly dug her spear underneath the Titan's feet and she then proceeded to spin upwards several times. The Titan grumbled in pain.

And for a finisher...

"Thunder Moon!" Judith yelled as she slammed her spear on top of the Titan's head and called forth a thunder with the attack.

The Titan yelled in pain before it fell back and disappeared completely.

"Ooh, that was good," Judith said with a chuckle.

"Come," Meta Knight threatened some Nightmares. "I won't let you get away again."

The Nightmares shrieked before they leaped to the knight. Meta Knight instantly used Dimensional Cape to disappear from sight as the Nightmares crashed into each before the masked knight appeared from behind and dealt a fast slash upwards. "Ha!" Meta Knight yelled as he used Shuttle Loop to pull all of them upwards.

"Woof, woof!" Repede barked as he joined the knight and used Light Spear with the knife on his mouth. Repede spun around in the air before he landed back and glared at the Nightmares about to fall down. "Grrr!!!" he grunted as he used Sonic Return to send a small but fast shockwave to all the Nightmares in the air while he did a backflip behind.

As the Nightmares became stunned for a moment, Meta Knight came from the other side by using Drill Rush, piercing through the Nightmares one by one before they shrieked and disappeared.

Meta Knight landed in front of Repede and he looked at it. "..." Meta Knight rubbed Repede's head. "Well done for a dog like you."

"Woof, woof!" Repede barked.

"Destroying Rock!" yelled Karol as he slammed his axe on a Nightmare. "Devil Rage Rise!" he yelled again as he dealt an uppercut with his axe. "Roaring Dragon Blow!" he yelled as he rolled on the ground and quickly jumped with his axe to slice the Nightmare in half.

"Burn them to ashes..."

"O merciless conflagration, burn the very souls of my enemies!"

"Fire!"

"Crimson Flare!"

A small burst of flames hit a Titan...

Before a big sphere of fire appeared and called forth a volcano of flames from below and finished the Titan by turning it into ashes...and then nothing.

"..." Chris looked down. "Compared to Rita's magic, my magic is just for novices..."

"What'd you expect?" Rita asked. "My magic shouldn't be underestimated by your magic. Learn a much better spell than that next time."

"(I will shut you up once I learn Firaga and Flare...)" Chris thought annoyed.

"Hey!" Rita said. "We have to keep fighting!"

"O-oh, you are right," Chris said before both returned to the fight.

[DededeCloneChris]

"Take this! Azure Wolf Edge!" Yuri called out as he waved his sword up and down to shot several blasts in the shape of wolves' heads to some Nightmares. "I had enough of this..." he muttered. "I'll blow you away!" he yelled as he called forth his Over Limit.

He ran to a group of Nightmares to start his Burst Arte.

"Divine Wolf!" Yuri called as he stabbed the Nightmares continuously. "I'll put you in your grave! Divine Wolf - Crush!" Yuri spun and slashed his sword continuously on the Nightmares before he slammed his fist on the ground and send a ground shockwave to the Nightmares that shrieked in pain.

And to add that damage to the nearby Nightmares...

"This ends now," Yuri called as his voice echoed before he backstepped away. The whole area around the Nightmares suddenly turned black before the swordsman jumped out from behind and sliced them. "O brilliant blade of coldest steel," he chanted as he dealt several slices before backstepping and appearing behind some Nightmares to slice them as well. "Rend the infinite darkness," he continued as he backstepped and appeared right behind another group. "And crush my enemies to nothing!" he yelled as he started to backstep, slice the Nightmares in his range, before backstepping again and doing the same action for multiple times before he rushed at them and sliced them through. "Savage Wolf Fury!" he yelled to finish his Mystic Arte as the last slice that he used on the Nightmares spread into light and finished all of the. "Alright, who's next?" he asked.

"...Goodness..." Chris said surprised. "...They are very strong..."

"O evil soul, fall before this pure light! ...Grand Chariot!" Estelle called from afar as several small lights surrounded a Titan before they burst into intense lights that made it grumble in pain.

"Dragon Upper!" Karol yelled as he launched 2 Nightmares to the air. "Gaia Bug!" Karol looked around his bag to throw a big bug from it to the Nightmares. "Bug Spread!" he called out as he took out an insecticide to create some clouds of poison where the Nightmares fell in. They seemed to be gagging at the poison for bugs before they vanished.

"Wonderful!" Estelle said.

"Hey, Estelle!" Karol called out. "Why don't you finish this fight? They seem to be weak against light-based spells!"

"Let me think..." Estelle wondered. "I've got it!" she said before she chanted another spell. "O holy water, rain down your power on us! ...Holy Rain!"

The night's sky suddenly got rained by small spears of light that struck every single creature of the darkness. Many shrieks of pain came from the horde of monsters as many vanished from the field with a shrieking echo of pain. The rain of spears continued for a while before it stopped.

"..." Raven looked around. "Seems it's over."

"Wait," Rita spotted a last Titan. "There's one over there!"

"Hey..." Toon Link eyed the Titan. "That's the same bastard who carried me!"

"How in the name of the mysterious book Cognitome do you know that?" Chris asked.

"I don't forget my prey's face..." Toon Link muttered angry. "It must DIE."

"Chris," Kawashima whispered. "Your partnership with Toon Link is about to reach its final level. You should see if you can find his Combined Final Smash."

"...Okay..." Chris whispered as he changed to his Swordsman job. "Now what?"

The feeling...

"(Let's do it,)" Toon Link said determined.

"(W-what? H-how did you know I was...)" Chris trailed off.

"(I've got the word from Pikachu,)" Toon Link said. "(News spread fast)"

"(O-oh, I se-)"

"(LET'S DO IT ALREADY!)"

"(R-right away!)" Chris yelled in panic as both focused their views on the Titan.

"Go!" Toon Link yelled as he ran at the Titan with his sword pointing at the ground.

"I-I'm coming!" Chris yelled as he did the same.

The Titan raised its mace.

"Now!" Toon Link yelled as both he and Chris parried the attack and rolled all the way behind the Titan. "YIAH!" Toon Link yelled as he and Chris rose up from both sides and united their attacks with a big X-slash on the Titan's back.

However, that wasn't the end of it as both hovered in the air behind each spiked shoulder.

The swordsmen turned around and put their swords at the back's reach before they descended diagonally in a flash to cross the back with their swords slashing the Titan's back. This move also made them slide above the grass as they stopped at the right time. "Crossed Parry!" both yelled as the Titan yelled in pain by the X-shaped cut on its back before it fell down.

New ability learned! Crossed Parry!

Parries the attack of a single enemy by rolling behind, and delivering an upward back slash with 2 swordsmen. Attack continues with another downward X-shaped slash to increase the damage. Deals a moderate amount of damage to a single enemy.

The Titan yelled in extreme pain before its whole body began to vanish slowly. It turned its head at its opponents before disappearing completely out of sight...

Marking their victory over the night creatures.

Tales of Vesperia - Absolute Victory

As usual, Brave Vesperia did one of their group's poses.

"Our weapons are?!" Yuri asked out loud.

"Bravery!" Karol yelled.

"Youth!" Raven yelled.

"Modesty!" Judith yelled.

Something was wrong with each saying they said...like they didn't fall so good with them...

"I don't think any of you have those..." Yuri pointed out.

"Hey!" Karol and Raven said angrily.

"Crush the ol' man's dreams," Raven said before he faked a sob. "Yuri, you're a bad boy."

"Woof, woof!" Repede barked angrily.

"See, old man? Repede just said that you're a disgrace to humans," Yuri said.

"Who cares?" Raven asked as he lifted his shoulders. Then, he looked at Estelle. "(Maybe I can do it this time...) Hey, c'mon!" He raised his left hand.

Estelle thought that Raven wanted to do her favorite victory pose. "Yay!" Estelle raised her left hand.

"All right!" Raven exclaimed before he opened his arms and raised his eyebrows several times at Estelle. "How about a hug?"

Estelle backed away. "I-I don't think so..." She shook her head (as Raven looked down in depression). "Aw, the thought of fighting as the guild we are..." She smiled and closed her eyes. "Now I really feel right at home."

Music stops

"U-um, excuse me..." Chris called as he came to them with Toon Link. "I-I just wanted to say something... I want to say that I'm so happy that all of you came to rescue us from dying..."

"Oh," Yuri remembered. "That's right. We came here because you were in trouble."

"If all of you weren't here," Meta Knight began. "We could have been killed slowly and painfully. You have my full gratitude and trust for aiding us in our battle."

"Do you say that to every person who helps?" Toon Link asked.

"I must be honorable," Meta Knight said. "That's the way of a noble warrior like me."

"I understand that very well," Raven said.

Meta Knight looked at him. "...I don't think you understand."

Raven chuckled. "Believe me, I do."

"Oh, you're saying that because you worked as a knight before?" Karol asked.

"Kid! You're not supposed to say that!"

"No, I know you don't understand," Meta Knight repeated. "Even if you did work as a knight, you don't fully understand that like I do."

"Hey!" Raven said. "I'm not here to listen to a...whatever you are!"

"Stop," Judith said. "We're grateful to be of help."

"Like wise here," Karol said with a nod. "Hey, should we charge them?"

"No!" Estelle yelled. "T-that's being a little bit rude to them! They already gave us hospitality in their house!"

"O-okay! D-don't yell like that to me, sheesh!"

"...Well," Chris said. "Thank you very much for saving us still."

"Oh, I almost forgot," Raven said as he walked to Chris. "Since I requested you to find Repede, I should reward you with something."

"With what?"

"Your own..." Raven took something from his back and showed it to Chris. "...Raven Doll!"

"..." Chris stared at the somewhat-beaten up doll of Raven. "I-I don't want that thing with me!"

"Oh, c'mon!" Raven insisted. "It's the only one of its kind! You'll remember good ol' me for the rest of your life!"

"No!" Chris pushed the doll away (and Rita caught it to start pounding on it to build up her Over Limit).

"Fine," Raven said as he took the Rita Doll (that looked a little bit cute). "Get this one so people can have nightmares."

"...Hey!" Rita called out once she saw her own doll. "You better let that doll away from your inventory!"

"Aah!" Raven tossed the doll to the air where Judith caught it. "F-fine, I'll give you 3 of these."

He handed over 3 Miracle Gels to Chris.

"Gels?" Chris asked.

"These gels can restore 60 percent of your health and they also restore 60 percent of your energies." Raven winked at Chris. "Use them wisely, though."

"Hey," Yuri began. "Those gels took a fortune out of us and you're giving them away!"

"Ah-ah," Raven began as he raised a hand. "They deserve them."

"Aw, hell..."

"...Then I finished the sidequest," Chris said.

"Wanted: Repede" Sidequest Completed!

You got Miracle Gels x3!

"Anyways," Karol began. "We should go back in and get some rest. Fighting during the night isn't good for my mentabolism..."

"Our mentabolism is so messed up at this point," Rita complained. "Let's go back."

"We should do the same," Meta Knight suggested.

Chris looked at Lucario. The Aura Pok?mon was leaning against the wall and watched the whole fight from there. "Lucario, are you sure you're feeling fine?" Chris asked.

"I'm not..." Lucario said. "...I want to train more tomorrow if you're fine with it."

"...Okay..." Chris said. "Let's go back to sleep for now."

The members of Brave Vesperia and the Smashers decided to return back to the mansion and sleep for tomorrow morning.

Meta Knight walked back inside. Being the last one to get in, he glanced back at the field and forest. "(Just who were those monsters?)" he thought. "(They seemed to be very well organized, and their power was stronger than previous enemies...)" He shook his head. "(I should discuss this in a later time...)"

And with that, the night went on...

But this didn't mean that the monsters wouldn't stop from appearing as one last Nightmare walked around the forest...

The next morning...

Tales of Vesperia - Comfortable Journey

The bright morning came again to the mansion's grounds, and the Vesperians seemed to be ready to leave.

The only ones who decided to say farewell to them were Chris, Zelda, Link, Toon Link, C. Falcon, and lastly, Lucario.

"Well, it's the time now," Estelle said as he bowed to them. "Thank you so much for your hospitality. Thank you for finding Repede as well."

"It's a shame that you have to leave now," Zelda said. "I was enjoying our private talks about our kingdoms so much."

"I-I was too..." Estelle shed a tear before she hugged Zelda. "B-but you're a better princess than myself... I'm going to grow into a refined woman like you."

Zelda blushed a little. "P-please, you don't have to say it that way."

"You guys are really something," Karol said. "I met a lot of strange people, but all of them are unique in their own way."

"Really?" Chris asked. "I thought you were thinking of us as normal people."

"That too," Karol nodded. "But the fact that you look different than others make you unique and special. Some of these days, I'm going to come back and drop by."

"And..." Chris decided to tease a little. "Are you sure you're going to be more brave?"

"H-hey!" Karol called out. "T-the brave word in our guild is in there for a reason, you know!"

"That was just a joke..." Chris trailed off.

"...Oh."

C. Falcon took Judith's right hand. "Do you think our paths will cross again?" he asked.

Judith chuckled and pushed his hand away. "Maybe, or possibly."

"Which one helps me to feel more comfortable?"

"Possibly."

"Then I'll look forward to that moment."

"(Too bad possibly has less probabilities than maybe for me,)" Judith thought in relief. "Be good."

"Always," C. Falcon said.

Both chuckled heartily to each other.

"Okay," Rita began as she took a bag from her back. "Here."

Toon Link took the bag. "What is inside?"

"Take a look," Rita said a little bit irritated.

Toon Link looked inside the bag. "...There's a bunch of familiar stuff in here..."

Link peered inside. "...Hey, this is Fox's Reflector...and this one is from Falco...and this one over here is Samus's missile...and..."

...To be honest, a lot of hi-tech machines were in there.

"Ugh," Rita grunted. "T-that's all the stuff I wanted to examine for a little bit longer, but Estelle convinced me to return it all."

"And what is this?" Toon Link asked as he took a white machine out.

Chris looked at it and gasped. "M-my Wii! S-so that is where it was!" He grabbed his Wii. "Nobody knows how these are very important..."

"..." Rita frowned. "Whatever. I have better Blastia to find somewhere else."

"Well, kid," Raven said as he sighed. "It was good for a while, but I'll have to go."

Toon Link looked down.

"Ladies beg for ol' Raven to wander the world (The Entire Members of Brave Vesperia: Sure) freely...and because Alexei needs to be taught a good lesson. Ya sure you're gonna practice that technique?"

"I-I will..." Toon Link said. "I promise I won't stop training until I master it."

"That's how it is," Raven said. "I'll drop by if Karol lets me."

"Hey!" Karol yelled.

"Aren't you the leader of Brave Vesperia?" Raven asked as he looked away. "Ya should give me some vacation sometime!"

"Oh, brother..." Karol frowned.

"Anyways," Raven said as he shook Toon Link's head from above. "Good luck to ya."

"Heheh, thanks," Toon Link said.

"Sorry for not staying for too long," Yuri said to Link. "Unfortunately, I detest loyalty a little bit."

"Huh? Why?" Link asked.

"Let's just say it chackles me from my freedom," Yuri said. "That's why I like to be free."

"But I'm not part of the loyalty that much."

"Really? It seemed to me," Yuri said before he shook hands with him. "However, it was nice to meet a Krytia-look alike like you."

"Krytia?"

"...I better stop talking then."

"I think so..." Link said.

"By the way," Yuri turned to Lucario. "Repede wanted to say sorry."

At this, Lucario blinked. "What?"

"Repede told me that he felt a little bit guilty for using you like a bull all this time that he wants to apologize to you."

Lucario looked down at Repede.

"Repede's not a bad dog," Yuri said. "I understand him very wel-"

"But we don't know if he understands you," Rita added annoyed.

"Right," Yuri said with a chuckle. "The point is, he wants to apologize for all that he has done."

"Woof, woof!" Repede barked.

"And that he knows he acted like some kind of bastard as well."

"...Oh," Chris said. "Repede accepted his actions?"

"Repede knows when to say sorry," Yuri said.

Lucario looked at Repede. "...Well..." he began. "...Just...don't scare me like that again... I was very worried about Chris liking you more than me..."

"What?" Chris asked. "Why would I like Repede more than you?"

Lucario looked at him confused.

Chris closed his eyes. "Even if Repede is a very interesting dog, you are the first to come a take the main spot," he explained as he adjusted his glasses. "I would never like someone better than you, in short terms."

"...Really? Do you mean it?" Lucario asked.

"Of course I do," Chris said before he looked at Lucario and smiled a little. "My own self would feel very ashamed to replace you for another person, Lucario. Even if Repede saved me a couple of times, you have saved me a lot more of times."

"But...'

"It does not matter how many times you saved me, though," Chris continued. "What matters the most for me is..."

He approached to Lucario and rubbed his head with care.

"The time that you have been with me so I could not feel alone anymore."

Lucario looked at Chris's hand above his head. "...Guuuuuuorrrgghhh..." he growled happily.

"In a few words," Chris continued. "Nobody will ever take your spot."

"...Thank you..." Lucario said.

"Man, listen to him," Yuri said. "He is a dog to you."

"What?!" Lucario asked.

"Sit down!" Chris yelled.

"Chris!"

"Hahahahaha!" Chris let out a small laugh. "It is just a joke! Please, do not hurt somebody in here."

"Ugh..." Lucario frowned. "I knew there was something I wasn't looking forward to..."

"Okay, okay," Chris said. "I am not going to do that again if you want."

"Well!" Rita spoke up. "Shall we get going then? I need to get back to Dahngrest and prepare to beat that Alexei guy for our own good."

"Is the time already?" Estelle asked.

"Oh well," Karol said. "We'll start going back."

A moment of silence occurred as they looked at each other.

"...Does anybody know the way?" Judith asked.

"There," Rita said as she pointed at a part of the forest.

"Oh, no," Yuri said. "Over there was the way."

"No, no, no, no," Karol said. "It was to the east."

"I thought it was to the south," Raven said.

"You came from the west!" Link said.

"Hey, I was runnin' from those monsters so I dunno the way anymore!"

This situation was somehow familiar to Chris...

Didn't this happen with Geno once (or twice)?

"Woof, woof, woof!" Repede barked at the west.

"Oh, good," Yuri said with a sigh. "Repede's nose will guide us back to Dahngrest."

Suddenly, Repede whined.

"...What do you mean Dahngrest is no more?" Yuri asked.

Rita remembered something about the same mentioned city. "S-so! We have to get going now! Lead the way!" she yelled as she ran to the forest.

"...HEY!" Karol yelled angrily before he went after Rita. "Rita! What've you done to Dahngrest now?! It was so close to be repaired! RITA!"

"Oh my," Judith said. "We better catch up to those 2 or else a funeral isn't going to be that far from happening." She began to dash inside the forest as she waved at the group.

"Gotta go!" Raven said simply as he chased the 3 back into the forest. "Continue training, kid! Ya can do it!"

"..." Estelle looked at Yuri. "Yes, I definitely feel right at home with everyone."

"Want to give them chase?" Yuri asked.

"I'd like so!" Estelle said excited before she looked at them. "I-I'm so happy for meeting you! T-thank you everything!" she said before she ran inside the forest.

"Enthusiastic Estelle," Yuri said. "She'll never change."

Repede looked at Chris. "Woof!" he barked.

"He said that you and Lucario look better as a team," Yuri said. "Personally, you 2 kind of remind me and Repede."

Chris blushed a little. "O-oh, please."

"Well." Yuri and Repede looked at the forest. "Better go back now or else they'll getting lost again. Repede!"

"Woof, woof!" Repede barked before both of them ran inside the forest.

"Hey, you guys!" Yuri yelled as he ran inside. "Nice knowing you!" He waved at them before both of them disappeared into the forest.

"Why do sweet moments have to end so soon?" C. Falcon asked.

"Oh, would you drop out the whole scoring thing for now?" Zelda asked annoyed.

The Smashers watched as the guild vanished from sight as they got deeper into the forest before they turned to the mansion and started to enter.

Music stops

Main Lobby (Ruined)

"Oh, Lucario," Chris began as the others left them.

"What?" Lucario asked.

"You told me before that your aura disappeared from you, is that not correct?"

"Y-yes..." Lucario said. "I promise I'm going to train harder to recover all of it."

"Oh, there is no need for such a thing," Chris said.

"Why?" Lucario asked confused.

"I have got a better solution for your problem." Chris smiled. "I know you are going to like this very much. There is no better training than the one I am going to give you."

Lucario smiled a little. "You know how to train me?"

"Of course I do," Chris said with a chuckle as he adjusted his glasses (and shone as he saw Lucario). "Of course I have the best training for you."

Lucario suddenly looked unsure...

Several minutes later...

"Have fun, Lucario!" Chris said to Lucario.

Pok?mon Diamond & Pearl

Route 209
Valley of the Aura

The World Traveler was sticking his head out of the portal. He made a happy expression before he pulled back his head and closed the portal.

A very confused Lucario blinked at the sight to be in home again before he turned and looked at the spot where the portal was. "(...Then again, I was the one who suggested this...)" he thought before he sighed. "I don't know if I'm going to enjoy this witho-"

His thoughts were interrupted as he felt someone hugging his right leg.

Lucario looked down to find his little sister hugging his leg happily. "Big brother, riii!" she said happily.

Lucario blinked for a moment before he picked up her sister with his right arm and rubbed cheeks together. "How have you been?" Lucario asked.

"Very good, riii!"

"Where is father?"

"Over there, riii!"

As Lucario made his way to his father, he closed his eyes while he carried her sister. "(Maybe this isn't going to be so bad after all...)"

TO BE CONTINUED...

...

Smash Channel

Tales of Symphonia - Search a Seal 'Tethe alla'

In the forum, Chris (in his Scholar job) was reading his book in peace before he looked at the readers and smiled a bit. "Oh, hello," he greeted. "It seems that we are now starting to get to the point where this little section will get more attention than before. Welcome back to the Smash Channel!" he greeted again.

He turned to another camera. "Today, we are interviewing our guests from the guild called Brave Vesperia. For today's guests are..."

Something was wrong as he glanced to the corner of the table.

"...Only Rita Mordio?"

The Genius Mage seemed to be doing the same as Chris was with his book: reading.

Rita glanced up from her book. "Oh, good afternoon," she said simply before she returned to read.

"Wait!" Chris yelled. "I thought I asked for all the other 6 to come here today!"

"Too bad," Rita said as she moved her eyes to Chris. "They were busy about a cooking contest of Yuri against Flynn."

Flynn Schifo is Yuri's best friend (and Repede's) that works as an Imperial Knight. He knows Estelle by this rank. He fights using a sword and a shield, and also knows some basic healing magic. Flynn is a very admirable knight and a very good opponent for Yuri as well.

"I don't know you but somebody said that Flynn's cook isn't the best there is," Rita said with a sigh.

"And..." Chris half-closed his eyes. "What are you doing here instead of everyone?"

"They asked me to get here so Brave Vesperia could get more reputation," Rita said. "Karol said that, though. I didn't have anything else to do so I came here."

"...O...kay..." Chris nodded. "Well...let see the topic of today..." He took a paper. "The topic of today is..."

Silence.

Silence.

Silence.

"...Well?" Rita asked.

"...This is so weird...but I hope you do not get mad at me..." Chris said. "The topic of today is..."

Who of Smashers would Rita Mordio kill the most?

"..." Rita seemed to be perfectly...normal. "Easy."

"...It is?" Chris asked.

"I would kill the bastard anthros for not letting me examine their Blastias."

"I told you before that you can't take my things!" Fox's voice yelled from afar.

"I would kill the weird orange robot for not letting me examine it."

"I'm NOT a robot!" Samus yelled from afar.

"And lastly," Rita looked at Chris. "I would kill you the most for not letting me examine that weird Blastia."

"...Wait, you said there were more important things than my DS," Chris said.

"Too bad I checked those things," Rita explained. "And guess what? Yours is the best of the whole collection."

Chris started to back away. For some reason, the public that once watched the segment wasn't there anymore.

Plus, the cameramen decided to take the day-off.

Rita tried her best to get closer to the World Traveler without making much difference. "And..." she trailed off. "I want to examine it again if you don't mind..."

"...E-er..." Chris looked at the cameras. "I-it seems we have to end this segment a little bit sooner than expected because some technical difficulties will appear very soon..." He looked at Rita before looking back. "S-so, if you will excuse me..."

With that, he ran away in a hurry.

"Hey!" Rita yelled before she gave chase to him. "Come back here!"

The curtains fell...

"No!"

"You're gonna regret for escaping from me if you don't come back here!"

"I have better things to do than deal with a girl that has a short temper!"

"W-what the heck?! Oh, that's it. I'm going to MURDER you instead!"

"That is not so different!"

"I'm so gonna make you hurt!"

"Uh-oh. This is not so good anymore... Well, it was not from the beginning she came in, but stil-"

"BLAH BLAH BLAH, VIOLENT PAIN!"

"OH GO-"

...

"Real World's Normal Life. What does this mean?" Toon Link asked.

Do you want to save your data after the events of today?

Yes

Overwrite File?

Yes

Smash Mansion
Chris, Lucario, Mario, Luigi, Peach, Yoshi, Pikachu, Pichu, Jigglypuff, Mewtwo, Red, Squirtle, Ivysaur, Donkey Kong, Diddy Kong, Samus, Kirby, Meta Knight, Link, Zelda, Toon Link, Fox, Falco, Wolf, Captain Falcon, Olimar, Marth, Roy, Ike, Ness, Lucas, Pit, Ice Climbers, Snake, Sonic

[DededeCloneChris]

Chapter 135: Real World's Normal Life

Smash Mansion
Hallway

After Chris (who changed to his Musician job) left Lucario in the valley, the World Traveler walked through the hallway and spotted Master Hand's office.

"Oh," Chris said as he stopped at the side of the door. "Is this Master Hand's office? Hmm..." He wondered something. "What if he left the door unlocked?"

With that, he grabbed the doorknob...

Master Hand's Office

And he got in.

The office looked big. Right in the center of the room, there was a desk big enough for the hand of the office. Several archives were inside drawers (and presumably a lot) as well as more and more archives. There were some chairs against the wall as well.

"...This place looks pretty normal to me..." Chris muttered. "It reminds me of my dad's office."

He walked to the desk and found some folders with health examinations regarding the Smashers.

"..." He shifted his eyes. "Well, what could be in here?" he asked before he took one and opened it. "Let's see... This one is Peach's health results. It contains her blood type, height, weight, special abilities, backstory, where she lives, her bust's siz-"

He turned red in the face and closed the folder as soon as he changed colors.

"T-too much information..." he muttered embarrassed. He picked another instead and put down the other one. "This one is Kirby's... There's a report?"

Data regarding Kirby's origins is still unknown to these days. It's more difficult to find out his origins because he doesn't know either.

Chris sweatdropped and put the folder away. "Maybe Master Hand was examining these reports to get out of boredom..."

He turned his head to a door.

"...And that door over there should have VERY juicy information behind."

The thought of finding out more about the Smashers was...

Oh god...

Pure, pure gold begin to be found.

This was Chris after all. What he liked about characters in videogames were their backstories and secrets.

So, what did he do?

The World Traveler went to the door. "It doesn't have a name or a label," he said as he stopped. "It could be the bathroom...then again, I don't believe he needs to use it for being a hand."

He grabbed the doorknob and opened it.

Inside...

"OH MY GOD!" Chris yelled as his heart beat faster. "Y-you?!"

The reason behind his shocking discovery was simple enough.

The World Traveler watched in shock as he found none other than Master Hand and Crazy Hand behind the door...

...Or was it shocking to see them playing poker?

"We're in the middle of a very important game," Master Hand said. "If you're done with your yells, get out."

"W-what are you doing here?" Chris asked as he tried to calm down.

"Oh, just hanging together like brothers," Crazy Hand said.

"Or hiding from our dooms," Master Hand said.

"...If you mean Rita, then she's gone," Chris explained. "And that includes Repede, Karol, and even Raven. All of them are gone from here."

Master Hand tossed his cards away. "Well, what do you know? If you keep yourself away from your problems, they'll get solved by themselves!"

"So, do I win or what?" Crazy Hand asked.

"Yes, yes. You can play shenanigans in the Battlefield."

Crazy Hand giggled before he disappeared by teleporting away.

"Lucky you," Master Hand said. "Being brotherless can be very beneficial to you."

"..." Chris shook his head. "What were you doing in there? ...Were you hiding from Rita?"

Master Hand sighed. "Look, I'm supposed to be a entity of destruction and all tha-"

"I thought you were the Hand of Creation and Crazy Hand the Hand of Destruction."

"Well, I have half of the destruction part," Master Hand said. "Knowing to meet someone awfully stronger than me can be really scaring. I don't want to meet someone like HER again in my life."

"...And why didn't you squash her?"

"Wait, what?"

"You're bigger than her," Chris said. "Why didn't you attack back? I'm sure you would have made her your slave or something like that."

"Okay, I have a very good explanation for that."

"What?"

"I don't hurt girls," Master Hand said. "I'm honorable."

"But if you're honorable to girls, then how come there are like 5 girl Smashe-"

"I'm HONORABLE, not THAT benevolent," the hand interrupted. "Girls should be treated as equal, in a few words."

"You do know that contradicts your statement in some way-"

"So!" Master Hand spoke annoyed. "Ready to begin the time skip?"

"We were talking abou-"

"TIME SKIP or I'll throw you to Cruel Brawl."

Chris didn't have something to fight that back.

Or fight the "monsters" in Cruel Brawl either.

"About that..." Chris trailed off. "If I'm going to do a time skip...won't that mean that Tabuu will attack?"

"I don't think so," Master Hand said. "I have everything set for you to go to your world, rest there for some days or months, then you can return here. Tabuu won't even have a chance to make a mess in a world anyway."

"And..." Chris wondered something. "Why do you want me to rest in my world?"

"Who's saying only you?" Master Hand asked. "I'm giving everyone here their so deserved vacations in their worlds."

"...Everyone?" Chris asked. "...But if that's it, then nobody is going to be here in the mansion, save for you and Crazy Hand."

"Chris, Chris, Chris..." Master Hand said. "You love to keep asking, right?"

"B-because I want to be so sure about this decision before I do it!" Chris said. "I like to be prepared for anything!"

"Anyway, don't you worry for anything. I have EVERYTHING set to do this."

"And does everyone even know about this? I haven't heard anyone talking about this."

"Because I want to test out something."

"Test what?"

"Chris," the hand began. "Have your father taught something in life?"

Chris looked down.

"Oh, sorry," the hand said. "I forgot about that part of your life."

"No, it's okay," Chris said as he looked up. "I can deal with that very well."

"That's good. Now, I'm going to teach you something."

"So what is it?"

"In order to let everyone know about this, I'm not going to use the mic this time. Instead, I'm going to test this. Humanity has been developing all sorts of ways to communicate to the people in unexpected ways. And this one is faster than the speed of light. Do you know what I'm talking about here?"

"No..." Chris said confused.

"This method of communicating is faster than the speed of light...and that is." The hand raised a finger. "The power of gossip."

"Gossip?"

"Yes. Hear this and listen well!" Master Hand said. "I'm giving everyone here vacations at their homes."

Hallway

Just then, Peach came walking from the same hallway and overheard the hand saying, "I'm giving everyone here vacations at their homes" and she started to wonder.

In truth, Peach liked to gossip sometimes.

"Vacations?" Peach asked to herself. "Oh my, I need to tell Zelda this!"

Zelda's Room

"So I hear Master Hand is giving us vacations," Peach said as she was sitting down on Zelda's bed.

Zelda, meanwhile, was fixing her hair in front of the big mirror of her room. "Really?" she asked without looking.

"Yes," Peach said as she took a sip of her tea. "I know we've been working hard to save the worlds, so that must be Master Hand's reason to give us a vacation."

Hallway

Pikachu's right ear twitched as he overheard the girls' conversation while he passed in front of the door.

Kitchen

"Master Hand's giving us a vacation," Pikachu told Ness.

"About time!" Ness said annoyed. "I've been a little bit homesick these days and I want to eat my mom's steak again."

"Yeah," Pikachu said. "Though I don't know if I should go to Ash and spend my vacation in there with him."

Roy happened to walk near them.

"It's good of Master Hand, though. I want to keep on resting by going somewhere and relax."

The swordsman walked away.

Outside

As Marth and Roy clashed swords, they talked during a training session.

"So I heard from Pikachu that Master Hand is giving everyone our vacations," Roy said as he backstepped away from Marth.

"I see," Marth said as they dashed to each other. "That's good. If that is true, I'm going to spend my time with Caeda. Are you and Lilina married yet?"

Roy blushed as both clashed swords several times. "Hey! I-I'm considering my own marriage in a near future, okay?"

"It's just a joke."

"Then how about you and Caeda?"

Ivysaur seemed to be resting in a patch of bushes with some flowers.

...Or he heard them.

Red's Room

"Dude's giving us a vacation," Ivysaur said.

"A vacation?" Red asked. "And to everyone?"

"Yes," Ivysaur said with a nod. "Everyone, and that counts us."

"Should I go home..." Red wondered. "...Or take advantage of their absence and let the other 3 wander around? Are Master Hand and Crazy Hand going somewhere?"

"I don't know," Ivysaur said. "I could ask them where they are going for their vacation."

And this didn't end here...

Hallway

"I heard from Ivysaur that Master Hand is giving all of us a vacation," said Pichu to Jigglypuff.

DK's Room

"You heard that, Diddy? A vacation time!" DK said to Diddy.

Hallway

"Maybe this is wrong, but the hand is giving us a vacation according to the apes," Snake said to Samus.

Main Lobby

"Mario, did you hear that Master Hand is giving all of a vacation?" Pit asked to Mario.

Outside

"I-it's true!" Luigi said to Yoshi. "Mario told me that we're going to have a vacation!"

Popo and Nana's Room

"Dude, this is so awesome," Popo said to Lucas. "Vacation!"

Outside

And arrow fell close to Lucas. "D-did you hear that Master Hand is giving is us a vacation, Link?" Lucas asked as Toon Link trained.

Main Lobby

"I'm going to go back to Ordon and relax there," Link said to Ike.

C. Falcon's Room

"Meh, I wanted to participate in some races again," C. Falcon said to Ike.

Hallway

"Hope you don't come and mess with me in the Sargasso Space Zone, Fox," Wolf said with a glare to Fox.

Living Room

"I'll go and play around in the air with my Arwing," Falco said to Sonic.

"No way, I'm staying here," Sonic said (remembering the moon in his world to prevent his transformation).

Kitchen

"Get happy now," Meta Knight informed Kirby. "You can go to Dreamland and rest in there for a while."

Kirby cheered.

"I'm going to stay here."

Mewtwo's Room

Olimar peered from the door. "J-just to ask, where are you going?"

"..." Mewtwo opened an eye to the captain (as he was meditating). "Here."

"O-oh..." Olimar nodded and closed the door.

Command Room

"Since I literally made copies of your things from the real world," Master Hand said to Chris. "You don't need a suitcase."

"Is it fine for me to go without saying good bye to the others?" Chris asked. "What about Lucario?"

"I'll send him a psychic message so he gets the word," the hand said. "As for me, I thought about actually going to Delfino Island and taste the cocktails with Crazy."

"Under the seeeeeeeeea!" Crazy Hand sang as he appeared, wearing a tropical hat. "Under the seeeeeeeeea!"

"...Does that confirm that he stole my DVDs?" Chris asked bored.

"Sadly, yes," Master Hand said before he snapped his fingers and made a portal. "Your path to your world is ready, sire."

Chris rolled his eyes. "Well... I'm going to feel a little bit lonely without Lucario...but I want to go back and revive my other life in there."

"Aww." Master Hand patted Chris's head. "Good luck in there."

Either the World Traveler was going to get annoyed, or he could skip that and say something else.

"Just to let you know," Master Hand began. "Your powers will disappear over there, Kawashima isn't going to work anymore."

"Poor me," Kawashima said.

"And the hammerspace doesn't exist over there, so your items can only be taken out in this universe. And as for the musicians, I heard that some of the Smashers are going to stay behind. I'll ask them if they can check on them as well."

"...I'm really going to feel lonely..." Chris muttered.

Master Hand hmm'd.

"...Can I come here when I want?"

"Of course," Master Hand said. "Use your Wiimote to come back here. Now, you go in there and enjoy the real fresh air."

"..." Chris felt a little bit ashamed for doing this...

But he wanted to live in his world for a little bit longer and talk to his parents again.

With a serious look, he looked forward and walked inside. "H-have a good vacation!" he yelled to the hands from the other side of the portal as it vanished.

"..." Master Hand looked at Crazy Hand. "Crazy, you got them?"

"Right-o," Crazy Hand said as he took a box from underneath the desk.

Master Hand opened the box to find inside at least 35 Wiimotes.

He chuckled. "Who said I can only open the way to your world, Chris? These babies can let anyone go in there for this time only... Hope you enjoy your surprise guests."

Real World

March 10 - Afternoon - Monday

For Chris, it was such a good feeling to be completely powerless in his world. He returned to his usual life alone. School also was in that life. Since Lucario wasn't around, he felt very lonely in his house. However, there was always the chance to go back to the mansion when he wanted, so he always had the chance to go back.

And in the eyes of the great World Traveler...

Chris's House

The door of the house opened and a bored Chris walked lazily to the sofa and dropped his backpack on there.

"This...sucks..." he muttered with a groan.

He sat down on an armchair and closed his eyes with a sigh.

"What was I thinking when I wanted to come back here?" Chris asked to himself. "My normal life sucks compared to my life of fighting enemies..."

He hmm'd.

"And, if I'm some sort of hero, nobody here would be believe me because it would sound too stupid and very clich?... High schooler is secretly a superhero. Nationwide gets shocked," he joked. "I don't want anyone to know about this at all...or my parents..."

He looked at a picture of his parents.

"...If only you were here..." Chris muttered. "You wouldn't understand either...right?"

He got up.

"Well, I have a lot of homework today so...I better get started before my cartoons start..."

He looked at no one in particular.

"So? I still like to watch cartoons."

Chris started his way to his room...

"..." He stopped. "...Wait a minute..."

Something was wrong...

There was the sound of the TV coming from his room at the end of the hallway.

"(...I didn't leave my TV turned on!)" Chris thought. "(I wasn't watching DBZ either! Someone got in here!)"

In a hurry, he ran to his room and leaned to the wall to examine if there was some kind of thief or robber in his room...

"(...)" Chris found the TV turned on (with the third season of DBZ in the TV due to his DVD). "(What the hell?)" he thought. "(What kind of thief watches TV?)"

Also, there was nobody in there.

"(And where is that bastard?)" Chris thought as he walked to the TV and turned it off. "(Something is wrong in here...)"

Chris walked to his bed and sat down. He looked around his room, and there was nobody rather than himself.

"(...Maybe I left it on accidentally...)" Chris thought before he sighed. "What a relief... I thought someone got in here..."

"I was watching that!"

And Chris instantly ran in panic to the wall across his bed, crashed, and lost consciousness before falling to his bed.

Some time later...

"He's getting back up."

"Yes. It was stupid of him to run right to the wall. He knows us anyway."

"Do you think he forgot about us?"

"It has been roughly 3 days, according to his calendar. I doubt he forgot about us."

"My head..." Chris muttered as he gained consciousness. "My forehead..."

Through his state, he remembered.

"THIEVES!" he yelled as he quickly got up and looked at his bed. "AAAH!!!"

"Calm down!" the person in his room said. "We're just us!"

"..." Chris suddenly calmed down...but glared at the people in his room. "...Pikachu?! Pichu?!"

"...Hello?" Pichu said.

"W-wha..." Chris shook his head. "H-how did you 2 get in here?!"

Both of them looked at each other and took out a Wiimote each. "With our passports, of course," Pikachu said.

"T-those are mine!" Chris yelled.

"Nope. These are copies of your Wiimote," Pikachu explained. "Master Hand gave us these to visit your world when we want."

"What?!" Chris asked.

"You ask too many questions, you knew that?" Pichu asked.

"That doesn't matter!" Chris yelled. "If I want to ask questions, then I'm going to keep asking until I get everything answered!"

"Chill down!" Pikachu said. "You're getting so stressed!"

"Okay..." Chris said with a nod. "I'll try to calm down..."

"..." Pichu looked around. "Now?"

"...Yes," Chris said with a sigh. "Okay... Answer these questions, DON'T remind me why I ask too many of them, and I'll see if I believe you."

Both mouses nodded.

"Now... Where did you get those Wiimotes?"

"Master Hand gave 1 to every single Smasher, including us," Pikachu said. "He said that many of us wanted to go anywhere, but I think everyone wants to drop by in here once in a while...and more than any other world. They seemed to like the idea very much."

"And why are you 2 here?"

"Because for the fact that we don't have anywhere else to go," Pikachu said. "Pichu could have gone to Johto, but he wanted to stay with me, and I didn't want to go with Ash either." He sniffed. "A-and I thought I had a home here with you..."

"...Are you crying crocodile tears?" Pichu asked.

"Oh, great going," Pikachu said bored. "I wanted to convince him."

Chris wondered for a moment. "And they can come in here when they want?"

"Pretty much," Pikachu said. "They could arrive at the most unexpected moment. Master Hand said that the time in each world is different, and we kind of came here after you left this place."

"That explains why I heard some voices from my room this morning..." Chris muttered. "...Well, honestly speaking, I'm more relieved to see you again. I was getting lonely myself."

"Aww..." Pikachu jumped to his shoulder. "Mind if Pichu and I stay here until we go back to the mansion? The hand said he would tell us when the time ends."

"Hmm..." Chris wondered. "...For your luck, my house has a lot of rooms despite me being the only one in here."

"About that," Pichu said. "You have like 9 rooms in here without counting yours. Why's that?"

Chris blushed. "M-my parents made the house bigger so I could have maids and buttlers, but I objected to that idea when the enhancements were done for... They sounded a little bit worried, though... They worry too much of me sometimes."

"Well, what do you know?" Pikachu began. "This is so going to be our third home from now on."

"W-well, I don't know you, but if that's the case, then you'll have to understand tha-"

"I know, and we know," Pikachu said as he shook his head. "You can't get out or the fangirls will rape us to death."

Chris blushed. "I-it's different for you 2! They'll cuddle you to death!"

"I hate strangers hugging me," Pikachu said. "I'll shock them if they ever hug me suddenly."

"Didn't you shock Ash when he hugged you?" Pichu asked.

"He didn't say his name? Shock him," Pikachu said simply. "So Chris, you went to school or what?"

"Y-yes I did," Chris said.

"Oh, good," Pikachu said. "That gives us a lot of time to do our research of this world."

"...Research?"

"Yup," Pikachu said. "Pichu and I decided to go on a quest of discovery...by turning ourselves into Pok?mon Otakus!"

Pichu took out an anime guide. "And by that, we mean look an endless amount of anime shows in the TV!"

"We were just watching DBZ," Pikachu said. "And those guys know how to destroy the frickin' planet to pieces."

"And right now," Pichu began as he flipped the pages. "We're going to see this "Digimon" show."

"Sounds like a pormateau of digital and monster," Pikachu said as he jumped back to the bed and got closer to the guide. "Much like us, pocket and monster."

"W-wait a minute," Chris interrupted. "How long have you been doing this whole research thing?"

"Ever since we came in 10 minutes after," Pikachu explained. "Okay, after watching Digimon, we're going to jump to Death Note, after that, we get to Get Backers, then after that, we get to this guy with the creepy pointy hair and plays with monster cards. Should be interesting."

"Would you let us do this?" Pichu asked. "We want to see EVERYTHING of this world."

Chris wondered...

It was kind of cute for them to see the world through the TV.

And it was amusing that they got interested into anime.

"Say," Pikachu said as he looked to the guide. "Look at this Digimon character... It looks like a Pok?mon fusing together with DBZ..."

Yes, so amusing.

"O-of course you can," Chris said with a nod. "It'll help me to have company while I do my homework. It won't bother me at all and you can see the DVDs over there."

A pile of DVDs containing different animes was in a corner, and carefully organized.

"I forgot I love to buy so many DVDs..."

"Sweet!" Pikachu said. "This vacation is going to take us a whole lot of our time, but it has a lot of good loot now."

[DededeCloneChris]

"(Hmm...)" Chris thought as Pikachu and Pichu went to the pile of DVDs. "(...I'll be a lot happier with them dropping by...)"

He looked outside.

"(...This is ACTUALLY going to be more interesting... I can't hardly wait to spend the time with each one of them.)"

The World Traveler decided to start his homework while the Pok?mon continued with their research...

What kind of research was that, anyway?

March 27 - Evening - Thursday

The days passed...

...And Chris couldn't even spend the proper time with Pikachu and Pichu due to his homework being harder than he expected it to be. And both were so focused on their research that it was virtually impossible to distract them as well.

"Let's see," Pikachu began as he held a notepad with a pencil. "So far, we've seen 30 animes. Next up is..."

"Let me change the channel," Pichu said. "There's an anime called Evangelion."

In the nearby desk, Chris hit his forehead with his notebook as both Pok?mon kept watching TV.

They ignored this action.

"What else is there?" Pikachu asked. "This cable has a catalog. There should be something like a guide of programs."

"Hmm," Pichu wondered. "How about...Negima?"

"Isn't that the one with 20 or so girls high schoolers that have a magician kid teacher?" Pikachu asked. "Hell no. I don't like accidental perverts, let alone magician kids... (And the fact that I don't want to get a nosebleed...) Next on the list."

"Bakugan?"

"It's the cheesy version of Yu-Gi-Oh," Pikachu commented. "Next."

"Full Metal Alchemist?"

"Oh, sweet," Pikachu said. "The ratings for this anime were very good. Next."

"Code Geass?"

And this went on and on.

Not only this kept going on as both Pikachu and Pichu reviewed animes...but Chris was developing a hatred towards anime for being daily mentioned too much in his very house.

"(God...)" Chris thought. "(Why can't they watch a novel or something instead?)"

"I say enough about anime!" Pikachu proclaimed.

Chris lifted his head and sighed.

"Let's do research...on manga!"

Chris slammed his head back.

"Hook the Wii to the internet and find the site with the most manga ever! I heard Pryce is a bad guy!"

"Right on!" Pichu said excited.

Chris wished days would go faster....

April 12 - Morning - Saturday

Sweet weekends without school.

Unfortunately, Chris didn't want to wake up, even it if was 10:00 PM.

Worse yet, he has been having weird nightmares with anime and manga characters mixing together...and it didn't leave a pretty picture.

"Gundams...fighting Saiyans..." Chris muttered as he moved his head around the pillow. "Ninjas...with pirates..." he muttered more. "Digimon...owning Pok?mon...bleah..."

"Dude," Pikachu said as he looked at Chris. "We made him so wasted."

"I think we should feel ashamed," Pichu said. "We got so lost in all our research that we forgot all about him."

"Edward Elrick...having an affair with Midori..." Chris muttered.

"Chris!" Pikachu yelled. "Wake up! Nothing you're dreaming is real at all!"

"I'm innocent!" Chris yelled as he sat up. "Oh god...it was just a twisted nightmare..."

"Tell us," Pikachu said. "We should stop our research or else you'll end up like this again."

Chris sighed in relief. "Thank you..."

Chris looked at his TV.

"Why isn't anybody coming?" Chris asked.

"Probably because they have their own affairs," Pikachu explained. "Though some decided to stay in the mansion."

"Like Meta Knight, Sonic, Red, Squirtle, Mewtwo, and Ivysaur," Pichu added.

"I hope Lucario comes home soon..." Chris muttered. "It's really not the same without him..."

Pikachu and Pichu looked at each other before looking at Chris. "You miss your sleeping partner, right?"

Chris blushed. "W-why are you saying it like that?"

"Because we have the same problems," Pichu said. "W-well, I never had a trainer before...but I do feel lonely all the nights in my room..."

"And I feel nostalgia when I think about Ash," Pikachu said. "...I think I'm starting to miss him..."

"...And you 2 want to sleep with me?" Chris asked.

Both Pok?mon blushed and looked to different ways. "A-about that..." Pikachu trailed off as he sounded annoyed.

Evening

"How about now?"

Pikachu, Pichu, and Chris were laying down on the bed in the same order they were mentioned.

"Well..." Pikachu looked around. "...It's not like I thought..."

"But I sleep this way!" Pichu said.

"...Okay, it's kind of good, I guess..."

"Maybe we should re-arrange ourselves..." Chris suggested.

They re-arranged to Pikachu, Chris, and Pichu.

"Hmm..." Pikachu looked at Chris. "I think it's better... Now, if you put on a red hat with a Pok? Ball symbol, and if you scratch your cheeks so you could get some small lightning marks..."

"Good night," Chris said annoyed.

"W-wait! I was joking!" Pikachu pleaded. "Aw, forget it. I'm tired right now. Good night."

For some reason, Pichu didn't talk as he looked shocked.

"Pichu..." Pikachu began. "You've been awfully quiet for these short minutes... What's wrong?"

"T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-" Pichu stuttered.

"I'm not willing to play to guess the word," Pikachu called over.

"Hmmmmmmm..." Chris slowly opened his eyes...and suddenly he got shocked.

"Now you woke him up," Pikachu said as he sat up. "And why aren't you looking at me?"

He turned his head at their direction.

"YIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!" the trio yelled as they found someone else staring them from the other side of the room. The figure had a glowing blue light coming from the face as it grunted annoyed.

"Oh my god," Chris panicked. "T-there's an assassin in here! L-look at that evil atmosphere around him!"

"Aw, crap!" Pikachu yelled. "Now I wish Pok?mon could use the bathroom, because I feel I want to piss myself!"

"T-that's too much information!" Pichu yelled with a gulp.

"Hey," the figure said annoyed.

"T-that's it, we annoyed him!" Pikachu yelled as he hugged Chris, as Pichu hugged Chris, as Chris hugged both of them. "He wants to kill us for good!"

"You 3 are looking very stupid tonight," the figure said as he began walking to them.

"Listen here..." Chris muttered. "Since I'm powerless in this world, you 2 will have to lunge at him and shock him to death..."

"I-I don't want to sacrifice!" Pichu pleaded.

"Too late!" Pikachu yelled. "He's so close!"

The 3 pulled the bed sheet over them and shook in fear as the person walked close to the light of the moon from the window...

...And the figure revealed to be...

"...Silence...something is wrong here..." Pikachu whispered before the 3 pushed back the bed sheet. "..."

"Why are you acting like morons?" Wolf asked with a glare. "I'm just a surprise guest, dangit."

"...YIIIIIIIIIIIIIAAAAAAAAAAH!!!" the trio yelled.

"What now?"

"Y-you came to kill us because you betrayed us now!" Pichu yelled.

"When did I do that?" Wolf asked. "All I did is appear here in this room while you 3 were busy talking. You didn't even notice my presence at all."

"...Then you're not a traitor?" Pikachu asked.

"You wish and I wish too," Wolf joked. "And I know you would scream like idiots because of my face. Is it because of my face?"

Pichu was the only one who nodded.

"Good..." Wolf said sarcastically. "Hope you kid give me a room in here."

"W-why?" Chris asked.

"This is very unlikely of me, but I just came from a party."

"...You going to a party?" the trio asked surprised.

"Well, a party I did myself at the Sargasso Space Zone," Wolf explained. "Unfortunately, the 200 thugs I have working for me are complete drunktards when beer is involved. I can't stand their crazy laughs, their games, their yells of pleasure, and their insane gender problems..."

"..." They didn't speak.

"...And I'm going to ban parties from now on," Wolf said. "If you would, can you give me a room before I use brute force on you to find absolute peace and moments of tranquility for an unfortunate leader like myself?"

"I-I can lend you one anytime," Chris said. "I personally hate drunk people as much as you."

"Good," Wolf said. "Thanks for understanding."

"You actually said thanks?" Pichu asked.

"Got a problem with that?"

"N-no sir..."

"Then good night," Wolf said as he turned to the door. "Hopefully this place is a lot calmer than the place I call home..."

With that, he left and closed the door.

"..." Pikachu looked at Chris. "Get prepared. Fox is some days away from coming here."

"Why are you saying that?" Chris asked confused.

"Simple," Pikachu said. "I don't look like it, but I have done a lot of research about almost everyone of the mansion. Even I spoke with the vulpine himself saying that most of his daily works have to do with Wolf's brigade of crazy thieves."

"...I hope you're lying..." Chris said worried. "I don't want a fight in here... Good night..."

The trio decided to call it a night...

Though Wolf snored a little bit loud from his room...

May 19 - Evening - Monday

It has been roughly a month ever since Wolf came. Wolf himself liked to stay most of the time alone (because he couldn't stop thinking about the incident that he did in his turf). Chris didn't get a chance to talk with him at all as a result.

"Days sure are passing so fast..." Chris said. "I wanted to talk with Wolf today, but he told me to go away and mind my own business."

"He's way too mad for the party incident," Pikachu said. "And weird, Fox didn't come after all."

"Better yet," Chris said. "I don't want to deal with any problem right now... Homework got heavier this time, and I can't wait for summer to come in..."

"Let's just rest..." Pichu yawned. "I'm so tired after watching so much TV..."

With that, they decided to sleep...

"..." Chris turned his head to the right and opened his eyes to find some emerald eyes glaring down at them. "...Speaking of the furried devil..."

"Good night," Fox said somewhat mad. "Is that bastard here?"

"Define...bastard..." Pikachu said while his face was on the pillow.

"Wolf," Fox said coldly. "Thanks to him, I haven't been able to get my so deserved vacation."

"Why..." Pichu said grogily.

The vulpine walked further into the moonlight...and his eyelashes looked very purple.

"...Dude..." Pikachu began as he turned to him. "What happened to you?"

"You look like you didn't have any sleep..." Pichu said.

"Because I got 4 times where I was able to rest..." Fox trailed off as he closed his eyes, showed his fangs, and clenched his fists. "...Until some 200 drunk thugs invaded Corneria..."

The 3 groaned out loud and covered their faces with their pillows.

"I've been working day and night to catch all those imbeciles, and I know Wolf was behind it due to them telling the whole story while they were still drunk."

Fortunately for Chris, he was focused on this matter.

"Where is he? I need to have a serious talk to him after putting my whole team working with me. Slippy has had a bad time repairing Arwings."

But the World Traveler knew better. What Fox meant with serious talk meant, "Serious talk through fists until someone dies."

"So, is he here? Falco went to the mansion to see if he was there."

"...Are you really going to have a serious talk with him that doesn't include violence in my own house?" Chris asked under the pillow.

"It'll depend."

"Good... He hasn't been here..."

"Really..." Fox yawned. "Well...if you see him, tell him I need t-"

"Yeah, yeah, serious talk. Leave now..." Pikachu interrupted.

Fox mumbled before he opened his way back to Corneria and left the room.

The 3 sighed in relief.

"Nice move," Pikachu remarked as they set their pillow under their heads. "I didn't want to see a fight here."

"Or stop one," Pichu added. "They're very scary when they're mad..."

"Just...sleep..." Chris pleaded before he fell asleep.

Both Pok?mon agreed with a sigh before they fell asleep.

"(...)" Chris opened his eyes a little. "(...When are you going to come home, Lucario?)"

And he fell asleep.

May 21 - Afternoon - Wednesday

"Let's see now..." Chris put his pencil on his lip. "Trigonometry problems..."

As the World Traveler kept working through his homework, Pikachu was playing with the Wii as Pichu read walkthrough guides.

"Okay," Pichu began. "It says here that she'll give you a lure once you finish the Roll Game."

"Dammit!" Pikachu cursed. "I hate those small curves! And her, "Awww!" is annoying me!"

"Work harder!" Pichu suggested. "It's your skill in this game that needs to be polished!"

"I wonder how Link managed to calm down his rage with this game..." Pikachu muttered. "Dammit!"

"Keep your eyes on the ball...and your hand."

"I'm tired," Pikachu said as he stopped playing. "What else is in there?"

"How about if you go and catch the 60 Poe Souls?"

"And I have 16? It's going to take an eternity to get those."

At that moment, Wolf came in and leaned close to the door.

Pikachu and Pichu looked to him. "Feel better now?" Pikachu asked.

"I guess..." Wolf said as he looked away. "Maybe I can go back and see if those idiots stopped fooling around..."

"In jail, you mean..." Pikachu muttered. "Fox came a few days ago and he said he arrested all of your guys."

"And he looked very mad that the thugs didn't let him rest as well," Pichu added.

"..." Wolf chuckled. "It's was all worth it, then. How ironic."

"...Did you forget the fact that you don't have anyone left under your command?"

"If Panther was thrown in jail," Wolf began. "Then he should know how to get all of them out and escape back to the hideout."

Chris's eyes widened as he overheard this.

"And that would mean a big breakout."

He set his pencil down.

"And..." Wolf looked at them and grinned. "That would mean that Star Fox would have to catch them before they get home."

Oh no...

"...Again..." Wolf added with a chuckle.

"(Why do I have to get in the middle of their bickerings?)" Chris thought.

As the clock sounded through the silence of the room...

The World Traveler turned to his Wii and hoped for irony to stay low and let them have peace...

...

Chris sighed. "Oh god... I thought they were going to come here..."

"But weren't they looking for Wolf?" Pichu asked. "I think it's going to be even worse than before..."

"The authorities surely added more money for my head for this," Wolf said. "But they can't get me for now. I'm a little bit mad, but what else could I do for what I've done?"

"Stay put?" Pikachu asked.

"Yeah."

And out of a cue, a portal opened, and Wolf quickly hid behind the wall of the door of the hallway.

"Okay, where is he?" Falco asked as he came in and looked around (and he pretty much looked exhausted like Fox). "That son of a-"

"He's not here!" Chris yelled. "Leave me alone and let us have our vacation in peace!"

Falco blinked confused. "O...kay..." he said somewhat embarrassed. "I-I thought he was here because he wasn't in the mansion or the hideout so..."

"Go away..." Chris pleaded as he hit the desk with his forehead.

"...'scuse me," Falco said embarrassed before he went back to Corneria through a portal he opened.

Wolf came back in. "God, he sounded very mad."

"I wonder why," Pikachu said sarcastically.

"At least this place and the kid himself are my perfect alibi," Wolf said. "I better stay here to wait for the bird brain and Fox to forget what happened."

"They'll surely remember it," Pikachu said as he began to read Nintendo Power. "You 2, except Falco, share a stupidly close rivalry for my tastes."

"Who asked you..." Wolf said. "In the meantime...I better hit the videogame I wanted to play..."

Chris sighed. "(What is taking you so long, Lucario? It's not the same with those 3 here...)"

A little bit of time passed...

"Ha-ha," Pikachu laughed. "Wolf's fighting himself, and he's using Fox in doing so."

"Shut up, or I'll blow you to hell," Wolf said.

June 3 - Morning - Tuesday

Chris felt nostalgic...

This day was very special to him. For him, it was a special anniversary that he remembered when summer came in after school shortly closed for vacation. Even if it was raining, he felt very happy that it transcurred a whole year...

A whole year ever since he and Lucario met in the very same room, with the very same rain.

Chris coughed weakly.

And unfortunately, he had a fever as he was laying down on the bed.

"This was the day I met Lucario..." Chris said as Pikachu and Pichu stood close to him on the bed. "I remember when he suddenly came from my DS and had a very bad fever."

"Like you now?" Pichu asked.

"Not like the one I'm having, but his fever was worse," Chris said. "Sometimes I think that he would have never stayed with me if he didn't have that fever to begin with."

"Why'd you say that?" Pikachu asked.

"I asked myself that if he came in with full health, he would have rampaged," Chris said scared. "If that were to happen, I'd have been killed by him..."

"How can you say that?" Pikachu asked. "Lucario's has a short temper, but he doesn't look like he would kill you."

"Well, he looked troubled in some instances...like if he was scared of the world he got in." Chris coughed. "I think he decided to stay with me because I looked after him when he was ill. The fact that he told me that my aura was very pleasant made him feel more relieved as well."

"Maybe your aura convinced him," Pichu said. "Just a thought, of course..."

"Yes..." Chris closed his eyes and chuckled. "He made me feel very happy...so, but so happy because I wouldn't stay alone ever. Also, I had him as a strong guardian if I were to get into trouble with wild dogs outside." Chris chuckled. "The dogs would whimper at his roar, and I would look very amused to see ferocious dogs whimpering in fear by Lucario."

"It has been a while since we last saw him," Pikachu said. "I wonder how's he doing in the valley."

"Probably training so hard so he makes me feel proud or something," Chris said. "Lucario always fights so I can feel proud of him. It's a very nice thing of him, but I sometimes stop him from overdoing things."

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"I know the feeling," Pikachu said. "Like my team, AKA Ash's team. I talked to them before, and let me tell you, they'll do everything for Ash to the point they act...super loyal to him."

"?" Chris looked confused.

"I pity the guys, though," Pikachu said. "Ash follows the policy of starting from zero when he knows another new region. They get forgotten with Professor Oak. For example, I forgot what moves Kingler has..."

Something hit Pikachu.

"Wait a minute!" Pikachu spoke up. "Ash set free a lot of Pok?mon, a lot of strong Pok?mon! He set Primeape, Charizard (who is the only one who comes back sometimes), Butterfree (who is probably dead), and some others as well. I know that he could HAVE won a league at least. I think nobody heard about the Orange Islands at all!"

"About that..." Chris coughed. "It was just a filler..."

"...I knew it," Pikachu muttered. "I knew there was something fishy..."

"A-and I think nobody cared about the Battle Frontier because some said it was evil..."

"A-ha!" Pikachu yelled. "If my theory is correct, then Ash only have won special leagues that nobody cared about!"

"...Aren't you going a little bit overboard?" Pichu asked.

"...I am..." Pikachu sighed. "I am..."

Chris coughed again. "T-that's good to hear... I hope I get better soon..."

Pichu laid close to Chris. "Can I keep you company?"

"(So cute...)" Chris thought. "Go ahead, please..."

"Ooh, no way," Pikachu said as he laid down close. "I'm giving him company."

"(So cute as well...)" Chris thought. "Go ahead as well, please..."

Something was fishy.

"(...Are they trying to get attention? Those... Forget it...at least they're giving me company...)"

And the days went on...

June 15 - Afternoon - Sunday

"So, is everything set now?" Chris asked.

"Yes. Fences have more bricks than they used to. Now they reach 9 feet," said the bricklayer. "But, why did you want the fences to have more bricks? I'm afraid your house is going to stick out than the others in the neighborhood."

Chris looked away. "I-it's because I'm going to have a party and if my friends ever do some kind of game where they throw things around, I-I don't the neighbors get mad at me..."

He lied.

"...Oh," the bricklayer said. "I understand that."

Chris looked miffed. "T-thank you."

With that, he paid the bricklayer and the worker left the house. Chris watched him getting in his car before he drove away.

Chris sighed. "I'll have to go to church again..."

Outside

The reason why Chris wanted the fences around his wide backyard was because he decided to buy a bigger pool to enjoy during the hot summer's temperature.

And why the fences then?

Simple.

"Before me," Pikachu muttered as he swam around the big and wide pool. "Lies a big expanse of sea... Over the horizon, I spot the rubbed circle that contains within a creature named Pichu."

The Small Mouse Pok?mon rested quietly above a lifesaver.

"And at the edge of the end of the world," Pikachu said as he looked at a part of the circular edge of the pool. "Lies Mr. Fur's turf, who is desperate to spot a wife as he is shirtless. Fanservice, anyone?"

Wolf managed to overheard this and he lifted up his head from the pool's tube fence and glared at Pikachu. "Another thing like that, and this pool will turn red very soon."

Pikachu looked away. "And lastly..." he muttered as he looked below. "Lies a new island... A moving island underwater that will rise, and I shall claim it as my own..."

The Electric Pok?mon slowly rose up, but he rose up because Chris appeared from underneath (wearing goggles). "I feel like a kid," Chris sang. "A very young kiiid."

"That island is named Chris!" Pikachu said.

Chris looked up. "Oops, I didn't notice you."

"Doesn't matter," Pikachu said as he jumped back to the water. "Good idea with the fences. Nobody will stop and look at us enjoying the warm summer in this big pool."

"I'm surprised that Wolf wanted to come here," Chris said.

"What?" Wolf asked as he didn't look them. "Can I enjoy myself with water?"

"Y-you can."

"Then leave me alone."

"It's weird to think that he's over his thirties..." Chris muttered. "...And I have to say, even if he's older than us, he looks like a teen."

"So does Fox and Falco, but enough about them," Pikachu said. "We're just the 4 of us without anyone else. Except the big black spot under the water...and it's moving towards us."

A record scratched.

"Wait, what big black spot?" Chris asked before he looked down to the water...

And the spot he found was rather big.

"...OH GOD, SHARK!" Chris panicked.

"Chris, you're starting to act so out of character with each day it passes," Pikachu pointed out.

"S-sorry..." Chris said. "B-but what the hell is that thing?! I-it's moving towards us!"

"Just shut up and let me relax!" Wolf said as he put his arms above the tube.

"How come he's more relaxed than us?" Chris asked. "The black spot underwater!"

The black spot went after Chris and Pikachu. Cornered, they wanted to get out...but the black spot grabbed Chris's legs.

"Oh no!" Chris yelled. "Help!"

Pichu stood up. "I-" And he fell right in the center of the lifesaver.

"HEEEEEEEEELP!" Chris yelled.

And from the water, a big figure rose up. The trio (except Wolf) looked in shock as the shadow of the beast covered a little portion of the pool.

"..." The 3 glared at it.

"Duahahahahahahahaha!" the figure laughed. "You should have seen your faces! Shark! Help me! Hahahahahahahahahaha!"

"...Pikachu, kill DK, now," Chris ordered.

The figure turned out to be DK, who seemed to be hiding inside the pool all this time. Chris, Pikachu, and Pichu didn't like the sudden appearance of the gorilla at all as he laughed to the sky.

"Well!" DK stopped laughing. "'s up?"

"Chris," Pikachu said through gritted fangs. "Don't let me zap the pool with you in it."

"DK!" Chris yelled. "W-when did you come in here? N-nobody saw you getting inside this pool?"

"I came here before you guys," DK said with a smile. "I was hiding very well, wasn't I?"

"Ugh!" Pikachu threw his hands up. "You big doofus! You almost gave me a heart attack!"

"Sorry," DK said. "Didn't think of that."

Chris sighed. "Let me guess... You came here because you wanted to visit me, right?"

"And because Cranky got mad at me after playing around with his new vase."

"You broke it?" Pichu suddenly asked.

"...Yeah..." DK closed his eyes embarrassed. "Jugglin' it a little bit was a bad idea... I tossed it to the ceiling too high."

"...You and your strength will be Cranky's death one day of these..." Chris said bored. "...Did you take a bath before getting in here?"

"Duh?"

"Good... Wait," Chris looked confused. "Since you're here, doesn't that mean Diddy is..."

"Oh, him?" DK asked as he pointed at the roof of the house.

"OH MY GOD," Chris said alarmed. "D-Diddy! Get down of there! Quick!"

The spider monkey seemed to be having fun on top of Chris's house. Also, he was preparing to jump down. "DK! How about a cannonball!"

"Sweet!" DK yelled. "Do it!"

"How the hell did he climb all the way up?" Chris asked. "I-I mean, oh no, there's a party some houses away from here, but somebody can see Diddy if he stays up there for too long. Diddy! Get down!"

"CANNONBALL!" Diddy yelled laughing as he jumped right above the pool...and fell all the way down to the center of the pool, creating a big splash that fell around the pool.

"..." Even Wolf got wet on the face. "...Tsk..." he simply muttered and didn't mind as he continued to relax.

Diddy came out and high-fived with DK. "Score, if you would," he said.

"11 out of 10," DK said. "Right on."

"Ugh," Chris grunted. "And I knew he came here as well..."

"So, how've you been?" Diddy asked with a smile.

"Oh, pretty dandy," Chris said. "Clear skies, enthusiastic self, MONKEYS jumping from the 3th floor of my house, you know, the usual."

"...You sound mad," DK said.

Chris looked bored at him.

"...Whoops, sorry."

"..." Chris shook his head. "J-just, if you want to stay here, promise me that you're going to stay COMPLETELY out of sight from someone. NO getting out, NO saying hello, NO answering the phone, NO prank calls either, and NO sending mail out, got all that?"

Both monkeys made soldier salutes and nodded several times.

"...And like that, we will have a very good time."

"Mommy, mommy!" called a boy across the other side of the big fence. "I saw a chimpanzee jumping down from the roof!"

Everyone except Wolf got shocked looks.

"That's good, honey," called the boy's mother. "No more Nickelodeon for you for being a bad liar. Monkeys are away in the zoos."

"But moooooooom!" the boy whined. "I SO saw a monkey, and it talked!"

As the mother kept banning the boy's hobbies, the 5 sighed in relief.

"I'm sorry..." Diddy said ashamed.

"At least you learned your lesson. DON'T repeat it again," Chris said.

"This is gonna get interesting..." Wolf said with a smirk before Chris, angry, tossed him a beachball to his nose. "One more, and this pool is going to get red for sure, kid."

A lively afternoon passed...

July 4 - Evening - Friday

Chris's Room

Happy 4th of July.

"To honor the day I was born in America..." Chris began as Pikachu, Pichu, DK, and Diddy waited for him to play a new WiiWare game. "I decided to buy a very obscure game."

"What game is that?" DK asked in curiosity.

Dramatic music started to play from the TV as the screen showed the WiiWare game. This WiiWare game was an enhancement of the flash game in the internet.

"Today, I'm playing..." Chris trailed off. "Defend Your Castle!"

And thus the game started.

There was a dead silence as a small castle was displayed with cardboard figures as background. Absolutely nothing happened.

"If by obscure you mean empty, then you were right," Diddy said unsure.

Too bad his first review got interrupted as several doodle men began appearing from the other side of the screen and started to bang their hands on the castle.

"Throw 'em!" DK yelled.

Chris started to pick them with a blue clip to toss them to the air...

"And make them fall to their deaths," Pikachu said.

"Aaah!" the Barbarian (the doodle's name) yelled after it was killed.

"Oh no, there are more!" Pichu said. "Toss them!"

It took a while before they noticed that 4 could play the same game.

Unfortunately, as the rounds rosed up, the difficulty became harder and harder.

"Oh my," Pikachu said. "They multiply at the speed of light!"

"Take the big ones down! The ones with the bottle cap heads!" Diddy ordered. "Dammit! A bomb exploded on the main gate!"

"Hey, what's that? A catapult?! And the castle's health is disappearing!" DK said alarmed. "Take 'em down!"

"Touch it so it disarms!" Chris yelled. "We must defend our castle!"

Pun intended.

"Dammit! These small Barbarians are multiplying faster!" Pikachu yelled. "Release the blue bombs! Sacrifice our men to them!"

They deployed several blue Barbarians (since they were thrown into the Pit of Convertion to add more forces to the castle's army) rolling bombs to the Barbarians before a huge chain reaction obliterated the whole army on-screen.

"Yes!" DK said.

Too bad they were halfway done as an insane amount of Barbarians came back.

"Aw, sh-" Diddy's curse got interrupted. "Fight! Throw them to their deaths!"

"What's all the yelling in here?" asked a mad Wolf as he came in. "What are you playing now?"

"Defend Your Castle," Pichu explained.

"I'm not defending any castle," Wolf responded.

"No, that's the name of the game."

Wolf looked at the game. "The crap are those...doodles?"

"Barbarians. They want to attack the castle."

"...Ain't that amusing..." Wolf muttered before walking away to his room.

Pichu pouted before returning to watch the game. "Defend your castle!" he cheered.

And the unlikely team kept playing...

July 26 - Afternoon - Saturday

It was time for Chris to get a new game. His DS library wasn't getting bigger so he checked to see if he could get a new one.

During July 22, he obtained one...Final Fantasy IV DS. Chris's addiction to the series let him reach further with no problems.

Though this game's bosses were harder than the GBA version...

"Okay," Chris said to Diddy as the spider monkey played Donkey Konga 2 with the bongos. "So Fusoya says I should attack the Defense Node before focusing my attacks on the CPU, then attack the Attack Node. If listening to the main characters' suggestions is a good idea, then I'm going to listen."

"Uh-huh," Diddy said with a nod as he clapped while he played the song, "Carmen."

"And..." Chris selected commands. "...What the...hey, no! T-the Attack Node! I-it annihilated everyone except Cecil with those Laser Beams!"

Diddy merely nodded.

"Aw, crap!" Chris cursed. "T-that didn't even reach 300 HP in the GBA version, but they buffed it up so it could deal over 3500 HP... Oh no, that stupid node killed Cecil...Game Over... Diddy, remind me to not listen to Fusoya again... Hmm... I'll change my strategy to attacking the Attack Node first..."

"Sure..." Diddy said as he was now playing, "La Bamba."

"Hmmmmmmmm, hmm, hm-hm," Chris hummed the latin song. "Hmmmmmmmm, hmm, hm, hm... Aaaaaa-ttack, the, attack-node... Aaaaa-ttack, the, attack-node..."

Diddy change to "Nutcracker."

"I'm SO going to own these nodes, because I darn say so then. These nodes will feel theeee wraaaath of Edge's Shurikens," Chris sang. "OH my god, it did it again. I'm so going to kill that node off. I'm so going to haaave niiiightmares with C-PU thingies," he sang.

Diddy changed to "Come Clean."

"No way," Chris said as he kept playing. "Hilary Duff's Come Clean kills my mood now."

Diddy changed to "U Don't Have To Call."

"Much better..." Chris sighed in relief.

August 9 - Morning - Saturday

Living Room

Soon, Chris was going to have to go back to school in 3 days. He made sure he had everything for his year as a sophomore.

"I got in late," Chris explained. "My parents forgot to sign me in for the first year of Kindergarden. I question their reasons to these days..."

"Okay," DK said.

Surprise, he was helping Chris as the gorilla was wearing glasses, using a notepad with a pencil, sitting above the sofa.

"Notebooks?"

"Checked."

"Pencils?"

"Checked."

"Pens?"

"Checked."

"Dictionary?"

"Checked."

"Tape?"

"Checked."

"Mini first aid kit?"

"Checked."

"Health insurance?"

"Checked."

"Napkins for runny nose?"

"Checked."

"Erasers?"

"Checked."

Chris was a person that worried about everything.

"Everything's checked."

"Sweet," Chris said. "Thanks."

"Just wanted to wear the glasses," DK said. "Do they make me look smarter?"

"..."

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrr...

Evening

There are times when nothing interesting happens. Those times are defined as boredom. Diddy, as he was sitting on the sofa, yawned.

"..." Diddy changed channel after channel of the TV. "There's nothing interesting..."

"It's common," Chris commented as he cleaned the floor with a mop. "TV sometimes has good shows, but most of the time it won't."

"Gimme that!" Popo (sitting in the middle) demanded as he took the remote. "I'm the biggest TV guru here. Whatever I look for will always be entertaining!"

The World Traveler received the unexpected coming of the Ice Climbers.

Nana lowered her magazine and looked bored. "Whatever he finds, it will be stupid."

"You return reading," Popo said. "I return to my best hobby."

"Lose cells out of your brain?"

"And replace them with more cleverness," Popo said.

Nana sighed and raised her magazine. "I need to do something productive... I'll go to the internet and see if there's a new game for me and Popo. Maybe if I go to Youtube and search Ice Climbers Wii..."

The pink eskimo walked away to Chris's room.

"Sweet! The Smoking Gun Presents World's Dumbest Criminals!" Popo said excited. "...Ha! He removed his mask halfway before getting out the bank, and the camera got his face!"

Diddy chuckled.

"Is that guy drinking oil? Ha! He's dancing at midnight!"

"H-he drank 51..." Diddy blocked his mouth and chuckled.

1 hour later...

A mad Nana came back and sat down on the right end of the sofa. She rested her chin above her right hand in disgust.

Chris came from her side and looked at her. "Did you find what you wanted?"

The pink eskimo seemed a little bit furious of what she found in Youtube. With a sigh, she looked at Chris annoyed.

"...So?" Chris asked.

"I got Rickroll'd," she responded harshly.

Chris looked away in embarrassment.

Nana grunted and decided to watch TV.

August 26 - Afternoon - Sunday

Chris's Room

For Popo, Youtube was the golden treasure of the whole world. The main and biggest attraction of the whole internet rested within this site.

"Nana!" Popo yelled excited. "Guess what happened to me when I looked for Ice Climbers Wii?"

Nana (laying down on Chris's bed) hit her face with the pillow.

"This is the 38th time!" Popo said laughing. "Okay. I'll try to search another unbelievable thing to see the Rick Astley guy again! He must be so famous for appearing in so many videos!"

Inside the room, not only Nana and her brother were there. A tired Chris (probably because of Popo's browsing Youtube) sighed as he played "Wii Play."

"Popo, only people who want to annoy more people put that guy video the video's real...video," Chris explained. "You're thinking wrong things about them all."

"Nah-ah," Popo said. "Maybe there's a cult behind Rick... I'll be his N. 1 fan!"

Nana groaned. "One of these days, Popo, ONE of these days I'm going to give you a brain!"

"Try it!" Popo dared Nana. "It'll be hard to pierce my head!"

Nana sighed in depression and looked at Chris. "Haven't you noticed?"

"Notice what?" Chris asked. (Albeit to say, he was focused with the laser hockey).

"Popo hasn't been like this before at all," Nana said. "Something is awfully wrong with his mind and attitude... We used to play a lot together, but he's become this...retarded all of a sudden?"

"How do you know that exactly?" Chris asked.

"I lived long enough with him to find odd things," Nana said. "...Why am I thinking all of this? Maybe that's his real self."

"Rickroll'd again!" Popo laughed.

"...If I had a chainsaw," Nana began. "Guess which head will cut?"

"Not mine?" Chris asked.

"...Close enough," Nana said before she rested.

The World Traveler returned to play his game.

...

"...Close enough... Wait, what?" Chris asked shocked.

No response came, sadly. Chris sighed worried as the day went on.

September 12 - Morning - Friday

Chris came from the door. He was supposed to be at school, but it was 9:00 AM by the time he got home. Nana happened to walk close to the entrance and she found Chris.

"Day off?" Nana asked.

"The school's science room was set on fire today," Chris said. "There was a big commotion when smoke began leaking out, and the director told everyone to leave so nobody could get injured."

[DededeCloneChris]

"Was it exciting at least?" Nana asked.

"Considering I was in there when it happened...it was horrible," Chris commented. "Not having powers like I used to leaves me pretty vulnerable. How about you?"

"I call still push small icicles out of the air," Nana said. "Or I call them. Thing is, I don't want to do it in here."

A small icicle went passing between them.

"Oh no, you'll clean that!" Chris said annoyed. "Popo has been pushing icicles for quite a while because he has been complaining about how hot the summer is! Tell him to remove his parka!"

"Even Popo understands that we shouldn't remove our parkas."

"Oh, why's that?" Chris asked as he crossed his arms. "Because you're stuck in them?"

"You wish!" Nana said. "These parkas were made by our own parents! Taking them out would be a disgrace to our deceased family!"

"...Oh..." Chris looked ashamed. "I-I didn't know your family was deceased..."

Nana looked down.

Did Chris hit something important, or did he make a new discovery?

Maybe he should ask further in another time...

"That aside," Nana said (apparently recovering). "Somebody wants to see you. He's been really alone for not seeing you in a while."

"..." Chris's eyes widened and he ran to his room.

"My god," Nana said. "You sure react fast before I say the name." She started to follow him.

Chris's Room

Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 2: Grimoire of the Rift - 002 Putting Words Together

Once Chris arrived to his room, he stopped and he looked at the person who Nana told him about. The World Traveler suddenly felt relieved as he panted heavily. "You..." Chris said. "You...you came back..."

The person got up and nodded to him. "I'm back...Chris..."

Chris's eyes began to swell with tears before he ran to the person and gave him a hug, resting his chin above the person's right shoulder. "Lucario!" Chris yelled happily. "You're back at last!"

Lucario smiled a little and hugged his trainer as both rubbed cheeks together. "I'm...I'm so sorry for not seeing you in a long time... I'm so sorry..."

It has been roughly 6 months since both last saw each other. It seemed that Lucario completed his training in his home, and he could never be happier for returning home with Chris.

"It wasn't the same without you..." Chris muttered. "A few people came here to spend the vacation with me, but I felt lonely nevertheless."

"I know," Lucario said with a nod. "I promised that I was going to return soon, but my training took a lot of my time... I'm awfully sorry, Chris. This won't happen ever again..."

Chris hugged him tightlier. "What matters to me is that you're back, and your strength got back to normal... Wait, do you have your brute force with you?"

Lucario stopped hugging Chris and he lifted his trainer with his right hand. The Aura Pok?mon looked up like nothing happened. "In a matter of fact, your weight as a feather returned."

Chris tumbled at the sides. "C-can you put me down? I-I'm starting to develop a fear of heights because of you!" he yelled scared.

Lucario lowered his trainer and knelt down to him. "It was a success," he said. "My father put me in a very hard training regimen... You wouldn't believe what he put me through..."

"What exactly?" Pikachu asked (sitting on the pillow (drinking Caprisun (with a straw (yellow))). "Come on, tell us!"

"..." Lucario shook his head. "Let's just say that carrying boulders around the valley wasn't a good experience..."

"...What else did he put you through?" Chris asked.

"He told me to do at least 1000 push-ups every morning," Lucario said. "Destroy trees with a single Force Palm, try to communicate with far away Lucarios using telepathy, train the Lucarios of the valley because apparently I'm some sort of prince to most of them."

"You, a prince?" Pikachu asked. "Dude, this is getting hilarious and interesting."

Lucario ignored him. "Continuing where I left, he also told me to do 10 hours meditations without opening my eyes or communicate with my sister, obliterate boulders bigger than me by using only my aura combined with my fists and no special moves, and do 100 laps around Mt. Coronet's base without using Extremespeed."

Chris gasped. "N-nobody saw you? I-I mean, 100 laps?"

"My father was kind of angry about me losing my aura that he punished me with my training...though he said it would help me and it did..."

Pikachu finished his drink. "Your father so wants to murder you with training."

Lucario glared at Pikachu. "I don't look like it, but I respect what my father tells me to do."

"Poor thing..." Chris said.

Music stops

"What?" Pikachu and Lucario asked surprised.

Chris started to rub Lucario's head with care. The Aura Pok?mon simply blinked shocked. "You went through a lot to obtain your brute force and aura, right?"

Lucario blushed and looked at him. "I-I did it because of you... I-I didn't want to make you feel ashamed of myself."

Chris started to rub his head faster. "You're sure a hard worker, but your father put you through a lot of pain, didn't he?"

Pikachu seemed to perceive something odd about Chris...

"Y-yes," Lucario said with a nod. "I felt a lot of pain that you wouldn't believe. I almost broke a leg, and I'm supposed to be a Steel type."

"My poor Pok?mon was going to break a leg?" Chris asked shocked before he pulled Lucario's head closer to his cheek. "Oh no, that was so, but so horrible!"

Lucario looked down as he blushed. "I-I'm sorry for worrying you so much..."

"There, there," Chris said as he gently pushed Lucario to the bed so he could rest. "You're here with me, and I'm going to make you relax."

Lucario blinked for a moment before he made a happy expression and growled happily. His tail even wagged a little.

Cross Edge - A Lucky Dog

"...And that's how you make Lucario go with the flow," Chris said as he smiled a little and closed his eyes. "I can't believe he fell for it. Look at him, he looks very happy as well."

Pikachu chuckled and looked at the shocked and embarrassed Lucario. "Ha-ha, you went with the flow and didn't say anything," he teased.

"C-Chris!" Lucario said as he got up and looked at his trainer. "W-why did you do that for?"

"I was just trying to remember our happy times," Chris said simply. "It seems that you haven't changed at all, which is good for me."

"And us," Pikachu said.

"T-that was a little bit embarrassing, now that I think about it again," Lucario said.

"Was it?" Chris asked. "I was just joking so..."

"Be glad you're my trainer becau-"

"Was that a threat I heard?" Chris asked annoyed. "I can always grab those appendages again, you know..."

Lucario put his hands on the back of his head and shrugged. "N-no more of that, and I'm not going to complain to you."

"So can I pull them instead?" Pikachu asked.

"GUARGH!" Lucario roared at him.

"Hey! Why the roar?" Pikachu asked annoyed.

"If you're the one pulling them, I'm assure you that you'll be dead before you know it," Lucario said.

"And how come Chris doesn't have the same benefit as me?"

Lucario looked worried at Chris. "I-if he's the one, I-I can't bring myself to hurt him because I would feel deeply ashamed and humiliated for the rest of my life..."

"Good," Chris said as he rubbed Lucario's head. "You know when to stop."

Lucario smiled happily, and Pikachu frowned at Lucario's obedience to Chris.

"So..." Lucario looked at Nana (who seemed angry for not being noticed). "Are we on vacation?"

"Yes," Nana said. "It has been a long while after I went to the mansion."

"Oh, right," Chris said. "Good thing you're back, Lucario. We can enjoy all the "vacation" we have."

"He has to go to school," Nana said. "But it got burned, so he's staying here a few days off."

"I doubt that..." Chris said. "I heard the director was a rich person, and he will probably pay the school's repairs before Monday."

"Oh," Pikachu said. "Well, that doesn't stop us from relaxing even more in here. I've grown so attached to this place that I do NOT want to leave."

"Wait, what month are we in?" Lucario asked.

"September," Nana said.

"Chris, your birthday is very close, right?"

"My birthday!" Chris said. "Oh god, I forgot about my birthday. It's going to be the 30th very soon."

"Really?" Pikachu asked. "I need to get a prese-I mean, do something else before that date comes!"

Nana looked shocked. "Shoot, I need to prepare as well..."

"Aw, thank you," Chris said. "I didn't know you wanted to give me presents."

"What can I say," Nana asked. "You managed to grow attached to us. Be lucky."

"Let's be unlucky then," Master Hand said. "Maybe we should celebrate this sometime later."

"What the hand said is true," Pikachu said.

...

"..." The 4 noticed Master Hand in the room...and he was wearing a tropical hat. "...What are you doing here? Weren't you with your cocktails in Delfino Island?" Nana asked.

"Apart from the cocktails being stupidly awesome, I've returned to give you some news."

"What?"

"Vacations are over," Master Hand said. "I left the mansion's universe's time going way too slow."

What he said sounded very weird.

"What do you mean by too slow?" Pikachu asked.

"Didn't I tell you? I slowed the mansion's time when almost all left. It has passed 1 hour ever since everyone left."

"...You...slowed the time...in the mansion...and techinically speaking...it has only transcurred 1 hour there?" Nana asked.

"That's why I went to Delfino Island," Master Hand said. "Cocktails recharge hand magic way faster."

"Yeah," Pikachu said bored. "You kept eating cocktails for 6 months to recover your energies."

"Oops, I guess I didn't give the exact details... Thing is, I rested long enough for the magic to work. Basically, I rested, and I worked to give you guys your long vacation. Then, I said screw it and decided to call all of you back."

"...So much for that," Nana said.

"I know," Master Hand said. "Everyone else in this house that is a Smasher, please return to the Smash Mansion! Don't make make repeat it like a stupid woman's voice or else!"

Some groans came from DK, Diddy, Pichu, and Popo as they walked inside the room. Shortly, Wolf came in with crossed arms.

"..." Master Hand looked at Chris. "If you think about it, you gathered the most unlikely team ever."

Chris looked away and seemed to pout a little.

"No need to get angry. Alright!" the hand said as he snapped his fingers and made a portal. "Everyone back to our house! Work is waiting for all of us, and we need to get rid of Tabuu as always! Curse myself if something else renders our progress!"

"I better prepare for the worst," Wolf said sarcastically. "Fox is going to give me hell after that incident..."

"What incident?" Master Hand asked. But the wolf already walked inside the portal. "I'll never understand that guy's mind... I'll just read it. Heehee!"

"Aww," DK groaned. "I was starting to enjoy this place... I know! Let's plant some trees in the backyard!"

"NO," Chris responded.

"You're no fun," DK chuckled before he went inside the portal with Diddy following.

"Nana! Can I sing it?" Popo asked.

"NO," Nana responded.

"You're no fun," Popo chuckled before he went inside the portal with Nana following.

Deja vu.

"Can we please talk about anime and manga?" Pichu asked.

"NO," Pikachu said. "...This time only, though."

"Yay!" Pichu cheered before both walked through the portal.

"Hmm..." Chris closed his eyes in defeat. "I knew we would have to go back sooner after all..."

"Hey, you got a lot of time," Master Hand said. "Besides, I hope you spent the time with some of them to discover more special attacks. You did, didn't you?"

"...I was so focused with homework, videogames, and some other chores that I didn't get the chances," Chris realized.

"...I pity you," Master Hand said. "Oh, wait, you didn't buy more games, right?"

"I did," Chris said. "Why?"

"Because if you did, that means Tabuu has more worlds to conquer, meaning we'll have more work if he finds out."

"..."

The fact that he increased his DS library...

The fact that he increased his PS2 library as well...

The fact that he increased his Wii library as well, too...

"...Awwwwwwww!!!" Chris groaned out loud.

"Just get in the mansion and hope we don't have to work that much, hurry," Master Hand said before he entered inside the portal.

"If it helps," Lucario began. "My force will make everything easier."

"Don't make me pull tho-"

"I'll shut up," Lucario said quickly with a gulp.

The 2 sighed with a frown before they walked inside the portal.

The clock of Chris's room was shown. It suddenly began to slow down before it eventually stopped, marking the time stop of the real world...

Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Smash Mansion
Command Room

"You guys," Sonic said as he saw the 10 getting through the portal. "It's been a hour since you left."

"So it was true?" Pikachu asked. "How powerful are you?" he asked to the hand.

"Don't underestimate me," Master Hand said with a chuckle. "I'm the Hand of Creation, after all."

"That his weakness is a certain mag-" Chris stopped.

"And he's immune to most of the things there are," Master Hand interrupted.

"Check this out, dude!" Popo said as he gave Sonic a note.

"What's this?" Sonic asked as he looked down at the note. "Times I've been Rickroll'd?"

Nana groaned and hit her forehead with the nearby desk.

"If you hit it, you pay it!" Crazy Hand (with a smaller tropical hat) said.

"Shut the hell up," Nana threatened. "Shut...the hell up...please..."

And vacations have ended.

Good luck fighting Tabuu's forces.

TO BE CONTINUED...

...

"Kindred Twins. A whole new world lies beyond the expanse of boxarts that we call Chris's videogame collection..." Popo said.

"Turn my collection into poetry, and I'll roll you down The Summit," Chris threatened.

Do you want to save your data after the events of today?

Yes

Overwrite File?

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Smash Mansion
Chris, Lucario, Mario, Luigi, Peach, Yoshi, Pikachu, Pichu, Jigglypuff, Mewtwo, Red, Squirtle, Ivysaur, Donkey Kong, Diddy Kong, Samus, Kirby, Meta Knight, Link, Zelda, Toon Link, Fox, Falco, Wolf, Captain Falcon, Olimar, Marth, Roy, Ike, Ness, Lucas, Pit, Ice Climbers, Snake, Sonic

[jnfs2014]

Mouses?

lol

And good writing. A bit lengthy, but still good.