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

[DededeCloneChris]

Chapter 82: Mist knows best

(From this point on, Mist will narrate the story by her own POV, I know, she didn't appeared on this part, but let's do this like this to make interesting thoughts).

Tellium - Crimean Kingdom
Caldea

And there he goes again, my brother, Ike, a new mercenary for the Greil Mercenaries, going running away to meet Titania and father...late, of course, his first day as mercenary started wrong using the left foot...

"Oww!"

"Are you alright Ike?" Mist asked from afar.

"Yes! I just tripped! I'm fine, don't worry!" Ike reassured her as he continued to run.

I roll my eyes when he turns his back to me, surely, his path to become a swordsman will be a long one...

...But see the bright part, I get to see his clumsyness.

For me, it was alright for Ike to train a lot to join them, he was very clumsy from the beginning (how in the name of Elincia's name did he was like that if he trained a lot and was let to join the company it's even beyond me), but, I need to point out something.

He wasn't weak, it was the other way around.

"...Weird...I could have sworn there was an odd light coming from the other side of the village." I said when I narrowed my eyes, when I saw my brother entering the hut where Titania and father were, I decided to carefully sneak my way through the house.

"Sorry. I'll get up earlier from now on. So, what's my first job?" I heard my brother's voice from the window when I snuck right passing there, be thankful I threw a bucket of ice water on you this morning!

Flashback

"Wake up!" I threw the bucket on my snoring brother.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" Ike screamed at the top of his lungs.

End of flashback

Then I heard I sneeze, from my brother of course.

Titania and Ike got out from the hut and I hid behind some bushes when Oscar came riding his horse with Boyd, who came running.

"Your first campaign at last. I know you've wanted this for a while. Are you nervous, Ike?" Oscar asked with a small grin.

"I think I was more nervous last night. I could hardly sleep. This morning, I'm feeling pretty good. It's the calm before the storm." Ike replied confident of himself.

Now I know my brother was determined, but I didn't knew he was a pretty bad liar, you could see his hair a little wet after all...or either Boyd, Titania and Oscar were all blind or ignorant about that.

...Did I just see them chuckling when Ike turn his back on them?

I must be imagining things...well, first, to see the source of the light...

"Ike, before you go to the village, I need to tell you something important." Titania said stopping Ike.

"Yes?" Ike asked.

"They said some strange people appeared out of nowhere on the other side of the village." Titania said.

"Then I'll go to see them personally." Ike said.

I hurried my way through the village, I was being careful to not caught the attention of the bandits on my way to the other side of the village, when I was running through some bushes who were coveniently laying around, I peered from a hole of the leaves to see the source of the light...gone, completely.

But my suspicions grew up suddenly when I saw 10 odd looking characters looking around.

"So, where is this Ike?" A boy in a blue armor asked tapping the shoulder of...wait just second! Is that other boy wearing my brother's clothes?! And how did the first one knew about my brother?

"Well...I don't remember very much of this part," the impersonator of my brother said scratching his head. "I think this is the part where he's training..."

My right eye twitched in horror and confuseness, is that even a word? Where did these people came from anyway?

"We must investigate the surroundings of the village and search for Ike." A small rounded-masked creature said rather darkly, wait, I don't know if that or he is even a monster, I was going to freak out, I know, a girl like me freaking out is strange, but, just look at them! There's a laguz bird standing there too!

And not only that...or him, what about the strange caped person, or the identical twins with creepy smiling faces? And the girl with the tiara?

...Wait...I don't think she is a girl...I think it's a guy...no, must be a girl.

...Hmm...the person with the weird helmet was rather strange too...

...Is that an angel?! Get a hold of yourself Mist, please!

"...We're being watched." The small masked creature said shifting his eyes around, oh no, did he found my hiding spot?

"Okay, it's time to work." The bird laguz said taking out a weird thing from his belt.

"(I need to get out of here and tell my brother about this as soon as possible...)" I think when I slowly tried to create my path back to a safe area.

"...Hey! I think I heard something over those bushes!" One of those twins said pointing...WHERE I AM!

"S-sorry for eavesdropping!" I yelled terrorized by getting up, revealing my position and turning my back, blushing, and started to run away from them.

"Hold it." Somehow, the small-rounded masked creature appeared in front of me stopping my way.

"G-get away from me!" I yelled trying to kick him away, but in a blink, he unsheathed a sword that looked like a golden flame and pushed my leg away. "Aaaaaaaah!"

I stopped when I turned my back to see the person with the weird helmet staring down at me. "Hey there, you're pretty." He said.

I know he was trying to flirt with me, so guess what I did after that?

SLAP!

"Oww! You!" The man said while I started to run to the direction where I came from, just to find the laguz bird with crossed arms standing in my way.

"Calm down, I'd never hurt and pretty girl like you."

Was this group full of flirting guys?

...SLAP!

"Oww! Come back here!" He yelled with a glare, and obviously, I decided to go on and escape from them.

"Guys! Please! You're only scaring her even more, j-just let me talk to her!" The impersonator of my brother said as I was able to hear.

Well, they managed to scare me, so better run than getting a try to get killed.

For my own surprise, I saw my brother running towards me when I was away from them.

"Ike!"

"Mist! W-what are you doing here? You're in the enemy's territory!"

"And you are too!"

"Tell me, what were you doing over there?"

"That's right! Ike, I saw a very strange group of people that way, there were twins, a small-masked creature, 2 swordsmen, a boy and a girl, a guy with a weird helmet, a guy that looked like a puppet, and even a bird laguz was with them! Even an angel was there! What was more shocking to see was a boy with the same clothes as yours!"

"...Wait, I-I don't get all that, I don't know what is a laguz, were they the sub-humans that Shinon always mentions?"

"...Well...yes, but it's less discriminative to call them laguz but...that's not the point!"

"Then tell me, what happened?"

I sighed and tried to summarize all. "I saw twins, 2 swordsmen, a guy with a helmet, a small-masked creature, a puppet guy, the bird laguz, an angel, and a boy who had your clothes on."

"...I don't believe you with the angel part at a-"

I grabbed his hand and put a grip on it. "Just follow me if you believe in me!"

"M-Mist! You're acting a little strange this day!"

"I am not!"

As we argued, I managed to shut up my brother and we hid in more bushes, not in the same place, the masked creature sliced them to prevent anyone from spying them, good thing he didn't sliced the other bushes.

"See now, Ike?" I asked to my brother with a glare.

"...Oh...you...were...telling...the truth...after all..." Ike said a little shocked.

"Ike! You must go there and stop them, specially your impersonator!"

"Wait a minute, have you think if they're friendly?"

"I could have sworn the guy with the helmet touched my butt if I can recall."

"Those bastards!" Ike said turning serious before grabbing his sword and jumping out of the bushes...

...And his cape got stuck on the twigs and he tripped hardly on the ground, the cape not only made him trip, it revealed a hole big enough to reveal my position too as the weird people looked at us and most of them bursted out laughing after seeing Ike dropped on the ground.

"...Damit..." I heard my brother muttering while his face was tasting the ground.

"P-please! Stop laughing! It's just his first day as a mercenary!" I said trying to stop them from humiliating my brother more.

"Don't help me Mist!" Ike said as he got up quickly.

"W-wait! Brother! Your cape is stil-"

"AAH! OWW!"

"...Stuck..." I finished, remembering my brother's cape being still stuck, now the twins were rolling and laughing on the floor, holding their stomachs. "H-here, let me get it out...there."

Ike rolled his eyes and dusted off his cape before grabbing his sword. "Prepare yourselves!"

Finally! They stopped laughing!... But now, the boy and the girl were rather shocked when they saw Ike, and most of them too.

The girl's eyes were trembling a little. "Oh my g-" She was able to say.

The laguz bird approached closer to Ike. "It's like Marth and Roy fused into one body..." He trailed off a little impressed.

"EEEEEWW!!" The swordsman boy said disgusted.

"...Something on my face?" Ike asked confused.

"..." The impersonator just blinked a little bored.

"..." Ike shook his head. "S-stop it, just stop! I don't know who you are, but I know something for sure, you're in league with the bandits of this village! And that person," he pointed at the impersonator. "Is trying to make a bad name for me!"

"W-what?! N-no! You're mistaking Ike!" The impersonator said before gasping.

"Wait, how do you know my name?! Answer me!"

"I-I-I heard! Okay?"

"Calm down, we're not your enemies nor bandits." The girl said...wait, her voice sounded a little too manly just now...

"He is right, we just came here to help." The angel said. (Ike was now getting even more confused, but then again, I'll do the same if an angel was in front of me).

"We didn't try to raise a problem here." The puppet said.

"P-please, just listen to us..." The impersonator said joining his hands.

"...Fine, but I'll decide if I let you go or get in jail." Ike said calmly.

"IKE!"

"Mist? MIST!"

For our misfortune, the bandits, and I mean it, ALL the bandits of the village decided to show up behind me and one of them held a knife close to my throat and I screamed. I began to think the laughs of them made the bandits to go here.

"So, I hear you're the son of Greil, and this little girl is also his daughter." A bandit said smirking.

"You bastard! Leave her alone!" Ike said.

"Stop! One more step and she's done for!"

"IIIIIIIIKE!" I yelled crying.

"Grr!..." My brother sighed and looked down. "...Fine, I'll throw my weapon away..." And he did, threw his sword away he did.

"Now, come with us, if we can get money by offering your life, then this whole situation is going to be good after all..."

"I won't allow that on my watch, my apologies."

"What the?!" I quickly turned my head to see the small-masked creature floating in midair using black wings that sprouted from his back, in a blink, he unleashed many slashs that quickly took 4 of the bandits down, including the one holding me. "IKE!" I yelled my brother's name again and ran towards my brother.

"GET BACK HERE!" Another bandit quickly dashed towards me holding a knife, I covered my face in horror and screamed out loud again.

"No, she won't!" The red-haired swordsman quickly dashed past in front of me and stabbed the bandit right into his chest, killing him, but saving my life in return. "That was close...are you alright?"

My god, I blushed embarrassed after I looked to his face, to think I almost fell in love with a stranger.

"Y-yes...thank you for saving me..." I said bowing a little, still blushing.

"Thank god, I thought I wasn't going to make it." He said.

I looked behind me to see the others fighting back the bandits, the guy with the helmet was strong, even his fist caught fire but didn't burned him when he used an uppercut on one of them, the impersonator wasn't so bad either, swinging a heavy sword using only one hand was very impressive, the puppet used some kind of pebbles that went quickly towards everybody on sight, defeating every single one, the twins had hammers that both used at the same time to deal a great amount of damage, the swordsman girl was very fast too, she snuck behind them and slash continuously their backs until they stopped breathing, I said enough about the small-masked creature, the laguz bird was very surprising, he used both his wings on his sleeves to deal severe bruises or either he used his feet to slam them hardly on their faces to send them flying away a little, knocking them out of cold as he grinned sometimes.

...And in the end, they took down all the bandits rather quickly.

"..." Ike was very impressed. "...T-thanks for saving my sister, I own you one." He said to the red-haired swordsman who shook hands with him.

"Now, do you believe in us?" The guy in the helmet asked crossing his arms.

"Certainly, one saving my sister is considered an ally or a friend." Ike said.

"Oh, finally! I was afraid you wouldn't listen to us!" The impersonator said.

"...Right...may I ask for your names?"

"...Oh..." He blushed embarrassed. "M-my name is Chris, nice to meet both of you."

"My name is Roy, from Caelin" The red-haired swordsman said sheathing his sword.

"My name is Marth, prince of Altea." Wait, she was a man? Somebody needs to suggest him good clothes one of these days...I bet he gets constantly mistaken for a girl because of that tiara on his head.

...Wait again, he is a prince?!

"My name is Popo!" The twin in blue clothes said smiling.

"My name is Nana!" The other twin in pink clothes said smiling.

"And both we are the Ice Climbers!" They said wrapping each other's arms around the other laughing a little.

"Nice to meet you, I'm Geno." The puppet said politly bowing his head.

"Meta Knight." The small-masked creature said nodding slowly.

"My name is Pit, I come from Skyworld." The angel said.

"My full name is Falco Lombardi, but you can call me just Falco." The laguz bird said doing a thumbs up with a wink (towards me, which made me to shudder).

"I'm Captain Falcon, I'm pleased to meet you too." The guy with the helmet said saluting.

"My name is Ike, I'm a mercenary from the Greil Mercenaries, and this is my sister, Mist." Ike said introducing both of us.

"N-nice to meet you too..." I trailed off blushing.

"IIIIIIIIIIIKEEEEEE! MIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIST!" Both of us turned our backs to see Boyd running at us, rather relieved for finding us. "Man, where did you 2 were? I was looking all over you, the bandits were not found around, the strange thing is they left their boss who I defeated and..." He glanced at the other group. "...I...think...I got here in the wrong time, didn't I?"

"Not at all Boyd." I said smiling a little, somehow, seeing Boyd again made me feel much more relieved too.

"...So...Mist..." Boyd trailed off.

"...Yes?" I asked confused when he walked towards Pit.

"It's good luck to find an angel in a common village like this? Because if it is, I bet things are going to get better for me! C'mon you! Will I be more powerful than Ike?" Boyd asked excited to Pit, who backed away a little from him.

"I-I don't read the future, sorry." Pit said twitching a little.

"You can't lie to me! Tell me!"

"...Boyd..." I closed my eyes gently and walked towards him.

"Yes?"

SLAP!

"OWW!"

"Don't be stupid, you idiot!" I said angrily to him. "Try to be normal to our new friends, they saved my life!" I was confident of myself back then, somehow, inside of me, I was sure of them being good.

"You didn't have to slap me hard...what's wrong with you?"

"Nothing! I'm just very happy, that's all!"

"(Somehow, characters may hide their true personalities when you don't meet them in person.)" Chris thought.

And then, Ike showed hospitality and invited them to follow us to meet Titania, since she was the only one in charge of our actions in the battlefield and because my father was away with Shinon and Gatrei in another mission.

Somewhere in a field full of wildflowers

"And then when she saw Pit and Falco, she couldn't believe they weren't laguz as all of us!" I told my friend, Rolf, Oscar and Boyd's younger brother the meeting.

So let me summarize this, Titatia was rather happy after those 10 joined the mercenaries just yesterday because "they have to protect Ike from an evil organization of villains" as Chris said before, at first, Oscar was suspicious about them, but decided later to trust in them (after I told them how did they rescued me), right now as Rolf and me were gathering wildflowers in the good morning early.

But something was bothering me about that organization trying to kill my brother, were they of trust? Were they good people?

To change the subject, Rolf is a very important friend to me, ever since his parents died when he was little, Boyd and Oscar decided to take him in with us since he had nowhere to go.

And I need to tell you this, we were best friends after a short while.

"Really? That's good!" Rolf said laughing a little.

"I think the mercenaries will have a lot of help after they joined us, isn't that great? I even heard my brother wanted to know more about Marth and Roy that he asked them to train with him!" I said smiling.

"Well...that's good too, I want to be of help too someday..."

"What do you mean?" I asked confused.

"I need to do something to show my brothers I'm not weak, I need to find something where I'm good at..." He trailed off.

"...Well, I'm trying to find my own way to help too, Ike is just too blunt and a little reckless that he has been hurting himself on his trainings."

"Maybe you can ask Rhys to teach you how to heal?"

"...Hmm...I have never think about that before....it's settled! I'm going to ask him to train me in secret to surprise my brother!" It couldn't get any better for sure, I was excited to ask Rhys to train me and become a healer just like him, even Rolf was pumped up for the look of his face.

"Oh, there you are."

I smiled and chuckled heartily, I forgot the voices of my new friends in a day, I wanted to know them better when I heard them behind me, so I turned my head to greet them cordially, surely, my mother sent me some way to enjoy this beautiful day in the morning together with my best friend Rolf, yes, I know, I'm so very happy right now.

Bandit Hold

FORGET TOTALLY ABOUT WHAT I SAID BEFORE, please, I just got kidnapped together with Rolf. All the things mentioned before were turned upside-down, I was now very mad, but afraid since I got kidnapped, and ever worse, Rolf was getting worried by the look of his face, and did I mention I just got kidnapped?!

"Mist...I-I'm scared..." Rolf whispered while we were inside the hideout, crying a little, and for my bad luck, I was a crying a little too.

...And I tried to hard to stop my nose from running, Ike was making fun of me if he saw me with my nose running, and why did they tie us up? I can't clean my nose!

"Don't worry, I know my brother will come to rescue us..." I said sniffing a little.

"What about my brothers?"

"They will come along with Ike."

"And the new mercenaries?"

"They're with Ike, of course."

"Hey you! Stop talking!" One of the bandits said angrily shouting from a table.

"...I'm scared..." I said biting my lip.

"M-me too..." Rolf whispered sobbing a little.

[DededeCloneChris]

"...Huh? T-they're coming this way!" I heard a bandit shouting, what was odd was it was only one of the many bandits, there were only 2 of them left here.

"And where's our boss?" The bandit that was guarding us asked.

"They killed him!"

"W-what?! That's impossible!"

"What do we do with these kids?!"

"H-hey! I'm far more mature than you are, jerk!" I shouted before they approached closer to us. "W-what are you doing with us?!"

"Heh, isn't that obvious? We're going to use you as shields."

"Huh?!" Rolf gasped.

"T-that is the most dirty way to win a fight, battle like men!" I said crying a little, my nose was running even more, I was really scared...

"You mean battle like living men!" The bandit said laughing before both of them grabbed us to go outside, the light blinded me for a moment and we stopped in front of the house.

"W-w-we are done for Mist..." Rolf whispered scared.

"H-have faith, there must be a way to escape..." I whsipered back to him.

Then, the 4 of us heard a sound coming from the roof and looked up.

"W-what was that?!" Rolf scared before the bandit hit him.

"Shut up!" The bandit said. "Whoever is above the roof, show yourself!"

"..." Nothing happened.

"Grr, you, get above the roof and take out the first person you see there, I'll keep an eye of the crybaby." The bandit ordered the other one who released Rolf but sat on the ground scared of the bandit's glare.

"(I am not a crybaby...I am not a crybaby...)" Rolf thought.

Several minutes passed and the second bandit didn't returned, I was afraid something bad happened, because if there was someone trying to rescue us, I'll be very happy then.

PUNCH!

"UGH!"

"(Was that the bandit's voice or our rescuer's voice?)" I thought, before a shadow appeared from the roof...it was the bandit...who fell quickly to the ground, knocked out of cold.

"What happened to you?!" The bandit asked angrily to a dead man's body, he was dead, not knocked out of cold, sheesh, he was talking to a dead man...

...

...I never say sheesh!

"Enter the great, Falco!"

...I was waiting Roy to rescue me! No fair!... Oh, how embarrassing, I just expressed my feelings...

Ahem, were I was? Oh yes.

Falco came doing a high jump in front of the bandit that held me by his arm (it was dirty, eww), I gasped when he tried to kick him hard, but I was in the way, what surprised me was that he hit his face directly without even touching mine, the bandit released me for a moment enough to run for Rolf and get him up to hide, but it was too late, because the bandit was already killed on the ground as Falco smiled to us.

"Good, you 2 are okay." Falco said.

"Thank goodness somebody came to rescue us!" I said, well, I'd rather have Roy than Falco, but then again, we were saved.

"Mist!" Ike yelled from afar coming with everyone else.

"Ike!" I ran towards my brother and gave him a hu-

"Is your nose running?"

STOMP!

"Ugh!" Ike twitched after I stomped his foot to shut him up.

"Brother! You came for us after all!" I said happily.

"Rolf!" Both Boyd and Oscar yelled running towards Rolf.

"Brothers!" Rolf cried.

"You're fine?" Oscar asked.

"Y-yes! Fortunately!"

"That was very risky," Titania said. "I want to have a talk with many of you for dissobeying my orders."

"Er..." Boyd looked away.

I saw Marth shifting his eyes, before he shouted "FALCO! MOVE!"

"What?" Falco asked confused, because an arrow was just going to hit him between the his eyes at high speed, but he dodged just in time as it barely scratched his face. "Hey! Who did that?!"

"Darn it! I almost got the sub-human!"

"That voice..." Ike trailed before from some trees, Shinon came cursing under his breath.

"Why are all of you with a filthy sub-human?"

"H-he isn't a filthy sub-human!" I said.

"Hmph, you have to be so kind to everyone, even this scum, don't you?" Shinon said looking away.

Then, Gatrie came in panting heavily, and his face was red. "Deputy Commander... Shinon...hah...hah... You're both so cruel. With this armor on, you know I can't run that fast..." Gatrie said.

Okay, I think this was enough of my narration for now, it was great to narrate all of you this part, so, I leave this to another person who can narrate everyone's perspective better than me, see you!

Oh, I forgot, we're skipping the part of the pirates problem to make things more interesting.

Mercenary Fort
Training Grounds

The next day early in the morning...

"Alright, let's see you 2," Marth said looking at Ike and Chris. "Lately, both of you have been a little unusual on the battlefield."

"W-what do you mean?" Chris asked.

"Chris, your skill with the sword has been going down lately, I mean, you killed a soldier without slashing, rather using the weight of your sword..."

Flashback

Chris was climbing up a rock behind a bandit and put his sword pointing down at him. "Well...here goes..." He closed his eyes, and put his other hand on the sword, and quickly he above the bandit at high speed, killing him using the sword's edge and weight. "Gross! Blood!"

End of flashback

Chris blushed. "H-hey! At least I killed him!"

Marth shook his head. "But that's not the point, people are going to laugh at you for the way you fight."

"Ah, Marth, I see you're training Ike." Greil came behind Marth.

"Yes, we were talking about his way of using his sword."

"...(What the...)" When Greil looked at Chris's sword (that was shaped like Ragnell, but in a light-blue color), he gasped a little. "...It can't be..."

Chris began to sweat. "I-it's something wrong?"

"Nothing, your sword seems to be strong to me, that is all."

"(Phew.)"

"Father, it is alright if they come with us?" Ike asked.

"Hmm, they seem to be very strong, and it is quite the surprise to see young children," he looked at the Ice Climbers, who were cutting down firewood. "Like them to be powerful."

"What about the 2 sub-humans?" Shinon appeared from behind him.

"Shinon, stop calling them sub-humans, even if they look odd, our group has not gotten members like them before."

"Tsk, fine."

"As I was saying before, it impresses me, really."

"Thank you sir." Marth said bowing.

"And you are a prince from a kingdom we never heard of before."

"Yes, I lead my own army."

"You mean this army?"

"...Something like that."

"It is a great honor to have such members working with us, and since you are training my son, please, continue, I want him to be strong so that he can someday lead the Greil Mercenaries."

"(...I'm feel sorry for you sir...)" Chris thought while Shinon glared at Ike when Greil said that about him, he didn't wanted to be ordered around someone younger and inexperienced than him.

"I heard there is someone as young as you and Ike named Roy, where is he?"

"Roy is trying to know better the other mercenaries of the company."

"And I beat Ike on his training." Boyd came talking with Roy.

"You seem to be very confident of yourself, was that the truth, Ike?" Roy asked.

"No, it was the other way around if I can recall." Ike said.

"Er..." Boyd looked away. "N-no, it wasn't!"

"Boyd, I even saw your defeat in the hands of Ike." Greil said, Chris and Roy chuckled.

"...Fine, Ike was the strongest one to defeat me." Boyd said rolling his eyes.

"What really is impressive is the animated puppet that can talk, are you sure you are not using magic to control him?" Greil asked.

"Geno is 100 percent real, believe or not." Roy said.

"And he is very reliable." Chris said.

"Did you call me?" Geno asked walking to them.

"No, we didn't, we were talking about your abilities." Roy said.

"Chris, I need to talk you about something."

"Yes?" Chris asked.

"It's about the next Star Spirit, we haven't been attacked by the Subspace Army or the next guard, doesn't that seems wrong?"

Not far away from them, there was a skinny dark figure crackling evily. "Geno, so it's you again..."

"Greil is with them?" There was a tall knight with purple armor standing there like normal.

"Yes, I heard Greil was your master." Ganondorf said behind him.

"And he..." He looked at Ike. "Is his son?"

"Yes, his name is Ike." The skinny figure said.

"Hmph, he may be as headstrong as Greil is...is that the?!"

"It's something wrong with the kid?" Ganondorf asked.

"T-that is Ragnell...no, it looks like Ragnell, why is that child using that sword on his filthy hands?"

"You may as well stay away from that kid, he has strange powers with him."

"And that is the reason of why he is using Ragnell?"

"...Hm?" Ike looked behind him.

"It's something wrong Ike?" Chris asked.

"I could have sworn there were people spying us."

Shinon quickly took out his bow and shot a fast arrow, but it hit the tree where they were hiding, although they were gone. "Rats, they went away!" Shinon cursed.

"Who could it be?" Chris asked.

"Probably the Subspace Army." Geno said.

"The Subspace Army is the army that you are currently fighting against as Titania told me about, right?" Greil asked.

"That's right." Marth said nodding.

"And they are trying to kill Ike?"

"Well...we don't know, but they're capable of doing that." Roy said.

"I'll do my best to stay on guard." Ike said.

"Hmm, since you saved my daughter twice, we can lend our help to you anytime you ask." Greil said.

"We'll do it too!" The Ice Climbers said walking to them.

"Such enthusiasm on all of you inspires me greatly," Greil turned his back. "I need to go to the mess hall, I hear someone was coming this way." He walked away.

"Ike, Chris, are you 2 ready for the training?" Marth asked.

"May as well start now." Ike said unsheathing his sword.

"Ike!" Mist came running to them.

"What is it, Mist?" Roy asked.

"He's back...Soren is back!"

"Soren? Why is he here so soon?" Ike asked.

"Who is Soren?" Geno asked.

"Soren is a dark mage, very focused on military matters that can irritate someone." Shinon said.

"Only he irritates you." Boyd said.

"Shut your mouth, Boyd"

In another area

10 minutes later...

"..." Meta Knight looked away. "Duck your head."

Falco ducked his head from the tree he was leaning to evade the arrow from Shinon. "What the heck is wrong with that guy?"

"Pit, move your right wing."

Pit moved his right wing away from another arrow. "He can fire from that distance?"

"It seems that way, Falco, left leg."

Falco moved his left leg from another arrow and frowned. "Why does everyone judge us by our appearances?"

"Because for the fact that we don't fit in any world rather than ours where we can, Pit, right hand."

Pit moved his right hand away from another arrow. "Why doesn't he stops? It's the 12th arrow now!"

"If he hates something that much, he'd rather kill it than spending time, Falco, crotch."

Falco continued to talk and tried to remember something Meta Knight told him. "I know if we can talk things over, maybe we can becom-wait, what did you say?!"

Mess Hall

"Bad news. Something big is happening, and we need to formulate a plan of action." A dark mage, Soren, said before Ike, Marth, Roy, Chris, Geno, the Ice Climbers and Boyd entered the hall.

"Soren!" Ike said.

"Hello, Ike. Long time, no see." Soren said simply with a blank expression.

"(That was just a little bit awkward.)" Chris thought.

"...Hm? I see we have new recruits..." Soren said narrowing his eyes at Chris's copy of Ragnell.

"...I-it's not what it looks like!" Chris said hiding the sword behind his back...with both hands that made him to fall.

"..." Soren sighed. "Why do I even bother..."

"Soren, they may look odd from first sight, but they are of great help to our company." Greil said.

"UUUUUUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"

"I'm guessing that yell was coming from one of the new recruits." Soren said frowning.

"(Wait a minute, where is C. Falcon?)" Roy asked in his mind.

In yet another area of the fort

"I'm only interested in missions that include women, what about you?" Gatrie asked to C. Falcon.

"Same here pal, although most of the time many of my own missions don't include them." C. Falcon said before Gatrie patted his back and sniffed.

"I suffer your own pain."

"Thanks for understanding my feelings, I think this is the start of a great friendship, man..."

Mess Hall

"(...I'd rather not ask about him anyway...)" Roy thought sweatdropping.

"Soren, why are you here so soon?" Greil asked.

"It's because... Crimea and Daein fell into war not too long ago." Soren said.

"What!?" Ike asked shocked.

"I need to get everyone here to discuss things, it's for the best."

Another 10 minutes later...

"Is everyone here?" Soren asked, glancing at Ike, Greil, Mist, Titania, Boyd, Oscar, Rolf, Gatrie, Rhys, Shinon (shooting glares at Pit and Falco), Chris, Marth, Roy, Geno, Popo, Nana, Pit, Falco, C. Falcon and Meta Knight. "Good, as I was saying before, Crimea and Daein fell into war."

"Where's Crimea and Daein?" Popo asked.

"(You have got to be kidding me.)" Soren thought irritated.

"Shh! Popo!" Roy whispered to Popo. "We're in the Crimean Kingdom, meaning we are in Crimea!"

"Oh! Sorry! I forgot just a moment!" Popo said embarrassed before Soren let out a small grunt.

"...Going on where I left, take a look at this map." Soren said showing them a big map.

"So this is how the Crimeam Kingdom looks like." Marth remarked the details of the map.

"Don't tell me you don't know about Crimea either."

"Soren, don't be harsh on them, they came from a far distant land named Altea." Greil said.

"That explains the ignorance of this nation to you."

"Why you little-" Roy tried to strangle Soren, but Marth stopped him.

"If anyone doesn't have many more interruptions, this is Melior, the capital of Crimea." Soren said pointing at the map.

ANOTHER 10 minutes later...

"That's all right. Word of the war cannot have traveled far yet. We may well be the first ones who know of it out here. You did well to bring us this information, Soren. I know some risk was involved." Greil said as many were shocked at Soren's report.

"It was nothing." Soren said.

"(Suuuuuuuure.)" Roy thought.

"Daein has invaded Crimea... We may be mercenaries, but this still affects us." Titania said.

"What are we going to do?" Ike asked.

"Kick their asses!" Popo said swinging his hammer.

"POPO!" Most of the Smashers said annoyed.

"That's the question of the day. How do you see it, Titania?" Greil asked, ignoring Popo's answer.

"Crimea is the closest thing our company has to a homeland. The Crimean royal family and noble houses have been generous, providing us with many lucrative jobs. From a moral standpoint as well as a business one, it's in our best interest to help Crimea." Titania said.

"And you, Soren?"

"I agree on one point: we are mercenaries." Soren said.

"But I just became one!" Popo said.

"Popo! Hush!" Nana said frowning.

"(And do you think I care?) We are not Crimea's private militia. No coin has crossed our palms, so I think we should stay out of it." Soren said.

"What kind of coin is t-" Nana blocked Popo's mouth.

"Just don't mind him." Nana said.

"So you would have us sit and watch as Crimea is overrun?" Greil asked.

"I would. Daein's troops are superior in both numbers and morale. The chances of a Crimean victory are slim indeed."

"Sorry, but I have a contradiction," Marth began, "I believe with our help, this war is going to be easy."

"How in the name of Elincia can you say that? Daein's troops are a force to be reckoned with!" Soren said a little shocked.

"Crimea is ruled by King Ramon, who is known throughout the land for his wisdom. And his brother, Duke Renning, is said to possess peerless valor and courage. Daein may not find victory so easily." Titania said.

"Valor and courage are for children's tales."

"Is not!" Popo said.

"Popo, for the last time, just shut up!" Nana said angrily.

"(If that kid doesn't shut up, I'm going to resort to drastic measures.) In terms of military prowess, Daein's King Ashnard is every bit Lord Renning's equal. Victory will hinge on troop numbers and supplies, and Daein is superior in both. I think the outcome is painfully obvious." Soren said, trying to tolerate Popo as far as his very calm mind could possibly do.

"Curse you, Soren!" Greil said angrily.

"About Crimea or the parka kid?" Soren joked a little.

"Not him! Crimea is not doomed! If they can turn aside Daein's initial thrust and turn it into a test of endurance..."

"With the Crimean army both demoralized and ill prepared? They simply will not be able to hold out that long."

"And what if we take a look ourselves?" Marth suggested.

"We'll send a scouting party to get a closer look at Melior. Ike, I want you in charge of this. Assemble your men and get going." Greil commanded.

"What? Me?" Ike asked shocked.

"It's the opportunity of a lifetime, Ike!" Roy said.

"You can finally show your father how well can you command people." Marth said.

"And think about this, if I die, you'll get the full responsability and will probably be murdered someday!" Chris said and everybody stared at him. "...What?"

"...Titania will accompany you as an advisor." Greil said.

Shinon didn't liked one bit of this and stepped forward. "Commander, you must be joking! He's just a boy, and he's had barely more than a taste of battle. What do you expect a whelp like him to accomplish?"

"May I have the word?" Pit asked. "I know you dislike my presense and Falco's, but I know I speak for everyone here that you must listen to the orders of your superiors."

"Repeat that on my face to see if I can kill you."

"Both of you, stop!" Geno said. "We have the problem of the war coming up, and you're starting one here!" The scene shows everyone while Geno talks. "I know, many of you dislike the other group, others like some people like us, but what I want to mean is that we have to stop this war!"

"...I like Geno's idea, simple and yet good." Boyd said nodding raising his hand.

"Even if we are few, we can still give it a try." C. Falcon said.

"After all, we are mercenaries of Crimea." Oscar said.

"A group that works for money and helps the kingdom itself!" Gatrie said.

"Goodness and love will always win." Chris said.

A sudden moment of silence fell after he said that.

"...What?"

"That is the most cheesiest thing I've ever heard." Roy said.

"And what if I tell Lloyd says that all the time?"

"...He does?"

"(Please, tell me he is joking...)" Soren thought irritated.

"Ah, Shinon. Since you're so concerned, you can go as well." Greil ordered.

"Wait, that's not what I... Blast." Shinon cursed under his breath.

Falco slowly approached to Chris's left ear and whispered "Owned!"

Chris chuckled uncontrollably.

"You can take the new recruits with you along with Gatrye, Rhys and Soren...wait, where is Rhys?" Greil asked.

"And where is Mist?" Nana asked.

"Well, they were here just a moment ago!" Chris said.

Training Grounds

"Mist, are you alright to continue with this?" Rhys asked to Mist who was panting heavily using a staff.

"Yes... I want to learn healing magic to help my brother and everyone..." Mist said panting.

"And why in secret?"

"Because my brother could say something like, Mist, it's too dangerous to use magic, Mist, it's too dangerous to step on the battlefield, Mist, the plants from over there are dangerous, Mist, don't hold a sword like this, Mist, don't touch the meat it's hot an-"

"Fine, fine, I get it...somebody is coming! Hide your staff!" Rhys alerted her and she did it before Ike appeared.

"Mist, Rhys, there you are," Ike began. "What are you 2 doing here?"

"We were...talkng about the Daein war..." Mist said.

"And not with all of us?"

"Yes."

"...Okay, Rhys, we need to go now."

"Understood." Rhys said nodding before Mist gave Ike a sword.

"A sword? Where did you get it?" Ike asked.

"From Father. He told me to come and give it to you before the metting." Mist said smiling a little.

"It's beautiful."

"This is the first sword you've gotten that wasn't a hand-me-down from somebody, isn't it? That's great!"

"Yeah..."

Mist began to walk away hiding her staff. "Well, be careful! Oh, and bring me a souvenir! Something nice. I've never been to Melior before..." And she went away humming happily.

"Mist, I'm not going on a vacation. Sheesh!" Ike said groaning a little while Rhys merely chuckled at this when they walked away.

Preview of the next chapter

"I'm going to kill you Ike, tell me, you're not going to pair me with these filthy sub-humans?" Shinon said enraged.

"Are you expecting me to work with these idiot children too?" Soren said glaring at Ike.

...

"Hey guys, guess what!" Chris said excited.

"What?" Popo asked.

"The Over Limit gauge was filled!"

...

"Wait...isn't that..." Titania trailed off.

"It's the Black Knight!" Soren said shocked.

...

"Next time: Shinon and Soren, haters of the Smashers?!" Ike said.

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Chapter 83: Shinon and Soren, haters of the Smashers?

Capital Way

Our group of mercenaries, along with the Smashers, were now continuing their way through the plains, towards the capital, it was the afternoon, there wasn't someone waiting for them...yet.

Well, not now, but tension was rising up between the group in a wide open area.

"Oh god, something bad is going happen to us." Chris said.

"Why do you say that?" Boyd asked.

"Look around, we're in a wide open area, things always happen in WIDE OPEN areas!" He produced a long echo around the mountains too.

"Please, that is not going to happen." Ike said.

"Oh, you tell me, I experienced many things before and this one is no exception."

"Although I dislike his statement, it's the truth." Roy said.

"Wide open areas are suitable for wars." Marth said.

"And how does it feels to be in one?" Popo asked.

"Horrible, deaths, destruction and sadness." Titania said.

Popo gulped. "W-we're not going to die, right?"

"The chances are very high, we might die." Soren said.

"Why do you have to be so twisted?" Chris asked.

"Because we're dealing with Daein, a powerful nation ruled by King Ashnard."

"(And I'm talking to his son, the prince.)"

"It's something bothering you? You're staring at me with an odd look."

"N-nothing."

"..." Soren looked away as they continued to walk.

"Can I ask you a question?" Popo wondered.

"If is it not stupid, then yes."

"What is the funny drawing on your forehead? It's some kind of sign meaning you're some sort of emo boy?"

"...What did you just say?"

Nana smacked his brother and sweated after looking at Soren. "Don't mind my brother, he hit his head very hard when he was a baby."

"But really! I want to know what it i-" Popo was smacked again.

"Popo, ask another question or continue with this one, and you die." Nana whispered angrily to him.

"And simple don't get you 2 at all." Soren said frowning, walking away from the Ice Climbers.

"Great, look what you did, now he will think bad things about us!"

"You were the one who made us to look stupid if I can remem-"

We leave the killer pink Ice Climber alone, changing to Shinon.

"So sub-humans, why don't you change back to your "human" forms?" Shinon asked.

"Because we don't have one, we were born in this way." Pit said.

"Tsk, that's what sub-humans always say."

"Would you stop?" Falco began. "We're not sub-humans, we're not laguz, we're not weird, we are ourselves! Stop being a freaking racist!"

"Bird, say freaking racist to me and next time you open your eyes, you're going to see the heaven or hell."

"Oh yeah?"

"Yeah."

"Want to do it now?"

Shinon took his bow. "Why not?"

"Stop, both of you!" Geno said. "Remember, not wars between us."

"...Hmph." Both looked away with crossed arms.

"Why can't everyone get along for a change?" Roy asked.

"Those 2 do." Rhys said pointing at Gatrie and C. Falcon.

"With the money I get from working with the mercenaries, I'm going to give it all to my first girlfriend." Gatrie said.

"Well, I like better to first look at all the pretty women I find, then decide for one, but I just can't choose or find the appropiate one!" C. Falcon said laughing a little.

"Excuse me," Chris said. "But Gatrie's idea is going to turn out bad, I recommend you to not do that."

"Why is that?" Gatrie asked.

"Well...just don't do it! You're going to end being poor and with heart broken!"

"Ha ha! That's funny, that's is never going to happen!"

Chris just threw his hands above him. "Okay, but don't run to me and say what happened..."

"Just be confident, you'll do it just fine!" C. Falcon said giving him a thumbs up.

"Thanks, that will help." Gatrie said smiling.

"So, anyone has a clue of what are we going to find in Melior?" Oscar asked.

"Not really, we're not going at all to Melior, we're going to find a princess that was confined from the castle and public after we fight some Daein forces in a moment, Titania is in love with Greil secretly, Greil will die very soon, Ike will become the commander of the Greil Mercenaries, someday, Shinon will like the laguz, Soren doesn't knows but he's the prince of Daein and not a Spirit Charmer but a Branded, meaning he is son of Ashnard himself, Boyd loves Titania secretly not aware from the huge age gap, Mist will marry Boyd someday, Rolf will become an archer very soon and Mist will be a crappy healer worse than Rhys and Gatrie is going to be tricked and become poor after giving all the money he won in the war." Chris said.

The party was very shocked after hearing this that they decided to stop and become something else to prevent all these things from happening.

...Of course, that could happen, since Chris didn't said that at all.

"Maybe a lot of death bodies." Chris truly said.

"I expected that." Soren said.

"We expected that from you." Oscar said.

"Why aren't you cheerful for a change?" Popo asked.

"Because I think." Soren said closing his eyes in annoyance.

"Because you think?"

"Popo, he means you don't use your mind at all." Nana said.

Inside Popo's mind, there was a rat trying to figure out where was the cheese, needless to say, the cheese was behind his back. "I don't get you."

"JUST SHUT UP!"

"Halt!" Titania said stopping them. "I heard footsteps coming from over there."

"We've got Daein soldiers moving in on our location! And they don't look happy!" Gatrie said.

"...Wait, NO! HIDE!" Chris yelled hiding somewhere.

Everyone was a little confused at this, but decided to follow him afterwards to hide.

"Why are we hiding? Don't tell me you chickened out, chicken!" Shinon said.

"Shinon," Chris sighed. "Just shut up and hear me out, I'm so very annoyed by all your ramblings since we came from the fort to here."

"Why you little-"

"Stop Shinon," Titania began and Shinon looked away cursing. "May I ask why did we hide?"

"Look, doesn't that black aura looks familiar?" Chris asked pointing at the Daein soldiers and their boss, who were covered in a familiar black aura.

"The Shadow Bugs!" Geno said.

"The Shadow Bugs? Are they some kind of new bugs in Tellius?" Rhys asked.

"I wish they were," Pit said. "Shadow Bugs are black spores from the Subspace Army that take control of someone's body and greatly increases the strength."

"And we are going to fight those soldiers?" Boyd asked.

"Unfortunately, it seems so." Oscar said.

"Ike, since you're the leader, tell us what are your orders." Marth said.

"All right, Ike. Let's see how you handle the role of captain. Well? What are your orders, boy? We'll do what you say, so long as you hurry up and spit it out!" Shinon demanded.

"I know, I know! I'm thinking! Give me a moment, will you, Shinon?" Ike asked thinking.

"Bah. Useless! We'd be better led with Mist than this soft, untested whelp."

"She beat me at chess," Chris said ashamed. "She was very good for her first time."

"Let's see..." Ike examined the area. "We're in the middle of the road, and there's not much cover."

"WIDE OPEN AREA, remember?"
     
"I'm thinking, don't distract me! Hmm... Soren and Rhys are vulnerable, so we have to protect them from enemy attacks... Right?

"That's a sound strategy, Ike. I can attack from behind your defenses. Good thinkin-" Soren was interrupted.

"I'm not done."

"What?"

"Now that we have more recruits, I think we should sort everyone well around to have a much better defense."

"Very well thinking Ike." Titania remarked.

"So here's the plan, our offensive force will be Titania, Marth, Roy, Oscar, Boyd, Gatrie, Falcon, Chris (Chris: (WHY ME?!)) and Meta Knight."

"...Wait, I don't like where is this going..." Shinon said.

"And the next one, the defensive force will be the ones attacking from afar using arrows and magic while being protected by the others I didn't mention before."

"...Ike...don't tell me..." Soren trailed off, trying to not look at the Ice Climbers.

"Shinon will be protected by Pit and Falco, while Soren will do it with Popo and Nana, while Rhys will stay far away and stay alert for the wounded, of course, Popo, Nana, Pit or Falco need to prtect him together too."

"I'm going to kill you Ike, tell me, you're not going to pair me with these filthy sub-humans?" Shinon said enraged.

"Are you expecting me to work with these idiot children too?" Soren said glaring at Ike.

"I'm going to do it regardless your questi-" Ike was interrupted.

"They were rhetorical questions Ike, meaning we didn't wait for an answer."

"Why can't I be on the offensive force?" Falco asked, shooting glares at Shinon.

"You have to trust him and he will do that too." Ike said.

"...Fine, but thank me after we get roasted-bird for dinner." Shinon said.

"What was that?" Falco asked angrily.

"I know you 2 weren't going to accept it, that's why I'm leaving Geno behind with you to act as "peace creator." Ike said.

"Okay, I understand." Geno said.

"But I don't!" Nana said angrily.

"Boss! We found them!" A soldier said shouting.

Attack

"Mercenaries! Move out and don't die on my hands!" Ike ordered and the mercenaries spreaded and formed Ike's formation. "Just like you said, Marth."

"Exactly." Marth said nodding and running with Ike.

"Let's hit them many times to fill the Over Limit gauge!" C. Falcon said.

"Oh, but I'll be the first one to show off my Final Smash!" Roy said.

"Just concentrate and show off later, if I die, I'll haunt you in your dreams!" Chris threatened.

"The first soldiers are coming this way, be careful, they have the Shadow Bugs on their side!"

"Like if the Shadow Bugs are going to help us..." Meta Knight frowned.

"I wonder if Soren and Shinon will get along with them..." Chris wondered.

Since this chapter features the interaction between these 5 (or 6 in Nana's case), we will see what were they doing on the back of the offensive forces.

"First, Ike gets to be my captain, then, I have to be paired up with th-" Shinon was interrupted.

"Sub-humans." Pit and Falco repeated annoyed.

"Grr, why don't you 2 go away or something?"

"Funny, I was thinking the same thing...but about you." Falco said.

"Enough, please, we can't waste time arguing between ourselves or the enemy will kill us!" Pit said.

"I expected that from the puppet guy." Shinon said.

"Did you call me?"

"UAH!" Shinon backed away from Geno who appeared behind him. "What were you doing behind me and when did you appear there?"

"Since you started wasting your time in another unnecessary discussion with Falco, and he wasted time too."

"Wait, are you putting the blame on me too? He started it!" Falco said.

"Both of you were fools."

"Excuse me!?" Both asked angrily.

"What about Pit?" Falco asked pointing angrily at Pit.

"Hey, I was the first one who didn't wanted to have a fight!" Pit said defending himself.

"You 3 will fight together, you like it or not." Geno said before soldiers ran towards them. "Here they come, prepare!"

"Bah! With Shadow Bugs or not, this is going to be easy." Shinon said before shooting an arrow, but it bounced off. "What the?! My arrows didn't worked!"

"Of course not, you need to have a better attack than that."

"Useless bugs, fine! Many guys have weaknesses and they are no exceptions!"

"Glory to Tabuu!" A soldier said raising his sword.

"You're going down, pal! Without one eye!" Shinon said aiming his arrow at the soldier's right eye.

"Don't be stupid, nobody can hit an eye directly with an arrow!" Pit said.

His statement proved to be wrong, Shinon managed to hit the eye directly and the soldier yelled in pain. "What were you saying, sub-human?"

"He's still charging at us!"

"How about if I shot down his other eye?"

"How about if I kick his face?" Falco said dashing towards the soldier and jumped to deal a strong kick on his face, knocking him out. "Yeah, that's more like it."

"Behind you!" Pit shouted, Falco turned his head and 3 soldiers were about to slash his back.

"Geno Whirl!" Geno threw his quick whirl to ther heads, but wasn't able to defeat them. "Darn it, the attack didn't worked!"

"Leave those scums to me!" Shinon preparing to fire several arrows to their necks.

"Please, let me use my arrows too!" Pit said using his bow.

"Who do you think you are? A better sniper than me?"

"Maybe, maybe not, but I do admit you have better accuracy and aim than mine."

"...Tsk, just fire! Fire!" Both archers started to fire a barrage of arrows that made the soldiers to stagger.

"Now, attack them while they can't respond!" Geno shouted, Falco nodded and did the same thing like the last time, though he did the kick hitting the 3 soldiers with one strike, knocking them out.

Back with Soren and the Ice Climbers.

"I'd better reserve a grave in the cemetery." Soren said bluntly.

"Hey, my brother here is the stupid one, don't compare me to him!" Nana said.

"Yeah!" Popo said, making both of them to sweatdrop. "I-I mean, I'm not stupid!"

"Then you 2 better start acting, because they're coming this way." Soren pointed out as 2 soldiers rushed towards them.

"And you're not going to do anything?" Nana asked raising an eyebrow.

"I won't slack off, I have my wind magic with me to attack from afar," Soren looked around. "But be aware of the archers hiding in the trees, they could take me down."

"Popo, here they come, stay focused for ONCE."

"I'm always focuse-" Popo found a worm on the ground and ducked to see it. "Hi Wormy!"

SMACK!

"Popo! What did I say before?!"

"You killed Wormy, you bastard!"

"It was necessary to get you out of it!"

"You dorks, stay sharp!" Soren said angrily.

"I'm not a dork, dork!" Nana said angrily.

"You did not said that!"

"I did, I have freedom and liberty to express my thoughts!"

"Then just hold your position!"

"And I'm doing that, don't you see?!"

"Yes, but where's your brother?"

"Right here!" Nana looked behind her and Popo was gone. "POPO!"

"A LITTLE HELP OVER HERE!" Popo yelled while he was being constantly slashed by the soldiers.

"Rise, o violent winds!" Soren chanted before a explosion of winds pushed away the soldiers from Popo.

"You're not a bad guy after all." Nana said.

"I'm focused on this battle, following orders as I was instructed."

"Oh, you haven't seen anything about us at all."

"Nana! I need your help, they're chasing me!" Popo shouted while he tried to run away from the soldiers.

Soren saw various shines coming from behind leaves of the trees and gasped. "Archers! They're hiding in the trees after all!"

"But Popo need my support!" Nana said.

"Act fast or I'll be killed if you don't!"

"Wait, I have an idea, Popo, freeze them!"

"O-okay!" Popo said inhaling air and turning his to use Blizzard, which frozed the soldiers for 5 seconds, enough to him to reunite with Nana.

"You can breath ice?" Soren asked.

"Uh-huh, we have the ice in our names for something!"

"Popo, actually, we have the ice in our nicknames, not our names."

"Really? I thought my name was Popo Ice."

"..." Nana smacked her face and frowned. "...The archers!"

"They're starting to attack!" Soren said as arrows were flying towards him.

"Wait a minute, Popo! Let's make an ice wall!" Nana suggested.

"But how?" Popo asked.

"Simple, we breath ice at each other from afar, the ice breath will crash and make an ice wall, hurry! Soren can die if we can't do that!" Nana said dashing to the other side and both Ice Climbers used Blizzard pointing at each other, the cold wind crashed and quickly formed an ice wall where the arrows were stopped just in time from saving Soren.

"Hmm, good strategy." Soren said.

"How are we going to attack those archers?" Popo asked.

"If you use your hammers on the trees to shake them off, maybe you can push them to the ground while I cast my magic, where did he go?" Soren asked because Popo instantly disappeared.

"Shake them-off from tree I-will! Shake them-off from the tree I-will!" Popo sang while he smashed his hammer continuously on the tree to push off the archers.

"Go and help him, I will attack after they fall!" Soren ordered and Nana quickly ran to his brother to offer aid.

Eventually, the archers fell down the tree but prepared to shoot arrows to the Ice Climbers.

"(If I can use the wind at the right time to change the directions of the arrows, maybe I can deal more damage using their own arrows than using my magic.)" Soren thought while he chanted his spell.

"YIKES!" Nana yelled as the archers fired their arrows at the same time to them.

"Violent winds, change the directions!" Soren casted winds that appeared in front of the scared Ice Climbers, the winds attacked like a reflective wall that shot the arrows back to the archers's head, killing them with one shot. "It worked, that was close."

"I shall respect thou with thee loyalty!" Popo said speaking poetically.

"Popo...shut up..." Nana said frowning.

Back to the offensive force.

"It's the Over Limit gauge filled yet?" C. Falcon asked.

"No." Chris said.

"Now?"

"No."

"How about now?"

"No!"

"What about now?"

"No! We need more hits, keep attacking them!"

"Hey, why don't we use the items now?"

"I could use the Beam Sword to deal more damage."

"You're not fun, let me use the Super Mushroom!"

"No thanks, I don't want the mercenaries asking me to explain that...besides, I think you're going to boast your muscles to the enemies while you crush them."

C. Falcon shifted his eyes. "N-no, what makes you say that?"

"A hunch."

"Look out!"

"What?!" Chris turned his head and was about to be sliced by a sword, but Meta Knight appeared using Dimensional Cape to use Galaxia as a shield. "T-thanks Meta Knight!"

"Get out of here!" Meta Knight said, struggling.

"Wait, let me help you, keep him like that!" Chris said raising his heavy sword in the air to slam it into the soldier, killing him with a heavy strike. "Ugh! M-my sword got stuck in the ground!"

"There are more coming this way, go away!"

"I-I can't! I can't leave my sword here!"

"Die you pest!" The soldiers said in unison charging at Chris, Meta Knight grunted in irritation and used Mach Tornado to trap them in, continuously slashing them before stopping.

"C. Falcon! Use the Bunny Hood!" Chris said throwing the Bunny Hood to C. Falcon's head, but the captain backed away. "Use it!"

"No way, that thing will embarrass me in front of Gatrie!" C. Falcon refused.

"Use it! Meta Knight can't take 6 soldiers down alone!"

"...Okay okay!" C. Falcon dashed using the Bunny Hood on his head, dramatically increasing his speed. "FALCON KICK!" He yelled as his right leg catched fire and went fastly towards the 6 soldiers, the hood increased the speed of the attack and turned the captain into a ground-human meteor, blasting off the soldiers to the trees where they lost consciousness. "Ha! Take that!"

Unbestknown to C. Falcon, Gatrie was chuckling uncontrollably after seeing him wearing a ridiculous hat above his helmet. "Hehehe..."

"...Oh, damm you, Chris!" C. Falcon cursed, throwing the Bunny Hood away from his head.

"Bunny!" Chris yelled, taking out his sword from the ground before the hood could disappear.

"..." Meta Knight turned his back and flew away.

"So, I think he is the boss." Marth said glaring daggers at Maijin, the boss of the soldiers who was covered by the Shadow Bugs.

"You filthy Crimean soldiers, you will taste the judgement of Lord Tabuu!" Dark Maijin said laughing evily.

"Lord Tabuu?" Titania repeated.

"He's the guy who controls the Subspace Army, we haven't seen his face yet, but I know he causes all these problems to us." Roy explained.

"Surrender at once!" Dark Maijin demanded.

"But if we do that, we're going to be cowards, no thanks!" Boyd said.

"Surrendering could mean defeat." Oscar said.

"You're outnumbered, you should be the one surrendering!" Ike pointed out.

"Such stupid comments coming from you, the Shadow Bugs don't need to be underestimated, come forth!" Dark Maijin summoned spores of darkness that materialized into 6 Shaydas.

"W-what the hell are those things!?" Boyd asked.

"They're the monsters that works for them, be careful, they're strong!" Roy said before dashing towards one of the Shaydas, who tried to slash Roy instead, but its blades and Roy's sword clashed. "Ugh!"

"Help is on the way, my friend!" Boyd said charging towards Roy to give aid, but 2 Shaydas slashed him. "Oww! T-that hurts you monsters!"

"Those pink cores that they have looks suspicious," Marth began. "Maybe they're their weak points?"

"Then let's see!" Oscar said ordering his horse to rush towards a Shaydas, Titania was the one who rushed first using her horse to block the blades of the Shaydas to let Oscar to impale his lance on the core, as expected as Marth said before, the core was its weak point and it went blasting off.

"My suspicions were right, attack the cores!"

"This should be easy then." Ike said.

"Have you forgotten completely about me?" Dark Maijin asked glaring at Ike.

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"Boyd is an ever greater challenge to me than you." Ike said.

"Thanks man!" Boyd said before he was pushed by a Shaydas.

"Die in the hands of Daein and the Subspace Army!" Dark Maijin said charging at Ike with his lance.

"Hold it!" Roy said stepping between the 2, using Counter to try to push Dark Maijin back.

"Roy! How did you do that?" Ike asked.

"A-ask me later...ugh! Help me!"

"Lances have the upper hand."

"Would you help me out?!"

"Fine, sheesh!" Ike said rushing towards Dark Maijin, but the boss took out another weapon. "Another sword?!"

"Hahahaha! I can wield a lance and a sword in each hand, thank the Shadow Bugs for that!" Dark Maijin said before thrusting his weapons on both swordmen, which dealt severe damage.

"Rhys! Roy and Ike need to be healed, do you work!" Oscar said struggling from a Shaydas's blades.

"I can't heal from this distance, someone has to offer me protection to get close to them!" Rhys said where Soren and the Ice Climbers were.

"Go with him." Soren said.

"B-but what about you?" Nana asked preocupied.

"If you didn't noted before, their boss and those monsters are the only ones left, go."

"Then with who are they fighting?" Nana asked pointing at Shinon's group.

"Fighting between themselves, it seems, the puppet Geno is trying to calm them down, but with no success and the sub-huma-"

Nana groaned. "For the last time, they-are-not-sub-humans! They are themselves! Why can't you believe in us!?"

"Because I have yet to see their "human" forms and...wait..."

"Human forms? Are you nuts? They don't have "human" forms, they can't transform into anything, because THEY can't from the beginning!"

"...I'll see by myself."

"Nana! Let's go, I'm bored of not doing anything!" Popo said swinging his hammer around.

"Please, lead the way and offer me protection." Rhys asked with a small smile.

"CANAIDAAAAAAAAA!" Popo yelled running to the front.

"...Chris! Just how many things did you tell to my clueless brother when I wasn't looking?!" Nana asked while they were running, spotting Chris trying to find the Bunny Hood in some bushes.

"How did you know it was me?!" Chris asked while he looked around.

"While those 3 are getting closer, I'll try to stop Shinon from murdering someone unnecessary." Soren said walking towards Shinon's group.

"Calm down! Please! Nothing good will come out from this useless dispute!" Geno said.

"Shinon, I don't think they are sub-humans, now, if you can, stop this nonsense at ONCE!" Soren ducked in time to evade an arrow. "Shinon! You just were going to kill me with that thing!"

"Soren, I don't listen to orders coming from a bastard like you." Shinon said.

"Always the uncooperative loner, I see."

"Me? Uncooperative? I'm trying to take these sub-humans down by mys-"

"OK, THAT DOES IT!" Falco said enraged stomping the floor.

"Falco, don't get away by hi-" Pit was pushed away to the ground by the avian and put a grip on Shinon's neck.

"Listen you! If you don't stop being the bastard racist you are, discriminating someone that ISN'T a stupid sub-thing, I'm going to be the one to shut your mouth, but for the eternity!"

Shinon put a grip of Falco's neck. "And you listen to me, do you think I'm going to hear your demands towards me? I'd better off to roast you for dinner to end this nonsense as Soren said before!"

"CHRIS!" Falco shouted. "GIVE ME THE SUPER MUSHROOM TO SHOW THIS GUY WHO'S THE BOSS AROUND HERE!"

"I don't support disputes, sorry!" Chris said from afar.

"I'M GOING TO KICK YOUR SORRY ASS IF YOU DON'T, BELIEVE ME!"

"Lucario's going to do the same thing, remember!"

"(...Well, that's true...)"

"So, you're done, sub-hum-" Shinon was interrupted before Falco lunged at him and started a fight while they argued.

PUNCH! SMACK! PUNCH! PUNCH! SMACK! HIT! PUNCH!

"Do something, at this rate, they're going to kill each other!" Geno said.

"That's the idea!" Both said before returning to the fight.

"Geno, and..." Soren trailed off.

"Pit." Pit said.

"Pit, back away, I'm going to end this nonsense at once."

"How?" Geno asked.

"Back off." Soren said before chanting a spell.

Back with Chris...

"Chris, you should stop searching for that, the items disappear after a time."  Marth said.

Chris stuck his head out of the bushes. "Oh...yes...I forgot..." An explosion of wind ocurred after he spoke, where Soren and the others were, 2 persons in particular (coughShinoncoughFalcocough) yelled in pain after that.

"Shh! Chris! Over here!" Kawashima called him from his pocket.

"What is it?"

5 seconds later...

"Hey guys, guess what!" Chris said excited.

"What?" Popo asked.

"The Over Limit gauge was filled!"

Music stops

Most of the Smashers (even Falco) stopped doing their things and looked at Chris with widened eyes.

"Really?!" They asked.

"Stop ignoring me!" Dark Maijin said, before Roy pushed him away like he was nothing to him, even Ike was a little shocked, even the mercenaries, what was so special about this Over Limit gauge?

"...So...who is going to use the Final Smash?" Chris asked a little confused.

20 seconds later...

"We The Palutena! For I'll Get can fight Give me Caelin! show out of fight..." Between many other sentences from the interested ones (the Ice Climbers, Pit, C. Falcon, Roy and Falco) were heard, not syncronized at all, and the Over Limit wasn't activated either.

"Ugh! Why can't they just shut up for a moment?!" Boyd asked as he fought Dark Maijin by himself.

"Well, there's a magic called "Over Limit" that lets them use a powerful attack, but to use it, one must hit a target many times to fill a bar or gauge, then say a special sentence to activate it, since everyone are saying their sentences at the same time, they can't use it." Marth explained.

"They're repeating it again." Titania pointed out before attacking a Shaydas.

"Why can't any of them focus right now?" Oscar asked.

"Because this is the first time they can see their powerful attack." Marth said.

"Why they don't just decide?" Soren asked.

"It's the same thing when we need to decide to eat something for dinner, it ends always in a fight or food fight."

"Why don't you use it instead of them?"

"What do you mean?"

"I think they can't use that because their sentences are mixing up in the same place, however, you are far away, try to use it."

"Hmm...well, I'm quite interested in seeing my own attack so..." Marth paused for a moment and lifted his sword in the air. "For the kingdom of Altea!" Marth shouted to the sky and an explosion of rainbow aura covered him and his eyes glowed.

"So, that's the Over Limit." Soren said.

"...I thought you were going to be surprised." Marth said.

"Amused, in reality, surprised would be seeing someone as the Black Knight in this field, which is not going to happen."

"The Black Knight?"

"One of Daein's Four Riders, they have blessed weapons that are impossible to break or deal damage without another blessed weapon." Soren explained, while Boyd was pushed away by Dark Maijin.

"But they are in Daein, right?"

"Of course, but with this war, they're probably on the loose."

"I see..."

A moment of awkward silence soon followed.

"...Are you going to use that "Final Smash" or something on their boss?" Soren asked raising an eyebrow.

"Oh, right, I forgot." Marth turned his back and dashed towards Dark Maijin.

"So, they send a small guy to take me out? How pathetic!" Dark Maijin said while he tried to hit Meta Knight with both weapons.

"Frankly speaking, you're no match for me." Meta Knight said while he dodged his attacks.

"What did you say?"

Meta Knight knew the moment to make him angry. "What you heard, are you deaf?"

"WHY YOU LITTLE PIECE OF-"

"NO! META KNIGHT!" Ike yelled stepping between them.

"NO! YOU IDIOT!" Meta Knight yelled at the sudden event.

SLASH!

"AAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!"

"IKE!" All the mercenaries (surprisingly, even Shinon) and the Smashers yelled worried at the same time before Ike collapsed with a severe wound as he twitched in pain.

"B-blood is getting out of his arm!" Chris said twitching in fear.

"YOU WILL NOT MOCK MY PRESENCE!" Dark Maijin said laughing evily. "Huh?!"

"Ha!" Marth's sword Falchion shone brightly and at blinding speed, he dashed towards Dark Maijin who held his weapons pointing at Marth.

"Bah! Do you think a mere sword is going to-" Marth's sword was able to desintegrate both weapons when the swordsman pointed it at Dark Maijin, but the sword didn't even touched the weapons, the wind that the sword created was very hard and made the work. "WHAT THE?!"

"Hmph." Was the only thing Marth said before stabbing Dark Maijin's armor, piercing his heart directly, then, the prince removed his sword and prepared to sheath it as his aura vanished. "Only the ignorants fall in battle," he sheathed his sword and Dark Maijin fell with a grunt. "You are no exception."

"Gwaa haa... Wretched curs... You will regret your decision to oppose Daein and the... Subspace Army... hehehe..." Dark Maijin said before he collapsed, and presumably died as the Shadow Bugs left his body and vanished.

"First, I need to say Marth's Final Smash was incredible, a critical hit, I think, second, IKE!" Chris ran towards Ike.

"Is he okay?!" Boyd asked.

"Let me see his arm!" Rhys asked.

"UGH!" Ike twitched more in pain.

"Not good, he received a lot of damage, and his blood is quickly leaving his body, we have to take him back to the fort!"

Pit looked at Shinon, who was searching for something in the dead bodies of the soldiers. "What are you doing?" Pit asked.

"This swine's got some nice weapons. Besides, he ain't gonna complain. He won't need them where he's going." Shinon said.

"And where is he going?" Popo asked.

"Where dead people go, you idiot." Nana said.

"Skyworld?"

"What?" Pit asked with a glare.

"Get a hold of yourself! We can't afford such behavior right now. Steal from the dead on your own time." Soren said.

"What? You judgmental little-" Shinon was interrupted.

"Soren! Shinon! Stop this at once! This is no place for us to wastetime bickering amongst ourselves!" Titania said.

"Ooooh, tension between comrades, I'm experienced in that." Popo said before Nana smacked him. "See?"

"...Wait a minute, where is Gatrie?" C. Falcon asked looking around.

"I haven't seen him ever since he laughed at you for the Bunny Hood." Meta Knight pointed out.

"You have to remind me those things, don't you?"

"....ruuuuuuuuuUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuunnnnnn!!!" Just then, Gatrie dashed past in front of them, carrying an unconscious beautiful lady on his arms towards the fort.

"Hey, Gatrie, score!" C. Falcon said making a thumbs up, before Chris kicked his crotch. "OWW!"

"You perv! Behave yourself!" Chris said irritated. "Why was he running away?"

Everyone looked at the direction where Gatrie came from and Geno took a closer look. "...You!"

There was the dark-skinny figure approaching, laughing evily, his head had a spear, but he had a long, sharp stick on his right hand and a cape and...you know what? It's Yaridovich which was covered by the Shadow Bugs, it's hard to explain what the hell was that guy composed of anyway.

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"Geno...long time no see..." Dark Yaridovich said. "How have you been?"

"Yaridovich!" Geno said glaring at him.

"It's one of the generals of the Subspace Army?" Oscar asked and Geno nodded.

"Wait, just to complete this moment, Mallow needs to make a sudden appearance!" Chris said excited.

"How ironic, he will." Geno said.

"...No way...no (BEEP) way..."

"We have to take Ike to the fort, ignore him!" Oscar said turning his back and directed his horse towards the fort carrying the injured Ike, running with Rhys and Marth.

"W-wait, we can't leave! One Star Spirit is in his hands!" Geno said.

"I laugh at your "skinningness," my arrows will pierce you through no matter what." Shinon said, preparing to shoot an arrow.

"Hahaha... You're the laugh here, my boy." Yaridovich said.

"What'd you say?" Shinon asked with a glare.

"I have company with me, or should I say, powerful company?"

"The Greil Mercenaries... Where is Ike and Greil?" The soldier in the bulky, purple armor (that it looked purple by the sun, but was black) asked, appearing behind some trees together with Ganondorf.

"Ganondork's here?" Roy asked.

"Impudent little red-haired boy!" Ganondorf said grunting.

"Too bad Link isn't here to see me finish you!"

"...Wait, no! We have to retreat!" Chris said shocked.

"Wait...isn't that..." Titania trailed off.

"It's the Black Knight!" Soren said shocked.

"So even filthy Crimean people know about my strength?" The Black Knight asked.

"(Wait a minute...something is wrong with this...)" Chris thought, trying to remember something important.

Flashback

"How in the name of Elincia can you say that? Daein's troops are a force to be reckoned with!" Soren said a little shocked.

End of flashback

"Soren, do you know who is Elincia?" Chris asked.

"Why do you want to ask me that in a moment like this?" Soren asked.

"Answer me!"

"...Fine, Elincia is a princess confined from the castle and the public just for her safety and not cause national turmoil, only a selected few know about her existence, I was able to know about her and probably the girl that Gatrie was carrying was her." Soren explained and Chris looked to the Black Knight.

"(He wasn't supposed to appear yet, did we messed up something when we appeared here?)"

"Is something bothering you?"

"N-nothing..."

"What are you doing here?" Titania asked.

"They asked me Greil was "hiding" here, show him to me!" The Black Knight demanded, noticing that Roy and C. Falcon were running towards him.

"NO! BOTH OF YOU, YOU CAN'T DEFEAT HIM!" Soren yelled.

"I think otherwise!" Roy said lifting his sword.

"You're going down!" C. Falcon said.

"OK, I know what C. Falcon said was overused and cheesy, BUT PLEASE, DON'T ATTACK HIM!" Chris said shocked.

The Black Knight took out his sword slowly. "Enough with you!"

With a simple swing of his sword, the attacks that were going to collide into him were nothing, Roy's sword was flung to the other side of the field and C. Falcon suffered a great deal of damage. "UGH! The...pain...it's...too much...for me..." C. Falcon said holding his hand in pain.

"We are no match for the Black Knight, we must retreat!" Titania ordered.

"Then let's take the other one down!" Shinon said.

"No! Retreat, fall back!" Titania said running away.

"Grr... Fine!"

"But we can defeat them, I know that!" Popo said running along with the others.

"I'll explain the situation in the fort, just keep moving!" Soren said running.

"C. Falcon, i-it's your hand alright?" Chris asked.

"I...think so...but...he rendered it with one slice..." C. Falcon said twitching a little in pain.

"I hate to run away from a fight...but..." Falco trailed off.

"Trust me, it's for the best!" Chris said.

The mercenaries and the Smashers managed to run away from the trio, who chuckled evily at this as they disappeared in the distance, then, the Black Knight began to walk to their direction.

"Let's make an assault to their fort." The Black Knight said walking.

"You want to kill Greil right now." Ganondorf said with a smirk.

"Right, this shall be the day for his death and funeral, along with his son and daughter."

"Don't forget about Geno, that freak will go down as well." Yaridovich said.

Mercenary Fort

Crimean Army Sortie

"Mist! Everyone is coming back!" Rolf said with a smile after he saw everyone else returning back.

"Really? I thought they were going to Melior," Mist began, before her eyes saw something. "Hey...isn't that my brother?... Ike?"

"Reunion at the mess hall, we got an injured soldier!" Oscar yelled from afar.

"Who got injured?" Rolf asked to Mist.

"I don't know..." Her eyes quickly widened while her pupils shrunk.

"What is it?"

"...Ike...Ike...IIIIIIIIIIKEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!" Mist cried out after seeing his brother deverly injured, the soon-to-be healer ran towards them, trying to not cry.

"What is the ruckus all about?" Greil asked.

"It's Ike! H-he got injured in the arm!" Roy said when they arrived.

"Ike?!"

"Ugh!" Ike twitched in pain while Rhys tried to heal him.

"What happened to him?! Tell me!"

"Who is that woman?" Rolf asked, pointing at Elincia.

"Reunion at the mess hall, I shall explain the situation." Soren said calmly.

Mess Hall

"The Black Knight?!" Greil said a little shocked.

"Yes, she is the princess of Crimea as I have explained before." Soren said.

"There's no doubt those bastards are heading to our location now." Shinon said.

"A battle in our own fort?" Gatrie asked.

"It seems that way." Marth said.

"Okay, since this fight is against someone very hard to defeat, we have to cooperate this time." Chris said.

"The odds of losing are very high, it would be a miracle to defeat the Black Knight." Soren explained.

"Leave him to me." Greil said.

"C-captain! You can't!" Titania said shocked.

"It is destiny for us to fight, sorry Titania, you must understand."

"...I-I do...but..."

"Boyd, is Rhys curing Ike?"

"Yeah, he is doing his best to heal him, Mist was crying for Ike and decided to help Rhys in everything she could do to see him." Boyd said.

"And Princess Elincia?"

"She's still sleeping, apparently, she was very exhausted after running." Rolf said.

"And who is watching her?"

Music stops

Dormitories

"Beautiful..." Gatrie said while he looked at Elincia

"A little sexy..." C. Falcon said while he did the same thing as Gatrie.

"But too hot..." Both said drooling a little.

Mess Hall

Crimean Army Sortie

"...I see..." Greil said before shaking his head. "Everyone! We must protect Princess Elincia from harm, do your best to protect this fort! But leave the Black Knight to me, that is an order!"

"We have to take out Yaridovich and retrieve the next Star Spirit too." Geno said.

"Don't forget about Ganondork," Roy began. "He will probably attack along with them."

"Please...I just don't want to die...again..." Chris muttered.

"...I shall offer my assistance to you." Meta Knight said looking away.

"...You will do it?"

"Yes."

"...Thanks."

"...Isn't this silence a little bit odd?"

"Silence?" Falco repeated.

"Open your ears and listen. Listen! All of you!" Greil said.

"Huh? ...What is it?"

"I'm hearing something!" Popo said.

"What?" Nana asked.

"Our voices."

SMACK!

"Moving on, I don't hear anything." Pit said.

"Idiot! That's the problem. Don't you think that's a bit odd? Complete silence, in all four directions." Shinon said.

"The silence is odd, there must be something happening outside." Marth said.

"Not only are the animals quiet, but the bugs are silent, too. And that is unnatural beyond belief. Which means..." Oscar trailed off.

"You can even hear animals and bugs!" Popo said, before Nana smacked his head.

"Wait... I heard something..." Soren trailed off.

"...Footsteps...a lot of them..." Shinon said.

"...I don't think so..." Meta Knight said.

"Why?" Chris asked.

"There are not only footsteps, there a rolling, sharp and heavy sounds, meaning they're bringing many of them, it could be a trap to lure us out, but we don't have a choice."

"Probably so. But the deal is, we're not so naive or inexperienced as to fall for their trap. Everyone, take your positions! We're going to settle this right now! Protect the fort and both Ike and princess Elincia from harm, I don't want my son to die this day!" Greil ordered.

"Understood!" All of them said before rushing outside.

Another dormitory

"Mist, bring me sample A." Rhys said.

"R-right." Mist said handing him a small green tube.

"Magic isn't going to work alone, we have to use medicines or combine them to create a better effect to heal such deep wound."

"R-Rhys..."

Rhys chuckled heartily. "Don't worry, Ike is not going to die or lose his arm, I'll try to heal him as soon as possible."

"...C-can I use my healing skills on him?"

"Well...I think that could ease the pain."

"T-then I will use them!" Mist said sniffing, taking out her staff.

"...Looks like a fight is going to start outside."

"What?"

"They're here, but stay focused on Ike, we must heal him as fast as we can!"

"(...Please...hang on...Ike...)"

Preview of the next chapter

"...Oh...my...god..."

"We're completely surrounded, they're everywhere!" Oscar said glancing around the field around the fort, finding a lot of Primids.

...

"Let's see how you handle it being a scarecrow!" Yaridovich said.

"A what?" Falco asked confused.

...

"We can't lose...not now!"

"Is the Over Limit gauge ready?" Roy asked.

"Not yet!"

...

"WAIT! NO! DON'T BE STUBBORN AND SACRIFICE YOUR LIFE!"

SLASH!!

"FAAAAAAAAAAATHEEEEEEEEEEEEEER!!!" Mist cried out dropping to her knees.

...

"Next time: The Unexpected Result!" Roy said.

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Chapter 84: The Unexpected Result

Mercenary Fort

Against the Black Knight

"All the troops have been assembled, we await for your orders." Dark Yaridovich said.

"Begin to infiltrate the fort and attack until they come out." Ganondorf ordered.

"Are we going to wait here for them to get to us?"

"If Greil can get through this army of monsters, then he is a worthy opponent to fight me." The Black Knight said.

"Do not worry about such pests, we can all take them down if we work according to the pla-" Ganondorf was interrupted by the Black Knight's sword away by mere inches of his throat.

"Interfere between me and Greil and you are only going to be a foolish dead man."

"T-this was not according to the plan! Then why did you follow us?!"

"I am one of Daein's Four Riders, we only fight for the good of our nation, but my matters are different, I fight in the war and fight people who are worthy to fight me."

"Y-you!"

"Enough, I have heard enough from you." The Black Knight said sheathing his sword.

"Grrr..."

"Now," Dark Yaridovich looked at all the army of Primids and different monsters slowly walking towards the fort, itching to destroy everything in sight. "ATTACK!!!"

The army of the Subspace accelerated and began to enter inside the fort, where a war for who would live through this would be put in risk.

Domitories

"What is happening outside?!" Gatrie asked after hearing a lot of sounds coming closer and closer to the fort.

Another dormitory

"Looks like the battle is going to start." Rhys said as he continued to heal Ike's arm.

Dormitories

"What do we do? Go outside or protect hottie-hot-hottie?" C. Falcon asked glancing at the unconscious princess.

Another dormitory

"Rhys, please tell me my brother is going to be okay!" Mist asked with tears on her eyes.

Dormitories

"I'm worried about Ike, he went through this and..." Gatrie trailed off.

Another dormitory

Mist got a little annoyed and looked at them. "Then, could you please help us instead of watching the princess?"

Turns out both parties were in the same dormitory after all.

"I-I'm not a healer!" Gatrie said.

"Me either!" C. Falcon said throwing his hands up.

"Then go outside and assist the rest, we can watch the princess in your places." Rhys said calmly, struggling to put a healing magic on Ike's arm.

"B-but we're leaving a-"

Mist pushed the 2 out of the dormitory and they looked at her once they were outside the door. "M-Mist! Please! Hear us firs-" Gatrie was interrupted by a door slamming into his face, courtesy of Mist.

"UGH!"

"IKE!" Mist realized she left her brother from being a victim to the pain and returned to her position to calm him down. "D-don't worry brother...everything is going to be just fine...trust me..."

Outside

"And a 3, and a 2, and a 1, and a-" Popo counted behind the door of the mess hall.

"SHOW YOURSELVES!" Greil yelled slamming the door open to find the entire fort covered by all kinds of enemies of the Subspace.

"...Oh...my...god..."

"We're completely surrounded, they're everywhere!" Oscar said glancing around the field around the fort, finding a lot of Primids.

"We have a lot of work ahead of ourselves, mercenaries! Battle stations! Defend the fort with your lifes! And bring the Black Knight to me!" Greil ordered.

Chris saw Sword Primids coming to him, but his attention was drawn to their own Beam Swords, but he, for the first time, grinned and took out his Beam Sword, throwing the copy of Ragnell (above Popo, who got crushed) and swung it like the famous Lightsaber. "Stubborness, I see." Chris said Yoda style.

1 minute later, however...

"So, you're telling me you got owned by 8 Primids with swords?" Boyd asked.

"Pretty much, that sums it up." Chris said Yoda style, he was left badly beaten up to a bloody pulp (even he had a black eye) and collapsed behind Boyd with a thud. "The Beam Sword, even I lost."

2 Sword Primids tried to attack Boyd. "Could you please stop talking like that?"

"Why not, I don't see," Chris said raising a finger. "Okay...I'm fine...now, where is my sword?"

"MHRRHRHRH!!" Popo called from afar, the sword above his head.

"...Oops...sorry Popo..." Chris apologized, he slowly got up and took back his sword from the Ice Climber. "...Say, you're still you, right?"

"Of course, Sally!"

"...I guess you're still you..." Chris shrugged and ran away, telling Nana about his brother.

"Popo! Get up! Soren needs our help!" Nana said.

"I thought nobody told us to protect him." Popo said as he got up.

"...Maybe I like that guy..."

Popo gasped. "You mean...you're...in...love?!"

SMACK SMACK SMACK!

Nana blushed. "O-of course not! H-he's far older than me! Now c'mon! We have to help them out!"

"Say, Nana."

Nana grunted in irritation. "Yes, my beloved and sick of the mind, twin brother?"

"For what are the prehistoric birds flying around my head?" And Popo lost consciousness, making Nana to sigh in disappointment.

"Violent winds, heed my c-UGH!" Soren was attacked by Fire Primids on his back.

"Soren!" Oscar yelled worried, he rushed towards the Primids and used his lance to push them away to check Soren. "Soren, are you okay?"

"Ugh...it was just fire...don't worry..."

"Just look at this mess..." Oscar glanced around, from what he could tell, Greil swung his axe to make a path by defeating Big Primids with Titania supporting him, Shinon was busy shooting arrows at every enemy that moved as fast as he could (and Pit was secretly helping him), Geno was firing bullets constantly to all the Boom Primids, Marth and Roy were watching each other's backs from Shaydas, Falco was shooting down the Auroros that were going to fall on them using his Blaster, though it wasn't enough, Chris tried to fight back the Sword Primids (using the newly learned Counter that was helpful to him) and Gatrie was seen watching Shinon's back using his lance. "Monsters are literally trying to take this fort down.

"Yes...but we are no exception, we must defend this with our lifes for the princess, if we can't do that, then everything will fail." Soren said dusting off his cape.

"...Hey...where is Rolf?"

"I haven't seen him since this conflict started."

"Oh no, I need to find him, if he dies our fathers will never forgive Boyd and me!" Oscar said ordering his horse to charge to another way.

"...Huh?...Isn't that the Black Knight over that hill?" Soren narrowed her eyes at a distant hill outside the fort.

"What? The Black Knight is over there?!" Greil asked taking 3 Big Primids down.

"...Yes! There he is!"

"Then here I go!"

"W-wait, you're not thinking in beating him!"

"That is the idea, anyone who wants to offer me a hand, follow my path!" Greil yelled raising his axe and yelling, pushing every Primid away from his sight.

"...Wait...this isn't right..." Chris muttered to himself, but he looked down and found a blue Nagagog. "...Er...I don't have time for you...sorry..."

The blue Nagagog didn't liked that and punched Chris's right leg.

"OWW!" Chris held his leg in pain. "Y-YOU LITTLE PIG! TAKE THIS!" He slammed his sword with all his forces and the Nagagog went several meters away from him, but it rubbed his stomach.

The blue Nagagog grew up a little to a yellow Nagagog and tripped over Chris.

"GET...OFF...ME!" Chris yelled furiously under the Nagagog's stomach and stabbed his chest, pushing him away.

The yellow Nagagog rubbed its stomach and it grew up to a big red Nagagog, making Chris's eyes to widen a little after comparing his size with the Nagagog's.

"...LOOK OVER THERE!"

The red Nagagog looked to Chris's direction, but the World Traveler decided to run away screaming. "C. FALCON! I LEAVE THAT THING FOR YOU!" He said as he passed C. Falcon, who cracked his fists and ran towards the red Nagagog.

"Ha!" C. Falcon's right fist caught fire and used Raptor Boost to take the enemy above the ground. "FALCON...PUNCH!" The red Nagagog was hit very hard that it went blasting off, vanishing while C. Falcon cheered a little before returning to the fight.

"My lord, I shall follow you." Titania said gathering with Greil.

"(If Chris said the Black Knight's armor can't be scratched...then...) I'll go too." Marth said dashing with Greil.

"I'll follow Greil." Roy said.

"If you're going where Yaridovich is, then I'll go too." Geno said joining them.

"Don't forget me!" Falco said as he finished with the Auroros.

"I-I need to retrieve the Star Spirit as well!" Chris said joining the group.

"Soren! You're in charge of the protection of the fort, order the others around and don't fail to me!" Greil said as they made their way through the enemy's army.

"Fine, but promise me you are not going to do something reckless that we may be disappointed." Soren said.

"Whatever! This is going to be the day my pupil will fall!" And they ran away.

"Soren! I saw various monsters trying to get where Ike was, not only that, all the monsters seem to be searching around the fort!" Oscar said.

"How do you know that?"

"We were clueless about some places around the fort, they entered inside each room but didn't destroyed a thing, then I got this strange idea, they're maybe trying to find Ike to kill him as they said before!"

"Darn it, there is no end for these things...alright, Oscar, keep searching for Rolf and tell the others to defend the room where Rhys, Ike, Elincia and Mist are, we're going to protect only that place from all of them, or else Ike will...nevermind, tell the others as fast as you can!"

"Roget that!" Oscar said before ordering his horse to rode him and tell the others about the plan.

"Soren! Thank goodness you're okay!" Nana said smiling a little.

"If you're saying because of my cape, don't worry, it's a small burn, anyway, we're going to gather where Ike is being treated, the monsters are trying to get to him."

"Not Ike the dike!" Popo said gasping.

"Popo, what was that supposed to mean?" Nana asked.

"I dunno." Popo said sticking out his tongue.

"..." Nana and Soren groaned in unison.

Back with Greil's group.

"Not good, more of them are coming this way!" Titania said.

"(I need to prevent Greil from getting killed or else the storyline will be messed up if I can't do that....)" Chris thought.

"HEY!" Falco shouted, kicking a Roader that was going to crash into Chris. "Chris, what was that just now? You were going to get attacked!"

"I-I'm sorry, my mind was in another place."

"Then concentrate, I'm not going to watch your back all the time."

"..." Chris stopped and looked away.

"..." Falco also stopped and looked at him. "...Sorry if that was a little harsh, I didn't meant to..."

"...It's okay Falco, I was being stupid."

"No no no, it was my fault...anyway, we have to follow the others, we can't let them have all the fun, right?" Falco asked grinning a little.

"...I guess you're right..."

"Now, be kind and give me the Super Mush-"

CRASH!!!

"I WAS AN IDIOT FOR LETTING YOU GET AWAY WITH MY HOSPITALITY! YOU JERK!" Chris said stomping as he got away, leaving Falco's face buried in the ground, the bird tried to take his beak out of the ground by the impact of Chris's sword.

"At least I saved you!" Falco's mouth said below the earth.

"Geno Beam!" Geno shouted firing his beam towards a Big Primid who backed away and rubbed its stomach.

"Ha!" Titania rushed forward thrusting her lance in the Primid, blasting it off. "The path is clear, move on!"

"Not yet!" Roy said spotting 3 Shaydas in the way, but he held his sword above his head, his sword was starting to shine brightly. "Marth! Pull them to me!"

"I know why." Marth said dashing to the Shaydas, he rolled behind and slashed them to get their attention, then the altean prince ran towards Roy to pull them to him. "Now Roy!"

"AAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!" Roy unleashed his Flare Blade that exploded, dealing a great amount of damage to the Shaydas who blasted off.

"That was incredible boy!" Greil remarked before dashing towards the area where the trio of villains were.

"We have even more of them, damm!" Falco cursed when...strange monsters with chicken appearances appeared from above, the Tickens.

"...I don't think these ones are dangerous." Chris said.

Unfortunately his statement was proven wrong, the pink gums over their heads turned into sharp horns and they rushed at the group, towards Marth. "AAH!!" Marth was struck from one coming behind and got pushed away.

"A new power?!" Chris asked to himself when he suddenly was shot directly to the same Ticken and slashed him, he learned to use Quick Draw.

"Leave me those monsters!" Greil said, swinging his axe in every Ticken, taking them down with few hits. "Ha! I bet this fight isn't that hard after all!"

"We're not with the bosses yet, that is going to be real fight!" Roy said.

"AAAHHH!!" Chris yelled loudly after he found a Floow about to yell its scream, he covered his face, but a slash was heard and the Floow was gone. "M-Meta Knight!"

"I told you before," Meta Knight looked at Chris. "I was going to offer you my assistance."

"...H-hey! You didn't do that before when we started!"

"I was busy."

"...Yeeees...I expected that from you."

"Focus!" Meta Knight yelled.

"H-hey! You don't have to yell at m-" He was kissed in the lips by a Bucculus. "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!" Chris pulled the monster out of him and slammed his sword to get rid of him. "O-ouch! T-that hurts and...it...was gross!"

"I told you befo-"

"Yes, yes, focus, let's go!" Chris said running with everyone else with Meta Knight. "You know, you're pretty fast in the ground rather than the air."

"I didn't noticed that before."

Chris sweatdropped.

Back in the fort...

"Gather!" Soren said, the remaining mercenaries gathered in the dormitory where Ike was being treated and Elincia. "Hear me out, we have to protect this place, and only this place until we dispose all these monsters!"

"For Ike!" Gatrie said raising his lance.

"For the Greil Mercenaries!" Boyd said raising his axe.

"For my safety!" Popo said raising his hammer and they stared at him. "...What?"

"ATTACK!" C. Falcon yelled, Soren remained close to the door while the others melee fighters decided to attack. "...Wait, Ganondorf!"

"Ganondorf?!" Nana repeated confused, Ganondorf appeared behind the army and smirked after seeing them preparing to rush and continue the fight.

"Hahahaha! We got you surrounded, surrender at once and hand over Ike!" Ganondorf proclaimed.

"No way, you're a rapist!" Popo said.

"W-what?!"

"Don't listen to my brother and just get on with the fight, I'm already sick of hearing his stupid things!" Nana said irritated.

"...Ahem...ATTACK!"

"N-no! that's my line!" C. Falcon said.

Odd thing was that the music stopped with a scratch.

Ganondorf smacked his forehead. "Seriously, do you have to be so darn stupid?!"

"Who are you calling stupid, clone!" C. Falcon said getting closer to Ganondorf while both parties just watched them.

"You are the clone, my skills are far superior!"

"Warlock Punch? A rip-off of my own punch, don't you think?"

"At least I don't say the name of my attack out loud!"

"It raises the epicness, EPICNESS!"

"Dumbness is what I see!"

"And dude, just look at your hair! You look like a freaking girl who just got out from the costume shop!"

"Do not dare to mock my hair, nipples man!"

"I'm more handsome than you are, wait, that's right, YOU'RE NOT HANDSOME!"

"You are not my enemy, where is Link and Zelda?!"

"Far away to stay away from your horrible look!"

And both continued to argue with each other, until they got in the typical cloud of dust for fights.

Pit looked at the army of the Subspace and tapped a Fire Primid's shoulder. "So...aren't you all going to fight us?"

The Fire Primid thought for a moment and nodded.

Against the Black Knight

"HA!" The Ice Climbers used Squall Hammer on a Towtow, the Towtow got furious and lunged at the twins, but Shinon appeared from nowhere in a tree and shot down the beast using 3 arrows at the forehead. "S-Shinon! Where were you?"

"Training my own pupil." Shinon said bluntly.

"Pupil?" Boyd asked.

From the tree that Shinon came from, Rolf jumped out using a bow on his right hand, he laughed after he saw them. "Hey everyone!" Rolf said waving at them.

"Your pupil is our brother?!" Boyd and Oscar asked at the same time.

"What the hell were you thinking Shinon?!" Boyd asked.

"Hey, the kid didn't wanted to leave me alone, he begged to be an archer and I gave up." Shinon said.

"A-actually, I was the one who shot the arrows." Rolf said.

"Shinon, this has to be the most, risky idea you have ever done before." Boyd said frowning.

"D-did I do something wrong?"

"No, it's not you, it what Shinon di-"

"Listen you, be glad we have another archer in our group, also, he saved the lifes of the twins." Shinon said.

"...Fine, but if Rolf dies, it will be your responsability." Oscar said.

"Tsk, fine, fine."

"B-brothers! Behind you!" Rolf shouted pointing behind Boyd and Oscar.

3 Armights appeared laughing and they prepared to slash their backs, but Soren used his wind magic to push one of the Armights to each other, preventing the brothers from being sliced. "Don't get distracted now, this isn't done yet."

"...Huh?" Gatrie felt a drop fall in his face and looked above, the sky was very dark and was sounding with thunders, then a heavy rain began to fall. "It's raining..."

"This is a premonition to something bad."

"S-something bad? Like what?" Pit asked.

"I don't know, but we must protect Ike!"

"Wait a minute, Rolf, are you hiding something from us?" Boyd asked.

"W-what?" Rolf asked.

"I thought Mist was going to cry all over Ike, but I haven't heard a cry from the dormitory."

"I-it's because she's strong and..."

Dormitory

Boyd opened the door and found Mist healing Ike along with Rhys. "What th-Rhys, did you teach Mist healing magic in secret too?!"

"It's there a problem with that?" Mist asked as she continued to heal Ike.

"Yes, as a matter of fact, I did, but she's good for her first time, Ike's arm is going to be recovered in no time." Rhys said smiling gently at Boyd, who closed the door after looking at the unconscious Elincia.

Outside

"Everything is going well, Ike's arm will recover soon!" Boyd announced as he returned to the fight.

"What a relief." Soren said chanting a spell.

"AND YOUR YELLOW SCARF LOOKS STUPID AN-" Ganondorf continued to argue with C. Falcon, both of them decided to fight for real this time, but still argued and insulted each other.

"AND WHAT ABOUT YOUR SKIN? ALIEN!" C. Falcon argued, missing Ganondorf using Falcon Punch.

"TRIANGLE EYES!" Ganondorf argued, missing C. Falcon using Wizard Foot.

"CREEPY HOMO!" C. Falcon argued, missing Ganondorf by using Raptor Boost.

"IRON NIPPLES MAN!" Ganondorf argued, missing once again by using Warlock Punch.

"GIRLY HAIR!" C. Falcon argued, missing the king of all evil using Falcon Kick.

"Hey, C. Falcon! Do you want any help?" Gatrie asked as he struggled to push away 5 Sword Primids's swords.

"LEAVE THIS CREEP TO ME!"

"...O-okay then..." Gatrie said pushing the Primids away and thrusted his lance after that.

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"I wonder how are the others now..." Pit trailed off. "Nice try!" He pulled out his Mirror Shield to reflect back a Fire Primid's fire back at it.

"They're probably beating the boss's ass." Popo said.

Pit looked at Nana who was half-bored. "Aren't you going to say something to him?"

"Why?" Nana asked. "He will probably be back to his old self once we get back to the mansion."

Back with Greil's group...

They managed to get where the Black Knight and Dark Yaridovich were. "Finally...the second Star Spirit is almost with us..." Geno said glaring at Yaridovich.

"Hey, where is Ganondork?" Roy asked looking around.

"He used a dark portal to appear in the fort." Dark Yaridovich said.

"Greil." The Black Knight said glaring at Greil.

"You." Greil said glaring at the knight.

"It is time for us to end this at last." The Black Knight said unsheathing his sword.

Greil put a grip on his axe. "Yes, but I will be the one winning this fight."

"Let us see then."

"Why not!" Greil said dashing towards the knight, but the Black Knight stopped him. "What is it now?"

"Use this." The Black Knight took out the real Ragnell and gave it to Greil.

Greil looked at the blessed sword in his hand but threw it behind his group. "I don't need that sword to defeat you, I will use only my axe!"

"Enough talking then, ha!" The Black Knight tried to slam his sword on Greil who used his axe as a shield, but the sword of the knight was blessed and was stronger than Greil's weapon.

"We have to help him!" Chris said.

"Leave me alone, this matter only concerns to me!" Greil said gritting his teeth.

"Even so, I'm not listening!"

"I will offer him my aid." Titania said.

"So will I." Marth said and both rushed to help the commander of the mercenaries.

"Leave the skinny guy to us, let's finish this before the rain causes me allergies...we can beat him, right?" Roy asked.

"So we're Meta Knight, Roy, Falco, Geno and me against Yaridovich...I'm not sure if we can win..."

"Use the items." Falco said winking to him.

"...Ugh, fine!"

"Gimme!"

"Here."

"YES! I'M A GIANT AND...wait," Falco narrowed his eyes at the item on his right hand. "I didn't wanted the Fan!"

"Too bad, nobody is going to use the Super Mushroom."

"YOU WILL GIVE ME THE MUSHROOM OR I'LL BEAT YOU UP USING THIS CRAP!" Falco said glaring at Chris, pointing the Fan at his head.

"Yaridovich is charging at us!" Geno shouted, dodging a Blast attack from the dark enemy. "Falco! Look out!"

"You're mine!" Dark Yaridovich said about the stab Falco using his head as a lance.

"Shut up!" Falco began to hit continuously Dark Yaridovich, making him to flinch quickly.

"See? It's helpful, now keep him there!" Chris said raising his sword.

"I don't think so!" Dark Yaridovich said, he was able to grab Falco's Fan and torn it in 2 as he backed away. "WATER BLAST!"

POOF!

"Huh? W-what's happening?!" Roy asked when a water explosion was about to hit his back, but then, it began to accelerate and explosions of water occurred around the area where they were fighting.

"This is my upgraded version of the Water Blast, thanks to the Shadow Bugs, all the drops from the rain I called will explode and cause severe damage to the unfortunate person who is near, meaning ALL OF YOU!" Dark Yaridovich said laughing evily as more explosions of water appeared.

"UGH!" Roy was hit by 3 explosions at the same time, but him and everyone else were continuously damaged by the explosions, until...

A huge explosion of water appeared, sending all of them to the sky before crashing into the muddy ground, panting heavily after they slowly got up, straining a little.

"I-I can't believe I'm almost dead by...the rain..." Meta Knight said panting.

"Let's see how you handle it being a scarecrow!" Yaridovich said.

"A what?" Falco asked confused.

"SCARECROW SONG!" Dark Yaridovich called forth a ringing bell above them that created music notes, after hearing the song, a cloud of smoke appeared on the area and...

Scarecrows were in the places where everyone else once were. "...What happened?" A scarecrow with Roy's voice asked before gasping. "I-I'M A SCARECROW!"

"NO! WHERE IS MY BLASTER, MY REFLECTOR AND MY FACE?!" Falco asked trying to move.

"Now I know how does it feel to be a scarecrow." Chris said.

"I don't think you need to feel that." Meta Knight said.

"Darn it, only special attacks can be used to do something in this form." Geno explained.

"Wait, I can call Eldstar to heal one of us to turn anyone back to normal again." Chris said.

"Great idea, use it in me!"

Falco rolled his wooden eyes. "Pfft, Chris is not going to do that just because you're asking him t-" Eldstar appeared before them. "Y-YOU CHEATER!"

"What can I do for you?" Eldstar asked.

"Please turn Geno back to normal again!" Chris said and Eldstar nodded.

"There, call me once a certain amount of time have passed." Eldstar said before disappearing.

"Only with Geno alone won't be enough to defeat me!" Dark Yaridovich said.

"He's right, I can't do it alone, you'll just have to wait until the spell wears off." Geno said.

"Too bad, the spell is permanent this time."

"What?!"

"Shadow Bugs? Remember? Hehehe..."

"Ugh, then..."

Chris got an idea. "Wait, I think I can change to my Musician job and use Soul Etude, it not heals a little but also removes any kind of status effect on allies."

Geno saw Dark Yaridovich preparing his lance. "Then do that, I'll keep him busy!"

"Ha!" Dark Yaridovich struck his lance on Geno, but the puppet stopped it using his wooden arms.

"Your face always made me sick." Geno said as he looked at Dark Yaridovich's face.

"Heheheh, that's what I like more." Dark Yaridovich said chuckling evily before his head shot a blast of water, pushing Geno to a nearby tree.

"Soul Etude!" Chris called out playing his harp on his scarecrow form, the song flew everywhere and it restored everyone back to their normal forms. "Now we can continue!"

"Any ideas?" Meta Knight asked.

"(Oh, Meta Knight, asking me for ideas? Priceless.) Hmm...somebody needs to distract Yaridovich, Meta Knight, Falco, you're going to be the decoys."

"Decoys for what?" Falco asked.

"For Roy to use Flare Blade, a fully charged one."

"Er...I don't think that will happen." Roy said scratching his head.

"What do you mean?"

"Since it's raining, my sword will get all wet and...well...my Flare Blade won't work and will turn into Marth's Shield Breaker instead."

"...Change of plans, let's see, hmm...Meta Knight, can you use your Mach Tornado to create a tornado of mud with the mud around here?"

Meta Knight looked at the mud on their feet. "That is easy, but for what?"

"I'm planning t-"

"STOP TALKING!" Dark Yaridovich yelled furiously calling a stone engulfed in flames from the sky, but the rain didn't soak the rock and it almost hits Roy, but Meta Knight pushed him aside in time.

"As I was saying before, the mud will likely hit Dark Yaridovich's eyes and make him blind for a moment, you must target his eyes and not us, there's a lot of mud here!" Chris finished and Meta Knight nodded.

The knight used Mach Tornado to engulf himself in mud, creating a mud tornado that went towards Dark Yaridovich, not only Meta Knight was able to blind his eyes, but he slashed the general a consecutive amount of times before stopping, dusting off his cape from the mud. "YOU LITTLE!" Dark Yaridovich cursed trying to get the mud off his eyes.

"...Geno!" Chris looked at Geno, who was unconscious in the same tree. "Soul Etude!" A cheerful blue light engulfed the puppet, healing his wounds a little.

"...Ugh..." Geno got up, shaking his head.

"We need your help!"

"Right...but I'm seeing 2 Yaridovichs..."

"Huh?" Chris turned his back to find 2 Dark Yaridovichs in front of the first one.

"He must have splitted himself to attack us by separate!"

"Actually, that isn't a bad idea." The 2 Dark Yaridovichs said before splitting themselves to 2 other Dark Yaridovichs each, making 5 Dark Yaridovichs in total as the original one managed to get the mud off his eyes.

"Geno!" Chris said angrily.

"Damit!" Geno cursed.

However, a strange event happened, when they blinked in unison, they saw the 5 Dark Yaridovichs gone, but in their places, there were...themselves chuckling evily.

"What the.." Roy trailed off after looking at himself, chuckling evily.

"H-hey, I don't look like that!" Falco said pointing at himself, chuckling evily as Roy's dark clone.

"Scramble!" Dark Yaridovich (Geno) said, and all the clones ran around in circles before crashing into each one of them, but the dark clones also were pushed into the mud, to create the confusion.

"Oh no, which one is the real one?!" Chris asked, though we couldn't see if he was the real Chris.

"I'm obviously the real one!" Chris said pointing at himself, still, not sure if that was the same Chris since the dark clones'a black auras vanished.

"I'm clearly the real one." Meta Knight said.

"Hmph, yes, why not." Meta Knight said.

"Answer me! Are you Roy?!" Chris asked.

"I-It's me, don't you remember me?!" Roy asked sweating.

"I-I'm the real one! But how do I know you're the real Chris?" Roy asked crossing his arms.

"Because I'm the real Chris!" Chris defended himself.

"This is some kind of illusion, right?" Geno asked.

"Looks like it." Geno said.

"Stop copying me!" Geno said preparing to shoot his bullets.

"No, you stop copying me!" Geno said doing the same action.

"You stupid doppelganger, stop looking like me!" Falco said glaring at Falco.

"You wish, you're the real doppelganger here!" Falco said preparing to use his Blaster on Falco.

"That's it! Chris, I don't care if you don't want to, but GIVE ME THE DAMM MUSHROOM!"

"...What mushroom? What are you talking about?" Chris asked.

"...Wait...only the real and stubborn Falco would ask me that." Chris said.

"...And only the real Chris would know about a Super Mushroom...hey, did you just call me stubborn?!" Falco asked angrily.

"..." Both paused for a moment before pointing at each other, smiling proudly. "YOU ARE THE REAL PERSON!" They said in unison.

"Oh-uh." The fake Chris and Falco said in unison.

"Guys! Tell something you only remember about our experiences together!" The real Chris said.

"I was a fool trying to take my ship back, not caring about the others." Meta Knight said.

"What was the name of my ship? The Macbeth? UGH!" Meta Knight cursed and fell to his knees.

"I was skeptical about leaving Marth behind when Chris first asked me to join him." Roy said.

"And I doubted about my sex...UGH!" Roy cursed, falling to his knees, earning a glare of the real Roy.

"I called Mallow to help us out, but only refered him as him." Geno said nodding.

"I have a frog friend, his name is..Toady? UGH!" Geno cursed, falling to his knees.

"You 2 don't need to say something else!" Falco said glaring at the fake Chris and Falco, before the Smashers reunited in a group.

All the clones turned back to normal and pointed at the sky. "WATER BLAST!"

"WHERE TO RUN?!" Roy panicked before the drops began to explode around them.

"THERE'S NO ESCAPE!" The 5 Dark Yaridovichs said laughing evily as all the drops began to explode once again, creating a huge explosion of water at the end, making them to fly to the sky and fall to the mud with severe damage.

"...Ugh...I hate that attack..." Roy said panting as he got up by using his sword to stand up.

"Isn't there...any way to evade it though?" Falco asked panting.

"Unless...the rain stops...but Yaridovich said he called it so he may call the rain again..." Geno said panting heavily.

"We can't lose...not now!"

"Is the Over Limit gauge ready?" Roy asked.

"Not yet!" Chris said.

"We have to...find a way to stop that attack from occurring again." Meta Knight said panting.

"...Geno...maybe I forgot but...do you have an attack that can reach the sky?"

Geno looked to Chris. "The only one I remember...is Geno Blast...wait, I think I can use that attack still..."

"Then use it!"

"R-right!" Geno put his hands above him. "Stars, give me strength! Geno Blast!" Geno chanted to the sky and swung his hands below.

The 5 Dark Yaridovichs looked above the sky and red, green, blue and yellow flashes fell with force towards all of them, the flashes not only damaged them, it made a hole exactly above the fight. "Darn it!" The 5 Dark Yaridovichs cursed.

"We can always call it back!" One Dark Yaridovich said snapping his fingers, and the hole from the sky was covered with clouds again.

"Pss, Falco." Chris whispered to Falco.

"Yeah? What is it?" Falco whispered back.

"Geno Blast!" Geno called forth more pillars of light, opening a hole in the sky to stop the rain and damage the 5 Dark Yaridovichs again. "Ugh...if I could have more energy...I could use this attack all day..." Geno said panting heavily.

"Hahahaha! Good things are indeed weird to use!" The 5 Dark Yaridovichs said laughing evily.

"...Hey, don't you feel something weird coming above us?" A Dark Yaridovich asked.

"What do you mean?" Another Dark Yaridovich asked.

Once they looked at the sky, there was a small dot that got increasing in size over time, they narrowed their eyes to see what it was.

"OH SHI-"

"HA!" A Giant Falco crushed a Dark Yaridovich under his big foot, presumably killing him. "Now, let's get started and end this!" Falco said grinning and rushing at every single Dark Yaridovich, he used his hands, feet and even his Reflector that crushed some of them in the trees.

"Move! Move! Move! We have to give him some aid!" Chris ordered and the other 3 Smashers rushed for Falco's aid.

"We have to take advantage of Falco's size, that way the battle will end sooner!" Roy said.

Chris got an idea. "Oh, right!"

"W-what are you doing?!" A Dark Yaridovich asked struggling from Chris's grab.

"Throwing you at the giant, what else?" Chris said with a glare and managed to threw the Dark Yaridovich to Falco. "Falco! One for you!"

"Got it!" Falco responded nodding and used a charged kick straight in the face, sending him blasting off to a tree where he vanished with a grunt.

"T-these bastards are killing us one by one!" A Dark Yaridovich said narrowing his eyes, he felt someone touching his shoulder and looked behind him. "NO!"

"UAAAAHHHH!!" Roy used a charged Flare Blade, making the Yaridovich to blast off towards Falco, who kicked him doing a backflip in the same spot.

"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!" The Dark Yaridovich yelled loudly as he went blasting off to the sky, until he crashed hardly in the muddy ground, once again, Falco executed a final downward kick on the Dark Yaridovich, who vanished.

"2 more to go!" Falco said.

"Then that means if we take the last 2, the battle is over!" Geno said, looking around for the last 2. "Who where are they?"

"AAAAAAHHHHHH!!!"

They looked behind them where Meta Knight sliced down to a half a Dark Yaridovich, without anyone's help. "Hmph, the last one is behind that tree."

"You bastard!" The last Dark Yaridovich said, sweatdropping after he saw the 4 Smashers plus the Giant Falco running towards him.

"Guys, the effect of the mushroom will wear off very soon!" Falco said as they ran towards Dark Yaridovich.

"Hmm, I know! Use your illusion to reach him in time, and then throw him to us!" Chris said with quick thinking.

"Over Limit gauge is ready!" Professor Kawashima said.

"Roy, it's your time to deal the final blow!"

"Yes! Finally!" Roy said proudly (earning a glare from Falco).

Falco used Falco Illusion to quickly slash Dark Yaridovich before grabbing the spear monster in his right hand and threw it towards them before returning to his original size. "It's all yours!" Falco said.

"Ha!" Meta Knight used Drill Rush to continuously drill Dark Yaridovich's thin body.

"WATER BLAST!" Dark Yaridovich snapped his fingers and the rain quickly got back, exploding all over the place.

"ROY! QUICK! Soul Etude!" Chris called out healing everyone's health a little to survive the attack.

"Caelin, give my sword the force of fire!" Roy called out pointing his sword to the sky, and he was engulfed in a rainbow aura with an explosion.

"Force of fire...Geno! Use Geno Blast again!"

"U-ugh...one last...time!" Geno struggled calling out once again the pillars of light from the sky, this time, however, made holes around the field.

"Y-you idiots!" Dark Yaridovich cursed, trying to run away.

"He's running away!" Chris said.

"Thanks for pointing that out for us, really." Meta Knight said sarcastically and Chris grunted in irritation.

"Hahahaha!" Dark Yaridovich laughed, calling out a dark portal to the Subspace below a tree's branch. "See you later, it was a great battle, but I'm taking the Star Spirit with me, fools! HAHAHAHAHAHA!"

"We made him a little insane, didn't we?" Geno asked and they nodded in unison.

"S-shut up Geno! Next time we meet, you'll be dead!" Falco appeared upside-down with crossed arms using the tree's branch when Dark Yaridovich wasn't looking, between him and the portal. "Now, I will make sure to get you all next time!"

"That's great and all, but it's over for you." Falco said preparing his fist.

"...Huh?!"

PUNCH!

"AAAAAHHHHH!!!" Dark Yaridovich went blasting off towards Roy, the punch he received from Falco was enough to send him away since he had a lot of damage accumulated.

"(Now's my chance.)" Roy thought before closing his eyes and put his sword pointing down at the ground. "Erupt, o fire of the earth!"

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"

"Blazing Fire!!!" He called out, his voice echoing, he struck his sword down with force in the earth and eruptions of towers of fire came from the earth in a great wave, when he struck down his sword, 2 big towers of fire erupted and they spreaded on both of his sides, Dark Yaridovich was burned greatly by the temperature and the fire combined together.

Music stops

"Heheheheh...good fight...fare...well...u-ugh..."

Those were Dark Yaridovich's last words before he vanished into spores, leaving a card with Mamar, the second Star Spirit behind.

Tales of Vesperia - Victory Boss Battle Theme

"...Alright! We won!" Roy said making a fist in the air in the sword's grip.

"What a relief..." Chris dropped to his knees. "We're finally over with this fight."

"Piece of cake." Falco said kicking back and forth his Reflector before catching it.

"Yes Falco, we know you like bread."

"...W-wait, what? I didn't say bread, I said cake!"

"Then does that means you like to eat cake?" Roy asked.

"Yes, we know that's the truth, don't deny it." Meta Knight said.

"Y-you to-oh, screw all of you!" Falco said crossing his arms angrily.

Geno walked over the card and showed it to the sky. "Please, come on out!"

The card shone brightly, making all of them to block their eyes, after some seconds, the light disappeared and Mamar, the second Star Spirit appeared laughing heartily, floating in front of the group.

"Oh, it's good to breath air again." Mama said before looking around, and more specifically the Smashers. "...Eww, you're all muddy."

That was the truth, they were covered in mud and didn't noted that before.

"Mamar, good to see you again." Geno said bowing to her.

"Geo, is that you? Then it's true you used that doll to help Mario before."

"You should thank them, they were a lof of help and we have already rescued Eldstar, they're the special elite of fighters called Smashers that I talked about."

"Is that so?" Mamar looked at them and laughed heartily. "Thank you so much for saving me."

"I-it's our work ma'am." Roy said bowing down.

"Such nice gentlemen rescued me? I'm a little flattered."

"But still, she isn't totally my type." Falco whispered to Meta Knight, who nodded back.

"Hmm..." Mamar floated towards Chris. "I feel Eldstar's power within you, are you by any chance the World Traveler?"

"Y-yes! I am!" Chris said nodding quickly.

"Even the World Traveler himself rescued me? Oh, how embarrassing!" Mamar said laughing.

"What so great about being rescued by Chris? He's very clumsy." Falco said.

All the avian was able to see were stars flying everywhere before being knocked down by an angry Chris, he even had a bump on his head while his face was in the mud.

"A-anyway, it's a great honor to meet you." Chris said.

"Now, I think it's time to give you my power." Mamar flew above Chris and she touched him, spores of light in the form of stars flew everywhere around Chris before he shone for one second.

Chris has learned Lullaby!

Lullaby puts all enemies to sleep for a while, be aware that it may not work sometimes.

Mamar started to shine brightly. "Well, it was good to be rescued, but now I have to return to the Star Shrine to reunite with Eldstar, once you reunite all the other 5 Star Spirits, we shall open the way to Exor to confront Smithy and end this nonsense." Mamar began to fly away upwards. "I believe in all of you, good luck, Smashers!" And with a blink, she disappeared in the rain of the night.

"...So, what does it feel to have that weird magic in you?" Roy asked.

"N-nothing, in reality." Chris shook his head. "I just call them out and they will arrive."

"If she meant we rescue 2 Star Spirits...then we have 5 more left." Meta Knight said.

"And 5 more generals." Roy pointed out.

"I just hope our way gets easier..." Chris said looking away.

"But if we work like we just did a moment ago, nothing is going to be hard." Geno said.

"Y-yes, I think you're right."

A silence fell and only the drops of the rain were heard...along with Falco's grunts trying to get his head out until Roy pulled him out.

"...Hey, aren't we forgetting something?" Roy asked.

All of them got in thinking positions. "...The Black Knight!" Geno said gasping.

"Oh no, where are they?!" Chris asked looking around.

"I-I don't know! They were there just a while ago!" Roy said pointing to a part.

"We have to look around for them, if Greil dies..."

"Then what are we doing thinking of the possibilities?" Falco asked, wiping out the mud from his face. "C'mon, let's go!"

[DededeCloneChris]

Back at the fort...

Dormitory

"...Ugh..."

"I-Ike!" Mist said surprised when Ike opened his eyes a little.

"...M-Mist?" Ike asked. "A-are you healing me?"

"She is," Rhys said smiling a little. "I taught her how to heal, your arm is going to be cured in a moment."

"...Mist, why did you do this?"

"..." Mist closed her eyes. "Because I don't want to see your suffer...just look at the injure you got on your arm!"

"T-then does that means you're going to risk your life in the battlefield?!"

"I don't care!" Mist broke into tears.

"Huh?"

"Don't you see?! Y-you're very clumsy at times, but that doesn't means anything, I have to do something!" Mist opened her eyes while she was stil crying. "I don't want to lose you as our mother!"

Ike gasped a little. "Mist...t-this is not an excuse to risk your life an-"

SLAP!

"Oww! Why did you do that?!"

"I'm not listening to you anymore! I'm going to do my best and protect your life!"

"Mist..."

"Ike, listen to her," Rhys said while he was still healing Ike's arm. "I know she will be a good healer someday, she just needs the experience to achieve that by helping you and all of us."

"...Mist..."

"Y-yes Ike?" Mist asked wiping out her tears.

Ike closed his eyes for a moment before speaking. "...Alright, I let you go with me from now on."

"Brother!!" Mist hugged Ike tightly.

Ike twitched a little in pain but kept talking. "But only if father agrees, got it?"

Mist stopped hugging him. "O-okay! Thank you Ike!"

"Just a little more..." Rhys said before his staff stopped glowing. "There, your arm should be healed."

Ike looked to his right arm and tried to move it a little, he didn't felt anything anymore and got up from the bed. "My arm, it feels like new again."

"The procedure was a success." Rhys said smiling, taking a sip of his tea.

"Ike, I'm very happy to see you alright again!" Mist said wiping out more tears.

"Yes, but..." Ike looked at Elincia. "Who is she?"

"That's right, there's a battle going out outside." Rhys said, putting down his tea.

"A battle?!"

"Yes, everyone are fighting to protect the fort from the monsters that came here, not only that, the Black Knight showed up and he is probably outside fighting your father..." Rhys paused for a moment. "A battle to the death."

"A-a battle to the death?!" Mist gasped.

"Father!" Ike said before grabbing his sword and rushing to the door.

"W-wait up Ike!" Mist said following Ike.

"It's too dangerous Mist, don't come with me and stay with Rhys to protect Elincia!"

"You jerk, I told you before, I'm not going to listen to you!"

"Go with Ike, Mist, I'll stay behind to protect princess Elincia." Rhys said laughing heartily.

"Thanks Rhys!" Mist said smiling a little.

Ike groaned. "Fine, fine, you can come, but stay behind me."

Mist nodded. "Okay!"

Outside

"I think something good is going to happen!" Popo said, protecting the door.

"Yes? What?" Nana asked smacking a Fire Primid away.

SLAM!

"I'm ready to join the fight!" Ike appeared slamming the door with force, everyone looked at him and got relieved to see him back again.

...Everyone except Popo, who got crushed behind the door.

"...You know, you were right Popo, something good DID happen." Nana said chuckling uncontrollably.

"TAKE THIS!" Ganondorf said punching C. Falcon's visor, the glass of it broke and C. Falcon backed away, holding his right eye in pain. "Darn it, Ike is back again?!"

"Bet your head he is!" Popo yelled, raising a finger from the door as Ike sweatdropped after looking behind it.

"This is not good, I wasted all my time in you and this is what happens!"

"You broke my visor, you rapist!" C. Falcon cursed.

"Told you!" Popo said pointing at Nana from the wall.

"Argh! Retreat, fall back! We have to return!" Ganondorf announced hiding in the crowd of monsters that listened to his order and ran away from the fort, inside a wide dark portal.

"Rolf!" Shinon called preparing his arrow.

"R-right!" Rolf prepared his arrow, both aimed at Ganondorf's throat and shot their arrows.

HIT!

"UGH! Y-YOU! NEXT TIME, I WILL TEAR YOU TO SHREDS!" Ganondorf said angrily after the 2 arrows struck his throat, he removed the arrows and disappeared in the portal will all the remaining monsters.

"They're gone?" Boyd asked.

"They're gone." Soren repeated nodding.

"Phew, that was hard...but we did it." Pit said sitting on the ground.

"...I hate to say this...but..." Shinon closed his eyes.

"Huh?"

"...You fought well."

"...T-thanks..." Pit said nodding. "...Does that means you don't hate me anymore?"

"Don't get carried away either."

"..." Pit looked away.

"Ike, are you feeling okay?" Boyd asked.

"I think so, Rhys and Mist did a god job." Ike said and Mist blushed a little.

"Everyone! Let's go!" Oscar said running away from the fort.

"W-why?" Pit asked.

"Greil and the others haven't returned back yet!" Soren said running away.

Betting In This Bout

"Wait for me!" Nana said dragging her brother in the ground.

"Father!" Ike and Mist yelled in unison, running away together.

"Don't die us old man!" Shinon said running with Rolf.

"C. Falcon, is your eye feeling fine?" Gatrie asked and he ran together with C. Falcon.

"My eye didn't get damage, but I don't want anyone to see my eye!" C. Falcon said.

Back with Greil, Marth and Titania...

"Away with you!" The Black Knight said pushing Marth's Falchion away and slashing him after that.

"UAAGH!" Marth held his chest in pain, he noticed the Black Knight raised his sword above him.

"Now, you die!"

"Stop!" Titania came in blocking the Black Knight's sword using her lance. "Marth, run!"

"B-but what about you?" Marth asked worried.

"Such pitiful lance is nothing compared to my sword!" The Black Knight said breaking the lance with force with a pull, making Titania to fall from her horse, the horse yelled and backed away from the knight to not get killed.

"Titania!" Greil yelled appearing from behind the Black Knight, protecting both of them using his axe to block the blessed sword Alondite.

"My lord!" Titania said.

"J-just get away from here and let me handle him alone!"

"Titania, this is the only chance we have to escape, get moving!" Marth said getting up, Titania didn't had any other choice left but to follow Marth, wishing for the safety of Greil as she calmed down her horse.

"There they are!" Geno said appearing.

"Marth! How is the battle going?" Chris asked.

"Not good at all, the Black Knight is just too powerful to defeat." Marth said, looking around for his sword which was with Roy, who gave it back to him.

"Greil can't win this alone, you need to help him!" Titania said.

"I said no!" Greil yelled, evading the Black Knight's attack.

"This stubborness will only have bad consequences." Meta Knight said.

"I know that!" Chris said looking down.

"This is how strong you got?" The Black Knight asked without straining on another clash of sword and axe.

"Grr, you got very strong, even if you're not using Alondite." Greil said grinning as he strained.

"I hate to break this up, but stop!" Chris yelled.

"No kid! We need to settle this here and now!" Greil said grunting as a thunder fell on the background.

"Father!" Ike and Mist yelled appearing from behind the group along with everyone else.

"Ike! Your arm is alright!" Roy said.

"Yeah, thanks to Mist and Rhys, what happened?"

"That is happening." Soren said pointing at the 2 fighters.

"Father!" Ike yelled.

"Ike! Listen to me, you must get stronger!" Greil said.

"(Typical talking, if they're saying that, then that must mean they're going to...) NO!" Chris yelled.

"I HAVE ENOUGH OF YOU!" The Black Knight yelled.

"What the?!" Greil noticed a small crack on his axe that went increasing in size, the crack got wider and bigger until he backed away before his axe could break apart to evade also the slash from the sword of the knight. "Y-you!"

"Now, since you lost your weapon, it is time to stop this." The Black Knight said walking towards Greil.

"...Heheheh..."

"Huh?" Everyone in the party got confused at Greil's sudden laugh.

"...I think this is it." Greil looked at his son and daughter. "Ike, please, take care of Mist."

"W-what?! F-father! What are you talking about?! D-don't tell me you're planning to die here in front of us!" Ike said worried.

"We promised each other..."

"What?"

"We promised each other if someone, of us, should lose his weapon in battle, will die at the hands of the other...I was stupid back then, to think I didn't take advantage to use Ragnell..."

"O-oh, y-you mean this?" Chris asked showing Ragnell, struggling to not fall until Ike took it, but strained to hold it.

"Father...dad...please! Don't leave me alone!" Mist pleaded crying.

"Mist...protect Ike too..." Greil said giving her a small smile.

"...Father..."

"Old man, this is stupid!" Shinon said.

"I have to agree, it is stupid." Soren said.

"Even more stupid than Popo!" Nana said.

"Hey!" Popo replied back.

"Oh, you're back to your old self, thank goodness."

"Greil...don't do this to me..." Tinania whispered the last part, trying to not cry.

"(...Would Titania be a good mother to Ike and Mist?)" Chris thought but shook his head.

"Now, it's time." The Black Knight said raising his sword above Greil.

"Yes..." Greil said looking down.

Music stops

The whole background, along with the trees and rain disappears only showing them. "(No...this wasn't supposed to happen...)" Chris thought.

"(N-NO! I'M GOING TO STOP THIS FATHER!)" Ike thought and prepared to run towards the Black Knight.

"(Please, don't kill him, I beg of you!)" Mist thought, trying to stop her tears.

"WAIT! NO! DON'T BE STUBBORN AND SACRIFICE YOUR LIFE!" Chris yelled out loud closing his eyes.

SLASH!!

"FAAAAAAAAAAATHEEEEEEEEEEEEEER!!" Mist cried out dropping to her knees.

"...Good bye...my son...and daughter..." Greil managed to say.

"Not done yet." The Black Knight said, before thrusting his sword in Greil's heart, and passing through his armor as the rain continued.

"GREEEEEEIL!!!" Everyone yelled surprised as Ike rushed towards the Black Knight, Ragnell in hand.

"Y-you...YOU!" Ike said glaring daggers at the Black Knight, the blunt mercenary tried to slash him with Ragnell, but in a quick movement, the Black Knight slapped his hand and Ike lost Ragnell in the ground, the Black Knight quickly grabbed his throat and raised him above the ground. "UGH!"

"IKE!" Everyone yelled once again as another thunder illuminated the whole area.

"As blunt as your father, there is only one person besides him with that attitude, his son." The Black Knight said.

"Leave Ike alone!" Marth said.

"Why should I?"

"Because with who am I going to fight later?" Boyd asked.

"Boyd, you're not helping!" Roy said.

"STOOOOOOOP!!!"

"Huh?" The Black Knight noticed Mist holding his arm as she cried. "Y-you're Greil's daughter?"

"Please! Stop! I can't see my brother be murdered in front of my eyes after my father was murdered by you! It's too painful already!" Mist yelled crying.

"M-Mist! Come back here, it's dangerous!" Oscar yelled.

"Y-yes, come back here!" Rolf yelled.

"I beg of you...don't kill my brother...I love him so much that I will do anything to protect him..." Mist pleaded closing her eyes, sobbing as her tears strolled down her cheeks, mixing up with the rain.

Tales of the Abyss - Serious

"...M-Mist..." Ike said fainting.

"...Fine..." The Black Knight released Ike from his grip and the mercenary fell down, Mist hugged her brother as she cried, everyone ran towards them as the Black Kinhgt slowly walked away.

"Ike! Ike! Answer me! Are you okay?!" Boyd asked.

"...These are my last words..." The Black Knight said turning to them. "Tell Ike to get stronger and lead a powerful army, once he achieves those requirements, I will be back to confront him." And the Black Knight disappeared in the deepness of the trees, as a thunder enlights the place.

"...Ike..." Mist whispered, resting her head on his brother's chest.

Mercenary Fort

The next morning...

"You're leaving us?" Ike asked as all the mercenaries were gathered in the fort's entrance to say farewell to the Smashers.

"Our work here is done so, we have to leave for now." Chris said bowing. "I really enjoyed my time here with all of you."

"Heh, of course, now the place will be normal again." Shinon said.

"...I'm not even bothering anymore." Falco said looking away.

"Good luck with the women." Gatrie said doing a handshake

"You too, good luck." C. Falcon said with a bandage covering his missing part of his visor.

"You're not going to say good bye?" Nana asked to Soren.

"Good bye." Soren said.

"...Weeeeeeeeeeeeeird." Popo said.

"...I have to agree with you for once." Nana said.

Chris noticed that Marth and Roy were talking to themselves. "...It's something bothering you?"

Marth looked at Roy and they nodded. "Chris, we decided to stay behind."

"What?!" Pit asked surprised.

"I think Ike needs all the help he can get, besides, staying here will make me feel like I'm in home."

"For me too!" Roy said smiling. "I want to stay here for a little longer!"

"Then we shall leave you behind." Meta Knight said.

"Meta Knight! Are you going to say something to oppose them?!" Chris asked.

"Decisions from other people needs to be understood sometimes."

"..." Chris looked at the swordsmen. "Okay, you can stay here, but don't mess anything up and return to us once you're done here."

"Roger." Roy said.

"I understand." Marth nodded.

"Welcome aboard." Ike said smiling a little.

"We shall miss you." Titania said.

"Titania, are you sure you're feeling well after what happened...yesterday, right?" Boyd asked.

"...Yes...don't worry."

"(Poor Titania...)" Chris thought preocupied. "...Well then, it's time to leave, good bye!" Chris, along with Pit, Meta Knight, C. Falcon, Geno, Popo, Nana and Falco walked away waving at the mercenaries and Marth and Roy.

"Take care everyone!" Roy said.

"We will take care of Roy!" Mist said waving at them.

Music stops

"H-hey! What's that supposed to mean?! I'm not a kid!"

All the mercenaries laughed and chuckled as Roy pouted a little, crossing his arms as Ike watched the Smashers walking away.

Shadow Dragon Medley

"I have this feeling we will meet again someday very soon." Ike said.

"Did you say something Ike?" Mist asked.

"...Nothing, c'mon, Rhys said Elincia woke up from her state."

Marth and Roy have left your party

Back with the Smashers...

"So, it was okay to leave Marth and Roy with them?" Falco asked with folded arms behind his head.

"Meh, I guess so, think of it as a gift for what happened yesterday." Chris said.

"Don't worry about them, they're going to be fine!" Popo said confident.

"...Hey, Popo, do you want to do it?" Chris asked winking at Popo.

"Of course! I need to do something random!"

"Wait, what?" Nana asked.

"Falco, can you join us too?" Chris asked.

"...Why not!" Falco said putting his hands above his shoulders.

"C. Falcon, how about you?"

"Count me in!" C. Falcon said excited.

The 4 got closer together and Chris began to count.

"And 3, 2, 1, go!"

The 4 began to sing a sped up version of "If you wanna be my lover."

"Yo, I'll tell you what I want, what I really really want!" Chris sang.

"So tell us what you want, what you really really want!" The other sang together.

"I'll tell you what I want, what I really really want!"

"So tell us what you want, what you really really want!"

"I wanna ha! I wanna ha! I wanna ha! I wanna ha! I wanna really really really wanna zigazig ha! If you wanna be my lover! You gotta get with my friends!"

"Gotta get with my friends!"

"Make it last forever! Friiiendship never eeeends! If you wanna be my lover! you have got to give! Taking is too easy!

"But that's the way it is!" The 4 sang together, continuing to sing as they walked.

"Ugh, seriously, what kind of things does Chris tell us about?" Nana asked groaning.

"He told me many things one time about his world, and they're interesting." Pit said.

"...Maybe he told me some things too." Meta Knight said embarrassed.

"Hahaha, I just like to hang out with you, just like Mario, Peach, Bowser and Mall-" Geno paused for a moment. "Mallow! Chris! Open the portal!"

"Okay!" Chris continued to sing after he opened the portal and the others who weren't singing entered in a hurry. "Yo, I'll tell you what I want, what I really really want!"

"So tell us what you want, what you really really want!" The other sang together.

"I'll tell you what I want, what I really really want!"

"So tell us what you want, what you really really want!"

"I wanna ha! I wanna ha! I wanna ha! I wanna ha! I wanna really really really wanna zigazig ha! If you wanna be my lover! You gotta get with my friends!"

"Gotta get with my friends!"

"Make it last forever! Friiiendship never eeeends! If you wanna be my lover! you have got to give! Taking is too easy!

"But that's the way it is!"

"FALCON KICK!" C. Falcon used Falcon Kick to enter the portal and break their "singing" formation.

"MY PIKMIN!!!"

"...Oh no..." Chris entered inside the portal with the last 2 before it disappeared along with them.

And thus, they managed to save Mamar, the second Star Spirit.

WORLD COMPLETED!

YOU HAVE GAINED 3000 SMASH COINS!

C. Falcon's, Marth's and Roy's partnership level were filled! 2 paths to different worlds have been opened!

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Smash Mansion
Chris, Lucario, Pikachu, Pichu, Jigglypuff, Mewtwo, Red, Squirtle, Ivysaur, Kirby, Meta Knight, Link, Zelda, Toon Link, Fox, Falco, Wolf, Captain Falcon, Olimar, Marth, Roy, Ness, Lucas, Pit, Ice Climbers, Geno, Twink

[DededeCloneChris]

Chapter 85: Yoshi's lively sport spirit!

Somewhere in the Mushroom Kingdom, in the night

"A little more..."

"Dang it...this thing is too heavy!"

"Why did the Ancient Minister send us to carry these bombs?!"

"The R.O.B. can do that alone, I wonder..."

"...We just got tricked!"

"Damit!"

"Bah! Who cares anyway?! All the people will be sucked into the Subspace if this goes according to the plan!"

"...Huh?" A green nose peered from a part.

"Nobody will know about these bombs being here, the cloaking devices will hide them!"

The green nose disappeared from sight.

"Alright, we have to prepare for the next day, let's hide for now."

"Hey, when it's going to be my turn to attack?" Asked a small Pirahna Plant on fire.

"Pacience, if things get out of control, we will make you grow back to your original form to start a rampage."

"You better not fail on your words!" The Pirahna Plant said before hiding in the earth.

A kingdom above the clouds

"Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaail!" Parakarry yelled flying towards the kingdom of clouds, Nimbus Land, flying inside the castle at high speed.

Nimbus Land's Castle

"Coming through! Excuse me!" Parakarry yelled warning all the servants of King Nimbus, flying in front of them.

"W-who was that just now?!" A servant asked to another.

"Who knows!" The other replied back.

Throne Room

Parakarry bursted out of the doors. "Mail for Prince Mallow! Is Prince Mallow here?"

"Mallow?" A queen asked walking (rather floating) towards the paratroopa. "Why, yes, Mallow is my dear child."

"Is he here?"

"Of course!" King Nimbus said nodding, standing besides Queen Nimbus. "Mallow should be walking to this room right now as we speak!"

"Oh, great! That will save time!"

"I'm here!"

The young prince of Nimbus Land came from the doors smiling.

"Mallow! This person has a letter addressed to you!" Queen Nimbus said.

"A letter for me?" Mallow asked tilting his head in confusion. "We have never had letters from outsiders before, except for my grandpa."

Parakarry took out the letter. "Here, this is from someone called Geno."

Upon hearing that name, Mallow jumped 10,000 feet high and landed surprised. "W-W-W-WHAT?! GENO?! FOR REAL?! GIMME THAT LETTER!" Mallow hurried taking the letter from Parakarry's hand. "Hmm!"

"Geno? Is that lad from the Star Street that didn't give an autograph to me?" King Nimbus asked.

"Honey!" Queen Nimbus said angrily.

"It's the Star Road dad." Mallow corrected him as he continued to read the letter. "...What?!"

"What is it?"

"I-it seems the Star Road has been broken once again by Exor!"

"What?!"

"You know about Exor?" Parakarry asked.

"I could ask you the same thing! How do you know about that?" Mallow asked.

"Maybe the letter has more, continue!"

"Okay..."

10 minutes later...

"Subspace Army... Smashers... Star Spirits in trouble... Geno needs my help!" Mallow said throwing the letter away. "Oh my god, I'm going to see Geno again! Isn't that wonderful?!"

"There you go again my child, going off to another adventure." Queen Nimbus said laughing heartily.

"Okay son, I know this is important, but pleas-"

"I know dad! I gotta help Geno to reunite the Star Spirits!"

"No! You have it all wrong! I was going to ask you to get autographs for me this time!"

"Honey!" Queen Nimbus said angrily.

"A-alright..."

"But I don't know where is Geno or the Smash Mansion or the Smashers!" Mallow said about to cry.

"If you want, I can take you to them in an instant, I'm friends with them!" Parakarry said.

"...Can you do that for me?"

"Anybody who is a friend of the Smashers is a friend of mine!"

"Wow! Thank you so much!" Mallow said, jumping out from his pants for a moment.

"My, our son is very happy again." Queen Nimbus said.

"Autograph!" King Nimbus said again.

"Hush!"

"I-I mean, what are you going to do now Mallow?"

"It's not obvious dad? I'm going to meet Geno again and help him out!"

"Do you have your favorite pants on?" Queen Nimbus asked.

Mallow groaned. "Moooom! Not in front of him!"

Parakarry chuckled. "O-okay, hop on my back."

Mallow jumped on Parakarry's back and the paratroopa began to fly above. "Wait, I don't weight that much?"

"Nope! You're just a cloud!"

"...I see..." Mallow looked back at his parents smiling a little. "It's okay for me to leave the kingdom again?"

"You're a prince, but you can do whatever you want." King Nimbus said.

"Also, maybe you can meet up with Mario or Princess Peach along the way." Queen Nimbus said.

"Oh yeah! Mario and Princess Peach!... Wait, wasn't her name Toadstool?"

"We heard she changed it a long time ago."

"...And why didn't you tell me?"

"You didn't ask." Queen Nimbus chuckled heartily.

"...Weeeeeeeeeeeeell...I'm off!" Mallow said sweatdropping, waving at them as Parakarry flew off the room.

"Good bye Mallow! Please, don't get hurt!" Queen Nimbus said waving at him with a smile.

"And bring autographs!" King Nimbus added waving at him.

"Why are you so obsessed with autographs?"

"It's my hobby, what can I say?" King Nimbus chuckled heartily.

Nimbus Land

"Bye everyone! See you all later!" Mallow said waving at the citizens of Nimbus Land who waved back at him and gave him their wishes to stay fine.

"Smash Mansion, here we go!" Parakarry said accelerating to the ground.

"(Geno... I want to see you again...)" Mallow thought excited.

Smash Mansion
Command Room

Flashback

Dear Chris

How are you doing? Everything is fine over here, Mr. Sonic says hi by his part, by the way, he told to tell some thing to you and everyone...

Mr. Sonic is planning to go to Soleanna to a festival, I want to go too, but he told me to stay here, but he also told me that he, Tails and Knuckles were going to somewhere first before Soleanna, I think the name was Future City to search the Chaos Emeralds, Amy ran off without him knowing it too.

Oh, one thing I almost forgot about!

Sonic heard the rumors about someone named Mario, he heard a lot of good stories about him actually, he even sent a letter to him for a challenge about the olympic games soon, I was instructed to participate being...well...I forgot, the scorer I think?

...But he said he was going to Soleanna first in the way to Future City, but I don't know that...

I wish you all good luck in your journey! Say hello to Mr. Meta Knight for me!

From Cream the Rabbit.

P.S: I met a very kind person named Blaze the Cat, she was very kind to me.

"OH NO!" Chris yelled worried.

End of flashback

Mushroom Kingdom
Peach Dome

"It's finally here folks!" Toadsworth said over the mic announcing the big crowd of people gathered in the Peach Dome. "The Sports Festival is finally here! Here, our favorite challengers, Mario, Luigi, Peach, Daisy, Wario, Waluigi, Yoshi, Koopa Troopa, Donkey Kong, Diddy Kong between many others will show us who is the best in this great event!"

The screen shows the surroundings on the dome as Toadsworth talks. "Yes! This event is going to be the greatest yet, our favorite hero, Mario, has told us about someone named Sonic who challenged him as his friends to the olympic games at some place called Beijing!"

The screen shows the different places around the area. "Our main sport events are golf, tennis, baseball and for the last, 4 new tracks of our incoming kart racing event after the olympics to get all the challengers pumped up to participate!"

The screen shows Toadsworht again. "And now, some words from our sponsor and princess of our lovely kingdom, Princess Peach!" He handed over the mic to Peach, wearing her sport dress.

"Hi everyone!" Peach greeted gigling.

"Hi Princess Peach!" Everyone in the dome said happily.

"As you know today, we have this event of sports, many will participate, even I'm participating myself! We have all the instalations prepared for this greatest idea to...umm...what's the word?"

Daisy appeared grabbing the mic. "Hang out and have fun!"

Peach took the the mic back. "Yes! Exactly!"

Smash Mansion
Command Room

"We've got a lot of preparations, but everything seems to be ready to start! We just need the entries to be filled before 3 hours have passed! Come on now and enter everyone!" Peach said opening her arms as everyone in the stadium cheered loudly.

"So you said there are several Subspace Bombs hidden in the area?" Chris asked.

"Yes, but they're very well hidden, so it may be hard to find them all." Master Hand said.

"My Pikmin..." Olimar said looking down in shame.

1 hour ago...

"And here is the Command Room, where we know what worlds are being attacked, any questions?" Jigglypuff asked with a small smile.

"No, I understand everything perfectly." Olimar said nodding once Jigglypuff finished her tour around the mansion to Olimar. "But I have a complain..."

"What is it?"

"My Pikmins don't like to get near those weird butlers birds..." Olimar said pointing to 5 Pikmin above 5 Prinnies, trying to win a fight.

"Dood! Dood! Get off me, dood!" A Prinny said trying to take off his head a Purple Pikmin.

BIBI!

Olimar used his whistle to call them back to him, but as soon as they came back to him, they returned to fight the Prinnies. "Oh my..." Olimar frowned.

"Er...Etna! Do something!" Jigglypuff said to Etna.

"...Huh?" Etna was sleeping in a chair that was leaned to the wall. "What did you say?"

"Tell your Prinnies to go away!"

"Oh, okay, Prinnies, go away, now....Zzzzz..." She fell asleep again and the Prinnies left the room.

"There, problem solved." Jigglypuff said.

"Thank you so much for your hospitality everyone, I shall be of help." Olimar said.

"Good thing you said that." Master Hand said before the portal opened. "Oh, here they come."

"They left Marth and Roy behind?" Link asked.

"Yes, they did."

"Great, now with who am I going to measure swords with?"

"Ask that to Toon Link." Zelda glancing to Toon Link, who gulped after Link took out a ruler out of nowhere.

"You...will...measure...your...sword...with...me..." Link said darkly holding the ruler.

"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!" Toon Link ran away from the crazy Link.

At that moment, Pit, Meta Knight, Nana and Geno came out. "Good job out there!" Master Hand said.

"Please, kill those weirdos, that song is irritating me!" Nana said pointing at the portal.

"Song?"

Olimar walked to the portal with his Pikmins in front of the portal in curiosity. "Song? It's country music?" Olimar asked.

"FALCON KICK!" C. Falcon came rushing out, kicking the 5 Pikmin who were sent to the walls, dying.

"MY PIKMIN!" Olimar said alarmed.

"Did something happen?" Chris asked peering from the portal before stepping inside the room with Popo and Falco, the portal also vanished.

Present...

"Will you please snap out of it?" C. Falcon asked.

"Why? My Pikmin died...once again!" Olimar said.

"But you can call them back anytime." Master Hand said.

"...Yes...but I appreciate them very much..."

"Just by curiosity, how many Pikmin died before?" Pichu asked.

"Like 12,000."

"What the-Olimar, what was the cause?" Chris asked.

"...Louie, he isn't that experienced with Pikmin that he let many of them die against Bulborbs."

"..." Chris didn't spoke.

"...Oh well...I call more back..." Olimar plucked 5 more Pikmins out of the floor. "There, nothing will kill them this time."

"...Oooohhhh..." Kirby drooled a little after seeing the Pikmin...that he swallowed them. "Yum!"

"NOOOOOOOOO!!!"

"...ANYWAY!" Chris turned to Master Hand. "What was our mission again?"

"Go to Mario's world again, find and destroy the Subspace Bombs before they explode!"

Mario Golf, Power Tennis, Superstar Baseball and Kart
Current Status: Beginning of the festival of sports
Race: Anyone
Number of protagonists: Many
Level of danger: Medium
Members allowed to dispatch: 9
Highly recommended abilities: Sport skills

"It's your lucky day, it seems you can take anyone there." Master Hand said.

"I see, okay, who wants to come with me?" Chris asked.

"I'll go again." Geno said.

"I want to do something." Jigglypuff said glaring at Master Hand.

"I'll go as well, I want to keep an eye on you this time." Lucario said.

"My Pikmin..." Olimar said sadly.

"...Olimar...do you want to come with me?" Chris asked.

"...Huh?"

"Do you want to start helping us?"

"...Well...that's why I'm here, right?... So I guess I'm in..." Olimar said agreeding.

"That's 4 characters, 5 counting me, I have 4 more spots."

"I'm coming, I want to find Charizard to capture him!" Red said.

"Red and his Pokémon count as one character." Master Hand reminded Chris.

"3 more left."

"Hmm, if the festival is of sports, then I'm going too." Fox said.

"2 more left."

"Can I go this time? Please?" Twink asked.

"You can take Twink with you, but he will not count as a character since he can't fight." Master Hand said.

"Now that's just mean!"

"Okay Twink, you can come with us." Geno said.

"Yay!" Twink floated happily towards Geno.

"We still got 2 more left." Chris said.

"Me! Me! I want to go!" Kirby said raising his arm.

"You're in."

"Yay!"

"1 more left." They looked at each other. "...Does anyone want to go?"

"I don't want to this time, I don't feel like it." Pikachu said.

"Weird, I usually play sports but...this time I don't want to either." Ness said.

"Count me out as well." Mewtwo said.

"I'm...not prepared to meet Peach again, maybe later." Zelda said.

"I only play soccer, and I'll be glad to challenge Fox any day on it, but not today." Wolf said.

"What about everyone else?" Chris asked and everyone else shook their heads. "...Then that means only 8 will go..."

"Wait... I need to wait for someone outside." Geno said walking away.

"Wait for someone outside?" Lucas asked.

"Who could that be?" Red asked.

"...Hmm...Mallow!" Chris said surprised rushing out.

"Should we follow them?" Pit asked.

"I have curiosity about this Mallow guy...let's go!" Pikachu said rushing out from the room, most of them decided to follow Geno and Chris outside, minus the hands and Mewtwo.

Outside

"...Hmm..." Geno looked to the clouds from far away.

"Can I ask you a question?" Kirby asked.

"Yes."

"Who is Mallow?"

"Mallow is a friend of mine that helped me out along with Mario when we stopped the Smithy Gang, we parted ways once I gathered all the Star Pieces, he is very powerful too since he can use magic related to the weather." Geno explained.

"Oh god, I'm going to meet Mallow." Chris said excited. "Aren't you happy Lucario?"

"Well, I don't associate with anyone else, but I can say it's fine with me." Lucario said.

"...You know, you should socialize with the others, not just me."

Lucario gasped a little. "B-but Chris!"

"Seriously Lucario, you need to have friends someday, and I want that day to be today, you're going to try and be friends with anyone here!"

"But with who do you expect me to talk to?"

"How about Mewtwo?" Lucario glared at Chris. "Okay, he's out, Pikachu?"

"Possible."

"Pichu?"

"No."

"Jigglypuff?"

"Worse."

"Zelda?"

"No."

"Olimar."

"No."

"Roy?"

"Never."

"Geno?"

"Maybe."

And both went on after that.

"...Hmm..." Ness narrowed his eyes at the dot coming from the south.

"I think someone is approaching..." Pit said.

"...And fast." Lucas added.

"......GEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" A familiar voice made Geno to smile and he walked in front of the group.

"It's Mallow, he's here!" Geno said.

"GEEENOOO!" Mallow called waving at Geno from Parakarry's back, the postman paratroopa made a slow landing to make Mallow to land safely, but the cloud stumbled and fell, though he got up and ran towards Geno to greet him. "Geno! It's that really you?! Answer me!"

"We fought Valentina to free your fathers." Geno said to reveal himself.

"IT'S YOU! HAHAHAHAHA!" Mallow hugged Geno happily, and the puppet hugged him back as they laughed heartily.

Chris sniffed at this moment. "I just like...these happy moments..."

"Here." Lucario gave him a napkin and Chris took it.

Both stopped hugging each other. "Geno, so why did you come back? You said Exor broke up the Star Road again?"

Geno nodded. "Yes, I knew you were still in Nimbus Land and I decided to call you."

Mallow looked behind Geno. "Hmm...are they the Smashers? Wow," Mallow walked to them. "You sure reunited people who looks different from each other."

"N-nice to meet you Mallow." Chris said blushing a little.

"What's your name?"

"M-my name is Chris."

"Oh, nice to meet you too, so Geno told me you're the World Traveler."

"He did?"

"Yes." Geno responded.

"Hey, do you think we can travel to see Mario and Peach again?" Mallow asked.

"It's your lucky day, we were just preparing to go there!" Chris said.

"For real?!" Mallow's feet ran where he was standing, he was very excited. "I-I need to go there! Can you take me with you?!"

"O-of course! Welcome aboard to the Smash Mansion!"

"Thanks!" Mallow looked to the others. "So, what are your names?"

"Okay, I need to go back to Quill and Postman, see you all later!" Parakarry said flying away, but he stopped and returned. "Oh, I forgot to tell you something."

"What is it?" Chris asked as Mallow was meeting the Smashers.

"I heard someone named Jynx and The Master are building a dojo close to Nintendo City, I also heard they're so strong!"

"Jynx?" Geno repeated confused. "I think I remember that name somewhere..."

"It's a Pokémon." Lucario pointed out.

"No, it was also the name of another person...but I can't remember..." Chris wondered. "But who is The Master? I think I have heard that name before too..."

"The Dojo" sidequest has been added to the sidequests list

"...I'll let you wonder by yourselves, go there once you have free time, bye bye!" Parakarry said flying away from them. "I know who is The Master though, a clue, I fought against him with Mario and long time ago!"

"...Oh, I think I just remembered..." Chris said.

Mallow temporaly joined your team!

Command Room

"We have a new guest!" Kirby said excited. "His name is Mallow!"

"Oh joy, more guests, at this rate the mansion will be full with guests." Master Hand said sarcastically.

[Triforce_Luigi]

Interesting... A Mario Sports arc of all things. There's something that doesn't happen too often

[DededeCloneChris]

"..." Mallow looked at the hands. "...So...are they..."

"Yes, hands, without head or bodies...or you could call Master Hand my boss." Chris said sweatdropping.

"You're Mallow?" Master Hand asked.

"Y-yes, nice to meet you hand...I mean! Master Hand sir!" Mallow said nodding quickly.

"Well, it seems we do have guests, we have Etna, Flonne who is in the infirmary being the nurse, Geno, Twink and now Mallow."

"Who's Etna?"

"Huh?" Etna woke up from her chair and waved at him before returning to sleep.

"And who's Twink?"

"I-I'm Twink!" Twink said appearing from Geno's back.

"Twink was a little shy in meeting you." Geno said.

"T-that's not true!"

Meanwhile, Chris was seeing the shop for items and new things.

Jobs - Stickers - Smashing Abilities (New!) - Items

Smash Coins in hand: 3100

"My final update for the menu is this, once I get something new, I'm going to label it next to the things for that menu!" Crazy Hand said.

"Okay, show it to me." Chris said.

Smashing Abilities

Over Limit Lvl. 2 - 20000 Smash Coins

Everyone in your party will have their own Over Limit gauge, enabling more Final Smashs

"20000 SMASH COINS?!?!?!?!" Chris asked outraged and everyone stared at him. "I-I just can hold up to 9999 Smash Coins! How am I supposed to get that awfully amount of coins?!"

"Maybe if you do the sidequests you have been assigned to," Master Hand. "Who knows, maybe someone out there has a bigger bag for holding Smash Coins."

"Chris, it's no use arguing." Lucario said.

"...Fine." Chris said sighing disappointed.

Call me Kirby! - 5000 Smash Coins

Lets Kirby call his helpers to aid him whenever he gets an ability from another opponent

"Helpers? Like GIM?" Kirby asked curiously.

"Yes!" Crazy Hand said.

"Wait, there are some abilities for only one character?" Chris asked.

"Er, yes! But I like to keep the abilities not so overpowered, you know, it ruins the whole adventure if you put something overpowered like someone immune to stagger, and that's all for the abilities!"

"...Well, I only have 3100 Smash Coins, so that will have to wait, now, show me the items."

Items
Bunny Hood - 300 Smash Coins - 1 copy
Beam Sword - 400 Smash Coins - 2 copies
Bob-omb - 300 Smash Coins - 3 copies
Bumper - 500 Smash Coins - 1 copy
Bunny Hood - 300 Smash Coins - 1 copy
Cracker Launcher - 500 Smash Coins - 1 copy
Deku Nut - 200 Smash Coins - 2 copies
Fan - 100 Smash Coins - 4 copies
Fire Flower - 200 Smash Coins - 2 copies
Food (contains 10 dishes) - 400 Smash Coins - 3 copies
Franklin Badge - 400 Smash Coins - 1 copy
Freezie - 300 Smash Coins - 2 copies
Golden Hammer - 1000 Smash Coins - 1 copy
Gooey Bomb - 200 Smash Coins - 3 copies
Green Shell - 200 Smash Coins - 2 copies
Hammer - 700 Smash Coins - 1 copy
Heart Container - 500 Smash Coins - 1 copy
Home-Run Bat - 400 Smash Coins - 2 copies
Hothead - 200 Smash Coins - 3 copies
Lightning - 600 Smash Coins - 2 copies
Lip's Stick - 200 Smash Coins - 2 copies
Maxim Tomato - 300 Smash Coins - 2 copies
Metal Box - 300 Smash Coins - 3 copies
Motion-Sensor Bomb - 100 Smash Coins - 3 copies
Mr. Saturn - 100 Smash Coins - 100 copies
Pitfall - 200 Smash Coins - 3 copies
Poison Mushroom - 400 Smash Coins - 2 copies
Pokeball - 800 Smash Coins - 6 copies
Ray Gun - 300 Smash Coins - 3 copies
Screw Attack - 200 Smash Coins - 3 copies
Smart Bomb - 400 Smash Coins - 2 copies
Smash Ball - 1000 Smash Coins - 1 copy
Smoke Ball - 100 Smash Coins - 5 copies
Soccer Ball - 500 Smash Coins - 1 copy
Spring - 200 Smash Coins - 2 copies
Starman - 800 Smash Coins - 1 copy
Star Rod - 400 Smash Coins - 2 copies
Super Mushroom - 400 Smash Coins - 2 copies
Super Scope - 400 Smash Coins - 2 copies
Superspicy Curry - 300 Smash Coins - 3 copies
Team Healer - 200 Smash Coins - 3 copies
Timer - 500 Smash Coins - 2 copies
Unira - 200 Smash Coins - 4 copies
Warp Star - 600 Smash Coins - 2 copies

Items in hand:
Food
Franklin Badge
Heart Container
Home-Run Bat
Maxim Tomato
Pitfall
Ray Gun

Stored items:
Maxim Tomato

"CHEATER!" Crazy Hand yelled. "You took the Fan with you!"

"Er...oops?" Chris replied.

"100 charge fee!" Crazy Hand demanded and Chris gave him 100 Smash Coins. "So, what do you want?" Crazy Hand asked excited.

"Hmm, I want the Soccer Ball, the Timer and the Gooey Bomb."

"That will be 1200 Smach Coins, do you want to accept membership preferences by joining The Hand inc.?"

Chris sweatdropped. "Er...no thanks..." He said giving the 1200 Smash Coins to Crazy Hand, who gave him the 3 mentioned items.

"Why didn't you buy the Smash Ball?" Red asked.

"To tell the truth, I don't feel so much treatened in this world, besides, it's a Mario world! What's the most dangerous thing in there?"

"The Subspace Bombs?" Ness asked.

"...Well..."

"Alright, alright!" Master Hand began. "You should go there now, and since there is a festival going on, why don't you have fun and enter?"

"...Wait, did Toadswroth mention golf and baseball? I'm so in!" Chris said excited.

"I'm in for the tennis!" Jigglypuff said twirling.

"Me too!" Kirby said excited.

"Me 3!" Squirtle said.

"Me 4!" Ivysaur said.

"Hmm, I haven't played baseball when I started my adventure..." Red trailed off.

"I wonder what kind of sports are there...Geno, are you going to play too?" Mallow asked.

"To be honest, I don't know how to play sports, but I'll give it a try." Geno said.

"I'll help you!" Twink said.

"Olimar, do you want to participate too?" Chris asked.

"Oh boy, I have to play golf, I haven't since I departed from Hocotate on my first trip to the Pikmin planet." Olimar said a little excited.

"We can play tennis like you want, Lucari-" Lucario blocked his mouth.

"Shh! Not in front of them Chris!" Lucario whispered angrily.

"I'm in for baseball." Fox said.

Chris opened the portal. "Okay, we have to find the Subspace Bombs, rescue the Star Spirit, and win whatever trophy they're giving to the winner of probably each event!"

"YEEEESS!!" Jigglypuff, Kirby, Squirtle, Ivysaur, Red, Mallow and Twink cheered.

"GO!" Jigglypuff yelled excited running inside the portal, along with everyone else before it disappeared.

"...Say, where is Toon Link?" Pikachu asked.

"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!" Toon Link was seen runing in the hallway from Link with ruler.

"And my sword has this length, and this width! And!" Link continued as he chased Toon Link down.

"...I'm surrounded by lunatics." Mewtwo, Meta Knight and Wolf said frowning.

Mario Golf, Power Tennis, Superstar Baseball and Kart

Mushroom Kingdom
Peach Dome

"I'm telling you Mario! There were some suspicious guys leaving bombs around the dome and some other areas!" Yoshi said jumping up and down.

Mario and Luigi were sitting on a bench inside the dome. "What is Yoshi saying?" Luigi asked confused.

"I don't know." Mario said.

"Oh please! You can understand me!" Yoshi said.

"Now now Yoshi, calm down, everything will be fine." Mario rubbed Yoshi's nose with care, and the dinosaur-lizard...thing grunted in irritation.

"By the way Yoshi, have you assigned your team yet?" Luigi asked.

"...Team? What do you mean? I thought this festival was a free-for-all!"

"No Yoshi, the festival is in reality for teams."

"...Then I'm joining with you!"

"Too bad," Mario shook his head. "Luigi and me are in Peach's team along with Daisy, Toad, Toadette, Toadsworth, Donkey Kong, Diddy Kong and Birdo."

"Bowser made his own team with Bowser Jr., Wario, Waluigi, Boo, Petey Piranha, Koopatroopa, Paratroopa and 2 other guys." Luigi said trying to remember.

"BIRDO TOO?! WHAT IS SHE DOING WITH YOUR TEAM?!" Yoshi asked shocked.

"She didn't tell you? She wanted to talk about it yesterday in the night but you weren't home..."

"That's because I went to the dome to retrieve my lucky racket when I saw those guys carrying that bomb here!"

"Now now Yoshi..."

"OH FORGER IT! It's useless talking with you 2!" Yoshi said crossing his arms and looked away.

"Participants must enter the festival before the entries closes, you have only 1 hour left before the entries are taken to participate." Toadsworth said over the speaker.

"...Yoshi..." Luigi trailed off.

"Yes?"

"Do you have a team yet?"

"..." Yoshi's pupils shrunk. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!" The crazy dinosaur ran away at high speed leaving a trail of dust behind, he was looking around the dome frantically for a team to make, he would run in the walls and even the ceiling, search inside trash cans and lockers or appear inside them when he could get out of sight, then he ran away.

"Poor Yoshi..." Luigi trailed off.

"He's going to be fine, now let's-a-go! Peach wants to see her team ready!"

Entrance of Peach Dome

Behind a tree, the portal appeared and the Smashers walked out before it disappeared and they walked to the entrance.

"Entries will close in 1 hour, repeat, the entries will close in 1 hour." Toadsworth said.

"We should hurry up or else we won't enter!" Jigglypuff said.

"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!" Yoshi ran past them and they looked at him running around the dome at high speed.

"...Wasn't that Yoshi just now?" Kirby asked.

Chris stepped in Yoshi's path. "HEY! CALM DOWN! WE'RE HERE TO HELP YOU OUT IN ANY PROBLEM! JUST STOP AND WE WILL LIST-" Yoshi ran above Chris in his mad dash, leaving his footprints on his shirt. "...You...little..." Chris muttered while his face was on the floor.

"GRRRRR!!" Lucario got furious at this and used Extremespeed to catch the mad Yoshi and bring him to them, he succeeded and Yoshi tried to ran away from him.

"LET ME GO YOU FREAK! I NEED TO GATHER MY TEAM OR ELSE I WON'T ENTER THE FESTIVAL!" Yoshi said trying to get out from Lucario, the dinosaur looked down to find Kirby and Jigglypuff staring at him, then he calmed down and got confused. "Kirby? Jigglypuff? What are you 2 doing here?" Lucario dropped Yoshi down.

"Well, we came here to participate in the festival and destroy the Subspace Bombs." Jigglypuff said.

Yoshi looked around to see all of them. "And who might you be?"

"...Yoshi...I'm Fox..." Fox said narrowing his eyes in a bored way.

"...Oops, I didn't recognize you with that new look...so, who are all of you?"

After introducing themselves...

"Wait, you said something about Subspace Bombs, right?" Yoshi asked.

"That's right!" Kirby said.

"Weird, I just happen to know about some bombs I saw last night."

"You know where are they Yoshi?" Chris asked.

"Uh-huh, but they hid them somewhere in the Peach Dome, I even heard they hid them in several areas where the festival is going to be held! I tried to warn Mario and Luigi but they ignored me completely!" Yoshi looked down in disappointment. "But to tell the truth...I'm not interested in that right now..."

"Why is that?" Squirtle asked.

"You see, I don't have a team to enter the festival, everyone already have a team and I'm the one being left out..." Yoshi covered his eyes. "I want to participate so badly! I can't find anyone to help me!"

"Wait, the festival is all about teams then?" Ivysaur asked.

"Yes...I just found that out too late..."

"...Hmm..." Mallow looked at Geno. "Maybe we could help Yoshi by being his team?"

"That's the same thing I had in mind." Geno said nodding.

"Me too!" Twink said.

"Yoshi could be our guide through the festival, so let's make him the leader of the team." Fox said.

"The leader of the team? Oh well, I'm a little sick of ordering around so I don't see why not." Chris said.

"Fine by me." Lucario said.

"I just want to play golf already..." Olimar said playing with his fingers.

"I don't have complains either!" Jigglypuff said.

"...For real?! You mean it?!" Yoshi asked with glittering eyes.

"O-of course, why not!" Chris said sweating after Yoshi handshaked his hands repeatedly.

Yoshi temporaly joined your team!

"Oh, thank you so much! I hate to not participate in these sports, it means so much for me!"

"Isn't he even worried about the bombs at all?" Jigglypuff asked.

"Bombs? Oh yeah, you mentioned the bombs from them...can you explain to me who is the Subspace Army?"

As they walked towards the dome, they went directly where the entries were, to sign up...weird thing was all the characters of the festival were there, they also forgot to sign up as well.

"What the..." Yoshi trailed off and looked at Toad. "You all forgot to sign the entries?"

"Yes, we kind of did, the festival wouldn't have started then, how funny isn't?" Toad said laughing.

Mallow, Geno and Twink were looking around for Mario and Peach. "Where are they?" Twink asked.

"They must be around here...I found someone!" Mallow said walking.

"You found them?"

"Nope, but I found Bowser!" Mallow said patting Bowser's back.

"WHO DARES TO GIVE ME A PAT IN THE BACK?!" Bowser asked turning angrily and looked down. "...Do I know you from somewhere?"

"Bowser, I'm Mallow! Don't you remember me?"

"Hmm...er..." Bowser crossed his arms and nodded. "Not a clue who the hell you are."

"Remember you had a castle named Bowser Keep in the kingdom that was taken by the Smithy Gang?"

"...Hmm...I lost the count of all the castles I have left behind..."

"You kissed a weirdo named Booster."

"I would never kiss a weirdo..."

"You tricked Mario into believing he joined the Koopa Troop."

"He joined the group and then left..."

"You didn't even care about the Smithy Gang until Geno here explained the situation to you!" Mallow said pointing at Geno.

"...Arf! I don't know any of you 2, begone!"

"But Bowser, you were then a good g-" Mallow's mouth was blocked by Bowser himself and he looked around.

"Shh! Mallow, you idiot, I know who the hell are you and Geno, but you can't say out loud I was a good guy back then, what do you think my son will think about me?!" Bowser whispered angrily, as Boo shrugged and looked away.

"Papa! What are you doing talking with them?" Bowser Jr. asked with a grin.

"Nothing Jr! These persons are now going away!" Bowser said chuckling.

"Bowser, I didn't know you had a son before, so who's the lucky lady?" Mallow asked winking.

"You damm cloud thing, stop saying stupid things!"

"Papa, are they making fun of you?" Bowser Jr. asked.

"N-no! In fact, THEY MUST GO AWAY NOW!"

"...Mallow, leave him alone..." Geno said turning his back with Twink, Mallow then followed Geno before looking at Bowser and his son again, but then left.

"Seriously, strange people talk to me!" Bowser said sarcastically.

"..." Bowser Jr. looked at the readers, blinking before looking at Bowser. "Hey, it's our turn! Move outta my way!"

"That's the spirit son!"

At that moment, Kirby peered from Bowser's back. "You have a son?"

"Ah great! Now I'm seeing Kirby!" Bowser said walking forward, ignoring Kirby.

"Excuse me pal, I need to sign up."

Chris turned to find Donkey Kong staring at him. "Oh, you must be DK!"

"You know my name?" DK asked.

"I-I sure do!"

"So, what's your name?"

"M-my name is Chris, nice to meet you!" Chris said stretching his hand out to do a handshake to DK.

Bad move actually, DK grabbed his hand and Chris went up and down screaming a little. "Heheh! Nice to meet you too!"

"WHOOOA! WHOOA! WHOOA! PUT ME DOWN PLEASE!" Chris pleaded and DK listened. "Phew, I thought you were going to throw me..."

"Okay, if you excuse me, I need to sign up with Diddy...say, have you seen a small monkey with a red shirt with stars and a hat labeled Nintendo?"

"...Chris..." Fox came up walking to them.

"Oh, Fox! You're here too? Nice new look you got there!"

"Yes...but that's not the reason of my presence here..."

"What do you mean?" Chris asked.

Fox pointed behind him with his thumb. "It's just...this monkey has been following me around ever since we entered the dome...and he has been staring at me with that look!"

Chris looked behind Fox, and there was Diddy staring at Fox's face, without blinking. "...Hi there?"

Diddy kept staring at Fox without moving.

"Aww, look at that, he likes you Fox." DK said.

"B-but he's...well..." Fox trailed off as he stared at Diddy. "Would you stop please?"

Diddy kept staring at him.

"Hey, maybe you could take care of him when I'm gone." DK said.

"W-what? I-I'm not a babysitter!"

"Heheh, Diddy's no baby, he's a full grown monkey."

"...Yes...I can see that..."

"C'mon Diddy! We have to sign up!" DK said going away.

"OK!" Diddy said blinking back and going with DK.

"...Phew, that's over," Fox said sighing. "This is probably going to be the last time I see him for sure, and only just here and not the mansion."

Chris chuckled nervously. "...Well...Fox...I...need to tell you something about Di-"

"Hey, DK and Diddy already finished signing up, let's sign up now." Fox said walking away.

"..." Chris sighed. "He better enjoy all the time he has left before Diddy joins us...hey, where is Lucario?"

"Grrr..." Lucario was just standing behind him, grunting at someone.

"Lucario! Y-you scared me just now!"

"Grrr..."

"...L-Lucario? Are you alright?"

"Grrr..."

Chris turned his head to the direction Lucario was looking at and gasped. "KING DEDEDE AND CHARIZARD?!"

"Charizard?! Where?!" Red asked appearing from nowhere with his Pokémon and a Pokeball on his hand, already signed.

"Dedede?" Kirby asked appearing from Lucario's side with Jigglypuff.

"Look who's here!" King Dedede asked grinning, walking towards them with Charizard. "It's Kirby and his band of mentally retarted friends!"

"But I have an IQ of 97!" Chris protested.

King Dedede rolled his eyes. "So dah kid's a nerd then!"

"I-I'm not a nerd, fatty!"

"What did ya say?!"

"Stop! Please!" Kirby said stopping Dedede. "Dedede, why did you join them?"

Dedede took out his hammer. "To knock out some sense to ya!"

"Dedede, not here." Charizard said glaring at Dedede.

"...Pfft, fine!"

"Charizard!" Red said with a glare pointing his Pokeball at Charizard.

"Oh, nice to see you again Red." Charizard said sarcastically, smirking a little.

"It's time for me to catch you!"

"Heheh, what a joke, but no."

"...But I have you here now!"

"Tsk, tsk," Charizard moved his finger at the sides. "You can't fight here in the dome, those are the rules, see that label over there?"

Under no circumstances, nobody will break up a fight in the Peach Dome or during the festivity, we REALLY mean it, don't make any fights in the Peach Dome or else you will get thrown in jail, sincerely, Toadsworth, Princess Peach's steward.

"Damit!" Red, Squirtle and Ivysaur cursed.

"So, that means I can wander around freely with no interruptions." Charizard smirking evily.

"You have something in mind, I know." Lucario said glaring at him.

"Like you know that."

"Hey you 2 dorks!" Bowser called out. "Come here and sign up for the team!"

"Time to go Dedede." Charizard said walking away.

"I'll beat you in the sports, pink puffball!" Dedede said with a grin before leaving.

"...Should we tell him he was pointing at Jigglypuff?" Ivysaur asked.

"Oh no, it's just funny to see him blind." Chris said trying to not laugh.

"Rude! I'm not Kirby, why did he mistake me for him?" Jigglypuff asked.

"You're both round, soft and pink." Everyone said in unison.

"...But I'm...I'm..."

"Guys, come on! You have to sign!" Yoshi called them.

"I'm cuter!" Jigglypuff finished.

"Aw, we couldn't find Mario or Peach." Mallow said.

"We thought we found them, but it was only just a guy trying to impersonate Mario." Geno said.

"But I'm not trying to impersonate my brother!" Luigi yelled.

"Geno! He's Mario's brother!" Twink said.

"If you want to find him, you'll just have to wait until the opening ceremony begins...and it's in 10 minutes!"

"HURRY UP GUYS!" Yoshi yelled and they went to sign up.

[DededeCloneChris]

Center of the dome

The 3 teams, leaded by Mario, Bowser and Yoshi, were standing in rows in the center of the dome, where the crowd was getting wild and cheered loudly.

"Oh my god, they so totally love me!" Jigglypuff said excited.

"Hey everyone!" Olimar said appearing.

"Olimar, where were you?" Kirby asked.

"Well, I just met my new friend, everyone, please introduce yourselves to Petey!" Olimar said presenting the big Pirahna Plant who roared back.

"OLIMAR, YOU FREAKING DORK, THAT'S PETEY PIRAHNA!" Chris yelled scared.

"So?"

"SO?! He's going to eat you!"

"Nuh-uh!" Petey shook his head.

"Yes-uh!"

"Nuh-uh!"

"Look! He even ate your Pikmin, I know because he has those suspicious leaves in his mouth!"

"Huh?" Olimar looked at Petey's mouth, but the piranha ate them quickly and smiled. "I don't see any leaves, maybe my Pikmin got lost again...oh well," Olimar called 5 more Pikmin back. "I can always replace them!"

Petey Pirahna laughed to himself (well, if you can call that plant a he, those red briefs looks kind of...) as he returned to his team.

"...Somebody should tell him to make friends." Mallow whispered to Twink.

"...Hmm, have we met somewhere before?"

The Smashers turned their backs to find Mario in a thinking position, Geno's and Mallow's eyes widened a little, along with Twink's.

"I think I have seen you somewhere before..."

"MARIO!" Mallow and Geno yelled happily hugging Mario as Twink flew around.

"H-hey! Get off me!"

"Mario! Don't you remember us? We're Mallow and Geno!" Mallow said wiping out the tears from his eyes, there were clouds forming up in the dome by coincidence, but disappeared after Mallow calmed down.

"Mallow? Geno?" Mario took a closer look. "You! I haven't seen you in a long time!"

"Mario, it's good to see you agai-" Geno was interrupted.

"Chris, everyone! You're here!" The trio looked back to see Mario handshaking Chris's hand, and they fell in anime style.

"MARIO!" Twink yelled.

"...Oh, Mallow! Geno! Twink!" Mario said smiling.

"Finally." Mallow whispered to Geno.

"What are you 3 doing here?"

"We're here to prevent a b-"

"We're here to have a friendly participation in the event." Geno said blocking Mallow's mouth.

"That's why you looked around for the doll? Wow, thanks!" Mario said nodding.

"It's nothing, anyway, do you know where is Peach?" Geno asked unblocking Mallow's mouth.

"Geno, why did you stop me from saying bomb?" Mallow whispered.

"I don't want to cause panic, many people are here."

"It's something wrong?" Mario asked.

"Nothing."

"Oh, okay, if you're looking for Peach, she is going to appear very soon to begin the event."

"Thanks."

"So Mario, what have been you doing lately?" Twink asked.

The quartet started to talk between themselves.

"Aw, I really like to come to Mario's world, everything is always fun here." Chris said.

"...It's beginning." Lucario said.

"Now?" Ivysaur asked and they looked at the big size screen of the dome.

"Please, everyone line up with their leaders on the front." Toadsworth announced.

"Yoshi!" Kirby yelled.

"I-I know!" Yoshi said stepping in front of the group who quickly gathered and lined up.

"See you around!" Mario said waving at the trio, reuniting with his team, but then he walked to another way.

"I wonder where is he going..." Twink wondered as they looked at the screen of the dome and the crowd calmed down.

"May I have your attention please?" Toadsworth asked using the mic, and appearing in front of the screen with Peach. "Thank you, now, welcome to the Sports Festival, sponsored once again by our lovely princess, Princess Peach herself!"

The crowd went wild and Peach took the mic as she laughed heartily.

"Thank you to everyone for coming here, as you may know, the purpose of this festival was to get prepared for the olympic games at Beijing by a challenger from far away named Sonic the Hedgehog, I have taken my own personal time to investigate about this person, and it surprised me, he is a hero very well known around where he lives!"

"(Oh yes, Cream's letter said that to me.)" Chris thought.

"He sent a letter to Mario to challenge us and his friends to the competition of the olympic games, so the next thing that happens is this! Mario decides to make this festival possible by suggesting it to me, and I just couldn't refuse the opportunity to be back at sports!"

"Say the sports already!" Wario yelled.

"Okay! Now, our main events are going to include golf, tennis, baseball and kart racing, not only that, we're going to have mini-games as well!"

"Good!"

"But there's actually more to it!" The crowd went silent after that. "Now, if you see, we have...hmm...3 teams...3 teams ready to participate, but! We have also another surprise! The event is also an elimination match between the 3 teams and...wait a minute, can I have a closer look of this third team? I thought we were going to have only 2 teams in the event!"

A Toad walked to Peach and handed her a letter from Mario, who just returned to his team, Peach carefully readed the letter and gasped surprised.

"I wonder what's happening now..." Squirtle asked above Red's head.

"We have very important news from Mario again!" Peach said as everyone noticed that the dome was closing up, leaving a spotlight on her and Toadsworth. "I've got the news of a new, unexpected team that just arrived to participate as well!"

Spotlights around the dome where looking around randomly. "What's happening?" Koopatroopa asked.

"We would like to present to all of you, the newcomers for this event, friends to Mario and me, well, most of them barely," Peach pointed down at Yoshi's team and the spotlights centered on all of them. "Give an applause to the Yoshi Islanders team, the captain, Yoshi, and his teammates, Kirby, Jigglypuff, Olimar, Fox McCloud, Chris, Lucario, Mallow, Geno, Twink, Red, Squirtle and Ivysaur!"

The spotlights shone on each one of them and the crowd went wild again, cheering loudly.

"Oh...god..." Chris blushed embarrassed. "I...have...stage fright..."

"Just wave at them." Fox said waving at the crowd.

"...Er..." Chris waved shyly at the crowd.

"I'm famous! Oh my gosh! I'm famous!" Jigglypuff cheered jumping up and down, waving at her "fans."

"W-whoa, I didn't see this coming." Red said waving at the crowd.

"Who cares? They love us!" Squirtle said doing a peace sign.

"...Wait, Yoshi named us the Islanders?" Lucario asked confused.

"SILENCE!" The crowd stopped and the spotlights went on Bowser's team.

"What's so great about them anyway?!" Bowser asked enraged. "Cheer only to the winner of this festival, and that's me!"

"Who died and made you boss?" Wario asked. "I know you're the team's captain, but we need to have some merit!"

"Shut up fatty! You're the same arrogant, fat and stubborn person who will steal the trophy when I turn my back!"

"You tell him Papa!" Bowser Jr. said chuckling.

"King Bowser rules!" Boo said laughing, spilling saliva sometimes.

"I rule!" Waluigi said pointing at himself.

"Suuuuuuuure, you rule!" Bowser, Jr, Wario and Boo said sarcastically.

Petey just roared.

"Why did we join this team again?" Koopatroopa asked.

"Bowser, that's why." Paratroopa said sighing in disappointment.

"Let's just get on with this thing, I'm sick of waiting!" Charizard said roaring.

"Me too!" King Dedede said.

"Now now, calm down, we can't fight in the dome, it's a rule." Peach said as the dome opened up.

"Now princess, I know you came up with another decision, would you care to explain it to everyone?" Toadsworth asked.

Mario Power Tennis - Menu Theme

"I'd love to!" Peach said. "Now, since we have 3 teams, the Peach Fencers, the Bowser Fangs and the Yoshi Islanders, there is another thing that I came up with, but first, let me continue to explain the rules," she cleared her throat. "As you remember, I said something about elimination matches, right? Well, since there are 3 teams, the elimination matches will be altered a little bit, the events will be carried out like this."

Toadsworth took the mic. "In the golf event, teams will put the captain along with the 9 other teammates to participate, the captain will always stay safe from not being disqualified, but his teammates won't, here is how the things work out, depending of the decisions, the captains will decide to disqualify 2 teammates in each event for each team on their own, frankly speaking, this will also apply to the tennis and baseball events, but not the kart racing event."

Peach took the mic back. "The kart racing event is a surprise for everyone, the racing competition will be the final event where the captain and his or her last 3 remaining teammates will participate to win the festival, but there's more, the tracks are going to be 4 exclusive new tracks from our next kart event after the olympic games that the remaining challengers will test to win the festival!"

The crowd cheered in awe after this.

"4 new tracks?! I have to see them!" Chris said excited.

"Every event will also have mini-games, which will also count as part of the festival to increase the fun!"

"Here I go, Artist on the Court!"

"More detailed information will be given after reaching a sport, for now, prepare yourselves for the golf event in the Toadstool Tour section!"

"Please follow the Toads that will guide you to the location." Toadsworth said.

"Wow, everyone here is so pumped up!" Twink said.

"I can't wait to start, the suspence and the waiting is killing me!" Jigglypuff said.

"Are the bombs ready?" Charizard whispered to Dedede.

"Yep, they're activating now, but they're well hidden and nobody will suspect."

"What about the flaming Piranha Plant?"

"Lava Pirahna Plant? He's ready to help us to win this thing."

"Alright, let's begin the operation."

Preview of the next chapter

"The Ring Attack mini-game on Congo Canopy? Wow, that's new." Chris said.

"The area has a lot of tall trees in the thick forest...I hope I don't throw up." Olimar said.

...

"I can't find the Subspace Bomb anywhere!" Lucario said.

"It got to be somewhere around here!" Mallow said looking around.

...

"The tennis event will be with doubles?" Yoshi asked.

"Yes, but I know something, they're going to decide with who." Fox said.

...

"Mini-games!" Kirby yelled excited.

...

"Next time: Golf and Tennis, hit and return!" Olimar said.

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Chris, Lucario, Yoshi, Pikachu, Pichu, Jigglypuff, Mewtwo, Red, Squirtle, Ivysaur, Kirby, Meta Knight, Link, Zelda, Toon Link, Fox, Falco, Wolf, Captain Falcon, Olimar, Marth, Roy, Ness, Lucas, Pit, Ice Climbers, Geno, Mallow, Twink

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Chapter 66: Golf and Tennis, hit and return!

Dear journal, my, or should I say, our next location is the Mushroom Kingdom, home of many kinds of people, people with mushroom heads, palm heads or shell heads or whatever.

My new and first mission is to participate in a sports event, well, not really, we have to find the bombs of Subspace or Subspace Bombs as we are here, oh, good thing the first event is about golf, I really missed that back at Hocotate.

You know, back when I was a young lad, I was very well known around my friends in college, I was known as "the Hole-in-Olimar," yes, I was very talented back then, though the only thing I didn't had were girls, all the guys respected and admired me.

"Olimar..."

It could be a good idea to teach my kids to play golf, maybe they inherited my skills as well...

"Olimar."

And maybe I can even show Louie how to play!

"OLIMAR!" Jigglypuff yelled loudly.

"W-what?!" Olimar asked alarmed, opening his eyes and stopping writing in his journal.

"We're here!"

Congo Canopy

Congo Canopy

"Welcome everyone to the first event!" Toadsworth greeted them. "The Ring Attack in Congo Canopy!"

"The Ring Attack mini-game on Congo Canopy? Wow, that's new." Chris said.

"The area has a lot of tall trees in the thick forest...I hope I don't throw up." Olimar said.

"The thing that makes me wonder is HOW IN THE HELL DID THIS FOREST GET SO BIG?!" Squirtle yelled, creating a long echo.

"This is Mario's world for you, odd things happen." Fox said.

"So, where are the rings?" Toadette asked.

"Oh ho ho ho, patience people! I need to explain first the rules for this event!" Toadsworth said and they looked at him. "This event is simple, you have to locate the floating rings around the area between the tee and the hole area, the rings are located somewhere around here, carefully, look around."

Everybody started to look around, but they couldn't find any ring in sight. "There aren't any rings, are they invisible or something?" Red asked.

"Why, no young lad, the rings are just above us."

They looked above. "WHAT THE?!" Many responses came at the same time, the reason of why they were was...because the rings were like 100 feet above them.

"H-how are we going to reach those?!" Chris asked.

"Think my boy! You must have a member of the team with enough power to reach them!" Toadsworth said. "For example, Donkey Kong and Bowser can reach them using their high strength, do you have a member with that power?"

"...M-maybe I can reach them." Lucario said.

"...Lucario, why were you unsure just a second ago?" Ivysar asked.

"...Because..." Lucario looked down in shame. "I-I don't know how to play this sport..."

"..." A silence soon fell...

...Before most of the members of the Bowser Fangs bursted out laughing and rolled around the grass, laughing their asses off.

"Y-you don't know how to play golf?! How pathetic is that!" Wario said laughing madly.

"BWHAHAHAHAHA! GETTING RID OF YOU WON'T BE THAT HARD AT ALL!" Bowser said laughing.

"You tell him Papa!" Bowser Jr. said laughing with his dad.

"GRRRRR!!!" Lucario grunted and prepared to attack them.

"Now now now, you can't fight here, sorry, rule regulations." Toadsworth reminded and Lucario just crossed his arms and looked away.

"...Lucario, if you want, I can teach you." Chris offered.

"...Would you do that for me? That didn't embarrass you?" Lucario asked.

"It's not your fault, I guess, but that doesn't mean I can't, right?"

"..." Lucario kneeled to Chris and nodded. "Thanks."

"BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!" Most of the Bowser Fangs continued laughing loudly.

Chris glared at them but them smiled at Lucario and approached to his ear to whisper him something. "You can kill those guys after the festival ends if you want."

Lucario smiled a little at Chris. "Thank you."

"Now, let me explain how is this going to be done," Toadsworth began. "There will be 10 holes in total, each one will have each participant, now, the 3 participants for each hole will be the "rivals" as we assigned them, the first hole will have Doneky Kong, Bowser and Lucario, I will tell which holes have their opponents, you must also find a way to get close to the hole with one shot only, you have to pass through the rings and land close to the hole with one shot, the one who gets closer to the hole wins."

"Okay, now that's going to be hard to pull off." DK said nodding.

"And now, let's begin! First at the hole is DK! Teams can also help their allies to get a shot, and stay aware of the wind, it's 3 mph to the east!"

"Okay, now let's see the rings, hmm..." Toad looked above. "There are 3 rings, one above the other, and DK needs to move his shot to the right a little to land close to the hole."

DK took his golf club with one arm. "OK, I'm ready!" DK put his ball and slowly prepared to hit it. "OH!" DK used all his forces to send the ball towards the ring.

"1, 2, 3! It went through!" Luigi said excited.

"Now is falling to the hole!" Daisy said.

"Hmm..." DK eyed the ball falling to the green and one of the many Lakitus that broadcasted the competition went to measure the distance between the ball and the hole.

"...12.4ft!" Lakitu said.

"Yes!" DK cheered flexing his arms as Diddy clapped happily.

"Next up is Bowser!" Toadsworth announced.

"Arf, this is going to be hard..." Bowser said. "...Nope!" Bowser added at the end and he hit his ball with all his forces, it went crosing the 3 rings but the wind changed the course where it was falling.

"It's going to fall off the platform!" Paratroopa said.

"Now." Bowser whispered to Dedede, who nodded with a grin.

"Plant, do your work." Dedede ordered.

The ball got out from sight and it fell down the deepness of the forest. "O.B.!" Lakitu declared.

"We still have a chance to win this hole!" Twink said.

"...Twink?" Peach looked at Twink.

"Peach!" Twink said happily floating over to Peach, who gave him a hug as the star blushed.

"...Wait a minute! Look!" Toad pointed down and they got confused for what, what was shocking was that Bowser's ball came from the deepness and it went straight towards the hole, Lakitu watched very confused at this before the ball got inside the hole.

"B-but how is that possible? Is somebody down there?" Paratroopa asked.

"...Not that I'm aware of, there are many poisonous vines down below, but if the ball somehow returns if an O.B. was declared, then there's no penalty for the one who hit it..." Luigi explained.

"That means Hole-in-one for the Bowser Fangs!" Lakitu yelled and the Bowser Fangs cheered at this.

"I smell something fishy with this..." Geno said.

"...You can smell?" Mallow asked confused.

"...Mallow? Geno?" Peach came up.

"Peach!" Both of them hugged Peach.

"If the Yoshi Islanders can make a Hole-in-one, then both teams will receive one point each!" Lakitu said from the green.

"Lucario, I hope you got the instructions right, are you ready now?" Chris asked.

Lucario grabbed his golf club and nodded. "Yes, please, wish me good luck." Lucario said walking over to the tee.

"Always do." Chris said chuckling heartily.

"HE'S GONNA LOOOOOOSE! HE'S GONNA LOOOOOOOSE!!!" The Bowser Fangs said trying to get Lucario out of focus (except Paratroopa and Koopatroopa, who were opposing the idea).

"You can do it Lucario!"

"YOU CAN'T!"

"YES HE CAN AND SHUT THE HELL UP ALL OF YOU!" Chris yelled irritated.

"...Hmm..." Lucario looked at the rings, then the ball. "Here we go then...I hope this is right..." Lucario closed his eyes and put a hard grip on his club before hitting the ball with a great hit, it went soaring through the air towards the ring.

"1..." Twink trailed off.

"2..." Chris trailed off.

"...3!" Yoshi finished. "Now let's see if it can fall in the hole!"

"Now." Dedede whispered.

"...IT'S A HOLE-IN...huh?" Lakitu was going to say that it was a hole-in-one, but as soon as the ball was going to enter, it rolled out from above the hole like if something prevented it from entering, but Lakitu couldn't find a reason for that. "...Hmm...the ball is 26ft away from the hole, Lucario ends in third position, DK in the second one, meaning the Bowser Fangs wins the first hole!"

"YES!" The Bowser Fangs cheered loudly at this.

"W-wait, what? How could that be possible?!" Yoshi asked very confused. "The ball was inside the hole, I saw it clearly!"

"Little green dinosaur can't believe the truth!" Waluigi taunted.

"But I saw it, didn't you Mario?!"

"...I...don't know really..." Mario trailed off.

"But!"

"Let's move on to the next hole!" Toadsworth announced walking away to a path, where most of the golfers followed.

"Something is not right here..." Ivysaur trailed off as they walked to the next hole.

"First, how did Bowser's ball returned and how did Lucario's ball "rejected" the hole?" Jigglypuff wondered.

"Maybe it's my ability in the golf that made us to lose..." Lucario said looking down.

"...Lucario, we haven't lost yet, we can still win this!" Chris said trying to cheer Lucario up.

"Thanks for the affection...but it was my fault..."

"...Lucario...(There must be something odd...I know that...)"

"We're here!" Toadsworth said. "Now, you have to stay alert, there's no wind but this time, the rings are around that big tree from over there! There are 2 rings, golfers must get around the wide tree and use the wall in the direction of the ring to land close to the hole in the green with one shot! For this hole, Birdo, Yoshi and Paratroopa will play!"

"Birdo!" Yoshi said shocked.

"H-hi Yoshi..." Birdo said embarrassed.

"H-how could you do this to me?!"

"I-I'm sorry Yoshi, seriously!" Birdo said taking her? golf club and prepared to hit the ball.

"...Should we tell Yoshi that Birdo is a-" Chris's mouth was blocked by Lucario, who shook his head slowly.

"Ha!" Birdo hit the ball and it went in a curved trail in the air, going around the tree and passing through the 2 rings, it hit the wall, bouncing towards the green inside the same tree and Lakitu went to check the distance.

"17.9ft!" Lakitu declared and Birdo walked back to her? team.

"My turn!" Paratroopa said taking his golf club, but he glanced over to Yoshi's team but shuddered a little. "H-hiyah! Paratroopa hit the ball, that went around the tree, passing through the rings, hitting the wall to bounce towards the hole.

"...Huh?" Lakitu noticed that the ball, after stopping, went moving towards the hole, but it stopped right before it could enter. "...Er...0.1 ft!"

"0.1ft?! O-oh yes! I haven't had such nice record before!" Paratroopa said, but inside him, he was feeling unsure as Bowser and Charizard chuckled evily.

"Here I go!" Yoshi said with enthusiasm, taking his golf club and running inside the tee.

"Try not to fail Yoshi!" Mallow said.

"Pfft, I'm good at this sport, I never fail!"

"Heheheheh..." Bowser chuckled evily, along with Wario and Waluigi.

"...Ha!" Yoshi hit the ball and he watched it going far away...

"...Wait, where is the ball?" Toadsworth asked adjusting his glasses. "I can't seem to find it anywhere!"

"But Yoshi did a good hit!" Kirby said.

"...I...think I know where it went..." Red said trailing off.

"Huh?" Yoshi looked at him.

"...Isn't that ball from over there your ball?"

"...WAAAAAH!" Yoshi was shocked, all of them found his ball just 20 inches from the tee.

"Yoshi's ball is 189ft away from the hole, another point for the Bowser Fangs!" Lakitu declared and the Bowser Fangs, this time, high-fived each other in triumph.

"B-but Yoshi has never lost a shot before!" Koopatroopa said.

"YOU! SHUT UP AND ACCEPT IT!" Bowser yelled loudly, making Koopatroopa to hide inside his shell as he shook in fear inside.

"S-sorry..."

"Move on to the next hole!" Toadsworth said and they followed him.

"Something is DEFINITELY going on here..." Squirtle wondered.

"Shouldn't we start looking for the Subspace Bombs?" Geno whispered.

"Professor, do you have any signals of the bombs?" Chris whispered to his pocket.

"Hmm... I'm receiving weak signals of the bombs...but they're a lot of them..." Kawashima said.

"...Hmm...Lucar-"

"I'll go." Lucario said.

"...I didn't finish yet, I was going to say that you and Mallow are going to go."

"...For what?"

"Remember my idea of you socializing with people back at the mansion?"

Lucario groaned a little. "B-but Chris!"

"No buts from you, you will go with Mallow! Mallow!"

"Yes?" Mallow asked.

"Do you know what a Subspace Bomb looks like?"

"...I dunno." Mallow said sticking out his tongue.

"See? He needs your help."

"But you haven't asked him yet!"

"What did I say about the buts? ...Nevermind, Mallow, can you go with Lucario and find the Subspace Bombs?"

"...Okay...if that's alright with him..." Mallow said.

"...Fine, if that's what you want me to do...Mallow, jump on my back, we're going to look for the bombs in the forest by jumping to tree to tree."

"...OK!" Mallow said jumping on Lucario's back, and the Aura Pokémon prepared to jump very high until he did the action, disappearing from sight.

"Where is Mallow going?" Peach asked appearing from the group.

"He...um...went to look around for a coin he lost in the way...hey, are you Peach?"

"Yes, I am, and you're Chris, right? Mario told me you and the others helped him in Rogueport before."

"Um..." Chris blushed a little. "Y-yes, it was very fun to help him out."

"I wanted to thank you for doing so," Peach smiled a little. "If it weren't for you, I would be captive in the moon forever!"

And both of them became fast friends ever since that conversation, until they reached the next hole.

"Welcome to the next hole!" Toadsworth said. "The golfers for this hole are going to be Daisy, Chris and Petey Piranha!"

This time, however, the next hole had many Lakitus with cameras showing all the characters to the spectators back at the dome to broadcast the event much better.

And Daisy couldn't refuse the opportunity to say something.

"Hi! I'm Daisy!" Daisy greeted, but everyone heard many groans coming back from the dome, since Daisy says that every time she enters something, everyone in the whole world got annoyed by that. "Why you all! I'm gonna run to you and then I'll slap your faces so hard that you will be send towards the space an-" Daisy tried to hit a camera, but Luigi quickly held her by her waist.

"No! Daisy! Please! They didn't mean it, calm down please!" Luigi pleaded.

"LET ME GO! I NEED TO SHOW THEM SOME RESPECT TO ME!"

"NOT AGAIN, PLEASE DAISY!" Luigi yelled scared, all the Lakitus floated quickly away from the crazy princess and to a safe distance, putting their cameras in zoom mode to get a better view.

"Daisy, no fight, remember." Toadsworth reminded her.

And in 3 seconds. "HA!" Daisy hit the ball with her golf club.

"W-wait! I haven't told all of you about the rings an-"

"HOLE-IN-ONE!" Lakitu declared.

"...She passed through the 5 rings?"

"Yes, she passed the big ring to the last small ring!"

"...Peach Fencers are taking the lead of this hole!"

"YES! YES! I WON, TAKE THAT!" Daisy yelled loudly, proudly of herself and the crowd decided to cheer loudly for her. "Hi! I'm Daisy!"

...Nevermind, they groaned after that. "GRR! NOW C'MON OVER HERE AND LET ME DO SOMETHING!" Daisy said angrily, but Luigi tried to stop her again.

"NOT AGAIN DAISY!" Luigi yelled.

"I don't know if I should feel sorry for the spectators or Luigi." Ivysaur said.

"Somebody has anger issues..." Jigglypuff whispered to Fox.

"Geez, I wonder who could that be..." Fox rolled his eyes.

"WHO SAID THAT?!" Jigglypuff sweated, but Daisy turned to the Lakitus. "NOW C'MON OVER HERE!" Daisy taunted the Lakitus but Luigi stopped her.

PUNCH!

...Or tried to stop her, he fell to the grass with a black eye and his brother went to check on him as Daisy stomped back to her team, where Peach tried to calm her down.

"Luigi." Squirtle said frowning.

"Um...I think it's my turn now..." Chris said taking his golf club and looked at the rings above the green. "...The first one is a big one, but the last one is small...ha!" He hit the ball and it went directly above the rings.

"5." Red said.

"4." Kirby said.

"3." Jigglypuff said.

"2." Twink said.

"...Darn it!" Chris cursed when the ball didn't go through the last ring.

"Failed!" Lakitu said. "But still, I'm going to say the distance, 16.1ft!"

"Heheh, loser." Wario chuckled.

"...Oh, you did well." Yoshi said.

"...Thanks, I'll appreciate it." Chris said nodding, as Petey Piranha walked to the tee, laughing a little. "OH, COME ON! OLIMAR! PETEY ATE YOUR PIKMIN AGAIN!"

The big Pirahna sucked up the leaves, smiled and waved to Olimar, who waved back at him. "See? He's a good friend!" Olimar said.

"Oh, forget it!"

"BLEACK!" Petey hit the ball, but his insane strength made the ball to go very far away from the rings.

"...And it's gone!" Lakitu said.

"...I wouldn't be too sure!" Paratroopa said pointing at Petey's ball's direction, everyone looked at the same direction and saw the ball returning, passed right through the rings, and rolled inside the hole.

"...Okay, I don't know what happened, but Hole-In-One for the Bowser Fangs! That means both Peach Fencers and Bowser Fangs gain 1 point each, the Yoshi Islanders are having a hard time since they're in the last place!"

"..." Yoshi looked down in disappointment.

"Aw, don't worry Yoshi, everything will be fine." Mario said patting Yoshi's nose.

"...Leave me alone please."

"..." Mario got worried but listened to Yoshi.

"...I wonder what are Lucario and Mallow doing right now..." Jigglypuf wondered.

In another area, we see Lucario jumping from tree to tree with Mallow looking around the place to find the bombs.

"I can't find the Subspace Bomb anywhere!" Lucario said.

"It got to be somewhere around here!" Mallow said looking around.

"Grr, we have been looking around carefully and there aren't any!"

"But where could they be?"

"Hmm..." Lucario glowed for a moment. "...It's useless, they hid them even from my aura..."

A moment of silence fell and none of them spoke.

"...So...are you and Chris friends?" Mallow asked breaking the silence.

"I'm not his friend, I'm his guardian and best friend, but he's almost the same since he is my master."

"...Master in what?"

"He taught me how to live and not to be afraid of anything when I was sick."

"...Oh, I see now..."

"But he hates to be called "Master" and prefers his name because it makes him to sound old."

"...Well, I don't know, but you should listen to him, I mean, he's your master and you obey his orders right?"

"Yes, but with some exceptions."

"Then don't call him master and call him by his name."

"...I know that, but I feel more happy in my way..."

"But he feels bad about it."

"!!"

"...Now you see?"

"...I think so...Mallow..."

"Yes?"

"I've come to realize it's not so bad to talk with other people...sometimes they help even the most alone person..."

Mallow laughed and smiled. "I'm glad I was able to help!"

"Thanks, now let's continue to search for the bombs."

"Right!"

As he jumped from tree to tree, he closed his eyes and smiled a little. "(...Chris, you were right about socializing with other people...)"

Back with the teams at hole number 4...

"The Bowser Fangs have made another Hole-In-One with Dedede's help, Peach Fencers comes in second place and...the Yoshi Islanders are still WAY behind!" Lakitu announced.

"BWHAHAHAHAHAHA! IN DAH FACE KIRBY!" Dedede laughed proudly of himself.

"B-but that's impossible! My ball was going to roll inside the hole with one shot after passing through the rings!" Kirby protested.

"Pinky can't believe it either!" Boo said drooling a little.

"I'm starting to doubt about something," Olimar began. "Balls don't jump off the field by themselves once they roll around and stop."

"I think there's something odd about that too." DK said raising his hand.

"Well...nobody has proof about that, right?" Paratroopa asked, laughing a little scared as Bowser glared at him with a grunt.

"...No, and we move on to the next hole!" Toadsworth said walking away to the next hole.

"Why isn't anyone here trying to find some proof?" Jigglypuff asked.

"Maybe it's normal for them for these things to happen." Squirtle said.

"But not for me! I'm very aware of the situation!" Yoshi protested.

"Then tell us what's the problem and we will listen." Fox said crossing his arms.

"...You know, sometimes, I get the feeling you like to mess around with me, because I don't know what's the cause for this trouble." Yoshi said blinking a little bored.

"...Maybe."

2 minutes later...

"In this hole, golfers need to take precaution of the windy winds!" Toadsworth said as his mustache was moving to the east, by the strong wind. "The air is at 21mph to the west, you have to take advantage of the wind and pass the 4 rings above the abyss! The golfers are Red, Squirtle or Ivysaur, Luigi and Charizard!"

"How ironic, we ended up being the rivals." Charizard said smirking.

"Guys, let me do this one, I won't screw up!" Red said determined.

"...Ookay, go on but I'm not sure."

"Wait!" Chris yelled and ran towards the green. "I'm going to find out what is the cause for our bad losing streak here and now!"

"Oh no, we have trouble with the kid." Bowser whispered.

"Oh, I have everything under control." Dedede whispered back.

"...Huh? What is a Waddle Dee doing here?" Chris asked confused after a Waddle Dee looked at him.

"WAAH! LOOK AT THAT THING, IS HIDEOUS!" Luigi screamed hiding behind Daisy.

The Waddle Dee walked away. "Hmm, I wonder where is he going..." Chris wondered and decided to follow the Waddle Dee.

"Okay, I'm ready!" Red said ready with his golf club. "(Please, I don't want to fail like everyone else did.)"

"Red, it's bad to think out loud!" Twink said, making Kirby and Yoshi to grunt at the trainer.

"...My bad! HA!" Red said hitting the ball.

"Did you take the wind's speed?" Olimar asked.

"I did! Look! It's going through the rings!"

"1, 2, 3 and 4!" Kirby said counting the rings. "It's going to fall..."

"In the hole!" Jigglypuff added.

"Oh, I wouldn't count on that." Dedede said snickering.

"...Hmm..." Lakitu got closer to the hole to see the ball about to fall directly.

"What's that?!" Dedede yelled shocked pointint at the sky.

"Huh?" Dedede's plan worked and everyone fell for their trick.

"...Okay, you need to tell me where are you going." Chris said to the Waddle Dee, who kept walking around, towards the hole.

"(That's the signal!)"

THUD!

"(Oww!)"

Someone tried to get out from the hole, but Waddle Dee's foot prevented the exit and both him and Chris walked out the green, then Lakitu returned to see the hole and the ball entering inside. "Hole-In-One!" Lakitu declared.

"What?!" Bowser, Charizard and Dedede asked shocked at this.

"N-no way! I did it? I did it!" Red saying making a fist in the air and returned to his team.

2 minutes later...

"Luigi's ball is 12ft! That only leaves Charizard to hit the ball!" Lakitu said.

"Heh, this is going to be easy." Charizard said picking up his golf club. "HA!" Charizard hit the ball, passing through the rings and going towards the hole, exactly above.

"...Huh? Where am I?... The ball is getting closer! I need to take it out and fast!"

"(And even without cheating, I should consider a career in golf as a professional!)"

However, much for his dismay, his ball was just going to enter, but it went bouncing out from the hole and fell to the abyss.

"WHAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!" Charizard's jaw dropped to the floor astonished.

"The Yoshi Islanders win this hole!" Lakitu said.

"Yes! One for us!" Twink said high-fiving Red.

"Plant! What the hell was that just now?!" Dedede whispered to the grass, and a small dot of darkness appeared.

"I-I'm sorry, I though that was the ball from the kid!"

"Make another mistake and that rampage over Mario won't happen at all, you hear me?!"

"Ugh, yes, boss..."

With Lucario and Mallow...

"Hmm..."

"...What is it Lucario?" Mallow asked as Lucario landed on the top of a tree and began to focus, glowing.

"...Something is wrong here..."

"Why?"

Lucario's aura showed the entire area, but something very big and long was moving inside the trees, soil and earth. "I sense a disturbance under the earth, and it's big..."

"H-how big?"

"Gigantic, though, there is a small brain that is controlling all the spiked vines, that brain needs more power to become very big..."

"A-and what can we do?"

Lucario shook his head. "Nothing for now, the vines are deep underground or between the trees, we will just have to wait until something happens."

"Did you find the bombs?"

"No, they're still hidden, very well hidden."

Mallow looked down. "...Maybe we should return with the others..."

"Chris is not going to like this...but I can't do anything else." Lucario said, stopping his glow before jumping down.

Back with the teams at hole 6...

A very small space with one ring was between 2 big and thick trees, but somebody who had a great accuracy and aim could get an easy Hole-In-One, since the hole was at the very bottom of a hill, the golfers for this hole were Toad, Waluigi and the last one who hasn't participated yet, Jigglypuff, luckily, the previous 2 that weren't Jigglypuff failed into crossing the side.

"Okay Jigglypuff, focus...you can do this if you concentrate..." Squirtle said.

"I know, just let me shoot already!" Jigglypuff said pouting a little.

"Pss, there's no way for the plant to get to the other platform, it she succeeds, we phail!" Dedede whispered to Charizard, misspelling a word.

"Relax, there's no snowball chance in hell the puffball wil-"

"HOLE-IN-ONE AGAIN FOR THE YOSHI ISLANDERS!" Lakitu said from the other side.

"...Wait, this doesn't make sense at all, we didn't watch her shoot!" Charizard said angrily.

"You 2 were on your own little world, Jigglypuff managed to pass the ring and get the ball in the hole." Paratroopa said.

"Well done Jigglypuff!" Chris said holding Jigglypuff above his hand, the Singer Pokémon twirled above it and stroke a pose as Yoshi cheered at this.

"Alright, next hole everyone!" Toadsworth said.

2 minutes later...

Ring Attack

"In this hole, golfers must use the 3 trees between them and the green and bounce their balls 3 times to pass through the different rings's angles which descend from the top to the bottom, starting from the right tree and bouncing the ball to the other one and finally bounce it in the same previous tree, for this hole, Diddy, Fox and Bowser Jr!"

"This is easy, don't worry." Fox said taking his golf club and walked over the tee. "..."

Diddy was stading there between his ball and him, staring at his face without blinking. "Oops, my mistake Fox, Diddy couldn't resist it anymore, Diddy! Come over here!" Dk called over and Diddy listened and joined him.

"...I swear, that monkey just creeps me out sometimes..."

"Fox! Just focus on the ball!" Geno yelled.

"Fine, fine, I heard you!" Fox said preparing to hit the ball. "Ha!" Fox's ball went directly towards the wall of the tree.

"1." Chris said.

"2." Yoshi said.

"3!" Red said.

"C'mon, roll to the hole!" Fox muttered as Lakitu watched carefully the ball...that somehow accelerated in speed and fell inside a bunker. "...Dang it!"

"45.8ft!" Lakitu said.

"Okay, that's it! Something fishy is going on around here and I'm going to see what it is!" Fox said angrily returning to his group.

"Fox, we ALL thought the same thing in our minds after we failed." Kirby said.

"I'll beat you all in this thing, just see!" Bowser Jr. said grinning evily to the Yoshi Islanders.

Bowser sniffed and took out a napkin from nowhere. "That's...my son! Make me proud!"

"...Bowser has a son?" Toadette asked.

"ARGH! YES! AND I HAVE 7 MORE WATCHING THIS EVENT BACK AT THE DOME!" Bowser roared furiously.

"So who's the lucky lady?" Twink asked winking.

"SHUT UP YOU!"

"Okay!" Bowser Jr. put his mask on his mouth to look more treatening and spung on his feet with his golf club. "HA!" He stopped quickly, holding himself above the grass and hit the ball with speed, it went bouncing on all the walls until it rolled inside the green.

"This is gettin' repetitive, so just move it a little closer to the hole." Dedede whispered and the ball rolled towards the hole and Lakitu checked the distance.

"...4.8ft!" Lakitu declared.

"Go pal, remember to get the ball close to the hole, or better yet, inside!" DK said pushing Diddy, who hopped happily towards the hole with his golf club.

"...Donkey Kong!" Fox yelled annoyed.

"DIDDY! GO TO THE TEE, THE TEEEEEE REMEMBER?! NOT FOX!"

"Okay!" Diddy said laughing before going to the tee this time as Fox grunted at this.

[DededeCloneChris]

We are sorry but the story is not going to continue for a little while, why do you ask? Because the Halloween special is being currently written as you read this.

[DededeCloneChris]

Halloween Special: Ultimate Halloween of the Chimera

Subspace
Deep inside the Great Maze

"Can I go again?"

"No."

"Pretty please?"

"No."

"With sugar, a cherry, lemon ice cream, candy and cream on the top?"

"NO!" Tabuu yelled furiously to Porky. "YOU ARE NOT GOING THERE AGAIN AFTER YOU LOST!"

"B-but I have a great idea this time!" Porky dared to argue.

"Ugh."

"...I'm quite curious about this new idea Lord Tabuu." The Ancient Minister said.

"...Oh, thank you." Porky said.

"...I am hearing." Tabuu said a little annoyed.

Porky played with his claws as he talked. "Well, you see, I had a pet a long time ago, it was the Ultimate Chimera, this pet, well, he was indestructible that Lucas and his band of retarded friends and his dog couldn't make any damage on it, because if they touched the chimera, it retaliated with a quick bite that could destroy anything, even KO them!, it was invincible when it was living!"

"...Continue..."

"Y-yes! If you could at least, um, I don't know, bring it back to send it to them?"

"...Ancient Minister, you thoughts?"

"Hmm, I interested in this beast, maybe we could give it a try."

"So, are you saying we should bring it back?" Ganondorf asked crossing his arms.

"Let us see if Porky has a good idea this time, since it does not involve him for a change."

"H-hey! What was that supposed to mean?!" Porky asked annoyed.

"Ganondorf, let us start right now."

"Affirmative." Ganondorf said nodding.

"While the World Traveler and his team is dealing with Charizard and King Dedede in Mario's world, we are going to send this beast to make chaos in their home."

"Heheheh..." Porky chuckled evily.

Smash Mansion
Outside

Porky was seen carrying the Ultimate Chimera in a cage above his Spider Mech, the "king" looked at the mansion and chuckled evily. "Heheheh, just you wait you all! My pet will teach you all a lesson for sure this time around, and not the other way around! DUAHA, BWHAHAHAHAHAH-cough cough-HAHAHAHAHAHA!"

"RUUUUUUAAAAAAAARRRRRGGGGGGHHH!!!!" The Ultimate Chimera roared loudly.

"Shh! Keep it down Ulti! You're going to have your food very soon, just you wait Ness, and that wimpy guy Lucas!"

Porky imagined Ness and Lucas in his mind, and both kids were shown laughing in a think cloud.

"Hahahahaha! And that's not the best part, he posed for a photo using a pink dress...under a ventilator with strong air, pushing the skirt above and Pokey blushed and laughed like a girl, giggling as he tried to put the skirt down!" Ness said laughing madly, showing Lucas a picture of Porky with a dress.

"Oh god, is that his phone number on the photo?!" Lucas asked pointing at the number at Porky's side before rolling on the floor, holding his stomach in pain after laughing out loud.

"This is definitely going to the internet!" Ness said walking towards a computer, putting the photo in the scanner, uploaded the photo to the internet.

In only 4 seconds, the photo was seen 845,003,247,302 times with half the comments about how stupid Porky looked like, what's more, Ness received 100 awards worth of money.

"Lucas! We're rich! We're rich, I can't believe it!" Ness said holding the photo in his hand. "This is pure gold!"

Since it was Porky's crazy mind... "KISS ME YOU FOOL!" Lucas lunged at Ness and started making out, of course, out of the think cloud before it disappeared.

"DANG IT! I'M SO GONNA KILL THOSE BASTARDS NOW!" Porky said turning a bright red.

"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!" The Ultimate Chimera roared.

"AND WHY NOT?! I WANT YOU TO GO THERE AND BITE THEIR HEADS OFF!!!" Porky yelled furiously, by accident, his rage blinded him and threw the cage to the 6th floor of the mansion, making a hole and setting the chimera free. "...Oops...COME OVER HERE! IT'S THE FIRST FLOOR, NOT THAT ONE!" Porky said running to the floor by burying the claws on the wall to climb it.

6th floor

"Ulti! You hear me?! Wow, this place is suuuuuuure alone! Look at the walls, they're so old and stinky!" Porky said looking around for his pet, where it appeared and walked to him. "Oh, here you are Ulti, gosh, I don't know my own strength at all, hahahahahaha!"

The Ultimate Chimera (which are we going to refer as UC (heheh, U(You)C(see)) roared agreeding.

"...But just look at this place! Walls, stinky and about to collapse, rooms, dark and gloomy, ceiling, as dirty and their butts are, lights, off! What the hell is wrong with them? Do they even know about sanitation?"

The UC roared.

"W-what do you mean I don't know what that is?"

The UC roared again.

"I-I always kept the tower very clean!"

The UC roared again.

"The brainwashed employers were the ones who cleaned it? Y-you're not making sense!"

The UC roared again.

"Y-you! I told you before I had to leave you near the stinky bathrooms for a reason, Lucas would go there and do the 2, that's where you come in and bite his as-"

The UC roared again.

"W-WHAT?! I-I can't get out from this crap, how do you suppose me to use the bathrooms there? I have a portable bathroom inside this machine, neat, huh?!"

The UC roared again.

"It's not disgusting, it's genius!"

The UC roared again, but this time, furiously.

"Says the old kid man who pees every 10 seconds?! I have a problem with my...oh...wait...I have to go now..."

The UC turned his head, after 10 seconds, he looked back at Porky and roared furiously.

"Ulti, you just DID not say that to me!"

The UC roared again furiously.

"You know what?! Screw you! I don't even know you!" Porky turned his back on it. "I have a very cute and strong Towtow named Ultichi, and guess what, it's a girl, better than you, you pathetic excuse for a chimer-"

CHOMP!

Outside

Porky was sent blasting off to the sky by a bite from his own pet, who decided to hide in the 6th floor. "THIS IS THE THIRD TIME I GET BLASTED TO THE SKY ALREADY! AND FROM ALL PERSONS BUT YOU! YOU DISGRACE ME!"

The UC roared again.

"I DON'T COMPLAIN TOO MUCH!" Porky complained as he disappeared from sight.

And so, the King P left his pet wander the 6th floor freely, roaring or grunting with low volume.

Command Room

We see the rest of the Smashers who didn't go to the next world sitting on the chairs in front of the computers, some were leaned to the walls or remained up as they watched the event unfolding by itself from the screen.

"Why didn't I go there? There's going to be baseball event and I'm not there!" Ness complained crossing his arms.

"Well, you said before you didn't feel like going, didn't you?" Pikachu asked raising an eyebrow.

"Well, that's true, but I guess I wanted to go after all."

"Look, that oversized plant is eating Olimar's Pikmin when he's not looking." Nana said pointing at the screen.

"Look! He even ate your Pikmin, I know because he has those suspicious leaves in his mouth!" Chris argued but Olimar didn't see Petey's mouth in time before he swallowed them and smiled.

"...I'm bored." Lucas said moving his legs in the chair, looking down.

"We all are bored." Pichu said sighing.

Pichu's Confessionary

"I know this, when Chris selects somebody to go to a world, they DO something there, I mean, the ones left behind have nothing else to do but to watch how they are doing in the world, for me, I'm going to say it, it sucks being left behind, so, as the enthusiastic Pokémon I am, I decided to take the iniciative and find something interesting to do, something INDEED to kill the time."

"Who wants to play Solitary in the computer?" Pichu asked cheerfully, but only the sound of the crickets were heard. "...Nobody? Anyone?"

"I have a better idea." C. Falcon said raising his hand.

"Yes?"

"Let's go and participate!"

"That can't be done," Master Hand began. "We can't let more people go or else you'll suffer the consequences."

"Trust him, I learned the bad way." Falco said looking away embarrassed.

"...Fine...man, we have to do something."

"But what?" Ness asked.

"We could a) go to the city and see if we can do something, b) try to stop Link from murdering or torturing Toon Link with the ruler or c) convince Zelda to take a shower and peek on her."

"...You do know I'm standing besides you, right?" Zelda asked raising an eyebrow with a glare.

"...Yeah."

"Oh, I have something better for you." Falco said grinning and took out a photo.

"What's this?"

"The best female in the whole world, Samus."

"...But Samus is a man, right?"

"Oh no, is a girl...but I'm not going to see that photo, it's so awesome but dangerous at the same time, one small peek and you're going to wish her to be here...FOREVER."

C. Falcon rolled his eyes. "Yeah, right, like if that could ha-HOLY MOTHER OF PORT TOWN!"

"When did you take that photo anyway?" Pikachu asked.

"Hey, this scouter is useful for all things, for scanning areas, take photos, record small videos, etc, and the feature that Slippy added randomly, the power level indicator."

"Power level indicator?"

"Yes, but it's completely unnecessary, Fox thinks the same."

"...Okay, somebody has something to say?" Ness asked.

"Hmm...I have something." Mewtwo said.

"Well, spit it out!"

"Not too long ago, I heard a crash coming from the 6th floor, and I could even hear roars."

Crazy Hand gasped and they looked at him. "T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-THE 6TH FLOOR?! BETTER KNOWN AS THE 666TH FLOOR?!?!?!?!?!?"

"The 666th floor? But the mansion only has 15 floors, every single one very long and wide for letting 500 characters to live here!" Pichu pointed out.

"Everyone, there's some story behind that floor," Master Hand said and turned off the lights as a light shone below him. "It's the old legend of the 666th flooooooooooor!!!."

"...It that was supposed to scare me, try again, that was the most pathetic try I've ever seen before." Wolf said frowning.

Wolf's Confessionary

"Nothing, and I repeat it, NOTHING scares me the slightliest bit, I'm the most brave person of the whole mansion for sure, and the last one who is for sure the most scared guy is that wimpy little blond kid named Lucas. I looked at him with my normal expression and he nearly fainted, what a wuss."

"So, why is that floor mistakenly named the "666th" floor?" Wolf asked.

"It's because we built the mansion above an INDIAN CEMETERY!" Master Hand yelled the last part as a creepy thunder falls on the background.

"...I know you're lying with that part." Mewtwo said narrowing his eyes, noticing Lucas who was already fainted.

"Lucas! Lucas! Wake up! The mansion wasn't built above an indian cemetery!" Ness said moving Lucas.

"...Okay, where I was? Oh yeah," Master Hand cleared his throat. "Has anyone ever noticed that the floor has no persons in assignated rooms?"

"...Well, now that I remember, there isn't anyone who uses a room up there." Nana said remembering,

"And come to think of it, the elevator we have doesn't have the "6" to go to that floor." Popo said.

"And even the stairs skips a whole room size, the same size a normal floor is!" Pikachu said.

"Yes, well, it's because that floor is believed to be haunted." Master Hand said darkly.

"I-I-I once went in there, a-a-a-and I heard roars and screams coming from a room, w-w-w-when I went to check in there, there wasn't anybody around!" Crazy Hand said studdering in fear.

"Originally, I bought the mansion from a very rich guy, but he told me to not go to the 666th floor, many people who have gone there didn't return back, they said they were murdered in a slow and painful death...or rather fast and not so painful death, because there's a beast roaming the halls of that floor, searching for its prey to be eaten by his fangs."

"...Oh no, look how I'm scared, my hair is getting spikier from the horror..." C. Falcon said sarcastically.

"I-i-it should be! It's the truth!" Master Hand said. "Anyway, that's why that floor is off-limits, I would feel sorry for the next person who is dumb enough to go in there and sacrifice his or her life in vain."

"Master Hand, after inspecting your mind, I found out something," Mewtwo said raising a finger and the hand sweated. "There isn't any beast in there, the whole place stinks very bad and its layout it's horrible, the rooms can be dirty enough to make someone to fall or trip, and you didn't buy the mansion from a person, you built the mansion slowly until it was finished, but for some odd reason, you forgot to clean that floor and kept forgetting about it until it got very dirty and not safe for someone to sleep there, and it's not called the "666th" floor, Crazy Hand came up with the name just to make it sound scary." Mewtwo explained and they stared at the hands with angry looks.

"Oh, now we have something interesting to do, find out if that floor is really cursed!" Ness said as Lucas woke up slowly.

"Ness, I alread-"

"I know, I know, but there must be something hidden in there!"

5th floor

Master Hand continued talking as we see some stairs with a long yellow tape saying "Off limits, keep out!"

"Oh, why bothering? That floor is really haunted, seriously," Master Hand said, before we see Toon Link cutting down the tape and going upwards as Link was shown chasing him to the 6th floor. "Someone very stupid and sick of the mind only would go in there."

Command Room

"I'm not stupid and sick of the mind, that's why I'm assembling my own party to go there, who's with me?!" Ness asked raising his hand.

"...Meh, I'll go." Pikachu said walking to his side.

"I'm going too!" Popo said walking to their side.

"Count me out, I'm staying here." Nana said.

"Nana is s-ca-red!" Pikachu taunted.

"Nope, not at all," Nana snapped her fingers and Prinnies came in, giving her a hamburger. "Less people, more Prinnies for me to stay in the good life."

"Huh?" Etna shook her head, waking up from her state. "Did I missed something?"

"We're going to investigate a haunted floor!" Popo said.

"...Haunted?" Etna quickly sprang out from her seat. "If you're going to some haunted place, then take me in!"

"...Why do you want to come?"

"Well duh! Haunted places are the most funny places to hang out, is a devil's dream to find something haunted...besides, there are 3 Prinnies that I haven't seen yet ever since we came here."

"...Okay, you can come."

"You don't order me around twerp." Etna said putting her hands on her hips.

"Anyone else?"

6th floor (666th floor)

We see a box trembling occasionally as Link looked around for Toon Link, not even caring about where in the hell he was now. "Linky, come over here and let's see which sword can cut through a cake faster!" Link said shifting his eyes, holding a cake on his right hand and his sword, cutting the cake slowly as walked away.

"...He's gone?" Toon Link asked looking around, then he sighed. "Phew, I thought it was never going to end...where am I?" He asked to himself after looking around again. "Hmm, maybe there is something here, I haven't looked this floor at all now that I remember..."

The cartoony version of Link entered inside a room, where he found many things covered in dust, then he coughed after blowing some dust from an instrument. "...What's...this?" For his surprise, he found nothing else than the legendary Ocarina of Time.

You found the Ocarina of Time!

Said a creepy voice that made Toon Link to shudder, not noticing the sudden screen above his head that disappeared after 3 seconds.

"...So...hmm..." Toon Link found 6 dots in the wall, there was a symbol pointing at the right, a symbol pointing down and the other one was pointing above, then the same pattern repeated once again, Toon Link looked at the Ocarina of Time and found 5 holes with the same symbols. "...I wonder if something will happen if I follow these steps." Toon Link wondered, closed his eyes and pulled the ocarina's mouth hole to his mouth and began to play the song.

c-right, c-down, c-up, c-right, c-down, c-up...

If anyone can remember, Toon Link played none other than the Sun Song, with the yellow light covering him but he didn't notice it but nothing seemed to happen as it vanished before he could see it. "...What a let down, nothing happened." Toon Link said looking around, there wasn't nothing, the whole room was the same, there wasn't any wind coming in, the sun quickly hid behind the hills and the night came in quickly and he sneezed a little bit...wait, something did happened...

The small Link walked towards the broken window and saw that the night came very fast and gasped surprised. "T-that song was magic?!"

Command Room

Meta Knight came in walking to the room and spoke. "It seems the night came too fast, how strange."

"What do you mean?" Pichu asked.

"He means the night came too fast, it was still 2:00PM too." Zelda said and got in a thinking position.

"Master Hand is playing with us, he tries to make the things scarier just to scare the hell out of us." Ness said smiling proudly.

"...N-Ness, I didn't do anything..." Master Hand said.

666th floor

"...Maybe there are even more songs hidden somewhere in the walls!" Toon Link said smiling and blowing out the dust from the walls, eventually, after coughing for a while, he found more symbols, this time, the next song had an "A" symbol, a down symbol and an up symbol, once again, repeating itself again. "Hmm, I wonder what is going to happen if I play that one too..." Toon Link said doing the same action.

A, c-down, c-up, A, c-down, c-up...

The Song of Storms played this time...

Command Room

CRASSSSSSSSHHHHH!!!

"UAAAAAHHHH!!!" Lucas hid below the table after a thunder fell, making a loud noise.

"Master Hand, stop it! That doesn't scare us even a bit!" Nana said annoyed.

"B-but I'm not doing anything, I swear!" Master Hand said.

666th floor

"Uh-oh, I think I called a thunderstorm, and a very strong one!" Toon Link said horrified looking outside, clouds completely covered the night and many thunders were seen making lot of lights above the clouds.

"Linky? Where are you? Come here and let's see which sword can make the-" Link paused for a moment. "THE DEEPEST SCAR! MWHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

"YAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!" Toon Link quickly let the Ocarina of Time fall off his hand and ran away from the room, and the instrument fell inside a sofa, where nobody would look for it never again, before a thunder illuminated the room again, with the shadow of a beast opening its mouth, showing his sharp fangs before disappearing after the next thunder.

Command Room

"Lucas, do you want to come?" Ness asked.

"I-I'm not going! No way!" Lucas said terrified under the table.

Ness's Confessionary

"Lucas needed URGENTLY to do something, he needs to stop being scared from things that don't exist at all, take me for example, I used to be afraid of the toilet because...well...I once fell inside by accident and I got stuck there for 30 minutes, because I didn't want Tracy to help me and see my p-"

"Fine, we'll leave you here." Ness said rolling his eyes before leaving the room with his party.

"T-thanks!" Lucas said, still trembling with fear.

"Well, at least the lights are on." C. Falcon said.

"It would be ironic if a thunder fell on the mansion and took away the electricity at this time to turn off all the lights for a long hour and make everything scarier." Zelda said crossing her arms.

"T-t-that's not going to happen, right?" Lucas asked by whispering.

"Aw, don't worry, that won't happen."

CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHH!!!

Ironically, a powerful thunder fell on the mansion and all the lights blinked a lot before shutting down temporally making them to look above rather amused and not scared a little bit, but that terrified Lucas to the extreme, who fainted in the darkness.

"Geez, this is SO original," Falco said rolling his eyes before applauding. "Really, you're trying to make us think that there is a curse on the "666th floor" and went so far to make the night appear quickly with a thunderstorm and shutting down the electricity for a period of time, or temporally."

"Falco, I'm being serious, it wasn't me!" Master Hand argued.

"Hand, don't be ridiculous, this is all our doing." Wolf said in the darkness.

"...I believe he is telling the truth." Mewtwo said, being the only one with glowing eyes to make everyone to see him. (But Lucas woke up and stared at his eyes, making him to faint again).

"...Oh well, this is not a big deal." C. Falcon said.

"I-I-I wonder what is Flonne doing now." Crazy Hand wondered.

[DededeCloneChris]

Infirmary

We now see a bed sheet trembling uncontrollably, but it revealed to be Flonne who was scared by the thunders and wondered how did all those things happen at the same time.

CRAAAAAASHHHHH!!!

"AAAAAAHHHHH!!!" Flonne hid in the bed sheet as the light illuminated the room. "W-what is happening around here? E-everything got to so creepy all of a sudden!"

"Dood, we don't know what is the cause, dood." Prinny 3489 said carrying a First Aid box to another drawer.

"W-why aren't you scared at all?"

"Dood, this isn't nothing compared to what Miss Etna does to us dood."

"...Okay..." Flonne said getting out from the bed and she looked around. "W-we should find some candles to at least create some light."

"Then do it in another room, dood."

"W-what?"

"I already looked for candles around here but didn't find anything dood."

"T-then..." Flonne put her hands on her neck and looked at the dark hallway. "I-I-I need to go in there and look for the candles?!"

"If you want dood, I can go with you."

"W-would you that for me?"

"Dood!" Prinny 3489 said nodding.

"Oh! Thank you very much! I don't feel so scared anymore!"

CRAAAAAASSSSSSHHHHH!!!

Prinny 3489 sweatdropped after Flonne snuck inside the bed sheet, trembling with fear.

5th floor

Subspace: The Cave

The Angel Trainee and Prinny 3489 carefully walked inside the darkness of the hallway, to not trip, the Prinny took and flashlight with him to make light, making their way easier.

"Hmm..." Prinny 3489 looked at some ripped yellow tapes on the floor, close to the stairs. "We'll go upwards dood."

"W-why do we need to go up there?" Flonne asked trembling behind Prinny 3489.

"You don't know? The things you are always looking for are in the most suspicious places, and I haven't seen what is in the next floor dood."

Flonne's Confessionary

"This wasn't going fine at all to me, with the electricity turned off, the probabilities to get lost in the darkness was inevitable, I am inside a big mansion of 10 floors, each one very long and wide! At least I had one of Etna's Prinnies to make some company with me, they're so kind to me, I wonder why?"

Prinny 3489's Confessionary

"She's leaning her chest into my back." Prinny 3489 said blushing, reddening too.

"So up we go then, dood." Prinny 3489 said walking towards the stairs, to the 6th floor.

"W-wait up! Don't leave me here alone!" Flonne said sweating and running towards the Prinny flailing her arms and legs like anime characters do.

666th floor

"Y-yuck," Flonne just stepped on a green blob and she tried to pull that out, but it got stuck in her right hand. "T-this is place is so dirty and stinky..."

"Dood, I should suggest Etna to tell us to clean this place up, dood." Prinny 3489.

"Y-yeah, even the walls are sticky..."

"Okay, hmm, we should go...there." Prinny 3489 said pointing to the right and Flonne followed him.

"A-are you sure there's nothing to worry about?"

"Nope, nothing to worry about dood."

Groooooooowl...

"W-WHAT WAS THAT?!" Flonne asked looking behind her, preocupied.

"The wind or the thunders, dood."

"B-but I'm pretty sure that wasn't a thunder!"

"Just keep moving, the faster we leave this floor, the better." Prinny 3489 said looking around as they walked.

"O-okay, but I'm not sure about this..."

Prinny 3489 looked at Flonne. "Look, everything is fine, there's nothing to worry about, we are only you, me, and this strange pink beast with the duck on his head opening its mouth showing its sharp fangs that appeared out of nowhere when we didn't look when I started to talk with yo-"

The UC roared menacingly and both sweatdropped and began to sweat.

"...Okay, change of plans, we're going to turn our backs to it, lift our hands to the air, take a deep breath to scream loudly and run away as fast our feet can take us, got it?"

"...Uh-huh." Flonne said nodding.

"RUUUUUUUUUUN!" Prinny 3489 said screaming and running to the opposite direction with Flonne, the UC didn't like that action and started to chase after them by hopping and closing its mouth everytime it touched the floor, it was very hungry too because it was drooling, and not only that, his saliva was acid.

"WAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!" Toon Link came from a hallway and joined the escape with the 2. "WHAT THE HECK IS THAT MONSTER?!"

"JUST RUN DOOD!" Prinny 3489 yelled screaming.

"W-WHAT WERE YOU DOING HERE?!" Flonne asked screaming.

"IT DOESN'T MATTER, BUT LET'S GET OUT OF HERE!" Toon Link yelled screaming.

"IT'S NO USE, WE IGNORED THE STAIRS JUST 3 SECONDS AGO, DOOD!"  Prinny 3489 yelled.

The UC roared menacingly again and they screamed in unison, hidding in the darkness to escape from the chimera who chased them down, and a thunder fell, illuminating the place again.

5th floor

Luigi's Mansion Theme

"The 666th floor should be after crossing these stairs." Pikachu said.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!"

"W-what was that?!" Popo asked hidding behind Etna.

"Popo, don't tell me that fake scream scared the hell out of you already." Ness said frowning.

"To me, it wasn't a fake scream." Etna said.

"N-no it didn't!" Popo said taking back his place.

"And to make the experience worthwile," Pikachu took out a camera from his back. "I'm going to record this occasion for our supernatural moments!"

"Great idea, not bad!" Ness said doing a high-five with Pikachu and with Popo.

Pikachu put his camera looking at him, recording. "Now, welcome to the special segment of "The Mysteries That Aren't So Scary At All," or TMTASSAA for short! With your faithful host, Pikachu and his allies, Ness and Popo, along with a special guest, Etna! Say hi to the viewers Etna!"

"Hi there!" Etna said smiling at the camera.

"Now, we're going to find out about the fake mystery of the 666th floor, that is supposed to be the den of a fearsome and scary beast, Popo, any comments?"

"Juice!" Popo said.

"Great suggestion, I was getting thirsty but we don't have any drinks with us!"

"Oh, rats, the Prinnies that got lost were the same ones in charge of the drinks." Etna said snapping her fingers.

"So now we have a mission, and it's to find the Prinnies to get some drinks, preferably lemonades!"

"Go!" Ness said walking to the stairs with the others.

666th floor

"Oh, just look at this place, green, stinky, sticky, gross, it gives someone disgusting thoughts already!" Pikachu said looking around.

"Pikachu, isn't that the camera with green background?" Ness asked.

"...Oh, crap! You're right! This camera is supposed to make everything scarier with color green and black for long distances!"

"Anyway, let's see if we can find those reckless Prinnies." Etna said walking to the left.

"And now we begin our mission people!"

Pikachu's Confessionary

Pikachu had sunglasses and a hat as he took a sip of his soda. "I'm going to get an award for showing the truth to the world, I can see it, Pikachu, truth discoverer, shows how Master Hand is such a bad liar!" He jumped out from his chair and began to dance. "Oh yeah! Who's the Pokémon? Who's the Pokémon? Who's the Pokémon? It's me, oh yes!"

"...Thunder." Popo said.

CRAAAAAAAAASSSSSHHHH!!!

"There is nothing here so far, not even a trail of the Prinnies." Ness said.

"This place is really boring." Popo said.

"PRINNIES! C'MON AND GET HERE!" Etna yelled using a megaphone and they blocked their ears in pain, but nothing appeared or happened. "PRINNIES! PRINNIES!"

"ETNA! YOUR YELLS ARE THE LOUDEST THING AFTER THE THUNDERS, STOP NOW!" Pikachu said. "YOU'RE EVEN GOING TO BREAK UP MY CAMERA!"

Etna sighed and threw her megaphone away. "You guys are not funny."

The Pokémon looked at her with his camera. "Now, after shutting up the demon girl, we continue our adventure in this "creepy" place."

"Ha, that doesn't even made me angry." Etna said chuckling a little.

"Hey, check this out," Popo ducked and found a small feather. "Haven't we seen this somewhere before?"

"Hmm...you know, this wing isn't so well developed, it must be from...Flonne's wings..."

"So she's here looking around for the mystery as well? Wow, impressive! Just marvelous!" Pikachu said.

"Gang, we have something in hands now, we need to find Flonne and the "beast" in this floor." Ness said, putting on a red hankerchief around his neck.

"...A red hankerchief? Where did you get that?" Popo asked.

"Chris gave it to me."

"Oh, great! It looks good on you!" Pikachu remarked zooming the camera on the hankerchief.

"Hey, I think there's something behind that door." Etna said walking towards the door, opening it and she froze after she saw the UC's mouth fully opened and the young Smashers stared at it awe.

"This is rich my boys! We found an apparently real imitation of a beast, good job Etna!" Pikachu said recording the UC that didn't even move at all.

"B-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-" Etna pointed at the UC terrified and studdering.

"Hey check this out, even the fangs look so real!" Popo said looking at the fangs, where he could see his reflection and winked at it.

"Aw, look at that, there's a chicky on its head!" Ness said glancing to the duck in the UC's head.

"B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-" Etna continued studdering in fear, now her tail was pointing up to the ceiling.

"This, is in fact, a toy! Look at the button on its back!" Pikachu said recording the button from the floor.

The UC growled menacingly.

"Even this beast has a good growl, Master Hand really made a good job, but too bad he failed in scaring us!" Ness said laughing. "Okay, this is over, whoever is inside this thing please come out, after all, it's a controlled robot!" Ness yelled walking to its mouth.

"Guys, you can come out now!" Popo yelled, entering the UC's mouth. "Hello? Anybody is here? Hello?"

The UC started to slowly close its mouth and Etna gasped. "B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-"

Pikachu frowned. "Etna, seriously, you can't be serious, this thing is not scary, right Ness?"

"It isn't!" Ness said laughing together with Pikachu. "Look! There's a perfect replica of a dead Popo in front of us!"

"Ha! We got you Popo! You're with them in this too!" Pikachu zoomed into the dead Popo, who was drooling mysteriously. "Popo! Wake up and stop faking a death scene!"

"..." Popo didn't even move at all.

"...Popo?"

"Even there's red cherry juice coming out from his right arm, look at my face, I'm so scared!" Ness said laughing madly and grabbing the "red cherry juice" on a finger to taste it. "Yum! It even tastes like blood, how do you do this? It feels so real!"

Pikachu took a lick of the red cherry juice but froze instantly. "N-N-Ness..."

"...Yes?"

"I-I-I'm pretty sure this isn't red cherry juice..."

"...How so?"

"T-this doesn't taste like juice, it IS 100 percent real blood!"

Ness just blinked before laughing madly again. "Now everyone's on me! Nice try Pikachu, but that didn't scare me!"

"Ness, you're sick, I'm telling the truth!" Pikachu said recording Ness and a frightened Etna.

"G-g-g-g-guys..." Etna pointed at the UC's mouth, which was covered in blood.

"...You know Pikachu..." Ness trailed off thinking.

"Yes?" Pikachu asked.

"I'm starting to believe this beast is real...I mean, even Popo's hammer was turned into dust over there..."

"N-NESS! IT'S WALKING TOWARDS YOU!" Etna yelled and Ness just blinked at the creature who opened its mouth and slowly put Ness inside its mouth.

"Eww, gross, I'm covered in your saliva," Ness said inside the UC's mouth and crossed his arms. "What are you gonna do? Eat me alive? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH-"

CRAAAAAAAAAAASH!!!

Command Room

"They haven't returned yet." Meta Knight said.

"I wonder what's the problem up there." Zelda wondered.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Lucas jumped out from the table and trembled with fear. "W-WHAT WAS THAT SCREAM?!"

"It sounded like if Ness was bitten by some beast." Master Hand said before C. Falcon laughed for 5 seconds.

"Now, Ness is in your little trick? Too bad isn't working with me!" C. Falcon said.

Not much time passed before they heard screams and yells for help coming from the 666th floor, even they heard roars and growls.

"I-I-I'm not scared!" Pichu said studdering in fear, before Mewtwo came in using Confusion in 5 candles with fire as he put each one in different places of the tables.

"...Anyone wants to go up there?" Crazy Hand asked.

"For what? They can take care of themselves just fine." Falco said.

"Who knows, maybe the beast got them."

Falco rolled his eyes. "Oh, now I see your little trap, you expect me to go to the 666th floor and look around for them, when suddenly in the most unexpected moment, you're going to appear and scare me."

"Nah-uh!"

"Uh-huh!"

"Nah-uh!"

"Uh-huh!"

"Stop it." Wolf said irritated.

"Oh well, I didn't think Falco was such a chicken and not a real bird." Crazy Hand said, trying to get Falco's nerves.

Unfortunately, Falco was one of those people that are easily tricked with easy sentences such like the one the insane hand said just a second ago, the avian pointed at him with his Blaster. "Wanna see the chicken I am? Fine! I'm going up there and prove to you my courage!"

"Maybe we can make a deal to do something interesting?"

"I'm all ears!"

"If you prove me you were right, I'll give you full access to the items's storage room, but if I'm right, you're going to wear your uniform of your team...but pink along with all the other stuff you have on you."

"Deal!"

"Oh no no no no no no, I haven't finished, there's another condition for this dare."

"Bring it, I'm not going to complain for whatever is the other condition!"

Falco's Confessionary

"So, once again, I have another good dare, are you hearing me Zelda? Items are much better than money! I'll show you once I get my hands on Gooey Bombs to stick them all to your room and watch it explode!"

Zelda's Confessionary

"Falco, what are you doing in my own confessionary time and what is that about blowing up my room?" Zelda asked with a glare.

"...Er...anyway! Whatever the condition was, I'd do it without complaining!"

666th floor

"...But he HAD to pair me with you..." Falco said annoyed looking away from his condition of the deal, which was a very angry Wolf.

"So? If I won I'd get the same deal as you." Wolf said looking away with crossed arms.

"And for what are you going to use the items?"

"You don't know how much damage can you do while you're a giant and to your sworn rival..." Wolf said hiding a smirk.

"...Whatever, I don't care about your problems with Fox, so count me out from your plans."

"Who said I was inviting you?" Wolf asked angrily as they walked the dirty halls.

"Any idea of where they could be?"

"Beats me, I'm not their babysitter."

"Neither do I."

A silence fell before Falco heard a small growl that made him to shudder a little. "Did you hear that?" Falco asked.

"Hear what?" Wolf asked turning quickly to Falco, he was apparently chuckling and the avian narrowed his eyes at him.

"...You growled to me just to scare me, right?"

"Correct."

"Dang it." Falco said looking away annoyed, then he heard another growl. "Stop it you bastard!"

"Heheheheheh." Wolf chuckled darkly at this.

Another growl, another glare to Wolf. "I'm serious, stop it before I shoot down your head!"

"Fine." Wolf said chuckling.

One more growl. "Wolf, don't try to make me use the mushrooms on you after we win this dare!"

"Oh, I'm so scared." Wolf said sarcastically.

...And yet once more, another growl and Falco turned to Wolf angrily. "STOP THAT!"

"But this time it wasn't me." Wolf said in a serious tone.

"Yeah, right, like if that was the truth!"

"Bird brain, when I'm serious is when I tell the truth, it wasn't me, period."

"Grr," Falco turned his head to the right and found the UC looking at him. "Oh, and let me guess, this is yours?"

Wolf glanced to the UC. "Yes, bird brain, I'd have a beast at my side with a f(BEEP)ng bird on its head just to annoy you."

"No need to get mad at me, I know you like tiny and cheesy looking birds." Falco said pointing at the UC, who got interested in his right hand and drooled a little.

"Whatever." Wolf said rolling his right eye.

"Yeah, whatever, look, I know this thing is from you and the hands just to win that dare they did to me and you." Falco said pointing at Wolf with his bloody right hand.

"...Bird brain! Get your bloody hand off me!" Wolf said walking a little away from Falco.

"Bloody? What do you mean by blood-" Falco's eyes widened after he saw the blood getting out from his hand, and glanced at the UC who had bloody feathers on its fangs. "...Great, cool visual effects."

"..." Wolf just frowned at this.

"I even feeling the pain in my hand an-AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!" Falco grabbed his hand in pain and glared at the UC. "YOU F(BEEP)D UP MONSTER! YOU'RE GOING DOWN NOW!"

The UC retaliated with a powerful bite and Falco was sent flying towards the wall, where he lost consciousness as Wolf watched the UC walking towards him, licking its lips from the blood. "...You monster, back away, now!" Wolf ordered but the UC didn't stop and continued to walk slowly towards him, cornering Wolf in the same corner where Falco was unconscious. "Y-you! Wake up and give me a hand!"

"..." Falco didn't move and he fell to the floor.

"Grr, this isn't good!" Wolf said as the UC was several inches away from him, but he took out his Blaster and started to fire at it, but it didn't do any effect and he grunted in irritation. "Back-off-you!" Wolf ordered one last time.

Command Room

"UAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!"

"T-that was Wolf's voice now!" Pichu said hugging Lucas, who hugged him back in fear.

"There must be something happening here, you! Hands! Did you were working in secret with some of them to scare us?" Zelda demanded for an answer.

"For the last time, no!" Master Hand said annoyed.

"Okay, Mewtwo! Meta Knight! Are you 2 with him?" C. Falcon asked.

"I would never work with Master Hand." Mewtwo said shaking his head slowly.

"Me neither." Meta Knight said doing the same.

"Lucas and Pichu are probably alone in this so..." C. Falcon trailed off.

"Okay, if you think this is all my doing, then go, every single one of you, to the 666th floor!" Master Hand said.

"B-but I don't wanna go!" Lucas and Pichu said in unison trembling in horror, before they were being dragged off the room by Mewtwo's Confusion. "LET US GO!"

"No, I'm rather sick about your coward attitudes and it's time to change that." Mewtwo said floating away.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"

"Mewtwo, take some Heart Containers with you just in case!" Master Hand said giving Mewtwo some Heart Containers, Mewtwo was unsure for what, but decided to bring them.

"I'm not so sure about this..." Zelda said getting in a thinking position.

"Don't worry, if something happens, I'll shield you." C. Falcon said.

"Fine, but no hugs or kisses." Zelda said walking away.

"...You just love to remove all the fun, don't you?" C. Falcon asked sighing disappointed, walking with Meta Knight at his side.

Captain Falcon's Confessionary

"Yes, I know, admit it and say Zelda likes Link, but wrong at the same time, it's still unclear if they do really love each other, so I guess I have a chance, right? And speaking of which, what happened to Link? I haven't seen him ever since he chased Toon Link around..."