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

[DededeCloneChris]

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The elevator opened in a mysterious and dark room, where only the light of the elevator shone a small portion of the place as the Smashers stepped out from it (if you were wondering, the elevator could hold up to 50 people).

"..." Chris embraced himself and shuddered. "T-this place is so dark..."

"And it's going to become even darker." Mewtwo said.

"Why?"

The elevator closed and it also took the lights with it, making the whole room be covered in darkness as their eyes were the only things that were visible.

"Hey," Popo began as he blinked. "Do our eyes have lights inside or what? I can see everyone here by just looking at your eyes!" he walked to some green eyes that looked down to him. "Especially this guy. This guy has the biggest eyes I've ever see-"

Fox kicked him away. "Another insult and it will go lower this time."

"..." Popo looked above behind him. "Nevermind you! These are the biggest!"

Jigglypuff pouted and used Pound on Popo to push him away. "Don't insult me either!"

Chris made a bored look and rolled his eyes. "Yes, the producers definitely messed up with your looks."

"Weren't you scared a moment ago?" Ike asked.

Chris's pupils shrunk and he ducked. "T-tell me there's a switch here or something!"

"MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!" a voice laughed from somewhere in the darkness and they looked around. "Welcome, foolish mortals, to your bigge-"

"We know it's you, Master Hand," everyone said with bored looks (except Chris who looked up and blinked).

"Ruin my fun, why don't you?" the hand asked with a frown as then torches began to be ignited, revealing a long, spacious hallway with a lot of doors with several texts besides each one. A long red carpet (like the other floors) passed in front of each door. The ceiling had a darkish purple while some doors had different patterns that looked like they were modeled after some bloody related thing.

The Smashers looked in front of them where a big screen was on the wall to show them whatever the text below said.

"Watching the death from here only brings you closer to it. Mourn and bid farewell to your beloved ones from here..."

"W-what is that supposed to mean?" Pichu asked as he hid behind Chris.

"That anyone that enters here turns into a goth, or emo, or both," Sonic said. "Goth-emo."

"Perhaps," Master Hand said as he appeared in front of everyone. "Or perhaps not. Welcome!"

Lucas looked around with Rope Snake. "T-this isn't a new floor to move and live here, r-right?"

"I wish, I mean, no!" Master Hand shook himself. "I welcome all of you to the..." a light shone below him to make look menacing. "THE BAAAAAAATTLE FLOOOOOOOOOOR!!!"

Battle Floor

Pokémon Platinum - Battle Arcade

"The...Battle Floor?" Ivysaur repeated.

"That's right!" Master Hand said cheerfully. "After Link asked me to have real challenges to complete, I came up with the location where the most dangerous battle can be found, right here!"

Link smiled a little. "So you took my request after all."

"Yep, I did," the hand nodded. "Ahem, before you start asking, I'm going to explain everything about this special floor."

"I-it creeps me out a little..." Ness shrugged. "The floor, I mean..."

"Okay, here's the deal," the hand pointed at the right side. "Over there, you'll see doors..." then he pointed to the left. "And even more over there. Each door contains an ultimate boss battle that is insanely hard to pass. You could say every door has the difficult Intense on each one."

"So, behind all those doors, lie extremely powerful enemies?" Pikachu asked.

"Exactly. Each door connects to a certain dimension, or world, at a specified time where an ultimate boss is waiting to be challenged."

"W-wait," Toon Link gulped. "W-what if those bosses manage to kick our sorry butts like nothing and we die?"

"Then all of you are a bunch of pushovers compared to them."

Mostly everyone glared at the hand.

"I-it was Link's idea, not mine!" Master Hand protested.

"I meant what if we die?" Toon Link asked.

"Oh, don't worry about that. If you were to die or be defeated in there then you'll return back with full health right here," Master Hand explained. "The humiliation is the only thing you can gain by that though, mwahahahahaha..."

Wolf rolled his eye and crossed his arms. "Ultimate side-bosses my a-"

"AHEM." Geno interrupted.

Wolf smirked and went on with his swear.

"Geno?" Twink asked.

The puppet groaned.

Wolf went on. "The only thing I care to see is actual development of my skills after those battles..." he wondered for a moment. "...Which in this case doesn't sound that bad..."

Pikachu gathered sparks on his cheeks and grinned. "You know, this idea of ultimate bosses doesn't sound that bad at all. We've been defeating bosses all the time and these ones aren't that different."

Master Hand snickered evilly. "Oh, that's what you think..."

Pikachu rolled his eyes. "Believe me. I bet those bosses are the real pushovers here."

Meta Knight rubbed his chin (or mask from below). "Testing our skills against the strongest enemies... Completing those fights could make us earn more dexterity as well."

"I-if they don't take our brains out first..." Lucas closed his eyes as he trembled. "I-I honestly think this isn't a good idea...b-but I guess everyone is going to disagree with me..."

"Totally," Ness said as he took out his bat. "If Giygas could've been harder without Paula's Prays, then these guys should be as hard as Giygas without Paula's Prays."

Nana rolled his eyes. "Whatever. I think we can defeat those bosses if we put our minds into it."

"I want to find a challenge as well..." Lucario trailed off as he looked at Chris. "I want to see if I'm strong."

Chris looked away and blushed a little. "I-I know you want to prove that to me."

The Aura Pokémon opened his mouth and looked away embarrassed. "I-I didn't mean that."

"Oh, you did," Squirtle said with a sarcastic smile. "Nothing makes you feel better than making Chris proud of yo-"

"S-shut up." Lucario interrupted as some Smashers rolled their eyes.

"Great!" Master Hand spoke. "Then everyone agrees! Alright, let me go to the next part of the explanation. Follow me."

The hand began to float to the right side and everyone looked at each before deciding to follow Master Hand. They all saw different texts hanging besides the doors with shadowy images of what looked to be the bosses for each door.

"See the descriptions hanging besides each door?" Master Hand asked as he stopped in front of a door (that was modeled with several spikes and black iron).

"Hmm..." Mario took a closer look of one. "...It mentions here some of our names."

"Right," Master Hand nodded. "Each door tells which characters need to go and confront the boss inside. To tell the truth, Chris needs to go to each boss."

"W-why do I need to have more chances to die and go to hel-I mean, heaven?" Chris asked as he tried to hide behind his staff.

"Because, my n(beep)a frien-" Master Hand was blasted away by a big Aura Sphere from a furious Lucario. "O-oww..." Master Hand moaned in the floor as Lucario slowly walked to him.

"O-oh no!" Chris pulled Lucario back to him. "Y-you're not going to kill him just because he..." he thought for a moment. "...Then again, I'm not so black. Kill him."

Lucario looked at him with a small smile. "Really?"

"Did you ACTUALLY believe that?" Chris asked with a frown before Lucario's small smile faded into a worried one. "You're not into killing people! I believe I taught you that!"

Lucario saw some of the Smashers snickering at his discipline lessons. "C-Chris, would you punish me when nobody is looking?"

The World Traveler rolled his eyes as the hand got up from the floor and floated. "No. This is your punishment: humiliation."

"Li-ttle-do-ggy-get-ting-dis-ci-pli-ned-by-his-trai-ner! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!" Squirtle, Pikachu and Ivysaur sang before they rolled on the floor, laughing out loud as the Aura Pokémon glared at them with an angry growl.

"Lucario!" Chris yelled with closed eyes.

"U-ugh...fine..." Lucario said ashamed.

"Phew..." Master Hand sighed. "Thank you for disciplining your do-I mean, Lucario."

"DOG! DUA-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!" the Pokémon laughed loudly.

Lucario tried his best to ignore the laughs.

"As I was saying before," the hand pointed at Chris. "Chris can only use the jobs related to the characters selected for each door so he can discover more combinations with the Final Smashers. I know this is a little bit bad at some instances, but you'll have to agree with that."

"...Okay." Chris nodded, unsure of this.

"Read that one over there."

DK went to a text where he read it.

"Queen of pure, ethereal light. Let your eyes gaze upon the heaven...and be taken there as well."

DK shrugged. "W-why is this one a little bit...I-I don't know...scary?"

"Oh," Master Hand chuckled. "Don't worry about those small descriptions...each one is pretty much the same."

"With something related to our deaths?" Yoshi asked with some trembles.

"Pretty much that," Master Hand said simply as some shrugged. "Hey, I had to put those scary things there to add the atmosphere here."

"This looks like a dungeon to me." Link commented.

The hand pointed at the same text that DK read. "Okay, see that image in the background, or shadow?"

There was the shadow of a princess with open wings in the background of the red description.

"It may provide a hint about how does the boss look like."

"We don't have a small clue, though..." C. Falcon said.

"Chris might."

"No." Chris said.

"...Okay, do research then," the hand frowned. "Now please, follow me back to the screen."

The Smashers and the hand walked back to where they entered the floor and looked at the screen that turned on, showing everyone' icons with bars above them.

"Why are our faces inside icons with bars above showing in that screen?" Olimar asked.

"This," Master Hand began. "Is the screen where it shows how strong a person currently is. The higher the bar, the stronger the Smasher is."

"...But every single bar is at the same height...which it says 5 percent for everyone..." Peach pointed out.

"...Last time I checked, I was meant to be stronger than Fox." Wolf said, narrowing his eyes at his own icon.

Fox rolled his eyes. "I thought it was the other way around."

"Oh, no! Don't start a fight in here, you 2!" Master Hand interrupted.

"Hey, how come everyone's equal to anyone?" Roy asked. "Why is Ike at the same level as me?"

"Why is PICHU at the same level as mine?" Pikachu asked.

"H-hey!" Pichu pouted a little.

"Why is mine...so low than it was supposed to be?" Lucario asked.

"Hey!" mostly everyone called with some grunts.

"Lucario, you're not exactly a god here, just to clarify you that." Chris said with a bored look.

"...S-sorry..." Lucario said ashamed.

"Relax, relax," Master Hand said calmly. "There's a way to be stronger."

"Defeating those guys?" Link asked.

"No," Master Hand chuckled. "Let's just say you need your "Trophy Stands" and some "Stickers" to be stronger than you are. It's a faster way to grow stronger."

"...Trophy Stands...Stickers..." Snake repeated with a bored tone. "I thought this place was retarded...but not this retarded."

"The only retarded thing I see is you." Nana said.

"Say that to me on my face. I dare you to do that."

"Nope," Nana looked away with a grin and bored eyes. "I don't want to get scared by that face."

"Would you stop arguing with each other?!" Master Hand asked annoyed. "Seriously, let me get to the point before you go "oh, the hand is telling us stupid updates that we shouldn't bother to listen" on me."

"That was exactly what I had in mind." Mewtwo commented.

"I'm interested." Chris said.

"Aw, out of all of these hand haters, you're the most appreciative to me," Master Hand said with a sigh. "...W-wait, let's not get further into your hatred towards me."

The hand snapped his fingers and a small Trophy Stand fell from the ceiling. It had Pichu's name on the back side and the mentioned Pokémon picked it up.

"Is this a Trophy Stand?" Pichu asked.

"Yes. That Trophy Stand belongs to you," Master Hand explained before he made a sticker (Mario holding a bat) appear. "Stick that on the top part and see what happens."

The small mouse Pokémon made a confused look but did the order. The sticker was nicely sticked on the top side.

"Pichu," Master Hand began. "I engage you to a battle!"

"W-what?!" Pichu asked in panic before a Home-Run Bat appeared on his mouth. "H-how did this get here?" Pichu asked with the bat on his mouth.

"That's the sacred power of the STICKER!!!" the hand said with an echoing voice. "Thanks to that little thingy, the effect was triggered once the fight starte-"

Pichu leaped to the hand and started hitting him with the bat while mostly everyone chuckled at the hand being attacked by him.

"O-ouch! S-stop that! T-this is a fake battle, not a real one!" Master Hand yelled between hits.

"...Oh." Pichu said as he jumped back to the floor.

Master Hand took the Trophy Stand and made it disappear, also taking the Home-Run Bat from Pichu. "There are several Stickers that increase someone's attributes depending of which Sticker you use on the Trophy Stand."

"Can I have mine back?" Pichu asked.

"Not right now."

"Using "Stickers" to make us stronger...is really disturbing." Yoshi commented.

"Not to mention stupid." Snake commented.

"Look, you guys will feel like gods or something once," the hand sang the next part. "You have the poooower," he shook himself to get his normal voice back. "With the Stickers."

"...Like shooting laser eyes?" Popo asked.

"...Yes, Popo," Master Hand said sarcastically. "There are Stickers that let you use laser eyes."

"Really?" Toon Link asked.

"NO! I can't believe you believed that! There are Stickers that enhance your punch, arm, kicks, explosive, indirect, direct attacks and many more attributes. There are NO laser eyes whatsoever!"

"Then," Mario held out his hand. "Give them to us."

"...I'm afraid I can't."

Mostly everyone glared at the hand.

"Then for what did you show something that we CAN'T use yet?" Roy asked.

"Because, if you want to get these stands, you need to prove yourself worthy of them by going through..." the hand turned away before looking at them again. "THE CLASSIC MODE! Where I'll await for the chosen warrior to fight m-"

"And me!" Crazy Hand said as he appeared besides his brother.

"Both in a fight to the death at Final Destination!"

"Sweet, are we going there?" DK asked.

"No."

Link's eyes widened in fury as he put a grip on his sword. "Dammit! What the heck do we have to do to participate in that mode to obtain the Trophy Stands from you 2?!"

"We need music, and lots of it," Master Hand explained. "Music puts a good feeling when you fight and don't deny it. You guys even sing the music while you're beating someone. We need at least one track for each stage before I can let you go and fight to the top."

"Gimme a little bit more time," Diddy said. "Our friends should be on their way here to cooperate with the music."

"Just be glad there are musicians out there. Chris, I need you here." Master Hand said.

"I-I don't know many musicians." Chris said.

"...Goodness, you're usel-" the hand sweated once Lucario narrowed his eyes at him. "V-very useful when you know, of course."

Chris gave a whack on Lucario's head. "C-Chris, he was insulting you!" Lucario protested.

"And you wanted to murder him." Chris said, crossing his arms.

"Ye-I mean, no!"

"Got you."

"Ugh..."

Master Hand frowned. "Anyway...nobody can play until we have at least one track for each stage."

"That sucks," Fox commented. "I wanted to challenge Chris."

"Me too." Sonic said.

"Me three." Pikachu said.

"I'll be honest, me too." Snake said.

"...Say WHAT again?" Chris asked with shocked eyes.

Master Hand got closer to Chris's right ear. "I'll tell you now. These guys love to fight between each other so much that they practically want to see their opponent dead or beg for their forgiveness. You're not an exception and didn't they mention they wanted to fight you before?" he whispered.

"I thought they forgot it!" Chris whispered.

"Pfft, of course they don't. Nobody here forgets a match and you'll have to agree with my schedule."

"...Sometimes, I hate you." Chris whispered as toon tears strolled down his cheeks.

"Sometimes, I love your reactions." Master Hand whispered with some chuckles as he floated in front of them. "I think that's pretty much it. Any questions?"

"Can we see what's inside each door?" Marth asked.

"HELL NO!" Master Hand yelled. "If you guys go in there without an agreement, you're most likely going to get yourself killed the moment you step inside! Those bosses inside won't wait a second before they kill you!"

Lucas gulped. "I-I'm not going to..."

"Good," the hand sighed. "Okay, I'll let you see for yourself all the doors but DON'T dare to open them. You can read the descriptions but that's that."

The Smashers nodded before many walked to each side of the hallway and inspected the descriptions.

Chris (being the one left behind to see the screen a little) walked to the left and found Sonic wtih crossed arms, leaning close to a text with a door that had a lot of claw marks all over it with blood.

"The lunar howls of the Werehogs shall be the last roars you hear before you die a fast, but painful death."

"Chris, what's exactly a Werehog to you?" Sonic asked, raising an eyebrow (if he had one).

"Were...what?" Chris asked, utterly confused.

"Werehog," Sonic repeated. "It gives me this bad feeling. I don't know what exactly that is, but it may be bad."

Chris shuddered. "I-I don't want to know what that is either if it gives that bad feeling..." the World Traveler took a closer look at the shadow on the text's background. "...W-what the hell?"

"What?" Sonic asked as he looked at Chris.

"...Wolf!" Chris yelled. "Can you come over here for a moment?"

"What do you want, kid..." Wolf asked annoyed with crossed arms.

The World Traveler looked back and forth between the shadow and Wolf himself. "..."

"Well, what are you staring me for?" Wolf asked, narrowing his eyes.

Sonic decided to look at the shadow. "...Dude, the shadow looks like you."

"What nonsense are you speaking of now?" Wolf asked as he looked at the shadow. "...Hmm..."

"So?"

"...Call that hand over here." Wolf muttered.

Sonic tilted his head but decided to listen. "Hand! Come over here!"

"It's "Master Hand" for you," Master Hand said as he floated to the 3. "What did you call me for?"

Wolf pointed at the text. "Tell me something. Is that supposed to be my shadow?"

"...Oh, right! I almost forgot!" Master Hand said. "That door is...how can I say it? Very different than all the others here."

"Why's that?" Sonic asked.

"This door doesn't lead to any ultimate boss from a known game or world. This door is the portal to a very crazy dimension where...I-I don't know, heavily altered beings live."

Chris gulped. "D-don't tell me this door has the hardest boss from every other one."

"Hardest boss?!" Master Hand repeated before he broke out laughing. "Ha! That's a big laugh right there! Ahem. No, this door actually contains a much easier boss than any other here. See the difficult over the text?"

The difficult was at "Very Hard" rather than "Insane".

"I think you guys can handle that boss very well without the Stickers."

"That doesn't explain why my shadow is there." Wolf said.

"Well, who knows? Maybe there's some sort of guy there who happens to look like you except...stronger?"

"A faker."

Sonic rolled his eyes and imitated somone's voice. "Faker? I think you're the fake hedgehog around here. You're comparing yourself to me? Hah! You're not even good enough to be my fake."

Chris chuckled. "You know, that was a very well done imitation of Shadow's voice."

"I try to mimic that guy during my free time," Sonic said with a chuckle. "He'd be mad off if he ever heard me."

Wolf frowned. "Even though that mimic was supposed to be related to this, I'm mad that there's a guy around who's stealing my own identity."

"Identity issues..." Master Hand frowned. "Look, just don't go in there without the selected characters or else you're going to regret it."

"It says here that me, Wolf, Sonic, Toon Link, Popo, Nana, Red, Ivysaur, Squirtle and Yoshi can go..." Chris looked at Master Hand. "This is a very weird team if you ask me..."

"Blame that universe or altered dimension... But, you know what?" the hand began. "I think we're going to feel so bad if wetake a small glimpse of that world so..." he took out a button. "Ask me to destroy that door just in case."

"After I rip off that faker's heart out, then destroy the door." Wolf said.

"Good. Why don't you try this boss first so you can understand how the mechanics work here?"

"Better yet."

Chris decided to walk some doors to the left and found Mallow, Geno and Twink reading a text where a door with an angelic-look.

"Traitor to Heaven."
"This worthy opponent can take out an entire army with a blink of an eye. No other boss deserves a title like this one."

"Too bad we're not going to be around here once we finish with Smithy." Mallow said.

"Sorry," Geno shook his head. "But I'm sure your parents want to have you back and well..." he looked at Twink with a concerned look. "We need to go back to Star Haven and resume the wishes."

Twink nodded. "Y-yes, but I'm going to miss everyone here."

"If I remember..." Chris interrupted. "Geno didn't talk with many here."

"I did," Geno said. "...With Mario and Peach."

"That's because you know them." Twink said.

"Yes, but what else could I do to get a talk with someone else? Nobody here understands the complication of my own matters." Geno explained.

"We just make wishes come true!"

"...Or I didn't want to socialize."

"True." Twink and Mallow said with several nods.

"Chris, what do you think of me in general?" Geno asked.

"W-well...you're a puppet star that can fight. I think that's very interesting. Your personality is also good as well. Out of everyone here, you focus a lot in your goals."

"..."

"...What?"

"...I'm done for if I ever try to socialize." Geno said.

"D-don't say that! Y-you can make progress in this little short time!" Chris said, trying to cheer up the puppet.

"That's what you think."

"I'm trying to help here..."

"...Thanks," Geno nodded. "I need to my mind into it and then I could get progress. However, with who?"

"...Lucas?" Chris suggested. "He was the first one who found your doll, right? He seems to be a nice person to me."

"Lucas..." Geno looked at Lucas and Ness reading a text besides another door. "...I'll try. With just one person is enough for me."

"I-if you'll excuse me, I'm going to see the other doors." Chris said as he left the trio.

He read a text.

"One Winged Angel."

He quickly stopped and gulped at the shadow on the background. "...O-oh no..." he muttered.

"What?" Marth asked as he walked next to the door. "There's no need to get worried about this one."

"How do you know that?" Ike asked. "Angels are supposed to be strong, right?"

"Can I question Pit then?" Roy asked.

"Hey!" Pit called out angrily from the other side of the hallway.

"Y-you don't want to know who is that winged angel anyway..." Chris said as he walked further away and left the 3.

"The Mistress of Blood will lick your wound's blood."

The World Traveler made a grossed-out face before he looked at Peach.

"I-I don't like how this one sounds at all..." Peach said worried.

"Are you going to fight? The text says you can."

"...W-well...I-I'm not sure..."

"...Do you have fear?"

"N-no," Peach shook her head. "I'm just worried about who is the mistress of...you know."

"(Maybe I should encourage her...) What if I say I'm going to protect you? (Oh, great, that really is going too far...not to mention my life in danger)."

Peach blinked. "Would you do that for me?"

"(No! Don't give me that face! I refuse to say no to THAT face!) Yes. (DAMMIT!)"

Peach joined her hands and made a happy expression. "Thank you very much. I was worried to fight that boss alone."

"A-anything for you. (I had to have a weakness to sad expressions...)" Chris thought in shame before he walked to the next door.

"Distortional monster that lives only to see its own dimension engulf those unlucky souls."

"W-why do I have to fight that one?" Pichu asked.

"Hey, pretty much our same people can go as well." Pikachu said.

"Like Mewtwo." Jigglypuff added.

"And Red, Squirtle, Ivysaur and Lucario," Pikachu added. "If all of us come from the same kind of world, then I think there's a boss from our world."

"Rayquaza?" Pichu asked.

"...Last time I saw Rayquaza it wanted to eat me alive." Pikachu shuddered.

"When was that?" Chris asked.

"Meh, in my dreams," Pikachu shuddered again. "Pretty much I dream with Legendary Pokémon wanting me dead or eaten by them. Weird, isn't?"

"H-how can you act normal knowing those Pokémon want to eat you alive?" Jigglypuff asked.

"It's a "dream" and you can do anything there. I want to be big enough and I grow to stomp them...many times."

Chris backed away from the Electric Pokémon. "Pikachu...you scare me sometimes."

"I CAN STARE AT YOUR SOOOOUUUUL!" Pikachu yelled with wide eyes.

"...Now that ruined the mood."

Pikachu sighed. "Well, at least I tried."

Several minutes later...

The Smashers gathered in front of the screen as Master Hand was talking to them.

"So, no getting inside before you think it's right time," Master Hand warned the Smashers. "If you want suicide, then go right ahead."

"C-can we leave now?" Olimar asked. "I-I can't tolerate how scary this place is."

"You're fighting too if you were wondering."

The captain fainted.

"...I'll carry him..." Yoshi said with a sigh as he put Olimar on his back.

"Oh, have anyone seen Popo around?" Nana asked.

Just then, a door opened from the left side and everyone quickly looked at it where Popo came out, closed the door and walked next to Nana with a normal look on his eyes.

"...How the heck did you get out unscathed?" Master Hand asked. "And what were you doing there? I told you not to go in there if you wanted to be killed!" Master Hand said.

Popo chuckled. "Relax! I just went to the bathroom with some people that looked STRONGLY and UTTERLY familiar like all of us in a mansion that looked STRONGLY and DIFFERENTLY familiar like this one, 'cept they had fur all over and were a little bit muscular and bigger, not to mention they were very grumpy with a lot of altered personalities that I rather not mention because the mere thought makes me laugh so hard like I did a moment ago!"

"...What?" Ike asked confused.

"..." Wolf looked at the door. "...He came out from the door I was talking about."

"...You know what?" Nana frowned. "I bet he's lying. There's no way he could get out from that door without any scratch with all those stupid lies."

"But it's true!" Popo said with a chuckle. "Man, there were lesbians in there as well!"

"Lesbians?" Twink repeated before Geno facepalmed.

Chris's jaw dropped. "W-what the heck are YOU talking about?"

"This is Popo, remember?" Nana asked with a bored look. "He's always making up insane lies."

"Very true." Ness and Pikachu said nodding.

"Hmm," Popo lifted his shoulders and frowned with a smile. "You guys will believe once me cross that door," he went to the doorknob of the same door and opened it. "Follow me!"

"CLOSE IT!" Master Hand yelled and Sonic quickly slammed the door to close it. "Like I said before, that dimension is so twisted! We don't want that boss in here!"

"Aww!" Popo groaned. "You're losing all the fun!"

At a corner from a hallway, Crazy Hand looked at no one in particular. "Don't worry, faithful people who stalk us every day! This story isn't getting off the track just because Popo's retarded mind is saying lies. We're taking just another step to greatness!"

Back with the others...

"We're losing our butts getting ripped, that's the point," Master Hand said. "Well, let's go back to our usual activities and be prepared for tomorrow."

"Can I open it though?" Link asked.

Music stops

"THAT'S IT!" the hand snapped out and his fingers to teleport everyone to the main lobby.

Main Lobby

They all appeared in the lobby and looked at the hand.

"That floor is going to be temporarily closed until we finish with Smithy and save Nintendo City! Challenge those guys once you're stronger enough to face them, got that?!"

"..." the Smashers nodded.

"Phew," Master Hand sighed. "Well, leaving you here so, enjoy the afternoon."

The hand disappeared and the Smashers decided to go wherever they liked to go.

"Raaaaaaven!" Toon Link shouted. "Raaaven, come on! We have to resume our training!" the cartoony swordsman yelled to the stairs.

Raven's Room

"Raven?" Toon Link asked once he made it to Raven's room. "Hey, are you hinding under the bed sheets? I didn't think you hated our trai-"

"Shhhh!" Raven stuck his head out. "Kid, we've problems here...or a big one right now."

"What?" Toon Link asked.

Rita (stolen)'s Room

An explosion occurred again and the Genius Mage coughed.

"Dammit! Another bites the freaking dust!" Rita cursed loudly as put her goggles up and wiped the soot on her face. "This Blastia is as useless as the last one!"

Raven's Room

"...Oh man..." Toon Link muttered with shocked eyes.

Dawn's Room

5 floors above from Rita's room (the "666th" floor), 3 rooms were close to each other (and away from the Smashers).

"Aww..." Dawn sighed as she looked outside where some Starlys were flying to the horizon. "It looks like it's not cold anymore..." she went to her bag to get her other clothes. "It's time to get a change here before I sweat more than I need to."

"Daaaaawn!" Barry slammed the door open. "What are we gonna today?"

"Settle in...and make you stop acting like that." Dawn said with a bored look.

"Whatever," Barry rolled his eyes. "Red's gonna call us to have a Pokémon battle outside in the garden. Be sure to be there."

"A Pokémon battle?" Dawn repeated as she did her hair with a comb. "Well..."

"I'll be the first one!" Barry said as he took out a Poké Ball. "2-on-2 is weird, but he doesn't have many Pokémon anyway. That guy is sure dead after Torterra pumels his Pokémon."

Dawn made a bored look. "Abusing your fully evolved Pokémon like always..."

"You do that too."

"Ah!" Dawn yelled and tossed a shoe to Barry, who quickly closed the door. "D-don't say that! I don't do the same wacky things you do!"

"But you still do!" Barry teased with several chuckles.

[DededeCloneChris]

And from that moment and onwards, the entire day passed like nothing new happened...

Geno's Room

It was night and Geno stared at the small figure that was Exor in Nintendo City with Twink floating close to him. The puppet closed his eyes and looked down. "Very soon this is going to end," he said before looking at Twink. "And we'll depart from here and return to our normal duties."

"Yes," Twink made a sad look. "I hope we can do it..."

"Of course we will," Geno reassured him. "We defeated all those bosses and Smithy is not going to stop us either."

"I-I have a bad premonition and feeling..."

"What do you mean?"

"...What if Smithy is not waiting for us but another person instead?" Twink looked down. "Not always the same guy is going to wait there, right?"

"Twink," Geno shook his head. "Smithy is the one behind all this and not someone else. There's no other way."

"...I guess you're right..." Twink smiled a little. "W-will you take me with you?"

"...It's too dangerous..."

"(Here we go again with those annoying words.)"

"But, since I've heard many people saying the same words, and they disagreeding for what they don't want to hear...you're coming."

Twink gasped. "Really?"

"Only if you promise to stay close to me."

"Always!" Twink floated closer to the puppet. "Getting separated only asks for my death!"

"...Don't put it that way either..."

"Whoops," Twink stuck out his tongue. "Why don't you decide who are you going to take for tomorrow night?"

"Maybe I should think who..." Geno wondered. "Good thing you said that. If we can defeat Smithy, then that's going to help all of them with a problem taken out of the way."

"Right!" Twink nodded cheerfully. "There's no way another problem is going to show up after we leave. ABSOLUTELY no problem!"

Sonic's Room

"...Hmm..." the hedgehog crossed his arms and looked outside. "...The moon..." Sonic said as he looked the moon in the night sky. "...It looks beautiful in some ways..."

"...Hahahahaha..."

"Huh?" Sonic looked at the door, but it wasn't open nor it had a person on the door. "Who said that just now?" Sonic asked, looking around his dark room.

"It's about time I get to control your body again...hahahahahaha..."

"The only time I get controlled is when I eat a mouthful of chili-dogs. I go crazy the-"

"SHUT UP AND LET ME DO MY THING!" the voice yelled, echoing from somewhere that only Sonic was able to hear.

"Just who are you and what are you doing in my room?" Sonic asked with crossed arms.

"Rude fool. I am not inside your room."

"Outside?"

"Cold."

"Inside the room?"

"Still cold."

"My mind?"

"Getting warm."

"My subconscious?"

"How the heck do you know that word? I thought that was complicated for...I mean...hot."

"B-i-n-g-o." Sonic spelled with a grin.

"Enough about foolish games," the voice said. "LEt me ask you something: do you feel weird?"

"There's a voice talking to me from somewhere, genius."

"DON'T DARE TO TICK ME OFF OR YOU'LL PAY!"

"With?"

"UGH! Silence! I dare you to look at the moon directly!"

Sonic looked outside and to the moon where he grinned at it. "So? What's your point with that?"

"Manifest my control on you."

"What?" Sonic asked confused before he suddenly felt a headache. "U-ugh! W-what is happening to me? W-who are you?!"

The voice chuckle evilly. "Sonic, Sonic, Sonic, don't you remember those chuckles back at the "Olympic" games?"

"Y-yeah, I do..." Sonic said as he put a hand on his head.

"And don't you remember the time where you went on a rampage to save your friends with the use of...I don't know..." the voice chuckled. "Those fake Chaos Emeralds you accidentally landed on?"

Sonic rubbed his chin. "...Care to remind me?"

"No."

"...Oh," then he remembered. "...Wait...that same feeling...I remember it when I fought the Metarex..."

"Congrats, you deserve a medal for being a complete and utter jackass," the voice congratulated. "That's right. I am that same feeling."

"Your voice...sounds like mine..." Sonic said weakly and he fell on his right knee.

"Geez! You figured it out just now? No wonder Eggman calls you an idiot!"

"S-shut up..." Sonic muttered. "W-what do you want from me and w-why are you here?"

"Simple," the voice began. "I'm going to possess your helpless body."

"H-how?"

"Let me get to the point! Anyway, soon, I'm going to take control of your body thanks to the power of the full moon."

"I-it's still a normal moon up there..."

"I KNOW! STOP INTERRUPTING ME!" the voice demanded. "As I was saying before you stupid mutters, the power of the full moon should transform you into a being where I will take as mine to have a body."

"T-transform?"

"You obtained an affinity to the moon after Eggman shot you down with some beams, right? Well, that affinity isn't normal. It's going to drag you all the way to the transformation."

"A-answer me!" Sonic looked up from the floor with a glare towards the ceiling. "What the heck is that transformation?!"

"Oh, why spoil it to you?" the voice chuckled. "Nobody likes spoilers, that's for sure. However, I can grant you a little preview."

"Pre...view?" Sonic repeated weakly.

The voice made a snapping sound and Sonic's teeth suddenly and slowly began turning into fangs.

"W-what the heck?!" Sonic said as he touched his newly formed fangs. "H-how did these get here?!"

"Mwahahahahahaha," the voice chuckled. "I can only show you this little preview. The full "preview" is going to appear once the full moon appears. When that happens, you're going to change completely...where I will take your body as my own with that very same transformation."

"Y-you won't do that t-" Sonic noticed that his voice got deeper and menacing. "S-stop playing with me!"

"I love amusement. What can I say? Once I take your body, I'm going to start an era of chaos and destruction against anyone, even the people you live with."

"You won't do that if I'm around!"

"Of course you won't," the voice chuckled. "Because I'll be you then."

"W-who are you?!"

"I'm Dark Super Sonic!" the voice revealed itself. "The other you! The same presence that tried to kill the Metarex but failed once Eggman stopped me from going nuts and kill everything in sight!"

"D-darn you..." Sonic muttered. "I thought I got rid of you..."

"You still have that radiation from the fake Chaos Emeralds. Oh, that doesn't mean I'm a fake," Dark Super Sonic explained. "I'm real, 500 percent real."

"Get away from me!" Sonic yelled.

"Tsk," he chuckled. "I don't have any choice left. But mark my words."

"W-what?"

"I can listen to everything you say and listen to, even the mission you have planned for tomorrow. And just look at this! It's during the night!"

"T-there's no full moon!"

"There isn't going to be a full moon tomorrow...but in 2 days from now on. What will you do once I show you another preview tomorrow? How are you going to hide it from them?"

"I-I won't hide it!"

"Too bad," Dark Super Sonic frowned. "If you don't, the hand is going to push you out from the mansion."

"W-what? That's not true!"

"Believe me, he will. Nobody likes a freak turning into a monster."

"...Heheheheh..."

"What's so funny?"

"If that's how you want to play...then I'll play your game," Sonic stood up and grinned with his fangs sticking out from his mouth. "I'll hide your "previews" from everyone. It's not going to be so bad and hard at all."

"Fine," his evil version said. "Be that way. It's going to be so fun anyway."

"Will you leave me alone and let me relax for tomorrow?"

"I don't have anything else to say...so yeah. See you tomorrow."

"We're not friends!"

"Duh." Dark Super Sonic said before he vanished from Sonic's mind, taking the fangs as well.

Sonic looked down worried. "...What if something else happens tomorrow?... I better be careful..." he yawned. "Time to hit the pillow..."

Hallway

"..." Rita gave the door a serious look where Sonic was. "Someone was talking to himself just now...but I rather not see who and just think nobody else lives here," the Genius Mage began to walk away. "I'll see more Blastia tomorrow. For now, I'm going to take a good nap."

Preview of the next chapter

"They're here, DK!" Diddy yelled from the lobby. "They're here!"

"Really?" DK asked as he peered his head from the hallway. "About time they made it!"

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"Are preparations ready?" Master Hand asked.

"Yes," Geno nodded. "My team is assembled."

"Good. The other half of us is going to remain here if they try to attack."

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"It's beginning, Lord Smithy."

"I will have their heads soon."

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"Entering the Realm of Factories. The showdown..." Geno trailed off.

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

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Chapter 124: Entering the Realm of Factories

Subspace
Deep inside the Great Maze

"Where is the Ancient Minister?" Tabuu questioned. "He was supposed to be here and tell the report of Exor."

"Calm down," Bowser said with a frown as he held some papers and read them. "Says here Exor is ready to destroy Nintendo City today during midnight. When that happens, Smithy's going to leave with Exor so they can torment another big city. Why do they have an affinity to destroy big cities now? Well, that's not my problem but stil-"

"Well, that sounds good," Tabuu interrupted and nodded. "But that does not explain where the Ancient Minister is."

"I haven't seen that guy that much yesterday either," Charizard said. "I wonder where he went."

"If he does not show up, I am going to make one of you 4 the new minister...but I think you are not to the task."

"Who wants to be on a floor giving orders all the day?" asked a recovered Ganondorf. "I rather be out and fight."

"My thoughts and expectations exactly," Tabuu nodded. "But I want to see where the Ancient Minister is. He is usually issuing all the commands I tell him to do."

"Today is very important, right?" Dedede asked. "The city's gonna get destroyed."

"However, they gathered all the Star Spirits and since they did not go directly to attack yesterday, I presume they will today." Ganondorf said.

"Oh, for the love of you, let me go this time!" Bowser said.

"...I will consider your suggestions...just wait until I get word of the Ancient Minister." Tabuu said before he disappeared and left the 4 villains.

"This is a mission of high priority and we must NOT lose this time." Ganondorf warned them.

"Like you aren't going to screw up," Charizard rolled his eyes. "You failed the last time, remember? You're not that superior."

"S-silence..." Ganondorf said with an annoyed look.

Smash Mansion
Lucario's Room

The morning came...and that meant the time to read the letters.

From Garnet Till Alexandros.

I've decided to write a letter to you. Remember me? We traveled together for a short period of time. Right now, it's a bad time to be writing a letter because we're escaping to the Outer Continent where we...I don't want to tell what happened here. Zidane is telling me to stop writing this.

In short, I hope you're doing well. Please do drop by if you can find us. I can't tell you where we are because that could tell a "bad guy" our location.

Sincerely,
Garnet Till Alexandros.

P.S.: Please, tell Zelda I'm doing well. The reason why I wrote this letter for you is because I was a little nervous to talk to her.

"...Suuuuuuuure..." Chris said as he put away Garnet's letter and read Laharl's letter.

From Overlord Laharl.

MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! You thought you weren't going to hear of me again, didn't you?! Well, guess what, you're remembering now! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

My evil plan to get a little more screen time worked after all. I knew mailing this stupid thing was a good idea. It wasn't the Love Freak's idea for sure, but whatever...

...

MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA-

The World Traveler noticed that the letter wasn't a letter, but a long, long big scroll that was an insanely long evil laugh by Laharl himself.

"...Oh god..." Chris frowned with a disgusted face. "I can't believe he wasted so many trees into this... I'll just go to the last part."

From malevolent Overlord,
Laharl.

P.S.: Now that His Royal Highness is gone...p-please, mercy for me, dood...

Chris made a bored look. "...I knew he wasn't up to the whole writing... Poor random Prinny..."

From Kylie Koopa.

Biggest scoop EVAH!... Okay, I was little hyper there, so what?

Hi there, you little hoopla! I've been doing so well after all these years! Heck, I even remember all of you when those Shroobs-thingies wanted to take over the Mushroom Kingdom. I made out a book out of it! "Fungicide: The Epic Battle for the Mushroom Kingdom" is now on sale in a store close to you!... Whatever, I'm going to send you a copy sometime!

By the way, old pal, I think I'm gonna hit Nintendo City. I heard there are not a single newspaper and just radio. The Koopa Kronicle's staff is so going to enjoy the open city for us! Be sure to drop by and maybe I'll make an article out of all of you!

Your Top-Star Reporter,
Kylie Koopa.

"I think she forgot the P.S. part..." Chris said.

From Soren.

This is very rare for me to write a letter to you, from all the people. But I think you have a closer connection with Ike than the other ignorants.

Let us get down to the main point. How is Ike doing? I hope he is not doing any sort of reckless affair or something like that because that would dishonor the Greil Mercenaries for a lot of honorability and the such. Well, personally, for a person like him, it's not that common, am I right?

Lastly...well, good luck with whatever you have to do in your life.

Soren.

"Why do I think he hates me?" Chris asked with a worried face.

From Birdo

"...Why is the letter full of pink circles rather than...wait..." the World Traveler took a closer look to the letter to find something.

To my dearest greeny watermelon boyfriend...

From you sweety pinky strawberry girlfriend.

"..." Chris, with a disgusted face, tossed the letter away with a shrug. "W-why does it say that?!... Unless..." he took the letter and insected it more. "...OH! Yoshi... This is his letter then, not mine. What a relief... I-isn't Birdo a gu-"

From Wave.

If you're wondering why I'm sending this letter to you and not Falco...w-well...let's just say I'm just a little bit embarrassed to send him a letter after what happened...

Anyway, how's it going? My brothers and I are doing very well. It seems Jet agreed to be closer us as the brothers we're supposed to be...if I made very good Extreme Gears for him, though...

...Wait a second...he isn't tricking me, right? If he is, then I'm going to make the best Extreme Gear...but with the best explosion when he comes close to the finish line. Yeah, I'm going to enjoy that.

Oops, I already wasted the whole letter with this. You pardon me, right? Okay.

From Extreme Gear designer,
Wave the Swallow.

P.S.: Is Falco still single? Heheheh, just a joke...

...

IT'S A JOKE, YOU GOT THAT?!

Chris put the letters on a nearby table before Lucario came out from the door of the bathroom. "Clean?" Chris asked.

"Yes," Lucario rolled his eyes. "Did you finish?"

"Taking a shower and the letters? Like usual," Chris nodded. "Today is the day, right?"

Lucario nodded. "The day we go to fight Smithy."

"Well...Geno hasn't selected who already..." he looked outside. "And it's still very early in the morning. What do you want to do in the meantime?"

"Hmm... Eat breakfast?"

"...Meh."

Main Lobby

As the 2 made their way to the main lobby, there was Diddy sitting on the sofa, tapping his fingers on the edge of the ornament in annoyance.

"Diddy, why are you here?" Chris asked as both stopped.

"Waiting for our friends to come," Diddy said as he looked them from the other side. "They're almost here. I know that."

"That's just random thinking," Lucario said with a frown. "What makes you believe they will come today? It's dangerous if they do because as you kno-"

"Yeah, yeah, mission," Diddy rolled his eyes. "Look, mission or not, they're coming now."

"I want to see that."

RING!

"...You were owne-" Chris was interrupted.

"I know." Lucario said with closed eyes.

Diddy opened his mouth in surprise and went quickly to the door and looked through the small hole of the right one. "...Oh my god!"

"What? Enemies?" Chris asked worried.

"No!" Diddy said with a frown. "They're here at last!"

Chris looked at Lucario...and he was already in the kitchen. "Lucario! Aren't going to meet them?"

"I rather not!" Lucario yelled from the kitchen.

"Why?"

"Just because?"

"...Oh, brother..."

"They're here, DK!" Diddy yelled from the lobby. "They're here!"

"Really?" DK asked as he peered his head from the hallway. "About time they made it!"

"Will you open the door?" Chris asked as he walked closer to Diddy.

Diddy grabbed the doorknob and twisted it. "Chris, I want you to me-"

"I know every single Kong in the family."

"...But you haven't met them in person, right?"

"N-"

Diddy opened the door. "Meet my distant cousin, Lanky!"

The first Kong that entered was Lanky Kong (walking with his hands). The Sumatran orangutan walked inside and greeted Diddy with some handshakes.

"Diddy! Oh monkey god, it's you!" Lanky greeted before he looked at Chris. "Who's that? Distant family member?"

"You wish," Diddy shook his head. "He's Chris. He lives here with me as well."

"Oh, nice to meet you!" Lanky walked to Chris and extended his long right arm to him, which the teen grabbed his hand to do a handshake. "Lanky's my name. Diddy already introduced you to me, right?"

"U-um, yes," Chris nodded. "(Now what do I say?) Er..."

Lanky kept handshaking his hand as Chris tried to think of something to talk.

"...Well..."

"..." Lanky blinked. "...Oh well! Not many people talk to me anyway," he took out a long trombone. "Ready to make music. I haven't done this in a long time but hey, there's always another chance."

"Now, next," Diddy looked outside where a tall female Kong with 2 ponytails walked. "Meet my fiancée's younger but tall sister, Tiny!"

"Diddy!" Tiny ducked to hug Diddy. "Oh, it's so nice to see you again!"

"(My god, why did they have to make her taller?)" Chris thought.

Tiny stood up and looked at Chris. "Are you Chris?"

"Y-yes, I am. Did Diddy tell you?"

Tiny smiled and nodded. "Uh-huh. Diddy emails me of all the people he meets."

Diddy blushed and looked away. "W-well, just because Dixie lives with you and you share the same email address."

"So," she took out a saxophone. "My old saxophone from the same adventure we had. Don't worry, I still remember how to use it. Let me see."

Tiny played her old small theme with the same tone and rhythm. It even made Chris's and Diddy's feet tap the floor.

"Oh yeah!" Tiny raised her saxophone with her right hand. "That's more like it."

"Good! You're going to be great!" Diddy remarked as she walked behind him and looked at the last Kong walking inside...though this one was embracing himself as he shivered. "...What happened to you now?"

"N-nothing..." the Lowland gorilla said with some shivers. "I-it's just that..."

"Oh, relax, will you?" Tiny said with a frown. "You don't have to get scared because I got a growth spurt!"

"B-but..."

Diddy rolled his eyes. "Let me guess, you liked her more when she was smaller and you juggled her in the air for fun, right, Chunky?"

Chunky nodded and sniffed. "T-those were good times! Very, VERY good times!"

"Not always is the same," Lanky said with some chuckles. "Changes are goooooooooood."

"For yooooooooooou at least..." Chunky muttered.

"Meet Dixie and Tiny's cousin, Chunky." Diddy presented Chunky to Chris.

"(Yes, he's taller than DK but smaller compared to Tiny...)" Chris thought before shaking his head. "Nice to meet yo-"

Chunky quickly hugged (or strangled) Chris with a powerful hug as the big gorilla sniffed. "I-it's always good to have a new friend!" Chunky said happily.

Chris's eyes twitched like never before. "I-i-i-i-i-it's always good...t-t-t-to have...a-a-a-a-air...d-d-d-daily..." he muttered.

"Chunky! Chunky! Stop! You're killing him!" Diddy said.

"..." Chunky looked at Chris's face turning yellow. "Whoops," he said embarrassed before he let Chris fall (knocked out). "S-sorry, I don't know my own strength... Answer me!" he grabbed Chris and shook him several times. "I killed my bunnies this way by accident too! D-don't tell me you're dead as well!"

"STOP!" Diddy interrupted before Chunky let Chris fall again. "If you leave him alone, he'll come back to his senses!"

"BUAH!" Chris let out a loud sigh (if you could consider "BUAH!" a sigh). "W-why did I forget about his strength?"

"That strength saved us from King K. Rool!" Lanky said proudly. "Chunky's packs 5 punches instead of 1!"

Chunky blushed. "Oh, please, don't embarrass me like that!" he took out...a metal triangle which he rang with a small stick of iron. "I-I'm ready to make music!"

"(With that?)" Chris thought with dot eyes, indicating that he didn't believe that Chunky's instrument would make a CD.

"D-don't give that look..." Chunky said unsure. "I was able to defeat that scary Rool guy with this..."

Tiny made a bored look. "I still remember how you defeated King K. Rool though..."

Flashback

There was a huge Chunky Kong (using Hunky Chunky to be bigger) on a side of the ring while on the other side, King K. Rool charged at him with a furious roar.

"YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEH!!!" Chunky let out a girly scream before slamming a huge fist on King K. Rool's face, knocking him away to the spectators and on the seats before the bell rang, indicating his victory.

The other 4 Kongs watched this before shifting their eyes around. "...I think we're going to remember this for the rest our of lives..." said the past Tiny Kong.

"Uh-huh," the other 3 said with several nods.

End of flashback

"Thought as much," Diddy said before looking at the hallway. "Weird, DK was standing there a moment ago."

"Because I went to call Master Hand!" DK called from the other side of the hallway, walking towards the Kongs and Chris. "Lanky! Tiny! Chunky!"

"DK!" the mentioned trio said cheerfully before all of them ran to him and greeted the Kong with hugs, handshakes and pats on the back.

"The good ol' gang, back again to make another debut!" Lanky said happily.

"No fat crocodile with laryngiti-" Diddy was interrupted.

"Wasn't it a tic?" Tiny interrupted.

"Laryngitis to beat around!"

"Um...yeah, exactly!" the other 4 said with confused looks.

"...Soooooo..." Chris looked to the right with crossed arms behind his back. "...What are you going to do now that you're reunited?"

"Theme song!" DK yelled as he took his bongoes.

"Yeah!" the other 4 said as they took out their instruments (with Diddy taking out an electric guitar).

"Not today!" Master Hand interrupted before the 5 could even begin. "Aw, more musicians."

"BIG CREEPY TALKING MOUTHESS FLOATING WHITE HAND!" Chunky yelled loudly before he hid behind Chris in a hurry (albeit to say, due to Chunky's brawny size, Chris could only block at least 30 percent of the Kong's body).

Master Hand frowned. "Not another guy who yells the same at me the first time someone meets me."

"Everyone does that to you?" Diddy asked.

"Well, not exactly," the hand explained. "So, 3 more musicians?"

DK nodded. "Ready to make some music."

"Theme song!" Lanky yelled.

The 5 (even Chunky) quickly stood next to each other and began to play thei-

"NOT TODAY!" Master Hand interrupted.

"...Theme song!" Lanky said again.

"NO!" the hand snapped his fingers and everyone' instruments disappeared. "If you want to make "some music" then go to the room where there's MUSIC, okay?"

"Hey," Lanky looked around. "Where did you take my instrument?"

"Mine's got to be fine, or else I'm putting some lawyers on you." Tiny threatened.

"Your instruments are waiting for you in the music room," Master Hand explained. "Your rooms are ready as well once you go to the music room. You're going to meet 2 other musicians there so I hope you enjoy the time making music."

"Sweet! We got our own rooms already!" Lanky said.

"DK, Diddy," the hand looked at the 2. "Would you show them the way?"

"Sure. C'mon." DK said as he lead the 3 upstairs.

"Diddy," Master Hand whispered to the monkey. "I need to ask you a favor."

"What?" Diddy asked.

"Since today is you-know-what, you and Donkey should stay behind and make sure the musicians don't get a word of this mission."

"Why?"

"Because I'm sure as hell your pals are going to help ourselves. I don't want to take any risks either if they become dead."

"Hmm..." Diddy wondered.

"...If you do my favor, I'll let you 2 be part-time musicians as well so you can do your theme song. We also need the DK Rap."

"Hmmmmmmm..."

"...And free bananas daily."

"Hmmmmmmmmmmm..."

"And banana juice."

"Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm-"

"WOULD YOU STOP THAT?! I don't give a 5-star dinner to anyone, ever!"

"Deal!" Diddy shook Master Hand's finger before he ran up and left to the Kongs.

"I think he thought you were going to give him a 5-star dinner..." Chris said.

"Oh no, he won't make himself the idiot and believe I'm going to give him all the things I said." Master Hand said.

"...I thought the first 2 were true."

"Y-yes, they are..." he looked at Chris. "Well, it's early so go get your breakfast. This day is very important to us and pretty much everyone who used to live in the city."

"W-wait," Chris interrupted. "What could happen if the city does get destroyed?"

"..." Master Hand looked away. "The city itself is a great center of trades for economy of all the worlds from the guys here. Should the city get destroyed, then the economy would go down for so many levels and people won't come to a destroyed city at all. It once used to be so lively with many different people."

"From everyone here?"

"Yes," the hand nodded. "Not only that. From time to time, different people who find their way to the city are the most important since they don't belong to any of the Smashers' worlds. If a person gets lost in a cave or forest, that same person could end up in this universe until he or she walks the way back where he or she got lost."

"And if the city gets destroyed..."

"...Let's not think about the negative things here. Go and enjoy the sweet and peaceful morning before you fight the cruel and death-assured night."

"...Shouldn't you CHEER me instead of SCARING me?"

"Hey, I'm neutral when it comes down to the good side or the bad side. I'm a good guy so don't worry!"

Kitchen

When the World Traveler walked inside the kitchen, he found Lucas (the PK kid, not the trainer)...not moving at all from his seat after he stopped eating his cereal.

"What is wrong with you?" Chris asked confused.

"G-Geno told me to go tonight i-into that sword..." Lucas trembled. "I-I'm so scared about that, b-but I couldn't refuse the mission!"

"Embrace yourself!" Rope Snake called from Lucas's little pocket (this also meant that the physics in this world were so altered and screwed). "You've got to be strong, my dear psychic blond boy!"

"T-that's easier to say than done!" Lucas said as he covered his head. "I-I don't want to die today!"

"(Oh no, here goes the same Peach's face....wait, it doesn't work for him!) I'll protect you if you want. (DAMMIT!)" Chris cursed in his mind.

"No!"

"...What?"

"N-no! Y-you heard me!" Lucas said. "M-my dad told me to be strong and do your business alone. I-if I want to be prove I'm a real grown up, t-then I need to go this time!" he got off from the seat and looked at Chris. "I-I'm sorry, but I want to do this my way..."

"...Weeeeeeeell..." Chris looked away. "I-I'm scared as well..."

"Did he tell you to go too?"

"No."

"Chris," Geno called from behind Chris. "You're coming tonight."

The puppet walked away and to the main lobby, where he went to the hallway.

"...That was awfully fast..." Lucas said before he shook his head. "You're scared, right? But you always get out victorious for all the fights you go in!"

"(...I'm an idiot if I say I didn't notice before.) I didn't notice before. (OH, FOR THE LOVE OF...)"

"H-how can I do that?"

"Do what?" Chris asked.

"Get victorious like you do?"

"(Does he think I'm a winner or what?) ...Rely on the others? I always rely on them and they rely on me and back and forth..."

"..." Lucas stared at Chris. "...Rely? T-that isn't that hard, right?"

"No, it's not hard."

"With who?"

"I don't know," Chris said sarcastically. "Everyone?"

"L-like?"

Chris pointed behind Lucas, and the boy turned to find Mewtwo.

"UAH!" Lucas hopped scared.

Mewtwo frowned. "I'm not going with you. You don't have to think I'm scary either."

"I-I didn't think that!"

"You did," Mewtwo frowned. "Your mind said so."

"(W-why does he have to invade my mind?)"

"(Because people like you think odd of me and I don't like that at all.)"

"S-stop it!" Lucas said.

Mewtwo made another frown before he floated away with crossed arms.

"The day I see him using his feet to walk I'm going to make a discovery." Chris said.

"S-so with who?" Lucas asked.

Chris pointed across the long table, where Falco was shown eating bacon.

"...L-less scarier, please..." Lucas whispered.

This time, he pointed behind Lucas where a motionless Pichu was.

"...He choose you?"

Pichu nodded with a gulp. "H-he said I was smaller than Pikachu. But I'm perfect for sneak attacks..." he looked at them. "P-problem is I don't know any sneak attacks!"

"Just make sure the enemy doesn't see you." Chris said.

"You try it!"

Chris was left speechless. "...What if we rely each other?"

Lucas and Pichu looked at each other before looking back at Chris. "...Fine..." they said.

Command Room

When the World Traveler made it to the command room...he found Ike measuring his sword with Link?

"Not only the sword needs to be thin and strong," Link said as he took a closer look to his own sword. "It's got to be actually thin and strong."

"What's the difference with that?" Ike asked.

"You'll understand once you have done it 30 times."

"Please, make sense to me."

"30 times or else you won't."

"Hmm..." Ike continued to measure his sword.

"...Pardon my interruption..." Chris interrupted. "But why is it important to measure a sword?"

"Because every single inch counts as part of the sword," Link explained. "If you break a small part, the sword's efficiency will be forever lost."

"I-I doubt the Master Sword or even Ragnell could break..."

Link rolled his eyes. "That's what you think. You know how many items I use, right? Not all of them are unbreakable."

"Really?" Ike asked.

Link nodded. "Yeah. The adventure I had when I turned instantly into an "adult" wasn't a walk in the park or something stupid like that."

Flashback

There was Link holding a Megaton Hammer, where he waited for Volvagia to come out from one of the holes.

When it did, Link raised his hammer and yelled "Die, you stupid magma snake!"

Then the Megaton Hammer's head fell behind him. Link made a confused look before looking back and saw the head.

He then turned to Volvagia, charging a ball of magma. "OH SHI-"

Another different time, Link was shown holding the enhanced Hookshot to pull out Morpha's brain out from its transparent tentacle.

When he aimed the item at it, he yelled. "Die, you wasted Zora's intestinal liquid!"

The item instantly was thrown across the enemy once Link pressed the trigger, taking the chain along with it where it sunk in the bottom of the water.

Link made a horrified face before Morpha slowly reached for him. "OH SHI-"

In another time, there was Link holding an arrow with his Fairy Bow and Lens of Truth at the drumming hidden monster, Bongo Bongo.

When he aimed at it, he yelled "Die, you idiotic bad rhythmic ghostly monster!"

Then the lens broke into pieces, preventing Link from damaging the monster. He thought (with a horrified face) that they broke because he held them too close to his eye.

He looked at the hands raising above him before they came down fastly on him. "OH SHI-"

End of flashback

"...Not like in the game..." Chris said with an ashamed face.

"How was it in my game?" Link asked.

"In the game, nothing like that happened at all. If you ran out of ammunition, there was always a way to get more in the same room with the boss."

"Can you define my Megaton Hammer as ammunition?"

"...No..."

"Oh, great..." Link facepalmed. "My adventure sucked so badly..."

"At least mine was normal," Ike said. "Oh, I almost forgot..." he took out a copy of Radiant Dawn. "I accidentally forgot to put this back in your room, but it looked so weird becau-"

Chris quickly took the copy and hid it inside his robe (since he was still using the Black Mage job). "E-everything you saw in there, and in the instruction booklet are PURE lies! T-this game was defined as non-canon and you don't get bulkier with armor at all!" Chris said in panic.

"Really?" Ike rubbed his chin. "Because I heard there was going to be another war if several problems of the states weren't resolved quickl-"

"Okay, Ike," Chris closed his yellow eyes. "In who do you believe? In a random copy of a false future...or me?"

"Random copy of a false but true future."

"...Oh god..."

"Sorry," Ike lifted his shoulders. "I already went to the in-the-net."

"Internet." Link corrected.

"And Roy checked for me if this was real or not."

"...It is." Chris admitted.

"...Well..." Ike scratched the back of his head. "This game also came out before "Brawl" right? So how come I'm not the one in my "sequel" at all?"

Chris was utterly surprised that the swordsman went that far to research the origins of both games.

"...Wow, Ike, you raised a valid question just now..." Chris wondered for a moment. "Well, I think it is becau-"

"There you are," Geno called from the hallway with Twink floating close to him. "I finished with the preparations for tonight."

"Really?"

Geno nodded. "Choosing between 34 peopl-"

"35 counting you but excluding me." Twink interrupted.

"Was no easy task." Geno finished.

"You're taking 17?" Ike asked.

"Yes. You 3, for example."

Chris looked at Link. "You were choosen?"

"I'm not measuring my sword for nothing." Link said with a small grin.

"I thought you were going to stay behind and protect the mansion. You would have another rea-"

"Stop!"

"Ahem," Geno coughed annoyed. "You 3, Pichu, Lucas, Ness, Pikachu, Mario, Peach, Mallow, Kirby, Fox, Marth, Snake, Sonic, Lucario and Jigglypuff. The other half is staying behind."

"Are they all awake?" Link asked.

"Yes. We should wait a little before they come."

Chris looked away. "(But I'm worried about Peach... She said she had to come with us because the Peach Beam wouldn't work without her.)"

"I was having some problems convincing Peach," Geno said. "I had to be frank with her and she ultimately accepted the task."

"(...I better do what I promised her... Curse my weakness to her faces...)"

Several hours later...

Persona 3 - Living With a Determination

Everyone gathered in the command room after the hours passed. They were discussing what to expect of Smithy and the Subspace Army while Chris went to the hands.

"Nervous?" Master Hand asked.

"A-a lot..." Chris shuddered. "What we do in the city will decide what will happen to it, right?"

"Yes," Master Hand nodded. "A small screw up from all of you and the city is totally done for."

"Can you encourage instead of saying those things?"

"What else can I say rather than, "Good luck! I hope you get out unscathed"?"

"You don't say that," Chris raised an eyebrow. "You say more simple sentences than that."

"Well then. Good luck! I hope you get out unscathed!"

"...Never mind..." he said with a frown before turning to the insane hand. "You know what I want to do now."

"Yippie-o." Crazy Hand said with a nod.

Jobs - Stickers - Smashing Abilities (New!) - Items

Smash Coins in hand: 2701

Jobs

Beastmaster - 1000 Smash Coins

Hacker - 1300 Smash Coins

Smashing Abilities

Over Limit Lvl. 2 - 20000 Smash Coins

Call me Kirby! - 5000 Smash Coins

Revitalizer - 1000 Smash Coins

Adds a restorational effect for recovery items to revive downed party members. Very useful when your main healer is downed as well.

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:
Green Shell
Poison Mushroom
Bumper

Stored items:
None

"If the time where recovery items should have been reviving items, it is now. I'll buy the new ability." Chris said as he gave 1000 Smash Coins. He instantly glowed after the insane hand snapped his fingers.

"What else?" Crazy Hand asked.

"Food."

"Oh, every piece revives a character if you give the food to him or her...to the mouth, that is. Note that the character revived only gets 1 to 5 percent of the health recovered." Master Hand explained.

"Well, it's still useful. Besides, it's like 10 Phoenix Downs." Chris said as he gave 400 Smash Coins to the hand, reducing the amount to 1301. "Next...the Hacker job!"

"Here you go, novice engineer!"

When Crazy Hand snapped his fingers, after receiving 1300 Smash Coins (thus pushing Chris back to bankrupt), the World Traveler glowed and his clothes changed again...

...To be precise, Chris now wore a black uniform for japanese schools. Black pants, black shirt with buttons. He also wore some orange headphones that he hung around his neck.

"..." the World Traveler took out 2 wrenches from behind his back and looked at them.

"Behold, the wrenches! Your main weapons!" Crazy Hand said.

"...What are wrenches supposed to be related to a hacker?" Chris asked.

"You literally hack things with those."

"Crazy, it's more like fix big screws," Master Hand explained. "I thought you were going to give him an electric wire."

"Nah, wrenches are more useful," the insane hand said. "Shock enemies? Bluah. He'll need those to change, or hack weapons to turn them to stronger weapons."

"...Oh well," Chris said as he kept the wrenches. "I can understand the most complicated machine at least."

"A hacker must now what he does," Crazy Hand said. "By the way, not always when you change weapons into stronger ones will result successful. You could fail and end up disabling the original weapon."

"I'll...be aware of that." Chris said with a nod.

"Listen to some good music with your headphones!" Crazy Hand suggested. "It has good internal memory to hold up to 1000 songs!"

"..." Chris put the headphones on and he began to listen to something. "...Wait, this song is the Rawest Song of the Forever Forest."

"Lemme hear!" the insane hand said as he took the headphones and put them on his...head as finger? "...Super Ma-ri-o R-R-P-G!"

"ACK!" Master Hand took the headphones and gave them back to Chris. "Listening to my brother singing is even worse than his snores! Somebody forgives me if I hear him!"

"You don't respect you singer brother?" Crazy Hand asked.

"I don't respect that drama voice you make."

"Oh, you mean this one? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!"

A very high-pitched scream echoed through the room and many computers' screens broke, making everyone stop talking as they covered their ears.

"SHUT HIM UP!" Chris yelled as he put the headphones on his ears.

Master Hand slapped his brother to snap him out. "One more again and I'll block that mouthless mouth from you!"

"Aww..." Crazy Hand said in shame.

"Well..." Master Hand noticed everyone with annoyed looks at his brother. "At least we've got the attention of everyone."

"Geno." Twink whispered.

"Yes," Geno nodded before he walked in front of the hands and looked at the Smashers. "Okay. It's time to start the mission right now."

"But it's not night yet," Pichu said. "It's 1:26 PM."

"I know," Geno said. "I have a plan before we begin."

Link nodded. "Don't worry about it. I have my item prepared."

"Item?" Zelda asked.

Link winked at her. "It's a very useful item you gave me when we were kids."

"...Oh," Zelda smiled a little. "I remember which item was that."

"Save that for later," Geno said. "Anyway, the reason why we're starting now it's because we're going to wait to attack and raid Exor the moment night comes. I told Link to bring his item with us to start the mission."

"Where are we going to start the way to Exor?" Ness asked. "A frontal attack?"

"No. A frontal attack is dangerous. Since Exor faces the Smash Mansion from his location, we'll have to go around the barrier and through the forest that surrounds it in order to reach a place where he can't see us. It could be possible that enemies can appear while we get to the main point," the screen turned on, showing a map of the Smash Mansion, Nintendo City, Exor's facing the mansion and the whole landscape of the surrounding area. "Here..." Geno pointed at the left area of the forest, right from the mansion point and left to Exor's point. "Is where we have to be."

"Shouldn't we go a little further than that?" Chris asked. "I think it's a little bit of a difference because Exor could face us from the point."

Geno shook his head. "Going further away would mean getting farther and father from Exor. This point is the closest one."

"I can reach even further in no time." Sonic said.

"Even so, the area of the forest is too thick and I doubt we could run through without crashing into the trees. We don't want that, right?"

"Pfft."

"My thoughts exactly," Geno said. "Once we reach Exor, it could be possible that Smithy could send an army to the mansion so half og the group that's staying here will remain to protect the mansion. After all these missions, I don't want this place to be destroyed."

"We lived here..." Twink sniffed. "And this is the last day we're staying here..."

"..." Geno closed his eyes and opened them back again. "(It can't be helped...) Any questions?"

"What is inside Exor? His stomach?" Jet Kirby asked.

"...When are you going to let that ability go?" Jigglypuff asked.

"BURP." Jet Kirby burped and a little star with his ability jumped out from his head and vanished, turning him back to a plain Kirby.

"...Ew..."

"E-er, no, Exor has no stomach," Geno shook his head. "Exor has a portal that takes anyone to Smithy's dimension. His dimension is a foul place filled with purple winds and a factory where his henchmen manufacturate enemies endlessly. Deeper inside, Smithy resides, making his own weapons."

"If we reach Smithy and defeat him, that would be the end of that freaking sword, right?" Snake asked.

"Yes. Smithy himself operates the whole place like he likes. I'll assure you all that this is going to be the last request I ask you, to repair the Star Road without Smithy knowing and get rid of Exor again so the city gets saved."

"If the city does get destroyed, I'm going to sue somebody." C. Falcon said.

"Just because that filthy bar is also in the city doesn't mean you have to hide it from everyone here by saying city." Roy said.

"I-I'm no-"

"You are," mostly everyone said.

"Oh, please..."

"Leaving that aside," Geno continued. "We should begin now... However..." the puppet closed his eyes. "I need to say something first."

"(There he goes...)" Twink thought.

"I-"

"If you're going to say something about our help to rescue the Star Spirits, save that for later." Master Hand interrupted as a record was heard being scratched.

"W-will yo-" Geno was interrupted.

"Sorry. Time's running out so we may as well start this."

"Y-you little...ugh, fine, I give up," Geno turned to the Smashers. "So please, the ones I selected take a step forward and let's go outside and start the mission and get over with..."

"...That didn't sound that good." Yoshi commented.

"Because THIS hand stopped me from saying my speech, that's why!" Geno said angrily. "I could've said that with more impact but no, he interrupts me at the most important part of my speech!"

"Yadda-yadda-yadda," Master Hand said with a frown. "This mission is very important and crucial, right? Well, get going! We're going to make our preparations here as well should they decide to attack the mansion from all the sides."

"(U-uh-oh...)" Red thought. "(I can't let Barry, Dawn or Lucas or all of them to get a word or even a small glimpse of this... I need to keep them distracted from getting ou-)"

For his dismay, a small head with blond hair peered from the hallway and waved a hand to him. It was Barry himself who noticed Red except the others but they didn't notice him either.

Red made an angered expression and tried to tell Barry to get away with his hands.

Barry thought Red was playing charades with him so he imitated a Magikarp with his mouth.

"VINE WHIP!" Red yelled to Ivysaur who got a shocked expression and used Vine Whip to push Barry away from their view, without even seeing the trainer, much for Red's fortune.

"Hey," Wolf turned and glared to the trainer. "What's the meaning of that yell?"

"I-I-I..." Red gulped. "I-I was practicing my yell's orders in battle..."

"...Practice but when there's a real battle. Do that again and I'll claw that throat out from you."

"Y-yes, sir..." Red said sweating before the lupine turned around and looked back at Geno. "Guys, we have to leave for now." Red whispered to his Pokémon.

"Oh, right," Squirtle nodded. "The battle we didn't have with Dawn yesterday because Peach was outside in the garden."

"No!" Red whispered angrily. "We have to make sure they don't notice this whole mission. We have to distract them!"

"...Oh," Ivysaur nodded. "Let's get out of here silently and carefully."

The trio nodded to each other and left the room silently.

Geno looked at the 17 characters that were going with him and nodded to them. "Please, let's do our best and don't fail if you can."

"I'll be more worried about this guy," Snake said as he looked at Sonic. "I don't like him."

Sonic rolled his eyes. "Then I don't like you either."

"Sounds good to me."

"Don't start a fight here now..." Mario frowned. "Focus on this, then fight to death."

"My god...that sounded not-so-you." Chris said.

"Sorry," Mario lifted his shoulders. "I know which people you should surrender to and which not."

"Well, don't surrender now," Ness said as he put his bat on his right shoulder. "That city is in trouble and you know it goes."

"Save it because that's the hero's hometown," Chris said as he raised a finger. "...It's not mine but this is a second home to me."

"For all of us," Marth said. "It gets destroyed and we lose."

"W-we'll come out victorious, right?" Lucas asked with a gulp.

"Just don't run away once an enemy spots us." Pikachu said.

"I-I'm not running away...n-not now..."

"I rather stay here...but going right to my death is better to prove I'm something, right?" Jigglypuff asked.

"Would you stop?" Mallow asked. "Nobody is going to die here. If somebody is going to die here is you."

"...That didn't help." Lucario pointed out as Jigglypuff made a shocked look.

"And you're not helping either." Ness pointed out.

"Neither you are." Pikachu said.

"Neither you." Mario said.

"Or you." Kirby pointed out.

"Or you at least." Marth pointed out.

"O-" Sonic was interrupted.

"Stop!" Geno yelled. "Wishes are in trouble, they don't get true, you lose your dearest wishes, Smithy rules the whole land, we're in a big trouble, everything is unhappy, blah blah blah, I summarized everything, now let's start before this goes out of control!"

"You're going out of control." Fox pointed out.

"...Sorry," Geno frowned. "This is very crucial to me and I'm getting stress out of it."

"If it helps..." Chris began. "I'll be glad to listen to your commands."

Lucario had to follow his trainer's example. "Me too."

Everyone else nodded.

"...Thanks, you guys." Geno said.

"Are preparations ready?" Master Hand asked.

"Yes," Geno nodded. "My team is assembled."

"Good. The other half of us is going to remain here if they try to attack."

"Everyone, let's do this." Geno said before they began to walk away to the hallway.

...Leaving a still shocked Jigglypuff behind.

"You're leaving the singer behind!" Popo yelled.

Pikachu came back and grabbed Jigglypuff to put her above him before running away.

[DededeCloneChris]

Outside

Star Ocean: Till the End of Time - Bird's Eye View

The long path that connected the city with the mansion was slightly covered with snow from the previous weather of yesterday. Geno looked straight to the road where he could imagine Exor with his malevolent face, and even Smithy laughing maniacally.

"We're almost there with Smithy," Geno said looking around. "...I can feel him."

"Eww." Mallow and Twink said.

"Not like that!"

"And how can we be almost there if we just took a step out from the mansion?" Pikachu asked. "We still need to run 10km towards the sword, enter, see whatever that world inside that sword is and find Smithy."

"It's figurative language," Geno said annoyed. "We'll go into the forest from here."

"Let's hope there are no enemies in the way..." Peach hoped. "You're going to protect me, right, Mario?"

Mario nodded. "Always."

"(It's incredible how Mario is so sincere, yet he denies that love.)" Chris thought. "Let's go then. I'll try to my best in the upcoming fights."

"You're sounding too sure of yourself this time around," Marth said. "I wonder why, though."

"I've been like this all the time! I'm sure this will go very we-"

"He's acting like that because he has his loyal Pokémon to protect him." Fox said with a grin and a frown.

"Y-you little... T-that's not true!" Chris protested while Lucario looked away embarrassed.

Pikachu jumped to his right shoulder and patted his head 2 times. "Admit it and don't deny it. I surrender when Ash is mentioned."

"I-I thought you hated Ash!"

"Nope," Pikachu shook his head. "I hate the fact he starts from zero and loses every big league. Outside of that, I pretty much like him."

"Yet you escaped from him." Ness said.

"H-hey, you know why I'm here."

"To surprise the masses," Jigglypuff said. "Like pretty me."

"We're leaving you behind!" Sonic called from afar, almost entering the forest. The 4 got back to their senses and ran to them.

On the other side of the mansion...

"Okay," Raven nodded. "Since we have demon girl Rita with us in an unexpected turn of events, we hafta be extremely careful and not bump into her."

"Why don't we tell Master Hand about her?" Toon Link suggested.

Raven made a worried expression with closed eyes. "Because I fear the poor ol' hand gets annihilated by her Violent Pain. I know you guys are something but Rita can beat your sorry butts in a blink of an eye, even with combined forces."

"(If whatever he says about her is true, then that means she can defeat Tabuu quickly?)" Toon Link thought. "Then no seeing her all the day?"

"And the rest of our lives if it is possible," Raven added before opening his eyes with a bored look and very small pupils. "Good for you, kid, because that means staying outside with long hours of training."

"Alright!" Toon Link said cheerfully as he took out his bow and shot a fast arrow to the nearby trees.

However, the arrow went deeper and deeper into the forest and disappeared...

"...I don't know where the heck ya sent the arrow this time..." Raven scratched his neck. "I guess there's nobody in its way."

The sound of an arrow hitting a tree was heard and a familiar nanc-I mean, swordsman, after the arrow was about to hit his head, was heard saying "We better be careful. They're expecting us."

"Ouch," a cloud prince said. "They do want us dead right away."

"Okay," Raven nodded and rubbed his chin. "Let's practice again. I'll see where ya aim that arrow."

Toon Link shot an arrow to the trees and it bounced back...to Raven's crotch.

"Not again!" Raven yelled as he jumped over the arrow. "Phew... Kid, ya hate me or somethin'?"

"N-no!" Toon Link said. "I-I didn't want to repeat the same mistake from yesterday!"

"Well, be sure from not castrating me again," Raven shrugged. "Ya think I can resist...oh, forget it. Try again."

Toon Link shot another arrow...and it almost hits Raven's right arm. However, it passed right below his armpit.

Raven's eyes got a shocked look. "K-kid, you're tryin' to freakin' kill me with your arrows but unintentionally, which makes it even worse in some ways!"

"Sorry, sorry, sorry!" Toon Link apologized continuously as he began firing fast arrows at the trees, bouncing around which made Raven feel uncomfortable once he saw all of them...going after him.

"INCOOOOOOOMIIIIIIIIIIN'!!!" Raven yelled before he ran away from a flurry of arrows that were meant to shoot him down.

"H-hey, stop trying to kill my tutor!" Toon Link yelled to his arrows before running after Raven.

A window opened and Rita peered from it. Looking around the empty side. "...Why do I think the old man was here...and yelling for his life?" Rita asked before she shook her head. "Whatever..." she took out a small Smart Bomb that she grinned at it. "This Blastia is begging to be analyzed!" she said cheerfully before slamming the window down to close it.

The Dojo

"...More over here...more over there..."

"These need more, too."

"Oh, right."

In the remotest part of the forest, Lee (the blue body shifter) and Chan (the green Buzzy Beetle) were watering some plants from outside with watering cans.

"You know," Lee began. "The air around has become...more evil in many ways."

"Oh," Chan looked at him. "Of course it did. Just look at that part of the forest."

The Buzzy Beetle pointed close to him where a part of the forest was unusually darker than the other parts.

"Well..." Lee trailed off. "That's because the city is that way, right? I heard from the Paratroopa that it's because of someone called Smithy."

"Yes," Chan nodded. "I heard of him from one of Mario's stories against his enemies."

Some punches were heard inside the Dojo and they looked at the wooden cabin. "How many times is he going to challenge the Master and Jynx?" Chan asked.

"Until he surrenders, which will be never." Lee said.

The sound of footsteps were heard and both quickly turned to the north with fighting stances. However, they blinked once they found the group of Smashers coming from the Smash Mansion's direction.

"Oh," Lee stood normally. "It's you guys. How's it going?"

"Look!" Chan jumped. "It's Mario!"

"What the hell, man!" Lee said happily. "It's the very same person who defeated Jynx AND the Master in battle!"

"It's good to see you 2 doing well." Mario said.

"Aw, don't compliment us. We're the same old guys. We're a little bit stronger this time around so...wait..." Chan's eyes widened. "A-are you here to take on the Master? Because he has gotten a lot stronger than before!"

"No," Geno shook his head. "We're busy with other matters."

"We're going to Exor and defeat Smithy." Mallow explained.

"..." the 2 looked at each other with concerned looks. "...You're kidding, right?"

Snake shook his head. "Not at all. All of those weird idiots just end up getting defeated, mostly because of their incompetence."

"Oh no," Lee shook his head. "I meant all of you."

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

"W-well...y-you're not going to like this bu-"

"YEOWCH!!!"

Many punches were heard inside the Dojo and someone came rolling out from the front door before laying down on the ground with face down. The Master and Jynx came out and looked down to the small opponent. "You're not strong enough to defeat any of the 2 of us." Jynx explained.

Their opponent was a small baby Koopa that looked like it was born not too long ago. He had 2 parts of the egg he came out (one on top of his head and the other above his small legs). Although his small height suggested a weak look, he was actually strong but not strong enough to defeat the 2.

"J-just you wait!" the young Koopa said as he pointed an accusing finger to the 2. "O-one of these days, I'm gonna smack the skull out of you!" he stood up. "Or my name is not Jr. Troopa!"

"Give up," Jynx shook his head. "You're too young to defeat us. We've been explaining that to you every single day, even after the Dojo first opened its only door."

"GRRR!!!" Jr. Troopa growled. "Y-you shut up! SHUT UP! I don't wanna hear your stupid comments about my own strengt-DAMMIT! There's Mario!"

"...Oh no..." Mario muttered as Jr. Troopa rushed towards him and pointed an accusing finger to him. "I thought you returned to your playground close to Goombario's house."

"Of course I did...NOT!" Jr. Troopa yelled. "Maybe I said I gave up to defeat you. But when I heard you were doing "oh so great against every guy you fight against" I thought it was time to make a COMEBACK for the next round!"

"...Dude, you look puny. No offense." Mallow said.

"P-PUNY?!" Jr. Troopa yelled before he sprouted bat wings behind his back with a spike that formed on the top of his egg's shell. "Does this look puny to you?! I'll show ya who's PUN-"

"Stop," the Master interrupted as he walked slowly to them. "You can't defeat them either."

His wings and spike disappeared and he looked at the Master angrily. "For the love o-STOP SAYING I'M WEAK!"

"Train more and we shall see." Jynx said simply.

"...YOU GUYS SUCK!" Jr. Troopa yelled. "FINE! I'll train even more and all of you here will see how STRONG I am!" he pointed at Mario. "Especially you, Mr. I'm-So-Great!"

The newborn Koopa raised a hand to the air and ran away with a trail of dust leading to nowhere.

"Ha, he's going at your speed, Sonic." Pikachu teased and Sonic looked at him annoyed.

"...5 bucks he returns tomorrow." Lee bet.

"Okay. Dammit! I accepted another stupid bet!" Chan yelled. "But I will win this time!"

"Enough," the Master said.

"Yes, sensei..." Lee and Chan said.

The Master looked at the Smashers. "Are you here to challenge us?"

"No," Marth shook his head. "We're going to Nintendo City to save it from Smithy."

"Oh, is that so?" the Master asked, raising an eyebrow. "...I should tell you this now. Someone else is waiting for all of you in your united path. Your current strength...is not enough."

"W-what? We've been fighting his forces all these times and they all were defeated." Chris said.

"Yes, that is true," the Master said.

"...Wait a minute, you don't even know if we defeated them or not." Fox said.

"Actually," Jynx began. "The Master and I can tell by your looks, strength and even your faces if you defeated a foe. We know all that with just a small glimpse."

"Another thing why this universe freaks me out." Snake muttered.

"The Master is just that awesome," Lee said. "Never underestimate the Master! He'll pummel you down with his first breathe!"

"Stop the compliments," the Master said. "You're not strong enough to face this new evil air."

"I think the opposite." Sonic said.

"I think the opposite of your opposite," Jynx said. "Besides the air that controls that huge sword, there's another and much, MUCH stronger evil air that engulfs the world that the sword leads to. You guys...well, no offense. Comparing you to that air, you're very puny."

"Let's go," Fox said fairly annoyed. "They don't know what they're talking about."

"Be that way," the Master said. "But remember that we warned you."

Chris gulped. "T-they already scared me..."

"I can shield you all the time from anyone." Lucario said.

"Oh," Jynx began. "You're puny as well."

"Can we leave this place now?" Lucario asked with a glare to Jynx. "I'm sick of these stupid comments."

"..." Chris gave him a bored look. "Right, right..."

"Before you go," the Master began again. "I need to tell you something."

"Does it contain the word "puny" as well?" Jigglypuff asked.

"That is something Jynx says a lot."

"Hey!" Jynx said angrily.

"The evil air that you want to confront has engulfed this part of the forest with an evil energy. It turned the forest...into a maze."

Super Mario RPG - Forest Maze

"Sweet, sweet nostalgia..." Geno said sarcastically with a frown. "...Let's go. They were preparing everything after all."

"Ha, a maze?" Link chuckled. "No problem. I can deal with one of those."

"Because you have experience with the maze in the Kokiri Forest?" Chris asked.

"You knowledge about what we did before creeps me out...but yeah."

Chris began to hum the theme of the Forest Maze.

The group began to walk inside the evil forest as the 4 of the Dojo watched them getting deeper into the forest.

"This is a warning!" Jynx yelled. "You're not up to battle! Return and train more!"

"SHUT UP!" Sonic yelled annoyed.

And Chris then got scared and hummed the theme scared.

Forest Maze

The ominous air that surrounded the previously nameless forest created and darker atmosphere as they went deeper and deeper, through all the dark trees that blocked the sight of the sky and even the sun. It looked like it was night.

Chris took out his wrenches and shifted his eyes around. "N-no need to panic... N-no ghost is going to appear here... S-stay focused..."

"Boo."

"YEEEEEEEH!!!" Chris quickly jumped to Lucario's arms and hugged his head tightly. "SAVE ME! SAME FROM THE EVIL GHOST!"

Sonic began to laugh loudly. "Ha! Making you yelp like that made my da-" he barely dodged an Aura Sphere before grinning at Lucario. "Too slo-ow!"

HIT!

"O-oww! Hey!" Sonic looked annoyed to Fox.

"That should stop you from doing childish things." Fox said with crossed arms.

"T-tsk..." Sonic looked away in annoyance.

"Sorry, but you deserved that." Marth said

Several minutes later...

"...H-haven't we passed through this place already?" Lucas asked as he found their feet' marks on the ground."

"Damn," Geno cursed. "I thought the right way was pass that tree."

Ike looked at the several paths. "Well...they look the same to me."

"Everything here looks the same." Snake said with a frown and closed eyes.

"And too confusing..." Twink said with twirl eyes.

"Don't worry," Link said. "I'll take all of you out from here. By doing...this."

The Hyrulian made an X on a tree's bark.

"If we wind up here, then that means we came back from where we started. I'm going to do some kind of guide with marks on every tree so we can find the way out."

"Good idea." Ike remarked before they walked in a straight line formation and deeper into the forest.

Several minutes later...

"Aaaaaaaaaand..." Link looked at a new tree's bark. "We found the way out!"

Kirby tilted his head and walked to the other side of the tree. "...There's the same X you made 10 minutes ago."

Link walked to the other side of the tree and his jaw dropped. "H-hey! I was sure this was the right way!"

"We thought the same," Ness rolled his eyes. "I have a much better idea."

He put his bat down and drawn a line with the ground.

"Let's use this to keep a track of our way." Ness suggested.

And they decided to use that method.

More minutes later...

"..." Ness was shown finding a familiar line on the ground as the others came from behind him. "..." he ran and followed the line. After several seconds passed, he returned behind the group and looked mad at this.

"D-don't get angry..." Lucas said. "Y-you did your best."

"This "best" you say didn't do a thing!" Ness yelled angrily. "I'm getting sick of this forest!"

"Maze." Mallow pointed out.

"Whatever the heck it is doesn't matter!"

"Now this is a problem..." Marth said before he began to think by himself.

"Lucario, can you use you aura to find the way out?" Chris asked.

Lucario glowed for a moment but then stopped and shook his head. "The energy emanating from this place is distracting my own aura. One path can take us here like the previous occassions."

"B-but one of them is the true way out, right?"

"I...can't tell that. I'm sorry." Lucario said ashamed.

"...Oh, okay," Chris nodded. "At least you tried."

"And it's my turn," Fox said as he took out a small floating device from the pocket of his vest and floated in front of them. "This will tell the real way out by keeping track of our movements."

"High-tech stuff always works in situations like this," Sonic nodded. "Tails said so."

"Thank Slippy because he made all the equipment that I use," Fox said with a grin. "Now, let's go."

Even more minutes later...

???

"...We're out?" Peach asked as she looked around.

"See?" Fox asked as he crossed his arms with a grin. "I told you before, didn't I?"

"Hey guys!" Lee called from the Dojo's small garden.

The Dojo

"Glad to have you back!" Chan called out. "So, are you going to train even more?"

"Your f(beep)d up device took us all the way back to their wooden house." Snake said with a mad look.

"...What the hell?" Fox asked confused. "It was supposed to work..."

"And it doesn't look too good either." Twink said.

"What do you mean?"

The device that he used suddenly began to fly around crazily before it exploded in a small explosion and into small bits.

"Wow, it couldn't handle the insanity of the forest like us." Mallow commented.

"And the recording of our track thus got destroyed as well..." Mario said ashamed.

"...Too much for that... Tough luck." Link said.

Fox made a fist and looked at him. "Do you have something better, o great X mark guy?"

"I don't see any progress from you, either." Link said with crossed arms.

"Oh god, don't start an argument then a fight afterward here!" Ness said. "Why don't we go straight to the city from the main road?"

"It's dangerous," Geno said. "We'll stick to the plan. If we go around the barrier and right in front of it, then that could draw even more attention."

"And where's Sonic?" Ike asked. "He was here some seconds ago."

At that moment, Sonic came from the main road and shook his head. "Bad news, they're creating a barricade across the hill." Sonic said.

"Another reason to go into the forest." Geno said.

"W-well, they can't be waiting for us at the other side, right?"

"I checked the area around the barrier and it touches the forest without an open field for them to attack freely."

"...Everyone to the forest again..." Mario said with a yawn as they walked inside.

"Dude," Lee looked at Chan. "They're begging to die in there."

"Of boredom or annoyance?" Chan asked.

"Both things actually..."

"Oh."

Forest Maze

MANY MORE minutes later...

Chris looked around. "...I'm starting to think about using a gamefaq like the song in the internet said to get out from this forest."

"It's not the same forest." Lucario pointed out.

"Really? T-this will suck for the rest of my gaming life!" Chris said crying toon tears.

"Your method didn't work either!" Sonic yelled. "Going straight took us to where we started!"

Kirby's eyes began to fill with tears and he looked down.

"Sonic, he's a child," Chris said as he picked Kirby up and rubbed his head. "Have more respect to him."

"I-I tried my best, right?" Kirby asked as he looked at Chris.

"Aw, of course you did," Peach said as she hugged Kirby. "Yours was better in my opinion."

"Suuuuuure, it was..." Link, Ness and Fox said sarcastically.

"No, I mean it," Peach pointed at the barrier. "I can even see the barrier in front of us."

There was the barrier that blocked the city. They ignored the barrier all the time until now.

"...Okay, what the heck happened here?" Geno asked fairly irritated. "We went straight like I did last time and THIS didn't happen!"

"Didn't you choose the right path instead of the straight one?" Pikachu asked.

"Nah, he took the left one." Ness said.

"Really? I thought he used the right path, the left path, then the straight path." Lucario said.

"Wasn't it left, left, right, right, up, down, up, down?" Chris asked confused.

"No, you're doing it wrong," Link shook his head. "It was up, up, down, down, right, left, right, left."

"You didn't make sense there," Pichu said. "It was right 8 times passing each tree, then up 4 times."

"It was up, right, right, left, left, up, up, then right." Marth said.

"All of you are saying pure lies," Snake shook his head. "It was left, then right, then down, then up, then right and after that it was a straight path...to the entrance."

"It was right, right, up, up, left, left, down, down, then straight path to the city." Sonic said.

"Wasn't it down?" Ike asked.

"No," everyone said.

"STOP IT!" Geno yelled. "It doesn't matter what I did before. I was planning something even better than all our plans combined!"

"What?" everyone asked.

"Deforestation, but that could draw a lot of attention."

"Not to mention you could be labeled as tree hater." Jigglypuff said.

"...This part of our plan was successfully...or annoyingly completed." Geno said with a nod.

"Time to sit down and wait for the night to come." Twink said and everyone looked at each other before sitting down on the ground.

"..." Mario looked at a watch on his right arm that had a mushroom shape. "It's 3:32 PM. What are we going to do in the meantime?"

"Listen to my magic friend here," Link said as he took out a glittering blue ocarina. "Say hello to my Ocarina of Time."

"Oh, I remember that," Chris said. "It served to open paths and the such, right?"

"Correct," Link nodded as he put it close to his mouth. "I'm going to play the Sun Song and call the night now."

Marth nodded. "That would be good to start the plan."

"Let me see if this was the real song though..."

Link played a song...

And a funny-looking scarecrow sprouted out from below Kirby. The Star Warrior looked down to it and the other looked at it.

"Dude, that's like, so awesome!" Mallow said very excited. "Can you make other things sprout out too?"

"Whoops," Link said embarrassed. "Wrong song."

"Please, play the right one," Geno said with a frown. "I didn't choose you to make scarecrows out."

"Well, just a reminder," Link interrupted. "The song basically moves the time not only for the sun and moon, but also for us. Take that in mind."

At that moment, 4 hammer enemies appeared from some bushes and looked angrily at them.

"There you are!" one of them yelled. "Smithy is aware of your movements. Don't play dumb because we know!"

"Yeah!" the second one said. "We're here to annihilate you all!"

"Finally, some action," Snake frowned. "I was getting tired o-"

"UAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!" the hammer yelled once they looked at someone in particular.

"O-oh no, a-a-a-a-a scarecrow!" the third one yelled at the funny-looking scarecrow.

"...You don't say you're scared of it, right?" Ike asked.

"H-hell no!" the fourth hammer said. "We're allergic to it. Very, but very allergic! Achoo!"

"We had to be brothers and share the same allergies!" the second one exclaimed. "It's its wood that makes us allergic!"

"RUN!" the third one yelled before they jumped back to the bushes.

"And I didn't stand up... How pathetic." Pikachu said with a frown.

"Tell me Smithy isn't this pathetic..." Fox trailed off with a bored look.

"Nah, he's a lot nastier and scarier," Mallow said with a chuckle. "He can put a very good fight so don't worry."

Chris buried his face on his hands. "This couldn't get any worse, could it?"

Lucario looked behind some bushes and looked at Chris. "...It will."

"What? Why?" Chris asked as he looked at him.

The Aura Pokémon pointed behind the bushes and Chris peered from his spot. He found a Goomba and a Koopa Troopa several meters away from them, talking between each other.

"So?" Chris asked. "How could it get any worse?"

"Hey," the Goomba began. "Have you heard about that Mario guy?"

Chris's eyes widened and looked at Link. "Play that song, and fast! Quick!"

"Why?" Link asked confused.

Then they all began to hear the song.

Super Mario RPG - Rawest Song

"What the hell is that music?" Sonic asked.

"Where is it coming from?" Marth asked looking around.

The World Traveler looked back at the 2. "Yeah, yeah, I know him, I know him," the Koopa Troopa nodded.

"Yes?" the Goomba asked before smirking. "Okay, hey check it out!"

"PLAY IT!" Chris yelled.

Link, confused, began to play the Sun Song as a tower of light appeared on him.

Looking back to the sky, the sun began to move faster and faster before the sunset came and then the night once the moon was shown, slowly rising from the mountains of the west.

Albeit to say, once it was night, however...

Super Mario R-R-P-G!
It is the only one just for me.
When I play the game, I get looost in a phase.
Theeen I find out I'm stuck iiin Geno's Maze!

Chris looked back at the 2, apparently listening to someone singing. "Dammit, you said the time would affect all of us as well!"

"Weird," Link looked around. "It shouldn't be like this or maybe I forgot something of it... But where is that song coming from?"

Gimme Frog Coins!
Gimme Mario!
Gimme Frog Coins!
Gimme Mallow!
Gimme See Ya!
Gimme Geno!
Gimme Cookies!

"...The hell?" Mallow asked confused.

Of course, we will get you that Mario

We need to mute that stupid voice
I need to get those darn frog coins!

"M-Mario..." Peach looked worried.

"I-I don't curse like that and that is not my voice!" Mario protested.

There are many secrets in-this-game!
Maaany of which drive some peeps in-sane!
Why we try to cheat in a reeeally good game?
Just sounds like crap and it makes you look lame!

"...I'm out of words..." Ike said.

Exiting the forest is super simple:
All you do is follow these path tuuurns!
For the reeest ooof yooouuur gamiiing lifeee...

"You know," Sonic began. "I think we did do the path turns instead."

"Shut up!" Geno yelled annoyed.

Gimme Star Eye, gimme Cookies, gimme See Ya,
gimme Great Guy's Casino gimme everything i need

Wait, wait, wait, who are you?

Hahahahaha.

"E-Exor?!" Geno looked around. "I-is he here?!"

"NO!" Chris yelled annoyed. "A-and that's not his voice!"

"But it is." Mallow said.

"...Oh god..."

My name is Exor, I'm the rappers angel.
Travelling Blade with the Axem Rangers.
Why should lamers like Mario with his Party of.
A bunch of retarded Joes.
Fix a Star Road, I don't think so.
(Geno: Geno Whirl!) I don't blink slow (Geno: Let's do this!)
Cause every time I drive and rhyme a rhyme I
damage my right eye more than nine times ninety nine!

"I-I didn't understand the 2 voices insulting each other." Lucas said.

"Neither did I." Chris said with an ashamed look.

Lately's been a boredom and lack of interest.
Little cats call us fags and incestous.
Italian guy, gotta buy some time to blast right past.
Rescue the captive princesses.
Koopas and Gombas, them I just laugh at.
I'ma hit "A" to raise the level of attacks.
Don't fight the poverty, but hey! Kids that are lonely can
drop it and play my game to get their bodies to act glad!

"W-what?" Fox asked.

Gimme.
My name is Croco.
Gimme, gimme.
Wallet.
Oh, hello!
Gimme.
Wallet.
Oh, it's a little creepy up here.
Gimme, gimme.
Yea, it is.
In the end of the game.
I'm a little low on hit points.
Gimme.
Okay?
Items.
You have any refreshments?
Gimme, gimme.
Yea, you can take this mushroom.
Something rare.
BUT IT'S ROTTEN!!

Peach: I am just a princess, please help meee!

Booster is scaaary.
I've heard rumours he's taking me to Marrymore,
but I don't wanna marry more, I wanna marry Ma-ri-ooo...

Everyone looked at Peach, who was blushing a little bit of red. "I-I'm not planning to marry Mario yet...I-I mean, no!"

Gimme Frog Coins!
Gimme Mario!
Gimme Frog Coins!
Gimme Mallow!
Gimme SeeYa!
Gimme Geno!

Gimme my fryiiing paaan and pa-rasoool...

There are many secrets in-this-game!
Maaany of which drive some peeps in-sane!
Why we try to cheat in a reeeally good game?
Just sounds like crap and it makes you look lame!

Exiting the forest is super simple:
All you do is follow these path tuuurns!
For the reeest of yooouuur gamiiing lifeeeeeee...

DI-DI-DI-Di-DING!...

Music stops...obviously

"Yeah," the Goomba said. "That's how it goes."

Both of them walked to the darkness of the forest while, back with everyone, looked utterly...amused.

"That was...interesting to say at least." Pikachu said.

"Very weird..." Twink trailed off.

"And so odd." Geno added.

"That explained a lot." Ness said.

"In a very creepy way." Mallow shrugged.

"But in a very twisted variation...that came out as a pretty good song." Jigglypuff remarked.

"It was good." Mario said with some nods.

"Aw, please! Don't tell me you liked that song!" Chris said.

"To be honest...I kind of liked the beat." Fox said.

"And even if Mario doesn't say such things it was enjoyable." Peach said.

Snake didn't want to say he enjoyed it too.

"I wanted rock more than that one though." Sonic said.

"And why didn't you want to listen to it?" Ike asked.

"...Ugh," Chris sighed. "I better tell you now..."

Several minutes later...again...

"What's a Youtube?" Ike asked.

"STOP!" Chris said quickly. "If you want to know let's first go into Exor then return to the mansion."

"Right," Geno nodded as everyone stood up and looked at the barrier. "From here and on, the mission is going to get harder. We need to climb the barrier first."

"Action time!" Link yelled as he used his Clawshot to the upper part of the barrier.

"How will that hook up with something? There's nothing above the barrie-" Pikachu was interrupted as a sound of something getting stuck above the barrier was heard.

Link tried to pull back the claw and he smiled a little. "Bull's eye!"

Pichu looked through the barrier and he found a building that managed to stick out from the barrier by the top floor. "Oh, it's because this building didn't get covered below the barrier that its top floor got out."

"Lucky," Mallow said as he looked at top. "Start climbing! I wanna put a stop to Smithy now!"

And so they began to climb the barrier...

Exor
Deep inside the Factory

Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 2: Grimoire of the Rift - A Shadow Lurking

"Hmmmmmmmmmmmm..." there was Smithy (with Shadow Bugs) creating monsters with his hammer and banging it on the liquid that came out from the Smelter. "...It is the time now..."

4 figures appeared from the factory and looked at him. "Lord Smithy, we have reports that there are people climbing the barrier," a person in a yellow armor and helmet said.

"Thanks, Clerk," Dark Smithy nodded. "Now that the Star Spirits were gathered, it was to expected their assault in my beloved factory of machines."

"The production is so far going good," Manager (a person in blue armor and helmet) said. "It's better than the last time."

"And so far the defenses are ready to take them on," Director (another person but in red armor and helmet) said. "We-I mean, you will succeed this time around."

"Even the entrance to your lair is well-protected," the Factory Chief (a small black ninja-looking person) said with a nod. "Nothing shall go through, not even Mario."

"Or Geno." Clerk added.

"Or Mallow." Manager added.

"Or Princess Toadstool." Director added.

"Peach," the Factory Chief corrected.

"And Mack? Is he preparing the attack on the mansion?" Dark Smithy asked.

"Mack is already on his way to storm it," Manager explained. "He should be going by now. Though it should have started like 4 or 5 hours ago but the sun...I don't know...moved so fast and the night came? What the hell?"

"That doesn't matter," Dark Smithy said. "What matters is THE DESTRUCTION OF THIS PITIFUL CITY AND THE PREVENTION OF THE STAR ROAD'S REPAIRMENT! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"

The other 4 laughed maniacally with him before an alarm blared out.

"So, it is the time?" Manager asked.

"It seems so." Dark Smithy said.

"It's beginning, Lord Smithy."

"I will have their heads soon."

"...Won't that be a little bit disgusting? We don't exhibit heads here in the factory," the Factory Chief said. "The place has sanitary regulations, remember?"

"I DO WHAT I WANT TO DO!" Dark Smithy yelled angrily. "But we must follow regulations. If their heads are on the floor, please use Headororic 2100 for those dirty floors with blood."

"Already going for it..." Clerk said as he walked away.

Dark Smithy frowned. "I don't wanna get my factory dirty. We must follow our good ol' rules here. Isn't that right, boys?"

"Yeah!" Director, Manager and the Factory Chief said before the 4 laughed to the far away ceiling.

Nintendo City
Above the barrier

"You know, this is so ironic." Mario said.

"Why is that?" Mallow asked.

"The city is called Nintendo and ironically we were created by the company of the same name."

"Ha, that's irony for you," Chris said. "It's funny, right?"

"Stop," Snake interrupted as he looked around the building's top floor that they got into. "There's the freaky sword over the distant."

They looked at Exor's left side, facing the Smash Mansion with the malevolent look.

"I don't think he will see us from here," Geno whispered. "We have to start running to Exor and enter the realm."

"...Oh no. Look," Peach whispered as she pointed at the barricade that was somehow moving to the Smash Mansion. "Wasn't that the same barricade Sonic mentioned?"

"Why is it moving to the mansion then?" Jigglypuff asked.

"...That wasn't a barricade. Instead, it's an army that plans to go the mansion while we're on our way to Exor!" Twink said with a shocked look.

"...Too bad," Geno shook his head. "We're already on the barrier and we should get moving."

"The others can handle them very well." Ness said.

"That's because I left some strong Smashers behind." Geno said.

"...Hey..." Pichu glared at him. "You took me because I was weak? Were you going to choose Mewtwo over me?"

Geno looked away embarrassed. "N-no. W-what makes you say that?"

Pichu pouted and crossed his arms.

"Let's start the show then!" Sonic said with a fist above. "This is where I shine the most and...u-ugh..."

"You thought I was going to forget it, right?" Dark Super Sonic said in his mind. "Oh no, the preview starts here..."

Sonic quickly blocked his mouth to prevent them from seeing the fangs that took the place of his teeth.

"Sonic?" Link began. "Are you okay?"

"Y-yeah..." Sonic said (noticing the sudden change of his voice's tone that he tried to change). "J-just a little bit tired here..."

"..." Mallow frowned. "You're a weirdo."

"A big one." Ness added.

"R-right..." Sonic said. "W-well, Chris, get changing jobs then! W-we need to get moving as fast as possible!"

"...O-okay..." Chris changed to his Racer job. "Let's go out and stand in a straight line behind me and Sonic."

All the group went outside the building and stood in a straight line to Exor.

Geno (behind Chris) nodded. "It begins here and ends inside Exor."

"Oh, wait!" Chris looked at Geno. "Geno, there is a faster way to get inside Exor."

"How? We need to defeat him to get in."

"Well..." Chris whispered something to Geno. "And that's how you defeat him faster."

"...I see...thanks." Geno nodded. "Okay, Sonic, start running."

Sonic Unleashed - Spagonia - Rooftop Run (Day)

Sonic put his fingers together and cracked them in front of him. The hedgehog lowered his right knee and put his hands on the barrier to prepare his slow start and gradually gain speed for everyone behind him.

"He's going to show off, isn't he?" Pikachu said with a bored look.

"HERE WE..." the voice of Sonic echoed and they quickly prepared to run from each one of their spot as the hedgehog raised his knee and looked straight to Exor. "GO!!!"

The group began to run slowly before their speeds began to rise up with every second. Sonic looked behind him (with a hand blocking his fangs) to see everyone catching up with his speed. "Y-you guys are running like me? I-i'ts working!"

"Amazing..." Fox looked at his feet. "I'm running like I always do, but at the same time it doesn't look like they're running at an insane rate...but it's fast."

Pichu looked behind him where the building started to get smaller in the distance. "W-wow, I-I didn't know we could reach this speed!"

"I could run as fast like this with Extremespeed though..." Lucario muttered.

"Lucario, shut up and run!" Chris yelled annoyed.

"I-if you say so..."

Soon, they noticed they were on a barren place of the barrier before looking at Exor over the distance.

"There's the darn sword!" Link yelled.

"Run!" Geno yelled. "It'll be all over once we reach him!"

And so, the group ran like never before and towards the sword as they disappeared in the darkest night...as it began to fill with dark clouds in time with several thunders' sounds from them.

"(Can I go like this?)" Sonic thought as he ran. "(Can I really prevent them from finding out this?)"

"No." Dark Super Sonic said with a chuckle.

"(Y-you, stay quiet and shut up!)"

"Make me."

"(I-I will somehow...)"

"Pathetic fool..."

"(D-darn you to hell...)"

"Likewise."

"(Ugh...)"

Preview of the next chapter

"Don't dare to fail me now!" Dark Mack yelled. "Everyone else failed but I won't tolerate the smallest mistake! I shall prove my strength this time!"

"...Oh my..." Postman shook his head. "...I-I must inform them before they get there!"

...

"Dude, like..." Barry began. "The sun died and the moon came out."

"W-what?" Red asked as he looked outside. "W-what the heck happened?"

"This is as weird a Barry himself..." Lucas said with a confused look.

...

"Twisted World of Evil Machinery. Just a little more..." Geno said with closed eyes.

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

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Chapter 125: Twisted World of Evil Machinery

Nintendo City
Exor's Area

"He's getting closer to us!" Mallow yelled as they towards Exor.

"Geno, do it when you think it's time!" Chris yelled.

With Exor...

"..." the sword blinked bored "Staring the darn mansion for all these days is just boring and bothersome... I suffered the harsh winter as well."

He began to heard many footsteps coming from the west.

"...Ugh! Ugh! Ugh!" Exor tried to turn but since he was stuck on the lower ground and the barrier preventing him from moving, he struggled and struggled to move but to no avail. "Great, just great. I had to be a huge sword and stay still forever until someone stupid enough shows up and demands a fight with m-"

"Geno Whirl!!!"

A fast glowing ring sliced Exor's upper part and it fell down on the barrier. Exor stared at it in boredom and managed to see the Smashers stopping to run just in front of him.

Exor sighed. "Well, so much for that."

And it seemed that his mouth, right eye and left eye got new life.

"So he figured out our weakness," the right eye said.

"Yeah, pretty much," the left eye said.

"Too bad," the mouth said before the whole sword glowed with dark energy of the Shadow Bugs. "Even with the Shadow Bugs, our weakness didn't get covered at all."

"That's so sad actually," the left eye said as it shook its only pupil. "But on the bright side, we're going to see something else that a mansion with a road."

"Finally!" the mouth and right eye said.

The 3 "looked" at each other and "nodded" in some way.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" the 3 yelled before the mouth opened by a lot and the eyes turned into swirls. The Smashers saw the mouth creating some kind of portal inside of it and looked at each other.

"Wow," Link said. "That was so fast."

"The speed we used or how Geno defeated Exor so easily?" Twink asked.

"Both." Sonic said (with blocked mouth).

"..." Peach stared at Exor's mouth. "...Do we have to?"

"Sadly, yes." Mario nodded.

"Don't think Smithy is right inside that portal," Geno said as he took a step forward. "There's a world of pure darkness inside."

"O-oh, thank you for reminding me that..." Chris shrugged.

"Should we get inside now?" Ike asked.

"The faster, the better." Snake said.

The 18 nodded and started to walk inside Exor's mouth, where they walked towards the portal and entered an entirely different world of dark winds and abyssess...

Exor
Gate

Super Mario RPG - Weapons Factory

The dark winds covered everything in their sight, except for the only floor they were on. It looked like the whole dark world was just the platform they were on, but it was a much longer world that the winds covered.

"...W-where are we?" Lucas asked as his voice echoed.

"This is Smithy's world," Geno said as he stood near the edge of the platform. "It's just like before."

Mario walked to a small black rock formation that was an arc and once he crossed it, a new floor appeared on the other side. "Yes, it's the same."

"Smithy must be hiding in the deepest part, correct?" Twink asked.

"Always," Geno nodded. "There could be a lot of enemies waiting for us after we cross that arc over there..." the puppet walked to a floating box with a rainbow star and a rainbow S. "...Weird. This box is still here as well..."

"..." Chris walked to the box and touched it. "...This is the Save Point to save the file of the game."

"...Your world creeps me out, and a lot," Geni shrugged. "Let's be careful. Every enemy ahead has many different attacks that could take one out very easily."

"I'd worry about that once we're deeper." Fox said.

"Precaution is always needed," Geno explained. "Well, let's get going inside and finish this."

Smash Mansion
Outside

Along the main road towards the Smash Mansion, an army of...Shy Guys on pogoes (called Shysters) with a guy on a pogo-sword with Shadow Bugs were jumping all the way towards it. The guy on the pogo-sword was Mack...or Dark Mack to be precise.

"It's about time my turn came," Dark Mack said as they jumped all the way to the hill. "Everyone failed to guard the Star Spirits. But I'm certain we're going to do something better than them."

"Hey," a Shyster began. "Why did we start the operation so late?"

Another looked up to the moon. "I thought it was the afternoon a second ago... Weird..."

"I don't care for the screwed physics of time here," Dark Mack said. "I heard the Smash Mansion is the home of Mario and Peach, right? They must there, waiting to be annihilated by my magic."

"Mack!" the same Poundette (that went to attack Geno's party) returned from the forest and stopped in front of the pogo-guy. "M-Mario and his group climbed the barrier and they're getting to Smithy!"

"...It's LORD Mack to you!" Dark Mack yelled. "And Mario is going to Smithy and not to the mansion? What a bunch of bull!"

"Peach, Mallow and Geno also went there."

"Wonderful!" Dark Mack said sarcastically. "That seriously makes everything better!"

"I thought it shouldn't," the same first Shyster said.

"SHUT UP!" Dark Mack yelled. "Well, we can't hold back now since orders are orders. We must reach the Smash Mansion so it can be destroyed by our assault!"

They were crossing a familiar but small post office that didn't have anyone in there.

"...Shh..." Quil whispered (underneath the window) to the other 2 postmen.

"This is how we will attack," Dark Mack began. "We'll attack from all the sides and some will go in there to break havoc like we did in the Mushroom Kingdom before. Once we're inside, we'll make the mansion a base for Smithy and of course myself!" he laughed. "Yes, I'm just plain evil!"

"I thought all of us were," another Shyster said. "Right?"

"I'm even more," Dark Mack said with a cough. "Also, don't you dare to fail me or else someone will have their pogo banned!"

A Shyster gulped and stopped hopping. "B-but I love Pogy. S-she's awesome..."

"Quiet!" Dark Mack yelled. "Mistakes are not tolerated when you're under my command!"

Postman decided to take a look from the window and the 2 other postmen tried to pull him down.

"Don't dare to fail me now!" Dark Mack yelled. "Everyone else failed but I won't tolerate the smallest mistake! I shall prove my strength this time!"

"...Oh my..." Postman shook his head. "...I-I must inform them before they get there!"

"No way," Quil said as he pulled Postman back. "You can be seen while you run and they could either chase you down or think the others are preparing to attack."

"Oh, please!" Postman begged.

"No," Quil shook his head. "Parakarry, can you do that weird teleport thing you did last time to appear in the mansion?"

"What teleport thing?" Parakarry asked.

"You said you got there by...a drawer, right? Can you do that again?"

"Well..." Parakarry played with his fingers. "I forgot how to do that..." he looked around. "Oh wait! I remember now!"

"Well, do it, man!" Postman said. "You have to do it now!"

"Eeeeeeeerrr..." Parakarry scratched the back of his head. "I need you to look away though..."

"..." the postmen looked at each other and turned away.

"So, do it." Quil said.

"Eeeeeerrr..." Parakarry looked at no one in particular. "I need you to turn away as well..."

Main Lobby

Popo and Nana were walking down the stairs and they stopped in front of a drawer.

"Popo..." Nana trailed off.

"Yeah?" Popo turned to her.

"Can you tell what exactly did you see in that weird door?"

"What weird door?"

"That door you went inside yesterday," Nana said. "You know, the same door with the ultimate side-boss person?"

"Oh, gladly." Popo said as a think cloud popped out from his head, which Nana looked surprised.

"H-how the heck did you..."

She was interrupted with his brother explaining. Everything that he explained projected in the think cloud as badly-drawn environments and people with himself with a stupid smile.

"So I was like, minding my own business in that so dark world. I grabbed my you-know-what and walked around the area. I found like, several werewolves fighting each other like they the strength of Hercules or something because one stomped the ground and it made this huge crack on it...and then howled to like, the moon and it like, was really loud.  Good thing I like, totally brought earmuffs or else I would have been like, "Oww, stop screaming you furry thing! Some people are like, trying to go to the bathroom here!" and then like, went further down the road."
 
"...Right..."

"So then like, I found this mansion that looks JUST like ours, only different. I knocked on the door, nobody responded because like, there were voices coming from the other side, and I like, got fed up and just opened it. And then like, I walked inside and found many of those werewolves...talking and planning something-something. They saw me with like, confused looks but I lifted my shoulders and like, walked to the stairs and found my way to the bathroom."

"...Go on..."

"And then like, I  came out of the bathroom feeling so like, relieved and I walked down to the lobby, where like, those werewolves were staring at me surprised. Then like, one of them walked to me and asked, "Popo? Why aren't you a werehog like the rest of us?" and some other like, things. So then like, I respond to him, "Because I ain't no hairy beast like all you dogs are. Go lick you hairy b(beep!)s somewhere else and probably make out while you're on it I don't know how but you can do it. Trust me, my boy!" and then like, walked outside that mansion with an annoyed look. Also like, I saw this girl-wolf wearing some sort of like, white dress who was like, crying about not being able to save some "Zesu" girl she liked doing stuff with, which like, included making out."

"...Continue please..." she said.

"So then I was like, walking all the way back to the hidden door in the forest and where I came from. Those guys like, followed me from behind at very insane speeds and asked me even more like, questions like, "Where are you from?" and "What are you doing here?" and they thought like, I wasn't Popo but like, Popo cause they said their Popo like, died even though I'm like, myself. I got fed up, tried like, beating their skulls out," he took out a broken hammer. "But then like, my hammer got broken when I tried like, bashing one of their skulls in. Then like, they didn't mind and the guy I hit kept asking things, to where I like, respond, "Look, freaky iron-heads, go and make out somewhere else! I don't wanna see your babies!" and then like, walked away annoyed and found the door without them following me. I heard them say like, they had better things to do than chase after me and went back to their like, mansion which is so rude you know!"

The think cloud vanished and Nana looked at him.

"...And you came back unscathed." Nana said, looking utterly bored.

"That's about it." Popo said with a happy expression. "I gotta say they may have been furry freaks, but their bathroom was like, awesome."

"...Popo...do you want to know what I think of your explanation when you went inside that door?" Nana asked as she grabbed Popo's broken hammer and replaced it with another one that he kept.

"That I'm a genius?"

"No," Nana shook her head. "Thank you for taking 3 minutes away from my lifespan. Seriously, who's going to believe all that? And lesbians? What the hell, Popo!"

"Well, like, fine!"

"Stop talking like that!"

"Don't believe me!" Popo yelled as he walked to a nearby drawer. "I'll take a photo from that place and you'll believe m-"

"THANK YOU!" Parakarry's head came out from the drawer.

"YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHH!!!" Popo made a girly scream (with Nana) and jumped on Nana's arms with a hug to her head. "SAVE ME FROM THE EVIL HEAD!"

"Y-you again!" Nana yelled as Parakarry came out from the drawer. "W-what are you doing here again and how did you get in that drawer?!"

"Look, physics here are so screwed but that's not the main point to argue here!" Parakarry said as he landed on the floor and closed the drawer. "The point is: army heading here to invade your home! Call your own army here!"

"Zoh my gosh!" Popo yelled dramatically. "Expected things were meant to be expected after all!"

Nana frowned and let his brother fall on the floor. "So, what army is this?"

"Big one!" Parakarry said alarmed. "They had killer pogoes!"

A record scratched.

Music stops

And the music stopped.

"...Killer...pogoes?" Nana repeated.

Popo sat up with a shocked face. "I knew pogoes were going to turn against us! I blame my own one!"

"Yeah!" Parakarry said. "Those pogoes looked fierce with those sword tips!"

"...Are you kidding me or trying to?" Nana asked irritated. "There are NO killer pogoes with those tips! Unless they have spikes on the main part of it, then they're killer! Did they have those on their lower tip?"

"Yes," Parakarry nodded his head. "But there was this one that was a big pogo-sword!"

"...Pogo-sword my ignorance to you," Nana frowned. "Pogoes and swords do NOT combine."

"They do now, apparently."

"..." she sighed in depression. "Master Hand!"

Master Hand teleported to the lobby. "Yes?" he asked.

"Killer pogoes with sword tips coming here. Army as well."

"...Damn," Master Hand muttered. "An attack is coming here. I need to alert everyone before those pogoes stomp the mansion to death."

"Oh, please, don't tell me you believe pogoes are killer!"

"Nana," Master Hand began. "In this wacky world, everything is possible: from the screwed physics to pogo-swords."

"Told you." Parakarry said.

"Ugh!" Nana tossed her hands up and crossed her arms annoyed.

Dawn's Room

Meanwhile, in probably the calmest part of the mansion...

"Okay!" Dawn called out from her room as she put down her comb. "Ready to start the day!"

"Finally!" Lucas (the trainer) opened the door and walked inside with a nervous Red with Ivysaur and Squirtle following. "Why does it take you so long to fix your hair?"

"Well, excuse me," Dawn looked away annoyed. "I slept on the wrong side of the pillow and my hair just couldn't fix itself with the comb. Sorry for taking so much of our time today."

"Ha, that's what you think!" Barry said as he came from the door. "Girls are like this anyway."

"Oh, what do you mean by that?" Dawn asked with a glare.

"They talk about boyfriends, their hairs, their dresses, what is so fashion, what is so old, all that crap," Barry waved a hand at her. "You're no different, Dawn."

"Q-quiet you!" Dawn said annoyed as she looked outside. "At least I finished earlier before the day could...what?"

"What?" Lucas repeated.

"...I'm so sorry, guys!" Dawn said in embarrassment. "It looks like it DID take me so long to fix my hair! It's already night!"

"That's not possible..." Lucas looked at his Pokétch. "...9:56 PM? What the heck?"

"Dude, like..." Barry began. "The sun died and the moon came out."

"W-what?" Red asked as he looked outside. "W-what the heck happened?"

"This is as weird as Barry himself..." Lucas said with a confused look.

"Yeah, as weird a-hey!" Barry glared at him.

"..." Red turned to them. "I don't have any idea of what is happening here either."

"Oh no," Dawn shook her head. "Don't tell me Cyrus did this!"

"Nah, that guy is forever lost," Barry said. "He didn't control the night and day."

"That's kind of true..." Lucas rubbed his chin. "But still, what is happening?"

"I-I myself don't know anything." Red shook his head.

"SMASHERS!" the voice of Master Hand was heard from the speakers that they just noticed, hanging above the ceiling on the corners. "PLEASE, REPORT TO THE MAIN LOBBY ASAP! REPEAT! PLEASE, REPORT TO THE MAIN LOBBY ASAP!"

"...Smashers?" Dawn, Lucas and Barry repeated in confusion.

"(Come on, think of something! You have to make them forget that now!)" Red thought in panic. "D-dangit, that fake alarm is blaring off again! I better go down and check if that alarm needs to be turned of-"

"RED, SQUIRTLE AND IVYSAUR! PLEASE, REPORT TO THE MAIN LOBBY! REPEAT! RED, SQUIRTLE, IVYSAUR! PLEASE, REPORT TO THE MAIN LOBBY! YOU GUYS ARE THE ONLY ONES LEFT TO COME HERE! THANK YOU!"

The 3 blinked at the speakers before looking at Red and his Pokémon (who were all sweating).

"...Pardon me if I'm rude...but did that alarm just call you?" Lucas asked.

"Y-you must be hearing things," Red said. "I-ignore it, will you?"

"...Red..." Dawn smiled at him and crossed her arms behind her back. "Would you step out and let us 3 talk about an adventure we had?"

"We had one?" Lucas and Barry asked.

Dawn winked at them with a glare before smiling at Red. "Yeah, would you?"

"...Okay... Squirtle, Ivysaur, let's go." Red said confused at his Pokémon who nodded and walked outside the room and to the hallway.

"...He's gone?" Dawn whispered.

Lucas leaned his ear to the door, where on the other side, Red and the other Pokémon were leaning their ears as well. "...Looks like it."

"Okay, reunion time," Dawn said as the 3 looked at each other. "Something is going on here."

"And that rat is hiding it from us." Barry said.

"He's not a rat, Barry..." Lucas frowned.

"But he's hiding something from us!" Barry said. "All those Pokémon we saw, for example!"

"And that speaker sounded weird as well," Dawn said with a nod. "Smashers? Is that what all of them are called?"

"And...Red and his Pokémon as well?" Lucas asked.

"Yeah," Barry nodded. "I bet that's that."

"But I don't know..." Dawn bit a nail of her right hand. "This is too confusing..."

"...Should we go to the main lobby and see what the speaker mentioned?" Lucas asked.

"(GULP!)" Red and his Pokémon gulped in their minds.

"...Or should we play along and see if Red will tell us when it's the time?" Dawn asked.

Barry took out some Ultra Balls and shifted his eyes. "We're NOT capturing them!" Lucas said.

"Aw, man!" Barry kept the Ultra Balls. "I was already thinking of that!"

"No," Dawn shook her head. "We need to think of something else rather than walking there."

"I suggest what Red is going to do to keep us distracted." Lucas suggested.

"Good idea, man," Barry nodded. "If that guy doesn't want to show us the Pokémon, then see him failing to keep us away would be the best thing here."

"...For once, you use your brain," Dawn said with a bored look. "Okay, let's do that."

"Right." Lucas and Barry nodded.

"(Oh no...they know about them...but how?)" Red thought behind the door before they got up and knocked the door. "Hey, guys! Can we enter?"

"O-of course!" Dawn said cheerfully as the door opened and the trio walked inside. "We finished talking. W-what do you want to do now?"

"I-I don't know," Red said nervously. "What do you want to do?"

"CATCH NEW CREATURES!" Barry demanded as he took out many Ultra Balls.

Lucas hit Barry on the back of his head before smiling at Red. "W-why don't we trade Pokédex info and talk about...er..."

"Bidoofs in general?" Barry suggested.

"I-yeah! Bidoofs in general!"

"Lame. I wanted Feebas."

"Shut up!" Lucas whispered through gritted teeth. "S-so, do you want to do that?"

"...Okay!" Red closed the door and sat down where he took out his Pokédex. "I want to have my own Pokédex filled wi-"

"Hey, hold on a sec," Dawn sat down and looked at Red's Pokédex. "That Pokédex is so old. You need a newer version than that one."

"Really? Well, I-I didn't know..."

Main Lobby

The others waited for the trio to appear and Master Hand was getting desperate that he decided to ignore them. "Alright, since our clueless trainer and his Pokémon don't want to show up, then let them get attacked without a previous announcement."

"Would you just forget about them and tell us about the attack to this place?" Zelda asked.

"And why aren't DK or Diddy or both coming? They're not here." C. Falcon said.

"Because those guys are making sure our musicians don't get involved in this." Master Hand explained.

Music Room

There were Medli and Makar sitting on the seats while the Kongs did the DK Rap with flashlights, movements, somesaults and almost everything. What's worse, it was very loud for the inside of the room and not outside of it (because the doors were soundproof so any sound couldn't disturb anyone outside).

"O-oh, please!" Makar pleaded. "H-how many times are you going to do this rap thingy? M-my ears are going to bleed!"

"W-we need to resist!" Medli shouted. "If working with more musicians means enduring this trial, t-then we must resist it!"

"If I knew that sooner, then I should've spend my time in the Potion Shop instead!

Main Lobby

"I bet they're alright," Master Hand said before he coughed to get their attention. "Okay, here's the deal."

"Finally." Roy frowned.

"As expected, an army is coming right here to, most likely, destroy and annihilate the mansion with all of us here. Yeah, typical cliché but we can't do anything about it and just follow the flow of life."

"God, stop going like some sort of guru or something." Yoshi said as he rolled his eyes.

"You heard me," Master Hand said. "Well, our main strategy for our own barricade is...beat their skulls till they can't stand up."

"Barbarian strategy?" Nana asked.

"Like all of you do when you fight against each other."

"I find that insulting." Mewtwo said.

"Whatever. It doesn't matter. It works and it pays off."

"So all can go to their own way." Wolf said.

"Exactly."

"Heh, freedom in fights is much better than strategies."

"But when you're kicked around so much..." Falco grinned at him.

"...Shut up."

"Okay, okay," Master Hand interrupted. "Everyone, try to fight around the mansion by making a frontal barrier. After that, be barbarians!"

"I'll be myself, thanks." Samus said.

"Just GO out there and BEAT them up!"

All the Smashers frowned and decided to walk out the lobby and outside before they closed the door.

At that moment, Toon Link and Raven came out from the kitchen (with the old man having 8 arrows on his back with a painful look on his face).

"What happened to him this time?" Master Hand asked.

"F-freakin' kid's arrows tried to murder me..." Raven muttered as he fell on the floor. "N-need to teach him which direction to hit, t-though..."

Toon Link made an ashamed look. "I-I'm such an idiot. All my arrows seem to hit Raven and not the target I want..."

"...Maybe because Raven was the target?" Master Hand asked.

Raven looked up to him. "...Oh, that makes everything better..."

"No, you don't understand," Master Hand shook himself. "What if Toon Link kept thinking about you, since he seems to be a rabbid fan of yours and he thinks about you all the day that he forgot to focus on something else and hit you instead?"

"..." Raven thought for a moment. "...Although that sounds incredibly embarrassing...y-ya got a point there..."

Toon Link looked at him. "W-wait, does that mean I passed this training?"

"Y-yeah..." Raven muttered weakly. "I-I told ya to focus on ta first thing ya had in your mind and find ta right angle to bounce the arrow along and hit your target... I-it's a special technique that I developed... b-but it seems ya mastered it..."

"...T-then that means..."

...Afraid so... Ya passed the test...and on poor ol' me..."

"...YIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIPPIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!" Toon Link cheered as he did the Toon Link Dance (or just jumps with his sword up and down).

"...That was the first test though..."

A record scratched. "-EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-huh?" Toon Link stopped.

"T-there are many more ya must learn... T-they could be easier....harder...whatever ya see 'em by yourself..."

"...Oh." Toon Link said.

"...Now..." Raven pointed at the arrows on his back. "Could ya take off these?... B-blood will start to come out if ya don't..."

"...Crap!" Toon Link yelled before he began to take out every single arrow in the quickest way possible, hurting Raven with every arrow taken out.

"...T-t-t-t-thanks..." Raven muttered with less energy.

"Fine," Master Hand snapped his fingers and a Heart Container fell down, close to Raven. "Take it and your energies should replenish for...a lot."

"..." Raven touched the item and he instantly got up, completely unharmed. "Ya know, everything here doesn't make any kinda sense to me."

"It's a wacky world," Master Hand said. "Well, you, little swordsman, need to go outside, now."

"Why?" Toon Link asked.

Master Hand looked at Raven. "...Will you leave to your room?"

"Well, night came so earlier today and well...bed doesn't sound so bad..." the old man said before he walked the stairs and left.

"A battle is going to broke out soon out there. You need to go outside and fight for the security of this mansion with everyone." Master Hand explained.

"Oh," Toon Link rubbed his chin. "Can you summarize everything for me? Because the night came, as Raven said before, early today."

Several minutes later...

"And that's the gist of it," Master Hand explained. "Go outside an-"

"Can I tell you this before?" Toon Link interrupted.

"What?"

"W-well...Raven told me not to tell you but..."

The swordsman went to Master Hand and whispered something about a familiar Genius Mage.

"And if you do find her, don't tell Raven is in here!" Toon Link said.

"...You know what?" Master Hand began. "I'm getting sick of all these people barging in here like this was their mansion. I'm going to find that girl and put her in her place right this instant!"

"NO!" Toon Link yelled. "R-Raven told me she's dangerous with her magic!"

"Pfft, my magic owns hers anytime," Master Hand frowned. "Just be glad we don't have even more people who came in here and took a room without me noticing. If I knew that, I'd kill someone here to let my rage out!"

"N-not on me, right?"

"Of course not," Master Hand shook his head. "Now, go outside and fight. I'll solve this with my own means."

"...Are you sure you're going to be okay?"

Master Hand grabbed the little kid and tossed him through the window. "And make sure the enemy is not standing up after the beating!"

The hand sighed and went to the hallway. But he stopped and looked at no one in particular as he thought something.

"(At least I got more attention than all the days...today...)" Master Hand thought.

Then the sound of footsteps were heard and...

...Rita walked right behind Master Hand with the Smart Bomb on her left hand while she made a virtual screen over it.

"Amazing," Rita said astonished. "This Blastia seems to be made with the most destructive, unknown materials ever made befor-"

"DRAMATIC STOP!" Master Hand yelled as he turned quickly and stopped Rita.

"...What the hell..." Rita muttered as she narrowed her eyes at the floating hand before her.

For Rita, it was the first time to see such a rare monster...talking to her while she was busy with her Blastia and abilities.

"Excuse me?" a voice called from the other end of the hallway and a familiar princess was shown walking to the 2. "An alarm sounded and it scared me a lot and..."

"..." Rita stared at the familiar princess she recognized.

"..."

"..." Master Hand was left speechless.

"...Es..telle?" Rita blinked confused.

"...R-Rita?" Estelle asked in surprise as she put a hand in front of her mouth while her pupils shrunk a little.

TO BE CONTINUED...

Exor
Gate

The group walked across the arc and sure enough, a floor made itself visible...

However...

"...Hey, what are all of them doing here?" Sonic asked.

"Sonic..." Kirby trailed off. "Why is your back getting...furrier?"

Sonic gasped and blocked the sudden fur that covered part of his back. "Y-you saw nothing!"

Back to where Sonic was mentioning...

There were strongly familiar enemies that decided to appear before them. On the same floor they were in, 3 different paths lied on each direction: north, west and east. The enemies were black, white and grey...and they were all standing behind a counter with several skull-shaped forms around on the front, close and together.

Super Mario RPG - And My Name's Booster

"...Didn't we defeat all of them before?" Fox asked.

"These are Machine Mades," Geno explained as he pointed at the enemies that didn't move. "Machine Mades are basically copies of the guardians we fought before."

"But wow," Twink commented. "These look very familiar."

"YOU MUST BE THE SMASHERS, NYA," the Machine Made (that looked like Bowyer) said in a monotone voice. "LORD SMITHY HAS BEEN EXPECTING ALL OF YOU, NYA."

"...Weird," Geno said with an odd look. "They didn't talk before... I guess Smithy upgraded the production."

Lucario narrowed his eyes at the Machine Mades.

"YOU CANNOT GO AND MEET HIM NOW," a Machine Made (that looked like Huff N. Puff) said. "YOU MUST ACTIVATE THE SWITCHES IN THE PATHS THAT LIE ON EACH SIDE OF THE NORTHERN PART THAT IS IN FRONT OF YOU AND BEHIND US."

"There isn't any door below the stupid arc." Snake pointed out.

The Machine Made (that looked like Yaridovich) snapped its fingers and a door closed the arc. "NOW THERE IS," the Machine Made said.

"So...now we have to go and activate switches?" Peach asked.

Mallow made a worried look. "This wasn't here before nor it did look like this at all."

"Maybe Smithy thought that a new layout was better to stop us?"

"GUUUUUUUUUAAAAAARGH!" Lucario, without any order, fired a fully charged Aura Sphere that went towards the door. Smoke flew out from the blue explosion...but when it cleared, the door was lef unharmed. "Dammit..."

"YOU MUST ACTIVATE THE SWITCHES TO OPEN THE DOOR. NOTHING CAN DESTROY THE DOORS," a Machine Made (that looked like Red Ninjakoopa (hard to see if that Machine Made was red at all)) said. "DO NOT BE SUCH STUBBORN PEOPLE AND ACTIVATE THE SWITCHES."

"Has he ever made clones of the Koopa Bros. before?" Mario asked.

"No clue." Link said.

"Or Crystal King," Kirby pointed out. "Should we...go for the switches?"

"BY THE WAY," a Machine Made (that looked like Lava Piranha Plant, except smaller) interrupted. "EACH PATH CONTAINS A BOSS FOR YOU TO DEFEAT. BE WARNED, THOSE BOSSES HAVE SHADOW BUGS WITH THEM AND NOT LIKE US, INFERIOR MACHINE MADES."

"Looks like we should split up so we can proceed to Smithy faster," Geno said. "We're 17 without counting Twink as a fighter. A group will be of 9 while another will be of 8."

"As much as I hate to say this..." Chris shivered as more dark winds ragged on. "W-we should divide."

"And conquer." Ike added.

"Leaders or wthout leaders?" Marth asked.

"Since Peach, Mario, Mallow and myself know about the place, some 2 of us 4 should be a leader and choose who is going with who." Geno explained.

"B-but can we trust them?" Lucas asked as he pointed at the Machine Mades. "I-I don't like where this is going..."

"Neither do I. But it can't be helped." Geno said.

"...D-darn..." Lucas muttered.

Several minutes later...

"WILL YOU DECIDE WHERE YOU WANT TO MEET YOUR DOOMS?" a Machine Made (that looked like Axem Black) asked irritated.

"Yes," Mario nodded. "So, Chris, Lucario, Pikachu, Peach, Lucas, Marth, Sonic and Kirby are coming with me to the west."

Geno nodded. "Mallow, Twink, Ness, Fox, Snake, Ike, Link and Pichu will come with me to the east. Let's meet up here when we've reached the switches."

"Are you sure this is a good idea?" Pikachu asked. "Why not going with everyone to the same part?"

"I don't like any delays," Geno explained. "Who knows if Smithy is ready to take out the city in any minute. We need to do this quickly and carefully before the worst happen. We don't want that, right?"

"No," mostly everyone said.

"Then...good luck and stay alert for anything." Geno said to Mario's group who nodded to his group and parted ways to the west, whereas Geno's group went to the east.

...

"..." the Machine Mades shifted their eyes once the groups were gone.

"...ARE THEY GONE? CAN I STOP TALKING LIKE THIS?" the Machine Made (Crystal King) asked.

"Yeah," the Machine Made (Red Ninjakoopa) nodded. "They fell for our trap, alright."

"Oh, like," the Machine Made (that looked like Axem Pink) began. "They did fall for our disguises."

"Obvious disguises."

"So," the Machine Made (that looked like Green Ninjakoopa) began as it grabbed a bucket of water. "Can we change colors...to our real colors now?"

Everyone else nodded and grabbed buckets of water that they took from underneath the counter. They all put them above and dropped the water on themselves.

"..." the Machine Mades were looking at themselves.

"...The paint isn't coming off..." the Machine Made (Huff N. Puff) said.

"Dammit!" the Machine Made (Red Ninjakoopa) cursed. "Black! You said these were not waterproof at all!"

"Heheh," the Machine Made (that looked like Black Ninjakoopa) chuckled. "I did a mistake."

"A WHAT?!"

"Heheh, you heard me."

"Oh, brother..." a Machine Made (Axem Green) facepalmed and took out several paint cans. "Start painting yourselves."

A while later...

"..." Red Ninjakoopa looked at himself. "God, I have brighter colors instead of the normal ones."

"Meh, at least we're fine now." Green Ninjakoopa said.

"So," Yaridovich began. "Care to remember how did we get back here?"

"Tabuu revived us, but not as Machine Mades." Axem Black explained.

"We begged and begged and begged, and he said, "FINE! STOP PESTERING ME!" before the portal here opened." Yellow Ninjakoopa said.

"Revived." Bowyer, Yaridovich, LPP, Crystal King and Huff N. Puff said in unison.

"Well, like," Axem Pink began. "What do we do, like, now?"

"Wait for them to get killed by the 100 ton anvils that are set to fall on them if they manage to defeat the bosses protecting the switches, and then press the switches." Yaridovich said.

"Anvils?" Axem Green asked. "I thought you said the switches should open the door, then drop an anvil across the same door!"

"...You IDIOT!" Crystal King yelled. "That was supposed to end them! How can they be ended if the anvils are across that door?!"

"Relax," Huff N. Puff said. "The anvils are going to disappear and not block their and our way, right?"

"...Don't tell me the anvils will disappear once they touch the ground..." Red Ninjakoopa trailed off with a frown.

"...Well, in here, anvils are made out of magic, and magic appears for a short time before it vanishes completely... So yeah." Axem Yellow said.

"...Thank goodness we can at least have a chance to beat them, nya." Bowyer said.

"But curse out because we don't have Shadow Bugs this time," Yaridovich said. "Tabuu hates to waste Shadow Bugs on "failures" like us because we used them the wrong way and we ended in defeat."

"At least our death wasn't that pathetic." Axem Green said.

"We exploded like, 27 times on our super-powerful-giant-robot because like, a Green Shell was in our way to stomp them." Axem Pink pointed out.

"But fortunately," Red Ninjakoopa began. "We have another chance to prove our worthiness to both Tabuu and Smithy themselves. I don't know you guys but they're surely going to pass those bosses easily before returning here and FIGHT us...at the same time...AGAIN!"

"Shouldn't you wish for their demises rather than their success, then the fight against us?" Axem Black asked.

"Okay, perfectionist, you say it!"

"No," he shook his head. "I rather not speak at all."

"That sounds good to me." LPP said with a nod.

"Yeah," everyone else said.

...A moment of silence passed as the dark wings ragged on...

"...Staring at the nothingness is completely boring," Axem Yellow said with a yawn. "Can we eat something?"

"Or do our nails?" Axem Pink asked.

"NO!" Red Ninjakoopa yelled. "We'll wait for them and do nothing!"

The Axem Rangers walked to a corner and began to polish their axes. "A good polished axe begs for lots of blood on it." Axem Red said with a happy expression.

Yaridovich sighed in depression.

[DededeCloneChris]

Super Mario RPG - Weapons Factory

Meanwhile, on the west door...

Lucario looked back where they came from and tilted his head.

Chris walked to him. "I-is something wrong?"

"Those Machine Mades...I don't think they're Machine Mades at all..."

"B-but they looked like that to me."

"My aura was perturbed once I looked at them. We should be careful."

Chris nodded and embraced himself (as he used the Thief job). "I-in the meantime, can you stay close to me? T-the darkness and these currents of air are annoying me...or scaring me..."

Lucario smiled and walked closer to Chris. "Whatever you want, I'll do it for you."

"T-thanks." Chris nodded as they walked to the group.

There was something that Mario and Peach were confused about...

"Mario..." Peach looked around. "Doesn't this look familiar to you?"

"N-not at all..." Mario shook his head as the group proceeded to walk on some stairs to another new floor. "I don't see the screws, the narrow paths or enemies around like before."

"I thought the same," Peach nodded. "B-but what if something is really waiting for us?"

"They already said the bosses were waiting for us," Marth pointed out. "I doubt they were lying about it."

"C-can it be a lie?" Lucas asked as he embraced himself.

"No." Pikachu said.

"Aww..."

Kirby looked at Sonic with a nervous look. "Sonic?"

"What?" Sonic asked (with blocked mouth).

"Why are you blocking your mouth?"

"Because I fear I may puke from seeing all this crappyness around me," Sonic said with a frown. "I bet you're like me too, right?"

"No," Kirby shook his head. "I'm hungry."

"...Just don't ask me anything."

Kirby shrugged and looked forward.

"Heheheheh," Dark Super Sonic chuckled. "Enjoying my previews?"

"You bet your a(beep) I'm not," Sonic responded harshly. "Stop annoying me and go away!"

"Never," he responded. "Making fun of you is too much fun... But I'll listen."

A snapping sound was heard and Sonic's fangs turned back into teeth while the fur on his back disappeared.

"...Really?" Sonic asked surprised.

"Ahahahaha, hahahahaha, hahahahahahaaaa.... No."

Another snapping sound was heard and Sonic got a big eyebrow above his eyes with white and blue fur.

"(AAHHH!!!)" Sonic yelled in his mind.

"Now, try to fight without them seeing anything, you freak." Dark Super Sonic said before leaving Sonic.

Sonic blocked his eyebrow and looked forward with a nervous look.

Pikachu walked to him and gave him a paper.

"What the hell is this?" Sonic asked.

"Dunno," Pikachu said. "It was on my hand when I noticed and it had your name as its direction."

Sonic looked at the paper. And it said...

I know what you're going through.

Sonic's eyes widened in horror and he quickly ripped the paper into bits. "W-who gave you this?!" Sonic asked.

"I don't know!" Pikachu yelled. "It was on my hand when I noticed!"

"What were you doing when you weren't looking at your hand?!"

"Thinking about what we'll face today."

"Yeah, yeah..."

The group noticed another arc at the end of the stairs and they passed right beneath it...

Meanwhile, with the other group...

Geno's group was walking through a series of arcs that leaded to a new floor to the deepest part of the whole darkland. They were looking around the repetitive set of arcs with skulls on them.

"Follow the long and grey road," Twink sang as he shuddered. "Follow the long and grey road..."

"If this is trying to scare me, it did." Snake said, breaking the silence.

"Wow, I thought you were the bravest man. Why? Because of the arcs?" Link asked.

"No," Snake shook his head. "Because how stupid this is getting."

"Boring to me," Fox yawned a little. "If nobody here isn't going to do anything to stop us, then I'd rather not be here."

"But it looks like we don't have no choice, right?" Ike asked. "The "city" depends on us."

"At least there's an enemy for you, violent people, to beat around." Geno said with a frown.

Pichu shivered. "I-I'm not violent... Ness is."

Ness rolled his eyes. "To think a little boy like me got considered as violent."

"You beat me when you guys punished me." Snake said.

"Well, for getting in the mansion like it was for public use."

Mallow ran up ahead. "Mallow, get back here! Separating isn't an option!" Geno yelled.

"We're here!" Mallow yelled.

"Is there an enemy to beat around?" Link asked.

"Got you." Geno said.

"...Whoops."

The group ran ahead and they crossed the last arc. When they stepped on the other side, Mallow walked to them. "This place gives me the creeeeeeeeps."

The floor had a darker atmosphere with several pillars around the dark abyss. A long, but long stone tail was wrapped up around all the pillars as it all connected to a big statue of a snake. The ceiling was ornamented with long, red curtains that hung around the pillars. Geno, Twink and Mallow walked to the statue while the others inspected the place.

"...Geno..." Twink trailed off.

"...I remember this..." Geno said as he put a hand on the statue. "There were these 2 guys who could animate this statu-"

"Wasn't it a dormant snake but not a statue?" Mallow asked.

"Statue," Geno said. "...Where are they? They were supposed to show up."

"Meh," Mallow looked at a switch in the middle of the place. "Look over there!"

"The switch? That was easy..." Geno muttered.

Mallow ran to the switch while everyone else walked to the center of the weird floor.

"So, that's it?" Fox asked as he crossed his arms.

With the others...

They found a door full of remains of failed machines piled up around the edges of the spacious floor. They were looking at the switch that was located in the middle of the room and walked to it.

"So, that's it?" Sonic asked as he crossed his arms (but later.

"Pretty much so." Jigglypuff nodded.

Pikachu went to the switch. "Ha! They were just bluffing. This was sooooooooooooo easy."

"Really?" Lucas asked with a small smile.

Pikachu chuckled and slowly reached for the switch...

On the other side...

Mallow chuckled and slowly reached for the switch. "With a little press, the door will open."

Pikachu pressed the button. "That does it nicely."

Mallow looked at them and made a fist in the air. "So, upwards and onwards!"

"We need to regroup with the others."

"They surely found the same thing as us!"

"Smithy is so wishing to get zapped."

"Nothing."

"Absolutely nothing."

"Can go wrong."

"Yeah."

"So, let's get moving."

"If we don't."

"They'll get upset for getting late."

"Besides."

"No enemies appeared."

"Except."

"For the."

"Enemies..."

"That..."

"Just fell."

"From the ceiling..."

"Surrounding us."

"Oh."

"Crap."

"I knew."

"This looked so."

"Suspicious."

"I saw it."

"A mile away."

"Anyway."

"What do we do?"

"Any suggestions?"

"To get out from this."

"One?"

Super Mario RPG - Fight Against a Stronger Monster

As the 2 from 2 different places previously stated, both groups were surrounded by a lot of enemies that suddenly fell from above (or the ceiling in Geno's group's case).

There were Ameboids (blue-mushroom enemies), Doppels (floating-green ghost enemies), Glum Reapers (ghost enemies with scythes), Hippopos (whatever the heck the blue monster under the fairy is), Li'l Boos, (Boos, except pale), and finally Puppoxs (doll-with-X-above enemies).

On Mario's side...

Mario adjusted his cap as the others made a circle formation on the center of the other big circle of enemies that slowly walked/floated to them. "Hmph, something was fishy here."

"T-that is a very bad thing." Peach trembled as she walked closer to the switch.

"I HATE when this happens," Chris said as he hid behind his furious Lucario. "When there's an easy path, you're bound to find something really bad at the end."

"That doesn't happen." Marth said.

"Oh, you tell me!"

"Ahem," Ness interrupted. "If you haven't noticed, there are monsters trying to...I don't know...do the same thing they always want to do to us?"

"Kill us?" Jigglypuff responded.

"Lovely," Ness said with a sarcastic smile. "What do you say if we ACTUALLY GET FIGHTING FOR OUR LIVES?!"

On the other side...

The difference between both ambushes were that 2 familiar figures appeared alongside the enemies that Mallow and Geno quickly recognized. Both figures were levitating (since they didn't have legs). They also had Shadow Bugs as well.

One of them looked like a clown with stripped-vertical lines (patterned with just 2 lines: one with blue color and the other one with yellow) as he held up a sword on his right hand and a shield on the other hand. He had a white mustache while a weird hat floated above his head. This one was called Cloaker (or Dark Cloaker).

The other one had a purple cape covering his face, but his eyes were somehow able to stay out. He had a vertical-patterned lines (of only yellow and purple colors). He had his hands opened as they were raised. This one was called Domino (or Dark Domino).

"Geno, Geno, Geno..." Dark Cloaker trailed off.

"Marshmallow, marshmallow, marshmallow..." Dark Domino trailed off.

"It's just Mallow, stupid." Dark Cloaker said.

"Oops, my bad."

"You made it after so much time!" Dark Cloaker turned to the Smashers. "We were so bored without anyone paying a visit here!"

"Rude." Dark Domino added.

"Look, let us walk away and we won't bother you." Ike offered.

"That question is so easy to respond for them." Link frowned.

"I know. Good start, huh?"

"No, you retarded swordsman," Snake frowned. "Asking those questions to enemies like them are only useless."

"Why?" Ike asked.

"Because we're not letting you go!" Why don't you understand?" Dark Domino asked with irritation. "Geez, stupid people like the guy with the stupid cape are, well, stupid!"

"...Is my cape that stupid?" Ike asked.

Link shook his head, but everyone else? No.

"..." Ike looked down.

"Well, are we going to start or what?" Dark Cloaker asked.

Link took out the Master Sword while the others prepared to fight as well. "Bring it on." Link said with a glare.

"CHAAAAAAAAAAAARGE!" Dark Domino yelled loudly as the circle of enemies ran after the Smashers.

On the other side...

Chris quickly changed to his ISOKFMG and slammed Tokunaga on the ground to make it grow bigger. "T-Tokunaga, try to shield me as I cast spells!"

Tokunaga looked at Chris and nodded.

"O twisted door of distortio-" the World Traveler noticed the doll looking down. "(W-what are you doing?!)"

Chris was suddenly attacked by a Hippopo's Mega Drain. Even if the attack said it was going to drain something, it was only a pink beam that moved by the sides and sliced Chris across his back, stopping his chant as he fell forward but on his knees.

"GUUUUUUAAAAAARRRRRRGH!!!" Lucario fired a fully charged Aura Sphere to the Hippopo to blast it away from Chris as the Aura Pokémon went to him. "Are you alright?"

"Y-yes..." Chris stood up. "B-but I don't know why Tokunaga stopped from shielding me..."

"...It appears it only fights when you're not casting spells." Lucario poined out.

"Oh, that's great..." Chris frowned. "W-well, would you shield me?"

"That's obvious."

Chris sniffed. "T-then go and beat them while I get attack-"

"I meant the other way!"

"Oh," Chris rubbed Lucario's head between his ears. "Thank you."

Lucario looked bored. "...Yes..."

"Come on!" Pikachu taunted some Ameboids as he gathered sparks on his cheeks. "Leap on me!"

The Ameboids looked at each other and created mysterious vortexes that covered Pikachu, who perked his ears up as a terrifying sound made him shudder in fear...and got the status effect called Fear.

"E-e-e-e-e-e..." Pikachu embraced himself. "I-I-I-I-I don't want to fight anymore..." his ears lowered. "I feel so useless and weak..."

The Ameboids nodded to each other and leaped to Pikachu to kick him.

Suddenly, they were all being pulled by a strong wind that sucked them away from Pikachu. The Electric Pokémon looked at the source and found Kirby swallowing all of them before stopping and sitting down with a weak look. "D-d-did they attack you?" Pikachu asked in depression.

"No..." Kirby's eyes turned into swirls. "They tasted like toilet water..."

"...Y-y-you don't drink that...unless..." Pikachu shuddered.

"Oww!" Jigglypuff backed away from a Glum Reaper's attack with its scythe. "You're bgging for it. Ha!" she leaped to it and used Pound to slap it away, but another Glum Reaper appeared from behind her and used Lightning Orb.

A ball of electricity was flung to her and it disappeared upon contant, but it came back as small rising waves of lightning that pushed her above and made her crash back to the floor.

"T-that was just a surprise attack..." Jigglypuff said as she stood up and closed her right eye before rolling herself on the floor, then slamming herself on the previous Glum Reaper to slam it away with Rollout.

"O twisted door of distortion, open wide!" Chris chanted while Lucario use Force Palm to push some Li'l Boos away. "Negative Gate!"

A gate of distortions appeared close to some Doppels that were constantly attacked by it and were destroyed.

"My magic seems to work well on them... Peach?" Chris found Peach still standing in the middle of the whole floor. "Why aren't you..."

"O-oh," Peach took out a tea cup to take a sip of it. "I-I'm just waiting for the right moment to attack."

"B-but how did you take that out?" Chris asked confused at the tea cup.

"I-I always have a pair," she took out another one. "D-do you want some?"

"...No..." Chris shook his head as Marth fought a Puppox in the background. "...I know what you're doing."

She looked away while Mario jumped several times above an Hippopo's head in the background. "N-no. What makes you say something like that?"

Chris blinked while a scared Pikachu looked at the sides with many worries. "Because you don't seem to fight at all and you're acting nervous about it."

Lucas was running away from some Li'l Boos while Sonic ran after them. "O-of course not..."

Lucario used Double Team to disappear from a Glum Reaper's scythe and attack it from behind with a flying kick. "But I know what you're doing now! You can't deny it, Peach.... You're scared of fighting, right?"

"W-was it obvious?" Peach asked as a Willy Wisp from a Glum Reaper was shot to Marth. "I'm...very embarrassed of this... Really, I do..."

"(I feel embarrased because I'm not fighting...)" Chris thought while a Lightning Orb flew above his head and to Kirby, who backflipped to evade it. "...I knew you didn't want to fight at all from the beginning, Peach."

Peach looked down ashamed while a Li'l Boo barely missed to bite her face. "...I'm pathetic, right?"

"N-no!" Chris shook his head while a Doppel appeared behind him, only to be pushed away by an Aura Sphere of Lucario. "You're not!"

Meanwhile, on the other side...

"BOLT!" Dark Domino called forth a fast lightning from the sky that fell down on Ike, but he dodged it by taking a quick step back. "FLAME STONE!"

A meteor of fire fell on Ike's back and he was pushed to the floor.

"HAHA!" Dark Domino laughed. "Stupid gets what he most deserves!"

"Idiot's begging...for what he most needs..." Ike spat back as he stood up and ran to him.

"Whoops," Dark Domino floated above to evade a slam of Ike's sword. "Missed me."

"THERE!" Ike yelled as he tossed Ragnell to Dark Domino to spin it in midair and slash the sorcerer several times before the swordsman jumped to his sword and slammed Dark Domino down to the floor.

"D-darn!" Dark Domino quickly got up and floated. "Blizzard!"

"Oh, forget that! Snowy!" Mallow called out his own blizzard that collided with Dark Domino's blizzard, cancelling each other from dealing damage. "Grr!"

"This didn't happen before," Dark Domino chuckled. "Back then, you used to kick me, but now our attacks are equally matched!"

"Like irritated people tend to say to people who like to say that, DON'T COMPARE ME TO YOU!" Mallow yelled as he ran on his feet.

"Slash!" Dark Cloaker yelled as he used a downward slice on Link, who blocked it with the Master Sword. "Dice 'im!" he used several cross slashes that Link blocked with his shield, though this time he was being pushed towards the edge of the floor. "Push 'im!"

"S-shut up!" Link yelled as he quickly pushed the sword away and tossed a bomb to Dark Cloaker's face which exploded and made him back away. "Heyah!" Link jumped towards him and used Spin Attack to push the clown swordsman away.

"Very good, indeed!" Dark Cloaker remarked. "Such fervor isn't so common around these parts!"

"I only care about finishing you off," Link said as he put his sword close to his face while he pointed the tip of it to his enemy. "That way, I don't get to hear your voice."

"How insolent!" Dark Cloaker proclaimed. "You need discipline...but in the bad way!"

"Geno Beam!" Geno yelled as he fired a long beam that hit Dark Cloaker on the back.

"You as well!" Dark Cloaker yelled as he raised his sword.

Snake had a bad time with Glum Reapers who tried to slice him from all the sides. The undercover soldier narrowed his eyes and tossed a mine on the air to explode it in a group of ghosts. When he thought he ran out from mines, he was able to take out another from his belt. "...Otacon." Snake called as he backflipped to evade a Li'l Boo's bite. "Otacon, you there?"

"Copy, Snake," Otacon called. "What's wrong this time?"

"The hand modified myself and made infinite mines." Snake said.

"God, everything is so weird in that universe. That's for sure." Otacon commented.

"Well, I'm having my weird time here. Lots of ghosts trying to scare me to death which they really fail at. Any suggestions for this fight?"

"You're doing it well from where you ar-" Otacon was interrupted as many sounds of sparks were heard from his location. "...Snake? You there?"

"Yeah," Snake was shown with black smoke coming from his hair. "Got zapped by 8 of them with freaking magic."

"Ouch. You okay?"

"..." Snake tossed a grenade on his right hand several times. "Pretty much."

"Well...good luck?"

"Always," Snake nodded as some Doppel went after him. "Come and get me, f(beep)d ghost."

"Snake..." Otacon trailed off with a sigh before he ended the codec.

Ness stopped running and he looked at a swarm of Doppels closing in above a fightened Pichu. The PK kid noticed a Glum Reaper floating towards him, whereas the kid narrowed his eyes and took out his bat. "Closer..." Ness muttered as he calculated the ghost's destination. "Closer..."

"H-heeeeeeeeeeeeelp!" Pichu yelled in horror as he ducked and covered his head.

The Glum Reaper was about to use Deathsickle on Ness when suddenly...

"THERE!" Ness yelled as he dealt a strong hit on the ghost, blasting it off towards the swarm of Doppels that were trying to scare Pichu to death. All of the ghosts bumped into each other and fell down on the floor as the Pokémon's ears perked up and looked up to see a clear view of the ceiling.

Pichu sighed as Ness went to him. "T-thank you for your help."

"Can you fight at least?" Ness asked.

Pichu gathered some sparks on his cheeks. "Y-yes."

Ness wondered for a moment as he took out his yo-yo. "...Pichu, do you want to try something new?"

"What?"

"Thunderbolt!" Mallow called out several lightning bolts that electrocuted some Hippopos. "Snowy!" he called forth a blizzard that created a huge snowman that blinked and exploded into more snow. "Shocker!" a strong lightning crushed the group of Hippopos before the cloud prince began to feel weak. "O-oww... U-using magic constantly is a really bad idea..."

Geno backstepped and used Geno Whirl on 2 Puppoxs. "You need to balance out magic and physical attacks."

"I know," Mallow said as he was about attacked by 3 Li'l Boos, that were suddenly kicked away by Fox who ran at them afterward. "I think coming all the way here drained my energies."

Geno used Geno Beam on 2 Ameboids to push towards the edge. "I feel the same. Not as you."

"Duh," Mallow rolled his eyes as Link was pushed into the air by Dark Cloaker, who then proceeded to slash him continuously. "You're a doll or puppet."

"That doesn't mean anything."

"Oh, it does," Mallow raised a finger as Twink was shown hiding behind the curtains. "You don't have blood inside that thing or a brain. You're a little star."

Geno turned to him. "Can you please help us in the fight?"

He was suddenly crushed by a stone of flames that came from the ceiling.

"G-Geno!" Mallow yelled before Ike was pushed away by Geno's side because of Dark Domino, who floated to them with several chuckles.

"Hahahahahaha!" Dark Domino laughed. "I can't believe Smithy had a bad time hearing that the Star Spirits were rescued by such puny guys like all of you! I can blink and stab one 5 times with icicles if I want to!"

"T-that didn't make sense to me," Ike said as he got up. "M-magic isn't everything."

"For me, it does," Dark Domino said. "I doubt you can get through it."

"I don't need to," Ike said as he aimed Ragnell's tip to his enemy. "I have something better here."

Mallow noticed that Ike was waving a hand behind his back.

"That ridiculous heavy sword?" Dark Domino asked before he laughed and closed his eyes. "My, what originality you have the-"

"SHOCKER!" Mallow yelled as a big lightning crushed the dark enemy, pushing him to the floor where he almost lost his balance.

"N-NO!" Dark Domino yelled as he noticed Ike slamming Ragnell on his face with a strong blow, pushing the magician even further on the ground, where he got stuck. "Damn you and that heavy sword of you-"

"Prepare yourself."

"What?"

Ike raised Ragnell again before slamming it again on the helpless magician who yelled in more pain as he became more stuck on the floor.

"Want any help?" Mallow asked.

"I can take him on," Ike said between slams. "He'll be out in not time. Go and help the others while I deal with him."

"OWW!" Dark Domino yelled.

"Okay." Mallow nodded as he ran away.

...Before returning back where Geno was unconscious.

"Oops... Here, I'll help you out. HP Rain!"

"Final Thrust!" Dark Cloaker yelled as he thrust his sword to Link, who got pushed away even if he used his shield to protect himself. "Hmph, that shield of yours is such a pain. Here, I'll take it away."

"Oh well." Link gave him his shield.

"..." Dark Cloaker looked at him with a glare. "Is this some kind of joke?"

"No. Take it." Link said with a smile.

"...Oh, well, heheheheh, I like when people listen to m-" he stopped once he saw the back of the shield full of bombs that were attached by their little cords wrapped up on the small leather holders. "OH, HOLY MOTHER O-"

A big explosion was the only thing Link saw before his shield was flung to the air and fell right above his hands. The shield looked completely unharmed and he put it on his right hand. "The best shield in all Hyrule. Nothing can break through it, not even explosions."

The smoke cleared out and Dark Cloaker was looking up with a weak look on his face before he shook himself and glared at Link. "You and your equipment! Use your sword only, dangit!"

"Then can I suggest you something?"

"What?"

"Shave that mustache."

Dark Cloaker's mustache was pointing to all directions due to the previous explosion. "MY MUSTACHE! Oh, now you crossed the line, then the line before that one!" he yelled before raising his sword and bringing it down on Link's shield.

On the other side...

"So," Chris (in his Agent job) took a sip of his tea while he and Peach were sitting on the middle of the battle. "You fear to fight because you hate violence?"

"Y-yes," Peach nodded while an explosion came from behind her, but didn't mind to look. "I think violence isn't necessary to resolve anything."

The World Traveler pointed at her with his tea cup. "Well, I originally thought about that as well, but nobody here wants to listen with words," he took a sip. "Such people can't deny a peaceful talk, the nerve of all of them..."

Either he wanted to say it like that or the job was changing his attitude.

"I-I always thought that too," Peach nodded as Lucas was shown banging his branch on a Puppox. "J-just nobody listens to me at all. I even hate to fight in the stages with another person..." she got closer to Chris. "And let me tell you something. Some people are scary to me when they look at me with those eyes..."

"Oh," Chris put his cup down. "You mean the eyes that carve for anyone's blood? Yes, such disgusting water shouldn't be wasted in battle. You're a delicate rose waiting to be torned apart by a brute dog."

Peach looked down as she barely dodged a Lightning Orb. "W-when you put it like that...I feel like I don't belong here..."

"Neither do I," Chris put his right hand on his forehead and frowned. "Destiny is so cruel sometimes, isn't it? Nobody can escape the hands of fate that wraps us to our paths. Cruel, but so cruel paths that lead to endless fights."

Pikachu walked to them as he trembled. "C-can you guys help me?"

"We're in the middle of a lovely discussion," Chris said as he shook his head. "By the way, why the embrace on yourself?"

"I-I don't want to fight anymore..."

"Uh-oh," Kawashima began. "Pikachu has been infected by the Fear status! This isn't good at all!"

Pikachu shivered and Peach rubbed his head.

"The Fear status halves the attack efficiency of the target. It also makes the target decide whether or not stay and fight. If it's not cured soon, that character could leave the party and return to the mansion automatically!"

Chris's goggles slipped to his nose and his eyes widened. "...Wait, return and leave us here?"

"Exactly," Kawashima went on. "He or she will get lost in the vicinity and that same person will return to the mansion, where the status ailment will disappear once the person reaches the mansion."

"...Hoy roses!" Chris exclaimed as he saw Pikachu trying to walk away to nowhere. Peach tried to hold him off and sparks began to gather in Pikachu´s cheeks to get off from her.

The World Traveler quickly changed to his Musician job and used Soul Etude to create an enthusiastic atmosphere.

Pikachu stopped gathering sparks and his ears perked up again. He looked around with a confused expression. "W-what? What happened?"

"You were trying to leave us and return to the mansion by an evil illness!" Peach said as she let him go.

"...Return?" Pikachu repeated before he looked at the swarm of enemies. "Well, I've got to be more careful next time. At least you 2 fight with us, okay?" Pikachu asked before he left the 2 and continued to fight the enemies.

Peach looked down. "See? Everyone here expects me to fight like all of them."

Chris sat down and changed to his Agent job. "Hmm, such a hard decision for you to take, right?"

"Y-yes..."

"...Maybe you need inspiration."

"I already heard what Rosalina said to Yoshi, but it doesn't work on me." Peach explained.

"Protection?"

"N-not even that can help me..." she sighed. "...I'm not used to fight even a small fly."

Despite what she said, there was a small fry that flew to her cheek and she slapped it.

"...You just killed a fly." Chris pointed out.

"..." Peach looked at her palm and brushed the green spot away. "I don't know what to do, still."

"...Oh," Chris smiled a little and took her right hand, where he began to walk to an Ameboid that was deciding who to attack. "You there, attack her."

Peach gasped. "W-what?"

"I want to see if there's a warrior inside that blinding pink dress you wear."

Peach took a step back.

"N-not literally!"

She sighed and took a step forward.

Then she realized what she was going to do so she took a step back again.

"Oh, look!" Chris folded his arms and the Ameboid leaped at Peach. "Here it goes!"

"U-UAAAAAAAAHHH!!!" Peach screamed as she took Toad...out from her back?

"(...The hell is that Toad doing behind her back?)" Chris thought.

"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!" the Toad yelled as he received the slam and...created strong currents of air that made the Ameboid be pushed back to the floor.

"..." Peach looked at Toad. "I-I'm so sorry for calling you out again!"

"I-it's okay, princess..." Toad said with a weak look. "D-don't use me that often, though..."

"..." Peach pulled him back to her back and disappeared once he wasn't visible from where Chris was. "N-none of my attacks make any kind of sense, either... I can take out infinite Turnips, for example," she ducked and took out a Beam Sword. "A-and sometimes this, making not any sense as well."

Chris took the Beam Sword and kept it in their inventory. "Blame the hand of all that doesn't make sense. If my memory doesn't fail," he pointed at Mario shooting fireballs from his hand. "He should use a Fire Flower to do that, but he can do it anyway."

"That doesn't have to do with what I'm going through..." Peach looked down.

Chris made a worried expression as Marth passed right behind him, pushing 2 Doppels away with Shield Breaker. "Hmm..."

"Over Limit ready!" Kawashima said. "Actually, both sides have their Over Limits ready as of now."

"...Just say it," Peach closed her eyes. "I'm pathetic at fighting."

"Such a woman like you shouldn't say those awful words to yourself," Chris said. "Determination is the key word here. You need more determination if you want to figh-"

"Done here."

Music stops

"Wha'?" Chris asked confused as he looked at Sonic with a grin.

Both of them noticed that the field was completely empty, like if nothing happened.

"...I'm sorry," Peach looked down. "I distracted you from the entire fight."

"Lazy." Sonic said to Chris with a snicker.

"Oh, you shut up, big eyebrow hedgehog." Chris muttered.

Sonic blocked his eyebrow. "Heheheheh, what big eyebrow again?"

Jigglypuff looked at the arc that they crossed and a force field appeared. "H-hey, that thing wasn't there before..." Jigglypuff said worried.

"Didn't they say a boss was waiting for us here?" Pikachu asked.

"They did. I didn't believe that." Lucario said.

RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING!!!

They blocked their ears once the sound of 2 bells were heard, ringing through the dark winds.

"U-ugh!" Mario twitched. "I-I remember that awful sound before..."

They all looked behind them...

And there was a leaned big table on the floor that had a big clock. On the top of the big clock, there were 2 bells that seemed to be the clock's only mouths. The monsters were called Ding-a-Lings while the clock was called Count Down.

"It's Mario!" the first bell rang.

"And he brought company this time!" the second bell rang.

"WE BETTER GET RID OF THEM BEFORE THEY GET FURTHER!!!" both bells rang angrily.

Super Mario RPG - Fight Against an Armed Boss

"...A big clock?" Lucas asked.

"..." Lucario blinked for a moment before he showed his fangs and grunted at them.

"W-what is it?" Chris asked.

"They're using Shadow Bugs."

Count Down and the Ding-a-Lings began to glow with dark energy before they turned into Dark Count Down and Dark Ding-a-Lings.

"Look," Mario said as he stepped in front of the others. "These enemies are easy because they can't move around. They're sitting on that leaned table. All we have to do is attack the clock's arrows so it can't heal itself. After defeating the arrows, go for the bells."

"All-Out attack, then?" Jigglypuff asked.

Mario turned to the clock and nodded. "Give everything you've got on that clock's arrows!!!" he yelled loudly as he jumped at the arrows and smashed them with a downward fist.

Everyone else nodded and surrounded the big clock (except for Peach who stayed behind), where they began a crazy frenzy of attacks on all sides of the clock and to the arrows.

The arrows moved.

"Flower Time!" the Dark Ding-a-Lings yelled as petals began to fall down the sky.

"Aw, you've got to be kidding m-" Chris couldn't finish before the Smashers turned into mushrooms that layed around the clock.

The arrows moved.

"Water Time!" they yelled.

Explosions of water began to appear around the area before it rained and many more explosions of water appeared, pushing the mushrooms above to the air before a huge blast of water made a lot of damage to the mushrooms that fell down on the floor.

The arrows moved.

"Break Time!" they yelled.

Nothing happened.

The arrows moved.

"Ice Time!" they yelled.

A big crystal of ice came floating above Mario's mushroom and it impacted on him. The red plumber returned to normal but he fainted after the attack devastated his energies.

The arrows moved

"Break Time!" they yelled.

Everyone turned back to normal and Peach gasped once Mario was knocked out. "Mario!" she yelled as she ducked to see him.

"Aw, I hate this boss so much!" Chris cursed as he pointed at the clock. "I hated so much when it used Petal Blast to turn everyone into mushroo-"

The arrows moved.

"Light Time!" the bells rang.

A floating yellow orb came from the sky and it circled a huge beam that pushed them back, yelling in pain before it went up and disappeared.

The arrows moved.

"Break Time!" the bells rang.

"W-what kind of boss is this?" Sonic asked as he panted.

"A clock?" Jigglypuff asked sarcastically.

"Here, give this to him so he can revive," Chris said as he gave Peach a pizza. "Don't ask me how he is going to eat it, just give it to him!"

Peach nodded, and when the pizza came close to Mario's mouth, it instantly vanished and Mario began to open his eyes slowly. "...I-I'm sorry for not mentioning certain atta-"

The arrows moved.

"Sleep Time!" the bells rang as they used Aurora Flash.

Several blue and white lights came from above them and they suddenly fell asleep while standing up. Since the attack damaged them a little, Mario was knocked out again.

"I'm the only one here who gets to pull someone to sleeeeeeeeeeeee..." Jigglypuff tumbled by the sides before falling asleep.

Somehow, this group was trapped in an ending cycle of magic attacks that kept repeating over and over...

On the other side...

Most of the enemies were getting annihilated by the Smashers themselves while Dark Cloaker fought Link with a clash of swords.

"Missed," Link said as he leaned back from an horizontal slash from his opponent. "Close," he leaned to the right as he evaded a vertical slash. "Ooh, close too," he taunted as he ducked from another horizontal slash.

"GRRRRRR!!!" Dark Cloaker grunted angrily before he tried to slash Link. "Will you stop evading my blows?!"

"Geez, I don't know," Link said sarcastically as he backstepped from several slashes. "No?"

"DIE!" Dark Cloaker yelled as he thrusted his own sword forward.

"(Right where I wanted you.)" Link thought before he slammed his own sword on Dark Cloaker's sword and pushed it away to the floor.

Dark Claoker gasped. "M-my sword! I need it!"

"That's it," Link snapped out from his calm state. "Somebody, help me and let's gang up on this guy!"

"Oh," Ness appeared behind him. "Need my help?"

"I-I meant Fox..." Link muttered. Ness glared at him and made his hands glow with fire. "B-but you're okay too!"

"Good," Ness said as his hands stopped glowing and Pichu appeared behind him. "We made our own combined attack. Want to see it?"

Link kicked the sword away and Dark Cloaker gasped. "Do it and on him."

"Pichu!" Ness yelled as he took out his yo-yo and slammed the cord around Dark Cloaker to wrap the long cord around himself. The swordsman tried to get out but he couldn't once the entire yo-yo's cord stopped from wrapping him up.

Pichu saw Ness closing his eyes, where a small glitter appeared in front of his fingers, where he was grabbing the cord. "O-okay!" Pichu said as he walked closer to the cord and grabbed it. The Electric Pokémon began to gather sparks before he was engulfed in blue electricity and conducted the electricity from himself to the cord.

Dark Cloaker saw the cord conducting the electricity and towards him before he was engulfed in a strong light of blue electricity. His mustache began to point to all directions as he screamed loudly in pain while Pichu struggled to continue.

"How can you 2 do that?" Link asked.

"Simple," Ness turned to him as the attack continued. "Using the steel cord of the yo-y-"

"The cord is of steel?" Link interrupted.

"What? This yo-yo isn't usual in Onett!" Ness said. "Ahem. I made a small barrier in front of my fingers to protect myself from getting electrocuted by Pichu's electricity. The steel cord acts like a conductor towards the main part of the yo-yo. Anything that is in its way gets severely electrocuted until Pichu tires himself out."

Pichu struggled to continue his attack. "I-I won't hold on for any longer!" he yelled.

Link took out his bow and aimed it at the enemy. "Let me offer you my help, then!"

He started to fire several arrows at high speed to Dark Cloaker while the trio did their best to defeat the subordinate of Smithy.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" Dark Cloaker yelled loudly before he exploded and disappeared from the yo-yo's cord. Ness smiled a little and pulled back the cord to wrap it up around the yo-yo.

"Ha!" Ness said proudly of himself. "I should develop my own combined attacks because nobody had this idea before."

Pichu stopped from discharging electricity and panted a little. "W-we did it, right?"

"Hell yes," Ness nodded. "Another step for our group, and to ultimate victory."

"Group, yeah, right..." Link rolled his eyes.

The trio saw 3 Puppoxs being blasted away by Geno's Geno Flash. They also noticed that the floor was clean of enemies.

Except for a stubborn Dark Domino, who managed to push Ike away with a fast slap and floated up.

"Y-you're unbelievable!" Dark Domino yelled angrily. "You killed everyone in here and that knucklehead of Cloaker too!"

"Wait, I thought you 2 were comrades."  Mallow said.

"Comrades?" Dark Domino rolled his eyes. "That guy never kep his mouth shut about how great was his mustache and how stupid Mario's mustache looked like. My ears, my poor ears were going to bleed from all his complains!"

"But Mario's mustache looks unique," Mallow said. "I mean, that guy has the best mustache eve-"

"If you'll excuse me, we're not here to discuss mustaches," Fox said as he aimed his Blaster at Dark Domino and glared at him. "We're here to beat the heck out of this guy, then Smithy afterward."

"Grr!" Dark Domino tossed his arms down in frustration. "Nonsense, nonsense, NONSENSE! I'm going to show all of you my true strengt-"

"And with that, he means he's going to fuse with that statue!" Twink yelled from the curtains.

"Stop spoiling my surprise-"

"TAKE HIM DOWN!" Pichu yelled as the Smashers who could use projectiles began to fire many of them to the magician, who gasped and dodged every attack in panic as he got closer and closer to the statue's head.

"Stupid cockroach," Snake muttered as he tossed a grenade that Dark Domino dodged. "He won't die that easily."

"Of course!" Dark Domino yelled as he put his...whatever he used to float on the statue's head, creating an earthquake that shook the place as he laughed maniacally.

The entire part of the statue began to gain color with all the tail that was wrapped around all the pillars. The Smashers saw the statue turning back to a big, purple snake that later obtained Shadow Bugs and roared loudly with a shriek. Dark Domino's fusion made the snake gain life as he crackled evilly above it.

"Meet your deaths!" Dark Domino yelled. "I'm not Dark Domino anymore, but Dark Earth Link! Hahahahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!"

"Crazy guys with "a lot" of power become crazy when they reach that kind of power..." Link shuddered. "Well, we've got to stab this snake to death, right?"

Geno nodded as the Smashers prepared to fight it. "That's true. We need to take it down and go back to where we're supposed to reunite with the othe-"

BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!!!

The start of the battle was suddenly interrupted by a blurry image that can be seen in any TV without cable before it turned off and left a screen only filled with a black background.

Lucas peered his head from the left side of the screen and he walked nervously to the center while he played with his fingers. He gulped and looked around if he was alone.

"O-okay..." Lucas began. "T-the motive of this sudden interruption is because we reached the limit of this chapter. W-we can't proceed because a strong force that gives us directions from another alternate universe needs to put in the next chapter 4 fights: the next part of these 2, the resistance back at the mansion and a new fight against a new boss...or bosses? I-I don't know..."

He gulped even more and looked around.

"S-so, please, don't kill me...I-I mean, wait until the next chapter gets done... T-that force out of this world is also planning to make 6 chapters for this special arc... W-we have 2 so far...a-and we need 4 more until this ends... T-that same force promises to make good fight scenes...funny moments "as always" as it says...whatever Sonic is going through...and character development with some of the Smashers as well so the fights can be interesting... S-so anyhow...s-see you!" Lucas waved his right hand quickly before running off. "C-Claus?! A-are you here with Mom?! Claaauuus!"

TO BE CONTINUED...

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"Return of the Retarded. Aw, don't tell me we're going to fight a retarded enemy this time...again..." Ness sighed.

"The darn title says so, idiot." Snake interrupted.

"...PK Fire!"

"AAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!"

"Heheheheh..."

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Chapter 126: Return of the Retarded

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Super Mario RPG - Fight Against an Armed Boss

Back to where we previously left...

Geno nodded as the Smashers prepared to fight it. "That's true. We need to take it down and go back to where we're supposed to reunite with the others."

"You won't such a thing! Thanks to these delicious Shadow Bugs, I've obtained even more powers than before!" Dark Mad Adder roared (since Dark Domino fused with it, it used his own voice to speak). "I'll devour those delicious fleshes of yours and if I can't, then I'll poison them!"

"Well, snakes are supposed to be poisonous...some of them." Ness said.

"We have our own snake who doesn't give poison." Mallow said.

"Really? Who?"

"Snake."

Snake narrowed his eyes at the cloud before glaring up at the snake. "Stop the chit-chat and let's get over with."

"Wait," Fox interrupted as he saw a small light blinking on his scouter. "The Over Limit is ready to be used."

"Oh, please!" Ness interrupted. "Let me use my Final Smash!"

"No way," Fox shook his head. "I'll use mine to crush that thing and blast it afterward."

"Can I use mine again?" Ike asked. "I want to see how I did it last time with Gulluom."

"I think it was Galleom though..." Twink said.

"If somebody here is going to use the Final Smash, that's me." Link said.

"Nah, I'm pretty sure it's my turn." Ness said.

"B-but I want to test mine out!" Pichu protested.

"Will you stop that and focus on the figh-" Geno was interrupted.

"LIGHT BEAM!" Dark Mad Adder yelled as it formed a big bubble that flew towards them. Snake, Geno and Mallow backstepped from it before it made a normal pop between the other 5.

Ness, Fox, Link, Ike and Pichu blinked confused before they fell asleep as they were all standing up.

"Fear my new magic!" Dark Mad Adder (or DMA for short) proclaimed. "With this new fusion, I've gained more magic than before! Mwahahahaha!"

"Dammit, wake up!" Mallow yelled at the 5 sleeping Smashers. "Wake up!"

"Until they're hit they won't wake up. It's useless," Geno said as he aimed his rocket punch at DEL. "Or after a while, they'll come back to their senses."

"Ha! Thank you for the little tip," DMA said. "Now, 3 more scum to kill! I hope you enjoy this!"

Geno fired his fist to the top of the creature and to Dark Domino's body. The big snake quickly extended its fangs towards Geno and used Carni Kiss, dealing considerable damage to Geno's right arm as he grabbed it while DEL pulled itself back and snickered.

"Like my improved attack?" DMA asked.

"N-not at all..." Geno muttered. "M-Mallow, you're in charge of healing us!"

"Right," Mallow nodded. "HP Rai-"

"Diamond Saw!" DMA yelled as it called forth 2 saws shaped like big snowflakes that flew on each side before slicing Mallow and pushing him to the air before he fell on his back and moaned in pain. "AAAAAAAAAHHH!!!"

Snake was holding a small remote with his right hand after he triggered some explosions around the snake. "Next time, be aware of everyone or you'll suffer the consequences."

"Poison!" DMA's eyes twirled around and Snake instantly got poisoned.

"...This world doesn't make any f(beep)ng sense now... Instant poison my...ugh..." Snake felt the poison paralizing him from the inside. "J-just a poison...I can resist to that..."

"Yes, right. Ice Rock!"

A floating mass of ice came floating from outside and it stopped right above Snake. The soldier twitched in pain by the poison but he quickly lunged away to evade the crash of the mass of ice.

"Geno Whirl!" Geno threw a slicing yellow ring that crossed DMA's body and dealt minimal damage. "N-not a boss weak against that attack..."

"Of course," DMA said with a nod. "BOLT!"

Several sparks rained around Geno before he was covered inside a sphere of electricity that paralyzed him from the inside and yelled in pain before the orb disappeared.

"Geno Beam!" Geno was able to retaliate quickly and deal a direct hit to Dark Domino's body from the top of DEL's head. The snake grunted angrily and looked down to Geno.

"This is WHY I hated you!" DMA yelled before spinning his eyes. "Diamond Saw!"

"(Not again...)" Mallow thought as he ran towards Geno and pushed him away from the slicing snowflakes that barely sliced the cloud prince. "Y-you alright?"

"Yes...thanks to you..." Geno said before both of them got up. "We'll have to resort to buffers. Snake, can you be the main offensive?"

Snake barely dodged Carni Kiss from the big snake. "As long as I have some suppo-UGH!" he grunted in pain after the snake used Carni Kiss on his left arm and pulled itself back. "D-definitely..."

"Mallow, you'll be the healer while I'm in the defensive." Geno explained.

"Then I'd rather do something now," Mallow said as he put his hands close to each other and held them out to Snake. "HP Rain!"

While the cloud with the smile rained on the soldier, Geno opened his arms to the sky. "Geno Boost!"

Several red arrows appeared around Snake before they disappeared and made a loud crash, indicating that Snake's attack and defense increased as he recovered from his wounds.

Although the poison persisted.

"Well...you..." Snake trailed off as he took out a grenade. "Come and get me."

"Right!" DMA yelled as he tried to use Carni Kiss on the soldier, but Snake moved away and let go of the grenade in the air where it got inside the snake's mouth and exploded, making it feel dumb with a confused expression.

"Attack!" Geno yelled as he used Geno Beam to DMA's face.

"Physical attacks now..." Snake muttered as he ran to DMA, jumped to its face and began to kick it 4 times with a strong knockback at the fourth kick. "UGH!" Snake was caught in the air and was quickly bitten by DEL's fangs before he was slammed on the floor with a big impact. "D-d-darn that...monster..."

"Snake? Snake? Do you copy me?" Otacon asked from the codec.

"..." Snake didn't respond.

"Snake?! SNAAAAAAAAAKE!!!"

"Wow," Mallow blinked. "That yell echoed."

"LOOK OUT!" Geno pushed Mallow from a Bolt attack from DMA. The 2 rolled on the floor before managing to keep their composure and stare at the monster. "We lost him now..."

DEL fixed its eyes on the sleeping Smashers. "Right, I forgot about them. BLIZZARD!"

Snow began to rise up from the floor and pushed all the Smashers away, where they fell on their backs as they were sleeping deeply.

"SOLIDIFY!"

A sheer cold of temperature froze everyone in the field, inside stalagmites of ice before they shattered and deal strong ice damage to everyone.

"BLEA-CHOO!" Link sneezed before he shook his head and found himself laying down on the floor. "W-what happened?" he asked as he slowly sat up.

The others began to moan a little before they slowly woke up and rubbed their heads in confusion.

Pichu glanced to Snake. "O-oh no...he didn't faint, right?"

"...He did," Ike shook his head, looked down and put a hand on his chest. "May the gods guide him throu-"

Fox punched his head. "He's not dead. He's fainted so stop that ridiculous pray!"

"S-sorry..." Ike apologized as everyone stood up and noticed DMA. "Don't tell me that monster is stil-"

"DIAMOND SAW!" DMA yelled as 2 slicing snowflakes appeared in front of it and went after the Smashers.

"D-dodge it!" Geno yelled as everyone quickly sidestepped from the saws of ice.

"(I-it's now or never...I need to do it...)" Pichu thought worried as many sparks gathered around him. "I-I can do it!" he yelled loudly as a force emanated out as he got covered in a rainbow aura that made everyone look at him.

"(Damn, he did it before me...)" Ness though.

Pichu glared at DEL and pointed at him. "Y-you're going to regret this!"

"Me? Regretting this?! Hahahahahahahaha!" DMA laughed maniacally. "You're very puny by that small appearance. Just die and let me b-"

"ZAP CANNON!!!" Pichu yelled loudly as he put his hands close to him and gathered a big amount of sparks that covered himself in blue electricity before he released a big beam of pure lightning that crossed DEL's body as it yelled loudly in pain. It also pulled back in pain and got instantly paralyzed by the strong blow.

"...Good move." Ike remarked.

The aura on Pichu disappeared. He looked at Ike and blushed a little. "O-oh, thank you so much for that remark..."

Zap Cannon

Gathers a big amount of sparks to release them into a beam of lightning. Deals great electric damage to the enemy and guarantees a paralyzing effect (even if there are immunities) after it hits the opponent.

"...Wait a minute..." Geno narrowed his eyes at the big snake. "It's paralyzed. We must attack with everything we have!"

"I suggest a combo!" Mallow raised his hand.

"Right. Let's see..." Geno started to get ideas. "Link, arrows to the body, Fox, multiple kicks in the air and to the snake's head, Ike, try to cut through its skin, Pichu, call as many thunders as you can from underneath the head, Mallow, Star Rain on it, Ness, use fully charged PK Flashes to deal strong blows and finally..." Geno raised his hands to the air where he used Geno Boost to increase Ike's attack and defense. "I'll give buffs to everyone. Attack it! There's no much time left before it moves again!"

Everyone nodded and quickly tried Geno's strategy out as the puppet himself gave buffs to every single member.

"(Right,)" Geno nodded once he looked at Snake...moving a little. "(Good, he can still move so recovery spells will work well. I need to tell Mallow first.)"

"P-paralyzed?!" DMA asked in rage. "I-I'm not supposed to be paralyzed!"

An arrow hit Dark Domino's face.

"AAHH!!! W-who threw this at m-" he was able to see Fox jumping towards him. "What's a little animal going t-"

"Haaa!!!" Fox began to spin around as he did several kicks in midair. The snake was being pushed back by every hit as it yelled in pain.

"S-stop that!" DMA demanded before Fox jumped towards it again.

However, Dark Domino looked down to see several arrows appearing around Fox and even disappearing with an impacting sound. The vulpine began to do the same thing but this time, the kicks were even stronger than before as the snake looked helpless.

"PI-CHUUUUUUUU!!!" Pichu called forth a strong thunder from underneath the head and it passed right through it. "M-more...I can call...more..."

He yelled out his name again and another thunder struck DMA's head again.

"A-ARGH! STOP THAT!" DMA demanded again before a heavy object was slammed on his stomach. "YEOWCH!"

"Ha!" Ike raised Ragnell again and he slammed the sword hand on DMA's stomach, creating a small rupture that was a wound. "It's working. Let's keep it up!"

"W-what is that?" DMA asked as a green flash flew above his face and exploded into a green firework that made it scream out loud. "AAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!"

A grenade was tossed to its throat and it exploded inside, creating a severe sore throat as the snake's eyes twitched and tried to look at a recovered Snake, who was tossing another grenade above his right hand.

"Hope you enjoyed the time when I was out," Snake said before he tossed the grenade inside its mouth. "Enjoy the blows."

"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!" DMA yelled in pain as the explosion caused even more damage inside itself.

"Star Rain!" Mallow yelled out.

"OH, HECK N-AAAAAAH!!!" DMA yelled in even more pain as a big Starman came from the ceiling and started to bounce above it 14 times before it jumped away. "STOP THIS STUPID NONSENSE!!!"

"Geno Blast!" Geno sent a light to the ceiling where he then slammed down his hands to the floor and lights from the sky rained down above the big snake that yelled in extreme pain as every light crossed its body.

Then, an impacting sound was heard and all of them stopped with their attacks.

Music stops

Dark Mad Adder's body began to tremble violently and its tail around the pillars began to disintigrate as the snake's mouth opened wide to the ceiling. "Why?! WHY?! WHY WHY WHY?! T-this can't be it! NO! ABSOLUTELY...AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!" Dark Domino yelled in extreme pain as the snake roared a last time and slammed its head into the floor, creating a big crack that made the Smashers take a step back as they watched the monster turning grey and to a statue.

"..." Mallow walked to the statue, touched it, and everything that was connected to the statue began to shatter into bits, creating a cloud of dust that covered the entire floor and made them cough uncontrollably before it vanished.

"...Well, that's 1 out of the way," Ness said. "Didn't we fight better this time?"

"Because this one wasn't that hard to defeat," Link sheathed the Master Sword. "I feel good though."

"Attacking it by all the sides and doing all those attacks was...very predictable," Fox nodded. "The strategy was very simple in short words."

A vein popped out from Geno's forehead while Twink floated down to his side. "Be glad at least I pointed that out." Geno said irritated.

"EKAAAAAAAAAANNNNNSSSS!!!"

"Otacon, stop that." Snake said with a frown.

"Heheh, Ekans." Pikachu and Pichu chuckled.

"Sorry," Otacon chuckled. "You were fine after all so I literally yelled backwards your name just for the fun of it."

"It wasn't fun to me." Snake said.

"Ekans..."

"Your name from now on is Ekans," Pikachu proclaimed. "If you train enough, we'll call you Kobra, or Arbok."

"Please," Snake took out a grenade. "Don't."

Pikachu gulped and nodded.

"Hey," Ike began. "Shouldn't we return and see if they did it?"

"Right," Geno nodded and began to run to the path of arcs. "Let's go then."

Several minutes later...

The group made it to the point where the "Machine Mades" and everyone once were. They looked around to find the Machine Mades but they weren't there.

"Huh? Where are those machines guys?" Pikachu asked.

"They were standing behind that counter just a moment ago," Twink said as from behind the counter, many paint cans were dripping small amounts of paint that they didn't notice. "I wonder where they went..."

"Let's forget about them for now an-" Geno saw Ness running to the west gate. "W-where are you going?"

"To help them!" Ness yelled. "Something wrong happened!"

"What? How do you know that?" Link asked.

"I used my telepathy to establish a communication with them but...I-I can't find a single mind!"

"Damn, something did happen to them..." Fox trailed off. "We must go and see what happened."

"Duh," Snake said and everyone looked at him with glares. "What? You guys are so stupidly close to each other."

"Yet you follow us." Twink pointed out.

"Orders from the Coronel. Right, Coronel?"

"La Le Lu Lei Lo," the Colonel was heard saying. "La Le Lu Lei Lo."

"...Colonel?" Snake repeated as he put his right hand on his right ear. "Colonel, what the heck are you saying?"

"La Le Lu Lei Lo, La Le Lu Lei Lo, La Le Lu Lei Lo."

Snake's eyes widened for around 1cm of height. The Colonel had never acted like this before. He was always a focused person with dangerous events like the one Snake was facing. Why would he started to say something so stupid as...that?

Snake narrowed his eyes.

And something struck his mind with the truth...

...That the Colonel was an impostor from the real one...

...Or the Colonel hit his head very hard, obtained extreme stupidity for the codec and somehow was able to contact Snake.

"Colonel, what's happening? Colonel? Colonel?!" Snake took a deep breath and yelled "COOOOOOOLOOOOOOOOOONEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEL!!!"

...

A moment of silence took place as the dark winds ragged on. The Smashers were looking at Snake with confused/disgusted/odd looks before they took several steps back from him.

"I-I don't know him," Ness began as he looked at them. "Y-you guys know now!"

Link rolled his eyes and they decided to follow the west path as Ness explained before.

"COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEL!!!" Snake yelled as he remained in his place.

Link came back and hit Snake's head to make him snap out from his state. The soldier shook his head after the hit and looked at Link. "I don't say this too much...but thanks. I don't know what got into me."

"Meh, it happens." Link said with a nod before they followed the others from behind.

Several minutes later...

Geno's group made it to the area where Mario's group was and most of them gasped when they found everyone but a weakened Lucario fainted on the floor. The Aura Pokémon kept glaring at the clock with Shadow Bugs before the right Dark Ding-a-Ling formed a star (Dark Star) with its own stars and called forth a big black Starman that crashed on Lucario and jumped away.

"G-grrr..." Lucario grunted in pain as his aura flared up. "I'm...sick of you...bastard..."

"Lucario!" Pikachu yelled from the other side as the Smashers went to see if the others were fine.

"My Nayru, what happened here?" Link asked.

"T-that clock..." Lucario muttered as he pointed at the clock. "I-it used many different attacks that kept us from attacking it... T-their auras are still emanating from their bodies...meaning they're still alive..."

"Oh no," Mallow shook his head as he looked at Dark Count Down. "I hated this thin-"

The arrows moved.

"Break Time!" the bells rang.

"Q-quick!" Lucario yelled as he coughed. "Attack the arrows and defeat them!"

"Fear Roulette," the left Dark Ding-a-Ling said (or DD-a-L for short).

A red crystal began to move around everyone's heads before it stopped on Ness, crashed down on him and took him out with one blow.

"NESS!" Pichu yelled worried.

"T-those bells can attack on their own as well...but the clock does much more than them..." Lucario muttered before he fainted.

"Quick!" Geno yelled as he pointed at the big clock. "Take down the arrows before they move!"

The arrows moved and Geno cursed.

"Water Time," the bells rang.

And like the same time, the Smashers in there suffered many explosions of water that resulted into a bigger one, pulling them to the air before crashing to the floor.

"I-if we don't stop those arrows..." Mallow muttered. "I-it will continue to do this..." he put his hands close to each other before yelling out "Star Rain!"

His own Starman came from the sky and crashed on the arrows to discrupt them for a bit. The DD-a-L, however, weren't that happy.

"S'crow Bell," the left DD-a-L rang as a bell formed above Mallow, rained musical notes on him and turned him into a scarecrow.

"Oh, dangit!" Mallow cursed as he tried to move. "I liked the scarecrows but not when I'm the scarecrow!"

Link frowned before glaring at the clock as he took out a bomb. "Let's go and get that thing down."

The arrows moved and they took a step back.

"Break Time!" the bells rang.

"...Why does it say break time every time it attacks before?" Ike asked.

"It's like that," Geno explained. "It attacks, it takes a break, it attacks, it takes a break, it attacks, it takes a break, and the same process goes on."

"With the bells interrupting sometimes." Twink added.

Fox noticed the same blinking light in his scouter. "Weird, the Over Limit is ready...but why?"

"Because they had their own ready," Kawashima was heard from Chris's pocket. "But since you took over their fight, it got to you."

The arrows moved.

"Light Time," the bells rang.

A yellow glowing orb floated down the center of the field and it began to circle a beam around the whole place, pushing everyone back 3 times before it went upwards and disappeared.

"You know what?" Fox asked with irritation. "Screw it, let's use the Final Smash so we can deal some damage to those thin-"

He stopped talking once he saw Snake glowing with a rainbow aura.

"(And somebody else took my chance...)" Fox sighed mentally.

"Hell no," Snake shook his head as he ducked and called something. "I'm not going to say that useless line."

"What did he mean by that?" Ike asked to Link, who lifted up his shoulders.

"Focus on the clock while Snake's at it!" Geno reminded them.

The others saw him jumping upwards where he disappeared somewhere around the dark winds.

"H-hey, where did he go?" Link asked.

It was not long before they saw a chopper's roaring engine while Snake came down from the dark winds (and out from the reach of the floor) as he held his position on a rope ladder with a grenade launcher on his right arm.

"Yeah," Snake nodded before frowning. "This place doesn't make any sense..." he aimed the greande launcher to the clock and the bells. "But who cares as long as those freaky "monsters" get the f(beep)k out from my sight?"

"Is ANYBODY of all of you who doesn't say a curse in front of young kids like Twink around?" Geno asked with irritation as Twink looked miffed at the curse.

Pichu raised his hand.

"Good..."

The arrows moved.

"And I got mad." Snake said (probably breaking the fourth wall) as he began to fire several grenades at the clock, creating some explosions that hit hard the item as the Smashers watched.

"Geno Blast!"

That simple line reminded the distracted Smashers to go forward and attack the clock and bells with everything they had in reserve.

"Keep going like that!" Link yelled to Snake as the grenades kept hitting the items. "It's stunned and attacking it now it's the best idea!"

Lights from the sky rained down on the clock and bells as Geno looked at them. "The arrows! Focus your attacks on the arrows to take them down faster!"

"RUUAAAHH!!!" Ike yelled as he tosed his spinning sword to the arrows, slashing them as the grenades kept hitting the clock before the swordsman jumped to take his sword, spun several times and slammed it hard on the arrows before he slid down since the clock's face was leaning back from its position.

"Damn," Snake cursed after the grenade launcher ran out from grenades. He turned to take more ammunition to it before repeating the same process. "Bless the unlimited grenades."

"Nope," Kawashima called from the pocket. "Your Final Smash will end after you run out from that second round."

"Well, crap," Snake commented as he started to fire the grenades at the arrows. "Doesn't matter a bit. After this empties, this fight will end."

"Ike!" Link yelled to Ike, who looked at him over his shoulder and nodded. The latter swordsman let go of his sword (making a crack on the floor), joined his hands and let Link's right foot to step between the hands as Ike raised him to the air, where the Hyrulian jumped twice to gain a lot of height before taking out his sword and used a down aerial to stuck his sword directly on the arrows.

That's when something came to his mind.

No matter how much the arrows tried to move, they were stuck because the sword went through both of them. Link grabbed the hilt of it to keep his stance and looked down to the others. "The arrows! They can't move anymore!"

"Why?" Pichu asked as he was about to use Thunder.

"My sword went through the longer one and it became stuck in it. The other arrow can't rotate as well!"

He saw one of Snake's grenades shattering the left DD-a-L into pieces while the chopper that carried Snake went up and pulled him back, where he returned back to the floor and next to Geno.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" the other DD-a-L yelled (or rang) in horror. "That is it! Doom Reverb!"

A bell appeared above Link and it rained several musical notes on him. The swordsman then saw several Xs falling around him before he got in a depressed mood and looked down.

At this, Ike stopped from slamming his sword on the clock and looked at Link. "Hey, are you okay?"

"I can fight," Link said (albeit to say, he didn't sound depressed at all). "But I don't know how to use a bow anymore."

"...Creepy..."

"How's that going to do help you to win this fight?" Twink asked to the DD-a-L directly.

"TWINK! Come back here!" Geno yelled as he fired a beam to the stuck arrows.

"Get out!" the left DD-a-L demanded as it tried to attack the Star Kid, but it couldn't and just moved to the sides.

"Ha-ha," Twink tilted to the sides. "You-can't-hit-me," he taunted.

"Dark Star!" DD-a-L yelled furiously as a big black Starman (with the evil look) went after Twink.

"Uh-oh!" Twink said sarcastically. "I'm gonna die!"

"TWINK!" Geno and Mallow (the scarecrow) yelled.

The Star Kid, however, turned his back and stuck his tongue at the bell. "Idiot, I can just go behind the clock and let that star crush the arrows," he said before he flew behind the clock.

The left DD-a-L realized what Twink meant and saw his own attack coming down upon the clock. "RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING!" it rang loudly before the Starman bounced 3 times on the clock, damaging it greatly before it jumped away.

Pichu noticed Fox was grabbing him. "W-what are you doing?!"

"I'm going to toss you to the arrows where Link's sword is," Fox explained. "Use his sword as a lightning rod to damage the clock from the inside."

"Inside?" Pichu asked.

"Not you, but the electricity. It'll go through through the sword as a conductor and discharge everything on the tip."

"...Oh," Pichu nodded. "Then do i-"

He noticed he was already on the sword's hilt with perfect balance.

"B-but how did I...never mind." Pichu frowned before he put his hands closer to him and began discharging as much electricity he could produce. The sword began to act as the conductor of electricity and all of it went down and inside the clock, where it got attacked from the inside with Pichu's electricity before he stopped 10 seconds later and rolled and the way down in exhaustion.

Mallow (who recovered from his transformation) ran to him and grabbed him in time. "You okay?" Mallow asked.

"A-a-a little bit tired..." Pichu sighed. "Too much energy...spent today..."

They saw a small rocket going slowly to the arrows, where it exploded...

...And that same impacting sound was heard, making everyone stop with their attacks on the clock.

"NO!" DD-a-L rang in pain. "I'M DONE FOR, AND MY BROTHER TOO! NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"

"Ahem," Geno coughed. "You're still alive but the arrows aren't."

"..." DD-a-L shook itself, trying to tell it "facepalmed" in its own way. "Well...that's a relief."

He saw Fox running above the clock and towards it before he leaped to it and used a fast hard kick on the right side of it, making it ring madly as the vulpine backstepped from it and landed back to the floor.

"Oh no, now I'm dead!" it said before ringing crazily. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!"

Music stops

Several explosions came around the big clock and it began to explode even faster. The Smashers looked down at the group who was moaning a little in pain but managed to see the clock blowing up. They all saw a huge explosion that caused a lot of smoke before it vanished by the dark winds.

Unfortunately, Twink was a little bit too close to the clock's explosions (since he was hiding behind it) that he got covered in soot and floated to Geno. "...This is the last time I assist someone in battle."

"Y-you..." Marth muttered as he slowly got up by Ike. "D-defeated it?"

"Of course we did," Mallow said. "You guys were biting the dust for who knows when and we came here to save your but-"

"Mallow, that's enough," Geno said as they helped the others to get up from the floor. "You had a hard time with it, right?"

"Hard time?" Sonic (blocking his eyebrow) repeated in annoyance. "That big countdown didn't let me move when I wanted!"

"A-and mostly..." Chris coughed. "Because it turned us into mushrooms and then..."

Peach shrugged. "I-I don't want to remember that again..."

"Well," Link looked at the injured team. "You should recover from your wounds."

"And us as well," Snake wiped the sweat from between his eyes. "We're already worn out."

"Chris..." Mario said as he panted a little. "C-can you heal us?"

"I-I'll try...but it could take a while." Chris said.

"Meh, I'll give you a hand." Mallow offered.

"Good idea," Geno nodded. "Since we pressed the switches, that door should be unlocked by now. But right now, we need to heal ourselves first before we proceed further...to Smithy's factory..."

As Chris changed to his Fonyc Hymn User job, he looked down in depression (something that Lucario noticed). "I feel bad...after we were defeated like that..."

"I'm sorry..." Lucario looked down. "I should've acted faster to deal the first attack..."

"N-no, it's okay..." Chris said before forcing a small smile at him. "This is going to teach us both a lesson...right?"

"...Maybe..." Lucario said with a nod while Chris's staff glowed.

Lucas looked up to the dark winds and made a worried expression. "(How are the others doing right now? Are they doing something else than fighting like us?)"

Smash Mansion
Outside

A creepy wind brushed the grass around the mansion while the lonely 15 figures were standing in an arc formation in the front of the mansion's entrance.

"..." Popo got bored and turned to the mansion.

Nana grabbed his shoulder and pulled him back. "Oh, no, you won't go inside and take a nap." Nana said.

"But Nana!" Popo began. "We've been staring at that lonely hill to the city and look!" he pointed up where the clouds were gathering thunders. "It's gonna rain!"

"With rain or not," Samus began as she put a hand on her arm cannon. "Protecting the mansion is our first priority."

"Can my bed be the first one?" Popo asked.

"That's like the 2389th, Popo." Nana said with a frown.

"That low? Then what's the 2388th?"

"Look, it doesn't matter!"

"They're coming," Mewtwo began. "Be prepared."

"At last," Wolf forwned. "I was about to leave this place."

Far away on the hill, they saw small figures hopping along the other side of the hill before they all revealed to be a band of Shysters and Dark Mack.

C. Falcon made a confused look. "...Are they...riding..."

"Pogoes?" Yoshi finished.

"And the stupidity finally came around," Falco frowned. "Seriously, what the heck do they think they will do with pogoes?"

"POGOES!" Popo yelled in horror (causing everyone else to frown in shame) and hid behind her sister. "N-Nana, they're riding pogoes! You must embrace yourself an-"

"We'll embrace ourselves but TOGETHER, got that?!" Nana asked in fury as she pulled her brother in front of her. "I'm getting sick of that stupid attitude of yours! You didn't use to be like this THAT much..."

Popo looked down for a moment in depression.

"...(Hang on a second...Popo, getting depressed?... Did I hit something in him?)"

"I-I-ah, killer pogoes! Protect me from them!" Popo yelled scared.

"Oh, brother..." Nana frowned.

"They're coming here," Pit said as he took out his dual blades. "We shouldn't underestimate them."

"Exactly," Roy nodded as he unsheated the Sword of Seals. "Underestimating them isn't a good option now."

The Shysters came hopping all the way to them on their pogoes, with Dark Mack using his big pogo-sword in the center of their own arc formation. When they were 10 feet away from the Smashers, they all stopped except for Dark Mack who jumped in the front and stopped.

"So, are you the oh-so dangerous guy of this army of...whatever they are?" Toon Link asked.

"Shy Guys on pogoes." Luigi pointed out.

"Shysters!" Dark Mack yelled angrily. "You're those imbeciles who've been a real pain to Lord Smithy, aren't you?"

"Sadly, for you," Zelda said as she put a hand on her forehead. "I was waiting for someone else more...threatening than yourself. No offense."

"WHAT?!" Dark Mack pointed at her. "How dare you address me as not threatening?! I am the most dangerous lieutenant of the Smithy Gang!"

"You're riding a freaking pogo, for the love of god..." Nana said with a frown.

"Pogoes are awesome," a Shyster said. "They help you jump so high!"

"How high?" Yoshi asked.

"4 feet!"

Yoshi blinked before he used a double jump and reach 15 feet. The Shysters, who were all hopping stopped their hops in surprise as the Yoshi landed back and looked at them.

"..." they all began to retreat.

"COME BACK HERE!" Dark Mack yelled loudly. The Shysters gasped and hopped quickly to their previous positions. "just because there's someone who doesn't use a pogo to jump that high doesn't mean we're far outmached!"

"W-we don't Shadow Bugs as you, Lord Mack!" a Shyster said.

"You can still show them who's better!"

"I'm starting to get sick of this waiting," Meta Knight said as he took out Galaxia. "Prepare to fight or else we will start the first strike."

"Oh no," Dark Mack shook his head with a chuckle. "We'll start like this..."

He snapped his fingers and before their eyes, many Shysters appeared around the woods surrounding the mansion. They looked around before the sounds of glass shattering was heard.

"Damn, they're entering the mansion from the back side!" C. Falcon said. "We should get inside an-"

Explosions began to appear inside the mansion and the screams of agony from the Shysters were heard.

"...Is Master Hand dealing with all of them?" Olimar asked as he looked at the bright lights coming from the main lobby.

"What do you know, he's doing something." Roy said.

"Oh well, it doesn't matter," Dark Mack said. "You still have my own army to deal with. They're pretty strong, I warn you."

The Shysters seemed to sweat when his boss wasn't looking at them.

"I've had enough of this conversation," Mewtwo said as he opened his hand at them while everyone else prepared to fight. "Let's end this."

Kingdom Hearts II - Working Together

"Shysters!" Dark Mack held out his right hand to the Smashers. "Attack and don't leave any remains left!"

"Y-yes, Lord Mack, sir!" the Shysters nodded in panic before they hopped towards the Smashers, who ran forward to initiate the battle.

"Go away, freak!" Nana yelled as she slammed her hammer on a Shyster's face and blasted him away easily. "What the...was that all?"

"Hey," Popo stepped besides her. "Those guys are not that hard in reality!"

"Duh! They're riding pogoes!"

"O-oh my..." Olimar muttered as 3 Shysters were hopping around him. "L-leave me alone!" he yelled as he pluck out several Pikmins that he tossed at the Shysters. The Pikmins began to bang on the Shysters' heads and they screamed and fell off from their pogoes. Olimar looked around in confusion as the Shysters (or Shy Guys) tried to get the Pikmins off. "...Yay?" he cheered in confusion.

Samus shot a missile to 2 Shysters. When the missile exploded, the Shysters screamed in pain and were pushed away from their pogoes and vanished upon making contact with the grass. "...They're not giving that much of a problem..."

"Look out!" Popo yelled to Pit as a Shyster jumped high and went to crush Pit's head. The angel blocked his head before the pgo-sword touched his arms...but he didn't feel nothing. He felt a small scratch that couldn't be defined as attack as the Shyster hopped back to the ground. "Oh no! You got attacked!"

"...But it wasn't that strong..." Pit said before taking his bow and shooting an arrow to the same Shyster, who yelled and tried to escape but he got hit and pushed away from his pogo, where he disappeared when he touched the ground. "And my arrows are the weakest attacks I have..."

"YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHH!!!" Luigi was running away from 4 Shysters that chased after him.

Meta Knight frowned and used Drill Rush to push them all away from the green plumber. Every single Shyster yelled in pain before they vanished with their pogoes. The Star Warrior stopped spinning forward and looked at a somewhat frightened Luigi. "Please, don't degrade yourself even more that you are right now. It's embarrassing."

Luigi gulped. "B-but their masks are scary..."

He looked at Meta Knight's mask and got the true definition of scary.

Luigi gulped. "N-not like yours, of course..."

"There is one behind you."

Luigi turned around and made a ridiculous fighting stance. "I-I can see your soul! F-fight me!"

There was no one behind him at all and he turned to look at the knight.

"...W-why did you trick me?"

Meta Knight took a closer step to him and Luigi backed away. "Dare to show that attitude when I'm around and I'm going to kill you."

Luigi's pupils shrunk and he trembled with goosebumps. "K-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-kill me?!"

Meta Knight nodded...but then shook his head. "No. Just fight and stop turning into a big coward."

"I-I'm not a coward!"

"Good." Meta Knight said before he went after more Shysters.

Luigi gulped and tried to find a lonely Shyster.

"F-fear the lordship of Lord Mack!" a Shyster proclaimed as he was jumping back from Wolf, who got closer and closer to him. "F-fear me as well!"

Wolf quickly grabbed the Shyster, pushed the pogo away and shoved the mask wielder's face to his. "I've got something here for you."

"W-what, s-supreme fighter?" the Shyster tried to beg for mercy by complementing the thug.

Wolf raised his right claw sideways and the index claw shone for a second towards the tip. "My claw."

The Shyster gulped. "P-please! I-I'll join you!"

"I don't accept freaks with masks."

The Shyster removed his mask (and for some reason, the screen looked from behind the Shyster as Wolf narrowed his eye at him. "T-there! No mask!"

Wolf, ignoring that he was the first person who had ever seen a Shy Guy's face (or second to Luigi at the second tennis tourney), punched the small enemy to the grass where it vanished (with mask) as the thug crossed his arms and frowned. "Nobody is worthy to be called an enemy these days..."

"Ha!" Zelda slashed 2 Shysters with her palm's magic and they were sent blasting away before vanishing. "I'm not putting my best effort and they're so easy to kill."

"These guys are not even worth it," Falco said as he held a Shyster by his neck and delivered a strong punch to send him away. "Heck, I bet a pebble can defeat them."

"Oh, let me try that!" Popo said as he picked up a pebble and tossed it to a Shyster, who was sent away before vanishing after the pebble touched him. "Score!"

"..." Falco facepalmed and decided to use his Blaster to eliminate most of them even faster. He yawned out loud. "I can imagine how the others are doing inside that sword in the city."

Dark Mack watched all his troup getting annihilated and obliterated by every single Smashers. Very soon, he would be the last remaining from the entire army of weak enemies. "D-didn't you say you were stronger this time?!" Dark Mack asked inrritation.

He felt a presence behind him and hopped to turn, where he found Mewtwo with crossed arms.

"Your fate is so easy to predict now," Mewtwo said as he glowed a little. "Prepare to die."

"I'm very different from these idiots!" Dark Mack yelled as he raised a hand to create a big flame that he tossed to Mewtwo, who used Confusion to re-direct the attack back.

"Too easy." Mewtwo said with a frown.

"BURN ALIVE!" Dark Mack yelled as he waved his hand towards Mewtwo to re-direct the flame back, but with a faster speed that caught Mewtwo off-guard and was hit by the scorching flames.

"U-ugh!" Mewtwo twitched in pain and backed away a little.

Dark Mack held a small flame on his right palm. "I can control any kind of fire here. Reflecting them back will just make them even stronger and faster for you to evade and resist respectively!"

"I-I should've predicted that from the beginning..." Mewtwo said as he stood up and narrowed his eyes at him. "Anyone who has the Shadow Bugs prove to be a danger."

"Exactly!" Dark Mack said as he noticed that his army of Shysters was gone while the Smashers ran towards him and stopped around the pogo-sword wielder. "Oh, lovely! Everyone's here to gang up on me? How cliché!"

"Get him!" Yoshi yelled as everyone rushed towards Dark Mack.

"FLAME WALL!"

A scorching wall of flames surrounded himself and burned everyone greatly before vanishing into small sparks and leaving all of them damaged. "D-darn, this guy is pretty different than those idiots..." Roy muttered.

Dark Mack laughed. "Hahahahahaha! Fear my power, impudents!"

"Don't get distracted in front of your enemy!" Pit yelled as he ran towards Dark Mack.

"Too slow!" Dark Mack taunted as he jumped over Pit but then struck down his pogo-sword on his back. Pit felt a strong pain running through his back as he crashed into the ground while Dark Mack jumped several feet back.

"U-ugh..." Pit moaned in pain. "B-be careful of that...toy... I-it's not...weak...like the others...were..."

"Hahahahaha!" Dark Mack laughed. "I'm up against 15 people and they can even land a proper hit on me!"

"Oh yeah?" Falco asked before his began to shoot the enemy with several shots of his Blaster. Hovewer, Dark Mack evaded them by jumping at the sides, moving forward towards Falco.

"Out!" Samus yelled as she shot a big Charged Shot. The pogo wielder, as he evaded Falco's shots, jumped high over the shot and above Falco. The pilot looked up and quickly flipped back to evade a crash of the sword tip.

"Uah!" Falco yelled after a shockwave from the crash was sent around Dark Mack, pushing everyone close to him back.

"How annoying..." Mewtwo said as he charged a Shadow Ball.

"Flame!" Dark Mack yelled as he shot a scorching ball of flames towards Mewtwo.

Mewtwo didn't have another choice but to launch the Shadow Ball that collided with the ball of flames, but it persisted after the crash on the Shadow Ball and went impacting on Mewtwo, who grunted in pain and backed away. "Even with that is useless..."

"Try my new trick!" Dark Mack yelled as he jumped above his pogo-sword and it extended quickly the tip to Mewtwo's chest. The Psychic Pokémon's eyes widened after the harsh hit landed on him and he started to cough some blood while the tip quickly returned back to he pogo and Dark Mack, who got above his pogo and laughed. "Feeling a burning pain now?"

"U-ugh..." Mewtwo knelt and panted heavily.

"You'll pay for that!" C. Falcon yelled as he rushed to Dark Mack.

The pogo wielder made flames on each hand and shot them at the captain, who sidestepped from the blow and continued to rush to him.

"Oh no!" Dark Mack said as he made another flame and quickly turned his back to shot the fast ball to Meta Knight, who got pushed back but landed on his feet. "Let's not forget about you too!" he yelled as he hopped over C. Falcon and impacted the tip of his pogo by extending it down on him.

"UGH!" C. Falcon was sent away to a tree where he hit with his back and slid down to touch the ground.

"Useless pests," Dark Mack muttered as he made another flame on his right hand. "You should be burned for much as I care!"

Toon Link saw that Dark Mack was close to the trees and he suddenly got an idea. "Hey, pogo-dork! Get this!" he yelled as he aimed his arrow at him.

"An arrow? That's the best you have?" Dark Mack asked with a laugh before shooting the flame to Toon Link, who then shot his arrow narrowly missing the flame and the cartoony swordsman sidestepped to evade the blow.

Dark Mack remained in his position as the arrow passed right above his shoulder. "Have a better aim next tim-" he got interrupted when the same arrow returned back to him and hit his neck. "UGH! W-what the heck?! H-how did this thing hit me from behind?!" he asked as he turned to the trees, finding no one. "Why?!"

"Pay more attention!" Roy yelled as he quickly stopped behind Dark Mack and used Double Edge to push the pogo wielder 4 times.

"He's staggering. Now's our chance to deal some blows!" Nana yelled as the Smashers rushed to the enemy.

"N-not falling off..." Dark Mack muttered and he almost stumbled back. "Not falling of-"

"Idiot," Wolf muttered as leaped to Dark Mack and dug his right claw on his mask before taking it by scratching his mask downward. "Did that hurt? I hope so."

"A-away!" Dark Mack yelled as shot a small flame to Wolf and pushed him away. The pogo wielder saw a Charged Shot about to crash on him...oh wait, it crashed on him. "AAHH!!!"

Then an egg crashed on his mask as well.

"Stop throwing those things at me!" Dark Mack yelled before he was pushed back by Yoshi from above as he used Yoshi Bomb and crashed on the ground. "There you are!"

"What about me?" Toon Link asked behind Dark Mack before slashing his sword 2 times on the sides of the tip of the pogo. Dark Mack almost lost balance but managed to hold on.

"Flame Wall!" Dark Mack extended his hands at the sides and spun them doing arcs of flames that pushed Yoshi and Toon Link to the air. "Try this! Hahahahaha!" Dark Mack jumped to the ground, but his hands remained on the handle of the pogo and he quickly aimed the tip to Yoshi before extending it rapidly to his stomach. Yoshi felt a big pain and he tried to resist it before he crashed on the ground.

"I-I'm not feeling so well..." Yoshi said as he grabbed his stomach in pain.

"Flame!" Dark Mack yelled before shooting a ball of flame to Yoshi. The Yoshi couldn't move after the hit but then he was grabbed from the neck by a fast arm before the flames exploded on the ground.

"P-phew... Thank you..." Yoshi thanked Sheik.

"Be glad I was close to you or else you could've been burned badly." Sheik said.

"Who wants some more?" Dark Mack asked. "I have plenty of energy and flames here to burn anything down to the ground!"

"Then let's try flames." Falco said as he pulled his fists back and got engulfed in flames.

"Fool!" Dark Mack held his hands to the avian and Falco suddenly felt his own flames burning him instead of helping him.

"AAAAAAHHHHH!!!" Falco yelled in pain before the flames ceased and he fell down to the ground with several burn marks on his feathers. "D-d-dangit... I-I should've remembered..."

"Another one who wants to try fire with me? I'll only make your own fire betray you so you can suffer the consequences!"

"L-listen to him..." said a weakened Mewtwo close to a tree. "He can control the fire and make it burn even more... Don't use any fire attacks or you'll regret it..."

"Oh," Dark Mack turned to him. "I forgot about you. Only one more hit and you're out to the loser's bench..." he made flames on his hands. "Nah, make it the burned bench of burned losers! Mwahahahahaha!"

"Stop!" Popo and Nana yelled as they jumped towards Dark Mack and used Blizzard to try and cool down the flame balls.

"Dorks!" Dark Mack yelled as the Ice Climbers landed on the ground before he used Flame Wall to push them away to some trees. "My flames can't be cooled down either! Water can't as well!"

Thunders began to roar in the dark clouds of the night.

"Don't even think the clouds will help you either!" Dark Mack said before he noticed Olimar walking towards him. "Pfft, this guy is the best or what?" he held several flames above his hands. "Hope you get roasted inside that helmet of yours!"

"G-go!" Olimar yelled as he flung 3 Red Pikmins to the pogo wielder.

"Ha!" Dark Mack fired his flame balls to the Red Pikmins. However, the flames only went through them without burning them and they latched on his mask before banging on it. "OWW! OWW! G-et off me!" he tried to burn them by covering himself with fire, but they kept banging and banging. "GET-OFF-NOW!"

[DededeCloneChris]

"K-keep going!" Olimar cheered to his Pikmins. "He can't retaliate witho-"

The Pikmin Captain gasped when Dark Mack stuck his pogo-sword in the ground, pullet himself back and went forward to shake the Pikmins off to a tree, where they were killed once they touched it.

"M-my Pikmins! Nooo!!!" Olimar yelled.

"Shut up!" Dark Mack yelled as he jumped back to the ground, pointed his pogo at Olimar and extended the tip to him quickly, dealing a very strong blow that made Olimar's eyes open in pain as he embraced himself.

"O-oww..." Olimar moaned.

The tip pulled itself back to Dark Mack and he jumped on the top of the pogo. "And no more Pikmins things at my mask, got that?!"

He saw Sheik lunging at him with kunais between all her fingers. "Let's see if my kunais can pierce that mask of yours." Sheik said as she tossed the kunais quickly.

Dark Mack waved a flaming hand to create a small wall of fire that made the kunais bump and fell down to the ground. "Projectiles are useless as we-" he stopped once Sheik kicked right to his mask and was pushed away from the pogo-sword. "AAAAAAHHHHH!!! H-how dare you?!"

Sheik grabbed the pogo and looked at Dark Mack. "You're useless without this, right?"

Dark Mack made flame balls on his hands. "I still have my fire magic with me. Give me that or else you'll suffer!"

"You want it?"

"Yes!"

"You really want it?"

"YES!"

"You really, really want it?"

"YE-" Dark Mack's neck was suddenly slashed by a fast claw that dug itself on him. He yelled in pain and tried to look behind him where Wolf was, a smirk on his face. "T-TAKE THAT FILTHY CLAW OFF MY NECK!"

"With pleasure." Wolf said as he took the claw out by first closing it and pulling the pogo wielder to the ground.

"Got you!" Roy and Pit yelled in unison as they jumped towards Dark Mack and raised their weapons up before pointing them down to his mask.

"BEGONE!" Dark Mack yelled as he used Flame Wall to push the 2 away. He quickly got up and looked around for his pogo. "Where did that ninja go with my pogo?!"

"Oww!"

He heard a yell coming from some trees where Yoshi was rubbing his tail while Toon Link had the pogo laying down on the ground. "Can't you break it?" Toon Link asked.

"I-I can't break this..." Yoshi said. "E-even with Yoshi Bomb...it's too hard..."

"GIVE IT BACK TO ME!" Dark Mack yelled loudly as he shot several flame balls to the trees. The 2 gasped as the trees ignited and they ran away from the trees with the pogo.

Unfortunately, they ran to Dark Mack without seeing him.

"You're MINE!" Dark Mack yelled before he used Flame Wall to scorch the 2 greatly. Toon Link let the pogo for a moment, giving Dark Mack enough time to grab it and stand on top of it. "Aw, sweet deadly weapon. How much did I miss yo-" he was interrupted as he lost his pogo again by a weak Falco, who was charging a kick in front of him to push the pogo on its blade. "DAMMIT!"

"H-hey," Falco began as he grabbed the enemy with his right hand on his neck. "T-this is for making my own fire damage me..."

He started to hit him with his right knee on his mask. Dark Mack grunted more and more before he made a flame ball behind his back and pushed it to Falco's face, causing a severe burning attack on the pilot who yelled in pain and backed away.

"I had enough!" Dark Mack yelled as he ran at Falco, pulled hands back that had flame balls and pushed them towards Falco's chest.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!" Falco screamed in severe pain as an explosion of fire engulfed him and Dark Mack. Some of the others gasped as smoke came out from him before he fell down and dropped defeated.

"You..." Dark Mack panted. "This...happened...bacause...you were...annoying..."

"You shall pay."

"Who said that?!" Dark Mack asked as he turned around before getting a strong slash across his mask. "AAAAAAAAHHH!!!"

Meta Knight, who did the previous slash, grabbed Dark Mack and hit him with the spikes of his wings. The masked warrior pushed Dark Mack into the ground , stood above him and attacked him with the tip of his purple boots at an insane rate before crashing them down to push Dark Mack away.

"U-ugh..." Dark Mack panted as he picked his pogo nearby and stood on it. "I-I'm not defeated yet... I can still fight and...burn you all...to the ground..."

"Try that," Samus said. "We dare you."

"W-we?" Luigi asked from behind a tree.

"You there! Come here and fight!" Nana demanded.

"Stay focused, because I'm not done yet!" Dark Mack yelled as he created more flames and shot them at them while the fire of them covered the screen.

Exor
Gate

Super Mario RPG – Weapons Factory

The infiltration team walked towards where the Machine Mades previously were. They were all completely healed thanks to Chris (who was in his ISOKFMG) and Mallow's healing magic.

"Where did they go?" Jigglypuff asked.

"Who cares?" Mallow asked as he pointed at the door. "Our sweet path is right passing that arc!"

"B-before we go...Lucario?" Chris asked to Lucario.

"Right away," Lucario said with a nod before he glowed and inspected the area past the arc. "..."

"Did you get something this time?" Pikachu asked.

"...Grrrrrr..."

"I don't like that grunt at all..." Pichu shuddered.

"I sense some familiar presences  nearby..." Lucario said before he stopped glowing and opened his eyes. "There are 13 of them."

"Can you see who or how do they look like?" Ness asked.

"...I can't tell," Lucario shook his head. "The winds here blow many dark energy and it can't let me see clearly the person in another area. Only in this area I can find people."

"Is your aura fine?" Chris asked concerned.

"Don't worry. My aura is at its normal level. This is not like the Netherworld."

"We better get prepared even more for anything ahead," Geno said as he began walking to the arc. "If this is the main path to Smithy, then it's most likely the forces that he has are going to be more dangerous this time around."

"We already beat 2 legless idiots, a big snake and a f(beep)d up clock with annoying bells," Snake said as Geno turned and glared at him for his curse. "Next time you'll see a freaking tea cup sipping hot tea on the floor to burn our feet."

Peach gasped and she looked at the tea cup she was holding delicately on her right hand.

"Peach, is not your tea cup..." Mario trailed off.

"Phew..." Peach sighed in relief and Snake frowned.

Lucas gulped and took out Rope Snake. "W-watch over me, okay?"

"You watch over me!" Rope Snake said.

"W-what?"

"I-I mean, yeah! Sure! Good old Rope Snake will watch your back!" he hid inside ucas's pocket. "...From over here, of course."

"Y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-"

"What are you trying to say?" Ness asked.

"Y-y-y-y-y-y-aw, I can't curse to him!" Lucas said with an ashamed look.

"At least there's somebody here who can't curse..." Geno muttered as they proceeded below the arc.

The next floor was big. It looked very wide and there were several piles of failed Machine Mades on the edges. The Smashers looked around the place and they found a big iron wall with some double doors.

"...." Mallow went to the wall and leaned his right ear (if he had one) to listen to something on the other side of it. "...I hear machines...conveyor belts moving...machines being made...gears moving..."

"Smithy is past that door," Geno said. "Or more accurately, deeper in that factory."

"So, we have to break down these doors?" Link asked.

"They seem big to me..." Ike trailed off unsure.

Geno used Geno Beam to destroy the doors, but it only remained touching it before it vanished and didn't leave any marks on it. "And very resistant." Geno added.

"Now this is a problem..." Fox crossed his arms and closed his eyes to think of something.

"Should we use a Final Smash?" Kirby asked.

Meanwhile, close to the arc, there was Sonic trying to communicate with Dark Super Sonic. "You bastard, you hear me there?" Sonic asked with a glare.

"What do you want now?" Dark Super Sonic asked inside his mind.

"Get rid of this stupid eyebrow, now."

"Why should I?" he chuckled. "It looks so good on you."

"It doesn't!" Sonic yelled (but the others didn't hear him). "It looks worthless, useless and stupid. Get rid of it!"

"No," his voice turned more menacing. "I won't listen to you...nah, make it never."

"Too bad," Sonic said. "I'm the one in charge here and you're just a pest inside my mind. Get out before I make you go away."

"How?" Dark Super Sonic (who suddenly appeared in a reflection of Sonic's mind on his forehead, but only his mouth and part of his neck) asked with a smirk. "If you knew how, you should've done it for quite a while. I like this place, or should I say your mind? Heheheh..."

"(D-darn you...)"

"I can still read your mind and your thought as well. Basically, my dear slave, I can see anything you see, or think for that matter."

"Look," Sonic's glare narrowed. "Get out, leave me alone, get rid of the eyebrow, and I'll be good."

"Sort out those demands first."

Sonic grunted. "Get rid of the eyebrow, get out, leave me alone, and I'll be good."

"Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeell..."

"So?" Sonic raised his eyebrow and later cursed under his breath.

"...No."

"DAMMIT!" Sonic's voice turned deeper by Dark Super Sonic. "YOU BETTER LEAVE MY MIND BEFORE I SMACK YOU ONE BUT HARD!!!"

The hedgehog stopped yelling, blinked with small pupils and noticed everyone looking at him with confused looks.

"...I knew something was wrong with you the first moment I saw your face for the first time, hedgehog." Snake said.

Sonic gulped. "I-I was just cursing because I hate this place so much like all of us do..." his voice seemed to turn back to normal.

"...But don't go that far..." Geno shook his head. "I hate it so much but I don't express my thoughts like that."

"Or never." Twink said.

"W-well..." Sonic chuckled and smiled worried. "L-let's put our minds together and open that door!"

"..." the others simply turned their backs to him and Sonic sighed before turning to the arc.

"Thank you. Now they think I'm a freak." Sonic muttered with a glare.

"Oh, you're welcome," Dark Super Sonic said with a smirk. "Freak."

"Grrrrr..."

Sonic didn't notice that his eyebrow disappeared, but his fangs returned and some fur was sprouting out from his ankles.

"Well, enjoy my new previews," Dark Super Sonic said with a chuckle. "Can't wait for the full thing, though."

"I'll find a way to get you out," Sonic threatened. "When that happens, you'll be sorry."

"We'll see who's sorry first. For now, I gotta go and wait for tomorrow's night. Full moon will be around the sky's corner and I don't want to miss that."

"...Huh?" Sonic sensed that his dark self disappeared. "Dammit, he went away... And now I have fangs and hair out from my shoes..."

The hedgehog frowned and walked to the others, making sure his fangs didn't stick out or his fur as he pulled the cloth up to cover both ankles.

Then Pikachu went to him and gave him another paper.

I know what happened just now. Mwahahahahahaha...

Sonic ripped the paper. "Let me guess, you weren't looking and that odd note was there in your hand."

"Heheheheh..." Pikachu chuckled embarrassed. "Pretty much..."

"...But who in their sane mind would write down the evil laugh?" Sonic asked.

"And I'm supposed to know?" Pikachu asked with a bored look before turning his back to him.

"...(Who could it be?)" Sonic thought.

"...Nope, not a single clue how to open these doors," Link turned to the arc. "The city's done for. Let's go bac-"

Geno grabbed Link's right shoulder and pulled him back. "No surrendering."

"Then fine!" Link threw his hands up. "Do you have an idea then?!"

Lucario blinked before he glared up to the sky. "Here they come!"

Everyone looked above and found several figures dropping down. "Dammit, I knew there was a trick behind all this!" Ness said before he made a green flash come out from his head. "PK Flash!"

The fully charged explosion exploded and the PK kid noticed Snake tossing 3 grenades upwards, where they exploded and created a bigger explosion above their heads.

The Smashers noticed 13 figures spreading to the floor...where they crashed with soot marks around themselves.

"Huh?" Fox felt something biting his boot and he looked down, where a familiar Piranha Plant didn't move. "You again?"

"YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" it yelled before it dug itself back to the floor and appeared besides one of the 14.

"W-why do you STILL wear those heavy and hard boots around?!" the same Piranha Plant asked with tears coming from somewhere of its head. "M-my poor fangs, they're shattering apart again!"

Super Mario RPG – Here's Some Weapons

"Dammit!" a figure stood up and cursed. "Our entrance got ruined because Red Ninjakoopa said it was going to work!"

"My fault?!" another figure asked. "It was YOUR fault last time I checked, stupid Axem Ranger!"

"Stop!" a figure...you know what? Let's say their names already. Yaridovich stood up and walked to Axem Red and Red Ninjakoopa. "You better stop arguing right now. Now it's not the time to be bickering!"

"Like, right!" Axem Pink stood up and took out a napkin to clean herself. "Like, our plans should be working by now, but yelling isn't one of them!"

"No! Our magnificent entrance got screwed over!" Axem Green said. "Why must our awesome entrances be ruined like this?"

"Give me a break!" Green Ninjakoopa frowned. "We know we're awesome, but the fault is all yours!"

"Ours?!" Axem Green repeated before glaring at him. "You should be the one apologizing and feel the utter failure along with us!"

"A-and pray for a better tomorrow..." Axem Yellow looked up with closed eyes.

"Guys, GUYS!" Yellow Ninjakoopa yelled to calm all of them. "Put yourselves together! Today should be our best day ever!" he looked at Black Ninjakoopa. "Black! Say something smart for once!"

"Heheh, stop..." Black Ninjakoopa chuckled.

"...Main point given!" Yellow Ninjakoopa said. "Yeah, that's our smart...er...smart Black!"

"Smart, nya?" Bowyer asked as he pointed down at Black Ninjakoopa (or Black N. For short). "Sum 1 plus 1 he can't do at all, nya! You call that smart?"

"Heheh, smart..." Black N. Repeated with a chuckle.

"Mind never, nya!"

"Mind never? You're the retard here!" Axem Red said angrily.

"Red, let's not get angrier." Axem Black suggested.

"Shut your mouth! I'm the leader here and you can't give me orders!"

"I'm just suggesting what's best, and it is the best thing we should do."

"Shut up, shut up!" Axem Red covered his ears (if he had any). "I don't want to hear anything!"

"I want to have my fangs back!" LPP cried out.

"I want to fight here!" Yaridovich yelled.

"I want like, to clean myself from this ugly-ugly thing! It makes me feel like, u-g-l-y!" Axem Pink cried out.

"I want food!" Axem Yellow yelled.

"I want my entrance!" Axem Green yelled.

"I want respect!" Red N. yelled.

"Heheh, laugh..." Black N. muttered.

"I want attention!" Green N. yelled.

"Fight I want, nya!" Bowyer yelled.

"I want somebody to hear my best suggestions!" Axem Black yelled.

"Shut up, all of you!" Yaridovich yelled with irritation. "This stupid entrance thing put us off the track. If somebody should get punished for this, that somebody should be the stupid axe wielders!"

"Rude, we have names!" Axem Green said with a glare. "Heck, we come from the same place, work with you in the same area and you don't know our names?"

"I rather not!" Yaridovich spat back. "I can't believe you're a higher rank than mine!"

"Or mine, nya!" Bowyer said angrily.

"Shut up!" Red N. yelled. "I don't know how we ended up with a bunch of retards like you, machines!"

"Yourself speak for, nya!" Bowyer yelled. "Better than you, a machine can do, nya!"

"Ugh!" Yellow N. blocked his ears. "I-I've had enough of that twisted language of yours! Who do think you are?"

"A higher autority, nya! Than these guys, I'm better, nya!"

"You? Better?" Axem Black frowned. "You're a freaking bow with a distorted language and very sick eyes!"

"I-in the same group, we are, nya," Bowyer said. "More respect, give me, nya!"

"You're the second worst machine than all of your species!" Green N. yelled.

"Then how's the first one?" Axem Red asked.

"Irony." Red N. said with a bored look.

"...Oh, you DIDN'T address me as the worst, did you?!"

"Ha! I did!" he shoved his face to Axem Red. "Wanna make something out of it?"

"Heck yeah!" Axem Red spat back. "I have my pals here who can own your pals! Isn't that right?"

Axem Yellow was rubbing his stomach before Axem Red slapped his face. "Y-yeah! Whatever you say!"

Yaridovich took out his spear. "I have a better idea. Why don't we shut the other's mouth forever and see who gets to fight the Smashers?"

The Axem Rangers (except Axem Pink) took out their axes, Bowyer took several arrows out while the Koopa Bros...took out ninja weapons.

Kingdom Hearts II - Rowdy Rumble

It seemed that the Axem Rangers, the Koopa Bros., Yaridovich, LPP and Bowyer were arguing like complete retards/idiots/dorks/stupids by no reason at all. Crystal King and Huff N. Puff, meanwhile, were watching all the unnecessary madness from the edge of the wide floor, where the big iron doors were.

"...I'm surrounded by idiots..." Crystal King muttered.

"You're an idiot too." Huff N. Puff said.

"S-shut up!"

"No, you shut up!" Huff N. Puff yelled back.

And with that, every single villain was either yelling or cursing out loud at each other.

The Smashers, completely confused and utterly speechless, where watching all of them...doing whatever they were doing.

"...They're back?" Lucas asked.

"Looks like it..." Ness frowned.

"And sadly..." Snake frowned. "They're even more stupid than they used to be."

"They're not stupid..." Mario trailed off. "They're....uncomprehended."

"Isn't that for babies?" Twink asked.

"It applies to them as well, it seems..." Link sweatdropped.

"I feel so bad for them..." Chris closed his eyes in shame. "They looked more menacing in the games they were in...but in person they're at the point to break up in rage."

"...I want to ask something." Ike asked.

"What?" Pichu asked.

"If we defeat them...are the doors going to open?"

"...Well," Sonic began. "If my world, if you defeat a big enemy, something opens or gives you something to open something else."

"Really?" Peach asked. "That happens in my world too."

"Weird. In my world, that happens too." Link said.

"E-er, that happens in a lot of games and your worlds are not so different." Chris said embarrased.

Marth looked at all the villains arguing with each other. More seconds passed, and they began to fight between each other by punching, using magic or with whatever thing they used to fight (except for Axem Pink, who was busy cleaning herself from the soot, and LPP, who was moaning in pain for his shattered fangs).

"...Are they ignoring us?" Marth asked before he looked down, where Fox was sitting down with crossed legs and chin resting on his right palm with a bored look. "What is it with you now?".

"I was asking for a challenge this time...and we got them from all the people." Fox said before he yawned. "Enemies these days shouldn't be considered enemies anymore to me..."

"That is sad..." Lucario agreed with a nod.

"Definitely," Geno agreed as well before shaking his head. "T-that doesn't matter! We need to defeat them!"

Ness sat close to Fox in the same position. "Why? They're destroying each other as we speak."

"Can't we just...I don't know, watch them kill themselves?" Pikachu asked as he jumped to Chris's shoulder and extended his little arms on it before yawning. "I want to get a little rest here if you don't mind..."

"No," Geno shook his head and pointed at Axem Pink. "She's out from the arguments."

"Not now." Mallow said.

"What?" the puppet saw a flame going towards the same Axem Ranger before she got burned, thus covering her in more soot than before.

"YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEH!!!" Axem Pink squealed in horror. "M-my makeup is running up so much! H-how dare you?!" she yelled before she took her axe and went after the villains.

"...Well..." Geno looked at LPP crying in an edge. "What about him?"

"M-my world is not my world without my fangs!" LPP yelled loudly before he looked down to the abyss. "I'll suicide myself!" he yelled loudly as he dove down to the dark abyss...but he forgot he was forever tied to safe ground and the only thing he did was hang on from below the floor. "Dammit! This is my hell!"

"..." Twink saw Yaridovich using Water Blast on Axem Red and Green N. before Axem Black tackled him down, before Bowyer shot an arrow on his back, before Axem Pink banged her axe on the bow guy, before Axem Black tossed several bombs (using Spritz Bombs) on Crystal King, before Yellow N. lunged at him, before Huff N. Puff blew wind angrily, before Axem Yellow tossed a disgusting bubble to him, before Red N. used Shell Toss (passing below the cloud but hitting Axem Red).

Then before Axem Black chuckled and before he heard LPP lamenting.

"...This is so sad..." Twink shook himself. "So, but so sad..."

"...Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwww..." Chris yawned out loud. "How did we get worked up when we fought them again?"

"They had Shadow Bugs before...but they don't anymore." Lucario pointed out.

"Oh, so true."

"But why?" Pikachu asked grogily.

"Simple," Snake began. "His boss saw how stupid they were with the Shadow Bugs and he decided to take the bugs away from them, forever."

"Well, that's good news," Jigglypuff said as Axem Red and Red N. were punching each other without using their weapons. "Besides the fact they're doing the work for us."

"TAKE THIS!" Axem Red yelled as he delivered a punch to Red N.'s nose. "SNEEZE!"

"ACHOO!" Red N. sneezed...on the Axem Ranger.

"YEW!" Axem Red backed away in disgust before Red N. pinned him down with his hands.

"Like, taste steel!" Axem Pink yelled as she slammed her axe on Bowyer.

"Nya!" Bowyer twitched in pain from the attack on his stomach before he aimed at her with 2 arrows that he shot.

"Like, that hurts!" Axem Pink yelled as she tumbled back before she regained control and jumped at Bowyer.

"Wanna eat?!" Yellow N. asked as he pinned down Axem Yellow and delivered a knee attack on his gut. "Wanna eat?!"

"Y-yes!" Axem Yellow yelled. "I-I wanna eat!"

"BANZAI!" Green N. lunged at Yellow N. to pin him down to the floor. "DIE, DIE, DIE!"

"Y-YOU I-IDIOT!" Yellow N. yelled between punches as he managed to stop his companion. "IT'S ME, YOU NUMSKULL!"

Green N. stopped punching him and scratched his neck in embarrassment. "Whoops, I thought you were the other green dud-" he stopped because Axem Green lunged at him with his axe upwards. Yellow N. got up and he was tackled down by Axem Yellow.

"Boulder!" Yaridovich yelled to call forth a rain of boulders that fell on Huff N. Puff. The cloud twitched in pain as every boulder landed on him before he managed to cast down a thunder on the floor to electrocute the spear weapon. "Ugh! Y-you filthy cloud!"

"Rust spear!"

"Gas cloud!"

"Stick!"

"Fat!"

Huff N. Puff gasped before he cried and lunged at Yaridovich in rage.

"Freeze!" Crystal King yelled before exhaling a blizzard from his mouth to Axem Black, who got frozen instantly before breaking out and using Spritz Bombs to call a small rain of small bombs that exploded around the king. "Damn you!"

"Likewise," Axem Black tossed his axe at the king, who sidestepped to evade the hit. "This is going to be a while..."

"Ice bolt!" Crystal King raised his sleeves and an ice bolt fell down on Axem Black, frozing him again before breaking out.

"Heheh," Black N. chuckled close to the Smashers. "Hello."

"You're missing a fight over there." Sonic said.

"Heheh, I know..."

Kirby sighed, took out his hammer and slammed in on Black N.'s head.

"O-oww!" Black N. yelled. "W-what the hell, dude! What did you do that for?"

This little event surprised some of the Smashers.

"...Excuse me?" Link asked. "Why are you sounding...smarter all of a sudden?"

"Smarter? What do you mean by that? I was always myself!" Black N. said with a glare. "I dunno what happened to me before but I feel like I've been saying very, but VERY dumb things," he looked at Geno. "You there! You know what happened to me before? Ever since I drank that weird Koopa Tea a month ago, my mind has been all fussy!"

"Er...you were always chuckling by no reason and you always spoke nothing very smart at all." Geno explained.

"Is that so?" Black N. asked. "Man! I've been missing a lot, haven't I?"

"U-um...yes." Twink said.

"So, anyway," he looked at his companions. "Why are they fighting between each other? Did Yellow N. break Red N's favorite action figure again?"

"...Pretty much?" Mallow asked.

"Oh, he better not!" he glared at his companions. "Because that action figure happens to be MY favorite action figure. You're gonna pay, pals!" Black N. yelled before he ran to the fight and began fighting the villains.

"...And the common sense of all of them here thus got lost," Ness sighed. "I feel like I'm not providing some good advice."

"We don't care for them." Snake said.

"Well, that's true, but..." Ness trailed off.

"...Should we watch how they beat each other more?" Jigglypuff asked.

"Let's," Peach said as she sighed. "Who wants tea?"

"Peach, I don't want to," Chris sighed. "And we're going to do something about your trouble."

"What trouble?" Fox asked, trying to focus on something else to stay out of the boredom.

Chris didn't want help, but then he remembered something. "Do you want tea?"

"Er...I rather not." Fox shrugged, shook his head and looked back to the fight.

"Good," he turned to Peach. "Now, first we have to..."

"FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT!" Red N. yelled to encourage his brothers.

"SLICE THEM TO DEATH!" Axem Red yelled to encourage his companions.

"Beat this bastard!" Red N. yelled before he spun inside his shell and slammed himself on Axem Red.

"You know what? F(beep!) it," Snake took out a grenade. "Let's beat them even more while they're distracted."

"Finally! Somebody here provides a good idea!" Sonic said.

"O-kay, warm-up time!" Mallow said as he cracked his fingers forward.

Chris and Peach stopped talking. "Aw, please..." Chris frowned.

"I'll have to agree with them as well. I'm sorry, Chris." Lucario said.

Geno facepalmed and frowned. "I knew all of you always had this bad habit of violence. But can't we sit down and plan for something as they kill themselves?"

"What can we think of?" Link asked as several boulders rained down on Axem Pink and Green N.. "We haven't fought Smithy before. Only you, Mallow, Mario and Peach did."

"That's true," Geno nodded. "But I didn't say I could explain how Smithy attacks."

Many sparks flew out from Bowyer to Crystal King. "What if he has another set of moves?" Ike asked, trying to raise a point. "He should be possessed by the Shadow Bugs, right?"

Petals fell behind Lucas as some villains turned into mushrooms. "Y-yes, he should be. I don't like the attacks he will have..."

Geno sighed while explosions of water pushed Axem Yellow and Black N. from behind. "I know that very well. That's why we need to formulate our tactics, formations and strategies."

"Formations? That's going a little bit too far..." Mario trailed off while snow fell behind him, and on Axem Red and Yellow N.. "Strategies and tactics."

"Aren't both the same things?" Twink asked while an axe was flung away.

"No," Marth shook his head as a yellow shell rolled behind him with a shell-less Yellow N. running for it. Peach gasped and blocked her eyes. "A tactic implements a specified mission to achieve a specified objective, whereas a strategy is concerned with how different engagements are linked."

Kirby almost had mental short fuse as an ice bolt passed behind him. "C-can you explain that in shorter words?"

"Yes," Marth nodded. "How a battle is fought is a matter of tactics: whether it should be fought at all is a matter of strategy."

"...Oh," Chris nodded as Yellow N. ran behind him and tackled Bowyer down. "Both are almost the same, but they play a role in the same fight."

"Correct," Marth nodded while Green N. spun in his shell to hit Crystall King. "You can ask me more about that when you have the time."

"I-I know about those 2 as well so don't hesitate to ask me as well." Ike said while a boulder covered in flames fell down on Crystal King.

"That little info was...good, I guess." Pichu said with a sweatdrop while a bolt fell down on Axem Black.

"For me is completely unnecessary, though." Fox said while 2 axes were tossed away behind him.

"Strategy then!" Jigglypuff said.

"Can't we sit down and relax with sweet tea for once?" Peach asked.

"I like coffee better, so no." Snake said.

Peach gasped.

Mario grabbed the tea cup from Peach's hand and took a sip of it. This little action made Peach smile a little. "Are you going to join me, Mario?"

"Sadly, no," Mario shook his head. "We have to, and you know that. I'm sorry."

"..." Peach looked down.

"Hey," Chris (who changed to his Agent job) began. "We'll see if there's that lovely fighting spirit in you. I'll help you out while you do it."

"R-really?" Peach asked.

"But of course!" Chris knelt to her and everyone looked at him, holding Peach's right hand. "I wouldn't be a gentleman otherwise."

"...Is Chris...flirting with her?" Pikachu whispered to Mallow.

"Yeah, he is," Mallow nodded. "...And he's not bad, not bad at all."

"O-oh, then, thank you." Peach blushed a little.

And that feeling came again.

"(Oh, is that feeling again...)" Chris said.

"(Feeling?)" Peach asked confused.

"(I forgot. You don't know anything about this. I better explain this to you if you're willing to listen.)"

"(W-well...please, go ahead. I want to know what this feeling is...)"

A while later...

"(I...think I can understand it very well...)" Peach said, unsure of herself.

"(Your words, they sound worried.)" Chris said.

"(I-it's because...)"

"(Peach, listen to me,)" Chris began. "(There was once a woman who didn't decide whether to battle or not, and she was in the middle of a battle. That woman didn't like to fight at all, no matter how much she wanted. She saw her loved ones fighting to protect her. However, something horrible happened to that very same woman.)"

"(Why are you telling me this?)" Peach asked.

"(Because this is the only way to make you understand the circumstances here. Let me continue with this tale.)"

"(O-okay...)"

"(Let's see. That woman suddenly noticed a monster that wanted to eat her. She gasped and tried to run to her friends, who were still fighting the monsters in the area. She kept yelling and yelling to them so someone could come to her and save her from the monster.)"

"(What happened to that woman?)"

"(Just as one of her friends noticed her please for help...that friend leaped to the monster and raised his sword to stab the monster's heart... And a rose...wilthered that day.)"

"(...She...died?)"

"(No...she didn't die...but...her friend...he didn't have a pleasant fate...)"

"(...W-why did he...)"

"(Simple. Her friend managed to stab that monster, but it managed to bite his sides so hard that... It was very horrible for her... Whatever came from his friend was nothing more than something she didn't want to see...)"

"(B-bloo-)"

"(Stop. Such a word is so hideous...even for me...)"

And probably you wondering something. This conversation was probably the longest one between Chris and a Smasher. So, what were the others doing?

Geno tilted his head as they watched Chris holding Peach's hand without even moving at all. "They're not moving...and it's taking them so long to finish."

"Quiet," Lucario said. "If they're like this, then that means they're about to discover another Combined Final Smash."

"That explains it." Sonic said.

Jigglypuff looked at Sonic. "...Why are your ankles..."

Sonic gasped and he covered his fur. "Y-you saw nothing! Nothing!"

"O-okay! I-I saw nothing!"

Back with Chris and Peach...

"(So, let me ask you this, Peach.)" Chris began.

"(W-what?)"

"(If you don't want to fight...and if you're in risk to die...but a friend of yours steps in to protect you...but that friend ends up dying because you didn't want to fight...what will you do if that happens?)"

Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 2: Grimoire of the Rift – 002 – Putting Words Together

"(...I'm...so afraid... I'll be so afraid...if that happens...)" Peach said sadly with a sob. "(I-If I can't fight...if I can't fight...h-how will I be useful?... I-I'm not worth to be a fighter at all...)"

"(Nobody is really worthy of that.)"

"(W-what?)"

"(Fights are just made so barbarians can get rid of something they don't want to see anymore through physical violence. It's a cruel world out there. Talks are not taken seriously anymore and thus, fights born from them. Everyone has to fight to express what they want to tell....and mostly because they want to protect people.)"

"(...)"

"(Why do you think we are fighting? True peace, that's right, but we also fight because we want to protect our loved ones. You love and care for many people, right?)"

"(...)"

"(And you're not alone in this cruel road to violence. Remember that there are people who will come along and protect you as well. But do fight because, otherwise, it will lead to unwanted results.)"

"(...I'll...fight...)"

"(What was that?)"

"(...I'll fight...to protect my loved ones...for the ones I care the most...and everybody else...)"

"(...Are you sure?)"

"(I made up my mind... Letting all of you fight while I sit down and try to evade the conflicts won't help me at all...not even a bit. I'll hate this for the rest of my life...but...will you promise me something?)"

"(As long it's not bad...)"

"(Would you...help me when I get in trouble during fights?)"

"(...Hahahahahaha! Definitely! Such is the true way of love!)"

"(You do know I'm not in love with you, right?)"

Music stops with a scratch

"Look at him," Twink said as toon tears began to stroll down from Chris's goggles. "He's crying very weird."

Lucario frowned to himself and made a mental note about fixing that attitude from his trainer.

"(Y-yes...I-I know that very well...)" Chris said with a somewhat-sad tone.

"(Oh, then we're clear.)"

"(Ouch...)"

"(Who said that?)"

"(N-no one! A-ahem, so, do you want to try this out?)"

"(...Please, let's do it.)"

"(Alright, sweethea-I mean, Peach.)"

Both nodded to each other and the Smashers noticed this motion. "Welcome back from Mind World. What do you want to do now?" Link asked.

Chris and Peach grabbed each other's hands. "Dance," they said in unison.

"...Mario, do something about this. Chris is getting even farther away." Jigglypuff whispered.

Mario looked at him with an annoyed look. "W-would you stop that? W-we're not like that at all!"

"Why won't you stop breathing for once?!" Axem Red yelled as he choked Red N. while the latter also did the same while they rolled around.

"After you, madam..." Chris began as he knelt to Peach.

"Oh, my... I'm flattered." Peach blushed a little.

"Dance and dance in this romantic and gorgeous night, together with me, princess!"

"Heheheh! I'd like so!" Peach said cheerfully.

"So," Ike began. "Are you 2 in love?"

"W-why did you have to remind me those awful things?!" Chris asked.

"That's it," Lucario said, having enough of that attitude. "You will speak normally before I do something about it."

"Sorry, that won't do."

"...Curse those weird jobs..." Lucario muttered.

The Smashers saw both...dancing so suddenly?

Super Mario Galaxy – Comet Observatory 3

Chris and Peach were dancing slowly but gracefully as they chuckled and laughed at some moments, as they got closer and closer to the fighting scene between the villains. The Smashers made confused look at this sudden movement.

"...Why isn't Mario doing it with her instead?" Pikachu asked.

"S-stop that!" Mario yelled annoyed.

"...They're doing it very well, though." Marth remarked.

Jigglypuff tilted her head. "Aw, that's so cute..."

"And sick," Snake frowned. "The kid got issues with his "job" things."

"...W-wait, look at that!" Lucas said surprised.

"Huh?" Bowyer saw Chris and Peach getting closer to him. "Oh, forgot about you I did, nya! Prepare to b-"

"Ha." Chris said simply as he spun and slapped the bow.

"O-oww!" Bowyer backed away. "For what was the slap, nya? Pay, will you, nya!"

The bow weapon prepared to shoot several arrows at them but the "couple" kept dancing. Bowyer released the arrows and they went at a high speed to them. Just as they were going to hit Peach, she laughed and spun herself around, creating a force that reflected the arrows back to Bowyer, who gasped before he got hit and yelled loudly.

"NYYYYYYYYAAAAAAA!!!" Bowyer yelled loudly. "SUPPOSED TO BE THIS STRONG MY ARROWS SHOULD NOT BE NYA! W-WHY, NYA?!"

"Graceful..." Chris trailed off.

"Yet deadly." Peach finished.

"Dancing never was this gorgeous and lethal before."

New ability learned! Ballet of Romance!

Such dance should be defined as romantic and strong at the same time. Instantly attacks an enemy by dancing and reflects projectiles back with an added 1.5X percent of potency. Magic will also be reflected as well.

"We invite you to dance as well, or perhaps you hate to dance?" Chris asked.

"HATE IT I DO, NYA!" Bowyer yelled before he released many sparks (using Static E!) to both of them. When the sparks touched them, they seemed to shot back at Bowyer, electrocuting him with even more damage than before. "NYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAA!!! SO MUCH IT HURTS, NYA!!!"

"...Oh, so that's the dance's effect." Mallow nodded.

"...Wait, both are fighting but we aren't?" Pikachu asked.

"That's not fair," Sonic shook his head with a chuckle. "They seem to have fun."

"And I don't want to miss that fun too." Fox said with a grin as he took out his Blaster.

"...Wow, you 3 are going to dance together? I didn't know you were like that at all. That's very impressive." Mallow remarked.

"No!" the previous 3 before Mallow yelled.

"Oh, it looked like that to me."

Mario & Luigi RPG 3!!! - Mario & Luigi's Battle Theme

"...So, let's go then!" Link suggested and everyone nodded before running to each villain.

"Shocker!" Mallow yelled as he called forth a thunder that crushed Green N., who yelled in pain under the bolt of lightning before it disappeared.

"Keep dancing," Chris said as he let Peach spin around him. "Nothing can stop this at all."

"Oh, yeah?!" Huff N. Puff asked as he released a thunder to the floor, where it spreaded out to them. However, the shockwave of electricity stopped from spreading out once it touched the dancing duo and it backtracked all the way towards the cloud by concentrating all the electricity beneath him and shot a pillar of electricity upwards. "AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!"

"Told you so." Chris said with a chuckle.

"Roll, roll, roll, roll..." Jigglypuff kept repeating as she charged her Rollout to Axem Pink, who was busy fighting Black N.. The Singing Pokémon was sent quickly to the pink axe wielder and collided her, making Axem Pink go all the way to the wall where she screamed before hitting it. "Ha! I hope you shut up that mouth full of makeup!" Jigglypuff taunted.

"Like, my makeup was already...like...wasted..." Axem Pink muttered in the wall as she tried to get out.

"GUUUUUUUUUAAAAARGGGGGGH!!!" Lucario leaped to Crystal King with a glowing hand of aura (or Force Palm) to slam it hardly on the king. Crystal King yelled in pain as he was pushed 9 feet back before stopping.

"U-useless dog! Don't interrupt my fight! Freeze!" Crystal King shot an ice bolt to Lucario, who remained in his place and received the bolt. Crystal King later gasped when the bolt just made Lucario close his right eye. "T-the heck? Why didn't you freeze?!"

"Because I'm a Steel type and a Fighting type," Lucario explained. "It technically hurts me but not that severe. To be honest, I felt a tickle."

"A-a tickle?! H-how dare you call my ice magic inferior?!"

"I didn't."

"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!" Crystal King gathered ice mist inside his robe and shot a blizzard to Lucario, who ran at him without receiving that much of damage or even freeze before he grabbed the king by the robe's neck and shot a fully charged Aura Sphere inside him, creating a blue explosion that pushed the king back to the floor as he rolled and stopped. "T-this is why we need the Shadow Bugs..."

"And," Lucario began as he made a glowing fist of aura and pointed it down at the king, whose yellow eyes widened in horror. "This is why I hate people like you."

"N-NO! PLEASE, DON'T!"

"Did you freeze Chris in your last fight with him?"

"The kid? Of cours-"

The only thing Crystal King was able to feel afterward was an extreme pain that was caused by Lucario slamming his fist down on him.

"...AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!" Crystal King yelled loudly as ice mist came out from his robe and vanished along with his crown and robe.

Lucario sighed, frowned and decided to help the others.

"Hell-o." Pikachu said behind Red N.'s back.

"W-what the hell?! C-can't you see I'm fighting?!"

"No," Pikachu grinned and sparks began to be released out from his cheeks. "Ready to burn?"

"...Uh-oh."

And the Electric Pokémon discharged many electricity that flew into Red N.'s body. The Koopa yelled in pain as his skeleton was seen through the torrent of sparks. "CHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!" Pikachu yelled.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!" Red N. yelled more.

"W-what?!" Yaridovich asked as he saw the Smashers interrupting everyone's fights. "Why are they interrupting us?! We're in th middle of th-"

"Hey, you there."

Yaridovich blinked confused and he turned to find Marth and Ike. "Y-you!"

"We didn't have the chance to fight that time," Ike said as he unsheated Ragnell. "But we can do it now."

"I agree," Marth nodded. "We'll end this here and now."

"U-ugh!" Yaridovich put a stronger grip on his spear. "Fine. I'll settle this with you 2."

"Charge!" Ike yelled as both swordsmen charged at the spear weapon.

"It won't be that easy. Water Blas-"

"Sheiah!" Ike yelled as he used Quick Draw and slashed the spear across his thin body, causing him to lose his focus in his magic.

"My turn." Marth said as he thrust Falchion on Yaridovich before he used Dancing Blade to execute several hits on his enemy before slamming down his sword.

"W-well, that was well played. B-but I won't let yo-" Yaridovich was stopped once Ike jumped to the air and towards him to slam down his sword directly on his face. "AAAHH!!!"

"Now!" Ike yelled as he landed back and Marth figured a good range to slash the spear weapon down. When the Altean hit the spear, the tip connected at it caused even more damage. Yaridovich twitched in more pain and he began to pant heavily.

"I-I shouldn't have fought those idiots... My energies are...so low..." he said as he knelt down and looked down to the floor. "My...demise is at hand...if I don't do something..."

"True."

Yaridovich looked up where Ike was engulfed with fire as well as Ragnell, just above Yaridovich. "....THIS IS WHY I HATE SWORDSMEN SO MUCH!"

"HA!"

And Ike brought Ragnell down, using a fully charged Eruption that created a big fire shockwave on the spear weapon that screamed and yelled in extreme pain. "S-SPEARMEN ARE MUCH BETTER THAN YOU! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!"

Marth saw Yaridovich vanishing as Ike took his sword out from the floor. Nothing else remained of Yaridovich and both looked at each other. "Thankfully, he was weakened." Marth said.

"How about if we help the others?" Ike asked.

"Good idea for now."

"Nya!" Bowyer spun his eyes with a glare. "Pesky Smashers, I hate, nya! Destroy Smashers must, nya!"

"Ahem."

Bowyer made a confused look before he was pushed to the floor by a hard kick on his neck. "D-did that who, nya?!" he turned around. "Y-you, nya!"

Fox cracked his fists. "I still remember how much hell you put us through, and I won't let you do that again here."

"H-ha, nya!" Bowyer got up and pointed at Fox. "Defeat me you will never, nya! Alone you are, nya! Stupid move of yours that was, nya!"

"Oh," Fox grinned and held his right hand up. "Backup you mean?" he snapped his fingers.

"NYA!" Bowyer was pushed 12 feet back by a spinning blue ball that collided quickly on his back. The spinning ball later turned into Sonic who grinned after he saw the bow weapon down. "Oww...nya..."

"Want some more?" Sonic taunted.

"...Wait, are those fangs?" Fox asked.

Sonic gasped and blocked his mouth. "N-no, they aren't!"

"NYYYAAA!!!" Bowyer used Static E! to release a torrent of fast electricity that electrocuted both of them.

"...You know..." Sonic looked at himself. "That attack wasn't that...deadly at all..."

"It used to be before..." Fox said before glaring at Bowyer. "But that made me remember painful and horrible events."

"Yeah, me too." Sonic said with a glare to Bowyer.

"...You didn't fight with us when he fought us."

"Really?"

"SHUT UP, NYA!" Bowyer yelled as he fired an arrow to Fox.

"Why are you putting yourself in danger?" Fox frowned as he simply activated his Reflector and reflected back the attack, multiplying its force by 1.5 to deal even more damage to Bowyer himself.

"IS IT THAT, NYA!" Bowyer yelled angrily as he started to shoot arrows to the air at a crazy rate.

"Run at him!" Sonic yelled to Fox, who nodded as both rushed to Bowyer while the arrows narrowly landed on their heads. Fox used Fox Illusion to slash the weapon to stun him for a moment to let Sonic grab him and kick to the air, where the hedgehog quickly jumped to the weapon and spin to drill Bowyer with the quills of his head (though they remained in the same place).

As the hedgehog came back down. He noticed Bowyer falling back to the floor.

"This is it." Fox muttered as he ran to the bow weapon, stood close to him to let the vulpine split his legs back and forward to push Bowyer away. The bow enemy was getting stuned every time he wanted to counter the attacks. However, just as he was going to stand up completely, Fox came from behind and used a fast backflip kick just as he was about to touch him. "All yours!"

"GO!" Sonic yelled as he curled, rose up a little to the air and shoot himself to Bowyer's back.

And he finally got beaten.

"NYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!" Bowyer yelled loudly before he crashed into the floor and vanished into dust. Sonic landed in front of the dust and kicked it to let the dark winds carry it to the nothingness.

"Good job." Fox said with a nod as he walked to Sonic.

"Heh, we should make this later sometime." Sonic said.

"Last tap." Chris said to Peach as they got close to Axem Black.

"A dance? Are you kidding me?" Axem Black asked.

"Yes!" Peach said cheerfully as she took his hand.

"W-what the..." Axem Black got confused at this before Peach pulled him between her and Chris.

"Now, dance!" Peach said as she spun Axem Black between the 2 dancers. The Axem Ranger mumbled words as he spun between them before the princess grabbed his hands again and extended him in the air to stop the spin. Then, Peach pulled him back to Chris who grabbed his hand and extended him to the air by his side.

"Ah! Stop this! You're causing my bones to stretch unnecessarily!" Axem Black yelled.

"Oh, okay." Peach said as he took the hand of the dazzled Axem Ranger...then she tossed him upwards.

"Last hit!" Chris yelled as he aimed his revolver at the Axem Ranger before shooting a deadly bullet (using Flourish, which got stronger because of Peach and Jigglypuff) and went through the small axe wielder.

"T-the hell is this?! N-no! W-why do I have to be defeated like this?! AAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!" Axem Black yelled loudly before he turned into dust while in the air.

"And that, Peach," Chris moved his right hand back and bowed to Peach as he grabbed her right hand and kissed the back of it. "Is how battles should be played."

Peach blushed. "W-we're not..."

The World Traveler suddenly sat down, embraced his legs and felt the world falling down on him. "Why the cruelty though..." Chris muttered in depression as Peach let out a small laugh.

Once he stood up, he was using his Musician job and looked around confused. "...What just happened?" Chris asked.

"U-um..." Peach got confused. "...You were...flirting with me?"

"...Flirting? ...With you?" Chris raised an eyebrow before he blushed and shook his head. "I-I don't think so. W-when I changed to the Agent job...something took over me and I couldn't remember anything that happened...only the fights between villains."

"...I don't know about your abilities but..." Peach put a finger on her chin. "Does your attitude change when you change?"

"...I guess so..."

"You!" Huff N. Puff yelled as he flew at the 2. "Thanks to you, this problem appeared and now we're at our worst situation here!" he began to gather sparks. "I better finish you off!"

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" Peach yelled and she jumped to Chris's arms.

"Y-you're a little bit too heavy for me!" Chris yelled as he tumbled at the sides.

"Man, you're worthless." Snake said as he appeared right behind them.

"W-would you stop him from delivering a thunder on us?!" Chris asked as he tried to point Huff N. Puff.

Snake took out a remote control. "A click and that cloud is as good as dead."

"What?!" Huff N. Puff asked.

A shot of his back was shown, covered with mines that Snake planted himself when the cloud didn't notice him.

Huff N. Puff looked bored at this. "...And I electrocuted all of them myself..."

"The click is not necessary then..." Snake tossed the remote control away...

...And Huff N. Puff exploded into clouds that vanished upon spreading out.

At that moment, Mario came running from behind the trio and he looked at Peach being carried by a tumbling Chris. "Um, why don't you put
Peach down?"

"She's yours!" Chris yelled as she gave Peach to Mario.

Mario began tumbling at the sides.

"...Hey!" Peach said, sounding a little angry. "I'm not a thing to be carried around!"

"You jumped on his arms." Snake said, pointing at Chris.

"Geno Blast!" Geno opened his arms to the sky where he shot a light, before he slammed his hands down and many towers of different colors of light rained down on Yellow N. and Axem Yellow.

"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!" both yelled loudly.

"I'm not done yet with that. Geno Whirl!" Geno tossed a fast blinding ring that crossed both yellow characters and made them back away. "Feel this," Geno shot his 2 fists forward to them where they turned into rocket punches and exploded upon contact with each one. "Lastly, Geno Flash!" he backflipped to turn into a cannonball that shot small burning flame.

"H-hell no!" Yellow N. yelled as he grabbed Axem Yellow and put the Axem Ranger above him.

"H-hey! Put me down!" Axem Yellow yelled.

Yellow N. struggled to toss the Axem Ranger before he managed to do what he wanted and tossed him towards the small burning flame. When Axem Yellow collided into it, he got engulfed in a growing flame that later resulted in a big explosion of fire.

"MY FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!" Axem Yellow yelled loudly before he landed back on the floor defeated. He later began to rust before he turned into dust in the air.

"I..." Yellow N. took a step back when Geno got closer to him. "S-see you!" he yelled before running behind Red N..

"Ugh! Ugh! UGH!" Axem Pink got her head out from the wall and she shook her head. She took out a hand mirror and looked at her face covered in dust. "AH! MY FACE! MY CUTE FACE!"

She felt someone tapping her shoulder.

"Huh?"

And a hammer came directly on her face before it came back and hit her twice, and back to the wall where she screamed in pain.

"W-WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?!?!?! LIKE, I DONT BELIEVE THIS AT ALL!!! UAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!" Axem Pink screamed as she turned into rust and later turned into dust.

The one who attacked her was Kirby, who held up his hammer in triumph with a happy expression...

...Wait...

...Kirby killing someone is not common at all...

"Mwahahahahaha..." Kirby laughed evily before he chuckled heartily.

Axem Green gasped as he and Axem Red were were hte only ones standing from their group. "T-this doesn't look good. W-what do we do? Retreat?"

"No!" Axem Red yelled as he held his axe above him. "W-we're the Axem Rangers!"

A spotlight shone on him and Axem Green looked surprised.

"We fight for evil!" Axem Red proclaimed as Pichu, Pikachu, Ness and Link got closer to them. "W-we live for disorder!" the Smashers prepared to attack both as Axem Green looked freaked out. "W-w-we like what we do!" they got even closer, at the point of cornering them. "W-w-w-we struggled for chaos! C-c'mon! Say it with me!"

Axem Green gulped as he raised his axe. "W-w-w-w-we're...w-w-we're..."

"THE AXEM RANGE-"

"GET THEM!" Link yelled as he lunged at Axem Green and slashed him across the face. Pichu climbed behind Link's back and used Skull Bash to send himself towards the Axem Ranger.

"(I hope he can resist this...) PK Thunder!" Ness yelled as he called out an electric sphere that went after Pichu and collided behind him. The Electric Pokémon. The attack combined with Skull Bash turned Pichu into a sparking bullet that transfered the voltage to Axem Green, greatly electrocuting him as he yelled in pain.

"F-FORGIVE ME!!!" Axem Green yelled loudly before he fell on his knees, fell facefirst and turned into rust to later turn into dust in the air.

"...R-retreat!" Axem Red yelled and turned to run. When he tried, however, he bumped into Lucas who fell down to the floor. Axem Red also fell down with him and he shook his head.

"I..." Lucas gulped as he tried to think of an attack to Axem Red, who looked shocked at this. "I...won't let...won't let you...get away!" Lucas yelled, putting a serious face as he took out his branch and lunged at the Axem Ranger to bang on his head continuously. "Why?! Won't?! You?! Leave?! Us?! Alone?! We're tired of you!!!"

"...Is Lucas cursing him?" Link asked.

"Leave him alone. He's doing progress." Ness said.

"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!" Lucas raised his branch a last time and dealt the final blow on Axem Red, who shook his head in panic before he received the harsh blow on his face.

"L-LORD SMITHY, F-FORGIVE US!!!" Axem Red yelled as he passed out, turned into rust and later turned into dust in the wind.

"...I...I did it..." Lucas sighed in relief.

Music stops

"Phew..." Jigglypuff sat down. "We...we defeated them..."

"Not quite." Marth said as he pointed at the arc, where a badly hurt Red N. was sweating in nervousness.

"Weird, I thought they were 4." Ike said.

Just after he said that, the other 3 brothers peered from Red N.'s back and looked badly hurt as well.

"W-well, you guys already had fun beating us around." Green N. said as he trembled.

"W-we don't need to die here...yet." Yellow N. said as he shook in fear.

"Y-yeah. W-we'll leave you and we'll live normal lives in Koopa Village as we used to before." Black N. said.

The brothers didn't notice the sudden change that Black N. had and they ignored this.

"A-and as the leader..." Red N. began. "...LET

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Finally, I catch up after my 1 week dissapearance.

I like how those bosses are fighting amongst each other :D

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The Koopa Bros. raised their hands to the air and screamed in terror as they ran below the arc and disappeared in the darkness of the dark winds. The Smashers were able to hear the yells before they slowly faded and ultimately stopped.

"...We did it." Ike said.

"Yes," Link nodded. "They're gone."

"And forever for good." Mallow said.

"So much stupidity is enough for me." Snake frowned.

"I'm glad everything turned out just fine." Peach sighed.

"...Wait, this means the doors will open, right?" Twink asked.

The floor beneath them began to shake a little and they turned to the big metalic double doors. They slowly opened and steam came out from the small openings, covering the whole floor with steam that later got pushed away by the dark winds.

Geno stepped forward to the double doors and he was able to see what the inside looked like...

Super Mario RPG - Weapons Factory

Inside, many conveyor belts were located above, at the sides and further away as Machine Mades were being transporter somewhere. Many cranes were moving around the complex as chains moved upwards and downwards. It was difficult to see a wall through all the steel and iron that surrounded the main platform.

"...This is it..." Geno said as he turned to them and nodded. "Smithy's factory."

"Oh Eldstar, he's producing countless of those machines." Twink said astonished as he saw the machines.

"So that's how it looks like." Marth said.

"Well, it didn't look like this before. You could say is an improvement." Geno said.

"I'm...not feeling so well after seeing all those machines." Kirby said worried.

"But you've got to admit, I see like 10 machines being dropped down inside those tubes every 3 seconds." Fox said.

"Why though?" Mario asked.

"...If my assumptions are correct..." Geno closed his eyes before opening them again. "We must make haste and infiltrate this facility."

Sonic grinned. "Time to destroy some metal around."

"Are tho-" Jigglypuff was interrupted.

"N-no!" Sonic blocked his mouth.

"..." Chris looked worried at the factory before Lucario put a hand on his shoulder.

"I'll protect you. Let's go inside." Lucario reassured Chris.

"...Thank you." Chris smiled a bit to Lucario before the group decided to proceed.

When they were about to enter...

"Chris..." Peach began.

"Yes?" Chris asked confused.

"...Thank you for what you did earlier."

"What?"

"Er...forget about it." Peach said with a chuckle while the World Traveler tilted his head in confusion.

Preview of the next chapter

"So, you've arrived as we expected." Clerk said with a nod.

"Would you stop all these machines from being deployed?" Mallow asked.

"Weird, you spoke to me in that same harsh tone a long time ago. Bad nostalgia to me."

"Bad memory to me as well. Now, would you step aside?"

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"Huh? You're here?" Manager asked.

"Are you in charge of these sick machines?" Snake asked.

"Partly. I only command one portion of it," he took out his axe. "But that won't matter at all."

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"...You're here." Director said.

"S-stop this! Y-you need to stop the machines!" Peach yelled.

"Why would I?"

"B-because this is...wrong..."

"...I knew there was going to be an answer like that."

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"Ha! Nice to see you here!" the Factory Chief said.

"Step aside and let us go to Smithy." Geno said with a glare.

"Oh, that won't do at all," he shook his head before hitting the machine behind him. "Remember this beauty?"

"...Not that bothersome machine again..."

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"Quadruple Blockade Before Smithy. We're closer now. We have to get through this a little bit more..." Geno said concerned.

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Chapter 127: Quadruple Blockade Before Smithy

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Factory

Chrono Trigger - Derelict Factory

Conveyor belts, Machine Mades being carried away, cranes moving around, walls of moving chains, steel floors leading to a straight path that later turned ways with darkness that disappeared if someone walked through it, tubes that leaded to nowhere and...

Those were the things that made the entire factory.

The Smashers walked further inside as they watched the conveyor belts moving with the machines they saw. All the Machine Mades resembled Mack, Bowyer, Yaridovich and the Axem Rangers.

"They move, move and move..." Kirby commented with a yawn. "Can't this be a cake factory?"

"I'd have wished that for a long time ago if that was even possible." Geno said.

"Aw, we have a lot in common." Kirby said smiling as Geno frowned at this.

"...Why don't we destroy the conveyor belts?" Mario asked as he stopped to see one.

"Because we can't," Geno turned to him. "Try moving your hand to it and you'll see why. Do it slowly though."

Mario got confused and moved his hand forward. The red plumber began to feel static building up in the air as he moved his hand forward before he pulled it back and looked at the doll. "There's a force field of static?"

Geno nodded. "That static is dangerous. If you step on the conveyor belts, you'd receive at least 100,000 volts."

"Wait, how do you know that?"

"B-because I learned it the hard way..." said a black Ness that had his hair sticking out from the bach hole of his cap.

"He stepped on the conveyor belt?" Jigglypuff asked.

"No. He tried to touch one and he got himself zapped like this." Mallow said.

"Well, that'll help us to stay away from them." Link said.

Ness glared at him. "Thank you for your compassion towards me. It was very lovely," he said sarcastically.

"Idiot..." Snake muttered.

"Lucario," Chris began (as he decided to use the Hacker job) while Lucario was glowing with aura as they walked further inside the complex. "Do you sense something?"

"Definitely," Lucario said as he stopped glowing. "There are enemies using Shadow Bugs inside this factory. I managed to locate Smithy as well."

Mallow stopped and looked at Lucario. "Wow, for real?"

"However..." Lucario continued. "He is very far away from here. The path is easy to follow, but on the way to him, there are the enemies I mentioned."

"And how far away?" Geno asked.

"...I don't know. I barely made contact with his aura."

"Great," Sonic frowned. "A long walk before we get there... Unless..." he smirked.

"Oh no!" Chris held Sonic from his shoulders to stop him from running away. "We won't let you go alone!"

"But I'm sure I can beat those guys alone!" Sonic protested.

"They have Shadow Bugs, remember?" Link reminded him. "Stronger, probably faster, you know."

"So?" Sonic raised an eyebrow. "It's not like we have to fight a single enemy in a group."

"If you haven't noticed, we always have problems when we're alone against an enemy with the Shadow Bugs. Fighting with a group is easier to defeat the enemy." Pikachu explained.

Ness waved his cap to clean it from the soot. "Don't think we defeated those guys a moment ago because we were a few fighting some of them. We also worked together to eliminate them."

"Bah, I'm sure the guy waiting for us isn't that hard to beat. Before he blinks, I'll be already pushing him to all directions." Sonic said as he pointed at himself with his thumb...

...Showing his fangs to EVERYONE accidentaly.

"A-AAAAAAAH!!!" Peach screamed as she stood behind a surprised Mario.

"What?" Sonic asked.

"Y-you have fangs, freaking fangs!" Ness said a little shocked.

"T-they want to bite me. They want to!" Pichu said as he trembled close to Pikachu.

Sonic got confused at first...before he finally noticed his mistake and quickly closed his mouth to cover the fangs. "I-I can explain it! D-don't panic!"

"Nobody is panicking except you." Fox pointed out.

"...I-if you're wondering why I have fangs is because..." Sonic tried to think of something to make them believe something else. "...B-because...t-that's how us hedgehogs grow! Yeah!"

"...Hedgehogs do that?" Kirby asked confused.

"Y-yeah!" Sonic lied. "F-first, we grow out fangs in our teeth. T-they normally stay forever, see?" he opened his mouth...

...And there weren't any fangs in there anymore.

"...Hedgehog...you don't have those fangs with you anymore." Snake pointed out.

"...Huh?" Sonic raised an eyebrow and he touched his teeth. "...T-they're gone! Phew..."

"...But didn't you say the could last forever?" Lucas asked.

"I-I didn't say that!"

"Grrrrrrr..." Lucario growled at Sonic.

"Lucario, don't start hating people now." Chris said with a frown.

"I can tell he is saying...huh?" Lucario blinked confused. "...What's this?"

"What is what?" Ike asked.

"...I can't see if he's lying or not... His mind is...hard to read for some reason..."

Sonic sweated even more before he came up with another lie. "Y-you don't know, do you? H-hedgehogs have very complex minds that can't be read, even by the most talented mind readers like you!" Sonic said with a chuckle.

"..." Lucario looked confused at this and shrugged. "Whatever is keeping me from your mind...it must be very sick and disturbing."

"...Yeah?" Sonic responded with a worried smile.

"...I should've known..." Lucario said.

Sonic sighed. "...So, you see...I'm perfectly normal..."

"...Suuuuuuure you are..." Mallow said before the group continued their path.

The hedgehog looked down at his ankles and the fur disappeared from them. "(...I know you did this to me. I can listen to your laughs.)" Sonic thought with a glare.

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! You should've seen the look on your face! Priceless! Marvelous! Absolutely priceless and marvelous again, and at the same time!" Dark Super Sonic laughed madly.

"(So, jackass, what's your next preview?)"

Dark Super Sonic stopped laughing and he chuckled evilly with a smirk. "Since you're anxious to see what it is, I'll give it out to you right now."

The sound of fingers snapping was heard and Sonic noticed something swelling behind his back. He looked back and saw fur sprouting out his tail. "(W-what the?!)"

"Like that tail? More lunar power and you should rival the vulpine's tail. Heheheheheh..."

"(Oh, great. Now how am I going to cover this little patch of fur?)" Sonic thought.

"It's small, stupid. Not so appropiate and good enough for me as a preview, but meh, it looks good."

"(For me, it doesn't.)"

"You'll like the day, or should I say night? Yeah, night. You'll like the night when the full transformation comes...then the real fun will start..." he snickered evilly.

"(...Go away, now.)"

"Hmph. Fine, I'll leave you alone for now. Hope to see more lies to keep me amused." Dark Super Sonic said before he disappeared.

Sonic looked down worried before Pikachu walked to him and gave him a note.

You think you can fool me with your lies? You're not that good at lying. Heheheheheh...

Sonic's eyes widened in utter fury as he ripped the note in pieces. Then, he looked at Pikachu. "You didn't see who gave you that either?!" Sonic asked.

"I was looking at the cranes... They looked fun to me." Pikachu said with a chuckle.

"..." Sonic narrowed his eyes at him. "...You're the one then!"

"What?"

"You're the one who knows!"

"K-knows what?"

"Don't lie to me. I know you're the one!"

Pikachu backed away from the hedgehog who looked down at him with a glare, showing his teeth as he breathed out air. "S-Sonic, you're creeping me out now..."

"You're not going to escape..." Sonic said between breaths. "I'll prevent you from leaking out what you know..."

"..." Pikachu turned his back to Sonic to start running back at the group. However, he forgot Sonic was faster and thus, he got grabbed with an embrace.

Back with the group...

"So," Twink began as yellow lights with buzzing sounds came from behind them that lasted around 2 seconds. "What're we going to do if we find a minion?"

"Since we don't have much time left..." Geno trailed off as an electrocuted Sonic joined the group while a mad Pikachu walked besides Pichu, Lucas and Ness. "We'll do this strategy."

"I'm all ears." Ike said.

"Listen well," Geno began as they walked. "There's a good chance that we'll see those 4 again."

"Those 4?" Mario repeated.

"You know, those armor guys and that ninja that didn't look like the "Factory Chief" or something like that." Mallow said.

"Oh," Peach nodded. "I remember them."

"Correct," Geno nodded. "If we find them on the way to Smithy, we'll have to separate and drop 4 of us behind to fight that opponent."

"Then..." Pichu thought for a moment. "4 by 4 equals 16. There are 4 of them and 4 of us will fight one of them so the others can proceed further inside?"

"Exactly," Geno nodded again. "However, we're 17 without counting Twink as a fighter. I decided to grab a team of my own. That team is going to be of 5."

"Who?" Mario asked.

"You, me, Peach, Mallow..." he looked at Chris. "And you."

"W-why me?"

"There's a good chance that they'll use the Shadow Bugs as Lucario pointed out before. You possess the power to use the Star Spirits, which you need to use more as a reminder, who will help out by using Peach Beam."

"...Ooooooohh..." Chris nodded. "You're worried about the last person out of the 4."

"Because I know the last guy gave us more trouble than the other 3," Mallow rolled his eyes. "Seriously, those guys were pushovers. I wonder why they decided to fight though."

"But Shadow Bugs can increase their powers greatly," Link said. "And since we're running out of time, separating to defeat all of them faster would be the best way."

"A-as long as they're not that deadly..." Lucas gulped.

"Pfft, they're as deadly as the fly in my room." Mallow said.

"Flies aren't deadly." Ness said.

"You tell me! That fly in my room is very sneaky!"

Peach seemed to be the only one interested of this. "Why?"

"Oh, thanks for asking. That fly sneaks out from its hiding spot and buzzes around my room all the night. It even sneaks inside my nostrils!"

"E-eww..." Peach said disgusted.

"I know!" Mallow said. "It'w even worse when it sneaks inside my ears and goes directly to my brai-"

Twink blocked his mouth. "W-we're sure we don't want to listen to that disgus-I mean, story right now."

"Oh well," Mallow smiled a little. "I'm planning to make it my little pet."

"Catch it first." Jigglypuff rolled her eyes.

"I know! First, I need to zap it with Thunderbolt! But my mom says no magic inside the castle or else I'll get grounded."

The group couldn't stop the cloud prince (questionable rank) from telling them about his life in the clouds, and inside the castle. They didn't have the idea to stop him from talking because that would mean that he would tell more stories about his daily life as a prince.

Until Geno gave up, that is.

"Mallow, stop." Geno said with a little bit of irritation in his voice.

"Sure do. I was getting tired." Mallow said. "...Which name should I use, though?"

"I'll give you one." Snake said.

"Wow! You're going to suggest me one from all the people? You're amazing, dude! So, which name is that?"

"Mr. Shut-your-mouth-before-a-grenade-gets-inside-your-mouth McMouth."

"Hmm, that's a pretty long name. Any other, shorter suggestions?" Mallow asked interested.

"E-er, before irony occurs, p-please, stop." Marth interrupted.

"You're not funny, dude!" Mallow said angrily as he pouted a little. "Not-funny!"

On the distance, a very long distance, there was Clerk watching the Machine Mades being carried out on the conveyor belts.

"..." he looked up to the ceiling covered in darkness. "Soon, all the machines will be deployed out...or are they being already deployed? Damn, I need to keep on with the schedule."

A Mad Mallet (a hammer with red hands) was right besides him with another Mad Mallet on the left side of Clerk. "Sir, production is going pretty well!"

"The machines are already taking care of the distribution," the other Mad Mallet nodded. "Pretty soon, the city will be destroyed."

"Hmm...very well," Clerk nodded. "We can't fail to Smithy now. After Bowyer, Yaridovich and the Axem Rangers were defeated by Mario's group, we can't afford to make another mistake."

"Yeah," the first Mad Maller nodded. "Lord Smithy was mad after he got the word."

"Words sure spread so fast in this place..." Clerk sighed. "Well, we have cameras outside so that's why."

"Oh," the second Mad Mallet started. "What are we going to do once they arrive here?"

"Fight and prevent them from getting to Smithy," Clerk explained. "After so many defeats at their hands, I'm not going to let myself down and fall down in battle. Last time they were able to push me out of the way, but this time...it will be different."

"We shall follow you!" the first Mad Adder said. "You shall get Smithy's acceptation!"

"Thanks," Clerk nodded as he folded his hands. "Good minions at my favor to fight. You guys should be powerful with the Shadow Bugs."

"Shadow what?"

"...You don't have them?"

"I-I'm afraid to say this but...Tabuu didn't give more after he gave out to whoever he thought they would use them to get a good result in battles. W-we were inferior compared to you so..."

"...I should've expected that," Clerk shook his head. "They're probably going to tear you up to pieces the moment I start fighting."

The Mad Mallets looked down.

"...I'll try to do something about it, though."

They looked up with happy expressions.

"...They're coming!" the second Mad Mallet said. "I can hear their footsteps!"

"O-okay, don't panic... You can do this..." the first Mad Mallet said as he inhaled and exhaled air. "I-I have you, right?"

"...Of course..." Clerk shook his head.

The hammers and the yellow armored person turned to the south, where they saw the Smashers coming from the darkness of the way to the entrance of the factory. Upon finding Clerk, most of them glared at him.

"So, you've arrived as we expected." Clerk said with a nod.

"Would you stop all these machines from being deployed?" Mallow asked.

"Weird, you spoke to me in that same harsh tone a long time ago. Bad nostalgia to me."

"Bad memory to me as well. Now, would you step aside?"

"No," Clerk said. "I can't allow any of you to go further inside and bother Smithy. Last time that happened, it didn't end so well like Smithy told me."

"It was very pleasant to me," Geno said as he slowly reached for his right hand. "Knowing that he was no longer living was good news to all of us."

"Too bad for you that he is alive," Clerk said. "And he will live forever."

"No," Geno shook his head. "Today, he will fall to his so deserved demise."

"Ha! How ironic you say that!" Clerk laughed a little. "I was thinking the same..." he took out his axe. "But all of you instead."

"Yeah, we pretty much knew that from the very beginning..." Pikachu said with a bored look.

"Everyone really wants us dead: from the Sentret of the fourth tree..." Jigglypuff trailed off.

"To the trash can with flies." Ness said.

Everyone (even the hammers and Clerk) stared at him.

"...Trash can?" Ike asked.

"W-well, what else can I say?" Ness looked at them. "My enemies weren't exactly like yours at all! I had mushrooms with legs, angry cockroaches, hippies, angry fat women with purses, trees that somehow had hatred in their hearts and burned themselves to hurt me after being defeated, signposts, dinosaurs with goofy faces and above everything else, the creepy crows that live near my house!"

"...Your world is the only world out there that is so..." Snake began.

"...I know, stupid," Ness frowned. "Nobody here understands the pain I had to go through..."

"I-I understand very well." Lucas said.

"...Oh, right, you're the boy of the future where mermaids where chimeras...and they were males that kissed you in order to have more oxygen inside the water."

Lucas blushed. "A-at least you didn't fight an opera ghost..."

"...What kind of guys are you?" Clerk asked before he shook his head. "Still, that doesn't matter...or even was important at all. what I'm trying to say is that none of you shall go further!"

"ATTACK!" the Mad Mallets yelled and lunged at the Smashers.

With an Aura Sphere and a slam of Ike's sword, they were already soaring through the air before crashing to the chains, where they vanished.

Super Mario RPG - Fight Against a Stronger Monster

"...So much for them," Clerk said before he shook his head. "Whatever!" Shadow Bugs began to cover himself before he glowed with a dark aura. "It's time to take the non-machines out of the way!"

"Go!" Link yelled as he, Ike, Ness and Lucas stood in front of the group. "We'll take care of him for now."

"We'll catch up once we're done with this guy." Ness said as he took out his baseball bat.

Lucas gulped. "E-embrace yourself...embrace yourself..."

"Fools!" Dark Clerk yelled. "What part of "you can't pass" didn't you understand well?"

"Run!" Mallow yelled as everyone else except the previous 4 Smashers ran towards Dark Clerk.

"Stop right there!" Dark Clerk yelled as he raised his axe.

"Now, Ike!" Geno yelled.

The group that wanted to cross the armored executive separated by the sides and a fast Ike (using Quick Draw) slashed Dark Clerk across his helmet. The yellow armor enemy was pushed back as the group passed by the sides and ran to the darkness of the factory. "Y-you little..."

"Say your prayers!" Link yelled from above as he prepared to stab his sword on Dark Clerk.

Dark Clerk moved out of the way as Link got his sword stuck in the floor before taking it out. The 4 stood next to each other and faced Dark Clerk.

"Only 4 of you?" Dark Clerk frowned. "Seriously, why not fight with everyone? Then you might have a chance to defeat me."

"We're wasting so much time here so that's why we need to finish this as soon as possible." Ness explained.

"Rushing things only lead to desperate and unwanted results," Dark Clerk pointed his axe at them. "Well, I'm a proof myself! You know why?"

"B-because we're 4 instead of 18?"

"What about me?!" Twink was heard yelling.

Dark Clerk ignored the Star Kid. "Correct. Now, prepare yourselve-"

"Hold on!" Chris interrupted as he, Geno, Peach and Twink stepped out from the darkness. The World Traveler joined his hands to pray and call the Star Spirits. Peach also did the same, giving glitters that went to the Star Kid, who floated up and smiled. Twink went up where the Star Spirits appeared around him and looked at Dark Clerk.

"Hmm, let's try out this!" Muskular said with a grin.

The Star Spirits and Twink flew above Dark Clerk and he looked up.

"What's this? Are you letting yourselves be captured agai-" Dark Clerk was interrupted as a pink beam rained down on him and between the Star Spirits. Stars flew everywhere and the beam stopped, causing every Star Spirit to disappear while Twink went back to Geno.

"It worked?" Geno asked.

"...AAAHHH!!!" Clerk yelled. "T-the Shadow Bugs are gone! B-but how?!"

"Geno!" Eldstar called from behind the doll, who turned and looked at the star. "I have bad news."

"What?" Geno asked.

"The beam succeeded to take out the Shadow Bugs, but unfortunately, it will only last for a while before they come back again."

"Now that is bad..." Geno muttered. "Everyone! Take him out before it's too late!"

"Peach! Hurry!" Chris called to Peach who nodded and ran away together with him.

"Try to defeat him before the bugs return!" Geno yelled before he rushed back to the others.

"Grrr!" Clerk grunted angrily. "Letting myself fall down like this is just..."

"Get him!" Ness yelled. "PK Thunder!" he yelled again to cast an electric sphere that went behind his back and made him blast away to the factory worker, who got electrocuted severely as Ness collided and transferred all the electricity to him.

"Uah!" Clerk yelled in pain. "If you want it this way, then I'll have to increase my strength and defense... Vigor Up!"

A red light came from below him and increased his strength.

"Valo-"

"Stop right there!" Link yelled as he shot an arrow to Clerk's helmet. The armored enemy stopped his spell and sidestepped out of the way.

And to Lucas with a branch.

"A branch?" Clerk asked before he chuckled. "What is a branch going to do to me?"

"T-this!" Lucas swung hard the tip of the branch right to the helmet's right side. Clerk felt a strong pain going through his head as Lucas rushed to him and waved a trail of PK energy that pushed him back.

"How can a kid like you posses-" Clerk was interrupted as a baseball bat hit his helmet, causing even more pain to his head. "What the hell?! Why are everyday-items so ridiculously strong?!"

"Because they're different than that," Ness explained. "PK Fire!"

A small bolt erupted into a small tower of flames that trapped Clerk inside for a small moment, enough time for Ike to use a fully charged Quick Draw to push the armored enemy away to the conveyor belt.

"I-I should've raised my defense first..." Clerk said as he panted heavily. "...Huh?" the same black aura of the Shadow Bugs came back to him and he laughed maniacally. "Ah, the surge of evil power!... But my energies were depleted for almost a quarter... Well, let's see if you can resist my full power..."

"Darn it, it didn't last that long..." Link put a a stronger grip on his sword's hilt. "Let's be more careful now!"

Back with the other group...

The Smashers were running as fast as they could after they turned left (but Sonic wasn't allowed to run at his maximum speed because Chris told him so).

"Please!" Sonic pleaded. "Lemme go first!"

"For the last time, no!" Geno said irritated. "We must go all together and not endanger someone else's life!"

"For crying out loud, I can keep the next guy busy!"

"Hedgehog," Snake began. "You better shut up or else I'll blow that mouth of yours."

"Like you could do that to me."

Snake took out a grenade. "Want to see?"

"Stop!" Geno grabbed the grenade and tossed it to the abyss where it exploded. "We have to accelerate and defeat Smithy as soon as we can!"

Sonic grinned and began to accelerate.

"And when I mean we, I mean everyone without exceptions."

Sonic made a bored face and slowed down to keep up with the others, which he totally hated.

"...Why is your tai-" Kirby was interrupted as Sonic covered his own tail in frustration.

Many meters away from them, there was Manager (the blue-armored worker) standing between 2 Pounders (hammers with blue hands) in front of a conveyor belt.

"Yes, yes..." Manager nodded. "Production last time was horrible, but now, it's almost perfect."

"Yeah," the first Pounder nodded. "It was a total disaster the last time."

"And look at this!" the second Pounder made a happy expression. "It's totally improved and much better!"

"It's a shame, though," Manager shook his head. "We're here to destroy a city and not conquer the Mushroom Kingdom. Seeing all these machines deployed only to be...well, you know, it's a real shame."

"But what can we do?" the first Pounder asked. "These are orders from Lord Smithy and Tabuu."

"MOSTLY Tabuu," the other Pounder added.

"See the bright side," Manager said as he looked at them. "Once we're done with the city, Lord Smithy will transfer Exor to another location, where we can do whatever we want."

"Lord Smithy is thankful for Tabuu because he brought all of us back to life, right?"

"Yes," Manager said. "We couldn't be more thankful than achieving one of Tabuu's main goals."

"Oh," the first Pounder began. "Say, are those guys coming here?"

"The cameras outside the factory tols us so," Manager explained. "Smithy was enraged that the machines...began to destroy each other out of stupidity, along with those henchmen of Bowser."

"Meh, I blame the ressurrection part," the second Pounder said. "That part surely didn't bring their brains back."

"...Maybe," Manager said with a sigh. "And it looks like they're coming here... I suppose they passed through Clerk. Do you 2 have Shadow Bugs?"

A moment of silence soon fell and both Pounders looked at each other.

"...I thought as much," Manager frowned and turned to the conveyor belt. "Let's wait for them."

And from the darkness of the east, the Smashers came out and most of them glared at Clerk.

"Huh? You're here?" Manager asked.

"Are you in charge of these sick machines?" Snake asked.

"Partly. I only command one portion of it," he took out his axe. "But that won't matter at all."

"...You want to fight that fast?" Jigglypuff asked.

"Well, what else can I say?" Manager asked. "I must get rid of the added garbage from the factory. Smithy has a very strict policy of keeping this place clean...and you don't WANT to know how hard is to keep this place clean without a sanitary system."

"...That was really uncalled for." Pikachu said.

"I agree..." Kirby shrugged.

"...Er..." the Pounders looked at each other. "...DIE!"

They lunged at them to slam their heads at them.

And Pikachu used Thunder to impact a heavy bolt that pushed the 2 hammers off the floor and to the abyss.

"...Henchmen these days become more and more useless, I swear..." Manager shook his head before he called forth his Shadow Bugs. "Now, shall we begin?"

"Time to shine." Jigglypuff said as she, Pikachu, (a terrified) Pichu and Kirby stood in front of the group.

"That's the best you have? They're so small and I don't want to waste my time with little tykes."

"T-tykes?" Pichu repeated before he forced a glared. "I-I'm not a tyke!"

"Last time I checked, you were 1 year old." Pikachu pointed out.

Pichu got closer to him. "S-shut up, don't let them know my age... I-it's so embarrassing... But aren't you 3?"

"...This conversation never happened, okay?" Pikachu dropped his eyebrows hallway. Pichu nodded.

"Okay, you guys can go on ahead," Pikachu said as he gathered sparks and looked at Dark Manager. "That guy needs to be zapped so badly."

"And SLAPPED around." Jigglypuff said.

"A-and zapped around even more." Pichu added.

"And EATEN." Kirby added.

The previous 3 looked at him.

"Understand the way of the food and you'll gain ultimate victory." Kirby explained.

"...Um...yeah..." Sonic nodded before the rest of the Smashers rushed at Dark Manager.

"Wait, weren't the tykes going to fight me? Oh well, I guess I can have even more fun with all of you instea-" Dark Manager was interrupted.

"Star Spirits! Heed my call!" Chris chanted as the Star Spirits and Twink went quickly over Dark Manager while Peach prayed to give more power to the stars, causing a pink beam from above to rain down the armored enemy. After the Star Spirits left and Twink went to Geno, Manager had no Shadow Bugs anymore.

"W-what's the meaning of this foolishness?!" Manager asked as he looked at himself.

"Out of the way!" Mario yelled as he jumped to Manager and pushed his feet forward to push the armored enemy to the floor, letting the Smashers to run at the sides and further inside the factory. "Good luck!" Mario yelled as they disappeared into the darkness.

"U-ugh..." Manager got up and noticed Pikachu running at him. "Why do I have to deal with tykes?"

"Cheer the young folk, jackass!" Pikachu yelled before he gathered sparks and latched on Manager. Pikachu proceeded to discharge a lot of electricity to his body.

"Get off me!" Manager yelled as he grabbed Pikachu and tossed him away. However, he later was slapped across the helmet by Jigglypuff.

"Wait, did it really hurt you?" Jigglypuff asked as she landed on the floor.

"Of course it did!" Manager yelled.

"...And they said a slap couldn't hurt steel."

"Taste it."

"Wha-AH!" Jigglypuff was slashed across the face by Manager's axe.

"H-here I come!" Pichu yelled as he closed his eyes, gathered electricity and used a fully charged Skull Bash to be blasted off to Manager's helmet, which he came into contact and dealt a fair amount of damage. "Oww..." Pichu rubbed his head after he landed back.

"Spritz Bomb!" Manager yelled to call forth 5 small bombs that rained down on Pichu and exploded around him, sending the Electric Pokémon away by 3 feet.

"Hu-uah!" Kirby lunged at Manager with a swinging hammer that pushed the armored enemy back by some meters. Kirby proceeded to take out a blade which he pulled to the air and slammed it on the floor to create a shockwave (using Final Cutter) that went through Manager, cutting him to deal more damage.

"Ugh..." Manager stood up. "It seems I underestimated all of you for a bit..."

The 4 stood next to each other and glared at him. "Feeling remorse?" Pikachu asked.

"Not at all," Manager shook his head. "I'd feel remorse if you were to die..." the Shadow Bugs came back to him. "Which is not that far from happening."

"O-oh no..." Pichu gulped. "H-he has the Shadow Bugs back..."

"...So?" Jigglypuff asked as she pouted a little. "He's going down. We can make him step aside or surrender."

"Ha, that's overconfidence," Dark Manager chuckled. "Death awaits you all if you're overconfident."

"It always does, every single day..." the 4 said with bored tones before Dark Manager rushed at them.

And back again with the others...

"We only have 10, counting me as well," Geno said as they ran forward through the darkness that disappeared once they made a step ahead. "This means the next one will have to fight 5 of us."

"So, in other words," Mario began. "The team that went to Smithy plus Chris will face the last blockade?"

"Exactly," Geno looked at Chris. "We need the Star Spirits' powers to subdue the Shadow Bugs."

Chris gulped. "A-are you sure Lucario can come?"

"I originally planned that," Geno said. "But, since we're the 5, excluding Bowser, who fought against the Smithy Clan before, then it should be easier for us to fight the last one because we remember exactly how to fight them all."

"...Wait, that meant Peach fought as well?" Chris looked at Peach.

"I...had my mind into it back then...not like this time, though..." Peach said.

"I'll support you." Mario said with a nod.

"...Thank you, Mario."

"(Oh, that simpleness between those 2... I like that so much...)" Chris thought with a happy expression.

Many meters away from them...

"If those 2 didn't stop Mario's group from coming here, then Smithy is seriously going to put a heavy punishment...to all of us, including me." Director (the red armored worker) said as he stood between 2 Poundettes (hammers with pink hands).

"Smithy's punishments are so scary..." the first Poundette shuddered. "R-remember the last time someone broke one of the unlimited amount of chains here?"

"H-he made us all make sure that every single inch of the factory was ordered, clean and shiny...even down below...where nobody returns..." the second Poundette shrugged.

"Good thing you get to do that," Director said. "He only seems to apply those punishments to you."

"W-well, that isn't pleasant, that's for sure..."

"...In any case," Director looked to the south. "Our main concern now is Mario's group... Funny, it's the same thing that happened a long time ago."

"And Mario looks the same," the second Poundette added.

"Nobody cares about how messed up the aging of some people around the world is," Director said. "What matters now is..." he folded his arms. "...Them."

The Poundettes stared at the darkness.

"...Um...sir...nothing's happening," the first Poundette said.

"...Weird, I thought they were going to arrive here."

"But what about Clerk, Manager and our fellow mallet brothers who are vigorously fighting all of them as we speak?"

Too bad the Poundettes didn't know the fate of the other hammers at all.

"I'd admit that those 2 could hold their ground...but not for so long." Director said.

"You have the Shadow Bugs, don't you?"

"Yes, and you?"

"..."

"..."

"..."

"..."

"..."

"..."

"..."

"..."

Oh, every dialog meant the faces of each other changing back and forth.

"...Nope," the second Poundette said in shame.

"...Nice knowing you." Director said.

"...Hey!" the Poundettes called out angrily as Director laughed.

"Hahahahahahahaha...seriously, nice knowing you."

"B-but how can you be so senseless?"

And Director slammed his axe on him.

"S-SISTER!" the second Poundette yelled as the first one vanished.

"Dare to insult me and this will happen to you as well."

"B-but she was my sister!"

"...Aren't you supposed to be genderless?"

"Well, we want to be what we want to be! You can't tell us what should we be, can you?"

"...I guess..."

"That's just cruel!"

"And that voice, that isn't hard to recognize, should be from..." Director trailed off as he turned and found the 10 Smashers (and Twink) glaring at him.

"The last dude, huh?" Sonic asked.

"Actually, he's the third out of the 4." Mallow pointed out.

"...You're here." Director said.

"S-stop this! Y-you need to stop the machines!" Peach yelled.

"Why would I?"

"B-because this is...wrong..."

"...I knew there was going to be an answer like that."

"That isn't going to work for guys like him," Snake said with a frown. "Or the future ones for that matter..."

"But it's always nice to ask," Peach said. "What if someone has a change of heart?"

"Peach," Chris began. "In all my years as a student and gamer, I have heard the same speech from 500 or more bosses, and guess what happens after that is said?"

"...They give in?"

"...You wish. They're set to kill you for good...and the eternity...before they get defeated by you," he whispered the last part.

Peach looked very concerned.

She looked at Fox.

"It happens all the time." Fox said simply.

She looked at Marth.

"That happens so many times." Marth said simply.

She looked at Sonic.

"Need I say more?" Sonic asked simply.

She looked at Twink.

"...How am I suppose to know that again?" Twink asked simply.

Peach sighed in disappointment.

"Stop," Director said. "I suppose the rest of your pesky group is fighting Clerk and Manager, right?"

"And my fellow brothers, right?" the second Poundette asked.

"Your brothers? You mean the hammers? They were taken out the moment they lunged at us." Mallow said.

"...I'm brotherless and sisterless!"

Snake tossed a grenade to the Poundette. The Poundette exploded.

"...You know, that was somewhat cruel." Mario said.

"And this whole conspiracy to destroy the city isn't cruel?" Snake asked.

"Yes, but what about the hammer?"

"Didn't the others try to kill us?" Sonic asked. "This one should have had the same thing in mind, right?"

"...I guess so..."

"Buuuuuuuuuuurned!" Mallow said with a chuckle.

"Well," Director began. "It's time to take out all of you."

"How? By fighting?" Peach asked.

"Has somebody EVER told you that you ask so many obvious questions?"

All of the Smashers, except her, raised their hands.

"Good enough," Director said. "And now," Shadow Bugs began to cover his body before he glowed in a dark aura and raised his axe. "I hope you enjoy this last minute of your lives."

"Heck no," Snake said as he tossed a flash grenade to the armored worker. "Cover your eyes."

Everybody blocked their eyes and a sudden flash came out from the grenade, making Director go blind.

"Go now!" Fox yelled as he, Snake, Lucario, Marth and Sonic stepped forward. "We'll take this guy down!"

"Move!" Geno yelled as the remaining Smashers ran by Dark Director's sides and to the darkness.

"..." Lucario looked down.

Out of a cue, Chris came back and rubbed his Pokémon's head. Lucario blinked surprised and growled happily.

"Motivated?" Chris asked as he folded his arms.

"A lot." Lucario nodded.

"Good luck. And please, defeat him."

"Thank you."

And with that, the World Traveler ran behind the blinded worker and prayed as Peach and Twink came from behind to call forth the Star Spirits, who, along with Twink, used Peach Beam on Dark Director to supress the Shadow Bugs for a moment before the Star Spirits, the 2 Smashers and Twink left.

"Ugh," Director shook his head. "Now this is a problem... Well, it doesn't matter. With or without Shadow Bugs," he looked at the 5. "It's the same."

"Or, really?" Sonic asked before he used a Homing Attack to slam himself on Director, who simply slashed the curled hedgehog across to push him back. "Hey!"

"Fools, I'm not like Clerk or Manager at all. I went ahead and studied every single move by each Machine Made you destroyed."

"Then it's good we're 5 against 1." Marth said.

"You may have an advantage... Valor Up!" a blue light came from below him that increased his defense. "Vigor Up!" then a red light came after the blue light vanished, increasing his strength as well. "This could make now a dif-"

"GUUUUUUUUUUAAAAARRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!"

Director didn't notice that Lucario snuck from behind him and tossed him to the air with one hand. The Aura Pokémon shot an Aura Sphere that exploded upon contact with the worker. since he was still in the air, Snake double jumped and used several kicks in the air to push the worker even further away, where Marth rushed at that point and thrust his sword upwards to deal even more damage, as Fox jumped to Director and used a drill kick to push him down, where the vulpine split his legs to make Director trip, but he rolled backwards and stood up.

"T-that was a good tactic..." Director panted. "G-good thing I raised my defense to resist every single hit..."

"But next time, let me cooperate..." Sonic muttered in annoyance, being the one who didn't do that much.

And the Shadow Bugs came back.

"Damn," Fox muttered. "The effect didn't last long."

"See the bright side," Marth began. "If we can continue with those tactics, then this battle isn't far to be over."

"Ha, you wish," Dark Director said. "Spritz Bomb!"

Instead of a small rain of bombs, huge bombs rained around everyone and made a huge explosion that pulled every single Smasher to the air, before Dark Director jumped to Marth and slammed his axe above his chest, causing a severe pain that made Marth yell before he was slammed down to the floor as Dark Director landed back and while the others managed to flip in the air to land on their feet.

"N-now it's dangerous..." Marth muttered weakly as Lucario offered to help him to get up.

"I'm quite interested about the outcome of this fight," Dark Director said. "Shall we?"

"Bring it on," Sonic said with a grin. "I bet under that helmet is a dumb guy."

"And I bet you tend to say irrational things."

"Ha! That's not true, right, guys?"

The others shook their heads.

"...Which side are you with again?" Sonic asked with an irritated look.

"Now, let me test that combined strength of yours!" Dark Director yelled as he charged at them.

And back again with Geno's group...

"...Huh?" Mallow spotted a door at the end of the long floor. "Hey, there's a door over there."

"I think the last worker is behind it," Mario said as they stopped in front of the door. "And after the worker..."

"...Smithy..." Geno muttered before he shook his head. "Well...we're almost there, and to get there, we need to get rid of the last one behind this door."

"But..." Peach looked down. "Wasn't the last one not alone?"

"Hmm..." Chris wondered. "I remember that he had a machine..."

"Oh no..." Geno looked at the door. "...Either way, we must press on."

"For Eldstar's sake." Twink said as Geno twisted the doorknob and walked to the other side with the others.

"A little adjustment here, another adjustment over there..."

A voice was heard before it stopped from talking and walked to them in front of a machine. The figure was the Factory Chief (the black ninja) who seemed to be busy before they arrived.

"Ha! Nice to see you here!" the Factory Chief said.

"Step aside and let us go to Smithy." Geno said with a glare.

"Oh, that won't do at all," he shook his head before hitting the machine behind him. "Remember this beauty?"

"...Not that bothersome machine again..."

"That's right," the Factory Chief said with a chuckle. "I modified it so it can harness the power of the Shadow Bugs into...well, power, of course, to let all of you taste it!"

"Depends!" Twink interrupted.

"Why?"

"What flavor is it?"

"Pain flavor!"

"That had to be the worst line ever...and it didn't make sense to me at all." Chris said with an ashamed look.

"Oh, what do you know, bothersome kid?"

"Why can't anybody tell here that I'm 16?!"

"You look like a 10-year old to me. No offense...wait, with offense."

"Oh, that is IT!" Chris took out a gun. "I'm so going to shut that...mouthless...mouth of yours for insulting me!"

The Factory Chief laughed. "Oh, no! Look at him! He's holding a gun! What are you going to do? Shoot a single shot?"

"SCATTER BEAM!" Chris yelled as the single shot that he shot divided into 7 rays that hit the Factory Chief and pulled him to the air (although only 3 rays managed to hit him due to Chris being far away).

The Factory Chief landed on the floor on his feet and grunted. "Well, it seems I underestimated you...kid."

"SCATTER BEAM!"

And the chief was once again pushed to the air, where he flipped and landed back.

"Kid."

"SCATTER BEAM!"

After the landing...

"Kid."

"SCATTER BEAM!"

This "lovely" moment kept going on for about 5 times until the Factory Chief and even Geno decided to stop it.

"STOP!" the Factory Chief and Geno yelled in unison.

"Geno!" Twink yelled angrily. "What did you stop him?!"

"Because this pointless conversation was delaying our time!" Geno said.

"But he was killing him before he started the machine!"

"..." Geno facepalmed.

"Grrr!" the Factory Chief grunted. "Thank you so much for the little info," he walked to the machine (that was called Gun yolk) and he made it glow in the Shadow Bugs' purple aura. "And now, face Dark Gun Yolk!"

"Hellooooooooooooooooo, world!"

Everyone made confused looks after they heard a weird voice coming from somewhere.

The Factory Chief tilted his head. "Strange, I don't remember a voice like that here...unless..." he looked up to Dark Gun Yolk's pit of energy.

From the small pit, a pyroplasm head (that was still merged with the energy inside the machine) with some fangs came out. Peach screamed and hid behind a surprised Mallow.

"W-what the heck?" Mallow asked.

"Oh, hello there!" the pyroplasm said with a smile, as its fangs stuck out. "The name's Gun Yolk! But look at this dark energy! I should be Dark Gun Yolk or something but call me Yolk for short because, well, some people like me more with that short name instead!"

"...This didn't happen in the game at all..." Chris muttered as he stared at it.

"H-hey, who do you think you are?" the Factory Chief asked and Yolk looked at him, his smile still intact. "What ARE you for that matter?"

"Stupid, I'm Gun Yolk! Or Yolk for short..." it chuckled. "I'm the energy itself that helps to move this machine! And boy, it feels gooooooooooooooooooooood..."

"...You're quite the buffoon here..."

"Thanks!" Yolk said dumbly. "I like to be the humoristic guy around here and I do a hard and good work at it!"

"Will you attack them?!" the Factory Chief asked as he pointed at the Smashers.

"...Er...sure thing!" Yolk said with a nod. "Heck, I was bored to be inside this!"

"...Here it comes..." Geno said utterly confused.

"ATTACK!" the Factory Chief yelled.

Yolk turned at him. "Oh, so you're the bossy type?"

"Yeah. What about it?"

Yolk chuckle and leaned his head to the chief, who then screamed in extreme pain before he vanished before their eyes. The Smashers made shocked looks as Yolk grinned and chuckled. "Aw, much, MUCH better..."

"W-why did you do that?" Peach asked, utterly horrified to see a machine...pyroplasm thing rebelling against its owner.

"Because, little missy, I like to work alone!" Yolk said with a chuckle. "It was good for him to make me, but that doesn't give him the right to boss me around, while I'm the one with the muscle here! Isn't that right?"

"...Yes?" Mario responded.

"See? I'm a genius!" Yolk said happily. "But! Since I'm between Lord Smithy's path and yours, I should incinerate you all to ashes!"

"...But didn't you say you didn't like to be bossed around? Smithy is...technically your boss and high-superior, right?" Chris asked.

"Yeah, he has the right to control over all the machines here, including pretty me, boy!" Yolk said happily. "However, I must burn you all or kill you, or actually both things at the same time since I like to mess around with people like you!"

Twink's eyes were swirls at this time. "You already made me feel confused..."

"Haha!" Yolk laughed. "Thanks! Now, let me begin the proccess of incineration before we get sidetracked! ELECTROSHOCK!"

Sparks rained down the Smashers before a dome of electricity was created and damaged every single one of them. All of them yelled in pain as the electricity was raised to the air and disappeared, leaving them in pain as some of them panted.

"T-that didn't burn me..." Mallow said.

"See? I'm full of awesome!" Yolk said happily. "Breaker Beam time, baby!"

A beam that looked like a sandstorm came out from the machine and it struck everyone, receiving a moderate amount of damage that also caused everyone to gain the Fear status.

Peach embraced herself. "I-I-I don't feel so good..."

"Oh, I'm so sorry for not mentioning this earlier!" Kawashima said. "The Fear status also halves defense! Chris, you must heal everyone here before that sick machine strikes back!"

"G-g-good idea..." Chris shuddered as he changed to his Musician job. "C-c-c-c-come, joyful tune..."

An enthusiastic atmosphere fell on the field and all the Smashers were healed and cured a little of their status ailments, causing a big relief to Geno himself.

"Thanks..." Geno nodded before they all focused on Yolk. "That thing is more irritating than it used to be."

"I call for a good smashing." Mallow said as he cracked his fingers.

"Peach, I'm sorry to tell you this...but you need to fight with us or else..." Mario trailed off.

"...I'll fight," Peach nodded before she forced a glare on Yolk. "I became a little irritated by that...thing and I want to do something about it..." she took out a frying pan and everyone stared at her. "...W-why are you staring at me like that?"

"Why a freaking frying pan from all weapons?" Mallow asked.

"If I remember, wasn't that her best weapon?" Mario asked.

"YEEEEEEEEEEEEH!" Yolk yelled. "T-that frying pan of death of the last time! Alright, time to get serious! UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!" he tried to focus on something...before someone in there farted...or Yolk was the one in truth. "Ah, feels better..."

"Eww..." Peach said, pinching her nose.

"It was better when that thing wasn't alive..." Geno frowned. "To think something like that is pushing us to the edge..."

"Oh, you know what?" Yolk asked happily.

"What?"

"Mega Drain that doesn't drain at all!" Yolk yelled as he circled a pink beam above and slashed all of them with it, causing everyone to back away. "It didn't drain, did it?"

"W-who does he think he is? Popo?" Chris asked as he wiped his face.

"I-I like Popo better..." Twink said weakly.

"You better hide somewhere before that thing strikes." Geno suggested.

"G-good idea..."

"...Oh, wait a minute!" Chris said as he stood up and prayed to call forth the Star Spirits together with Peach, who forced Twink to go above Yolk, who looked up and prepared to shoot fire at the stars.

"Oh no, you don't!" Geno yelled as he used Geno Beam to push the pyroplasm back.

"Dude! That hurts!" Yolk said with a smile before a pink beam covered the whole machine and got rid of the Shadow Bugs. "Aw, man! Now I don't have any muscles!" he said before the Star Spirits quickly disappeared while Twink hid somewhere.

"You never had muscles to begin with." Mario said.

"Well, I like to think I have, what of it?" Yolk asked as Mario and Geno lunged at him. "Hmm, battle time, I guess. Let's do this thing all together like a big, disfunctional family, people!"

Back with the swordsmen and kids with psychic powers...

Dark Clerk tried to slash Lucas, but the PK kid gasped and tripped, evading the attack by accident as he quickly went forward and slammed a small amount of his energy on Dark Clerk, who was pushed back a little. "D-don't try to slash me!" Lucas pleaded.

"Cheer up!" Rope Snake said as he appeared from his pocket. "That guy is holding back until he shows you his real power!"

"Y-you're supposed to cheer me, not scare me with the future!" Lucas said trembling.

"Whoops," Rope Snake said before turning at Dark Clerk. "Uh-oh!" he hid inside his pocket and Lucas yelled once Dark Clerk tried to slash him.

"UAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!" Lucas screamed and covered his face.

"Not so fast!" Link stood between the 2 and tried to block the attack with his shield. Lucas looked up and saw his opportunity to run back. "U-ugh..." Link struggled. "T-there's no way you're going to kill me..."

"That is the plan!" Dark Clerk yelled as he pushed Link's shield away and slashed him across his chest. Link yelled in pain before Dark Clerk charged at him to slam his shoulder and push the Hero of Twilight away. the worker quickly put his axe above to shield himself from Ike's sword. "Well, well, well, another swordsman."

"What of it?" Ike asked as he tried to slam his axe on Dark Clerk.

"They're so many of them out there. And now, I have to fight 2 who can't even push my axe away! How do you think you can resist my attacks?"

Ike smiled a little. "Because I'm not alone."

"What?"

A green flash got behind Dark Clerk...

And it created a big explosion that made Dark Clerk yell in pain.

Ness smiled a little and circled his glowing finger around. "Ha, I like to use this attack more than the others."

"Poison!" Dark Clerk yelled.

As ridiculous as it sounded, everyone got instantly poisoned as their bodies turned an unusual color...

"Why is my body slightly pink?" Link asked and Ness tried not to laugh, but then he coughed after the poison began to hurt him.

"Since my powers have been increased..." Dark Clerk began. "My magic has been increased as well. I was only able to poison one enemy, but now, I can poison anyone!"

Ike coughed. "Still, this won't stop us from attacking..."

"I'll accelerate your fates though!" Dark Clerk yelled as he rushed at Ike and tried to slam down his axe on him, but the swordsman put his sword above and across to stop the attack. The poison in Ike was slowly depleting his energies as he twitched. "Does it hurt? The poison, I mean?"

Ike twitched and he lowered his guard, causing Dark Clerk to slam his axe on him. "UGH!" Ike twitched in pain.

"Now..." Dark Clerk raised his axe. "Time to finish you..."

"PK FREEZE!!!" Lucas yelled loudly in hopes for the ice mist to stop Dark Clerk. For the Pk kid's fortune, the ice mist exploded and froze Dark Clerk inside an icicle that was flung above.

"C'mon, boy!" Rope Snake cheered. "You have to do it!"

Lucas made a serious look and ran underneath the icicle, which prompted him to concentrate his PK energy into a huge blast coming from his hands.

"Ha!" Dark Clerk got out from the icicle and looked down below. "Don't try to make me even more mad!"

"HA!" Lucas released a big blast of PK energy that collided with Dark Clerk and pushed him even further above as he yelled in pain.

"Vigor Up!" Dark Clerk yelled to increase his strength. "Down to the earth!" he yelled as he tossed a spinning axe to Lucas, who gasped and rolled backwards to evade the impact that made a crack on the floor.

"Attack!" Link said to Ness who nodded and created an sphere of electricity out of his head to Dark Clerk while Link prepared a barrage of arrows that went towards the yellow worker.

"Ugh!" Dark Clerk twitched as the projectiles came in contact. Before he noticed, a spinning sword slashed him several times before Ike jumped to it and slammed it on Dark Clerk, making him crash on the floor before pushing Ike out of the way and reach for his axe.

Then, the poison struck everyone at the same time.

"My chance!" Dark Clerk yelled as he used an upward slash to push Ike to the air, before Dark Clerk tossed his axe at the immobilized swordsman to deal severe pain on him.

[Triforce_Luigi]

Looking good so far. Can't wait for the continuation.

[DededeCloneChris]

Ike yelled loudly before he fell on the floor and laid down in pain while Dark Clerk went to recover his axe to slam it on the swordsman. "Now, you die!" Dark Clerk yelled as he held his axe above him and tried to slam it down on Ike.

"Yiah!" Lucas came from behind Dark Clerk, completely covered with electricity that crossed Dark Clerk and electrocuted him several times before he was pushed away from Ike. Lucas landed on the floor and panted a little. "I-I made it in time..."

"That's my boy!" Rope Snake said.

"I-I'm my dad's boy, not yours..."

"It's was an expression, geez..."

"T-thanks..." Ike thanked Lucas as he stood up.

"Fools!" Dark Clerk yelled as he rushed at them with his axe ready. "W-what?!" he noticed a yo-yo's string wrapping up himself to stop him from running at the 2.

"Pull!" Ness said to Link (since both were grabbing the yo-yo's string) and pulled the yo-yo back with all their forces to make Dark Clerk spin uncontrollably before he stopped and walked in circles.

"Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy did I leeeeeeeeeeeeeeet myseeeeeeeeeeelf get intoooooooooooo this?" Dark Clerk asked dazzled.

"N-Ness!" Lucas yelled as he ran to Ness. "W-we have to combine attacks!"

"H-hey..." Ike walked to Link. "W-why don't we do the same as well?"

Ness twitched after the poison struck them again. "M-maybe that's the best thing to do..."

Link closed his right eye after the poison struck him and nodded. "I-I agree..."

Dark Clerk twirled his head around as small Shysters were jumping around his head. "Nooooooooo more fooooooolishnesssssss... Blu-ru-ru!" he shook his head to push the Shysters away. "Bleh... Y-you fools, don't try to provoke me even mo-"

"NOW!" Ness and Lucas yelled in unison as both used PK Flash and PK Freeze respectively, merging their attacks together so they became a green mist that went quickly to Dark Clerk and burst out into many icicles that froze the worker and pushed him to the air, withLink shooting multiple arrows to start a combination with Ike...

But the poison was getting even worse.

"U-u-ugh..." Ike fell on his left knee and the others looked at him.

"Ike!" Link said as he kneeled to Ike. "Are you feeling okay?"

"N-n-not at all..." Ike coughed. "T-the poison...i-i-it's trying to kill me first..."

"That's because you got severely injured by his axe...wait, that's it!" Ness said. "His axe is his only method and weapon to attack us! We have to get rid of the axe!"

They heard ice shattering and Dark Clerk grunted furiously at them.

Lucas gasped. "B-but how do we take it off?!"

"Think of something..." Ness muttered to himself.

Dark Clerk was rushing at the group with axe ready.

"W-we have to run!" Lucas yelled.

"And what about Ike?" Link asked as Ike coughed even more.

Dark Clerk was getting closer.

"Dammit!" Ness snapped out. "I don't have any ideas!"

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" Dark Clerk yelled loudly as he continued to get closer to them.

"OH MY GOD! WE HAVE TO THINK OF SOMETHING!" Rope Snake yelled as he came out from Lucas's pocket.

"..." the others (especially Ness) stared at him.

"...Why is the kid who looks ALMOST like Lucas staring at me like that?"

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" Dark Clerk continued his barbaric yell as he was about to slash them all with his axe.

Ness made a serious look, got struck by poison again, but it wasn't enough to stop him because he grabbed Rope Snake's tail (Rope Snake: NOT THERE!), glared at Dark Clerk, yelled loudly and slammed Rope Snake's mouth on the small space of the axe's handle and pulled the axe to the right with the remaining forces he had left, closed his eyes (or clenched them) and yelled "DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!"

Music stops

An impacting sound was heard and everyone blinked in confusion.

"..." Ness was looking down after he pulled the axe to the right. The PK kid felt that Rope Snake was trembling like if he was in fear. He looked up and gasped after he saw what he did...

The axe didn't leave Dark Clerk...

Instead of pulling it away to the abyss across the conveyor belt...

It crashed right into Dark Clerk's helmet, causing a huge crack on it as the worker dropped the small shield he had on his left hand (that he didn't use at all), dropped his little arms below and was kept on his feet since Rope Snake turned white of fear after being so close to the crack.

"M-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-" Rope Snake stammered as he let the axe's handle go off from his mouth, causing Dark Clerk's diseased body to fall back and lay down defeated as his helmet turned to the right and didn't move afterward.

Ness was utterly speechless after he did that action by accident on Dark Clerk that even caused everyone to stay in surprise and shock.

Lucas went over to Ness to get Rope Snake back. "...N-Ness..." Lucas began and Ness slowly turned his head at him. "...Y-you''re a freaking psycho killer!"

"P-psycho-killer?!" Ness asked shocked (without eve realizing that Lucas said freaking) as Lucas pointed at Dark Clerk, whose Shadow Bugs left his body and vanished. "...Oh my...7 Melodies..."

"..." Link noticed that their bodies were turning back to normal after they defeated Clerk, making the poison disappear. "...That was...good?"

"I-I think so..." Ike coughed. "G-good and quick thinking..."

"..." Ness was utterly shocked after he saw what he did.

"...Ness?" Link waved a hand in front of Ness. "Hello?"

"..."

"..." Lucas grabbed Ness's hand and looked at the swordsmen. "U-um...s-should we reunite with the others now?"

"...Right..." Link said as he put Ike's right arm above his shoulders to help him walk. "I-if we can, maybe we could ask either Mallow or Chris to heal all of us..."

Lucas nodded and they started the long way to the others, while the blond PK kid managed to make the shocked Ness walk to his direction while he grabbed his hand.

Back to Pikachu's group...

Pokémon Diamond/Pearl - Battle! Team Galactic

"Jiiiiiiglyyyyypu-oww!" Jigglypuff rolled backwards after she was interrupted by Dark Manager's axe.

"When you want to sing, you're asking to be hurt!" Pikachu yelled.

"Oh, what do you know?" Jigglypuff asked irritated.

"Why don't you leave me alone?" Dark Manager asked as he blocked Kirby's hammer with his axe and pushed the puffball away. "I need to make sure that the machines don't come out as trash."

"But the machines here do all the work and you just watch with folded arms! They come out like those retards we defeated a moment ago!" Pikachu explained.

"Fool, I need to work here and you must get out," Dark Manager said as a Yaridovich's Machine Made that was on the top of Mack's pogo-sword passed above the conveyor belt and behind the worker. Pikachu sweatdropped after Dark manager ignored the weird machine. "If one of those machines ever get out, Smithy will apply a severe punishment for not following his designs."

"...You just ignored one."

"..." Dark Manager looked back and frowned. "See? This is why I need t-"

"YAH!" Pichu lunged at Dark Manager's back and latched on it so he could discharge electricity. Once he started, Dark Manager grunted in pain as his body became electrocuted.

Kirby made a serious expression and lunged at the worker to swing his hammer 2 sides to his helmet. Dark Manager grunted as he was pushed away, also letting Pichu land back to the floor where he shook his head from discharging electricity without stopping.

"Well, if I can't damage any of you with my axe, then I must resort to magic," Dark Manager said before he held out a hand to the dark ceiling. "Spritz Bomb!"

Many bombs appeared from the ceiling and the Smashers looked up just to gasp in shock. They tried to run away but there was no enough space to do what they wanted to do before the bombs fell on them, causing the young Smashers to be pushed to the air.

"Spritz Bomb!" Dark Manager yelled again as more bombs came out and exploded on the 4. "Spritz Bomb!" and again. "Spritz Bomb!" and again. "Spritz Bomb!" and again. "Spritz Bomb!" and again. "Spritz Bomb!"

"WOULD YOU STOP THAT?!" everyone yelled annoyed before the explosions caused them to crash down to the floor, where they moaned in pain.

"Aw, the sound of moans of pain... Too bad they're still here because that means you're not dead." Dark Manager said.

"W-why is it that everyone out there wants us dead?" Jigglypuff asked as she panted. "We're the good guys here! We're fighting for a noble cause!"

"Because it's backwards. We're the good guys here while you're the bad guys."

"T-that's not true. You want to cause utter annihilation, destruction, darnation, total dictatorship and worst of all, you want to kill pretty me, which is even worse than all the other things combined!"

"Ha, that's what you think. We don't want to destroy anything here. What makes you think that?" Dark Manager asked.

"Because the fact you're creating countless and countless of machines, and the fact that you're planning to destroy the city ever since you came here?" Kirby asked as he tilted his head.

"...Spritz Bomb!"

"AW, PLEASE!" they groaned out loud as more bombs came out from the ceiling and exploded when they fell down on them. The Pokémon and Kirby were panting heavily after the attack.

"I-I need food..." Kirby groaned.

"W-we need to defeat him..." Pikachu said as he stood up and glared at Dark Manager. "B-but there must be something we're missing..."

"..." Pichu took out a Beam Sword.

"...W-where did you get that?"

"F-from our inventory..." Pichu said.

"We have one?" Pikachu asked before he took out a Bumper. "O-oh, Chris surely bought that ability to let us use the items as we-"

"Spritz Bo-"

"SHUT THE HELL UP, YOU FUZZBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAG!!!" Pikachu yelled enraged as he tossed the Bumper at a high speed, colliding right into Dark Manager's helmet, causing him to be blasted off across the conveyor belt, where he fell between the rising chains into the deep dark abyss.

"...W-wait, what just happened?" Kirby asked confused.

Pikachu's jaw dropped. "...Oh my Arceus...w-we did it! The frickin' bomb bastard is gone! GONE! Oh my goodness, we did it!" Pikachu ran to the Bumper and tried to hug it, but he was pushed away. "I don't care if you bump me. I frickin' love you!"

"Phew..." Jigglypuff sat down. "T-that was close... I thought I was going to die..."

"B-but I wanted to use this!" Pichu said angrily. "I-I didn't get the chance to swing this sword across his face!"

"Pichu," Pikachu stared at him with a bored look as the chains from across the conveyor moved. "In this world, when you have the chance to push the guy who keeps calling bombs to explode you, you must use it before you regret it."

"..." Kirby tried to tell Pikachu to look behind him.

"Besides, see the bright side!" Pikachu said smiling as a familiar figure rose up from the abyss by grabbing the rising chains. "We're alive, so that's good, right?"

"No."

"..." Pikachu made a miffed look before someone jumped and landed right behind him. "...The bastard is still alive, isn't he..." he asked with a bored tone and turned his back around. "...Aw, shi-"

"Begone," Dark Manager said as he pushed Pikachu with his axe and to the trio. "That was incredibly...unexpected. But I warn you."

"W-what?" Kirby asked with a gulp.

"That attack made me more furious than I was before."

"...You don't look like you're furious to me." Jigglypuff said.

"Spritz Bomb!"

"CAN'T YOU SAY SOMETHING ELSE THAN THAT?!" Pikachu asked as he sat up before he saw the bombs coming at them. "You know what? Screw it!"

Once a bomb was going to explode right to him, he used his tail to hit and direct it to Dark Manager, who gasped before the bomb exploded on his helmet. "UGH!"

"It's time for a little change here!" Pikachu yelled as the others were pushed to the air by the other bombs, prompting them to crash on the floor.

However, they were able to see what Pikachu did.

"Y-you hit a bomb to him?" Jigglypuff asked.

"...Oh, now I see what we have to do..." Pikachu said.

"...A-ha, it's so simple now!"

"...Yes, it's easy..." Pichu nodded.

"...Hmm..." Kirby wondered.

"Spritz Bomb!" Dark Manager called out.

"Everyone, there they come!" Pikachu alerted everyone who nodded and ran at different sides.

"Ha!" Pichu swung the sword to make them go to Dark Manager, Pikachu hit another with his tail, Jigglypuff slapped one and Kirby jumped to 3 and kicked them all to the worker as well.

"Fools!" Dark Manager yelled as he raised his shield and blocked all the explosions. "Don't think I didn't see what did there. I'm going to keep casting my own attack to see which one of us gets tired so I can deliver the last blow! Spritz Bomb!"

"W-what?" Pichu asked worried as more bombs came from the ceiling.

"Ha! I'm not getting tired after I found this tactic!" Pikachu yelled as he prepared to hit another bomb. "There's no way I'm going to let a fuzzbag like you get away with it that easily!"

"Neither am I," Dark Manager as he raised his shield. "I dare you all to explode another bomb on me!"

The group tried their best to hit all the bombs back to Dark Manager, who kept his shield raised to stop all the bombs from trespassing his defense.

This moment kept repeating again and again as each one tried not to get tired by their tactics against the other. The young Smashers were getting exhausted by their misfortune and Dark Manager seemed to be almost unscathed.

"Hahahahaha!" Dark Manager laughed. "You can't pass my shield at all, can you?" he asked.

"(N-no...)" Jigglypuff was getting tired after she slapped a bomb. "(I-I can't lose now... Not when everyone else is doing their best... I-If I drop out...)" she closed her eyes. "(What else can we use?... W-wait...m-maybe...b-but that virtual guy isn't here to tell us if that's ready or not... W-well...I don't have anything else to lose...)"

"K-keep going!" Pikachu yelled as he hit another bomb. "W-we're almost there!"

"Why won't you stop?!" Dark Manager asked irritated. "The same result is going to keep happening if you don't think of something else!... Huh?" he noticed a small crack on his shield. "...W-wait..."

"Hu-uah!!!" Kirby yelled as he hit a bomb with a strong swing of his hammer, causing it to rocket right to Dark Manager's shield. The worker grunted and tried to block himself, but when the bomb collided with the shield, it broke into pieces.

"W-what?!" Dark Manager asked in shock as his shield broke apart. "N-no!"

"Yes! Attack him!" Pichu yelled as they hit the last bombs back to Dark Manager. The worker gasped once around 7 bombs were tossed right to his face and exploded when they came into contact. If attacking the young Smashers in close range wasn't effective, and the fact that his shield was broken and thus his bombs could explode on him, what else was Dark Manager able to do?

Kirby noticed that Dark Manager was looking down. "...We did it?"

"...SPRITZ BOMB! SPRITZ BOMB! SPRITZ BOMB! SPRITZ BOMB! SPRITZ BOMB! SPRITZ BOMB! SPRITZ BOMB! SPRITZ BOMB!!!" Dark Manager kept yelling out to call forth an insane amount of bombs that began to cover the whole ceiling. The young Smashers looked up and gasped.

"B-but why is he calling so many of them?" Pichu asked as he trembled.

"P-probably because that the only way to get rid of us is by sacrificing himself as well!" Pikachu explained as the bombs began to fall down. "AW, WE'RE SCREWED NOW!"

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!" Dark Manager raised his axe and ran towards Kirby, who gasped and made a shocked look.

"KIRBY! RUN!" Pichu yelled.

"B-but to where?!" Kirby asked as he looked up at the bombs falling down.

"Dammit! We can't step on the conveyor belts without getting zapped!" Pikachu yelled.

"SAY YOUR LAST PRAYERS, PUFFBALL!!!" Dark Manager yelled as he lunged at Kirby to slam down his axe.

Kirby blocked his head to resist the attack, but then, Jigglypuff sidestepped in front of him and twirled. "(It's now or never...) Your diva singer, is right here!"

A rainbow aura covered Jigglypuff as a force came out as well, pushing the falling Dark Manager to the floor.

"Y-YOU!!!" Dark Manager yelled enraged as he charged at Jigglypuff.

"(Time to sing an enthusiastic so-)" Jigglypuff's thoughts were interrupted as she inhaled air...and began to grow big in size. The young Smashers made confused looks at Jigglypuff's Final Smash before they decided to get out of the way of the growing Pokémon as they screamed for their lives.

"HA!!!" Dark Manager slammed his axe on the puffball Pokémon, but when the axe came in contact with Jigglypuff's body, it was instantly flung away to the pipes where it became stuck on a very high height. Dar Manager gasped when he crashed on the floor, his back facing a conveyor belt as Jigglypuff kept growing. "S-stop! I don't allow people to grow like this between the conveyor belts!" Dark Manager demanded as he backed away to the conveyor belt.

He was being crushed by Jigglypuff's size until...

Music stops

"JIGLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!"

PUSH!

A mighty force pushed Dark Manager towards the pipes (all the bombs that were going to fall on them were also pushed everywhere, creating destruction to all the pipes), where he yelled in extreme pain as his helmet destroyed and passed every single pipe that was on his way to the dark abyss underneath the platform. The worker's yells faded once the sounds of the conveyor belts and the cranes moving around replaced the yells of agony.

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhh..." Jigglypuff panted before she shrunk back to her normal size and laid down on the floor.

"...W-what the heck was that?" Pikachu asked as they walked to Jigglypuff.

"I-if that was my Final Smash, which doesn't involves me singing at all..." Jigglypuff said weakly. "...I-I'm so going to put a heavy lawsuit on Master Hand..."

"...W-well, it didn't look like that should be your Final Smash to me..." Kirby admitted.

Jigglypuff looked at Kirby and smiled a little. "Aw, thank you for understanding me..."

Pichu helped Jigglypuff to get up and she shook to clean herself from the soot of the bombs' explosions as the others did the same.

"W-whew..." Pichu sighed. "H-how do we know we beat him for real?"

"Didn't you notice his yell?" Pikachu asked. "That yell surely was the one that meant "Oh noez! My energy depleted totally! I can't move anymore! Save me!" for sure."

"...You need to get more creative with that." Kirby said.

"...What th-that didn't sound like you at all."

"Maybe the bombs affected his mind..." Jigglypuff said before she noticed several bombs around the floor. "YEEEEEEEEH!" she jumped to Pikachu's arms. "BOMBS! MORE OF THEM! GET RID OF THEM! I DON'T WANT TO SEE MORE!"

Kirby made a serious look and opened his mouth to eat all the bombs, turning him into Bomb Kirby, with the usual light blue hat on his head. "Aw, much better..." Bomb Kirby said as he rubbed his stomach.

A record scratched and Pichu tilted his head. "W-wait, if Kirby inhaled all those bombs in 1 second..."

"...You've got to be kidding me..." Pikachu looked at Bomb Kirby. "You were the solution for the bombs and you DIDN'T say anything about it? What's wrong with you?! Answer me!"

"Hey," Bomb Kirby juggled 2 bombs that weren't ignited. "Your panic was distracting me."

"W-what?! Oh, that's it you little smarty-pinky-puffball, get over here!" Pikachu tried to punch Bomb Kirby, but Jigglypuff and Pichu grabbed him from his back. "Let me go! I need to teach him a lesson! AAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!"

"Hmm." Bomb Kirby simply said as he looked to the south.

And from the darkness, Lucas, Ness, Ike and Link appeared. Link ran to the 4 and looked at the mad Pikachu trying to reach Bomb Kirby. "What's wrong with him?" Link asked.

"No idea." Bomb Kirby said as he kept the bombs.

"Oh, well. Hey, you guys defeated someone here like us did?"

"Yes!" Pichu yelled as he tried to restrain Pikachu.

"NOT THANKS TO HIM!" Pikachu yelled angrily to Bomb Kirby.

"...Huh?" Ness regained control. "W-what's happening?"

"Wait, there's no time for bickerings now!" Link said as he grabbed Pikachu and put him above his shoulder. "We have to go forward and see if the others are fine!"

"Can't we sit down and rest?" Jigglypuff asked as she sat down. "I'm tired..."

"No." Ness said.

"...This sucks."

And with that, the 8 began to run to the north...

"Can you put me down, though? It's not comfortable up here!" Pikachu yelled to Link.

[DededeCloneChris]

Back with Sonic's group...

Star Ocean: Till the End of time - Bitter Dance

"Hmph, bring it," Dark Director taunted Sonic. "With a little bit of information about your attacks, the battle will be easier."

"Ha, you wish," Sonic said before he curled up and used a Homing Attack that tried to crash on Dark Director, but the worker simply slashed the attack with his axe to make Sonic turn back to normal before Dark Director charged at him with his shield to push him away. "Tsk..." Sonic landed on his feet anf glared at the worker.

"See now?" Dark Director asked. "Calculating where the right spot to stop your attacks is can result in cancelling your attacks."

"I'll use my speed then!" Sonic said as he ran quickly to deliver a punch on Dark Director, who simply raised his shield to make the hedgehog collide with it to later use his axe and cut Sonic across the face. "AAAAAHH!!!"

"Begone," Dark Director said as he pushed Sonic away and raised his shield up to block a kick. "I have eyes everywhere, you know."

"Don'r try to make me angry," Fox said with a glare before he flipped back to the floor and rushed to the worker. "It's going to be even worse for you if you do that to me."

"We shall see," Dark Director said as he blocked a flurry of kicks from Fox with his shield. The worker quickly sidestepped out of the way from a grenade that went to the vulpine and exploded. "Trying to double team me isn't a good option either."

"Would you think before tossing those things at me?" Fox asked irritated to Snake.

"I don't listen to foxes," Snake replied as he noticed Dark Director running at him. "Well, come over here."

"Vigor Up!" Dark Director yelled to raise his strength even more. Snake narrowed his eyes and backstepped from a slam of the axe before running back to Dark Director and tackle him down. The soldier quickly put a mine inside his helmet and got off from him. "What a dirty trick..."

"Now." Snake said simply as he clicked the button.

"Wait, don't!" Marth yelled before an explosion that came from Snake's back pushed him away. "He tossed the mine back at you when you didn't look!"

"U-ugh, but in just 2 seconds without looking at him? That's...stupid..." Snake frowned.

"I'm a force to be reckoned with, am I not?" Dark Director asked before he put his shield behind him to stop an Aura Sphere. "When I'm distracted is when I'm focused."

"Grrrr..." Lucario grunted angrily as he ran to Dark Director.

The worker noticed Marth running from the other side. "And here we go again... THERE!" Dark Director yelled as he slashed the air with his axe, stopping Sonic from doing a surprise attack above him. The worker then focused back on the 2 who tried to attack by the sides. "Now, what do I do here..."

"GUUUUUUAAAAARRRRRGGH!!!" Lucario raised his right hand, glowing with aura to slam it on Dark Director.

"Useful..." Dark Director muttered as he waited for the 2 to reach him. When they did, Dark Director quickly tossed away his axe to Snake, who dodged it, but only for the worker to grab Lucario's glowing hand and slam it on Marth, causing severe pain on the Altean who yelled while Lucario gasped as he pulled back his palm.

"I-I'm sorry..." Lucario apologized. "H-he was too fast for me..."

"N-no hard feelings..." Marth said as he closed his right eye in pain.

"UGH!" Lucario was pushed to the floor by Dark Director's shoulder.

"Time to get even more serious than before. Spritz Bomb!" Dark Director yelled as he called forth many huge bombs that rained down on the field and exploded upon contact, causing everyone to be pushed to the air before crashing down to the floor. "Maybe fighting 5 at the same time isn't that hard at all..."

"S-shut up..." Sonic muttered as he coughed before curling up to use Spin Dash.

Dark Director ran to his axe and grabbed it. "The same thing? You're not original," he taunted as Sonic was about to crash into him.

The worker slammed down his axe...on the floor because the hedgehog turned ways to the side and quickly slammed himself into Dark Director, who grunted in pain as the hedgehog flipped in the air and landed back on the floor with a satisfactory grin. "Who's getting hurt now?" Sonic asked.

"I'm not going to get defeated or be enraged that easily either..." he put his shield behind his back to block another kick from Fox. "You and your repetitive kicks. Don't you have anything else than that?"

"I do," Fox said as he grinned, pulled back his fists and began to get covered in flames before rocketing himself to the worker with fire, burning Dark Director for a bit as he crossed him. "Aaaaaand that's not all either." Fox said as he used Fox Illusion to slash the worker as the vulpine crossed him again, only with a longer range.

"Well, that was original for change..." Dark Director panted a little. "Valor up!" he yelled to increase his defense. However, just as he was raising his defense, a strong palm slammed down on his helmet and he grunted in pain before he saw Lucario landing in front of him. "T-the dog learned a new trick..."

"Don't dare to call me a dog." Lucario said as he narrowed his eyes.

"Funny, that kid gave the first impression to me."

"He is NOT a kid!" Lucario yelled enraged as he rushed at Dark Director with Force Palm ready.

"Lucario, don't let him get to you!" Marth yelled as he ran besides Lucario.

"If he insults Chris, he is insulting me as well and that's not good for his life!" Lucario yelled.

"But with rage you won't accomplish anything. He will dodge every single attack if you're enraged." Marth said as he stopped Lucario.

"...Maybe you're right..." Lucario said as he looked down. "UGH!" an axe struck his shoulder and he grunted in pain, showing his fangs completely before Dark Director pushed him with his shoulder, grabbed back the axe and slashed Marth across his chest to push him away.

"When are you going to understand?" Dark Director asked. "Getting distracted for a small time can result in a severe punishment... A punishment that I'll personally create," he turned his back to see an explosion from a small missile pushing him back. "...A-And I need to stay more focused as well..."

"Heh," Snake kept his Nikita and grinned (a small grin that was just .5cm of height...) "Losing your focus?"

"Not at all," Dark Director shook his head. "I hope this ends sooner so I can get appreciation from Smithy."

Snake started to run at him. "Too bad," he used a fast tackle to push the employee away. Snake then pulled out a mortar, that, for some reason, pushed Dark Director to the air and got attacked by a raising grenade that exploded right into his armor before Snake took out an RPG-7 rocket launcher to shoot down a strong missile to Dark Director's feet, causing strong damage that made Dark Director yell a little in pain. "Feel my annoyance to you."

"H-has somebody ever told you that you carry a lot of things without actually carrying them around?" Dark Director asked as he panted.

"I blame the hand for that one." Snake said.

"I blame the whole universe we got in." Mei Ling said over the codec.

"Heh, we think the same. Got a Japanese haiku for that?"

"Hmm, let me see...oh, look out!"

"That doesn't sound like a haiku to m-AAAAAHHHHHHH!!!" Snake yelled after Dark Director slammed his axe on his back, causing a severe pain going through Snake's back.

"Away," Dark Director pushed Snake away by using his shield. "Get during conversations again and you'll be sorry."

Marth quickly ran to the worker and stood in front of him.

"...That's all? You're pathetic..." Dark Director frowned as he prepared to slash Marth, but the Altean quickly put his sword across him to let it receive the slash before retaliating with a strong slash (while Marth said something in Japanese) on Dark Director, who grunted in pain. "I-I should've expected that as well..."

Marth proceeded to use Dancing Blade to deal 4 hits on Dark Manager before finishing with a strong thrust that pushed the worker away.

"G-good..." Dark Director panted. "T-this fight is even more interesting than the one I had with Mario..."

"I'm glad to hear that," Marth said before he narrowed his eyes as he put his sword in front of him. "But I'll more glad once I stop hearing that voice of yours."

"Isn't this funny? We think the same of each other," Dark Director chuckled. "(I can hear that hedgehog coming right behind me...) THERE!" he turned his back and slashed the air, but he was able to catch a glimpse of a blue blur flipping sideways before Sonic used Spin Dash to push the enemy to the air before splitting his legs in the air and hit him with an upward kick from down below.

"Now, attack him!" Sonic yelled as he landed on the floor with his head. "O-oww..."

"This is for that insult a moment ago!" Lucario yelled (making Marth facepalm with a frown) as he jumped straight to Dark Director and delivered a series of punches and kicks charged with aura. "GUUUU-AAAARGGH!!!" he slammed down a Force Palm on Dark Director's armor, making him go down to collide with the floor.

"(Now's my chance...)" Fox thought as he narrowed his eyes and quickly ran underneath Dark Director to do a fast backflip kick (calculating the spot where he would slide a little beforehand) to push him back to the air. "Let's keep him in the air!"

"My turn." Snake said as he jumped towards Dark Director and slammed his right kick on Dark Director's helmet. The worker yelled loudly in pain as he was pushed down to the floor where he crashed but rolled backwards to stood up.

"W-well, i-it seems things aren't going well for me anymore..." Dark Director coughed. "B-but that doesn't mean I'll escape either... SPRITZ BOMB!"

Many huge bombs rained down from the ceiling and the 5 looked up.

"Isn't there a way to evade all those bombs?" Sonic asked.

"Unless..." Snake muttered before he took out his missile launcher and shot a small missile that went to the bombs and exploded upon contact, causing a chain reaction that made every single bomb explode above them. "So that's the trick..."

"Ugh," Dark Director grunted. "And throughout the whole battle, you all grew a little wiser...enough wiser to find the flaw in my attacks..."

Fox saw his scouter beeping. "The Over Limit is ready."

"Now I'll show yo-" Sonic was just about to use his Final Smash but the Chaos Emeralds simply appeared and dropped to the floor. "Aw, man! Not this again!"

The vulpine looked back at his scouter. "What a relief. It's still intact..."

"GUUUUUUUUAAAAAARRRGGGGGGHHHHH!!!" Lucario roared loudly as the rainbow aura covered his body with a force pushing Dark Director back for a bit. "I'll make sure you die a fast death." Lucario said as he narrowed his glowing eyes.

Dark Director simply prepared.

"GuuuuuuuuAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!" Lucario joined his hands together before shoving them forward, releasing a big stream of pure aura energy that went towards Dark Director.

...However...

Dark Director jumped above the beam and Lucario gritted his fangs in fury as the worker chuckled. The Aura Pokémon tried to move the beam up but he couldn't do it as it faded. "Damn it!" Lucario cursed.

"That's a Final Smash wasted right there..." Marth said disappointed.

"Mine could have taken that guy out." Snake commented.

"Mine would." Fox said with a frown.

"Or mine...if it could have worked..." Sonic commented.

"Would you 4 stop commenting about your Final Smashes being "superior" right now?!" Lucario asked enraged.

"Hey, we're not the dude who wasted his Final Smash."

"GRRRRRRRRRRR!!!"

Sonic shuddered. "C-chill out! It was just a joke..."

"UGH!" Lucario was distracted after the 4 accidentally commented about his Final Smash being wasted and thus he got hit in the head by Dark Director.

"Too bad this dog didn't do a good job." Dark Director said.

"I'm not a dog!" Lucario yelled as he gritted his fangs.

"Then tell that kid to stop making you act like one."

Lucario was utterly enraged after those comments.

"GUUUUUUUUUUUUUAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHH!!!" the Aura Pokémon's right fist covered with a glowing light of aura that he tried to slam on Dark Director, who simply moved away. "STOP MOVING!"

"Why would I?" Dark Director asked. "It's not my fault you were not trained well."

"YOU...YOU!!!"

Sonic stepped up in front of the 3. "Hey, we have to go and help him!"

Marth shook his head. "No. I think Lucario can handle him alone. If we interrupt, that only will cause him to attack us as well."

"But didn't you tell him not to get furious?"

"I did. But now, I can tell that this rage is going to increase his strength greatly."

"What's the difference between this rage and the other one from before?"

"That this one is enhancing his strength, while the previous was onl-"

"Pissing him off." Snake interrupted.

"...You could put it that way..."

"Ha," Dark Director taunted as he dodged a fist. "What? Doggy's getting angry? It's a shame."

"SHUT UP!!!" Lucario growled furiously as he tried to land a fist on the worker.

Dark Director backstepped but Lucario followed him as his aura covered his whole body. "Fool, your rage is only making easier for me to evade every hit of yours."

"You know, I don't know why is easier to evade someone's attacks when he or she is furious." Fox said confused.

"Hmph, I don't know that either..." Snake muttered.

"I do." Mei Ling called from the codec.

"Care to explain?"

"Now's not the best time, though."

"Missed," Dark Director said as he evaded another fist. "Missed," and again. "Missed," and again. "Missed," and again. "Missed too," and again.

Marth slowly reached for something behind his cape and Sonic looked at him.

Dark Director shook his head as Lucario showed his fangs (that apparently were thirsty for blood). "You're such a poor shame. Even with that rage, you can't land a single hit on me."

"Grrrrr..."

Something was heard being tossed to the floor.

"..." Dark Director turned his back to see a Green Shell going to him. "That had to be the most pathetic excuse to attack me. What is a Green Shell going to do to me? I'll just jump it an-"

Music stops

CRASH!!!

Marth, Fox and Sonic gasped after Dark Director was interrupted in his little speech.

What was shocking was that, when the worker was distracted, a glowing fist passed right through his helmet and crossed the other side.

And that fist belonged to a furious Lucario, who growled furiously as he tossed Dark Director's dead body to the conveyor belt, where it got electrocuted greatly, shooting sparks everywhere before it exploded into bits and left nothing else behind. The Aura Pokémon showed his fangs in rage before his aura faded and he calmed down with a sigh.

"..." the 4 were speechless...well, except for Snake, who took out a cigar and ignited it to smoke it.

"...Well, that was a good ending." Snake commented.

"...But, that was kinda..." Sonic tried to think of something. "...Extreme..."

"...I agree..." Fox nodded.

"...Well, he got rid of him, right? So, we have to be happy for it." Marth said.

"Dude, we just watched a do-I mean, whatever he is passing his fist right through the enemy's head, and you're not shocked if he does the same to you if you dare to piss him off?" Sonic asked.

Marth shook his head. "No, because I won't do the same mistake as he did."

"You, however..." Snake trailed off as he looked at Sonic.

"Oh, f(beep) off..." Sonic frowned.

The 4 walked to Lucario.

"Well, your rage got that guy killed. Happy?" Snake asked.

"..." Lucario looked away with a grunt.

"No need to get grumpy either," Marth said before he thought of something. "But, we honestly think you're not a dog and Chris is not a kid."

"He's not a kid?" Sonic asked before Lucario grunted at him. "I-I mean, of course not!"

"..." Fox's ears perked up and he quickly took out his Blaster, turned his back and aimed at the person behind him.

"Yeah, aim that to me because I sound like a bad guy." Link said with an annoyed look.

"Oh, sorry for that." Fox apologized as he put away his Blaster in his holdster.

"Let me guess," Pikachu began. "You guys fought an armored guy who kept annoying you to no end."

"To Lucario at least." Marth pointed out.

Pikachu frowned. "And if we're lucky, then the others could be fighting ANOTHER one of them as well..."

"...Well..." Ike looked at everyone. "Since we're done with our fights, why don't we advance forward and see if they need our help?"

"That's the best thing for now." Jigglypuff said.

Ness went to the Green Shell that Marth tossed and kept it. "If we keep to be standing here in the middle of probably nowhere in this factory, then we should get running to the other end instead!"

And lastly, the last team...

Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga - Poople & Rookie

"Soooooooooooo good!" Yolk said dumbly as Mario and Geno lunged at him. "Oh, what's with people these days who jump to guys like me in that way? Seriously, the nerve of some of them... Oh, right," he noticed the 2 were about to attack him. "Echofinder!"

Sound waves came out from his mouth and they stroke both Mario and Geno, who were pushed back to the floor, also losing their abilities to use skills and magic respectively.

"Like that?" Yolk asked with a toothy grin. "Guess you did, since you seem to be so worked up after you got it, and played with it around!"

"Aw, god, I hate this guy..." Chris said as he grabbed his head. "Why does he need to talk like that?"

"Because of the fact that he probably doesn't have a brain?" Mallow asked as he focused to make magic.

"Mainly that..." Peach said unsure.

"Oh, I forgot about you 3!" Yolk said happily.

"Eek!" the trio gasped.

"Hmm, so, who's the first one on my list?"

"H-he wants to!" Mallow pointed at Chris.

"W-what?! Y-you little cheater...traitor!"

"Oh well!" Yolk said happily as he inhaled air. "How do you want yourself? Crispy or burned?"

"Neither!" Chris yelled scared.

"Aw, c'mon, man!" Yolk said. "You've got to choose one option or else how am I going to defeat you?"

"B-because I don't want to die!"

"You can meet death people if you die, famous people, even the most funny!"

"W-what the heck do you have in your mind?!"

"Almost nothing, 'cept pure awesome materia!" Yolk laughed.

"O-oh no, you're not going to burn m-"

"Burned then!" Yolk said happily as he shot a magma ball to Chris, who yelled in a high-pitched tone and rammed himself to the side to evade the explosion. "Dude! Stop moving around!"

"Y-yiah!" Peach jumped to throw a Turnip (OoO) that was ignited upon contact with the pyroplasm.

"..." Yolk looked miffed. "Hmm, it had an odd taste. What else do you have, missy?"

"W-what?" Peach asked confused.

"The turnip, girl! I meant the turnip!" Yolk said with a smile. "Have something with a lemon-apple flavor?"

"M-my turnips don't have flavors..."

Yolk got mad. "What?! Then that's so bad, that I'm going to stick my head to yours!"

As the pyroplasm got his head closer to the princess, who screamed for her life as she ran away from the stretchable head of magma, a fast slicing ring cut the pyroplasm in half before Yolk was seen emerging from the machine.

"Dude, like, that didn't feel so good!" Yolk said.

"It's because it didn't have to." Geno said with a glare.

"Oh, the puppet! Good times in that past fight, man, good fights, aw yeeeeeeeah..."

"..." Geno sweatdropped and used a rocket punch to explode it right in front of Yolk's face.

"Ouch!" Yolk yelled in pain. "Hmph! Hoe rude of you, sir! I guess I need to get eve more serious than-heeeeeeeeeeey, who're you?" he asked to a familiar Star Spirit that floated in front of him.

"Mamar," she said. "And it's time to get to bed."

"Why's that?" Yolk asked before a wave of musical notes flew out from Mamar and hit him. "And I yelled to the cabby aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh..." he fell asleep and snored out loud.

The 5 gathered as the pyroplasm continued to snore loudly.

"Well, thank you for calling me." Mamar said before she vanished.

"Okay, that monster or whatever the heck he is it's getting on my nerves," Geno said. "Somebody has a plan?"

"W-we could wait to use the Final Smash..." Peach suggested.

"But for that, we need to land many hits." Mario said.

"Evil sandwishes...getting to my spacecraft...save 'em, mommy..." Yolk snored.

"..." Chris shook his head. "I-I can't stand that idiot anymore! The person I can stand with that...insane level of stupidity is...Popo..."

"Neither of us can stand him at all," Geno said. "We must think of somet-"

"Aaaaaaand cue from the bird!" Yolk said as he woke up. "A-ha! You guys were planning to do something on poor little ol' me, huh?"

Mallow shifted his eyes. "N-no, what makes you think that?"

"I'm no idiot!"

"You are!" Mallow and Chris yelled.

"No, I'm not! Look at yourselves! You look like that creepy stance for those people who like to plot the demises of their enemies!"

The 5 quickly separated from each other.

"Ha! That makes it more obvious!" he inhaled air. "Breaker Beam!"

"JUMP!" Mario yelled and everyone followed his order to evade the beam that came out from Yolk's mouth.

"Got ya! Mega Drain!"

"DOUBLE JUMP!" Mario yelled and everyone quickly used a double jump to evade the slicing beam.

"Electroshock!"

"TRIPLE JUMP!"

"We don't have that one!" the others yelled before sparks came from above them that created several domes of electricity, greatly electrocuting every single character before the domes disappeared.

Yolk chuckled as the 5 crashed down to the floor. "Heheh, you fell from the sky...laughing out loud here, dudes!"

"M-Mario..." Peach muttered weakly. "C-can we win this fight?"

Mario coughed as everyone tried to get up. "W-we can if we're positive about it..."

"Thinking right now...hurts..." Chris muttered as he slowly stood up. "T-there has got to be some way to deal damage to him..."

"N-nothing here can help us..." Mallow muttered as he shook his head. "W-what else besides the fact that he's connected to the machine is there?"

"...W-wait..." Geno narrowed his eyes at the machine. "I-If I remember, the chief was the one who made it, right? S-so, there must be a way to retaliate with that idea in mind..."

"..." Chris changed to his Hacker job. "M-maybe I can find something of matter if I check the machine..."

"...We don't have nothing else to lose here..."

"What about us?" Peach asked.

"...B-besides us, that is..."

"So!" Yolk spoke up. "You guys gonna fight me or somethin'?"

"...Mallow, Peach, listen up," Geno whispered. "You have to create some kind of distraction as Chris gets to the machine."

"W-why us?" Peach asked.

"Because I know you're not going to fight at close-range, right?"

"W-well..."

"...Let's do it," Mallow whispered to the princess. "These 3 can be the offensive while we're the defensive. If there's only one way to get rid of...it, then I'm willing to do it. What do you say?"

"...Okay..." Peach nodded.

"D-don't worry," Mario coughed. "I'm going to make sure he doesn't hurt you..."

"B-but don't get hurt as well, okay?"

Mario smiled a little. "You can count on me."

"T-thank you..."

"(Yes, it's love...)" Chris thought with a frown.

"BREAKER BEAM!" Yolk yelled loudly.

"GO!" Mario yelled loudly as the 5 evaded the beam by jumping.

"Mega Drain!"

"Geno Whirl!" Geno interrupted as he stopped the pyroplasm from using his beam by slicing him in half before he emerged from the machine.

"You sir, need to get BUUUUUUUUUUUUURNED!!!" Yolk yelled angrily as he extended his head to Geno.

"Back off!" Mario yelled as he pulled FLUDD out and shot a stream of water that made Yolk back away.

"W-water? That's not cool, dude! NOT-COOL!" Yolk yelled stupidly before he inhaled air.

"Scatter Beam!" Chris yelled as he took out his gun and shot 7 rays that hit Yolk (only 5 this time hit him) and interrupted his attack.

"'Kay, you guys are so pissing me off now..." Yolk said with a mad look. "You need to...what's the word? Oh yeah, DIE IN OBLIVIOOOOOOOON!!!"

"Those are 3 words, you retard!" Mallow yelled from afar.

Yolk looked at him. "Oh, to me, it looked like 1...or was it 7? Heheh, I forgot. Oh yeah, DIE!" Yolk yelled as he shot a fast magma ball to the prince.

"HP Rain!" Mallow called out a smiling cloud above the magma ball that doused it by its water as Peach stepped in front of Mallow and took out Toad.

"YEEEEEEEEEEE-OUCH!" Toad received the attack before shooting air waves out. "P-princess, next time, don't put me in front of a rock bigger than me..."

"S-sorry..." Peach apologized before he kept him behind her back.

"My condolences to him..." Mallow said with a bow, making Peach blush embarrassed.

"...Hey, you guys hear that clackity-clank sounds?" Yolk asked confused before he looked below him to the right side to spot Chris looking (or messing) around with his machine. "Hey, dude, whatcha doing to me?"

Chris gulped and looked up. "E-er...hmm...f-fixing you?"

"..." Yolk smiled happily. "Oh, good! I have these weird tickles in my crotch lately these days, so, can you fix that?"

Chris tried to shake off the sick image in his mind.

"...Wait a minute..." Yolk grinned and narrowed his eyes. "You're not thinking about disabling me, are you?"

"N-no..." Chris sweated.

"...Good!" Yolk said happily.

"P-phew..."

"But I'm not stupid!"

Chris gasped.

"You are!" Mallow and Peach yelled from afar.

"I'm not!"

"You are!"

"I'm not!"

"You are!"

"I'm not!"

The World Traveler took this time to look for something to stop the machine.

"Hey!" Yolk looked down at Chris as Mallow and Peach tried to distract the pyroplasm. "I didn't forget about you!"

"SOMEBODY!" Chris yelled as Yolk pulled back himself to slam his head down on the hacker.

Mario jumped above the machine and shot a faster stream of water as he used FLUDD to make the pyroplasm back away.

"Okay, your tricks got old to me," Yolk said before 2 rocket punches collided on his face. "And the puppet's attacks got old as well! You guys need a serious punishment this time!" Shadow Bugs began to cover himself. "IT'S KILLIN' TIME!"

"THERE!" Chris found something in the machine and slammed his right fist on a button.

Music stops

"..." Yolk made his mouth a small dot. "...Not feeling the same right now...wait, I feel the same..." he looked around as he turned red, while the Shadow Bugs left the machine. "...Hmm..."

"..." Peach, Mallow, Mario and Geno walked to Yolk and looked up to the pyroplasm.

"..." Chris looked up before looking down on the keyboard that was connected to the machine and typed something. "Now, if I input this code to the hard drive..."

"Wait, it has a hard drive?" Mallow asked.

"You have a computer?" Twink asked as he came down from the dark ceiling.

"The best one in Nimbus Land there is." Mallow said proudly.

"..." Geno walked to Chris. "What are you exactly doing to him?"

Yolk looked down to the 2 with a normal expression as a face. "I'm trying to change some statistics to him..." Chris said as he typed on the keyboard. "This shouldn't take too long..."

"Hmm..." Yolk "hmm'd" confused.

"Why isn't he attacking anymore?" Peach asked.

"I put a code to stop him from attacking us. Right now..." the World Traveler took out some small glasses and adjusted them. "He's at what I call "Confused Mode" so he can't attack us."

"...Oh."

"..." Yolk turned blue. "Sooooooooooooooooooooo, what're you guys going to do now? I feel right into the grooooooooove right nooooooow..."

"...U-um, we're going to fight Smithy?" Mallow responded.

"Like, that's awesooooooooooooome..." Yolk said with several nods.

"Why the heck is he like that now?"

Chris chuckled. "Just testing this job out..."

Geno chuckled. "Well, make the machine step aside so we can go to Smithy."

"Aww... Oh well," Chris typed on the keyboard. "I'll see what else I can do with it."

Yolk turned green. "Anybody into the retro age, where hippies used to rule the world we live in?"

"Chris!" Geno yelled.

Chris laughed for a bit. "Okay, okay! I'm on it!"

[The Seventh]

Sorry if I haven't been reading much lately, but this is epic!

Good work! :)