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

[DededeCloneChris]

"I was having fun too..." Peach muttered...

...Before the wall with the door behind them exploded, creating a big smokescreen that made most of them cough.

"W-what now? Another enemy?" Geno asked as he put an arm in the front to block his face.

"Okay!" Sonic came out from the smoke with a glare and fists ready. "Show me that guy to give him, her, it, gay or whatever a good punch, right on the face!"

The other Smashers stepped out from the smoke and also, they looked prepared to fight anything else in their way before Pichu looked up to Yolk.

"U-uah! There's one!" Pichu yelled.

Snake took out a grenade. "Time to explode this thi-"

"STOP!" Chris yelled at them and they looked at him. "I-I have everything under control here s-so don't do anything!"

"..." Snake rolled his eyes as he tossed the grenade away and exploded. "Good..."

"Wait," Pikachu made a glare. "So you didn't go through the same hell we did?"

"This guy's a wacko." Mallow pointed at Yolk, who turned pink.

"Me llamo Luis Sedra," Yolk talked in Mexican. "I used to be a tree."

"AHEM." Geno coughed.

"Okay, okay..." Chris frowned as he typed another code.

The Aura Pokémon walked to Chris and looked down to him. "Chris..."

"Yes?" Chris asked as he didn't look at him.

"Somebody called you a kid, and he also called me a dog..."

"No wonder why I felt that annoying feeling some minutes ago. I hope you gave that guy his well-deserved punishment, preferably death."

Lucario smiled a little. "Y-yes, I did that."

"Good! I knew you were going to defend me."

Jigglypuff sweatdropped. "What? That's it? He's happy to be a killer?"

"Either way, I don't care." Pikachu frowned.

"..." Geno walked to Chris. "Are you typing the code now?"

"Just a second," Chris said. "It's easier said than done for you..."

"..." the doll looked away. "I wonder how the others are doing with the army sent to the mansion..."

"Why worry?" Twink asked. "I'm pretty sure they're doing just fine."

"I wished I had that same confidence as you, Twink."

"Not that hard to have for me."

Geno sighed. "Well, I guess you didn't understand what I tried to me-"

"Done!" Chris said happily as he stood up and looked at them.

"So?" Rope Snake peered out from Lucas's pocket. "Is that thing going to disappear or what?"

"...My god..." Chris looked at the other Smashers. "You look...very hurt to me..."

"O-oh, right, can you heal me?" Lucas asked before he coughed.

"Gladly, just let me change jo-"

"I'm gonna go boom now." Yolk said.

Everyone looked at him before the machine began to be covered with Shadow Bugs again. Everyone gasped as the machine began to shine brightly before an huge explosion engulfed the whole place...

TO BE CONTINUED...

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"Wait, that's it? We lost like that?" Geno asked irritated.

"Geno!" Twink yelled.

"R-right... Um... Oh, here. Fight Against Smithy. So, does this mean we survived?"

"Nope."

"What do you mean no?"

"It says here that another group is coming to fight in our place."

"W-what? G-give that piece of paper!"

"...Whistle...whistle...whistle..."

"...Twink?"

He stook out his tongue.

"Twink!"

Do you want to save your data?

Yes

Overwrite File?

Yes

Exor
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

[DededeCloneChris]

Chapter 128: Fight Against Smithy

Exor
Factory

...Complete silence...

...The bodies of the Smashers laid down on the steel floor...

All of their bodies...covered in soot...with burn marks, severe burn marks above their skins...

...They were so close to get to Smithy, but an unexpected event happened and thus ended their lives...

...The world was thrown to chaos because of their loss...

...And for Geno...it was such an enraging thought...as he now was in heave-

"A-CHOO!" Geno sneezed as he got up. "What the heck was that all about?"

All of the Smashers moaned in pain before they all got up and shook their heads.

"I-I think we know who to blame here..." Link looked at Chris.

"H-how was I supposed to know the wacko would explode instead of disappearing?" Chris asked.

"Oh, I don't know," Fox rolled his eyes. "Who was the guy who was clicking, typing and writing on the machine?"

"(Lying isn't going to get me out from this one). W-well, it was me..." he looked down. "Maybe I should have checked something else in there before running the program..."

"Kid," Snake began. "Next time, ask an expert."

"Like me." Otacon said.

"Get over here then."

"I can't. You know why, right?"

"Hmph, lucky guy."

"Snake..."

"B-but what was that explosion about?" Sonic asked.

"..." Mario looked at himself. "...That explosion didn't hurt any of us... It just shoot a lot of smoke."

"And we probably fainted for inhaling so much of it." Marth explained.

"...I kinda expected that from the Yolk guy here..." Mallow said.

Peach cleaned her dress from some smoke as she coughed a little. "S-so, what do we do now?"

Mallow looked forward where Yolk once was. He saw 3 tall pipes that were leading to somewhere in the deepest part of the factory itself. "We go in there and we should get to Smithy."

"...Through those?" Ike asked. "I-I'm not sure you guys, but I think it's not a good idea..."

"Oh, what do you know, medieval dude?" Sonic asked. "If there's a shortcut to get to that Smotha, then we should take it!"

"Smithy," Twink corrected before coughing. "W-wait, isn't anyone here a little bit tired?"

Everyone looked at themselves.

"...I'm a little bit tired myself," Lucas said. "Can we...um...rest a little before proceeding? I-I don't think going forward without our full energies isn't such a good idea..."

"...You're right," Pikachu nodded. "How can we fight someone in these conditions?" he snapped his fingers. "Hey, you 2, cloud and cosplayer dude, heal us."

Chris glared at Pikachu before he changed to his Musician job. "I'm going to let that little comment go off for now..."

"But I won't." Lucario said as he showed his fangs.

"Back off."

"Y-yes..." Lucario nodded depressed.

"Ha-ha, owned." Pikachu teased.

And as Chris started his slow recovery magic, Geno looked at the 3 pipes with Twink. "It's going to be over in a moment..." Geno said before he looked at Twink. "When that happens, what are you going to say when we return to Star Haven?"

"..." Twink looked down. "I-I'd like to say my last words to them when we're over..."

"...Maybe that's the best thing for now..." Geno patted Twink's back. "Just...don't cry."

Twink sniffed. "I-I won't..."

Geno sighed as he shook his head, while the screen was getting farther and farther away from their location...

Smash Mansion
Outside

Super Mario RPG - Fight Against an Armed Boss

Now, outside wasn't exactly what would some people call the paradise with roses. Oh no, it was all the contrary. It was night, thunders were created in the dark clouds that made rain, falling everywhere. And close to the mansion (or actually some feet away of it) a battle still was ensuing...

"Behind you!" Toon Link shouted.

"Right," Samus said as she jumped twice and slammed her arm cannon on a rushing Dark Mack, who yelled in pain after the hit attacked his head. "When are you going to stop bothering us?"

"After you stop breathing," Dark Mack said. "I took out the weird bird with the funny accent, and almost took out the psychic cat, the dinosaur, the weird nosy guy and the iron nipples captain!"

"D-don't dare to call me a cat again..." Mewtwo called out from a tree that he was leaning to as he tried to resist the pain.

"So you're right there," Dark Mack said. "I'm going to enjoy cutting down that throat of yours!" he yelled as he jumped above the pogo, pointed the tip to Mewtwo and extended it at an insane speed.

"UGH!!!"  Mewtwo received a harsh blow on his chest before he lost consciousness and fainted on the scene. Some of the Smashers gasped at this while the tip of the pogo-sword quickly went back to Dark Mack, who chuckled after seeing the Psychic Pokémon out.

"Mwahahahahaha, I am evil," Dark Mack said. "Smithy will give me a raise for this for sure."

"You...filthy bastard!" Toon Link yelled.

"Aw, the little kid is mad? How cute."

"GRRRRR!!!" Toon Link made an angry expression and began to dash towards Dark Mack, who chuckled as he made flames above his hands.

"Well, it's a pity your life will end so easily!" Dark Mack yelled before he shot the flame balls to the cartoony Link.

But then a fast missile came from nowhere and blocked the way of the flame balls, making Toon Link take advantage of the smoke that came out and jumped straight to it, just to cross the smoke and deal a strong slash across his mask.

"AAAAAHHH!!!" Dark Mack yelled loudly before Toon Link landed back to the grass and used a fast Spin Attack to pull the pogo-sword in and push it away from the pogo wielder. "D-darn you little punk..."

"YAAAAAAAA-" Toon Link stopped his barbaric yells before looking back. "Wait, what got in the way of the flames?"

"P-poor me..." muttered a weak Luigi.

"Just how did you end up sacrificing for me?"

"I-I failed to use my missile skill at the wrong time... I-I was trying to aim myself to him b-but I got into this instead... O-oww..." Luigi fainted.

"...Poor guy..." Toon Link shook his head. "He didn't get to fight that mu-" a severe burning feeling came from behind Toon Link before he exploded into flames. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!" Toon Link yelled loudly before he fell defeated on the grass, close to the fainted Luigi.

"Fools..." Dark Mack said coldly. "You must burn down...to ashes..."

"Now he took out 3 of us..." Pit said as he prepared his dual blades. "I hope he doesn't get the chance to do that with us as well."

"Wait, where's the pogo?" Roy asked before they found the pogo-sword laying on the ground. "There it is! Go for it!"

"Right!" Pit said before he ran towards the pogo.

"BEGONE!" Dark Mack yelled as he ran to his pogo, with flames burning in his hands.

"Stop right there," Wolf said as he came from the side and delivered a kick right on Dark Mack's mask. The pogo wielder grunted in pain before the lupine quickly slashed his stomach across with both claws, following his combo with Fire Wolf to push Dark Mack along the ground and ending it with a pushing kick. "Not so tough without that toy, huh?"

"What?" Dark Mack asked as he stood up. "Oh no, sir, you're getting me wrong. Even if my weapon is in your hands, I can be quite a real pain in your neck...or ALL you necks!" Dark Mack yelled as he made even more flames on his hands.

"If you play with fir-" Wolf was interrupted as Dark Mack slammed down his burnings hands on the ground, creating a shockwave of fire that went to all directions and pushed the lupine away, close to some trees as he greeted his fangs in pain and frustration. "N-never underestimate a dork..."

"HAAAAAAA!!!" Dark Mack jumped towards Wolf wit burning hands (again). The lupine coughed before rolling sideways to evade the slam before using Wolf Flash to slice the masked enemy across the mask and to appear from the other side. "A-and I almost had you... You're good..."

"Heh, thanks." Wolf said with a grin.

"However," Dark Mack gathered flames as Wolf frowned. "That's not going to help you at all!"

"Behind you."

"Wha-OWW!" Dark Mack was sent blasting off towards Wolf, who calculated the exact time to kick the pogo wielder right behind his back so Dark Mack slid in the mud.

"Thank you for the small distraction," Samus said as she nodded. "Let's continue with this."

"Tsk, I didn't do this for anyone here." Wolf said with a glare.

"Not the cooperative type, I see..."

"Do it!" Pit yelled.

"OOOAAAH!!!" Roy slammed a fully charged Flare Blade on the pogo. Smoke came out from the hit and both coughed for a moment before they looked down at the toy. "D-dangit! It's still intact!"

"Why is this toy so hard to break apart?" Pit asked. "It's just...so ridiculous."

"I-I know," Roy twitched after using his fully charged attack. "B-but we've got to destroy it. Without this, that weird guy isn't going to that much of a threat to us..."

Pit made a concerned look. "I hope you're right..."

The angel looked down at the sword and made a confused face.

"...Er...Roy..."

"Yes?" Roy asked.

"Does this toy have eyes?... C-creepy..."

"..." Roy looked down at the sword. "...Oh god...they're looking at us..."

"...S-should we smash them?"

"I-I think so... Here, let me do i-"

"YOU 2, GET OUT!" Wolf yelled from afar before Roy was pushed away by Dark Mack, who then shot a small but fast flame ball to Pit in order to get back on top of his pogo-sword. "Were you talking when this idiot was around? What the heck were you thinking?"

"I-it's not our fault..." Roy muttered before he felt the ground trembling.

"You wanted to destroy my weapon, huh?!" Dark Mack asked enraged. "Why don't you let my weapon do the destruction part but ON you?!"

"S-stay away from me!" Roy yelled.

"Go to hell!" Dark Mack yelled as he jumped high up to the air and extended the tip of the pogo down to Roy, who closed his eyes and waited for the blow.

"Begone," Meta Knight appeared above Roy (using Dimensional Cape) to slash the tip away, barely missing Roy's right side as it became stuck on the ground while the masked warrior landed close to the swordsman. "I made it in tim-ugh!"

"Ugh!" Roy and Meta Knight were pushed away as the upper part of the pogo came down with Dark Mack, creating a shockwave that pushed them away.

"Even if you evade my attacks," Dark Mack began. "I can still attack by other means!"

"Now, Popo!" Nana yelled from behind the pogo wielder as she was thrown to Dark Mack and smashed herself on him, pulling a rope over her shoulder to pull Popo to the air as he fell down after being pulled. "Quick! Blizzard!" she yelled as she exhaled a cold air from behind, trying to freeze the tip of the pogo.

"I-I'm going, going, going now!" Popo yelled as he quickly ran to the other side of the pogo to start exhaling a cold air out from his mouth. The tip began to freeze and Dark Mack grunted in frustraon before the tip shone brightly in a red light and made an explosion that pushed both Ice Climbers away. "So cheap!"

"I told you before," Dark Mack continued. "There's no point in freezing my weapon or my flames!"

"N-never surrender!" Popo yelled as he stood up and pouted a little. "I'm gonna smash that mask of yours!"

"Ignore his cheesy lines!" Nana yelled from the other side. "My brother is as insane as a crazy machine that suddenly took life!"

"SILENCE!" Dark Mack turned to her. "Did I even bother to ask yo-"

"NOW!"

"YAH!" Popo yelled as he jumped straight to Dark Mack and smacked his hammer right on his head, causing the pogo wielder to almost lose his balance from the toy.

"Uah!" Dark Mack tried to avoid falling off his weapon. "Y-you 2 are making me mad no-OWW!" he was pushed to the ground by Nana who came behind him after the pogo wielder tried to look for Popo. He even slid his face on the mud.

The pogo-sword fell down to the ground as well.

"Break it apart!" Nana yelled to Popo.

"How?" Popo asked.

"Your hammer, dork!" Nana frowned as she ran to the toy with her brother.

"Flame Wall!" Dark Mack yelled, shooting a trail of flames from his hands that blocked the Ice Climbers from reaching the toy from either side (and mostly because the walls were big, preventing Popo and Nana from jumping over them). The stubborn enemy got up and ran towards his weapon as the walls of flames prevents the Ice Climbers from crossing over them. "W-what?!"

Dark Mack found Meta Knight between him and the sword. The masked warrior was preparing to attack him. "It's a pleasure to see you here."

"H-how did you get here? Did you use that odd cape of yours?!"

"You responded your own question." Meta Knight said before he spreaded out his wings and hovered along the ground to stab the enemy. Dark Mack jumped over him, but the masked warrior used Shuttle Loop to make an upward rising slash that pushed Dark Mack through the flame walls and crashed to the ground.

The flame walls disappeared and the Ice Climbers went to the pogo-sword, which they began to bang their hammers on.

"Nana," Popo began. "This toy looks so weird."

"Like you," Nana said as she hit the tip. "I know why is weird. It's weird because it's being used as a weapon."

"And for the fact that it has eyes."

Nana stopped and looked at the pogo-sword. "...Okay, this is creepy..."

"Ha, told you!" Popo stopped banging. "If this sword has eyes, then there's a good a chance it will come to life an attack us in the most unexpected moment!"

"...Popo, can you wish something good for us that doesn't include someone getting hurt?"

"But it's hard for me to think about something so complicated!" Popo said angrily. "My mind goes boom."

"Sure, it does..." Nana frowned.

"May I have this back?"

Both raised eyebrows before they looked at their side and gasped. Dark Mack was standing there, tossing a fainted Meta Knight close to them.

"B-but how? M-Meta Knight should hav-" Nana was interrupted.

"Never underestimate an opponent that has control over fire," Dark Mack explained. "If I couldn't take him out physically, then I used magic. Very simple, isn't it?"

"B-but how did you defeat him?"

"Capes."

"..." Nana looked at Meta Knight's back and his cape was just a charred piece of purple cloth. "H-how did you burn him? Because it's still raining!"

"Didn't I explain myself?" Dark Mack asked. "My flames can't be doused! They can burn all the forest around here for much as I care!"

"Isn't he swift?"

"Used to," he chuckled. "My Flame Wall caught a bit of his cape and he couldn't shake the flames off."

Flashback

"Flame Wall!" Dark Mack yelled (as in the background, Popo and Nana were arguing while they bashed on the toy) and created a circular wall of flames. Meta Knight used Dimensional Cape to appear right behind Dark Mack and slash him. "Ugh!"

"Your attacks are getting more and more repetitive," Meta Knight said. "Don't you have another new attack?"

"Grr... (Huh?)" Dark Mack noticed a small flame on Meta Knight's cape. "...Mwahahahaha..."

"What is so funny?"

"Your cape is about to be burned, and along with you."

"..." Meta Knight looked at his cape and found the small flame. He shook the cape but the flame didn't fade and it then began to grow in size as the masked warrior tried to douse it off. "T-this is..."

"Great!" Dark Mack said as he held out his hands to Meta Knight's cape, where the fire began to increase in size before it engulfed the Star Warrior as he grunted in pain. "Mwahahahahaha! Burn! Buuuurn! Burn to ashes, foolish dork!"

"UGH!" Meta Knight grunted in pain as he fell down to the mud, causing the flames to disappear as Dark Mack decided to.

"One out..." he looked at the Ice Climbers as he grabbed Meta Knight's small burned piece of his cape. "And 2 more to go..."

End of flashback

"Was it REALLY necessary to explain us through a flashback?" Nana asked as thunder illuminated the whole place.

"I don't care!" Dark Mack yelled as his hands began to be covered in flames. "And now, since you were so careless to let me get close to you, I'm going to burn those arms of yours!"

"They're covered with my parka's sleeves!"

"Better yet, you're going to burn even more in those!"

Nana looked behind her where the pogo-sword laid down on the ground, then she looked at Dark Mack. "Ha, I'm so close to your precious weapon," she lifted her hammer above it. "Get those filthy burning hands on me and I'll bring my hammer down on that."

"Ha! My weapon can't be destroyed!" Dark Mack laughed. "What a foolish girl you are!"

Nana gulped, but she was serious about what she promised to do. "And if you try to burn me, I know that my somewhat stupid brother will come to rescue me!" she looked behind her. "Isn't that right, Pop-"

"Hey, Nana, check this out!" Popo looked down to the fainted Meta Knight and looked at his eyes. "This dude's eyes turned off! I knew he was a machine after all!"

A bright red flash, along with a girl's scream, came from behind the blue Ice Climber.

"Think we can disarm him to see if he has a heart? This guy ain't the talkative type at all." Popo turned around while he was holding Meta Knight's dead carcass.

"...Did you just notice I burned your sister?" Dark Mack asked as she pointed at the burned and fainted Nana, laying down on the mud.

"..." Popo looked back and forth between the 3 (Dark Mack, the burned and fainted Nana, and the burned and fainted Meta Knight). "...That's kind of bad, right?"

"...YES, IT IS!" Dark Mack yelled with a frown. "I mean, killing your friends isn't bad enough?!"

"Going around naked is even more bad..." Popo thought for a moment. "...But, meh, I think this is bad as well, soooooooo... META KNIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT!!!" Popo hugged Meta Knight as he cried out loudly.

"WHAT ABOUT YOUR SISTER?! Isn't she first because, I don't know, family stuff and all that?!" Dark Mack asked infuriated.

"Oh, my gawd! You're right!" he quickly ran to Nana and hugged her tightly as he yelled out to the sky, "DAMN YOU, BECKYYYYYYYYY!!!"

"My name is Dark Mack!" Dark Mack yelled.

"MACKYYYYYYY!!!"

We all know this looked (and very) pointless (since it was Popo) and well, Dark Mack kicked the Ice Climber away out of fury.

"My god, is everyone in the mansion this insane?" Dark Mack asked as he looked around for the others. "Wait, where'd they go now? ...Let's see, I need to defeat the man inside the armo-"

"I'm a NOT a man, dangit!" Samus yelled from a tree as a fast and fully Charged Shot impacted on Dark Mack, who yelled in pain as he struggled to stay on the pogo-sword.

"W-well, at least I found where you are," Dark Mack said before he wondered something. "But still, I need to find the angel and the swordsman... Then we have the bothersome lupine...and..." he looked around a figure ran through the trees. "I forgot the ninja..."

A whip chain quickly got wrapped up around his neck before he was pulled back to the mud. The pogo-sword fell down as well and the enemy saw Sheik trying to choke him with her chain. "If this is the only fastest way to kill you, then I'm willing to do it." Sheik said.

"U-ugh..." Dark Mack gasped for air before he waved his hand in front of him to raise a small wall of fire to Sheik, who backflipped to evade it. "I-I won't fall defeated by such a dirty trick..." he looked down at his weapon. "Well, once I'm on the top of my weapon, the battle will en-UGH!"

A claw was dug on his neck and he cried out in pain before it was pulled back. Wolf saw Dark Mack being pushed back to the mud before the lupine stomped his foot on Dark Mack's stomach, making him cough. "Not so tough while you don't have that toy, huh?" Wolf asked with a glare.

"F-flithy animal, begone!" Dark Mack shot fire balls to Wolf, who quickly sidestepped to evade the flames, letting Dark Mack to stand up. "W-why are you all attacking me all of a sudden? Were you hiding in the bushes? If so, it was such a bad idea to let you other comrades get killed by me!"

"They're not killed," said Pit, close a fainted C. Falcon. "They passed out of cold, that's all."

"And we were trying to think of a tactic," Roy explained. "But unfortunately, we couldn't tell the others out because that would blow up our cover..." he looked down and frowned. "I'm going to apologize to them after this..."

"Is that so?" Dark Mack asked as he gathered more flames. "Then I should burn them to ashes...LITERALLY!!!" he shot a huge flame that went to Pit.

"(This is so risky...)" Sheik thought as she watched from a tree. "(If we do a wrong move, somebody could die...)"

"Hmmmmm..." Pit narrowed his eyes at the flame. The angel tried to find the best moment to do something...and when it did, he took out his Mirror Shield and reflected back the attack to Dark Mack.

Dark Mack laughed evilly. "Fool! I'm going to return this back to you with MUCH more force and speed! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"

Thunders raged on as the enemy slapped the huge flame to make it stronger and faster. Pit got worried for a moment before he used his shield to reflect back the attack.

"What? How stubborn are you?!" Dark Mack asked as he slapped the flame, making it even stronger and faster than before. The flame even grew huge, huge enough to destroy at least 2 complete floors of the mansion.

"(Quick, my shield won't reflect an attack with such magnitude...) NOW!" Pit yelled as Zelda appeared by using Farore's Wind, then she followed her fast appearance by spinning several crystals and covering herself in one for a brief moment (using Nayru's Love) to reflect back the attack.

"You idiots!" Dark Mack yelled as he prepared to hit the huge flame back. "Only I can hurt you all with such intense fire!" he hit the huge flame back to make it stronger and faster.

In a flash, Wolf appeared in front of the 2 by using Wolf Flash to later use his Reflector, pushing the huge flame back as the lupine looked at his device emanating some sparks. "Tsk, this thing won't reflect back another attack because of its force..."

"HA!" Dark Mack pushed back the flame, repeating the same enhancements.

For his surprise, Samus used her Grapple Beam to grab Falco's Reflector inside his left sleeve and activated it when she pulled it in front of the 3, just in time to reflect back the huge flames.

"Dammit!" Dark Mack yelled as he slapped the flames back as fast as he could.

"Everyone, together!" Roy yelled from behind Dark Mack.

Dark Mack turned to him and grunted furiously. "What do you want now?! Oh, right, you want to get burned!" he raised his burning hands to the sky...

...

"NOW!" Roy put his sword in front of him (positioning it like a shield).

"Wh-" Dark Mack remember the flames he made before...

And in flash...

Music stops

A huge explosion of flames hit his back, engulfing 30 feet of the terrain as the fainted bodies of the weakened Smashers were pushed back to the trees, where they moaned in pain as the rain and thunders raged on.

The reason why the flames were reflected back was because Zelda, Wolf, Pit and Samus stood quickly in an horizontal line and activated their reflectors at the same time so they could create a big reflective barrier.

Roy, who didn't have some way to reflect the attack, decided to distract Dark Mack for a moment so he could let them reflect the flames back to him at full potency...

"Why...WHY?!" Dark Mack asked as his image was seen in the explosion of fire. "M-my own fire...it betrayed me! Why did this happen to me?! Answer me!!!... OOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" he yelled loudly when the thunders made loud crashing noises as the explosion slowly faded, along with Dark Mack who got incinerated by his own attack before he was gone.

"..." the 4 sighed in unison as Zelda looked forward.

"...I hope Roy was..."

"...F-fine here..." muttered a weakened Roy on the mud.

"It worked after all then!" Zelda said in relief as the 4 ran to Roy.

Wolf knelt down to see him. "Hey, you kid, get up."

"Geez..." Roy looked up at them with several cuts on his face (as well as mud). "What a way...to ask for me..."

"I didn't ask you at all, nor did I want to."

"...Tsk..." Roy frowned as Pit decided to help him to get up. "I-it worked, didn't it?"

"Yes," Samus nodded as she looked at Falco's Reflector. "It's a good thing you used your counter attack to make the explosion not that lethal to yourself."

"B-but it still affected me..." Roy coughed some blood. "I-I better rest for now..."

Zelda looked at all the fainted Smashers around the area in front of the mansion. "We should take them all in before they get ill."

"I agree," Samus nodded and then looked at Wolf. "That means you'll carry some of them as well."

"Tsk..." Wolf frowned.

The 5 decided to carry all of the remaining Smashers inside the mansion while heavy rain fell down from the dark clouds with thunders.

Splash...splash...splash...

"...Everyone, stop," Samus instructed. "Something is approaching..."

"What?" Pit asked.

"Shh, I can hear something moving... Just listen to that sound through the rain..." Roy whispered.

"...Oh no, what is it this time?" Zelda whispered.

"And I should know right away?" Wolf asked.

"You're an animal, and you should suppose to have a good hearing since you're a wolf, and wolves are close to dogs."

"Be glad you're a girl because I'm not an animal." Wolf said with a glare.

"(Either I contradict and die or I just punish him later...)" Zelda thought.

"...Can you hear it now?" Roy asked.

...Splash...splash...splash...

"...Yes..." Pit whispered with a nod.

"...It sounds like steel..." Samus whispered as she looked around through the rain. "...Whatever it is, it's coming right towards us..."

"But what could it be?" Zelda asked differently.

"...DOWN!" Wolf pulled Zelda to the mud and both fell down, right as something thin but fast was about to stab them from their backs. "Dammit, there's another one out there!"

"What the..." Samus trailed off after she saw the thing that was going to cut the 2. "...Is that guy still living? His toy was about to attack you both!"

"...What the heck?" Roy asked confused as he saw the tip of the sword returning to the pogo.

"What? Is that bastard alive?" Wolf asked as both he and Zelda (cleaning her dress a little) stood up.

"...Guys, you're not going to believe this...because it's so insane..."

"Oh Palutena, what is the meaning of...that?" Pit asked utterly shocked.

They all focused their views to the one wielding a familiar pogo-sword. Their looks were surprised after seeing the owner of the deadly toy. It was someone they didn't expect at all...

"...But there's nobody on the pogo, and it's standing like nothing happened!" Roy yelled.

Indeed, for their surprise, there was nobody on the pogo-sword, but it was motionless as it stood still, facing the 5.

"Neheheheheheheh..."

"Where did that laugh come from?" Pit asked.

"Stabbity-stab-stab," someone said with a chuckle. "You sure don't believe what you're seeing in front of your eyes, do you?"

"It's impossible for someone to talk, because we're only 5 of us and everyone else got taken out from the fight..." Samus wondered for a bit.

"...Unless..." Zelda trailed off as she looked at the toy. "...The toy itself got a life and became animated..."

"..." Wolf facepalmed as he grunted angrily. "You know what? In my own turf, nothing like this kind of s(beep) didn't happen at all."

"But we are not in your turf, so you're bound to find these kinds of abnormalities around here... But seriously, the pogo talked?" Zelda asked.

"Duhtily-duh-duh!" someone said annoyed. "Of course it was me, you bunch of dorks!"

They all looked at the sword which was blinking with its glaring eyes.

"Hello, my name i-" the pogo got interrupted.

"Yes, it was the pogo alright..." Roy frowned. "...Wait, are you alive?"

"Of course I'm alive!" the pogo yelled. "I have freaking eyes, for crying out loud!"

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"...See, Roy?" Pit asked. "I knew there was something odd with those eyes!"

"...I bet nobody here saw it coming." Roy said with a sigh.

Absolutely NO ONE saw that weapon coming to life.

"And here I thought the Mack guy was joined to the pogo...before we pushed him out, that is." Samus said.

"Neheheheheheh!" the pogo laughed evilly as the Shadow Bugs shone on it. "Thank you for getting rid of my owner. Now that he's gone, I was granted new life so I can have a second try in stabbing you poor hearts out!"

"Why can't this night end?!" Roy asked to the roaring sky.

"Because, puny swordsman, I said so!" the pogo said with a chuckle. "Well well, shall we, like, start the stabbing on your chests?"

"Ugh," Zelda frowned to herself. "I think I have enough energy to fight this last...toy."

"POGO-SWORD!" the pogo yelled angrily.

"Whatever the heck you are, it doesn't matter," Wolf said coldly. "I want to end this as soon as possible before I hit the pillow. Do you really think I'm nocturnal or some crap like that?"

"Nope, because I don't care either!" the pogo yelled. "Shall we begin? Okay? Yeah, LET'S START!"

The pogo-sword began to stab the floor madly as it quickly went towards them.

"Everyone, get prepared!" Roy said with his sword ready. "Take it down and this whole nightmare will end!"

And another fight, during the raging rain, started...

Exor
Factory

After a so much deserved rest to recover, the Smashers were ready to face Smithy.

"Finally..." Geno said as they stood in front of the 3 pipes. "Smithy is just down below those pipes..."

"So, this is it? The final boss? The dude behind the wheel?" Pikachu asked.

"Well..." the doll looked at them. "For me he is the final boss, but for you he is a boss."

Mallow looked down in depression before looking up at the pipes. "...Shall we then?"

Peach shugged. "I hope my dress doesn't get me stuck like the last time..."

This little memory made the cloud prince chuckle. "Her dress got stuck in the way down, and Smithy agreed to help us to get her down because it would produce a lot of smok-"

"C-can we forget that embarrassing memory now?" Peach asked with some blushes.

"Yes, let's," Geno nodded. "Well, let's go through the pipes and then, you'll meet the imbecile behind all this. Chris, remember to use the Star Spirits. Smithy will surely be caught off-guard if you use them."

"I-I just hope the status ailments work on him..." Chris gulped. "Peach Beam should be enough, right?"

"Oh, it didn't stop the Shadow Bugs from coming out after you did that." Ness pointed out.

"Then true hell came after that." Jigglypuff shuddered.

"...Abuse the beam?"

"Sounds like cheating, but who really cares about that now?" Geno asked. "For now, let's go in and fight that bastard."

"And he goes boom." Bomb Kirby said, holding a bomb.

"I-ah, save that bomb for later though."

"O-kay..."

"...I can hear something coming from the pipes..." Pichu said with a gulp. "I-is that..."

"Afraid so," Mallow nodded. "A hammer being banged on hot liquid metal over steel."

"Smithy must be creating more machines by his own..." Geno looked at them and nodded. "Without further interruptions, let's get in."

Smithy's Main Office, Where He Controls Pretty Much Everything In The Whole Factory There Is. Pretty Awesome, Is Not It?

Super Mario RPG - Here's Some Weapons

A lonely big figure with his back turned to the steel table (which where the figure stood between 2 tables of iron and steel) was banging on the table, where an orange slime came out from a weird-looking pipe that...was not connected to anything (and it was called Smelter).

Everytime the figure banged on the slime, it would produce out a weapon enemy that jumped to a conveyor belt down below the platform that was hanging on with 4 chains on each edge of the big spacious floor.

The big figure was Smithy, who continued his arduous work to produce weapons endlessly.

His solitude wasn't being interrupted after he sent the 4 workers out to defeat the Smashers. Smithy was himself enjoying his free time...

...Until 18 figures and a Star Kid came from above, through the 3 different black pipes...

Those figures were...

...

You know, why the hell am I bringing this whole pointless suspense about them if we know who they are from the beginning? We all know these guys were the Smashers themselves. If it not, then it would have been lots of Yaridovichs above pogoes, who didn't appear at all.

...Oh wait, it did happen sometime before, right?

Oh well, back with the plot...

"...You..." Geno said coldly as he glared at Smithy. "We meet again..."

"..." Smithy ignored Geno and continued to do his work.

"Being the silent type, huh?" Mallow asked as he put his hands on his hips (and twirled them around). "Well, we ain't gonna let you ignore us."

"..." Smithy continued working.

"Wow, so this is Smithy?" Ness asked as he looked at Smithy's back. "He reminds me of..."

Lucas gulped. "A-an evil santa..."

"Christmas things aside, we're here," Link said as he took out his sword. "Let's not get distracted a finish this guy off now."

"Smithy!" Twink yelled angrily. "We're here to put an end to your so-evil schemes! Turn around and face us if you're a man-machine!"

"That blood pressure thing is eluding me though..." Mario said confused.

"..." Smithy kept working.

"Wow, now I know why you guys hate that guy so much," Sonic said. "He's bad at greeting people."

"Sonic, that's something I don't care about," Geno said before turning to Smithy. "But what I care now is his attention."

"Technically, you contradicted yourself in some way," Ike said before the doll glared at him. "...Or...maybe not?"

"Smithy!" Geno yelled. "Turn to us and face us! I didn't come all the way here just to be ignored by the likes of you!"

"..." Smithy kept working.

"...Something is not right here..." Lucario said.

"Thank you for pointing out the obvious." Chris said with a bored look.

"R-right..."

"Okay," Geno looked at Smithy's back again. "Smithy, would you turn around and see all of us for the last time?!"

"He's getting angry now..." Fox whispered. "It's easy to tell."

"I heard that!" Geno yelled angrily without turning to the vulpine. "Smithy! Can you listen to me one last time before I kill you?!"

"Hey, then why are we here if you're going to kill him yourself?" Link asked.

"I think you should leave him alone for now..." Twink whispered.

"Smithy!" Geno yelled as he walked towards Smithy. "Why the hell won't you turn around? I've been waiting for this moment from the very beginning of your whole pointless plan to destroy the Star Road to tell you a piece of my mind, ever since you..."

The doll stopped talking once he looked at Smithy from the other side. Geno's glared turned back to a normal expression as he blinked normally.

"...What?" Marth asked.

Geno made fists inside his cape, and rage wanted to come out very soon as he saw Smithy working with all the weapons that he was creating endlessly...

"...You've got to be kidding me..." Geno muttered with a tone of anger. "...SMITHY!"

Smithy didn't respond...

For he was sleeping on the job.

Music stops with a scratch

"This imbecile is working while he's sleeping!" Geno yelled loudly. "For Skolar's sake, why did he do this to me?"

Mallow walked to Geno and looked at Smithy. Sure enough, Smithy was working while his eyes were...opened.

"...Wow, so this is how you sleep with open eyes?" Mallow asked. "'Cause this is awesome."

"Awesome?" Geno asked enraged. "Look, this is just...ugh, I can't explain how furious I am right now!"

Some of the Smashers walked to them and looked at Smithy. "Yep, he does look like an evil Santa Claus to me." Ness said.

"G-Geno, I think you should calm down for a bit..." Lucas suggested.

"Calm down?" Geno repeated. "How the heck am I going to calm down, Lucas? I've been through a lot and THIS is how expects me to see him? Sleeping?"

"Geno, I think should calm dow-" Mario was interrupted.

"Mario, everyone, don't try to calm me down," Geno said. "First, I'm going to tell all of you why I'm angry."

Everyone looked at each other before the doll began to talk.

"Ever since the Star Road broke for the second time, I've been doing a lot of trips to every single place where the 7 Star Spirits were held," he closed his eyes. "I'm going to say everything..."

"Oh Eldstar..." Twink frowned.

"Seeing the only road where the wishes of people go day by day destroyed by a sword, go down to the earth and find help from the "Elite" of fighters, which are just a bunch of violent people."

Peach looked down, but Fox glared at him.

"I went to a festival to hunt monsters where I almost got this doll bitten by 3 monsters, I went to a medieval world where somehow it was boring to me."

"There are no modern stuff there, just to let you know..." Ike said ashamed.

"I took ANOTHER entry in a festival, but of sports this time, where I almost got burned by lav-"

"I got to a world where babies ruled!" Mallow interrupted.

"It was the past and they didn't rule anything." Mario whispered.

"Oh, right."

Geno went on. "I went to a world where I kept waiting and waiting for something until it happened at the last race."

"It's not my fault you didn't wait, desperate guy!" Sonic said.

"If I recall, you hate to wait." Chris said.

"Y-you, shut up!"

Geno went on. "I had to tolerate the Axem Rangers."

"We agreed in something for this time..." Snake frowned.

"I had to go to a world full of weird penguins and a very angry "broken" kid that wanted to kill me, even if I was helping hi-"

"That was actually and sadly me." Pit said.

"Weren't you in love with Flonne though?" Bomb Kirby asked.

"S-shut up!"

Geno went on. "I mean, I went to a world that was just a linear path."

"LITERALLY." Sonic shrugged.

"I took part of ANOTHER competition, where I had to participate."

"That competition took away my speed!" Sonic yelled with another shrug.

"I met Rosalina again, but endured the galaxies that were a real manifestation of hell itself...not to mention I suffered the most in those planets!"

"D-don't bring that up..." Mario muttered.

"I fought more fights above the clouds, where a king with personal issues froze us to death."

Chris looked down and Lucario patted his back.

"I had to tolerate a cruel reflection of the Forest Maze to get up the barrier, where we went inside Exor to fight some annoying defenses, counting the guardians we already defeated, I infiltrated the factory and where to I finally reached this place..." he looked at the sleeping Smithy. "TO FIND THIS IMBECILE SLEEPING INSTEAD OF WAITING FOR ME TO COMPLETE THIS WHOLE ORDEAL!!!" he yelled very loudly.

His yell echoed through all the factory. The Smashers kept staring at him as the doll panted heavily after his long rant to his most hated nemesis. The doll could only sigh and close his eyes after he let his rage out.

"...Phew..." Geno sighed. "Well, I think I'm calmed."

"Just a problem, though..." Lucas began.

"What could it be?"

The blond kid pointed at Smithy, who was still sleeping through open eyes while he worked.

"I'm impressed," Ike began. "After all that long and loud rant, that guy is still sleeping. I wonder how he does that..."

"..." the Smashers could see Geno trembling all of a sudden as he stared at Smithy with his eyes becoming wider and wider. His hands became fists and he wanted to open his square-shaped mouth to yell out loud one last rant to the blacksmith.

"...I hope he doesn't turn red now..." Mario muttered.

"Shh, I think it's best not to talk now." Link whispered.

With a long deep breath of air, Geno faced Smithy and yelled, "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" before he leaped to the evil Santa Claus and pulled his long beard. "YOU DAMN BASTARD! RESPOND TO MY RANTS, RESPOND TO THEM! GET THE HELL OUT OF THAT STUPID SLEEP NOW!!!"

This scene looked weird to some, but amusing at the same time. The doll who always was under control was now with a wish to rip Smithy's head off rather than defeating him. The Smashers could only watch the doll trying to pull the long beard off from Smithy's face.

"..." Twink flew behind Peach. "I-I don't think I'm allowed to see this kind of event right now..."

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!" Geno yelled loudly as he tried to cut the beard.

"Insane doll is insane," Ness said before frowning. "I knew he was going to lose it."

"Lose what?" Lucas asked curiously.

"Forget what I mean..."

Sonic, who got fed up by all this nonsense, decided to do something. "...So, what do we do?" he asked.

"Let Geno attack Smithy all by himself?" Chris asked.

"For what?" Marth asked. "I think he can kill him now."

"...Hmm?" a grumble was heard and they turned to Geno's direction.

"Wait, was that grumble a little bit deep?" Pikachu asked.

They looked at Smithy's eyes, who decided to look down at the doll who tried to cut his beard.

"...G-Geno..." Pichu whispered. "I-I think he's awake now..."

Geno, who have been trying to...well, you already know, decided to look directly to Smithy's eyes. "So NOW you're awake!" Geno yelled.

"Geno!" Smithy yelled. "Get your wooden hands off my beard!"

"Not until you pay for everything you've done to the people's wishes!"

"BEGONE!" Smithy slapped Geno away to the Smashers, who fell to the floor on his back and slid to them.

Geno looked to them with a glare. "Thank you for preventing my fall. It was nice."

"You're welcome." Pikachu said sarcastically as the doll got up.

The Smashers remembered that the blacksmith was awake and they quickly ran to the other side, where most of them glared at Smithy as he turned around to face them with a glare. He didn't stop banging on the hot liquid metal that came out of Smelter.

Super Mario RPG - Here's Some Weapons

"What is the meaning of this?" Smithy asked with a grumble. "I was working very well during my sleep before I find 18 cockroaches and a star interrupting my production!"

"It's because the likes of you need to be stopped." Geno responded.

"...Wait, I remember you defeated all my employees through the factory, did not you?" Smithy asked.

"Yeah, and we didn't like them one bit." Ness said.

"They were just plain annoying..." Jigglypuff said with a shrug.

"Hmph," Smithy grunted. "Well, you're responsible of the destruction of my weapons, who were keeping the Star Spirits away from your filthy hands, correct?"

"Well, not all of them were machines." Mario said.

"Silence!" Smithy banged his hammer on the steel table while more hot liquid metal. "I can't forgive those who dare to step in in my factory and cause destruction upon their path. And I'm talking about all of you!"

"Dude, whatever you're doing here it's most likely not going to be sweet for all of us," Mallow said. "I mean, don't you the ordeal we had to go through because of you?"

"I know," Smith snapped his fingers and a virtual screen appeared to his left, where it showed several wrecked parts of the factory where the Smashers fought the workers. "Just look at the whole mess you did! The pipes are cut, the floor is covered in soo-"

"The bomb guy did it." Pikachu said.

Smithy glared at Bomb Kirby.

"Not this bomb guy!" Pikachu yelled.

Smithy went on. "The pipes are cut, the floor is covered in soot, the chains are falling apart, the floor looks like it's going to break and worse of all," another part was shown. "These cockroaches who caused all of this mess in the first place!"

"...That's a screen showing us and you." Twink said.

"Well, I made my point," Smithy snapped his fingers so the screen could disappear. "Incidentally, you plan to destroy my beloved factory, right?"

"Duh," Snake responded. "I don't care what happens to this place as long as there are no more of those f(beep)d up machines around."

"Oh, speakign of machines," Fox began before he crossed his arms. "Can you tell us why were the conveyor belts transporting so many of them?"

Smithy snapped his fingers to make the same virtual screen appear. It showed the city where many Machine Mades were walking around like an army of soldiers, to every single building where they looked out through the windows and remained there.

"...Why are they in the city?" Pichu asked.

"Because the conveyor belts lead to an exit that was the only accessible point of Exor's blade," Smithy explained. "The Machine Mades are just the first part of the plan."

"What plan?" Peach asked.

"Simple. All of them have been deployed through the entire city all these 7 days. The production was so much better than the last time, and thus, I managed to create tons and tons of them. Good thing there wasn't an error with a single machine," just when he said that, the same Yaridovich about Mack's pogo was shown in a window before passing to another. "I'd kill one of my workers if that happened!"

The Smashers decided to ignore that little error from reaching Smithy's ears.

"But why are they being deployed through the whole city? Shouldn't they be already in every part by now?" Marth asked.

"This city is freakin' huge," Smithy said with a grumble. "Never in my life wished to see a city THIS big. But whatever, once all the Machine Mades reach their areas, they will...explode."

"...Explode?" Sonic repeated.

"That's right. The purpose for this is the annihilation of the whole city through a big chain of explosion throughout the whole area. Once it's done, Exor will be lifted up by my orders and then from there, I will roam the worlds and cause the same plan over and over again until my weapons fill everything! Mwahahahahahahaha!!!"

"...Wait a minute..." Chris spotted a familiar penguin looking around the place. "...Isn't that a Prynn-"

"That's a ridiculous and insane plan right there," Geno said with an interruption. "I can't believe you want to do this."

"The cake shop I go daily is going to be destroyed as well?" Bomb Kirby asked.

"...Yes, it will." Geno frowned as he looked up.

"And I can't believe I have cockroaches who can destroy the factory!" Smithy yelled. "Seriously, watch it getting destroyed is painful!"

"Because it was meant to be destroyed." Lucario said with a glare.

"And it's going to be destroyed very shortly," Geno continued with a nod. "If we defeat you, will those machines disappear and leave the city alone?"

"In a way..." Smithy trailed off.

"What do you mean?"

"I mean, if you do defeat me, which I think it's not possible, the machines might vanish...or not."

"Care to explain that?" Ike asked.

"Oh, why don't you find out?" Smithy asked.

"Fine!" Jigglypuff pouted as many prepared to fight. "Since you're oh-so-kind to us, we're going to give you 18 pieces of our minds!"

"Smithy..." Geno glared at Smithy.

Music stops

"...Be that way..." Smithy closed his eyes. "After all this time...after breaking the Star Road so wishes can't interfere with my plans of world domination...and the destruction of this worthless city...along with your deaths...I'm going to do something myself," he looked at them with a glare. "If you're complaining about my work and creations, then we must settle this again..."

Super Mario RPG - Fight Against Smithy

Shadow Bugs began to cover Smithy's body before he grunted angrily with glowing eyes. "Since we must fight to end our differences and views of a future..." he banged his hammer on the table. "I MUST END THIS BY CRUSHING ALL OF YOU!!!"

"Be careful, the battle starts now!" Geno warned the Smashers who ran after Smithy.

"Meteor Swarm!!!" Smithy called forth a long rain of rainbow stars that fell on the entire floor, damaging every single character who backed away in pain. "Well, this was just the start. I hope you enjoy what's next!" Dark Smithy yelled.

"Chris, use the Star Spirits!" Geno yelled.

Chris joined his hand. "O Star Spirits, aid us!" he prayed to make them all appear.

"If isn't Smithy!" Muskular grinned. "Heh, we've got to stop this guy's power supply, huh?"

"Everyone!" Twink flew to them. "Let's do this!"

"YOU SHALL NOT!" Dark Smithy interrupted. "SLEDGE!"

A huge black cylinder fell down from the dark ceiling and crushed all the Star Spirits down below. They all yelled in pain before it was raised and disappeared.

"ELDSTAR! TWINK!" Geno yelled as he saw the stars trying to get up.

"Twink, are you alright?!" Peach asked concerned.

"I-I'm okay..." Twink muttered.

"I-I'm so sorry..." Klevar panted. "H-he caught us off-guard..."

"But we must persever and do what we were told..." Mamar said as they all flew up and stared at Dark Smithy. "We must do this for the sake of everyone's wishes!"

"I shall prevent that!" Dark Smithy yd. "METEOR SWAR-"

"GUUUUUUUUAARGH!" Lucario interrupted Dark Smithy's call big shooting a fully charged Aura Sphere that made Dark Smithy stagger in pain.

"Good job. Now, please go!" Chris ordered the Star Spirits who went quickly above Dark Smithy.

"Damn you all, stop pestering me!" Dark Smithy yelled as he raised his hammer.

"PUFF!" Jigglypuff jumped to Dark Smithy and slapped hard his face with Pound.

"Get out of MY WAY!" Dark Smithy yelled as he pushed Jigglypuff away with his hammer.

However, he forgot about the Star Spirits and Twink who summoned the beam and fell down on Dark Smithy, who yelled before he noticed that the Shadow Bugs disappeared. The Stars Spirits flew above where they disappeared as Twink returned to Geno...or flew away to stay safe.

"Great," Smithy grumbled. "My boost of power is gone...but that won't change a thing!" he banged on the hot liquid metal several times to create a Machine Made that looked like a Shyster, but it was a Shyper who jumped out from the table and looked at them.

"...A dude in a pogo?" Pikachu asked. "Should we fear him?"

"Ah!" the Shyper began as it moved by the sides (it was a male) before holding out his hands at them. "Sword Rain!"

As the name suggested, glowing swords began to rain down on the entire field, causing a lot of damage to the Smashers who yelled in pain.

"Answer..." Sonic muttered on the floor. "Yes...we should..."

"Hahahahahahaaaaa!" Smithy laughed. "Fear my creations! They won't stop until you lay down and DIE!"

"We have to take down the machine producing it!" Geno pointed at Smelter. "If we do it, then it won't leak out more liquid to create more machines!"

"I won't let you do such a foolish thing!" Smithy yelled before he saw Sonic dashing towards Smelter. "Begone, hedgehog! Mega Drain!"

A pink beam came out from Smithy's hammer before it tried to slice Sonic, who grinned and jumped over the beam and towards Smelter, where he used a scizzor-kick attack to deal damage to it. "Ha! Can't catch me!" Sonic taunted before he prepared to attack Smelter.

"Grrr-UGH!" Smithy forgot about the other Smashers, who decided to focus on him. The one who attacked him was Ness with PK Flash. "Haven't you seen the rule? The factory doesn't allow kids inside!"

"Weird, I thought it didn't allow weirdos like you as well." Ness said with a glare.

"Rothen child, get out!" Smithy raised his hammer and tried to crush Ness, who rolled at the side to evade the impact to later use PK Fire as he stood up, cauing a tower of flames that staggered Smithy. "Ugh!"

"He's staggering. Now's our chance to attack!" Marth said as he and Link towards Smithy.

However, the tower of flames didn't last long enough and they came at full stop once the blacksmith glared down at them. "What were you 2 going to do to me?"

"This!" Link took out the Hero's Bow and shot a fast arrow to Smithy's right eye.

"AAAAAHHH!!!" Smithy yelled in pain before both swordsmen began to slash him across his bosy, making the blacksmith yell in pain.

"Wait a minute," Pikachu looked around. "Where is that Shy Guy?"

"Ah!" the Shyper was heard from above some pipes of the ceiling. "Sword Rain!"

Glowing swords began to rain down the field and everyone got caught on the rain.

"T-there's the bastard. Get him!" Mallow yelled as he, Pikachu and Pichu ran towards the Shyper.

"Heheheheheh!" the Shyper laughed as he hopped to another pipe to call forth more swords. "Sword Rain!" and he did, causing more damage to everyone on the floor.

"S-stop him..." Pichu moaned. "W-we can't let him spam his magic..."

"That's why I'M going to do this. Shocker!" Mallow called out a big thunder that crashed on the Shyper, also causing the Shyper to fall down to the floor.

"Now, let's finish h-" Pikachu was cut off as Mario jumped right above the trio and slammed down a fist on his face. The Shyper yelled in pain before he vanished. "Hey, that's not fair!"

"But you were letting that machine attack so I went ahead." Mario said.

"Look," Snake appeared in front of them. "Or you can talk and go away, or you can give a hand here in the fight."

"Snake, don't be that rude, please." Mei Ling said.

"Mei Ling, you know what they should do now."

"...Okay..."

"Point made," Snake said before noticing Smithy creating another machine. "Let's get this job done before I think bad things."

"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!" Pichu yelled loudly as he ran to the new Shyper.

"How amusing. He started first than you 3."

"L-let's just attack!" Pikachu yelled.

"Come back to me!" Smithy yelled as the Shadow Bugs appeared. "SLEDGE!"

The fast black cylinder was going to fall on Chris, who looked up and yelled. Lucario noticed the cry for help and he quickly appeared right in front of the World Traveler and stopped the cylinder from falling on him by using his hands.

"U-ugh..." Lucario struggled.

"What?!" Dark Smithy asked. "That dog is ACTUALLY stopping my attack?!"

"Y-you won't hurt him as long as I say so..." Lucario muttered through gritted fangs as he continued to stop the cylinder.

Chris smiled a little. "T-thank you, Lucario."

"What are you doing here?" Lucario asked as he looked at him over his right shoulder. "I-I won't hold this up for much longer. Get away!"

Chris gasped and he ran away from the cylinder before it crushed Lucario. "L-Lucario!" he yelled worried before the cylinder was raised, disappearing into the ceiling. "Lucario!"

"I'm...fine..." Lucario said as he shook his head and stood up. "T-that attack was stronger and it got me..."

"Even with your brute force is not enough," Chris said. "We-"

"Chris, use the Star Spirits!" Geno yelled before he was pushed away by Dark Smithy's hammer.

"R-right! O Klevar, come to us!" Chris called forth the clever star, who appeared right in front of him and looked at Dark Smithy with a small smile.

"Clocks of time, stop now." Klevar said as many clocks appeared around the floor before they all stopped.

However, Dark Smithy didn't feel anything and he used a fast Mega Drain to shoot down the star.

"O-oh no!" Klevar yelled as he crashed on the floor.

"Klevar!" Geno yelled as he ran to the Star Spirit. "Klevar, my apologies, but are you still breathing?"

"I-I can barely use my magic..." Klevar coughed. "That attack was just too strong...and cruel as well..."

"...Please, tell me we can still use Peach Beam!"

"Y-yes..." Klevar floated up. "I'm so sorry for getting attacked like th-"

Geno's eyes widened in horror as a rain of swords came from above and struck Klevar down to the floor, where the doll watched terrorized after the Star Spirit didn't move anymore.

"...KLEVAR!!!" Geno yelled before the Star Spirit vanished.

"O-oh my god..." Chris trembled scared. "I-I told him to get here and..."

"This is not good..." Eldstar appeared behind Chris. "Klevar was severely damaged and without him, we can't start the attack."

"T-tell me there's a way to heal him!"

"I'll try to heal him," Eldstar said with a nod. "Right now, try to fight Smithy. You can defeat him even if he has the Shadow Bugs."

"GET DOWN!" Geno tackled Eldstar down in time to evade another hit from Dark Smithy's Mega Drain.

"Eldstar, I-I think you need to get away from now!" Chris yelled as Dark Smithy glared at his direction.

"Y-yes..." Eldstar said before he disappeared.

"You bastard..." Geno stood up and glared menacingly to Dark Smithy. "You'll pay for hurting Klevar!" he yelled as he ran towards the blacksmith.

"And you'll pay for making my life a complete hell for myself to bear!" Dark Smithy yelled as he tried to cast Meteor Swarm.

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However, he was interrupted as a heavy sword was slammed on his back. Dark Smithy yelled in pain before turning around to find Ike above the steel table, and with a glare. "You dare to say more things related to our deaths and I'll smash that back of yours." Ike threatened.

"What if I smash your back instead?" Dark Smithy asked as he raised his hammer before it was pushed away by a grenade. "What the hell?!"

"Surprised?" Snake asked. "I figured out that the hammer was annoying, so I took it away."

"Dork," Dark Smithy said as he pulled another hammer. "I have an unlimited supply of hammers. Don't take me for a fool like you."

"Maybe you're thinking something right now."

"Yes," Dark Smithy said. "Why did you do that if I can pull out hammers endlessly?"

"Because for that fact I didn't want to hit you at all."

"...What?"

"I'm just a distraction so the guy behind you can kick your face."

Dark Smithy turned around before red iron met his face with a strong kick that made him grunt in pain. The blacksmith noticed that the one who did it was Fox, who landed back to the floor. "Who let the animal get in? Somebody take it out!"

Fox glared at him. "Call me an animal and I swear I'm going to do something."

"What?"

"Nothing." Fox chuckled.

"You're not making any sense to me! What's your purpose then?"

Fox pointed behind him with his thumb. Dark Smithy looked to the front before a Turnip (X_O) crashed to his face. But he didn't feel anything but a small pain.  "So?"

"...And that was strong because..." Dark Smithy turned to Peach.

Peach blushed embarrassed. "I-if I just had that same spirit I used to have a long time ago..."

"Why apologize though?" Fox asked. "You did well."

"And why's that?!" Dark Smithy asked enraged before a portal of darkness appeared right on him and began to attack him several times. "UGH!"

Chris sighed in relief after he used Negative Gate. "Phew, thanks for distracting him..."

Pikachu went to him. "You know, I think this job is very useful."

"...You think?" Chris looked at Tokunaga, who looked at him. "W-well, having a big doll to fight is good, I guess."

"I mean because it lets you attack from afar. You're a bit far away from that guy." Pikachu pointed out.

"I can let Tokunaga strike him from here. Watch." Chris ordered Tokunaga to move forward to Dark Smithy.

"A doll? Oh for the love o-can anyone here stop bringing dolls with powers?!" Dark Smithy asked.

"Last time I checked, we defeated everyone in here." Sonic said with a grin, laying down right above Dark Smithy with his left eye opened.

"UAH!" Dark Smithy grabbed Sonic and tossed him away, where he flipped in the air and landed on his feet. Sonic was merely a distraction so Tokunaga could reach the blacksmith. "Get awa-" he got interrupted as Tokunaga used Dragon Surge (a glowing uppercut) under Dark Smithy's chin before it used Eagle Dive (a fast fall) to make a combo before using Surge Breaker (a thunder slam with a whirling glowing fist) that made Dark Smithy grunt in pain. "AAHH!!!"

"See? That's actually pretty sweet." Pikachu remarked.

Chris chuckled and grabbed Pikachu to put him above his right shoulder. "Aw, thank you so much."

"No problem," Pikachu said with a small wag of his tail. "What else do you have?"

"Hmm... Oh! This!"

Pikachu suddenly felt something...

"SPARK WAVE!!!" Chris and Pikachu yelled loudly.

Dark Smithy suddenly felt waves of electricity forming right inside him before a sphere of volts appeared and electrocuted him greatly with several hits. The blacksmith yelled loudly in pain before the sphere disappeared.

New ability learned! Spark Wave!

Sends waves of pure volts through a floating sphere of lightning. Deals a great amount of lightning damage to enemies nearby it.

"..." Chris and Pikachu looked at each other.

"...Did we just..." Chris trailed off.

"...I'm sure as a Pinsir's butt we did..." Pikachu nodded. "I mean, I discharged electricity to your body all of a sudden..."

"..." Chris looked at his hair. "Oh, that explains why my hair is pointing everywhere..." static went up through 2 spikes. "Weird, I didn't feel anything..."

"...You know what this means?"

"That we found your first Combined Final Smash?"

"...No..." Pikachu looked at Ness, who was being chased around by a Shyper. "Hey, Ness! Guess who found his Combined Final Smash first?"

"Dammit!" Ness yelled as the Shyper tried to use Sword Rain, but Sonic came from behind and pushed it away.

"Ha, thanks," Pikachu looked at Chris. "I beat Ness at getting the CFS first."

Chris sweatdropped. He couldn't get the idea that Pikachu didn't care about the fight as long as he defeated Ness in their little challenger. "...You're welcome?"

"That's why I like this spot," Pikachu rested on his shoulder. "Makes me remember home."

"Ash's shoulder?"

"...Pretty much. Dawn's good s-"

"What?!"

"I-I mean it in the good way!" Pikachu blushed a little.

Then they were crushed under Dark Smithy's Sledge move before it was raised again. Both were laying down on the floor with their faces resting on them.

"I want to know where Lucario is...oww..." Chris muttered.

"...Chris?!" Lucario ran to his trainer and picked him up. "Chris, are you all right?"

"...Why didn't you save me?"

"US." Pikachu corrected from the floor.

"S-sorry. I had my mind somewhere else...and I was close as well..." Lucario blushed a little in embarrassment.

"..."

While the World Traveler was still speechless, a flying Mallow went above them.

"...In what, exactly?" Chris asked.

"...I can't tell you."

This little comment made Chris give up.

"...Put me down..." Chris said. Lucario gasped and he put Chris down.

And back to the fight...

Chris and Lucario (along with Pikachu) focused back on the fight.

"Boom!" Bomb Kirby said happily as he tossed several bombs at a fast rate to Dark Smithy, who kept pushing them away with his hammer. "Blow, blow, blow! Boom!" he sang happily as he kept pulling out bombs.

"Grr, stupid marshmallow..." Dark Smithy grunted angrily before a sword slashed him 4 times on his back. "Who's the idiot behind this?"

"Well, I'm behind you, literally." Marth said as he stood on the steel table behind the blacksmith.

"You little... DIE!" Dark Smithy raised his hammer above him but it was pushed away by an explosion. "Not again!"

"It wasn't me though," Snake said from Dark Smithy's left side as he took out his RPG-7 rocket launcher that he aimed at Dark Smithy's feet and fired a rocket that hurt the blacksmith greatly. "Now it is me."

"BEGONE!" Dark Smithy yelled before a bomb exploded on his face. "Dammit, who keep shooting those bombs at me?"

"The pink marshmallow did," Snake pointed at Bomb Kirby, who tossed another bomb that Dark Smithy pushed to Snake, who yelled in pain and backed away. "Me and my big mouth..."

"This big?" Bomb Kirby asked as he opened his mouth wide.

"It was an expression..." Snake frowned.

"Away!" Dark Smithy yelled as he swung his hammer sideways to push them away. "Now, let's mass produce enemies!"

Many blobs began to come out from Smelter, who dropped all of them on Dark Smithy's table before they all were banged on against his hammer, creating many Shypers that hopped to the floor.

"This is bad..." Geno said as the Shypers moved at the sides.

"Oh, hell no!" Chris yelled as he joined his hands. "Kalmar, please, come!"

Kalmar appeared in front of him. "Well, what do you wis-"

Chris quickly pulled Kalmar down so he could evade a beam from Dark Smithy's hammer. "Up & Away on those enemies!"

"Right," Kalmar said as he went ot the Shypers, where he raised his small hands to the air and turned them into stars that flew all the way to the ceiling where they disappeared. "That's done," he said before he disappeared.

"GRRRR!!!" Dark Smithy grunted angrily. "This is why I hate the Star Spirits!"

"Geno Beam!" Geno shot a blue beam to Dark Smithy's face. "Attack him while he's staggering!"

"Does this idiot has a weak point?" Snake asked.

"Hmm, I'm not sure." Mei Ling said.

"HE DOESN'T!" Geno yelled angrily.

"Tsk..." Snake frowned before he ran to Dark Smithy and tossed a grenade to the beam, where it exploded and made the blacksmith yell in pain. Snake took this little time to jump to his face and give several kicks to it, finishing his combo with a missile that he (slowly) shot but eventually exploded.

Mario looked at Peach, who was very unsure about fighting. "Peach, do something, please." Mario said, trying to sound as nice as he could to convince Peach to attack.

"Like what?" Peach asked worried. "I don't have something good in mind..."

"...Use that attack..."

"..." Peach blushed and looked behind her. "...I-I don't want to. It looks so embarrassing when I use it..."

"But it's strong, isn't it?"

"Y-yes, but..."

"Then use it!"

"S-some of them are going to laugh at me and I don't want that!" Peach said.

A Shyper hopped to them.

"AAAAAH!!!" Peach yelled in fear before Mario made a small but strong explosion of fire in his hand that blasted the Shyper away.

"Peach, weren't you decided to fight?" Mario asked.

"B-but this is different. We're fighting against Smithy again!"

"But you did it very well the last time!"

"That's because I was the healer and not an attacker. But I can't heal anymore because...I-I don't know, I just do!"

"Weird, I lost my ability to shoot big fireballs as well... That's odd." Mario commented.

"Mario, Peach," Geno called from afar as he aimed his fist at Smelter. "Everyone is doing their best to attack and you 2 aren't doing anything! Do something! Every single second is important for our survival and victory!"

"Geno seems to be more serious than he used to..." Peach pointed out.

"Well, it is more frustrating to him now," Mario explained as Jigglypuff crossed them from above. "I can understand the motive of his rage."

"W-well, I think I can fight now..."

Mario smiled a little. "Oh, really?"

Another Shyper came from somewhere.

"YAAAAAAAAH!!!" Peach yelled, but this yell didn't contain fear but it contained a yell of battle since she jumped to the Shyper with a frying pan ready before she started to...beat the crap out of the machine as Mario watched surprised.

Not soon she defeated the Shyper, another one appeared and the princess quickly lunged at it to start her continuous hits as she screamed.

"...That was a big change..." Mario commented before he shook his head and decided to fight as well. "Wait..." he stopped running and looked at another Shyper that went to Peach. "There weren't that many of them before...unless..."

Dark Smithy, who was being attacked by many of the Smashers, kept working arduously as many orange blobs came out from Smelter. The blacksmith had in mind to cover the whole floor with Shypers so they could use an endless barrage of Sword Rain. "N-no matter what you do to me, I'll keep making weapons till I get tired, which will never!" Dark Smithy yelled.

"Dammit, he isn't staggering even one bit!" Mallow yelled as he used Shocker.

"Shypers!" Dark Smithy ordered. "ATTACK!!!"

For their dismay, they couldn't get rid of the great amount of Shypers who were hopping around the whole floor. They all moved by the sides before holding out their hands...

And that's when true hell came from above.

An insane amount of glowing sword began to rain down the ceiling. Everyone gasped before they were all heavily damaged by the rain of swords that many began to yell loudly in pain as it seemed that it wasn't going to finish. Everyone tried their best to resist the insane barrage until it disappeared, leaving them extremely weak, and to the point where they could faint.

"Mwahahahahahaha!" Dark Smithy laughed. "Shall we end this with another round, boys?"

The Shypers nodded as they hopped on their pogoes.

The Smashers were laying down on the floor in pain before looking up to the machines. "D-darn them all..." Ike coughed.

"L-lame..." Sonic muttered as he tried to get up, but couldn't.

"W-we need to hurry or else that's it!" Geno yelled before he coughed weakly.

"...Oh my god, this is a relief," Kawashima said. "Over Limit ready! USE IT BEFORE YOU GET KILLED!"

"B-but who?!" Chris asked as he looked around for the only person who could have a suitable Final Smash.

For his dismay, many who had a destructive Final Smash couldn't even move that well after the attack. Chris himself couldn't use any as well as he felt very weak...

...But why was Peach perfectly fine?

"...PEACH!" Chris yelled.

"Y-yes?" Peach asked concerned.

"H-how did you survive that attack just now?"

She took out Toad, who had a lot of scratches around his face and arms. "N-never get in the way of a rain of swords..." Toad muttered before she kept it behind her, where he disappeared.

"W-what else can I do?" Peach asked concerned as the Shypers prepared to attack once more.

"Use your Final Sm-" Chris coughed. "Final Smash!"

"H-how?"

The Shypers were raising their hands.

"Say a special sentence that will give you power!" Twink yelled from behind some tubes.

"NO!" Dark Smithy yelled. "The princess shall die today!"

"Oh no... I forgot about him..." Chris muttered.

"P-Peach..." Bomb Kirby muttered on the floor. "Y-you can do it..."

"H-how?" Peach asked very worried at the situation. "W-what can I do to use it?"

"SLEDGE!" Dark Smithy called out.

The princess saw a shadow underneath her before she looked up, where her eyes widened in horror as a huge cylinder fell down from the dark ceiling.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!" Peach yelled loudly...as she took out Toad and put him above her in defense.

Of course, we all knew he wasn't going to make it THAT easily...

"YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHH!!!" Toad yelled as he blocked his already beaten face with his hurt arms.

"O-OH NO!" Bomb Kirby yelled as he closed his eyes from preventing the crushing of the princess (and her poor friend as well).

"...What?!" Dark Smithy asked enraged.

"..." Peach opened her eyes to find a glowing Lucario holding the cylinder above her. His aura was shining brightly as he held up the pipe with ease.

"Hmph..." Lucario closed his eyes. "S-since my aura increased, my strength did as well... Holding this thing is not hard at all for me any longer..."

After he spoke, the cylinder rose up and Dark Smithy grunted angrily.

"T-thank you..." Peach said.

"Oh my holy mushrooms, thank you!" Toad said before Peach kept him.

"..." Lucario's only action was a fainting one, since he fell down and fainted.

"..." Peach looked down to the Aura Pokémon. "...I'm sorry for causing this trouble for you..."

"SHYPERS!" Dark Smithy yelled. "ATTACK!"

"DO IT!!! ...UGH!" Chris yelled loudly before he lost consciousness.

Peach closed her eyes before opening them with a serious expression. "I...I!!!"

The simpleness of this little sentence made a rainbow aura cover her completely as a force pushed out from herself.

"...I will stop this!" Peach said as she raised her arms and joined her hands together.

"ATTACK HER!" Dark Smithy yelled.

"We were going to annihilate everyone at once," one Shyper said in a monotone voice. "Why should we change attacks?"

"JUST DO IT!!!"

"..." the Shypers hopped towards Peach.

But their slowness was just a mistake for Peach to use her Final Smash...

...

A rain of healthy peaches! How ironic since her name is a fruit!

...

No, really. Your eyes are not deceiving you. She literally called forth peaches that covered the whole floor with a graceful dance she did...

And, as 2 of herself appeared as artistic pictures from someone's perspective, a wave of drowsyness emanated out from Peach and it hit every single Shyper, including Dark Smithy who blinked confused at the sudden exhaustion got received as well as his machines.

"Why do I feel so tired now? ...I...must...make...weapons..." Dark Smithy muttered before yawning out loud as he fell asleep on top of the steel table, along with the Shypers who snored loudly.

As Peach finished her dancing, she noticed the whole floor covered in peaches as they also were above the Smashers themselves. "...Whoopsie." Peach said with a giggle.

"..." Snake opened an eye and spotted a peach in front of him...

...Then, with a swift move, he ate it and said, "Tasty!"

"...Excuse me?" Peach asked confused.

After several peaches, Snake stood up and looked at her. "Nothing."

"B-but you sai-"

"Nothing." Snake's tone grew menacier.

"...Okay..." Peach was confused at this weird Final Smash of hers. She looked around where some of the Smashers were awakening thanks to the small but necessary recovery effects of the peaches. "..." she looked down where Fox had a peach half-eaten in his mouth.

"..." Fox looked up to her before he ate it completely and stood up. "You didn't see anything."

"..." Peach nodded.

"Wait, everyone's sleeping?" Geno asked as he looked at the sleeping Shypers, and even Dark Smithy. "This is our chance to turn the tables to our favor."

"We have to do it before they wake up ad beat our a(beep!)" Sonic said.

"..." Geno closed his eyes in frustration after letting the hedgehog say a curse in front of a young star named Twink. "...That doesn't matter..." he muttered.

"I-I have an idea..." Lucas spoke up.

"You have one?"

"I-instead of beating all of them..."

Several minutes later...

Many Shypers were shown falling off from the floor and they disappeared in the abyss down below the hanging floor because Sonic pushed all of them off with his speed.

Sonic cleaned his hands and looked around. "Yep, no more of those guys."

They all focused on the sleeping blacksmith...before they looked at Smelter. "That thing must go down before Smithy." Mallow whispered.

"And since it doesn't have Shadow Bugs, it's going to be very easy to shut it down if well focus our attacks on it." Geno said.

"ALL-OUT ATTACK ON THAT THING!!!" Sonic yelled loudly.

"SHH!!!" the Smashers whispered angrily as they looked at Smithy.

"I-I mean..." Sonic whispered. "All-out attack on that thing..." he whispered slowly.

"..." the Smashers frowned before they all went after Smelter, ignoring the sleeping blacksmith who grumbled.

And this meant everyone had to something good on it.

Pikachu and Pichu were the first ones who attacked. Both electric Pokémon ran below the pipe and used Thunder to create a strong lightning attack. This, however, wasn't very good for Pichu since he fainted from the combined attack.

"Whoops..." Pikachu muttered as he dragged Pichu away.

Next up was Bomb Kirby and Snake, who started to throw many explosives inside the pipe's mouth. Once they filled the mouth, it exploded and dealt severe damage to the insides of Smelter.

Snake wasn't over, since he took out his rocket launcher and directed a small rocker inside to let it explode. "Just to add more damage." Snake said simply.

Ness and Lucas decided to do the same thing they did on Dark Clerk by combining PK Flash and PK Freeze together. The green mist went all the way inside Smelter and it exploded, but deep inside. "That should do it." Ness said.

"Why?" Lucas asked.

"Just you wait and you'll see."

"..." Lucas just nodded.

"Chris. Hey, Chris!" Sonic called. "Can we do that?"

"You mean our combined attack?"

"Yeah, that one. C'mon! Let's do it!"

"..." Chris nodded and changed to his Racer job. Both he and Sonic ran underneath the hot liquid metal pipe and nodded to each other.

And very soon, Sonic yelled, "FIRE HEDGEHOG!" and was raised fastly underneath the pipe with a fire version of Spin Dash. The hedgehog's curled form soon turned back to himself with a satisfied grin as he came down.

"Hmmmmmm..." Dark Smithy grumbled.

"I wonder why he is that sleepy..." Geno muttered.

"I think it was because I was very close to him and...well...my skill got a stronger effect."

"Maybe..."

"SHOCKER!" Mallow called down a heavy thunderbolt that crushed Smelter. "Star Rain!" then a big Starman came down and bounced on it several times before it jumped away and disappeared.

"UAH!" Dark Smithy woke up with a yell. "Dammit, what happened?! Where are my weapons?!"

"Guys, he's awake!" Link yelled and everyone quickly turned their backs to the blacksmith.

"So, destroying my source of my productions?! How DARE you do that?!" Dark Smithy asked enraged. "Smelter! More!"

"Oh no..." Mario muttered as they turned to Smelter...

...

...

...

"...Why is nothing happening?" Marth asked.

"...Wait, look at that." Fox pointed at Smelter, who was shaking violently before it turned red.

"What is the meaning of this stop?" Dark Smithy asked as he narrowed his eyes at Smelter...

"..." Ness remembered. "...Oh, it's working... Wait a minute..."

Smelter began to overheat with smoke and they backed away.

"O-oh my goodness, it's going to explode!" Pichu yelled.

"Get away from it!" Link yelled and all the Smashers retreated from the shaking red pipe.

Dark Smithy made an annoyed grunt as he walked slowly to Smelter and banged his hammer on it. "Stupid thing. Why won't you work and give me the material I need to make my beloved weapons?!"

Smelter answered his question...

...With a huge stream of hot liquid metal that was blasted off from its mouth, and directly to the blacksmith's face who yelled loudly in pain as an extreme burning feeling touched his whole body. They all watched Smelter shooting an extreme amount of hot liquid metal that even reached behind Dark Smithy and fell down to the abyss like a waterfall.

"Ha!" Sonic said with a grin. "That should outta take care of the guy!"

"But why?" Ike asked.

"Because of us," Ness said as he looked at Lucas. "We combined attacks together and created a stronger version. This version was a combination of PK Flash and PK Freeze, creating an instant explosion of ice that freezes anything."

"But the liquid was very hot, wasn't it?" Pikachu asked.

"I guess...but maybe our attack freezes anything but doesn't melt. Instead, that person of monster needs to break out."

"...Hmm...maybe." Pikachu nodded.

"Well, we did shut the pipe down," Geno said before he saw Smelter stopping. "...But the darn bastard is still alive."

"GRRRRRRRRRRRR..." Dark Smithy grunted in rage (and pain as well) as he focused his face to the Smashers. "YOU...STOPPED MY MAIN RESOURCE TO MAKE WEAPONS..."

Some of them began to chuckle as they looked at the blacksmith.

"AND ALSO..." Dark Smithy continued as the screen pulled back and revealed... "I JUST HAVE HALF OF MY BEARD ON WHILE THE OTHER HALF WAS BURNED BECAUSE OF YOUR ACTIONS!"

"You know what, Smithy?" Geno asked.

"What?"

"I don't care about your rants now. What I care about is your own demise. I want to finish this now... And after you hurt Klevar...I promised myself something..."

"What would that be?"

"Kill you in a quick painless death."

"Puppet, he can't die without getting hurt." Snake said.

"Better yet, I guess," Geno glared at Dark Smithy. "This will be our last move on you before we save the city and the Star Road."

"...Come on, then." Dark Smithy taunted all of them as he raised his hammer high up, indicating that he was ready to go all-out on them.

"Listen, I want everyone to listen to my orders once he makes the first move. I don't promise our victory, but I can assure you that this is the best option so far... So please, pay attention." Geno muttered without facing the others, who nodded as they stared at Dark Smithy.

"SLEDGE!"

The shadow came from above and they looked to the ceiling. "Not the same trick. Lucario, stop it!"

"U-ugh..." Lucario raised his hands and stopped the attack from crushing them. The Smashers quickly got out and ran towards Dark Smithy. "UGH!"

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!" Dark Smithy laughed. "I'll kill the dog first!"

"Afraid not." Geno said.

"What?"

"Geno Boost!"

"GUUUUUUUAARRGGHH!!!" Lucario roared loudly as his strength and defense was increased, He started to push the cylinder upwards before it raised itself up, preventing from crushing the Aura Pokémon who ran to the others.

"Seriously, was the roar necessary?" Chris asked.

"I-I felt like it..." Lucario said embarrassed.

"W-what?!" Dark Smithy asked before he shook his head. "Meteor Swarm!"

The rainbow colored stars began to appear above them. "I'm afraid this attack will disappear as well." Geno said.

"My turn then!" Mallow said as he held out his hands. "Snowy!"

A blizzard came from the opposite direction of the stars and they all were frozen by the glacial snow that stopped all of them from impacting the Smashers before a big snowman fell on top of Dark Smithy. It blinked several times before exploding into snowflakes that caused ice damage on the blacksmith.

"Just great!" Dark Smithy yelled as he looked around. "This place is getting wet... I can't let you do what you want in here. I have a strict policy about sa-" he was suddenly attacked by a Homing Attack from Sonic, who landed above his steel table and stuck his tongue out. "GRRRRRR!!!"

"Can't hit me," Sonic taunted as he evaded a slam of the blacksmith's hammer. "Nope," he evaded another. "Close," he sidestepped. "Ha-ha," he sidestepped again. "What's wrong with you now?" he asked before he evaded several hits continuously.

"S-stupid hedgehog! Stop moving around!" Dark Smithy yelled in rage before a bomb was tossed to his face. "Where's the bomb marshmallow?!"

Several bombs fell down from above the blacksmith and he covered his head from them. Smoke flew out from it, causing Dark Smithy from seeing anything else.

"Boom-kata-boom." Bomb Kirby said happily over the air as he floated down.

A barrage of 99 shots suddenly went through the smoke and they all hit the blinded blacksmith. Dark Smithy yelled in pain as a charged shot collided with his face and exploded.

"Heh," Fox grinned as he put his Blaster away. "Hope they hurt you."

"A lot." Chris added as he put his own Blaster away, before changing to his PK Kid job. "Lucas!"

"U-um, y-yes." Lucas nodded with a gulp as both ran to the blacksmith, who grunted annoyed.

"Mega Drain!" Dark Smithy created a slicer beam that went towards them.

"Geno Whirl!" Geno interrupted as he shot his ring across the beam, cutting it in half as it vanished.

"Geno, stop sticking your weird nose where it doesn't belong!"

"PK Detonation!!!" Chris and Lucas shot a fast bolt of fire that, once it got inside Dark Smithy, exploded in a burst of flames that hurt him greatly.

"UAAHH!!!" Dark Smithy yelled in rage. "That is it! I will do something about this nonsense on me! METEOR SWARM!"

"Snowy!"

This only caused the same effect and the blacksmith was crushed under another snowman, which exploded into snowflakes.

"...Hey!" Dark Smithy noticed Marth and Chris (in his Ranger job) above the steel table. Dark Smithy raised his hammer and brought it down...

"Whale Cleave!!!" both swordsmen yelled loudly as they started swiftly hits by turning around and then returning back before slamming their swords down on his stomach.

"DAMMIT!" Dark Smithy grunted in pain before he began to pant. "You...won't...do this...again..."

"I am afraid it will," Chris (in his Scholar job) said as he adjusted his glasses. "I must ask you to surrender while you can."

Pichu jumped to his shoulder.

"Never!" Dark Smithy said.

"Hmph," Chris frowned as Pichu jumped to his right hand and started to get covered in electricity. "Fine. Be that way as you like...but, however..."

"Spark Bullet!!!" Pichu yelled loudly as the scholar pulled back his right hand and tossed the small electric Pokémon at an insane speed that crossed Dark Smithy and electrocuted him greatly.

Bomb Kirby quickly went to the other side and jumped to catch the electric Pichu, who was grabbed by the bomb wielder and sighed. "I'm fiiiiiiiiiiiine..." Pichu said with swirls as eyes.

"(If this keeps going like this...)" Dark Smithy grunted. "(I won't hold for much longer...) AAAAAHHHHHH!!!" he yelled in pain as an arrow struck his right eye.

Link kept his Hero's Bow and unsheated his sword. "Prepare for this," he said as he ran to the blacksmith, jumped over the table and struck down his sword on Dark Smithy's head as he tried to resist the pain on his eyes. "YAH!"

"AAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!" Dark Smithy yelled loudly in pain.

"GUUUUUUAAARGH!!!" Lucario jumped to the air and shot a fast Aura Sphere that exploded right on the blacksmith's face.

"STOP THIS!!!"

"We won't after you did all of this mess!" Mario yelled as he jumped straigth towards Dark Smithy and delivered a downwards punch.

"DAMMIT!!!" Dark Smithy was getting more enraged by each hit he received.

"Y-yiah!" Peach tossed a Turnip (:-)) to his face.

"UGH!!!"

"Here...I..." Jigglypuff muttered as she flew high up and started rolling. "G-go!" she yelled as she began to charge her Rollout attack that went quickly to Dark Smithy's forehead, causing eve more pain than before.

"N-NO!!!" Dark Smithy yelled in pain.

"CHUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!" Pikachu climbed all the way up to Dark Smithy's head and called forth a lightning bolt from a dark cloud that struck Dark Smithy down as he yelled out.

"PK Thunder!" Ness jumped to the air and struck himself on the back with PK Thunder, causing him to rocket down to Dark Smithy's stomach, delivering a strong electric pulse that electrocuted the blacksmith even more than before.

"Aether!" Ike tossed his spinning sword above Dark Smithy, where he reached for it with a jump and slammed it hard on the blacksmith's head.

"..." Snake, who didn't have better attack in midair, decided to charge up his RPG-7 rocket launcher on Dark Smithy's feet to deliver a very strong explosion that caused the evil leader to yell out loudly.

"And lastly..." Geno said as he turned into a cannon with a backflip, shot a small orb of fire to Dark Smithy that later started to grow bigger into a flashing face that later inflated itself and the explosion of fire, causing even more pain to the blacksmith...

...

Music stops

...Who yelled loudly for one last time.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" Dark Smithy yelled in extreme pain. "I...I...I...I don't believe this! ...Not like this! ...W-why?! WHY?! WHY, WHY, WHY?! ...UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"

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The Smashers saw as Dark Smithy lost consciousness before their eyes as he fell on top of his stee table. A small quake was produced once he fell and they were able to blink at the whole event.

...But he managed to mutter some words, nevertheless.

"This is...completely...unbelievable..." Dark Smithy muttered before he sighed and fainted.

"..." Mallow walked to him and poked his head. "...No doubt about it now..."

"..." Twink came down from the ceiling and looked at Geno. "So...does this mean..."

Geno nodded with a chuckle. "Yes, at last, we're done with him."

"That's it?" Sonic asked. "Man, I thought he was going to give us more pain in our necks."

"Idiot..." Dark Super Sonic chuckled.

And his gloves suddenly felt tight.

"O-oh man..." Sonic began to back away from the Smashers as he tried to stop the ripping sounds from his gloves.

"...Phew..." Chris dropped to his knees. "We're done...we're finally done..."

"So, can we return home now?" Peach looked around concerned. "I'm...not liking this place anymore..."

"...Wait," Fox looked around. "How do we get out now?"

For their dismay, there was absolutely nothing like an exit or a new path. The only thing they had was that big hanging floor that was slowly lowering down and trembling...

...

Wait, lowering down and trembling?

"U-um, everyone..." Jigglypuff shook with the floor. "I-I don't think..."

"..." Geno looked at the fainted Dark Smithy. "...Wait, his Shadow Bugs aren't gone yet..."

"...Didn't we forget something vital this time?" Mario asked.

"What?" Peach asked.

Then, it suddenly hit her.

"...Oh no..." Peach muttered.

"...OH, HELL NO," Chris shook his head. "I do NOT want to fight THOSE heads..."

"Kid, bunch of mushroom lovers, explain." Snake demanded.

"Well," Mario began as the floor began to shake violently, causing most of them to tumble at the sides. "There was this last form tha-"

But his words were interrupted as the floor...fell rather fast to the abyss.

BUT, they didn't fall. They remained standing in midair along with Dark Smithy's fainted body.

"...This isn't a cartoon or something." Link said.

"Wait, you watch cartoons?" Chris asked.

"AHEM." Geno coughed.

Then, the laws of gravity weren't exactly on nobody's sides and thus, they all fell down to the unknown, along with Dark Smithy's fainted self as they screamed loudly.

"Phew..."

Peach, however, used her parasol to stay in the air as she sighed in relief. "...I'll eventualy reach the floor sometime..."

"Yes..."

Peach looked up where Bomb Kirby was sitting down on her parasol. "Oh, you too?"

Bomb Kirby nodded. "I'm too light, so I can sit down up here, right?"

"...Yes..." Peach said as she looked down at the abyss they were falling to. "(Mario, everyone...)"

HELL

...

There Is No Other Way To Describe This...Hell

"...yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-OWW!" Ness landed on his head and fell down above some red skulls.

The PK kid groaned as he sat up and looked around...

This place was surely a nightmare. Ness trembled a little as he saw the ominous red skull heads with weird shapes of a demon machine. The entire place was completely red like blood itself. It was like a cave but without exits and entrances.

"W-where am I?" Ness looked around. "Where's everybody?"

His answer was responded with everyone falling on top of him, creating a big pile themselves that groaned in pain as they tried to struggle and get out.

Chris, however, wasn't inside the pile, since Lucario grabbed him with his arms and landed on his feet after they fell down.

"P-phew..." Chris sighed as he smiled at his Pokémon and rubbed his head. "Thank you so much for preventing my fall, Lucario..."

"Guuuuuorrrgh..." Lucario growled happily as he set his trainer down.

"..." Chris's eyes widened as he looked at his surroundings (and the Smashers getting out from the pile they did by accident). "...Lucario..."

"...Yes?" Lucario asked.

"...Prepare for the worst..." he pointed up where Dark Smithy fell on the skulls and broke them in pieces.

"...Yes, I knew this was going to happen..." Geno said as he stood up and looked at Dark Smithy.

"...You..." Dark Smithy muttered as he slowly opened his eyes. "...You...won't get away...with this..."

"Ha!" Sonic said with a grin (with his hands suspiciously behind his back). "Try that! I dare yo-"

"Sonic, instead of asking for another fight, will you shut up?" Pikachu asked annoyed.

"Damn, is he still standing after all that?" Link asked.

"Looks like it..." Ike said unsure.

"Just when the hell is he going to die and leave me alone for once?" Fox asked annoyed.

"...And where in the hell are we, anyway?" Snake asked as he looked around.

"One word: HELL." Mallow responded, looking worried.

"SILENCE!" Dark Smithy yelled loudly as all the Smashers turned to him. "This is...outrageous! I'm sick of this whole thing! Geno! You're the responsible for all of this!"

"And what if I did?" Geno asked with a glare. "You're pretty much done. Why do another fight here?"

"Because...I won't let you go away alive..." Dark Smithy said as he closed his eyes. "...I will...show you all...my...my..."

"...Grrrrrr..." Lucario grunted, showing his fangs as he prepared for something.

The others took this as a signal and faced the blacksmith with glares.

"...My..." Dark Smithy muttered as a tower of light appeared from beneath him, blinding the Smashers who blocked their eyes as the whole cave was illuminated.

"W-what is happening now?" Twink asked as he hid behind Geno.

"Not the same thing again..." Geno muttered as he uncovered his eyes and glared at the light. "When we defeated Smithy, he destroyed the floor we were just on and took all of us to this place... When he was cornered, he...he..."

"...Changed forms..." Mario added.

"My..." Dark Smithy continued as they saw the light tower vanishing.

What they found instead of the blacksmith was a creepy head with the Shadow Bugs. The head resembled all the skulls around the whole cave (and the biggest one in the background). It later was raised at the same height Dark Smithy was before, only that its body had the hammer and a gun hand to shoot bullets. The head spun a little and they prepared for the worst...

Super Mario RPG - Fight Against Smithy, Who Likes Transforming

"MY FINAL FORM!!!" Dark Smithy yelled loudly as he laughed manaically. "Geno, every single cockroach in my domain, prepare to be destroyed by the power of the machines of my factory! With that being said, DIE, DIE, DIE, DIE, DIE, DIE, DIE, DIE, DIE!!!"

"H-he's become more nuts than before!" Lucas gulped in fear.

"Dammit, I don't want to fight anymore..." Geno shook his head before he glared at Dark Smithy. "Fine. If he wants this, then I won't hesitate to give it all this time around."

"...Are you happy now?" Chris looked angry to Fox.

"What? Why?" Fox asked.

Chris pointed at Dark Smithy. "There's your wanted challenge that wants us dead right in front of us! Now, get fighting before I DIE again!"

"...Sorry..." Fox apologized.

"...Good." Chris nodded.

"DIE!!!" Dark Smithy yelled loudly as he fires bullets at them.

"Everyone, this is the last request I ask you to do," Geno said as he ran to the lunatic blacksmith. "Let's take that maniac down and finish this long struggle, for the Star Spirits and the city as well!"

TO BE CONTINUED...

..............................

"Fight Against Smithy, Who Likes Transforming. And after this, my task will be done at last..." Geno sighed.

"Let's do this, shall we?" Mallow asked.

"...Yes, let's."

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Chapter 129: Fight Against Smithy, Who Likes Transforming

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HELL

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There Is No Other Way To Describe This...Hell

Super Mario RPG - Fight Against Smithy, Who Likes Transforming

"Evade the bullets!" Geno yelled as he jumped over the bullets.

However, something caught his attention once he looked back at them...

"Why isn't anybody trying to move?"

"We're exhausted..." Pichu muttered. "We can't fight like this..."

"Oh no... Please, don't tell m-" Geno was suddenly attacked by a fast missile that pushed him away, making him crash to the skulls that made him yell in pain.

Dark Smithy chuckled as he had a tank as a head. "Foolish Geno, and all of you too! My energies were recovered because I AM a machine, not like any of you who have the burden to walk the earth as non-machines!"

"Great..." Marth muttered as he tried to regain his energies. "Not only he got a new form...but he also thinks humanity should die..."

"Oh, heck no..." Mallow struggled to move. "I'm...going to...do something...about it..."

"C-Chris..." Ness twitched. "You have to heal us..."

"B-but I'm afraid I can't..." Chris said depressed. "If I use the Musician job with Soul Etude...it won't heal anyone because you're not hurt..."

"This just HAD to happen...right?" Link asked before they looked forward to Dark Smithy.

"Oh, what is the matter?" Dark Smithy asked as he banged his head with his hammer and turned it into a magician with a creepy face..on its stomach rather than the face itself. "You can't move because you're tired? How ironic that you feel that because I was also feeling so tired of you..." he raised his hands that made sparks. "But I'm afraid I hate you all for being a bunch of pesky humans in MY factory that you should DIE! BOULDER!!!"

A huge avalanche of boulders began to fall down from nowhere and it hit everyone who yelled in pain as every boulder bounced and crushed them alive.

"This is not the end, I'm afraid!" Dark Smithy raised his glowing hands. "SPEAR RAIN!!!"

Glowing spears began to rain down on everyone, making them yell loudly as the rain of spears seized...

"...I'm...sorry...everyone..." Ness muttered before he collapsed.

"N-Ness!!!" Lucas yelled worried before he fell to his right knee in pain.

"This ends here!" Dark Smithy yelled. "ARROW RAI-"

"Geno Whirl!" Geno quickly sliced Dark Smithy's magician form to prevent him from casting his spell. The attack wasn't that strong enough, but it was enough to stop the evil magician. "Dammit, I need your help! You have to gather your energies and fight back!"

"T-there's NO way I'm letting him attack me as his will..." Link struggled to move until he finally started to run at Dark Smithy. "I-I can do this... I need to hold on..."

Dark Smithy banged his head several times before it turned into...a big treasure chest with eyes. His new head opened its contents and several lights came out, illuminating everything in sight before many scarecrows appeared where the Smashers once were. "Now you don't have a way to attack me!" Dark Smithy laughed.

"Ugh..." Ike moved his hands up and down in his form. "This is just ridiculous..."

"You tell me!" Sonic moved his hands (from behind) up and down. "I hate to be standing still!"

"EVERYONE has the same idea in mind..." Pikachu said.

"Sweet, we're soul mates."

"..." The Smashers tried to get away from the hedgehog scarecrow but they couldn't since they were above sticks that they used to hold on.

"This didn't happen in my usual stealth missions..." Snake sighed as he saw Dark Smithy's head turning into the tank.

"MAGNUM!!!" Dark Smithy yelled as he blasted off a fast missile that instantly hit and exploded on Ike's scarecrow.

"Uuuuuuuuuuhh..." Ike, surprisingly, returned to normal. However, since he received the missile attack, he was only able to collapse down to the skulls.

"Ike, Ike! Answer me!" Link turned around and looked down at the downed swordsman.

"Not good, he's out of cold..." Fox moved his head at the sides.

"Smithy!" Mallow yelled as he raised his hands a little. "Magic is still at my command, so prepare to get hur-"

"MAGNUM!" Dark Smithy yelled.

"Oh sh-" Mallow was interrupted by a fast missile that exploded on him, making him return back to normal but in a very weakened state that made him collapse and fall down on the skulls.

"He's taking out every single one of us!" Pichu yelled worried. "H-hurry! We must do something!"

"Try to break the spell, but it will be impossible!" Dark Smithy laughed. "Since I have enhanced powers, the effects status ailments are going to stay with you forever! They won't wear off in 1 minute like they used to!"

"..." Chris tried to make an angered expression as he glowed for a moment. When he looked at his right, there was a harp on his wooden hand.

"Now, who's next of my shooting game?" Dark Smithy aimed his main gun to the World Traveler, who gasped in shock as he froze his hands from playing a tune. "Oh, where'd you get that harp? Is not going to heal them, is it?"

"I-I-I-I..." Chris's words couldn't get out from his mouth from the sheer terror he obtained just now.

"GRRRRRRR!!!" Lucario grunted angrily.

"You know..." Pikachu turned to Lucario's scarecrow. "It's quite funny to see you grunt like that...in that form..."

"Grrrrrr..."

"And I knew you were that violent as well..."

"O-oh my god, oh my god, oh my god..." Chris gulped as he tried to touch his harp, but his fear of a missile hitting him was sounding very scaring. "I-I need to do it...or I'm d-dead..."

"Stop shuddering and do it!" Sonic yelled loudly.

"MAGNUM!" Dark Smithy yelled.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" Sonic yelled loudly. "(That's it. I'm forever trapped in this stupid form for the rest of my life!)"

"...Wait a minute!" Dark Super Sonic yelled angrily. "If you're gonna stay like this and die, then I'm gonna die along with you as well! That's not going to sound good for my future plans on you!"

"(Oh, now that I think about it, dying right now doesn't sound that bad...)"

"...Do you remember you're gonna stay in that form and die?"

"(...NOOOOOOOO!!!)" Sonic yelled loudly in his mind as he knelt down and banged the skulls in disbelief. "Why?! Why?! Now I'm never going to run through the open fields! I can't believe this!"

"You know what else I can't believe?" Mario asked.

"Whaaaaaaaat..." Sonic moaned as he covered his face.

"That you haven't opened your eyes to see you're back to normal."

"..." Sonic opened the small opening between his fingers to see his legs. They were not a stick, but normal humanoid (possibly humanoid) legs. "...Yahoo!" Sonic jumped on his feet. "Yeah! I'm...I'm myself! ...Wait, how?"

"I managed to do it in time..." Chris (in his normal form as a musician) sighed. "I-it was because of her..."

Sonic found Peach close to the World Traveler. "I-I'm so sorry for coming here so late..." Peach apologized.

"...Say, how did you help him?" Sonic asked.

Flashback

As Sonic was agonizing in his mind about being a scarecrow for the rest of his life, Chris blocked his wooden face with his hands from hte missile before an explosion took place where he was.

"No!" Marth yelled. "Chris, you have to be alive! Don't die now!"

"...I'm...not...dead?" Chris said confused as he unblocked his face and saw Peach standing in front of him. "...Oh no, Peach! Y-you didn't sacrifice yourself for me, right?!"

"...No..." Peach said as she turned around, holding a "toasted" Toad on her hands. "B-but..."

"...Poor guy..." Pikachu muttered at the fainted Toad.

"P-princess..." Toad muttered. "...W-why a missile this time? ...I-I'm not invincible, you know..."

"I-I'm so sorry!" Peach apologized before she kept Toad behind her. "W-well, would you start your magic so everyone can come back to normal? Smithy won't wait for another minute otherwise..."

"...You're right." Chris nodded as he began playing his harp, causing an enthusiastic atmosphere to fall down on everyone who suddenly returned back to normal. Their wounds were also healed for a bit as well as they looked at Sonic banging on the skulls.

End of flashback

"...Phew..." Sonic wiped the sweat from his forehead. "Thanks, buddy. Thanks for healing me."

"...D-don't call me buddy again..." Chris said completely feeling uncomfortable with his nickname.

Sonic looked at Lucario, who glared at him. "Okay..."

"AHEM, we have a dude with a changing head in front of us!" Mallow reminded all of them as he pointed at the evil blacksmith.

"And the princess HAD to stop me, hadn't she?" Dark Smithy asked irritated with a grumble. "Well, it doesn't matter to me. I'm going to keep attacking until you lay down and die!"

"Die, die, die, die...die..." Pikachu frowned. "Do you know another word besides that one to use on us?"

"No!"

"...Figures..." Pikachu sighed.

Dark Smithy started to hit his head to change it into...an iron head protected with hard steel. "I'll watch and see if you can even run here, try it." Dark Smithy taunted.

"I...I can move..." Lucario said as he started to run to the evil blacksmith.

It was no longer before everyone else joined in. Dark Smithy blinked inside his iron head before he began to shoot several bullets at all of them.

"Don't even think about it," Fox said as he used his Reflector and reflected back the shots to Dark Smithy's head...but it didn't do any kind of damage. "I should have expected that..."

"Those bullets of mine didn't even tickle me at all," Dark Smithy explained. "My armor is just that ha-"

"Psychopath!" Mallow called out several flashlights that shone on the evil blacksmith. "Hmm...ice is his weakness?"

"...Well, it makes sense to me," Marth said. "His head is inside that steel cage so it can be frozen inside of it... Wait, weren't you fainted a moment ago?"

"Er...nope. The missile just hit the ground and not me. It just pushed me to some skulls... Besides, I think the scarecrow's effect wasn't that eternal as he said." Mallow stuck out his tongue before glaring at Dark Smithy. "Okay, then, Snowy!"

A blizzard suddenly came from nowhere and froze the evil blacksmith inside an icicle. Dark Smithy's grunts could be heard as the snowman that was created exploded into snowflakes.

"Ugh," Dark Smithy grunted in pain. "Although that attack managed to inflict some pain in me, it wasn't enough to cause a yell which is very pathetic."

"Geno, boost me up!"

Geno rolled his eyes and used Geno Boost on Mallow, who instantly used Snowy on the blacksmith.

"The same attack won't do anything on me," Dark Smithy said before a grenade exploded on his caged face. "Okay, either you were ignoring me or you're just so stubborn."

"I wanted to toss it inside that small space where your face is peering out," Snake said. "But I guess my aim was very bad...UGH!"

He was suddenly attacked by several swift bullets that impacted to his stomach and made him back away in pain.

Smoke came out from Dark Smithy's fingers. "I have a main defense up here and secondary offensive right beneath my defense. Nothing can pierce through my head! Give up and get out of my sight!"

"Coldest ice, freeze my enemy... Blizzara!" Chris (in his Black Mage job) used Blizzara on the iron-headed blacksmith with a big pillar of ice from underneath that later sprouted several ice spikes out that shattered upon reaching their highest point. "Did that do it?"

"Barely," Dark Smithy said. "Its strength was equal as the idiot's snowman magic."

"...Oh, please, when are you going to stop this?" Chris asked worried.

"AFTER I SEE YOU DEAD!" Dark Smithy shot several bullets at Chris who gasped and covered his face with his staff. However, the World Traveler didn't feel anything before uncovering himself and finding Lucario with crossed arms in front of his face so he could block the bullets.

"L-Lucario, are you alright?" Chris asked.

"I-I'm fine...." Lucario coughed. "At least I made it in time..."

"Please, tell me you're not hurt badly..."

"I'm not, don't worry," Lucario said as he charged an Aura Sphere. "But that imbecile is going to pay for that attack towards you..."

"Stupid dog, get out!" Dark Smithy shot several fast bullets at the Aura Pokemon, who kept his stance as he struggled to charge his orb of aura.

"(He is falling for my trick...)" Lucario thought as his Aura Sphere grew larger and larger.

"Stop charging up that thing!" Dark Smithy yelled as many of the Smashers tried to hurt him using projectiles that proved useless against his defense. "Damn you all, filthy scum!"

Geno stopped his rocket punch and looked at Lucario receiving the bullets to himself as the Aura Sphere grew larger and larger with every bullet. "(Now I know why he is doing that... But I suppose I can give him more power). Geno Boost!"

Lucario suddenly felt his strength and defense increasing before he thought it was the right time the shoot the big Aura Sphere at full force to the blacksmith, who was still busy with the others trying to damage him.

"What th-UGH!" Dark Smithy grunted in pain as the sphere of aura made a big blue explosion that pushed the heavy-armored villain back for a bit. "Y-you managed to hurt a great deal of life out of me... Impressive..."

"And I'm afraid that wasn't the last one." Lucario said with a glare as he started charging another Aura Sphere.

"Oh, you won't do that again!" Dark Smithy looked at the Smashers before banging his head with hammer to change to his magician form. "Oh no, this form doesn't have a good defen-" he was interrupted as the projectiles' strength started to grow gradually on him.

"Wait, I forgot his magician head has the weakest defense of all his heads..." Geno trailed off. "We must attack that head to cause a lot of damage! He'll go down faster if we keep attacking that same head!"

"Roger that," Marth said as he ran to Dark Smithy (who was being paralyzed by the eletric Pokemon attacks) and slashed his sword across the belly of the face (using Dancing Blade) before thrusting his sword forward, causing Dark Smithy to grunt in pain. "I hope that changes something in this battle."

"That only is increasing my rage, though!" Dark Smithy yelled angrily. "ARROW RAIN!"

"What? He managed t-" Geno stopped talking once he saw a flurry of glowing arrows falling from the sky that damaged everyone and made them back away from Dark Smithy before the rain of arrows ended.

"..." Peach, however, had to use Toad again to protect herself from the attack.

"...I'm so demanding a raise for this job..." Toad muttered weakly before the princess kept him behind her back, where he instantly disappeared.

"I-I'm so sorry, but I had to do it..." Peach whispered concerned as she looked at the others struggling to attack back. "Shouldn't we try to heal?"

"W-when?" Geno asked as he coughed. "There are no exits out of this place and Smithy can attack from anywhere and reach us with ease with his magic... But I know there's a chance to defeat him."

"Ha!" Dark Smithy laughed. "Geno, you and your crazy wishes to defeat me are just priceless to hear! What else do you have in that wooden head of yours?"

"...More wisdom than you will ever have in your life... Oh, I forgot, you're a machine who can't learn a new thing since you were practically born as a machine with a mind already set."

"Take that back!" Dark Smithy raised his glowing hands to cast another spell.

"SHIE!" Sonic came from behind the blacksmith and used Homing Attack on the top of his head. Dark Smithy grunted in pain as the hedgehog later trusted his foot downwards and dove right on Dark Smithy's magician form.

"PK Freeze!" Lucas directed an ice mist that went right to Dark Smithy and exploded into a burst of ice that hurt the blacksmith a little. "I-I won't let you kill me!" he looked down to Ness and closed his eyes quickly. "Y-you did this to him..."

"So? What's your point?" Dark Smithy asked. "Kids like you should be staying at home where I will take over with machines! I don't allow pesky kids like you in here and that's why I took that imbecile out! You're next as well!"

"Run, my boy, run for your dear life!" Rope Snake yelled to Lucas.

"U-uah!" Lucas gasped and he started to run away from Dark Smithy who used Dark Star and called forth a big, black, angry Starman that crashed right above the PK kid, who yelled loudly as the star bounced several times before disappearing. "...Huh?"

"Hey, you okay?" Sonic asked as he held Lucas above him.

"S-Sonic? O-oh, thank you for..." Lucas made a confused face. "...Wait, why do I feel your hands a little bit too big?"

Sonic quickly hid his hands behind him (and accidentally let Lucas fall down the ground made of skulls). "B-big? What are you talking about? They're not big, don't be silly..."

"B-but I coul-"

"Nah-ah!" Sonic shook his head with a worried smile. "Nothing...to be...worried...about...here!"

"..." Lucas just got up. "W-well, thank you for saving me from tha-"

"DARK STAR!" Dark Smithy interrupted both of them as the same Starman crashed on both and bounced away, leaving the 2 dropped on the floor as they moaned.

"W-why didn't you run away?"

"(B-because I don't want anyone to find out about my hands... They're harder to hide...) B-because I was distracted..."

"...I-I see..." Lucas muttered in pain.

"Damn you!" Dark Smithy yelled in pain after Bomb Kirby tossed a bomb at him. "Little puffball, begone!" he banged his head several times before he turned it into a tank.

Bomb Kirby gulped and he tried to run away. Dark Smithy narrowed his eyes and shot a fast missile that exploded on the puffball who rolled away in the air as he lost his Bomb ability before crashing on the floor with a moan.

"K-Kirby!" Jigglypuff yelled.

"..." Kirby just lifted his hand before lowering it back to the ground made of skulls.

"That ant is still alive? Blasphemy..." Dark Smithy muttered with a frown before he prepared another missile to finish Kirby.

When he shot the missile, it exploded right inside him and he yelled in pain because of this.

"What happened?!" Dark Smithy asked before he looked at Snake. "What are you doing tossing that mine above your hand?"

"I took the opportunity to throw a mine inside that main gun so you could end exploding inside," Snake explained before he twitched a little. "Although I have to watch out for my own safety..."

"Snake, you can do this," Otacon said. "Don't stress yourself too much."

"Thank you for the little tip," Snake said sarcastically before he noticed the main gun directly aiming to him. "Oh, and thank you for distracting me. I'm going to die now."

"Pathetic human..." Dark Smithy loaded the missile. "Get away!"

"GUUUARGH!!!" Lucario shot a charged Aura Sphere inside the main gun and it made another explosion inside the blacksmith who yelled in pain.

It was much worse for the blacksmith because Snake quickly took out his RPG-7 rocket launcher and attacked Dark Smithy's body.

"Dammit!" Dark Smithy yelled before he banged his head and turned it into an iron cage with his head peering out from a small space. "It's time to recover the damage done on me..."

"Wait, stop him before he does!" Geno yelled.

"But we can't pierce through this thing!" Fox said as he dealt a strong kick to the cage. "Not even a strong hit..."

"Recover!" Dark Smithy yelled as he glowed green before stopping. "Aw, it feels much better now..."

"Oh, great," Geno frowned. "If he keeps going like this, at this rate, we will never end this fight."

"Then blast it, Lucario!" Chris ordered his Pokémon who nodded and ran to Dark Smithy with a glowing palm.

"Ha!" Lucario thrust his palm to Dark Smithy with great force to cause a strong hit inside of his head. The evil blacksmith grunted before he used his hammer to push the Aura Pokémon away to the air. Dark Smithy then proceeded to fire several bullets at Lucario who grunted and gritted his fangs in pain before he crashed down to the floor. "Y-you're just asking to get hurt even more..." Lucario muttered as he slowly got up.

"Recov-" Dark Smithy was interrupted as several spikes of ice sprouted out from beneath him and stopped him from recovering. "That kid and his annoying ice magic are getting on my nerves!" he banged his head quickly and turned it into a tank. "MAGNUM!"

"A-ah!" Chris gasped as he looked around for a place to hide.

"Fool! My missile can go through anything in sight!"

"T-then how come it doesn't pierce someone's heart through?"

"Because...I...um...er...well...BECAUSE I SAID SO!" Dark Smithy yelled before firing his missile at the World Traveler, who didn't have another place to run and was severely hurt by the attack that he dropped to the floor.

Chris breathed in and out in pain. "M-my energies...t-they're almost gone..."

"GRRRRRRR!!!" Lucario growled angrily at the blacksmith as his aura flared up with rage.

"What? Want to have some as well? Well, fine! MAGNUM!" Dark Smithy fired another missile...that Lucario blocked with one hand. "What?!"

"GUUUUUAAAARRRRRRGHHH!!!" Lucario shot a big and fully charged Aura Sphere that rocketed towards Dark Smithy, causing a huge blue explosion with smoke that made the blacksmith yell in pain. "GRRRRRRR..."

"W-why's this dog's strength so much stronger than it used to be?" Dark Smithy questioned before looking up at Lucario leaping at him from the air. "Oh no, you don't! MAGNUM!"

A fast missile was sent to Lucario who simply pushed it back to Dark Smithy and made it explode. The blacksmith grunted in pain before the Aura Pokémon descended and started to send a flurry of Force Palms on his tank head, making Dark Smithy yell in pain as Lucario grunted in rage with every single hit he landed.

"GUUUUUUUUUUUUUUAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRGH!!!" Lucario growled loudly as he continued to deliver Force Palms continuously to the blacksmith.

Dark Smithy tried to move from his situation but he couldn't once one hit paralyzed him. "W-what?! T-this dog is depleting my energy so quickly!"

"Look!" Pichu pointed at the blacksmith. "There are sparks coming out!"

"He must have been paralyzed by Force Palm..." Pikachu wondered. "Should we go and help him?"

"I-I'm afraid not..." Chris said weakly as Marth helped him. "O-once Lucario gets in that fit of rage, he won't hesitate to kill anybody who is in front of him..." he coughed. "I-I want him to get out from that state, though..."

"And we shouldn't interrupt either," Marth suggested. "He can defeat him like he did with that worker..."

"..." Fox narrowed his eyes at the Pokémon. "...It's going to end too soon, though."

"W-why?" Lucas looked forward to find Dark Smithy's gun hand slowly aiming at the enraged Lucario before it began to fire a barrage of bullets that made the Aura Pokémon growl in pain. "L-Lucario!"

"GUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!" Lucario roared loudly as his eyes closed. He suddenly fell to his knees and fell down to the ground at the right side, his aura also disappearing as Dark Smithy panted heavily.

"...D-darn that dog..." Dark Smithy muttered. "M-my body can't move because he disabled it...and on top of that, I can't move my head around because I was..." sparks flew out. "Paralyzed..."

"LUCARIO!" Chris yelled loudly.

"He won't heard you anymore!" Dark Smithy yelled. "B-but good thing he's out of cold!"

"Psychopath!" Mallow yelled as he held his hand to the blacksmith, where several spotlights shone on Dark Smithy again. "...Hmm...well, Lucario did well. Smithy has 1/8 less health than before..."

"But considering the fact that he landed too many hits with his "aura" thing raising his strength..." Snake wondered.

"...Crap, it's going to take a whole lot more to take Smithy down." Pikachu said depressed.
"But he's paralyzed!" Peach said. "I-I think we can take advantage of that..."

"How?" Link asked. "It's not like we can weaken him or something lik-"

"Wait," Geno closed his eyes to remember something. "...Weaken him...that's it!" he opened them up and looked at Chris. "Chris, call the Star Spirits. Klevar must have been healed by now."

"Oh, I see what you have in mind," Mario nodded. "Since Smithy attacked Klevar when he was moving, he won't have a chance to do it again because of his paralysis."

"Exactly," Geno nodded. "Call them, quick!"

"R-right..." Chris said weakly as he prayed to call the Star Spirits.

"Let them be okay..." Peach muttered as she joined her hands and focused.

"...Please...please..." Geno muttered as he looked up...

...And his wish came true.

"Ah!" Klevar appeared and looked around as the other Star Spirits came with him. "It's good to be flying again."

"Klevar!" Geno said.

"Oh, sorry to worry all of you," Eldstar said. "I managed to heal Klevar. Now we can use our attack again."

"Honorable Star Spirits!" Twink flew down from the ceiling. "Let's do it before Smithy moves!"

The stars looked at the paralyzed Dark Smithy trying to move. "Hmph, he's so going down now," Muskular said. "Hurting one of us is against our sacred law."

"We don't have that secret law," Misstar said. "Neither more laws to begin with."

"Well, you get my idea. Go!" Muskular yelled as all the stars flew above Dark Smithy.

"Y-you!" Dark Smithy looked above him. "D-dangit! I can't move!"

"Duh," Muskular said as he flew in circles. "Thank you for reminding us that. Come down to him!"

"UUUUUAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!" Dark Smithy yelled as a pink beam descended from the ceiling and landed on the blacksmith, who yelled loudly as the Shadow Bugs disappeared. "N-no! My power is gone! No!"

"Serves you right." Mamar said before the Star Spirits disappeared as Twink made his way to the ceiling in order to hide.

"Yes!" Sonic said as he looked at the normal Smithy. "Now's our chance to attack him with all we've got!"

"Quick! We have to do this before the Shadow Bugs come back!" Geno yelled as most of the Smashers charged at the paralyzed Smithy. "But before that... Geno Boost!"

Mario felt his strength and defense increasing as he dealt a headbutt to Smithy, who grunted in pain before Pikachu and Pichu jumped above him and used 2 Thunders to make a big impact of electricity before they leaped out (with a dazzled Pichu).

"W-why you..." Smithy muttered before Snake and Fox leaped to him and dealt several kicks to the main gun, making it spin around Smithy's head as Lucas used PK Freeze to freeze the head inside an icicle. "D-dangit..." he muttered inside the frozen block.

"Geno Boost!" Geno yelled as he increased Jigglypuff's strength while she used Pound to hit the head several times in the air. "If we keep going like this before the Shadow Bugs return, there's a chance of defeating Smithy after all..."

"Yeah," Sonic said as he was sitting down besides Geno. "I heard ya."

"...Sonic, may I ask what are you doing here?" Geno asked a little bit irritated.

"Chillin' out."

"...Chilling out?" Geno repeated angrily. "You're "chilling out" during this fight? What is wrong with you?"

"(A lot of things are wrong with me...) Nothing." Sonic said with a smile (that looked nervous).

"Sonic, go there and fight for the future of the city!"

"Eeeeeeeeeeeeeer..." Sonic shifted his eyes. "...Nope."

"What do you mean by "nope"?!" Geno asked irritated.

"T-thing is..." Sonic began to sweat. "...I don't wanna."

"You...don't...want to...fight..." Geno trailed off in utter irritation. "...Okay, get up!"

"No!" Sonic yelled with wide eyes.

"You'll get up this instant or else I'll make you!"

"I don't want to!" Sonic yelled as Geno ducked and tried to pull him up. "Leave me!"

"No!" Geno yelled. "You'll get up and fight!"

"D-don't you understand?! No!" Sonic yelled as he tried to sit down.

"Get...up...you...stubborn...hedgehog!" Geno said as he grabbed Sonic's arms.

That's when Sonic began to panic.

"G-get off me!" Sonic said as he stood up and backed away from the doll. "I-I don't want to fight!"

While this argument went on, the others were fighting against Smithy with all their forces...

...But this argument seemed more interesting, so...

"Sonic, go there and fight, now," Geno demanded. "And pull your hands out from your back as well!"

Sonic was getting more panicked. "E-er, my hands want to stay behind me, thank you very much..."

"...What?" Geno asked. "Sonic, your hands are NOT alive."

"...They are now..."

"THAT'S IT!" Geno aimed his fist at Sonic. "You will fight Smithy you like it or not before I punch that face of yours!"

Sonic waved his hands in front of him. "N-no! D-don't do that!"

"..." Geno's eyes widened once he saw Sonic's hands.

Sonic's hands were big, they had blue/black fur, they also had big claws, and above everything else, they ripped Sonic's gloves.

"...What?" Sonic asked with a worried smile...before he noticed the error he did. "OH NO!" he hid his hands back.

"...Sonic..."

Sonic closed his eyes. "Y-yes?"

"Pardon me if I'm rude...but...were your hands big a moment ago?"

"...N-no..."

"And did they have black-blue fur all over them?"

"N-no..."

"And did you have long claws as well?"

"N-no... What makes you say that?"

"The fact that your hands are at the sides now."

"..." Sonic looked down to find his hands at the sides. "...Aw, dangit!"

"Sonic!" Geno yelled. "Your hands have...they have turned into..."

Sonic blocked Geno's mouth with his huge right hand. "Look, nobody else except a guy who doesn't want to reveal his identity know about this. I don't want ANYONE else know about this little problem I have."

"Prublum?" Geno asked under his hand.

"Yeah, problem," Sonic looked behind them to see the others busy with Smithy. "They don't know but one of them does... So, please, don't let anyone get a word of this little problem..."

Geno pushed Sonic's big hand. "...I don't understand why you're going through this...but if you want to keep it a secret, that's fine with me."

"..." Sonic smiled a little. "Thanks."

"Now that we're clear about this, go to battle."

"Can't do that, sorry."

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!" Geno leaped to Sonic and started to smack the heck out of him before he stopped and held and badly hurt Sonic. "YOU GO THERE WITHOUT ANYONE SEEING THIS, GOT IT?!"

"Y-yes, sir..." Sonic said with swirls as eyes before the doll tossed him to the battle, where Sonic regained motion and flipped to land on his feet to run at Smithy (while hiding his hands from the others).

Then Kirby walked to him with a paper.

"What's this now..." Sonic asked bored.

I'm aware of your obvious movements. You can't fool me, hedgehog.

Sonic tried to rip the paper, but since Kirby wasn't aware of the situation he was in...

...The hedgehog ate the paper and looked shocked to Kirby's expression. "I-I thought it looked...tasty..." Sonic said in his defense.

"...Oh," Kirby smiled. "Me too."

"..." Sonic shrugged and ran away to the blacksmith.

"Chris!" Pikachu jumped to Chris's shoulder. "Let's do it!"

"R-right. Let me see if we can..." Chris changed to his ISOKFMG and prepared the spell.

Pikachu closed his eyes and he began to shine with electricity (that also went over to Chris).

"Hammer of lightning, make them tingle... Spark Wave!!!"

"CHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!" Pikachu yelled loudly as a sphere of electricity appeared on Smithy and started to electrocute him greatly. The others took this opportunity to strike the blacksmith even more.

"UUUUUUAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!" Smithy yelled as he was unable to move. "M-my health! It's disappearing! It's leaving me!"

"...Seriously, tingle?" Pikachu asked to an electrocuted (but unharmed) Chris.

"W-what?" Chris asked blushing. "I-it came with the spell..."

"That's the purpose, numskull!" Mallow yelled to Smithy (ignoring the 2) as he used Shocker.

"UGH!" Smithy twitched after the bolt crashed on him.

"Over Limit ready!" Kawashima announced. "Good job! Landing so many hits raised the gauge very quickly!"

"Somebody! Use an effective Final Smash!"

Sonic grinned. "Heh, leave it to m-" he remembered his hands. "...Nah, I'll pass..." he said bored.

"Weird, that's not like you." Kirby said in front of him.

Sonic backed away from Kirby. "H-hey, why are you walking to me?"

Kirby seemed to be sniffing something in the air. "I smell...meat..."

"(...W-wait, he's not someone who eats hands, r-right?)" Sonic thought worried.

"How the heck am I supposed to know?" Dark Super Sonic asked. "If he does, then run away!"

"(You're helping me?)"

"Only because I get dragged to hell along with you if he DOES eat you...alive," he narrowed his eyes. "Dammit! He's getting to you!"

"Meeeeeeeeeeeeat..." Kirby said dreamily as he stared up at Sonic, who started to back away.

"K-Kirby!" Lucas yelled as he ran to Kirby. "W-what are you doing?"

"I'm planning to eat Sonic." Kirby stated.

This little sentence caused many (even Sonic and Lucas) to see Kirby in a MUCH different point of view...

"..." Sonic looked freaked out.

Lucas did as well.

Kirby was simply smiling at Sonic's taste...

...That he decided to swallow him.

"SONIC!" Lucas yelled as Kirby looked satisfied. "O-oh no, you ate Sonic...alive!"

"Get me out!" Sonic demanded inside Kirby. "Get me out!"

"Oof!" Kirby copied Sonic's ability and he turned into Sonic Kirby while the hedgehog came out from somewhere of Kirby. "Haha! Catch me if you can!" Sonic Kirby taunted as Sonic landed on his hands.

"...Phew..." Sonic sighed.

"...W-wait, maybe I can use my Final Smash..." Lucas smiled a little. "Maybe I can finish this battle..." he thought for a good comment. "Hmm..." he closed his eyes and wondered. "What could I say?"

"See ya!" Sonic Kirby taunted as he ran at the speed of light!

...Or simply his normal speed. He just copied Sonic's Homing Attack, got that?

"Puff!" Jigglypuff leaped to Smithy and used Pound 2 times before kicking him hard in the face. "Okay, time to see how much this move improved..." she muttered as she landed above him and used Rest to cause a good amount of damage. "...Zzzzz...u-uh?" she woke up and looked at a flower that was on top of Smithy's head. "...Hey! I thought he was going to... Oh, whatever...PUFF!" she split her legs apart to damage the head before jumping away.

"Hmm..." Lucas wondered more as he looked at the paralyzed Smithy. "What could I say?"

"I'm a little blond kid whose a vagina-y!" Smithy suggested annoyed.

"..." Lucas forced a glare. "N-now that was just rude... Ahem," Lucas coughed before he shouted, "Come to me now!"

"Sorry," a glowing Fox said behind Lucas who turned around and opened his mouth in disbelief. "Mine is going to inflict more damage."

"...B-but this is just unfair!" Lucas yelled. "I-I wanted to use mine!"

"I'm sorry as I've said before," Fox shook his head. "But even Snake agreed to let me use mine."

"I did." Snake replied as he took out his RPG-7 rocket launcher and fired it to Smithy's feet.

"I-I wanted to use mine still!" Lucas argued.

"There was no other way. Please understand that." Fox said calmly.

"..." Lucas narrowed his eyes at Fox. "O-okay, here's how we're going to do it."

Fox raised an eyebrow.

"Y-you're going to give that power before...before I..." Lucas tried to gather up his courage as he took his branch (with a trembling hand). "B-before I smack your head around..."

"You're trembling." Fox pointed out.

"N-no, I'm not..." Lucas lied as he gulped. The PK kid wanted to have the power and not a vulpine who was taller, older, far more experienced in battle and had a somewhat scary face to Lucas. "A-anyway, you'll give that power now!"

"...No."

Lucas let out a small sob.

"I'm sorry, but I need to use my Final Smash right awa-" Fox stopped talking once a paw tapped his shoulder. "Ye-" he was suddenly punched on his face by Tokunaga's fist, making him fall on the ground and lose the Final Smash in form of the Smash Ball that Tokunaga grabbed and showed it to Lucas.

"..." Lucas smiled a little. "Y-you're giving it to me?"

"That's so right," Chris appeared behind Tokunaga with Pikachu who jumped to Tokunaga's head. "You're the only one out of us who haven't used the Final Smash."

"W-what about me..." asked a weak Ness close to them.

They seemed to ignore him, though.

"B-but why?" Lucas asked.

Chris pointed down at Fox. "He was being a jerk to you sooooo I went ahead and gave you what you deserve the most."

"Chris, did you actually think Fox was being a bully to Lucas?" Pikachu asked.

"...Somewhat," Chris said as a fast glowing ring was shot to Smithy from behind him. "Anyway, break that so you can use your Final Smash."

"..." Lucas looked at the Smash Ball as Mario leaped to Smithy to land a hit with his right fist. "...Okay!" Lucas said cheerfully as he hit the ball hard and gained its power.

"...Hm?" Smithy seemed to move his body and head. "Mwahahahaha! I regained the control of my body!" he glared down at the trio (without counting the knocked out Fox). "You..."

"S-stop right there!" Lucas said with a determined look (accidentally stepping above Fox's back). "I-I'm going to stop you from hurting us!"

"What will a little blond kid whose a glowing vagina-y going to do to me?" Smithy asked with a chuckle.

Lucas simply glared at Smithy and held his hands up. "This! PK..."

The Smashers noticed that the red cave suddenly began to shine a little.

"...Why is the cave illuminating?" Smithy asked before he looked up and saw a whole assault of glowing meteors coming to him. "W-what?!"

"STAAAAAAARSTOOOOOOOOORMMM!!!" Lucas yelled loudly as he seemed to float (above Fox) while a barrage of huge meteors began to land on Smithy.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!" Smithy yelled loudly as many of the meteors collided down on him, rendering his body from moving except for his head.

"...Uuhh..." Lucas landed back (on Fox) and sighed. "W-wow... I-I didn't know I could use Kumatora's move..."

"(I question the game itself...)" Chris thought.

"B-but it may have been because I trained a little with her..."

"(Now I don't.)" Chris corrected himself.

[DededeCloneChris]

"...Anyway, that was a good Final Smash." Pikachu remarked.

"I-it was?" Lucas asked blushing.

"UUUUUAAAAAAAHHHH!!!" Smithy yelled loudly as Marth used Dancing Blade on him.

"O-oh, that's right," Chris nodded. "We have to keep attacking Smithy."

"Y-yes," Lucas nodded. "I'm going to do my best this time..." and then he ran away.

"...Lucas is growing up." Pikachu said.

"He is?" Chris asked.

"Yeah," Pikachu said. "Once he stops his shudder problem, then that'd be a signal."

"...Hmm..." Chris wondered for a moment as he walked forward. "I'd like to see that with my own eyes someday."

"Too bad you're not going to have eyes once I finish you off."

"T-try that!" Chris yelled at Smithy as Tokunaga stepped by his side. "I-I dare you to kill me if you can!"

"Fine!" Smithy yelled. "It's weird of you to proclaim something like that. But I wil-OWW!" he yelled as Sonic Kirby swung his hammer 2 times at his face.

"...Ha!" Chris laughed. "That's what you get for insulting me!"

"Chris..." Pikachu began as he looked down from Tokunaga. "I hate to interrupt your moment of cheesy overconfidence but...Smithy didn't say that to you."

"..." Chris began to sweat and looked down. "...W-whoops..."

Fox was tapping his fingers on the skulls while Chris was standing above his back. "I want to hurt you more with every passing second." Fox threatened.

Chris quickly froze but then stepped back, took out an apple and tossed it to Lucario's mouth. The Aura Pokémon began to eat it before he slowly opened his eyes and looked at Chris. "C-Chris?"

"(N-now he won't punch me...)" Chris thought as Fox stood up. "I-I'm so sorry for making Tokunaga punch you, b-but you really deserved it..."

"..." Fox crossed his arms and seemed to glare at Chris (or, to be honest, the same face he was stuck with for the rest of his life).

"W-will you stop doing such a big deal for your Final Smash?"

"..." Fox sighed. "Fine, I was acting like a jerk without even noticing... If you'll excuse me...I have a gauge to fill," he said before he ran to Smithy.

"Phew..." Chris sighed in relief before he remembered something. "...Wait, we still have the food...and 9 of them..." he looked at the downed Ike. "...If I can heal them in time after I revive them...there's a chance to make them heal fully..."

"Whew!" Smithy shook his tank head. "Finally, it was time for me to move!"

"Uh-oh..." Jigglypuff looked worried.

"Magnum!"

Jigglypuff quickly sidestepped from the missile in time, making her sigh. "T-that wasn't as fast as before..."

Chris continued thinking as he looked to Ness. "...Ness?"

"...Yeah, I'm...kind of living..." Ness said weakly.

"I-I'm sorry for ignoring you." Chris said embarrassed.

"Would you..." Ness trailed off as Chris changed to his Fonic User job.

"Holy power, come to me... First Aid!" Chris used First Aid to heal Ness's wounds a little, healing him enough to stand up.

"Thanks..." Ness sighed. "Good thing that just knocked me out a little."

"Well, maybe you should take advantage of this time and fight Smithy back while he doesn't have the Shadow Bugs with him."

"Good idea." Ness said with a nod before he went to Smithy.

"C-Chris..." Lucario muttered on the ground behind Chris, his aura flaring up since he recovered just 3 percent of his energies.

"I-I'm going t-" Chris was interrupted.

"N-no..." Lucario shook his head as Chris helped him to get up. "L-leave me like this... My aura is at a very high level and with that, I might be able to inflict more damage to that bastard..."

Mario came rolling to them as he twitched in pain. "O-oww..." Mario muttered.

"But are you sure?" Chris asked as he prepared to heal Mario.

"Y-yes..." Lucario nodded as he prepared an Aura Sphere. "H-he won't resist my attacks now..."

"Because his Shadow Bugs disappeared," Mario (after he was healed) said. "Do that before he gets his Shadow Bugs back."

"N-now..." Lucario said as his Aura Sphere grew to the size of himself.

Chris blinked surprised. "Y-you have never reached that level before, right?"

"N-no..." Lucario shook his head. "T-this is the first time ever... GUUUUUUUUUAARGH!!!" Lucario roared loudly as he shot the sphere at full speed to Smithy's head.

"W-what?! AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" Smithy yelled in pain as a huge explosion engulfed his body. "A-all you make me so sick..."

"Yiiiiiiiiiaaaaaaah!" Peach yelled as she held a golf club (your eyes are not deceiving you) and ran to Smithy.

"A golf club?" Smithy questioned before the princess hit the main gun upwards. "UGH! W-why is this thing s-"

"Yiah!" Peach then took out a tennis racket.

"UGH! A-are you even serious with thos-"

"Yiah!" Peach then took out a frying pan.

"W-what the hell?!" Smithy asked in pain as Peach kept taking out from the golf club, tennis racket and to the frying pan before repeating the whole process quickly. "N-NO!" Smithy felt that his tank form was disabled.

"Huh?" Mallow tilted his head and used Psychopath on Smithy. "...Yeah! We reduced 1/2 of his health!"

"That means we're not so far in finishing the guy off." Link said with a small smile.

"Hu-uah!" Kirby leaped to Smithy and swung his hammer 2 times before using several kicks in the air before landing and thrusting his foot forward to deal more damage.

"SHADOW BUGS!" Smithy called the Shadow Bugs who covered his body and made him stronger. "Mwahahahahahaha!"

"Good news are meant to be lies...PURE LIES." Mallow panicked.

"GUUUUUUARGH!" Lucario shot another powerful Aura Sphere that made a huge explosion on Dark Smithy.

"U-UGH!" Dark Smithy grunted in pain. "T-that strength of yours can inflict a whole lot of damage to me..." he narrowed his eyes as he seemed to glow brighter.

"...W-wait a minute," Sonic Kirby stopped running to Dark Smithy. "I-I don't think it's a good idea to attack him now..."

Kawashima gasped. "O-oh my goodness, he's going to use his Final Smash!"

"W-wait!" Chris interrupted. "H-he's not supposed to have one!"

"Every single Subspace minion, or elite, can possess a Final Smash since the Shadow Bugs can give them one."

"But what about Pokey?" Ness asked.

"I thought it was Porky..." Lucas shrugged.

"I think he was a commander as Petey...so they had theirs."

"In a few words," Sonic looked at Dark Smithy. "We're screwed."

"Don't say that!" Geno said as he prepared to use Geno Whirl. "We can interrupt him if we kee-"

"Machines..." Dark Smithy interrupted as he called forth many turrets that popped out from the ground (around him) and aimed at the Smashers. "Show them your true might..."

"...Better start running now..." Sonic suggested with a gulp.

"Weird, I thought you had somewhere to run away." Marth said.

"I would if I could!" Sonic said as he looked around. "There's no place to hide here! Those turrets are aiming everywhere!"

Marth looked at the turrets and his eyes widened. "...You're right..."

"Take cover, now!" Snake ordered.

"TOO LATE!" Dark Smithy yelled as the turrets began to fire madly around all the cave. Every single hit of every turret managed to inflict a horrible amount of damage to every single Smasher who yelled loudly in extreme pain. "AND CLEAR THIS LAND FROM THEIR FILTHY HUMANITY!!! IGNIS MACHINA!!!"

Ignis Machina

Calls forth the turrets of the steel hell. Deals devastating damage to all enemies

It was too much for everyone to handle the frenzy of fast bullets from the turrets that hit every single part of their bodies that they...started to faint...

"M-Mario..." Peach muttered with a sob before she fell defeated.

"I-I was...so close..." Pikachu muttered before he fainted.

"I-I won't believe...this..." Link managed to mutter his last words before he fainted.

"NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" Mallow yelled loudly as he fell down.

"W-why does this need to happen to me..." Chris cried before he fainted and fell at the side.

"I-I don't want to die..." Pichu cried silently before he curled up and fainted.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!" Jigglypuff screamed before she lost consciousness.

"A-Altea...will live on without me...nevertheless...ugh..." Marth muttered before he fainted and fell down on his back.

"Did I...make you feel embarrassed...Chris?" Lucario muttered before he fainted and fell down on his face.

"I-I want to...play...and eat...cakes..." Kirby (as he lost his Sonic ability) muttered before he fell back and fainted.

"D-darn you..." Snake muttered as he fainted to the side.

"Is this...how it ends for me?" Fox muttered before he fainted on his knees and fell down.

"...D-Dad...M-Mom...Tracy...I-I'm sorry..." Ness muttered before he let out a small tear and fainted.

"...M-Mom...D-Dad..." Lucas began to sob. "...C-Claus...I-I'm so sorry..." he sobbed a last time before he fainted as well.

"...I...failed...everyone..." Mario muttered as he fainted on his back.

"...W-why...I can't move anymore..." Sonic muttered before he fainted and crashed his face on a skull.

"Damn that...steel bastard... I-I won't destroy anything...after all...ugh..." Dark Super Sonic muttered before he lost consciousness as Sonic.

Music stops

"MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!" Dark Smithy laughed maniacally as the turrets dug themselves to the ground and disappeared. "At last, your pathetic idea to destroy my factory was shot to death!" he banged his head to turn it to his magician one. "Nobody will mess around the factory anymore..." he looked to his back. "...I need to leave you all here so you can rotten in hell itself..."

"S-Smithy..."

"...What?" Dark Smithy's eyes widened as he turned around and found an extremely hurt Geno. "W-what? Are you still living?"

Geno coughed. "Y-you won't get...away...with...any of...this...anymore..."

"...Geno..." Dark Smithy narrowed his eyes. "It is time for you to acknowledge your defeat."

"I-I won't...do such...a thing...to the...likes...of you..." Geno coughed weakly as he looked at the fainted Smashers. "...You...need to pay...for all what you've done...all this time..."

"...You're starting to IRRITATE me even more than before," Dark Smithy grunted. "If you want to die so badly, so be it!" he raised his glowing hands. "Geno, prepare to be crushed to bits so you can't use that stupid doll of yours!"

"...Dammit..." Geno muttered before he fell to his knees and...fainted, losing consciousness.

"...Huh?" Dark Smithy blinked confused before he stopped his magic. "...You were so weak to even stand up, after all..." he shook his magician head. "Such a pity...but I feel pity for you... I won't be recognized as a true evil mastermind if I feel pity..." he turned around. "Well, I may as well leave you here and get rotten in hell itself for real..."

What he didn't noticed was something small sliding across the skulls...

Something appeared to be holding a cake as it carefully sneaked through the skulls while Dark Smithy looked up.

"Now, how am I going to go back up?" Dark Smithy asked to no one in particular.

"...Sneaky..." the thing muttered. "...Silently..." it muttered. "...Crunchy..." it stopped. "W-wait..." he shook his head and continued its way to Geno. "T-that wasn't good..."

"Seriously," Dark Smithy wondered. "How did they get out from here when they beat me? They didn't dig their way out, did they?"

"...More..." it muttered as he reached Geno and put the cake in his mouth.

"...I absolutely have no idea how I'm going to get out from here..." Dark Smithy muttered. "...And my factory is left alone? Dammit! The schedule! I need to get back with the schedule!"

"..." Geno slowly ate the cake and opened his eyes.

"Shh..." it said.

"..." Geno didn't have another option but to listen.

"What could I do to go up?" Dark Smithy asked as Geno slowly got up and took out tea that he walked silently to Chris. "I can't explode my feet to propell myself..."

"..." Chris ate the tea (this wasn't a joke) and opened his eyes.

"Shh..." Geno and "it" said.

"..." Chris nodded as he got up and tried to heal the others while the blacksmith was busy staring up. "Return this soul from the abyss of death..." he whispered.

"Hmm... This is sure a dilemma..." Dark Smithy pondered.

7 minutes later...

After so much thinking, Dark Smithy got an idea. "Ah!" he said happily...before he thought things over. "Hmm... No, that one isn't going to work either..."

"1...2...3..."

"Using numbers aren't going to help me at all," Dark Smithy said. "Now shut up and let me think o-"

"Holy Lance!!!"

Super Mario RPG - Fight Against Smithy, Who Likes Transforming

"What the..." Dark Smithy several lances of light coming out from around him before they all stabbed him through his body, rendering it from moving. "UUUAAAAAAAAHHHH!!! W-who was the imbecile...WHAT?!" he turned around and his eyes widened...

"Oh, hello there," said a glaring Geno along with every single Smasher who stood at his sides. "I hope you missed me...wait, you don't miss anybody."

"W-what is the meaning of this foolishness?!" Dark Smithy asked as he looked at the Smashers. "I-I thought you were in hell!"

"All of us are in hell," Ike said. "This place is hell though..."

"B-but how did you...I mean, how did you get back on your feet?!" Dark Smithy asked bewildered.

Rope Snake came out from Lucas's pocket. "Because I did so."

"You?! A filthy red snake?!"

"Yep, that's right," Rope Snake made a happy expression. "When you weren't looking, I took some food from our inventory to revive Geno, then he went to revive Chris, who later used healing magic thingies to revive everyone else," he explained.

"And I healed all of them completely." Chris added.

"T-thank you..." Lucas said to Rope Snake.

"No problem!" Rope Snake said happily. "I can't watch you die in front of me...or something else. I forgot really."

"I was...fooled by an animal..." Dark Smithy breathed in and out in fury.

"But man," Link frowned. "You were seriously deaf and blind when you were staring up at the ceiling without even turning that weird head around."

"T-this is...stupid!" Dark Smithy yelled as he tried to move his lower body that was paralyzed. "But don't think you'll make a comeback or some foolish thing like that."

"We'll see about that." Geno said.

"Geno, shut your squared mouth. I've had enough of it...and from everyone's mouths!" Dark Smithy grunted angrily. "I may not have my ultimate attack, but I still have the Shadow Bugs at my command!"

"Which we won't mind at all," Snake said. "Come on, you steel freak."

"With pleasure. Arrow Rain!"

The Smashers looked up and found a rain of arrows going towards them.

"Is there any way to evade that?" Ness asked.

"..." Peach looked down and took out Toad. "I-I'm so sorry..."

"...Aw, no..." Toad said bored as Peach held him up.

"E-everyone, behind me!"

"We're way too many to be protected by him!" Pikachu yelled.

"Just receive the attack and don't be such a vagina-y." Snake said...before everyone but Peach were attacked by all the arrows.

"Mwahahahahahaha!" Dark Smithy laughed maniacally. "Feel my wrath! Boulder!"

"There's more coming here!" Ike yelled as he looked up and saw a rain of boulders falling down.

"Quick! Run around!" Geno ordered and everyone dispersed around the cave to evade the boulders from falling above them.

"A-AAAAAH!!!" Kirby yelled as a boulder came from above and tried to crush him.

"Gotcha!" Sonic came at a high speed...and kicked Kirby away in time from being crushed.

Kirby tumbled on the ground before he stopped and looked angrily at Sonic. "Why did you do that?"

"E-er..." Sonic shifted his eyes. "...My hands are sleeping."

"...Oh," Kirby smiled. "Mine do that too."

Sonic sweatdropped.

"Meteor Swarm!" Dark Smithy called forth a rain of rainbow stars.

"Oh no, I won't let you! Thunderbolt!" Mallow called forth several thunders from above that stroke the rainbow stars. "...Aw, come on!" he groaned as the stars kept their directions towards them.

"Geno Blast!" Geno shot a light to the sky before several pillars of light rained down on the stars and smashed them to bits. "Yes!"

"W-what?!" Dark Smithy asked in disbelief before he shook his head. "That doesn't matter still. Spear Rain!"

"Rain, rain, rain..." Link repeated bored. "All your attacks are related to the sky for some rea-"

"RUN!" Jigglypuff yelled as she jumped to the air to escape from the rain of spears.

"W-what do we use to stop that now?" Pikachu asked as he looked around for a place to hide.

"The same." Geno nodded to Mallow before they used Geno Blast and Thunderbolt respectively to crush the spears into bits.

"Sword Rain!" Dark Smithy called forth (in irritation) a rain of swords from above.

"Again!" Geno yelled.

"Dark Star!" Dark Smithy called forth a big black angry Starman that went down faster than the swords and went to Geno and Mallow.

"U-uah!" Mallow covered his face with his hands.

"Keep going!" Geno yelled as he shot the light.

"GUUUUUUARGH!" Lucario appeared right in front of the 2 and stopped the big Starman with his hands as he struggled a bit. "I made it in time..."

"Dude!" Mallow uncovered his face. "That brute force of yours is aweso-"

"AHEM!" Geno coughed as he pointed at the swords.

"S-sorry, sorry! Thunderbolt!" Mallow called forth his magic that appeared alongside Geno's Geno Blast and obliterated the swords in time.

"Okay, this is just irritating," Dark Smithy said. "My blood pressure is going up..."

"I thought you were a machine..." Mario said confused.

"I AM a machine!" Dark Smithy yelled. "But can't a machine have blood pressure as well?"

"Then you're not a machine."

"I am."

"You're not."

"I am."

"You're not."

"I am."

"You're not."

Snake sneaked behind the blacksmith as they continued. "I am."

Fox carefully sneaked from the other side. "You're not."

Ness sneaked from Snake's side. "I am."

Lucas came from the other side with little steps. "You're not."

Kirby came from the other side, dragging his feet forward. "I am."

Lucario came from Mario's side, holding the same Starman that tried to crush Geno and Mallow. "You're not."

"Hey!" Dark Smithy glared at Lucario. "What are you doing wi-"

"SHUT UP!" Lucario yelled before he tossed the Starman with full force at Dark Smithy, who yelled before the star impacted on his magician head and knocked him out for a moment before a harsh kick, a big explosion, a green flash, a hit of a branch and a strong swing of a hammer came from behind him and made him yell loudly in pain.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!" Dark Smithy yelled loudly in pain as the Smashers from his back ran away. "GRRRRRRR!!!"

"Y-yiah!" Peach tossed another Turnip (XLX) to his face.

Albeit to say, the head became disabled just because of that weak hit.

"N-no!" Dark Smithy tried to move his hands but they were immobilized. "D-dangit!" he cursed as he regained control of his lower body and began banging his hammer with his head. Soon enough his head turned into a treasure chest that was trembling. "Let's see how well you fight while you're sleeping!" and the chest opened up.

"Not even a chance," Snake said as he tossed a grenade inside. "Enjoy the explosion, a(beep)le."

"UGH!" Dark Smithy grunted in pain as an explosion took place inside his treasure chest head. "W-why you..." he said dazzled as his lower body aimed at them with his gun.

"H-help!" Jigglypuff yelled as the gun started firing bullets at her at an insane speed. However, she was saved by Peach who sidestepped and...used her injured Toad again.

"P-PRINCESS!" Toad yelped in pain before the attack seized. "...C-can I have a bigger salary...s-so I can go to the hospital for some weeks...p-please?"

"I-I-I'm so sorry..." Peach sobbed as she kept him away. "I-I-I'm such a bad person...am I not?"

"Er..." Jigglypuff shifted her eyes. "...Not really. He was doing his job."

"..." Peach ducked and hugged Jigglypuff as she sobbed silently.

"O-oh, please! Stop sobbing now!" Jigglypuff yelled as Peach kept sobbing. "W-we're in a fight for our lives, remember?"

"C-Chris!" Pichu ran to Chris. "We have to use it!"

"R-right..." Chris nodded and changed to his Scholar job as Pichu jumped to his right hand and started to get covered in sparks. "Spark Bullet!"

"CHUUUUUUUU!!!" Pichu yelled loudly as Chris tossed him at an insane speed to Dark Smithy's treasure chest head and crossed it in a blink of an eye. The small rodent landed on the other side (dazzled) as Dark Smithy yelled loudly in pain.

"T-that is it!" Dark Smithy yelled as he used his magic from his head. "Poison them all!"

Many lights came out from the treasure chest and it hit all of them who suddenly turned pale, even to the point where they were coughing constantly.

"D-darn this illness..." Link said as he coughed.

"T-that isn't so dangerous to me..." Chris changed to his Musician job and began playing the harp. "Soul Etude!"

An enthusiastic atmosphere fell on the cave and everyone's illnesses disappeared as they were healed a bit as well.

"A new spell?!" Chris asked surprised as he automatically started playing a new song. "Life's Anthem!"

For some reason, he couldn't stop playing the harp as several musical notes appeared on the field that touched everyone.

"...Hey," Sonic felt good. "This song is...healing my wounds slowly..."

Jigglypuff looked at Chris while she was in Peach's hug. "W-we have to do our attack... But let her get off me!"

"Not done yet!" Dark Smithy yelled as he opened his head.

"YAAAAAAAAAH!!!!" Pikachu leaped inside the treasure chest and started to discharged a big amount of electricity that electrocuted Dark Smithy from the inside.

"I-it won't stop me from making all of you feel ill!" Dark Smithy yelled as he was about to finish his magic.

"I'm afraid you're not going to do such a thing," Geno said with a glare as he held his hands up. "Geno Boost!"

"CHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!" Pikachu's electricity began to grow in size as the blacksmith's magic came to a stop as he screamed loudly in pain.

"...Oh no..." Lucas noticed that the electricity was becoming smaller. "H-he's getting tired!"

"Ike, Marth, let's do our thing!" Link told the 2 swordsmen who nodded at him and ran to the evil blacksmith.

"Charge!" Marth commanded as the 3 stood just in front of Dark Smithy to use Shield Breaker, Eruption and Spin Attack at full potency.

"You won't...do that either..." Dark Smithy moved his hammer and gun forward to stop the trio from attacking them.

"Jigglypuff, Mario, Ness, Lucas, Fox, all of you attack the lower body to disable it and prevent it from attacking the 3!" Geno ordered the 5 previous mentioned characters who nodded and ran to Dark Smithy and went behind his back.

"Now!" Mario yelled as the 5 started to attack differently to the lower body as fast as they could to disable it, making Dark Smithy twitch in pain as he tried to hit the swordsmen in front of him.

"Chris, Mallow, cast magic with me!" Geno ordered as he held his hands up.

"C'mon! We can do this!" Mallow yelled as he held his hands up.

However, Chris couldn't stop playing his harp as he was shown smiling happily.

"Aw man, he's out of it!" Mallow said.

"Let him be," Geno said as he shot a light to the ceiling. "We can do this by ourselves."

"Now, then, Star Rain!"

"Geno Blast!"

Geno and the cloud prince called forth their attacks that crashed and bounced on the blacksmith's body.

"NO!" Dark Smithy couldn't feel his lower body anymore. "Y-you and yo-" he was interrupted as 3 familiar yells managed to hit his treasure chest.

"HEYAH!"

"HA!"

"HUUUUAAAAH!!!"

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!" Dark Smithy yelled loudly as Pikachu jumped out from the treasure chest. "N-no..." Dark Smithy tried to cast magic, but his head couldn't respond anymore and it wasn't able to do something else as well. "T-this can't be..."

He managed to move his lower body back and spin it around to push all the Smashers away with his hammer so he could bang it on his head and turn it into a cage with his eyes peering out.

"My strongest defense..." Dark Smithy panted heavily. "Try to pierce through it..."

"Geno Boost!" Geno increased Lucario's strength as he roared loudly as a response.

"Seriously," Chris stopped him from using Aura Sphere. "Another yell to demonstrate your power increasing and I'll hurt you where it hurts you the most!"

Lucario shrugged. "P-please, don't do that..."

"Promise what I suggested you?"

"..." Lucario looked at his appendages and shrugged again. "I-if you say so..."

"AHEM," interrupted Geno.

"Hmph..." Lucario put his hands closer together and started to charge his orb of aura.

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"Hmph..." Lucario put his hands closer together and started to charge his orb of aura.

"Grrrrr..." Dark Smithy aimed his gun hand to the aura wielder.

"Over Limit gauge ready!" Kawashima called out.

Fox grinned. "Okay, time to prove what I can really d-"

"Come, o great hidden power within me!" Ness called out as he held his hand up and got covered in a rainbow aura with a force that emanated out from him.

"T-that sentence sounded better than mine..." Lucas looked down.

Fox cursed under his breath.

"PK..." Ness seemed to hover above the ground as he was slowly raising himself to the air.

"..." Dark Smithy tried to move his heavy head to the ceiling as the cave began to shine blue from above.

"STARSTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORM!!!"

"Not the same shi-AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!" Dark Smithy's curse got interrupted as an assault of blue meteors that came down sideways impacted on his body. The meteors themselves caused a lot of noise before a last barrage of them came down and hit the blacksmith hard, rendering him from moving his lower body as a result. "No!"

"Whew..." Ness landed back on the ground. "I didn't think I could use PK Starstorm...but I guess I could because I trained with Poo..."

Lucas blushed a little. "Y-you too?"

"..." Ness looked bored at him. "...Oh man, we're clones in terms of Final Smash..."

"Heh," Fox walked to them with a grin. "At least Falco will use his Arwing for his Final Smash and not copy mine, since it won't make any sense for him to use a Landmaster that he has never used before."

A small laugh came behind him.

"What was that laugh for?" Fox asked to Chris with a glare.

"N-nothing..." Chris said with a chuckle.

"GUUUUUUUUARGH!!!" Lucario fired his Aura Sphere at full speed to Dark Smithy...but more accurately, he hit the little space that his eyes were peering out.

"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!" Dark Smithy yelled even more in pain as he started to pant heavily...but in irritation and rage.

"Hu-uah!" Kirby jumped to his head and swung his hammer 2 times in the air. "Hi-yah!" he took out a big cutter and rose it up to later slam it down on Dark Smithy's cage head. "Yiah!" he used a fully charged backflip kick to hit the chin hard, then, he started to fly up high to turn into stone and slam himself down on the top of the cage as he caused the cage to tremble.

"Y-y-y-y-you puffballs are so i-i-i-i-i-i-irritating..." Dark Smithy said dazzled.

"Irritating?" Jigglypuff pouted as she flew to Chris and stood over his head. "Chris, let me show him how irritating we are!"

"...But would you get off my head first?" Chris asked.

"...Nope," she said. "I want to show him what I'm made of."

Sonic grinned and inhaled air before Snake blocked his mouth. "No singing," Snake said with a frown. "I knew you were going to sing."

"Uuuuuuh!" Sonic groaned loudly under his hand.

"Let's start..." Chris said as he played his harp...

"Absorbing Sonata!" Jigglypuff called out before she started to sing a song (on top of Chris's head).

The atmosphere suddenly turned pink and Dark Smithy turned like that color as well before pink auras flew out from his body and went to every single Smasher who recovered their healths fully.

"Aww..." Kirby smiled. "That's much better..."

"How ironic," Geno began. "We're fully recovered while you're about to be finished."

"I-I don't have any way to attack back now..." Dark Smithy said panting.

"Good," Snake said. "Now we can take the f(beep) out of you."

"...But!" Dark Smithy interrupted as he raised some familiar turrets that caused everyone to gasp in shock. "I'll use my special attack one last time!"

"Oh no, no no no no no no!" Sonic shook his head in panic. "I don't wanna die again!"

"We didn't exactly die," Mallow said before he gulped. "W-we were ABOUT to die..."

"Say your last prayers!" Dark Smithy said as he closed his eyes and laughed maniacally. "After all, you weren't able to finish me off!"

The Smashers, however, glared at Dark Smithy and ran straight to the turrets.

"What do you think you're doing now?" Dark Smithy asked before they all jumped over the turrets, stood between the turrets and Dark Smithy and leaned their backs to the guns before they started to shoot bullets crazily. "W-WHAT?!"

"Surprised?" Geno asked with a glare. "We found the blind spot of this ultimate attack."

"B-but when and how did you make such foolish idea?!" Dark Smithy asked as the turrets kept firing at nothing around.

"When you were wondering how to get up," Mario explained. "We whispered our plans and strategies to defeat you."

"And I happened to bring the special attack of yours." Pikachu explained.

"I did." Kirby said.

"Oops."

"We thought you weren't going to use that attack again," Snake began. "But we thought you could use it again on us an-"

"And we tried to think of a way to evade it." Marth added.

"Then we remembered that the turrets never moved to the sides and fired straight," Link said. "And the space between you and these things were big enough to let us in."

"B-but I can still attack yo-" Dark Smithy froze once he tried to move his hammer and gun. "...N-no! M-my body was disabled again!"

"Me did that," said Ness with a chuckle.

It was the moment of the truth...

"And now that we're this close to you..." Geno aimed his rocket punch to Dark Smithy's face. "Say your prayers."

It was almost over...

"N-never!"

They were very close to win the fight...

"Star Spirits!" Chris yelled to call forth the Star Spirits.

Just a final move between everyone to finish Dark Smithy...

"One more time!" Twink said enthusiastically as the 7 stars nodded and called forth Peach Beam as the princess prayed for the beam and the stars.

It was very close now... Smithy was at their mercy...

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" Dark Smithy yelled as the beam came down on him and made the Shadow Bugs disappear. "N-no! I-I must recover, heal myself, anything! R-Recov-"

"It's over!" Geno yelled as the Smashers lunged one last time to Dark Smithy's cage and dealt a strong hit at the same time before Geno fired his rocket fist at Dark Smithy's eyes and...

Music stops

...But something unexpected interrupted the fight.

"Stop right now. This fight is over and Smithy is completely useless as of now."

"...What?" everyone asked in confusion.

Everyone suddenly listened to a deep voice that was coming from somewhere within the cave. The atmosphere around the cave started to feel distortioned as it was replaced by a big space with no floor (although they were able to stand up above no floor but air) and blue stars far away in the distance. The Smashers stood up and looked around the entire space with a shocked Smithy. It looked ominous to some of them...but to others, it looked very familiar...

...Strongly familiar...

"...G-Geno..." Mallow gulped as the sound of winds were heard. "W-what just happened?"

"...I...I don't know..." Geno said as he looked around. "...But...why would this..."

"N-no..." Smithy shook with fear. "N-no! Please, no! Not now! I-I was going t-"

"Speak no more," the deep voice said as the Smashers looked around. "Smithy, you have failed to eliminate them all, but in return, you took them all here to me. I must congratulate you for that."

"W-where's that voice coming from?" Kirby asked as he shivered.

"...Wait," Mario tried to think. "Is it Tabuu?"

"What?!" Pikachu asked shocked and took a quick fighting stance. "W-where?! W-where?!"

"Fear no more," the voice said. "I am not Tabuu and never be him in my existence... I am a different entity of great power."

"P-please, don't do anything to me!" Smithy pleaded. "I-I'm sure I can defeat them if you let m-"

"No," the voice said. "You have lost your chance of this fight and control of your worthless factory as well."

"W-worthless?!" Smithy asked enraged.

"Do you dare to fight me? Very well..."

"...N-no! I-I didn't mean that! Please, spare my life! I beg of you!"

The Smashers looked very confused at Smithy's pleas for mercy to the voice.

"Why is Smithy getting so scared?" Link asked.

"My guess would be the voice," replied Snake with a frown.

"Smithy, you must die now," the voice said. "You have fulfilled your duty in taking them to me. The factory is useless as it is but the deal with Tabuu is still at hand. You must get away from my sight forever...by saying farewell to your life."

"N-no!" Smithy yelled back. "G-give me more time!"

"Time out, then."

A powerful and devastating lightning fell on top of Smithy as he yelled in extreme pain. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! F-FOOLISH IMBECILES...K-KEEP PESTERING TABUU AND YOU WILL...YOU WILL...YOU WILL...UUUUUUUUUUUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!" he screamed in agonizing pain before the thunder disappeared and left no traces of the blacksmith.

"...He's...gone..." Geno said shocked. "...He is finally gone from our lives..."

"...B-but..." Twink gulped and looked around. "W-who did this?"

"Hey, you!" Sonic shouted. "Show your face! We don't like people who hide from us!"

"...GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR..." Lucario growled menacingly at the sudden force that he contacted with his aura, making him show his fangs fully. "GRRRRRRRRRRRR..."

"L-Lucario?" Chris interrupted his furious Pokémon whom he looked with a scared face. "W-why are you making that face?"

Lucario blinked and shook his head before noticing his murderous face. He looked at Chris with an ashamed look. "I-I'm sorry... T-there's a tremendous force in here...and I-I didn't like it at all..."

"We didn't like it either," Snake said. "I mean, this atmosphere with an odd voice destroyed the idiot before us."

"And we can't find that person anywhere." Fox said.

"..." Peach looked down. "D-don't tell me this place is...the one where..."

"...Oh no..." Geno shook his head. "...This place...I-I remember it..."

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"...Y-you can't be talking about...him..." Mario said as he sounded somewhat scared.

"...I'm afraid this is the same place..." Geno looked down. "...We're in..."

"...B-but I thought we...I-I mean, we defeated him before!" Mallow said.

"...But he said he was going to return one day in another different moment..." Peach said. "...I-I wouldn't have thought it would now...not after Smithy was taken down..."

"And he returned..." Mario said. "...He returned at the last moment..."

"H-hey," Ness gulped. "W-would you explain to us what are you keeping us from see what you're trying to mean?"

"Long ago..." Geno explained. "We went to Monstro Town in the Mushroom Kingdom."

"A town where peaceful monsters lived." Peach added.

"The town was very peaceful because the monsters were kind to us."

"B-but when we explored the town by the cliff side..." Mallow gulped. "W-we came across a door that couldn't open..."

"That door had someone on the other side that demanded for a crystal," Mario went on. "There wasn't any crystal close to his description in the Mushroom Kingdom."

"But we figured out that the closest thing to a crystal was..." Geno trailed off.

"...A Shiny Stone that we got from Moleville by a boy," Mallow explained. "...For a set of Fireworks with 500 Coins a piece."

It was completely unnecessary to mention the price of the Shiny Stone.

"Anyway," Geno went on. "Once we showed the door the stone, it suddenly opened and we walked in..."

"But what was on the other side shocked us," Mario went on. "...There was a barren place with dark winds."

"The dark winds were not like like Exor's," Peach explained. "They were purple and fast; almost like if they were going to push you away."

"We walked through the storm and we lost the way back when the door closed." Mallow explained.

"At first, we thought there wasn't anybody in that weird universe..." Geno trailed off.

"...But there was someone..." Mario trailed off. "...And that person was..."

...A big floating figure appeared from the darkness just behind Mario, Mallow, Geno and Peach.

"...U-uah!" Lucas yelled and hid behind a scared Ness with Pikachu, Pichu, Jigglypuff, Twink and Kirby.

"W-what the heck?" Link's eyes widened.

"I've never seen such person before in my life..." Ike said surrpsied.

"So that's the guy!" Sonic said with a glare.

"H-he looks scary..." Pichu muttered.

"I-I know..." Jigglypuff muttered.

"...I have a very bad feeling about this." Fox said as he looked down and glared up at the figure.

"What is he?" Marth asked. "...And what are those..."

"...Be warned," Snake began. "This doesn't look good at all."

"G-got to be brave..." Ness gulped. "G-got to be brave..."

"I-I can stay calm...d-don't panic..." Pikachu gulped.

"Grrrrrrr..." Lucario growled at the figure.

"...N-no..." Chris shook his head. "N-not him...not him...H-he mustn't be him..."

"G-Geno, everyone..." Twink peered from Ness's head. "B-behind you!"

"..." the quartet from the Mushroom Kingdom made shocked looks before they slowly turned around...

"..." Mario looked up. "...It is him..."

"...M-Mario..." Peach walked behind Mario to hide.

"...It's okay..." Mallow said.

"...For now..." Geno muttered.

"So..." the figure spoke. "We were destined to meet each other again...and with more knights as well."

"...It seems you haven't changed at all..." Geno glared up. "...Culex..."

It was revealed the name of the person before them...

The person was some kind of dark knight that didn't have any feet nor he wore clothes. His purple skin was visible as well as his bronze wings that spread out to the sides. A dark aura emanated from his floating body as well as the crystals that were supposed to be his feet as he hovered.

Not only Culex was alone, but he was coming along with 4 different floating crystals: the Earth Crystal, the Water Crystal, the Wind Crystal, and the Fire Crystal.

"W-what are you doing here?" Mallow asked.

"I was waiting for all of you to come here and challenge me to a battle after I arranged the meeting by myself," Culex explained. "I was impressed that you were able to defeat the problems through your path to my dimension."

"W-what do you mean by arranged?" Peach asked.

"I am the one who is in charge of the attack to the city, the factory and Smithy himself."

"...WHAT?!" Geno asked enraged. "Y-you're the one behind all this?!"

"Correct."

"B-but why?!" Geno demanded. "Why did you do all of this?!"

"Because I wanted to challenge more knights," Culex explained. "You seem to have grown stronger than the last time w-"

"So, let me get this straight," Geno tried to summarize the events. "You caused all this whole ordeal with the Star Spirits and endangered the worlds...so you could call us to you to fight? That's what you're trying to say?"

"Yes, affirmative," Culex nodded. "You seem to have proved your strength as knights."

"...Are you out of your skull or what?!" Geno asked furiously. "You ENDANGERED the worlds so you could fight with us?! What the hell was crossing to your mind when you wanted to appear now?! Was Tabuu responsible for this or are you possessed by the Shadow Bugs as well?!"

"...I am not possessed by his bugs," Culex shook his head. "Therefore, my mind is free from his control."

"B-but I don't understand!" Mallow interrupted. "Why did you want to appear? How did Tabuu contact you in the first place?"

"He contacted me through his mind, "Culex explained. "He focused to revive Smithy and his minions from the death. However, he managed to contact me because I was wandering aimlessly around the world of the dead to fight the knights that have passed away."

"Y-you came from the grave?" Sonic asked surprised.

Culex ignored him. "Our meeting was...accidental, should I say..." he looked away. "He wanted to revive Smithy and his minions but not ask me for my help... But all that changed when he said this..."

"What did he say?" Marth asked.

"I am trying to get rid of these fools who have been causing a lot of pain to my army and I cannot tolerate them anymore. I am bringing Exor and Smithy back so they can destroy the city that they live close by," Culex explained more. "Since the city is a metropolis where many people go from their universes, I am going to destroy it so nobody can live there."

"T-that's very twisted..." Pikachu said.

"Furthermore," Culex went on. "He said he would destroy the mansion after he was done with the city."

"But that has a bad order," Link said. "Shouldn't he destroy the mansion first?"

"He thought he would go first for the mansion," Culex said. "But a being of great power that lives in the mansion could make Exor fall in another place because the sword was not fully recovered when it destroyed the Star Road."

"...Why am I thinking he's talking about Master Hand?" Mario said.

"He is." Fox said.

"Instead," Culex went on. "He wanted to test Exor's power and see if it could destroy the city with the boost of power that he gave it."

"And you..." Kirby shuddered.

"...I am a mere dark knight who controls everything here," Culex explained. "A dark knight who wants to fight the strongest knights in my sight right now."

"We're not knights..." Mallow said.

"I think you would have known," Culex shook his head. "Tabuu merely told me to fight you after he told me that the "Smashers" were strong enough to defeat his army. When I heard the word "strong," I decided to ask more."

"...Then you wanted to offer him your help." Geno said.

"Exactly," Culex nodded. "If this was the only way to fight the strongest knights, then I would gladly accept it without regrets."

"...Without...regrets..." Geno repeated bewildered. "...You...imbecile...heartless...idiot..."

"Also," he narrowed his eyes. "I did not think about finding the same knights who have fought me before and defeated me as well. This is very good, indeed."

"W-why?" Peach asked.

"Because I would call this meeting a rematch," he looked at the Smashers. "And all of you would be the reinforcements."

"...So, do you want to fight?" Lucario asked with a glare.

"You stole the words from my mouth," Culex said. "However, I have a warning to you."

"What." Geno asked menacingly.

"Should you fail to defeat me, the city will be obliterated by the machines that were deployed outside," Culex explained. "Meaning you would lose the entire purpose of your mission in this single and simple fight."

"What if we win?" Mallow asked.

"Then I will make the machines disappear with a wave of my hand, open the barrier to the city and make Exor disappear as well... I doubt you can defeat me, though..."

"...Then..." Geno looked at the others. "...This is it..."

"...Please, let be this it." Link prepared his sword.

"The city depends on us..." Chris prepared his wrenches (as he changed to his Hacker job).

"H-here I go..." Pichu stepped out from Ness's back and gulped as the others did the same.

"Let's take that monster down." Snake said.

"Alright! Final bout!" Sonic said with a grin.

"Y-you can do this..." Kirby gulped. "J-just think the crystals are...candies...floating candies..."

"We shall do something about him," Marth said. "Let us fight then."

"..." everyone had to face Geno with many nods of agreement.

"...We agree to your terms," Geno looked up to Culex. "But if we lose, destroy Exor."

"Why?" Culex asked.

"I don't want that sword go anywhere and destroy something else... Please, listen to my suggestion."

"...Very well," Culex nodded. "I do not care about more cities, but as a noble fighter...I will listen and obey that wish. However..." he snapped his fingers and everyone suddenly recovered their healths fully. "Let me heal you before you fight with your full strength. You already decided your cruel destinies... But do not worry about dying. If you were to die, you would wake up in the city...that will be in ruins..."

"...A-are we fighting him?" Chris asked worried.

"And those crystals...what are they?" Ness asked.

"These crystal are parts of myself," Culex said. "They will also fight as well and be careful with them since they are extremely powerful and devastating on their own."

"Ha, sure," Fox said with a chuckle. "You're nothing but a guy who likes to talk a lot."

"I blame you for asking me my intentions and reasons..." Culex prepared. "So, do you think you can defeat me to save this city?"

"...Yes..." Geno said as everyone took fighting stances. "...We're ready for you."

Super Mario RPG - Fight Against Culex

Culex nodded and he started to glow brighter than before as he said, "I am matter... I am antimatter... I can see your past... I can see your future... I consume time..." he opened his hands at them as the crystals spread around him. "And I will consume you!"

"I don't like the looks of this..." Link said.

"Everyone, this will be a harder battle to wi-" Geno was interrupted as the Fire Crystal lowered down and used Corona.

A light beacon came down and greatly caused severe damage to everyone who got in the way of the yellow light before it raised and vanished.

"...N-Ness..." Lucas laid down on the invisible floor. "...I-I can't move..."

"W-what?" Geno asked in shock as almost everyone got wipped out by a single magic attack. "W-why are you all falling down so soon?"

"B-because that magic was...just...too strong..." Mallow said weakly.

The Water Crystal lowered down and it used Solidify to rise up a sheer wind of ice that froze everyone inside icicles that later shattered into pieces, making them yell in serious pain.

"N-NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" Chris yelled before he fainted.

"CHRIS!" Lucario yelled loudly before he showed his fangs in fury to Culex. "GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!"

"Begone." Culex simply moved his hand forward and a psychic force struck Lucario.

"...U-ugh..." Lucario fell to his knees as hi eyes widened before he collapsed.

"W-wait!" Pikachu yelled. "I-it's too soon for you t-"

"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!" Jigglypuff screamed loudly as the Wind Crystal lowered close to them and used Static E! to deal a great amoung of lightning damage to the Pokémon who were pushed to the air and crashed down in pain.

"Dammit, he's already taking all of us out!" Geno said as he saw the Fire Crystal going towards Marth and Link.

"Attack it!" Marth yelled as the 2 prepared to slash the crystal, but it moved and used a small Flame Wall that managed to burn them with severe damage that took both out in a single attack. "W-why...does this...have to happen...to us..." Marth muttered before he collapsed.

"Marth! ...Ugh..." Link lost consciousness and fell down on his back.

"O-oh no..." Peach shivered. "I-I don't want to die..."

"PEACH!" Mario yelled as the Earth Crystal lowered down and used a powerful Water Blast, exploding every single corner of the whole place before a huge blast of water made them crash down to the floor. "...S-sorry...Peach..." Mario muttered weakly before he fainted.

"M-Mario..." Peach muttered with some tears before she sobbed a last time and fainted as well.

"Peach! Mario!" Mallow yelled. "Hold on! I have food right he-"

"Out of my sight." Culex waved his hand in front of him and a psychic force struck Mallow on his neck.

"U-ugh...t-this hurts...so much..." Mallow managed to say before he fainted.

"M-MALLOW!" Geno yelled. "C-curses! T-this isn't going well at all!"

"The green crystal!" Ness yelled before the Wind Crystal used Lightning Orb and shot the sphere to Kirby who screamed loudly in pain before he lost consciousness.

"...I-I want...to eat..." Kirby said with a sob before he fainted.

"KIRBY!" Pikachu yelled before he showed his small fangs to Culex. "You...bastard!"

"I-I don't think you need to enrage him more..." Lucas gulped in fear as Culex raised his hands.

"DARK STAR!" Culex called forth a big black angry Starman that crashed on Pikachu and Kirby as it bounced several times on thme before bouncing away.

"...C-Claus..." Lucas muttered weakly before he fainted.

"I-I-I was so reckless...ugh..." Pikachu curled himself and fainted.

"T-this is just stupid..." Fox said as he tried to stay with hopes in winning the fight.

"BEHIND YOU!" Twink yelled.

"Hu-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!" Fox yelled in extreme pain as the Fire Crystal used Flame Wall and burned his back with extreme burn marks before the vulpine fell down in defeat. "...E-everyone...I...was an idiot...ugh..."

"O-oh no, help!" Ness panicked as he saw the Earth Crystal using Sandstorm to create winds full of sands that made all of them evern weaker as they embraced themselves. "I-I-I want to leave now..."

"H-hold on..." Snake shivered. "W-we can still..."

"Farewell." Culex moved his hand and Snake felt a sharp pain damaging him from inside his body that he grabbed his stomach and knelt down.

"...N-no..." Snake muttered before he collapsed and lost consciousness.

"Snake, Snake! D-do you copy me?!" Mei Ling asked in panic. "Snake? Snake?! SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!!! ...N-no..." she sobbed.

"O-Oh hell no, man!" Sonic backed away. "I-I'm not going to die in here!"

"Then make a run for it!" Dark Super Sonic yelled as the hedgehog obeyed and tried to run away before a psychic attack struck down his back to the floor. "Imbecile..."

"This is...so lame..." Sonic said before he closed his eyes and fell down on his back defeated.

"..." Geno and Twink could only watch in horror as every single Smasher was taken out with a few hits. "...W-why..." Geno asked as he slowly shook his head.

"...I-I'm fine here..." Jigglypuff said as she barely was able to stand up.

"H-here too..." Pichu, Ike and Ness said as they shivered with fear because of the sandstorm's effect.

"Fools..." Culex said as the crystals disappeared. "And here I thought you were worthy to fight with..." he disappeared in a portal of darkness. "It is time to finish this nonsense..."

"...Oh no..." Geno muttered as the space began to shook itself violently. "R-resist whatever comes to our way!"

"LOOK OUT!" Ike yelled loudly as the Fire Crystal came out from beneath them and extended a floor with extreme heat that made them yell in pain. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!" Ike yelled loudly before he fainted.

"I-IKE!" Ness yelled as the crystal dug itself away before the Wind Crystal was slammed down to the floor and created many tornadoes that spread quickly around the place, causing severe wind damage to the remaining Smashers. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!" Ness screamed in extreme pain before he lost consciousness and crashed to the floor.

"N-N-NESS!!!" Pichu yelled before the Wind Crystal was replaced by the Earth Crystal and caused many stalagmites to rise up from the ground and hit Pichu, Jigglypuff and Geno. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" Pichu cried out in extreme pain before he came down a stalagmite and fainted on the floor.

"P-PICHU!!! O-o-o-oh no..." Jigglypuff made a worried face before the Water Crystal came from the sky and became stuck on the floor as it created several waves of icicles that rose out from the floor and cut the doll and the Pokémon through their sharps spikes. "HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP!" Jigglypuff pleaded as she cried silently and fainted.

"...W-we're..." Geno fell to his knees while Twibk came out from his cape. "...We're done for..."

"G-Geno!" Twink cried. "W-we can't lose yet! ...N-not like this!"

"I am afraid it is the end for you," Culex said as he appeared above the fainted and defeated Smashers. "For you 2 as well."

"S-stop!" Twink pleaded as he flew to Culex to slam himself on his head. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!"

"TWINK!" Geno yelled as he held his hand to the Star Kid. "DON'T DO IT!"

"Worthless knights..." Culex's hands glowed dark as he raised them. "FEEL MY WRATH!!! ULTIMAGA!!!"

Ultimaga

An enhanced version of Ultima that is comparable to a supernova. Deals insane damage along with chaos and destruction to everything in sight.

The floor shook even more violently than before as a black hole appeared on the center of the Smashers and started to grow in a huge size. Twink stopped and looked down in shock as the black hole started to grew bigger faster. "A-AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!" Twink tried to run away but the black hole eventually caught him.

"N-no..." Geno muttered as the black hole started to reach him. "...No...no no no no no NO NO NO NO NO NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" Geno yelled loudly as the black hole reached him and pulled him inside the antimatter sphere that levitated everyone off the ground.

"...It is the end..." Culex said.

Music stops

An insanely huge black explosion engulfed the whole universe and everything in it as the shadows of Culex and the crystals were seen from within the supernova. The Smashers were flung away to different directions as they disappeared from sight in the devastated universe.

"..." Culex closed his eyes as he snapped his fingers. "As I promised, you will be healed completely after the city gets destroyed along with Exor... But be aware that you will not awake together..." he turned around with his crystals and disappeared in the darkness. "...I will wait for your next visit... Until then, become stronger....knights..."

Nintendo City

"D-dood..." a Prinny that was left behind shuddered in fear as the machines that were inside the buildings started glowing brightly. "T-they're not going to blow up, are they, d-dood?"

His wish proved to be wrong as the machines started to create a massive chain reaction of explosions around the city that destroyed every single building in sight. The Prinny's beak opened wide as he tried to run away from the explosions but unfortunately got caught in one and was tossed to the air and disappeared in the sky...

Exor could be seen spinning his eyes back as his mouth hung wide open while he started to vanish along with the barrier. The explosions managed to reach outside the barrier and cause a big event of red lights with a lot of smoke that floated up to the darkest night as the clouds continued to make rain...

From a distance, the explosions were able to be seen as the Smash Mansion was shown...

...After all of this...

...The Smashers...who have been working hard to save the city...

...Despite their efforts...

...Failed to save it...

...

TO BE CONTINUED...

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Geno Saga's Epilogue:
Apology From A Devoted Star

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Nintendo City: The City of Despair
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 130: Apology From A Devoted Star

Subspace
Deep Inside the Great Maze

"..." Tabuu, who was watching the whole event from the Subspace, kept staring at the devastation of the city while the 4 minions just stared at him without any trace of emotions such as joy or something else.

"...Not gonna say anythin'?" Dedede asked.

"Culex managed to accomplish his task," Ganondorf said. "Why are you not pleased for that?"

"..."

The 4 looked at each other before Charizard spoke. "Sooooooo...what are you going to do now?"

"What will WE do?" Bowser asked.

"...Culex," Tabuu muttered. "...Come here."

His call was answered as Culex and his crystals appeared in front of him. "I did what you told me. But they were not strong enough to land a scratch on me."

"Culex, why did not you finish them? You had them where I wanted them to be," Tabuu said with a tone of annoyance. "Why letting them live? You did that so they could stop me?"

"Even if my looks suggest evil ideas, I am not a cheater when it comes down to fighting," Culex explained. "You knew that very well the moment we met."

"You let them live because you are an honorable knight or some foolishness like that?"

"For you it is foolishness, but for me is nobility to my opponents," Culex explained. "I doubt anyone here has nobility at all."

"I'm sort of noble," Charizard said before the others snickered. "Hey!"

"My point was explained," Culex said. "I am sorry if your wishes were not fulfilled like you wanted, but thanks to you, I managed to find some potential knights to fight against."

"I guess you are not going to cooperate with me again." Tabuu said.

"No, not anymore," Culex said. "I will await them behind a door like I did last time..."

"Then get out of here," Tabuu said with a glare. "I cannot tolerate seeing your disgusting face around, and that also includes your crystals."

"I knew you were a harsh leader the moment I saw your face...or through it." Culex said as he disappeared into the darkness with his crystals, leaving Tabuu grunting annoyed. "Whatever you do, let them live enough so they can face me."

"...You are not someone who can tell me what to do..." Tabuu muttered before he looked down with a sigh.

"..." The Ancient Minister floated to him. "Lord Tabuu, what are your next orders? Should we invade another world?"

"...I need to think about our next movements..." Tabuu said before he teleported away.

"Listen," the Ancient Minister began as he turned to the 4. "There is only one last person to recruit here and I want Bowser to do the task."

"What person?" Bowser asked.

"The fat and greedy one."

"...If he doesn't fart, then I'll go and get him here..." Bowser said before he stomped away.

"You 3 will stay here in the meantime," the Ancient Minister said. "I have...other matters to attend to..."

"..." Ganondorf narrowed his eyes at the Ancient Minister as he flew away to the darkness. "...Something is afoot with him...I know it..."

"Care to tell what you're mutterin'?" Dedede asked.

"None of your business," Ganondorf said as he turned and walked away. "I have my own matters to attend to as well. I will see you buffoons later."

"...Hey!" Charizard yelled as the lord of all evil disappeared. "Dedede is the only buffoon here!"

Albeit to say, this argument started a fight between the penguin and the dragon...

Smash Mansion
Dawn's Room

The rain seemed to fall hard to the grass outside. It was a morning with pure rain as the sounds of it echoed through the vast extension of trees and the facilities of the mansion.

Inside the female trainer's room, there were Red, Dawn, Lucas (the trainer), Squirtle, Ivysaur and Barry laying down on the floor as they slept.

They probably felt asleep after talking about Pokémon all the night and...

...Wait, what's that bottle of beer doing under Barry's right arm?

"..." Dawn let out a yawn as she put a hand close to her mouth...and spotted the beer. "KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!" she screamed loudly enough to wake up anyone in the floor they were in.

"WHAT?! WHAT?! WHAT?!" Red, Lucas and Barry woke up in panic as Squirtle and Ivysaur got startled and looked around in panic.

"B-Barry! H-how could you!" Dawn yelled as she slapped Barry hard.

"Oww! What was that for?!" Barry asked.

Dawn pointed down. "Oh, I don't know? The fact you're too young to be drinking that fuzzy thing?"

"...Hey..." Barry bent down and picked the beer. "...Dawn, you were looking at it at the wrong side," he turned the bottle around and it had another different layer that said...

Tropius's Punch

That Banana is SURELY not real Tropius's Bananas!

"...B-but why was the backside like that?" Dawn asked.

Barry turned it around...

Haunter's Water

It is NOT what you think it is!
Warning: Could be Haunter's...er...water from its tongue...

"Dunno," Barry said as he tossed back the "beer" away to the window (that was closed and got shattered). "Anyway, what do ya wanna do today?"

"...Repair my window..." Dawn said in irritation as she stared outside in anger.

"Heheheheh..." Lucas laughed nervously as he tried to calm down her companion from hurting Barry. "I-I think we slept too late and we slept on the floor by accident..."

"W-well..." Red took out his new Pokédex. "This one is surely far more advanced than Professor Oak's Pokédex for sure..."

"Just remember how to use it, pal." Barry said.

Red blushed embarrassed. "I-I'm going to, and I know how, thank you very much..." he rolled his eyes.

"...Hey," Lucas cut out the 3 as he walked to the window and looked outside. "It's raining a lot, don't you think?"

"Yeah," Barry nodded. "We could take advantage of the rain and... Dawn! Get the shampoo!"

Dawn blushed embarrassed. "A-are you nuts?! I-I'm not going to take a bath outside..." she looked at the 3. "L-let alone with 3 guys!"

"Pfft..." Barry rolled his eyes.

Squirtle and Ivysaur decided to stay away from Barry's self. Surely, nobody would resist his mind for even a second.

"Barry, shut up," Lucas said before he sighed. "What do we do today? We can't battle under this condition with the weather."

"But my Floatzel will soooooooo own Dawn's Piplup under the rain!" Barry said excited. "Dawn!"

"No way!" Dawn shook her head. "I'm not going to fight out and catch a cold either just because you want to!"

While the 3 were talking, Red went to his Pokémon on the bed and knelt to talk to them. "Hey, you guys think they're done fighting?" Red whispered.

"I think so..." Squirtle whispered. "They wouldn't fight all the night."

"Yeah," Ivysaur nodded. "I think we should..."

"...Oh, right," Red looked at the 3. "We still have to keep an eye on them."

"6 eyes." Squirtle corrected.

"That doesn't matter," Red looked over his shoulder to the 3. "We have to maintain them out of the others until they leave."

"This is going to be so hard..." Ivysaur sighed.

"But they're trainers and I wanted to meet some," Red said before he stood up. "Besides, you're going to enjoy fighting their Pokémon."

"...I guess..." the 2 whispered in unison.

"(But...)" Red thought as he looked outside. "(...What are they doing now?)"

Nintendo City: The City of Despair

...In this big and enormous area...

...Nothing seemed normal...

The rain seemed to be eternal in this place, full of destroyed buildings with bricks and glasses scattered all over the place. Long small rivers moved through the small holes of the remaining buildings that also were wrecked. No life was found roaming about the lonely streets as the mist from the clouds descended and covered the entire city in ruins...

...It was unbelievable that a city so big like Nintendo City would get obliterated in one night...and no one was found in there, since its citizens evacuated and would never return to see the once-beloved city in ruins...

On a street's corner...

...There laid Geno as he was shown fainted...

Final Fantasy IX - Kingdom of Burmecia

"..." Geno could feel the rain's drops touching his wooden face, and even his cape which was getting wet. "..." he couldn't say anything after what he witnessed before his eyes...

"(Was all of this...in vain?)" Geno thought. "(All the work we did...was for nothing?)" he questioned himself. "(...Or...did our work...get paid with...this?)" he slowly opened his eyes. "(...The work got paid...with destruction?)"

The doll started to groan silently as he slowly sat up and shook his head. "...Culex kept his promise..." Geno looked at a big mark that was supposedly Exor's place. "...Exor disappeared along with the factory..." he looked around. "...And the city as well... What the..." he ran to a location and found someone. "...Twink?"

"...G-Geno?" Twink asked as he opened his eyes. "...What happened?"

"...Get up and see..." Geno said depressed.

The Star Kid floated up and looked around. "...Oh no..."

"...I'm afraid we failed..." Geno looked down. "...Dammit! All of this for nothing!"

"Geno!" Twink turned to him. "At least we..."

"What? At least we rescued the Star Spirits and got rid of Exor? That's what you're trying to say?"

"Y-yes..."

"Well, look!" he opened his arms and walked around. "We promised to save this city and...this happened!"

"..." Twink made a worried look.

"I mean, you would be like me if all the work you have done suddenly got halted by a big random antimatter guy that just wanted a freaking invitation to fight us!" Geno yelled. "...Dammit..."

"..." Twink flew close to Geno. "...I-I know how mad you are... I know how you feel....b-but I don't know how to calm you down to your normal self..."

"..." Geno looked at him. "...Wait...have I been...this furious before?"

"...I...think so..." Twink looked away. "You've been a little angry ever since we got inside Exor...but honestly..."

Geno blinked confused.

"..." Twink turned to him. "...I think you've been like this some other times before we even got inside Exor..."

Geno's eyes widened.

"...And to the others as well..."

Geno looked down.

"...You were always focused on rescuing the Star Spirits that you didn't have a chance to spend the time with anyone...but just a little..." he looked down in depression. "...Very little..."

"..." Geno looked away and walked forward before stopping. "...Twink..."

"...Yes?"

"...Have I been wasting time?"

"In?"

"...In not spending time with the people I fought with..." Geno looked to the sky. "...I'm such an idiot for not enjoying a little bit of my time here..."

"W-well, you did enjoy being with Mario, Peach and Mallow, didn't you?"

"But only them," he turned to him. "Not any of the Smashers themselve... Well, at least I talked with Chri-"

"Because he holds the power of the Star Spirits," Twink smiled a little. "He used Peach Beam so many times and that counts as his calls for their help. He remembered after all."

"...Just him..." Geno said. "...And nobody else for that matter..."

"..." Twink made a worried look. "...Y-yes..."

"...Curse myself..." Geno muttered as the rain kept going.

"...Why don't you apologize?"

"Apologize? Why now?" Geno looked at him. "It's too late, isn't it?"

"That's not true," Twink shook himself. "We still have time to spend the time together with the others before we return to Star Haven and..." he looked down. "...Leave them for good..."

"...Maybe there's still a chance..." Geno muttered. "...But how will I spend the time with them? I don't know what to talk about."

"Rude," he shook again. "You don't have to talk about something."

"Then what do I need?"

"You have to stay together!"

"I'm afraid I don't understand what you're trying to say..."

"Look, just stay with someone together and you'll see what I mean... For now..." the Star Kid looked around. "I think we need to find them..."

"Yes..." Geno looked around the destroyed city. "...It's going to be hard with all this mist, the rain and the wrecked buildings, but we must do this..."

"...This rain seems eternal to me for some reason..." Twink said as they began to move forward through the mist.

"..................doooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!"

Both of them stopped before someone came from the sky and crashed just in front of them, creating a lot of dust due to the street breaking a little.

Twink flew behind Geno who was covering his eyes with his right arm. "Ugh, what now?" Geno asked.

"...Dood..." a voice...or let's just said the same Prinny who was blasted off to the sky said weakly as the dust cleared out. "T-that wasn't a first class flight for sure, dood..."

When the dust cleared out, Twink and Geno looked down and found the Prinny's head stuck on the floor. "...Wait, isn't he one of Etna's Prinny Squad?" Twink asked.

"Wait, what, dood?!" the Prinny asked before he struggled to get out and finally did what he wanted. "How do you know about Lord Etna, dood?"

"Because we know her," Geno said. "But I thought you left to her world with all of the others..."

"...Wait, she left, dood?" the Prinny asked. "Aw, no, dood!"

"But I thought she took every single Prinny with her," Twink said. "Why didn't you go with her?"

"I..." the Prinny shifted his eyes. "...Felt very asleep..."

"...You felt asleep?" Geno asked.

"Yeah, dood," the Prinny blushed a little. "I've been sleeping here ever since Lord Etna and the Prinny Squad came to the city," he closed his eyes in relief. "Boy, I was so relieved when I first went to my bed... I dreamed abou-"

"Can you skip that part and get to the point?" Geno asked.

"W-well..." the Prinny looked around. "W-when I woke up, I found the apartment half destroyed by this huge blade that appeared out of nowhere and..." he pointed to the building where a single bed was on the third floor of the apartment where Etna and his Prinnys once resided. "Look! There's my room, dood!"

"My god," Twink blinked surprised. "That room was left intact because it looks new..."

"Pure luck, huh, dood?" the Prinny asked. "Dreams are sure useful to stay safe at all times, dood."

"Er, anyway, what are you doing here?" Geno asked.

"Well, I already told you," the Prinny said. "I felt asleep for a very loooooooong time, dood."

"Or you just kept awakening and closed your eyes right after so you could fall asleep." Twink said.

"..." the Prinny closed his eyes. "Weeeeeeeell...that too, dood."

"At least it's a miracle you survived," Geno said. "It was pure luck of you."

"Oh, that's right," the Prinny opened his eyes. "Where's Lord Etna?"

"In the Netherworld."

"What?!" the Prinny's beak opened in shock. "Dood, she was supposed to take me along with everyone else!"

"But you stayed behind here," Twink said. "You kind of made this happen to you."

"Aw, man, dood!" the Prinny looked down. "I shouldn't have slept for too long, but that dream wit-"

"Look, if you want, we can take you back to her," Geno said. "Chris knows how though..."

"Huh?!" the Prinny looked up. "Y-you know the way to Lord Etna?! Oh, thank you so much, dood! She would skin me alive if she knows she's missing me in the squad!"

"...Yes, she would." Twink said.

Prinny temporarily joined your team, dood!

"Anyway..." Geno looked around. "We need to find everyone here..."

"Why?" Prinny (that's right, that's his name) asked. "I thought nobody else survived the explosion in here...or did I miss something important, dood?"

And so, the duo explained everything that happened to Prinny as they walked through the rain, mist, and destroyed wreckage of the buildings around them.

"Oh," Prinny nodded. "So ALL that happened while I was asleep?"

"Pretty much," Twink said with a worried face. "It's so sad..."

"I know..." Geno looked away.

"Aw, dood," Prinny looked down as they walked. "I'm such an idiot for sleeping that long, dood. I hope Lord Etna doesn't kill me because if she does..." he gulped.

"But," Twink began as he tried to change the topic. "Where could they be?"

"They're alive, we know that," Geno said. "But they must be close to where we are..."

"And speaking of that," Twink looked forward. "I found someone."

"Really?" Geno asked as he looked forward with Prinny.

"..."

There was Peach looking down at the street as she was sitting down a big block of cement. She sighed in depression before the 3 walked to her.

Peach looked up and she blinked for a moment before smiling a little. "Oh, you're okay."

"And so do you," Twink smiled and floated besides. "I would be sad if you were...oh, forget it."

Peach hugged Twink a little. "Thank goodness we were able to reunite again."

"At least us," Geno said. "We still have to look for the others as well. Have you looked around?"

"I..." Peach looked down. "...I've been sitting here just to see if someone could find me...and you did."

"Well, a work well done, dood!" Prinny said proudly of himself. "Dood, I'm tired..."

"We just found one," Geno frowned. "We still have like 10 or more to find."

"And..." Peach tilted her head to the Prinny. "Who might you be?"

"I'm Sargent 100% Awesome Prinny, dood." Prinny said proudly.

"Or just Prinny." Twink said.

"Dood..." Prinny closed his eyes and frowned. "Everyday is a new day for humiliation to me, dood."

Peach tried to chuckle a little, but she couldn't. "Oh, nice to meet you, I guess..."

After an introduction...

The 5 started their way around the city as they looked around for the others. Unfortunately, they weren't able to find anyone...

...But something else was happening at another side of the city in ruins...

"...U-ugh..." Chris grumbled. "...W-where...am I? ...L-Lucario?"

"Oh, you're fine after all... Thank goodness."

The World Traveler slowly opened his eyes to see a blur. The blur cleared out overtime before it revealed to be Lucario holding him on his arms and inside a building to keep away from the rain.

"...Lucario!" Chris smiled a little and hugged the aura wielder. "T-thank you for being close to me! I-I was a little afraid to wake up without anyone here..."

Lucario smiled and put Chris's feet on the ground as he embraced him with his right arm. "It's fine now. I woke up first than you to look around for you."

Chris stopped hugging him and looked at him. "Then I'm glad you wanted to find me first... To be honest, I'm relieved to see you again."

"Me too."

The World Traveler blinked before he looked around. "...Where are we?"

"In the city..." Lucario looked down. "...We failed..."

"..." Chris could only put a worried face as he walked out of the building in ruins and found endless rain and mist around all the buildings before Lucario came out of the building. "...This..."

"...We failed after all..." Lucario said. "All our work...leaded us to this result..."

"..." Chris looked down. "...I can't believe this... It's so hard to believe..." he whispered.

"I'm very angry for this," Lucario said. "But seeing how the city was destroyed...it calms me down for some reason..."

"Because there's just a dead silence here..." Chris looked at him. "If Culex didn't appear, none of this would have happened...right?"

"Yes..." Lucario looked at him and knelt down. "I'm sorry."

"For what?" Chris asked confused.

"I wasn't strong enough to land a single hit on him or the crystals," Lucario closed his eyes and looked down. "I failed you...didn't I?"

"O-o course not..." Chris knelt down and looked at Lucario. "We were all powerless...or pushovers to Culex and his crystals..."

"To tell the truth..." Lucario looked at him. "...My aura hasn't been the same, Chris."

"What?" Chris asked confused. "What do you mean by that?"

"This is going to sound embarrassing for being the "Legendary Lucario" but...my aura isn't the same as it used to be before..."

"Don't tell me it's trying to leave you or something..." Chris trailed off worried.

"No," Lucario stood up. "I think it's decreasing because I need to fight more and train harder to keep it at its normal level. Right now, I can carry you like this."

The aura wielder grabbed Chris and put him above his right arm to lift him above. Chris's eyes widened after Lucario was carrying him with just his right arm.

"W-well, you seem to be very strong..." Chris looked down at Lucario. "Your arm is as hard as a brick."

"But still, I feel a little struggle to keep you up," Lucario said as he put Chris back down. "...But fortunately, I know what to do."

"Fight? Meditate?" Chris asked.

"Not that..." Lucario thought for a moment. "...Chris, when we return to the mansion, can you let me go to the Valley of the Aura?"

"With your family?" Chris asked.

"Yes. The only way to "recharge" my aura is to train in that specific place for a time. I'm going to spend my time there so I can resonate with my aura better because as I am now...I can't detect people within 10 kilometers anymore."

"...For a time..." Chris repeated as a whisper.

"Don't worry," Lucario reassured him. "It won't be too long before a mission starts, if a mission even starts that is..."

"...Well..." Chris looked at him. "...I'll think about it, okay?"

"It's fine."

"As for now..." the World Traveler looked around. "...What do we do now? Look for the others?"

"That was exactly what I had in mind...but without my aura..."

"It's okay," Chris shook his head. "You can use it to at least get a radius of 1km, right?"

Lucario nodded as he glowed and walked forward. "Yes, I can use it," he said.

"Good." Chris began to walk close to his Pokemon through the mist...

"...I sense someone..." Lucario interrupted.

"Where?" Chris asked in hopes to find someone.

"Right over there," the aura wielder said as he point at a telephone post. "I can identify Ness."

"Ness! Ness!" In an instant, Chris became happy to find their first person. "Ness!"

The 2 of them ran to the PK kid, who was trying to search for something in his pockets. When the 2 reached him, Ness seemed to look sad for some reason...

"...Ness?" Chris asked confused. "Are you...crying?"

"J-just a minute..." Ness sniffed as he took out a cent and inserted inside the telephone boot. The kid took the phone and dialed a number.

"What is he doing?" Chris asked.

"I don't have a clue..." Lucario said.

Their talk was interrupted as the phone picked up a confirming sound of someone answering it. The person who answered was...

"Dad?" Ness asked as he sniffed.

"Oh, hello, my boy," came a deeper voice from the other side. "How have you been?"

Ness sniffed. "B-bad..."

"...Listen, son..." his dad sighed. "There are times in your life where fights are going to be just too much for you to handle."

"Y-yes..." Ness sniffed.

"This time is one of them. You must gather your courage and train harder in order to achieve you goals. I have told you from time to time that you mustn't surrender, ever."

"Y-yeah..."

"My boy, what you need to do is...be a man."

"...Uh-huh..."

"Then, what are you going to do from here onwards?"

"B-be a man...and train harder everyday..." Ness replied.

"Good, good..." his dad said with a chuckle. "That's my boy, the same as myself..."

Chris wiped a tear as Lucario looked at him. "I-I miss my own dad..."

Lucario put his right arm above Chris's shoulders. "You'll see him soon enough...someday."

"By the way," his dad continued. "I deposited $453,548,224,999,485,322,543,432,134,866,435,325,231,645,678 to your bank account so you can draw money out whenever you want."

"...Where in the heck does his dad work at?" Chris asked utterly shocked.

"Oh, and 3 cents," his dad said. "Be strong, my boy."

"Y-yeah, thanks, dad." Ness said as he wiped his tears and smiled a little.

"Well, then, I have to go back to work. My boss is going to kill me if he catches me like this. Good luck, Ness..."

Ness nodded. "Bye, dad. Thank you for making me feel more comfortable."

"Always there for you... Crap, there's my boss. Gotta go now. Bye."

And the telephone call ended with several beeps as the PK kid put the phone back in the booth.

"...Aaaaaaaaaw!" Ness sighed out loud. "Man, I feel so much better after talking to my dad... You guys were listening to me?" Ness asked.

"Ever since you put the cent inside the booth." Lucario said.

"Oh..." Ness replied with a low tone. "...What are you doing then?"

"Looking for everyone else."

"Oh, right," Ness said as he looked around. "It's a real shame that this happened. I mean, I used to come here very often when it wasn't in ruins."

"Please don't remind me about what happened here..." Chris said ashamed.

"I know, sorry," Ness said with a nod. "Anyway, since you're looking for the others, why don't we stick together? Separating is a bad idea now."

"I agree." Lucario said.

"Well, let's resume our current task," Chris said before he looked forward.

...But something caught his eye.

"...What in the world..." Chris muttered.

"What is it?" Ness asked.

"..." Chris only pointed forward.

Lucario and Ness looked at each other before looking at Chris's direction. Both of them blinked surprised as they spotted something out of the ordinary. What they found surely wasn't in the city before the destruction.

"...Say, since when temples were part of cities?" Ness asked.

There was a big temple that seemed to be in ruins across the street they were in. The temple had several vines sprouting out from the cement.

"I-I don't even think this was here before..." Chris said.

"Lucario, can you see what is inside if there is anybody?" Ness asked.

Lucario nodded and glowed with his aura for several seconds before stopping. "...There's an ominous air inside...but there are no enemies either. It's safe to explore it but maybe I'm mistaking."

"...Well," Ness began as he looked around. "I bet there's a better shelter inside than all the buildings out here. Should we go?"

Chris sneezed. "P-please..."

"...Who is there?" Ness asked as he heard footsteps coming from behind them.

Link, Kirby and Jigglypuff appeared and they stopped walking once they found the other trio.

"Oh, it's you, guys," Link said. "Good thing we found you."

"Brr!" Jigglypuff felt chills on her back. "This rain is just annoying! With all this mist you would think you can find anyone by going through."

"But we did." Kirby pointed out.

"Oh well, that's true."

"Anyway," Link began. "Are you looking for the others as well?"

"Yes, we are," Ness said. "To be honest, we just started."

"Man..." Link sighed before looking at the buildings. "I kind of mad after we lost to that Culex guy in that battle..."

"We were so powerless...right?" Jigglypuff asked worried.

"I'm afraid so..." Lucario said. "...But we shouldn't feel ashamed right now. First we need to find everyon-"

"What is that?" Link asked as pointed forward. "That looks like a temple to me."

"We were planning to go inside to find shelter from the rain," Chris said. "Maybe you can come with us?"

"I-if there's shelter, then I'm in!" Jigglypuff said as she ran towards the temple.

"...You heard her. Let's go in!" Ness suggested as he ran towards the temple before the others followed (with Chris picking up Kirby as they made their way inside).

Several miles away...

"..."

There was an unconscious Sonic laying down on the middle of the street before he sneezed and woke up.

He opened his eyes and blinked for a moment. "...Oh man..."

He sat up before getting up. Sonic put a hand on his hip and looked around. "Damn that Culex dude... Hey, wait a minute..." Sonic looked at his hands. "Oh, what a relief. That curse is gone for now... Wait, how did I get my gloves back? They were ripped apart when my hands grew big... Then again, who cares? Hey, you, are you there?"

He tried to call Dark Super Sonic, but there was no response.

"...I think he can call me only during night...and that reminds me..." Sonic thought for a moment. "...Crap, today I will... No! I won't be manipulated by that guy, never!"

"What guy is that?"

"This wacko who wants to turn me into a monster. He's inside my mind but nobody knows about thi-" Sonic stopped talking as he found Marth and Ike looking down at him with confused looks. "...I-in my dreams, of course!"

"...Seriously?" Ike questioned.

"Would I lie to you guys?" Sonic asked with a smile. "I mean, we're buddies, right? I'd never lie to you!"

"Yes," they said.

"Awesome!"

"We meant that you would lie to us." Marth said.

Sonic sweatdropped. "...T-this is not a lie, seriously..."

"...Whatever," Marth said with a frown. "So Sonic, have you found anyone?"

"I just woke up."

"Oh, I see," Marth said with a nod. "Since we have to regroup, we should stay together until we find someone."

"...Does that mean I have to stick with you without running and just walk?"

"I believe so..." Ike said.

"(Damn you). Cool."

"That's another lie right there." Marth said.

"Oh, c'mon!"

"Well, why don't we start?" Ike asked.

"Good idea." Marth said.

Sonic rolled his eyes before they started...walking, what Sonic hates the most.

"There you are!" Mallow came from an alley and made Ike back away. "I was looking all over for you!"

"W-would you stop appearing like that? You made my heart stop for a moment..." Ike said.

"Whoopsie."

[DededeCloneChris]

"At least we found you," Marth said. "That's all that matters."

"Aw, that's so sweet." Mallow said.

"...Sure," Marth shrugged. "Let's see, where should we go to?"

"North, that's where the mansion is, right?" Sonic asked.

"I doubt we know the directions because the sun isn't visible because of all the clouds up there," Marth said as he looked up to the sky. "This is going to be a lot harder that I thought it would be."

"..." Mallow looked away and found someone. "Hey, there's Fox!"

The trio turned around and found the vulpine knocked out inside a building...

...That was going to collapse.

"Sonic!" Marth yelled and the hedgehog quickly went for the Smasher before the building could collapse. Sonic returned in time to them as they watched the building collapsing.

Sonic tumbled at the sides. "O-oh, great. He had to be taller and heavier than me..."

The hedgehog fell down on his back, triggering Fox's awakening.

"..." Fox shook his head and opened his eyes. "...You guys?"

"Let me give you instructions," Sonic muttered beneath Fox. "Get off me, then greet me."

Fox scratched his forehead before he got off from Sonic, who got up and wiped out the water from his face.

"Well, I'm glad I'm safe as all of you," Fox said. "But..." he looked around. "...Damn..."

"We all feel the same way," Mallow said. "I-I mean..."

"Let's not remember our gruesome experiences right now," Marth suggested. "We should find the others so we can see what our next objective is."

"Repair the city?" Sonic asked.

"Unless we have a 1 and next too many zeroes in our wallets, then yes," Mallow said. "You look rich. Spare me some money, okay?"

Fox looked annoyed at him.

"Is that a no?"

After a while, they started their way...somewhere.

Back with Geno's group...

"Hmmm..." Geno thought for a moment. "Where could they be?"

"Everywhere," Twink replied. "This city had to be big enough to make anyone get lost in an instant. Isn't there a map? There should be one around here!"

"Like that one, dood?" Prinny asked as he pointed at a city map that had its own board.

"Oh, thank goodness! I forgot there were city maps spread around the city." Peach said as they walked to the city map. "...Hmm...it says here we're..."

"...Good, we're close to the mansion's way," Geno said. "I doubt Culex made us appear far away from each other so the other could be close to us."

"And you're right," Pikachu said as he jumped above the board and looked down at them. "Hell-o, you guys."

Pichu jumped right next to him. "Aw, thank Arceus we found you!"

Pichu jumped to Peach and she hugged him and grabbed her with her arms as Pikachu jumped back to the floor. "We woke up close to each other and we decided to look around for everyone. Good thing we you..." Pikachu looked at Prinny. "...What's this guy doing here?"

"Dood," Prinny closed his eyes. "Etna left me behind, dood."

"..." Pikachu looked bored before he looked at Geno. "By the way, since Exor and Smithy are gone again, are you going t-"

"I'll talk about that later once we return to the mansion," Geno said. "Right no-"

Music stops

"Shh!!!" Prinny interrupted.

A silence fell in as the 5 looked at him.

"Why did you interrupt me?" Geno said.

"Dood, we shouldn't talk out loud or else they will find us..." Prinny whispered.

"They?" Twink repeated.

"Can you make sense next time? We're not guessers!" Pikachu said.

"S-shh!!" Prinny kept saying.

"Okay, why do we have to stay silent?"

"B-because..." Prinny looked around. "W-well, they're not here after all..."

"Just say it already!" Geno yelled.

"Stop!" Peach yelled as she sat down and petted the Prinny's head. "He's panicked because you're making him feel uncomfortable!"

"U-ugh..." Geno looked down.

"Now..." Peach looked at Prinny. "What are you trying to say? They won't hurt you, I promise."

"..." Prinny sighed in relief. "Jackpot, dood. There are good people out there in the world after all..."

"Ahem." Pikachu coughed.

"Whoops, sorry," Prinny said before he coughed. "Okay, now that I'm relaxed, I'm going to tell you a scaaaaaaaaary discovery..."

"Discovery?" Pichu repeated.

"Yeah, dood," Prinny said with a nod. "When I woke up yesterday before the explosion occurred, I found some rather scary creatures...or monsters roaming some streets, dood..."

"The machines you mean?" Geno asked.

"E-er, no, dood. Those creatures were not machines..." Prinny gulped. "T-they looked rather hideous, dood. They had black bodies with odd blue and red outlines around their shoulders and legs, dood. There were so many of them because they...they...they came out from the floor, dood. Not only that, some of them were big with spikes on their shoulders and they had big maces to slam them down on the floor, dood."

"I don't recall a machine like that, Geno..." Twink trailed off.

"O-okay, here's a crazy theory I have, dood," Prinny said as he gulped. "I-I think those creatures are not roaming the streets right now at the time of this day. I think they like to appear out during the night because they seemed to be staring at the clouds for some reason when I found them..."

"...That is somewhat scary..." Peach said worried.

"B-but don't worry, dood! Those monsters are not here by now!" Prinny reassured Peach.

"Just a f(beep)d up penguin." Snake said.

Prinny glared at the newcomer. "H-hey! I'm not a intercourse ed up penguin. I'm a Prinny!"

A moment of silence fell in as Prinny blinked for a moment.

"...Where's my censorship, dood? Am I the only one without censorship? Nobody takes me seriously, dood! I want my censors, dood!"

Final Fantasy IX - Kingdom of Burmecia

"That aside, I guess it's good I found you." Snake said as Prinny cried toon tears.

"Well, apart from the monsters appearing at night, it's good to see you again, Snake." Geno said.

"I guess," Snake said. "So why do we have another one of those f-"

"Prinny!" Prinny interrupted.

"F(beep)d up penguins with us?"

"Long story, dood," Prinny said disappointed. "And would you call me Prinny?"

"Since that hand expects me to gather everyone, let's go and get them all."

"H-hey! Stop ignoring me!"

"I just wonder where they are..." Peach said as they started to walk forward. "Hopefully that map helped us a bit."

"But with the city like this, it will be hard to tell which building is which." Pichu said.

Prinny sobbed a little. "Why anybody doesn't take me seriously, dood?"

"I do," Peach said as she hugged him. "You're cute to me."

Prinny closed his eyes and blushed. "Dood! Absolutely jackpot, dood!"

And so Geno's team resumed their search...

Back with Link's team (ha, it's not Chris's team after all)...

Temple in the Middle of Nowhere

"Temples..." Link said as his voice echoed along with their footsteps. "I am forever cursed to enter at least one in a month..."

"I hated the Water Temple so much..." Chris muttered.

"Oh, so did I," Link nodded. "I mean, the whole place was big enough and with the raising water going up and then down was so confusing. It took me a week to pass that darn temple."

Aside from Chris and Link's complaints about the Water Temple, the temple that they got in was...

...Absolutely straight forward.

It was just a temple with several pictures on the wall despicting a hideous monster with long tentacles and a lot of eyes at the side of its head.

Of course, the drawings were somewhat scary.

"Why are there so many pictures?" Kirby asked. "I don't like how they look like with that monster..."

"I have a word of advice," Link said. "Whenever you enter a temple, whatever you find inside will someday come back to haunt you until you get rid of it. Trust me, I know a lot about myths and the like thanks to my endless cycle of entering temples to get a jewel, mirror, fruit, Heart Container, etc."

"...Tell me he's lying, tell me he's lying!" Jigglypuff pleaded to Chris.

"I-I don't know! A-and let me go!" Chris said as he tried to push Jigglypuff away.

"..." Lucario stopped and glared forward. "Who is there?"

"..." Lucas peered from a pillar along with Mario. "Y-you! T-thank goodness we found you!"

"Oh, it's you," Mario said. "We came in here to find shelter from the rain."

The Smashers walked closer to each other.

"Good thing we found you as well," Link said. "At least we have good luck this time."

"I don't like this place at all..." Lucas shuddered. "Can't we go out?"

"Unfortunately for you, I'm up for some exploring inside this temple," Ness said. "Let's see what else is inside right now."

"W-what?"

"Lucas, we wanted to go further in, remember?" Mario asked. "We didn't go further because we thought it would be dangerous without anyone else. I think there's something important in here."

Link looked forward and narrowed his eyes. "Let's explore this darn temple."

"Um, why?" Jigglypuff asked.

"I need to shake this feeling off or else it'll haunt me."

"Can we just let the temple fanatic get lost in there?"

"If you even bothered to look forward," Chris began as he pointed forward. "The temple ends right around that weird pedestal."

Everyone looked at his direction and they saw the end of the temple. The end had several torches at the sides of the path that leaded to a pedestal in front of a big image of the monster despicted in the drawings of the walls.

"...Oh, that was fast." Jigglypuff and Lucas said in unison.

Chris rolled his eyes. "Why don't we get this over with now?"

The group decided to go further in to the pedestal.

A short amount of time passed before they walked around the pedestal and looked at the center of it. The center had a hole for something. The hole's shape looked like it could fit for a diamond of some sort.

"...This is it?" Ness asked. "It's just a hole, for god's sake."

"What a letdown," Link said as he looked around. "Where's the huge spider to set something free? Hello? Give me my fruit and heart already!"

"Link!" Lucas yelled.

"Well, this was disappointing for me," Lucario said. "But there is some kind of weird atmosphere in here that bothers my aura."

"If you meant the damp smell, then yes." Ness said.

"It wasn't that."

"C-can we just leave?" Lucas asked. "Nothing here is interesting, right?"

"But the rain is still going," Kirby said. "Shouldn't we stay here a little longer?"

"We have fire with the torches so..." Mario sat down. "Let's wait until the rain clears out."

Everyone thought for a moment before sitting down around the pedestal.

"..." Ness looked outside. "I don't think the rain will stop in a while."

"It looks like it could be eternal," Link said before everyone stared at him. "What? I'm just a novice in the magic and sorcery field."

Chris embraced himself. "I hope we can return back to the mansion because I feeling chills already..."

Lucario put his right arm above Chris's shoulders. "Just rest. I'll wake you up if they find us here."

"...I'm not tired," Chris said. "I'm just a little cold."

"Wait for the fire to warm you," Mario said. "It's going to warm this place soon."

"Why don't we talk about something in the meantime?" Jigglypuff asked.

Chris raised his hand. "I have a weird story about the time I was looking around the city...but I warn you it's weird and scary."

"We were all the afternoon in the city so it shouldn't be scary." Jigglypuf said.

"Well...here goes..." Chris said.

Flashback

Music stops

Streets

Star Ocean: Till the End of Time - Lively Step

Chris was walking around the streets of the city after he purchased the groceries that Master Hand requested him. Pit and Pichu already offered to carry their bags back since they wanted to rest in the mansion as well. However, the World Traveler was looking at all the people that walked the streets of the city.

And from time to time, he would start a conversation with someone. Although it was enough to talk just by approaching them.

"You know, this feels like a daily routine," a blue Toad said. "You wake up, you take a shower, you go to work, you spend your time with someone, and then you return back home to sleep so you can do it all over again. It's funny if you see it this way."

"I think so." Chris said.

"I know, right?" the blue Toad chuckled. "It's sometimes fun because, you know, something could intervene you between those tasks."

As the blue Toad walked away, a pink Pianta came in.

"Oh my, there's so much to look in this city," the pink Pianta said. "With all the shops putting up bargains and discounts, you would think this is heaven!"

"I don't think like girls do, though." Chris said.

"Yes, I know that very well," the pink Pianta said. "Boys only think about soccer and the like, don't they? It's like their fad as we girls like to go shopping all the day."

The pink Pianta left humming before Chris walked south and found a little brown Toad girl with blue ribbons on her head and brown pigtails looking up at him.

"Oh, are you lost?" Chris asked.

However, let's just say this girl wasn't normal at all.

"The universe is filled with just illusions projecting out to let our eyes see them," the Toad girl said in a weird tone of voice. "However, if you think again, you're wandering aimlessly around. You touch, you feel, you see, you hear, and you taste. What do you think is the purpose for all of this? Is everything we see just illusions, or are we the illusions?"

"..." Chris was left speechless.

"I'd like you to respond so I can find my answer."

Chris looked freaked out. "B-because we were meant to enjoy life and do it with our 5 senses? I mean, maybe we have a purpose to see all of this..."

"Hmm, perhaps, perhaps not," the little Toad girl said with a small nod. "It could be implied that, as illusions, we were meant to create more illusions in order to live and enjoy. You gave me a new point of view of life."

"..." Chris's right eye twitched.

"Until we meet again, I'd like you to answer more questions about life," she said. "However, I need to buy the last Clefairy Doll from the shop across the street. That is the only illusion I care about."

The little girl walked away across the street where she got inside a shop.

"...Who in their right mind raises an innocent girl like that?" Chris asked to no one in particular.

End of flashback

Temple in the Middle of Nowhere

"And even if I met her once, I think she can see me wherever I go..." Chris said with a shocked look.

The others looked at him with semi-shocked looks.

"...That girl was just plain weird." Ness said.

There she was. The shadow of the girl came from the exit and everyone looked at the exit.

"Oh my god, there she is!" Chris yelled as he hugged Lucario's waist to hide from the girl. "Get rid of her and her questions about life!"

"There isn't anybody there," Lucario said. "...Wait, there is someone."

Geno walked in and sighed, revealing not to be the girl but just a mistake about his shadow.

"Oh, there you are," Geno said. "I was looking for you with everyone. We just found Sonic and the others at the entrance to this..." Geno looked around. "...Temple?"

"We know, we know," Link said as Chris stopped hugging Lucario (causing him to feel a little depressed). "Let's just get out."

The others sighed before standing up and they started to walk away from the pedestal and the temple.

But something caught Lucas's eye and he found some kind of name in a pillar that he could barely read due to the dust.

"L...i...g...h...t... G...a...i...a... D...a...r...k... G...a...i...a..." Lucas read.

"Lucas!" Ness yelled from afar.

"O-oh, right! Sorry!" Lucas shook his head and headed out to the city before looking back at the strange words and continue his way out.

Nintendo City: The City of Despair

Once everyone came out, they found the others waiting for them as mostly everyone ran to each Smasher and said their reliefs as some remained out.

"What is he doing here?" Ness asked.

"Long story, dood." Prinny said.

Chris hugged Pichu. "I missed you a little sooooooooo much."

Pichu merely chuckled before they looked at Geno.

"And now that we're all together again," Geno began. "Let's return back to the mansion."

"Er...Geno..." Twink interrupted.

Geno stopped walking and blinked. "...Right..."

Music stops

"What is it now?" Marth asked. "Do you have something to say?"

"As a matter of fact..." Geno looked down. "...Yes. I need to say something."

"What?" Kirby asked.

"...I'm...sorry."

"For what?" Link asked.

"Ever since Twink and I came to the mansion, I only focused in finding the Star Spirits and get rid of Exor and Smithy... I never tried to spend the time with any of you except Mario, Peach, and Mallow because they were the only ones that understood me ever since we defeated the Smithy Gang before," Geno said. "I just never had the time to think about you. I only thought about your experience as fighters."

"That sounded kind of rude..." Mario said.

"I know..." Geno nodded as the rain kept going. "Now that my mission is going to be over once we return to the mansion...Twink reminded me about my bonds with all of you and that's when I started to feel regret."

Peach looked worried.

"I didn't make any strong friendships after all this long struggle against the Smithy Gang... I just became some kind of leader that just ordered around and yelled at people. I think I was being rude with everyone when I yelled back at you."

"You were." Fox said.

"I know that as well...and that's why I want to apologize for my rude behavior against any of you..."

Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 2: Grimoire of the Rift - Putting Words Together

"...I just...want to say..." Geno closed his eyes and looked down, trying not to let tears go out from his wooden face. "...I'm sorry... I'm sorry for being rude...I'm sorry for acting like a bastard...I'm sorry for being so serious about the Star Spirits...and I'm sorry for offending anyone if I ever did..."

Everyone just blinked and looked at him.

"...I hope you can find forgiveness..." Geno said as he looked at them with a worried look. "...But if you don't want to, I won't say anything to learn my lesson...just try to find some forgiveness..."

"..." Kirby walked towards Geno and looked up to him.

Geno looked down at the Star Warrior. "What?"

"..." Kirby hugged him and let some tears run down from his eyes.

Geno blinked surprised before Pichu came to him and hugged him as well with some sobs.

Lucas sobbed a little before he went to Geno and hugged him as well.

Mallow cleared even more tears from his eyes before he did the same as the previous 3.

"B-but..." Geno couldn't finish his words before Ness decided to hug him as well. "W-why?"

The doll became covered with hugs around him as Pikachu decided to stop his tears and hug the doll as well.

"..." Chris sobbed a little before he went to Geno, knelt and hugged him.

"W-why is everyone hugging me?" Geno asked. "I-I think you're embarrassing yourselves!"

Jigglypuff came to him and gave him a hug.

Geno watched as Peach cleared some tears and hugged him with the previous Smashers.

"..." Geno could only blink confused as he stared at everyone else. "...What about you?"

"I don't give any hugs," Ike said. "...But...I think I can forgive you."

Geno watched the others stopping hugging him as they looked at him. "Y-you forgive me as well?"

"B-but of course..." Peach muttered. "You're a dear friend to us, Geno. I-I wouldn't never hate you...ever..."

Mario walked to her and rubbed her back. "She's right, Geno. I can forgive you because you didn't do anything wrong."

"You're saying that because you know me from the beginning! I want the other say thei-" Geno was interrupted.

"We forgive you, Geno," everyone interrupted.

"...What?" Geno asked bewildered.

"We forgive you," Marth said. "You managed to be a good guy after all."

"B-but all I did was..."

"Hey, no worries about that," Fox said as he crossed his arms. "You were still thinking about us so that doesn't make you a bad person."

"In truth, you're like everyone else in here," Snake said. "Plain weird."

"Then that makes you one of us since you're in this group." Link said.

"..." Snake looked away with a frown.

"T-to be honest..." Chris cleared some tears. "There's nothing you should apologize for. I-I mean, we should be the ones apologizing you."

"Why?" Geno asked confused.

"We didn't take the whole "rescue the Star Spirits" thing seriously as you did," Pikachu said. "We kind of saw that like an everyday mission."

"W-well..." Geno tried to find something to contradict that statement.

"Don't try to find another contradictory fact," Marth said. "There is none."

The doll looked down.

"Geno..." Mallow put a hand on Geno's back. "You did very well as I did, right?"

"How?" Geno asked. "All I did was yelling, ordering, and staying away from anyone to spend the time."

"Oh, please, Geno, don't say that!" Chris yelled. "If you say that again, I'm going to think we're the opposite of each other!"

"But there should be something I was missing out..." Geno muttered. "Something important that was with forming bonds..."

"Loosin' it up a bit." Fox said.

"...Loosing it up a bit?" Geno repeated.

"Yeah, you're like a grumpy guy who doesn't like to have fun."

"Hey, that's right," Sonic said. "You were like Knucklehead for example."

Back in his world, Knuckles sneezed.

"You should try to loose yourself up a bit!" Sonic suggested. "Go out and party all the night an-"

Lucario blocked Sonic's mouth. "Don't follow his example, please."

"...I just don't get what you're trying to say..." Geno said.

"Basically, just have fun with whatever you do," Snake explained. "Like a darn hippie."

"Not like a hippie," Ness corrected. "Like...well...this is going to sound a little bit wrong but...like us."

"...Goof around?" Geno guessed.

"Not like Popo, you dork," Ness said as he rolled his eyes. "Just talk with anyone during your free time. It's not like you're always working all the day without enjoying anything else, right?"

Geno blinked before he blushed a little.

"Er, Geno works almost the 24 hours of everyday at Star Haven because he thinks the wishes shouldn't be overlooked," Twink explained. "He has a tight schedule because he wanted to have one."

"...A stupid hard worker..." Snake said.

"Yeah." Link said.

"Stupid?" Geno repeated. "But I have to see the wishes coming true!"

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"For some reason, Ash gives breaks during trainings." Pikachu said.

"Do I look like I work all the day to you?" Ike asked. "I give my troops some free time."

"Even if there's always trouble in Hyrule, it's not bad to take a break and enjoy the time you have," Link said. "I used to go and train Colin with his marksman's skills for example."

"Be like me and be free." Sonic said with a wink.

"Er, he meant another thing than that." Ness said.

"Or it's like the breaks we have when we save the worlds, remember?" Chris asked.

"Pretty much just spend the time out with somebody when you have the opportunity," Mario said. "Fox here lost Krystal the other way."

A record scratched.

"Hey, that's not true. I thought about her safety first..." Fox shifted his eyes. "...Wait, I never told you about Krystal in the first place. Who else knows about my relationship with her?"

Everyone raised their hands.

Prinny raised his hand.

"You weren't even in the mansion!"

Prinny put down his hand.

"News spread fast." Marth said.

"But who started it?" Fox asked with a glare.

"CoughFalcocough." Mallow coughed.

"..." Fox shook his head. "Anyway... I have my own free time to relax a bit. Sometimes I help Slippy with his weird inventions."

"...W-why are you looking at me?" Lucas asked as Geno looked at him.

"Don't you have school?" Pichu asked.

"I-it's being constructed because Nowhere Island was reborn...and..." Lucas remembered something important. "...I need to start gathering my things..."

"..." Geno looked down.

"So, Geno, do you understand?" Peach asked. "...Oh, I forgot. I like to pace around the gardens of my castle after I'm done with the requests of the kingdom."

"You get kidnapped easier that way..." Jigglypuff muttered.

"..." Peach blinked as she found out a revelation. "...Oh my..."

"A-anyway, do you understand?" Twink asked.

"...Hahaha..." Geno chuckled. "...So that was it...loose myself up a bit..."

"Yeah!" Sonic said enthusiastically. "Now, if you guys excuse me, I've gotta run away to the mansi-"

As Sonic was already speeding his way north, Geno stick his leg out and made Sonic trip all the way to a wall.

Everyone looked at Geno.

"...Well..." Geno smiled and little and folded his arms behind. "...Thank you, everyone."

"So no worries then?" Pikachu asked.

"...I'm already excited," Geno said as he looked at them. "I can't wait to start this new way to enjoy my time."

"With me?" Twink asked.

"Well...of course," Geno said with a nod. "I've learned something very important after all this happened after all... I don't think I can thank you enough but..." Geno smiled. "...T-"

"Wait," Mario interrupted. "Shouldn't you say that once we get back to the mansion?"

Either Geno tried to calm down his inner fury from being interrupted like that time with Master Hand...

...Or he chuckled heartily.

"Of course. I would sound rude if I did it right here, right?" Geno asked with a chuckle. "Okay, let's go back to the mansion."

"Finally!" yelled Sonic from the wall.

Kirby and Mallow hugged the doll at the same time and Geno laughed for a bit. "You guys are so awesome."

"I never heard you saying awesome before." Mario said.

"He's starting to understand the meaning now. I'm glad." Marth said with a chuckle.

"Dood, I just like these moments so much..." Prinny cleared his beak with a napkin.

"Wait, how did you get here?" Chris asked.

"Long story, dood."

"...Maybe I should take you back with Etna."

"(Oh no, they already hate me...)" Prinny thought. "Er...well...she needs me, I think... Fine, take me with her, dood."

"If you don't want to go with her..." Chris said unsure.

"...It's fine. I better receive my punishment sooner or later, dood. That's the life of your average Prinny, dood."

"I'll miss you..." Peach said as she hugged him.

Prinny blushed. "F-fear not, Mistress Peach! I will return someday, dood!"

"This guy is unbeliavable..." Ness muttered.

"Agreed," said Pikachu, Pichu, Jigglypuff and Kirby.

And so, they started their back to the mansion, where Geno, Twink and Mallow would leave the group forever.

The doll looked back at the ruined city and thought that it was his fault that this happened. He looked down in shame, but Mario put a hand on his shoulder and nodded.

"It's everyone's fault, Geno," Mario said. "Let's get out of this together."

Geno looked at Mario's hand and smiled a little. "Thank you, Mario."

The fog of the city became hazier as they disappeared into the north...

Smash Mansion
Outside

Music stops

Once they got out from the city, they noticed that there wasn't raining anymore, but it was still raining in the city for some reason. It was almost sunny outside the city as well.

"Why is it raining only in the city and not outside?" Jigglypuff asked.

"You guys!" Parakarry came from the post office from nearby. "Looks like you..."

"...It's alright." Mario said.

"Oh, sure. The city got demolished and it's alright. Your optimistic attitude helps me," Parakarry said sarcastically. "Look, your attitude won't change the fact that this city got destroyed! I mean, what happened?"

They explained everything to him.

"...Oh, that sucks," Parakarry said. "That should have been very sudden... Well, I hope you can find a way to repair it."

"We're not rich." Pikachu said.

"Oh...then I should start moving."

"W-wait, maybe there's a way to repair the city!" Chris interrupted.

Everyone looked at him.

"Oh, right. We could use all the money you have." Lucario said.

"...Don't make me hit you."

Lucario gulped.

"Wow! You guys can repair it?" Parakarry asked.

"W-" Kirby was interrupted.

"I'm going to wait until that day comes! We need our old but awesome post office back on its feet!" Parakarry flapped his wings faster. "See you later! Oh, by the way, the guys back at the mansion fought an army. You should see what happened. Bye!"

The Paratroopa left in a hurry as he left a trail of dust in the air.

"He didn't even let us say anything else..." Mario said.

"I blame your optimistic attitude." Sonic said.

After they resumed their walk towards the big hill, Jigglypuff stopped.

"So why is it raining in the city and not outside?" she asked.

Nobody was able to come up with answer for her dismay.

After they walked above the hill...

"..."

Was it them, or did the terrain outside the mansion looked like a tornado came from nowhere?

"Is it me, or does the terrain outside the mansion looks like a tornado came from nowhere?" Mallow asked.

"Well..." Kirby sweatdropped. "I doubt there were meteors here..."

The meteors suddenly disappeared out of magic.

"...These meteors were made of magic," Chris said. "I know that very well..."

"Wait, whatever happened to everyone?" Marth asked.

Just as he said that, every single Smasher inside the mansion (not counting Red, Squirtle, Ivysaur, DK and Diddy) came out from the mansion and saw them approaching.

"Hey there." C. Falcon said.

"Why are you all out?" Pikachu asked.

"We don't want Geno, Mallow, and Twink involved in this so please, don't ask again..." Luigi shuddered.

"What are you talking about?" Mario asked.

"Look, let's just talk about everything here already." Yoshi said.

The others made confused looks at this sudden event that they explained everything to everyone.

"...So we ended up in defeat..." Meta Knight said. "A real shame it is."

"No bar then?" C. Falcon asked.

Toon Link rolled his eyes. "Why don't you call the Star Spirits here?"

"I think you should as well, Chris," Geno said. "Let's end this."

"...Right," Chris said as he joined his hands...

Paper Mario - Star Spirits

One by one, each Star Spirit appeared in the air and looked at all the Smashers as Geno and Twink walked to them and looked up.

"..." Eldstar closed his eyes. "It seems you have failed in saving the city."

"We know that very well," Mallow said. "A really bad shame, isn't?"

"It couldn't be helped, I guess," Muskular said. "You did all your best but it wasn't enough."

"Let's not mourn about our loss, okay?" Klevar suggested. "We should be thinking about the positive things of this outcome."

"Right," Mamar said. "Although the city was destroyed, the Star Road was successfully repaired."

"And wishes are starting to come back through the path to Star Haven," Kalmar said. "Our work has once again been saved by your efforts."

"We're so happy that the people are still wishing for good things," Skolar said. "All of you as well."

"Since Smithy and his gang are gone forever, we can live in peace high above the stars without the wishes being bothered and stopped," Misstar said. "All the stars also came back and returned to make wishes come true."

"That means Geno and Twink need to go back to Star Haven and resume their work," Eldstar said. "Geno, Twink, are you done with them?"

"...Not yet," Geno and Twink said in unison.

"Is that so? Well, if you have something else to say before we go back, then do it quickly because wishes are practically coming from everywhere as they used to."

"I'll make it fast," Geno said with a nod as he turned to the Smashers. "I believe I speak for Eldstar, Mamar, Skolar, Muskular, Misstar, Klevar, Kalmar..." Geno stopped as he looked at Twink, who chuckled and smiled. "...And Twink that...we're so grateful for all your help."

"I did all the work after all." Sonic said.

"Can we kill Sonic after this?" Falco asked.

Mostly everyone nodded and Sonic got a shocked look.

"..." Geno chuckled. "I'm going to miss everything we went through and our stance in the mansion... Say, where is Master Hand?"

"He is..." Olimar thought for a moment. "...Very busy with someone..."

"...I knew that hand was heartless."

"I'm not!" Master Hand yelled from the mansion. "See you later, Geno!"

"..." Geno couldn't find something to yell back at the hand. "...Anyway, thank you so much for everything you guys. This task would have been harder it if weren't for you."

Mario and Peach walked to him. "Good luck, Geno. I'm glad we were able to stay together for a time again," Peach said before she hugged him tightly. "I'm going to miss you..."

The princess got up and hugged Twink. "I-I'm going to miss you too, Peach..." Twink said with a sob.

"Thank you, Mario," Geno said as he shook hands with Mario. "I felt right at home when you came in."

"Do you really have to say that?" Mario asked.

"Of course," Geno said with a nod. "I'm more comfortable with the people I know from a long time."

Chris and Lucario walked to him before the World Traveler knelt and hugged Geno. "You were a great person to meet because you weren't on the TV but in person."

Geno sweatdropped. "Y-yes. I thank you for having the trust of the Star Spirits."

"Do you have something to say to Lucario?"

Geno looked at the aura wielder. "...Your force was a big help?"

"..." Lucario looked away.

"...See? This is why I needed to spend time with everyone," Geno said with a chuckle. "Thank you, Lucario."

"...Yes." Lucario said with a nod.

The younger Smashers ran to Geno and each one hugged him tightly. "G-Geno..." Lucas sniffed.

"I'll try to come here someday. I won't forget anyone here at all." Geno said.

"..." Lucas smiled a little and hugged Geno one more time before stopping.

"I think I could have been acquainted more with you," Geno said to Fox, Snake and Samus. "You were more serious like me...though not overboard."

"Tsk..." Snake looked away.

"Don't mind him," Samus said. "He's going to miss you after you leave."

"Yeah, right..."

"Again, don't mind him."

"Good luck up there in the stars," Fox said as he shook hands with Geno. "Who knows, I could find you if I ever use my Arwing."

"You wish," Geno chuckled. "Thanks for your help though."

Yoshi walked to Geno and played a little with his fingers. "I...wish you could stay longer..."

"...At least you're trying to get interested as Rosalina said before." Geno said.

Yoshi looked at him and smiled a bit. "T-thank you for being here with us."

Geno nodded and shook hands with Yoshi before Luigi came in with a napkin. He was probably using it because he was sad that Geno and Twink were going to leave. "T-t-t-too bad I wasn't around with Mario a long time ago...b-b-because we could have known each other more."

"That's right... Where were you around that time?" Geno asked.

"In Dinosaur World..."

Geno looked miffed.

"...For vacation."

Yoshi, who overheard this, rolled his eyes.

"...Thank you anyway." Geno said before Luigi shook hands and gave him a quick hug before walking to Mario.

Geno looked at Mewtwo. "...I honestly don't have nothing to say to you. I'm sorry."

"Not need," Mewtwo said as he shook his head. "Maybe you taught me a lesson."

"Just maybe?"

"Possibly."

"Thank you," Geno said before he turned to Meta Knight. "What about you?"

"Hmph," Meta Knight began. "You were a descent fighter. I'm glad I was able to meet a being of the stars."

"I think that's all, right?"

"Pretty much."

Geno chuckled again before he turned to the Links and Zelda. "I'm not going to forget about 3 either."

"Good bye," Zelda said as she hugged him a little. "I'll wait for my wishes to come true someday."

"Good luck up there, okay?" Link said. "Without you I would never defeat Ganondorf."

"Or me," Toon Link said. "Keep working hard."

"I will," Geno said before he turned to Falco. "By the way, somebody named Kat wished to marry you."

Falco laughed and crossed his arms. "Ha! That's a good one there."

Geno raised a wooden eyebrow.

"...Is a joke, right?"

"...Totally." Geno shook hands with Falco before the doll turned to Wolf. "What about you? You were not that sociable either."

"..." Wolf looked away. "...Good luck, I guess."

"At least that's something," Geno said as he turned to C. Falcon. "No sick wishes, got that?"

"Hey!" C. Falcon glared down at him.

"It's a suggestion, for god's sake..." Geno said.

"...Fiiiine." C. Falcon shook hands with Geno. "Good luck."

"Likewise," Geno said before he looked at Olimar. "Will you wish about your family?"

Olimar looked surprised. "Y-yes, always."

"Well, those are pure wishes. I'll make them come true first."

"..." Olimar shook his hand shyly. "T-thank you."

"As for you 3..." Geno looked at Marth, Roy, and Ike. "You were great tacticians."

"It's in my blood," Roy said. "My father was not lazy."

"Sure," Marth said. "I don't think I have something more to say rather than good bye."

"Me too," Ike said with a nod. "But best of luck, my friend."

"...You seriously need to be more modern and less cheesy." Geno said.

"Hey!"

"It's just a joke." Geno laughed before he shook hands with the 3 swordsmen. "Pit, do you have something to say?"

"Will you become Palutena's wishes come true?" Pit asked.

"Her wishes are among the purest ones, so yes."

Pit smiled and shook hands with Geno. "Thank you."

"Like I don't hear those words too many times," Geno said with a chuckle. "Take good care of your brother..." Geno got closer to Nana. "Seriously," he whispered.

"Meh, I manage," Nana said. "He manages in some twisted way."

"So true," Popo said. "Just chill doooooown..."

"...See you later." Nana said with a hug.

"And lastly..." Geno walked to Sonic. "Your secret is safe with me."

"What secret?" everyone asked and Sonic glared at him.

"Nothing!" Geno yelled. "I think you taught me more than everyone here."

Sonic stopped glaring and grinned. "You think?"

"Yes. I'm going to avoid being like you."

"...Don't make me punch you." Sonic said with a smile.

"Rest assured," Geno said before he shook hands with the hedgehog and walked to Mallow. "Well, it seems this is it... You're done?"

"What about me, dood?" Prinny asked.

"...I'm glad I met you?" Geno said confused.

"...Meh, something is something, dood." Prinny said.

"So, are you done?" Geno asked to Mallow.

"Yeah," Mallow said. "I said my good byes."

"I didn't see you."

"Oh, look," Mallow began as he raised his hands with thumbs up and some of the Smashers did the same. "You see 'em? They're my gang. If you mess with me, you mess with 'em."

An arrow was shot to his cloudy head and Geno stared at it with Mallow.

"...Okay, I went too far with that, so?" Mallow asked before he took the arrow out and tossed it away.

Twink floated to Geno before somehow hugging Mallow. "I'm going to miss you, Mallow."

"Just don't turn like Geno and you'll be fine." Mallow said with a chuckle.

Geno rolled his eyes. "Sure..."

"Well," Eldstar began. "It seems you're done."

"Yes." Geno nodded.

"Also,' Eldstar turned to Chris. "Once we leave, you will be deprived from our powers forever."

Chris looked worried. "So I won't be able to call you again?"

"I'm afraid so," Eldstar said. "You were a big help because you're the World Traveler. We were honored to help you and the Smashers. It's a shame we were not able to lend someone else our powers rather than you."

"What about Mar-" Muskular was pushed back by Eldstar who didn't even look at him, probably becausehe found a contradiction.

"As I've said before..." Eldstar said somewhat annoyed at Muskular's fact. "It's a shame we were not able to lend someone else our powers rather than you."

"...Yeeees..."

"So we now deprive you from our powers."

Chris glowed quickly before stopping.

"How do you feel?" Klevar asked.

"...That was awfully so fast..." Chris said confused. "And I feel naked from the inside as well..."

"Then it worked." Kalmar said.

"...Oh, one last thing..." Geno turned to Lucas. "Since you were the one who foun this doll..."

"What doll?" Lucas asked.

Geno pointed at himself.

"Oh."

"Would you take care of it?" Geno asked. "I think you deserve to keep it as some sort of memento. Would you do it for me, Lucas?"

"Y-yes," Lucas said as he cleared his tears. "F-feel free to go anytime."

Geno smiled and hugged Lucas one last time before backing away to the Star Spirits with Twink and Mallow. "...Let's do this..." Geno muttered.

Super Mario RPG - Good Bye Geno/Seeing Dreams Through the Window of Stars

Then doll closed his eyes as a light from above shone on him (Wolf: Show off...) and it pulled him upwards above the ground. The Smashers saw as the doll started to shrink down to its original size while Geno (the little star) came out from the head and slowly floated towards the Star Spirits.

Lucas looked at the doll landing back on the ground and he picked it up before sniffing a little. "I-I'm going to miss you, Geno..."

"Don't worry," Geno said as he turned around. "I'm going to come back one of these days so keep that doll safe for me."

"Hey!" Mallow interrupted. "How am I going to go back to Nimbus Land?"

"Oh, that?" Muskular asked before a small floating blue ship appeared right next to him. "Use this to go back to your home. It'll take you all the way there and return back to us."

"Sweet!" Mallow said as he jumped inside the ship and looked down at the Smashers. "Well guys, it was an awesome experience, but I have to go back to my own kingdom and home. The maids are surely worried sick about me as my parents."

"Take care," Twink said as he shed a tear. "Visit us, okay?"

"You got that."

"It is time now," Eldstar said as the 3 looked at him. "We must part to Star Haven."

"Oh, by the way..." Geno interrupted. "...Can I have free hours of my schedule?"

"Really?" Mamar asked. "That's new coming from you. Why do you want to do that? I thought you loved your work."

"Because..." Geno looked at the Smashers before looking at her. "I also happen to like my friends and I'd want to spend the time out in the stars."

"I see," Eldstar said with a nod. "Very well. We shall give you your free hours."

"Thank you."

It was impossible to see Geno smile since he was glittering star, but he did smile.

"...Really, thank you so much."

"Okay okay, let's go back! Star Haven is getting flooded by wishes again!" Muskular said.

The ship that Mallow was on began to move upwards to the faraway clouds. "Aw, it's time now? Oh well. Hey, you guys! Better take care of the Subspace Army! Those guys really need a good beating in their butts! Too bad I won't do the kicking but deliver a good one to Bowser from my part! Anyway! Thank you for everything! Bye!" Mallow yelled as he disappeared in the sky with the ship as some of the Smashers waved at him.

The Star Spirits began to rise up to the sky. One by one, they spoke their last words to the Smashers.

"Be strong. Never surrender to your foes." Eldstar said as he went up.

"Always make bonds with anyone you meet. It's going to be easier if you keep making allies." Mamar said with a smile as she went up.

"Think carefully in every move of yours." Skolar said as he went up.

"Do cool stuff, enough said." Muskular said with a grin as he went up.

"Keep wishing every day, okay?" Misstar asked with a giggle as she went up.

"Good thing we met all of you. It was going to be a tough fight otherwise." Klevar said with a chuckle as he went up.

"I'm always seem to be the last one to speak. Well, I'm the seventh Star Spirit after all," Kalmar said with a chuckle. "Do take care well of yourselves."

"B-bye, everyone!" Twink yelled as he cried with a smile. "T-thank you for being so nice to us!"

"...Mario...Peach..." Geno trailed off. "...Good luck...and...thank you...for everything you've done to us...and me..."

Most of the Smashers waved at the stars disappearing into the sky before a blink of light shone in the sky for a moment.

Geno, Mallow, and Twink left your party (Sniff...)

Obtained Geno's Doll!
A memento of the star guardian of Star Haven. Keep it close so your wishes are not overlooked every day.

Music stops

"...So..." Yoshi began as they kept staring up to the sky. "...They're gone."

"We did all we could to help," Mario said. "It's all good."

Lucas walked to them with the doll on his arms. "I'm going to take good care of this doll until Geno comes back to visit us..." he said with a sniff. "...I'll be waiting."

"Now that they're gone..." Meta Knight began. "I believe you want an explanation about what happened here."

"Oh, right," Link said as he glanced at the terrain. "Did you guys manage to defeat the ambush?"

"Well, not exactly..." Zelda said. "...Someone else did it for us."

"Someone else?" Ike repeated in confusion.

"Well," Mewtwo began. "When you were away, someone else showed up from the mansion that demanded answers to some questions."

"We didn't want Geno or the others to get involved in this because they would be death otherwise..." Roy shrugged.

The Smashers turned at the doors. "So, who is this person you're talking about?" Pikachu asked.

"Go and open the doors..." Falco suggested.

They all walked to the doors and Link opened them...

Main Lobby

...And for some reason, the whole lobby looked burned. Not only that, Master Hand was unconscious on the floor as a person was sitting right above him with crossed legs, looking at a familiar book...

...Of Blastia.

Tales of Vesperia - United Oath

"..." the person stopped reading the book and looked up. "...So, is anybody willing to explain what the hell is going on around here, or should I force the answers out of you?"

The Smashers looked confused at the sudden newcomer...

...Rita Mordio.

Outside

A shadow of a dog smoking a pipe seemed to look the mansion from the bushes nearby. The dog grunted a little bit before dashing his way away to the trees around the mansion...

TO BE CONTINUED...

...

"Rita: The VIOLENT Genius Mage of PAIN. I think we're facing the demon herself... Too bad I'm not there. Ha-ha!" Mallow laughed.

Do you want to save your game after the events of today?

Yes

Overwrite File?

Yes

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

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Chapter 131: Rita: The VIOLENT Genius Mage of PAIN

Smash Mansion
Main Lobby (Burned)

Tales of Vesperia - United Oath

"Well," Rita got off from the hand and put her hands on her hips. "I'm waiting."

"Wait just a minute," Marth interrupted. "Why should we tell you what happened here?"

"Because it's clear something has been around and I know that very well."

"And why are you interested?" Mario asked.

"Simple."

Estelle came from the hallway as she looked embarrassed. "I-I think she means that because of me..."

"That's right," Rita nodded. "If Estelle is here, then that means she is doing something here, am I right?"

"I tried to explain her the opposite she believes, I swear!" Estelle said.

"Enough," Rita said with closed eyes. "Just to remind you something. We're very unfamiliar to any of you for the fact that you have animals wearing clothes with you and weird creatures as well. I want EVERY single darn detail about you, this place." She pointed behind her. "And that humongous hand."

The Smashers looked at each other before looking at her.

"Again, why should we explain? Why don't you explain yourself?" Marth repeated.

"Or how did you get in here in the first place?" Roy asked.

Rita rolled eyes. "I hope this sets you an example because I don't like to sound rude," she said. "Fine. If you want to hear explanations from me, I'll better start so I have something as a backup contradiction."

Flashback

As Master Hand found Rita, the Genius Mage stared back at him and Estelle.

"...What in the world is a big hand like that doing here?" Rita asked as she raised an eyebrow. "And why are you here, Estelle?"

"E-erhm, hm, um..." Estelle looked down in embarrassment. "I-I came here to stay during a snowstorm."

"Wait, so you know her?" Master Hand asked.

"Oh, so you can speak," Rita said.

"That doesn't matter. Did you get in here because you wanted?"

"Well, duh. The snowstorm out there was freaking cold so I got in. I thought the owner was at least a good person. Speaking of the owner of this place, where is he or she?"

"You're seeing him right in front of you."

"..." Rita rolled her eyes. "Really, where is the owner?"

"R-Rita, he is the owner," Estelle said.

"..." Rita stared at Master Hand. "...Well, that's surprising."

"Okay, now that it's clear that I'm the owner, get out," Master Hand said.

"Why should I?" Rita asked with crossed arms. "Estelle can stay here but I can't? Why kind of treatment is that? Just because she's a princess doesn't mean she can have any benefits like I should."

"Look, I have had many unrequired guests these last days and I'm sick of that! You're going to be honored to be my first kicked out guest for today."

"What?" Rita glared at him. "You can't do that! You have an insane amount of rooms with beds and all that crap! You're such a greedy guy!"

"Greedy or not, that is the policy of the mansion," Master Hand said before looking at her. "Hey, give me that."

Rita pulled the Smart Bomb back. "Sorry. I found it so I'm keeping it."

"What?" Master Hand "glared" at her. "That's property of the mansion! You can't take it away from here! Think about the law suits Fox would put on me!"

"I don't care if a stupid animal can put a law suit on you for something that is not even yours!" Rita yelled back. "If this Blastia was touched by my hands, then it's clear it needs to be in a better place that this mole hole you call mansion!"

"Blastia? Mole hole? Okay, that is it. You're getting out now!" Master Hand yelled as he pointed at the exit.

"Never!" Rita yelled as she turned to the hallway and walked away. Estelle opened her mouth in preocupation as Master Hand went for the Genius Mage.

"You get back here!" Master Hand yelled.

Rita turned around. "Look! I'm staying here and you can't say anything, okay? If Estelle is staying, then I'm staying too!"

"You will have to leave now!"

"Ha! That's a good one!" Rita replied sarcastically before walking even faster.

Estelle ran between them. "P-please, no more!" she said as she opened her arms. "P-please, let her stay!"

Master Hand moved the princess away. "I'm sorry, but she's leaving today!"

"I am NOT leaving and that's that!" Rita yelled before he turned away from them.

Master Hand reached for her. "You will get ou-"

The moment he touched Rita's Blastia book was the start of pure hell...

Tales of Vesperia - Furnace of War

"I'm so gonna make you hurt!!!" Rita yelled as she slapped Master Hand's...hand away and called forth a rainbow aura that pushed the hand even further.

"W-what? How come you can use the Over Limit?" Master Hand asked.

However, Rita only cared to destroy her enemy...or just send him straight to hell.

"BLAH BLAH BLAH, VIOLENT PAIN!"

Master Hand saw a circle of darkness appearing from below that made 15 arrows of darkness rise up and point down at him. The hand yelled in a high pitched scream before floating away back to the lobby as the arrows struck the floor and shattered it.

"W-wait, please!" Estelle said in panic as the Genius Mage ran and passed her, making the princess run after them. "T-there's no need to display this unnecessary and violent behavior, Rita!"

Pun intended.

"BLAH BLAH BLAH, FLAME DRAGON!" Rita yelled.

The hand saw a long trail of flames with a dragon head appear out of nowhere and it chased him around the lobby before it crashed into a wall that Master Hand made it run to. The hand sighed in relief...

But that wasn't the end.

The Genius Mage made her way to the lobby and spotted the hand above the chandellier. "BLAH BLAH BLAH, GOLD CAT!"

A golden statue of a cat crashed down on the hand and brought the chandellier with him as well. Master Hand yelled in pain after the statue vanished in thin air. "W-wait, stop! You're going to destroy the lobby if you keep up with this!" Master Hand yelled.

"GOOD IDEA!"

"OH GOD!"

"BLAH BLAH BLAH, TIDAL WAVE!"

The whole floor became flooded by a huge whirlpool that brought everything around and shattered to bits. Master Hand was also taken around the whirlpool (that somehow turned the place dark except for them, the things, and the whirlpool) before it stopped.

Estelle managed to grab a vase. "P-please, Rita, stop!"

"Are you going to let me stay here or not?!" Rita demanded to the weakened hand.

"..." Master Hand tried to say something. "...N-no..."

A toon vein popped out from her forehead. "That is IT! I'm going to destroy the first floor because of your stupid regulations!"

"R-Rita!" Estelle yelled in panic.

"NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" Master Hand pleaded.

At that moment, the windows shattered by some Shysters that got in from every side of the first floor. "Begin mission to destroy the man-" a Shyster said before he was interrupted.

"BLAH BLAH BLAH, METEOR STOR-BLAH BLAH BLAH, METEOR STOR-BLAH BLAH BLAH, METEOR STOR-BLAH BLAH BLAH, METEOR STOR-BLAH BLAH BLAH, METEOR STOR-BLAH BLAH BLAH, METEOR STOR-BLAH BLAH BLAH, METEOR STOR-BLAH BLAH BLAH, METEOR STOR-BLAH BLAH BLAH, METEOR STOR-BLAH BLAH BLAH, METEOR STOR-BLAH BLAH BLAH, METEOR STOR-BLAH BLAH BLAH, METEOR STOR-" she kept repeating.

The Shysters that were supposed to destroy the mansion got suddenly attacked by a swarm of meteors from the sky (that, as Rita ordered, began to hit EVERY SINGLE ROOM in the first floor) and everyone couldn't even scream because the meteors destroyed them before they could do so. Destruction, darnation, and total annihilation obliterated the whole army of Shysters and everything in and on the first floor with Master Hand included. Estelle wasn't even affected for the fact that she was on Rita's side as a friend and not enemy. Otherwise, Estelle would be as good as dead.

This attack (or frenzy) may as well be called Rita Doomsday...

"Huuuh..." Rita sighed as the Over Limit ended. Although since she hit a lot of things with her meteors, the Over Limit gauge was full as like it was never used. "That...should teach him..." she said with some pants as Master Hand's dead carcass laid down in front of her and coveniently on the center of the lobby with everything burned.

Music stops

Estelle (who hid behind the stairs) peered out and glanced around completely shocked. "R-Rita!" she yelled as she ran to Rita. "W-why would you do such a thing?"

"Estelle, this guy was being an ass-"

Take note she referred the animal.

"-ass to me and he deserved the right to die right now," Rita said.

"B-but..." Estelle stuttered in disbelief. "B-but you shouldn't have demolished the whole first floor! H-he probably worked hard to own a place like this!"

"He pretty much had it coming as I've said before," Rita said as she looked annoyed. "Anyway, I think he's dead so we're going to have to own this place for our own."

"W-what?" Estelle asked completely and utterly shocked. "But I think I can revive him!"

Rita looked at the hand. "To be honest, I think he's just in a coma."

Estelle couldn't believe the way Rita said those words without even caring.

And it was enough.

"...Hmph!" Estelle turned around angry.

"Oh, what now?" Rita asked.

"You're being such a meanie, Rita!"

"What?" Rita asked with a glare. "The meanie here wa-"

Estelle turned around and slapped Rita on her right cheek.

The readers outside gasped dramatically.

"..." Rita faced the side where Estelle made her look by the slap before turning to her with a normal look.

Estelle's eyes began to fill with tears. "Y-you don't know anything, Rita...I-if you could have been nice with him this wouldn't have happened at all..." Estelle said before she sat down on the steps of the stairs and embraced her knees. "You just make a rampage wherever you go and destroy anyone who "pisses" you off..."

"W-well, that's because that kind of people shouldn't talk like that about me!" Rita yelled back.

Estelle glared up at her. "But you don't need to kill them off! You're always mean!"

"Mean?!"

"Yes!" Estelle yelled back before she looked down. "We're not able to socialize with anyone because you see them with the bad eye and they won't even face us because they're afraid of you!"

"Good!" Rita yelled back. "That way nobody will say anything to me!"

"And me?!"

"What?"

"Me! Or the others! They always want to talk with somebody but since we're traveling together they back away from us and even me!"

"Look, Estell-"

"Shut up!"

Rita's eyes widened.

"I-I'm afraid to say that one of the reasons that I'm not able to enjoy in my adventures is that YOU keep getting furious to anyone we come across! Sure, it's good when you use that attitude against our enemies, but not the innocent people! Don't you have common sense?!"

'I-I-"

"Now look!" Estelle yelled. "This place was going to go down and burn to ashes because of you!"

"What's all this yellin' and destructio-" Raven stopped from coming down the stairs and quickly hid in the hallway as his heart raced faster.

"Raven probably doesn't want to hear from you again!"

"(Well, that's kinda true...)" Raven thought.

"But that old man is annoying!" Rita yelled.

"They're just accidents, for crying out loud!" Estelle yelled. "He wants to apologize but yet you decide to kill him off!"

"H-he's a freaking pervert!"

"You just were in his way! You're the one to blame!"

"What?!"

"You heard me! At least I know how to be a good person..." She started to sob. "N-not like you...not like you at all..."

"Es...telle..." Rita muttered.

The Genius Mage glanced around the lobby as Estelle kept sobbing. Vases were broken, pictures were burning, walls were burned, sofas were reduced to ashes, and the floor's matress was almost gone.

"..." Rita looked down. "...Damn myself and my attitude..."

"(Wait, is that a new change I hear?)" Raven thought surprised.

"...Estelle..." Rita tossed the Smart Bomb away (making it explode in the kitchen) and sat next to Estelle. "I-I'm...I'm sorry..."

"..." Estelle kept sobbing.

"I-I know I have anger issues...but you need to underst-"

"You need to understand!" Estelle yelled without turning to her.

"R-right, I'm the one who needs to understand..." Rita said ashamed. "To be honest...that's why nobody ever approached my house back at Aspio..."

Aspio is a city of mages that is hidden in the mountains, inside a cave due to their strong privacy. Many books and scholars are found in this city as Rita Mordio herself.

"They always said that Mordio was going to kill you if you ever got close to that house," Rita explained. "Or Mordio would send you straight to hell if you bothered him..."

Back at her home, some referred Rita as "him" because she was always seen wearing a hood and a robe whenever she went out to get more books of Blastia, preventing anyone from seeing her face.

"And they were right..." Estelle said between sobs.

"...Well...I think it's enough..." Rita said. "...I should start being more sociable and not a bastard, right?"

"..." Estelle stopped sobbing.

"I-I mean, when I need help when I'm about to fall off a cliff, who is going to pull me back if you or the others are not around?" Rita asked.

"..." Estelle looked at her.

"I...I'm..." Rita stuttered before she hugged Estelle. "...I'm going to try and change for the better..."

"R-Rita..." Estelle muttered before she hugged her. "P-please, do it soon..."

"I will..." Rita said as she shed a tear and patted Estelle. "...I will..."

"So Ristelle is a true pairing as Yuri said before?" Raven asked to himself.

In a skit during their travels, Yuri saw both Estelle and Rita flying together because Rita had a levitating magic and Estelle wanted to fly with her. Since Estelle and Rita were having fun together, Yuri came in to call them back and he combined both names just to make Rita mad while Estelle didn't get the meaning (probably because she was clueless of the outside world's culture due to her being in the castle all the time since she was born).

"What the..." Rita stopped hugging Estelle and looked up to the stairs. "Was that the old man's voice just now?!"

Raven froze for a moment before he carefully made his back up to his room.

"Estelle, is it just me or the old man is in here?" Rita asked.

"I-I don't know!" Estelle shook her head as she cleared her tears. "I-if I've ever found Raven, then I would have returned with you!"

"You know," Rita glanced up. "Maybe we're dealing with something here...and the old man may be somewhere nearby..."

Estelle looked at the KO'd hand. "Should I revive him now that you want to change your ways before they see him?"

As the princess walked to the hand, Rita stopped her by putting a hand on her shoulder. "Slow down there, Estelle. I think you just said something weird along those lines..."

"Oh, you mean the people living in here?" Estelle asked. "When I came here, I met some peculiar people who didn't even look human at all. Well, at least some were humans. They looked really...um...cool as they say?"

"What?" Rita asked confused. "Wait, what? You made friends with monsters?"

"N-no!" Estelle shook her head. "W-what makes you say that?"

Rita pointed at Master Hand.

"H-he's not a monster!"

"He wanted me OUT."

"You were being rude!"

Rita rolled her eyes. "Anyway. If there are people like that living in here, I want to meet them."

Estelle smiled, but then she looked worried. "W-wait, are you sure you're not going to give them hell as Raven says?"

"Depends."

"Rita!"

"I-it's a joke! (Phew, she's clever...)" Rita sighed and thought.

"S-so, are you going to clean up this mess?"

That question made Rita look shocked.

"W-what? W-why should I?"

"You made all of this, remember?"

"T-that hand made me do it! H-he should clean it up himself!"

"But you caused most of the destruction, so you should do it!"

"Y-you saw my house! Books are scattered around the floor! I don't remember the last time I cleaned it up!"

"You must not be serious!" Estelle said. "Either way, you're cleaning this!"

"No way!" Rita yelled before Estelle pulled out a broom out of nowhere. "H-hey, that's our Deck Brush!"

As ridiculous as this may sound, Deck Brush is a quite powerful weapon (enchanted with magic).

"So? It's a broom AND an useful weapon!" Estelle said in her defense.

"Wait, you're not going to force me, right?" Rita asked.

"What do you think?"

The Genius Mage started her way to the exit.

"Rita!" Estelle yelled angry as she went after Rita.

"Stay away!" Rita yelled as she opened the door to outside where it was raining quite hard. "I'm not going to..."

The Genius Mage stopped talking as she looked outside.

"Rita!" Estelle ran to her. "It's time for your to face your destruction for the good of the peopl-"

"Estelle, look!"

Estelle glared at Rita before looking outside. A shocked look replaced her glare. "W-what happened here?"

Outside

It was unclear to know or find the truth about the fainted bodies of all the Smashers laying all around outside in the mud and water. Both girls looked around and found only fainted people all around.

"M-my goodness, what happened to them?" Estelle asked in shock.

"Wait, are these guys the ones who live in here?" Rita asked as she pointed at a small person wearing a space helmet. "Not to sound rude, but they look totally weird..."

"H-hmm..." Estelle couldn't find something to talk back.

"Hey..." Rita stepped out from the door and walked around. "Say, what happened here?"

She stopped in front of a fainted wolf wearing clothes. "...This one looks shady."

Estelle walked to her. "W-well, he did scare me a little bit..."

"Hmm..." Rita glanced around more. "...Just what in the world happened in here?" she questioned before looking at Estelle. "Do you have a clu..."

She looked down where Estelle was rubbing the wolf's tail.

"Estelle!"

"What?!" Estelle responded before she stood up and blushed. "D-don't look at me. H-he has a very soft fur in his tail and I-I couldn't help it!"

"..." Rita looked bored at her. "Thank god I'm more of a tomboy than you..."

"So..." Estelle looked around. "I think I should revive all of them and find out what happened. Do you think I should, Rit..."

She looked down where Rita was rubbing the wolf's tail.

"Aah!" Rita stood up, coughed, blushed, and looked annoyed to Estelle as she raised her shoulders in embarrassment. "Y-you made my curiosity grow, so what?" she asked with a glare as she blushed. "(Though that fur was very soft...)"

"U-um..." Estelle raised her face and looked at Rita that way.

"Mwhaha-hahahahahahaha-ha-ha-ha-ha!" a voice laughed from somewhere.

Super Mario RPG - Here's Some Weapons

"Who is there?" Rita demanded.

The sounds of a sword stabbing the grounf were heard and both girls saw a shadow coming to them. They looked through the rain and found what should have been the most weirdest person in the world...

...A pogo-sword.

"Nehehehehehehe!" the pogo-sword laughed maniacally. "What are 2 dumb girls doing in the rain? It's bad to go out at this time of the night because I would stab your bodies all night long until dawn and...wait, oh yeah! I'll do that now!"

"...You know this...thing?" Rita asked.

"N-no..." Estelle said confused. "I-I would never have the opportunity to meet such a...thing..."

"Thing? How rude!" the pogo-sword said angrily. "Stupidly, stupid, stupid! I'm the most lethal enemy you have ever faced before, dumb girls!"

Rita's pupils shrunk to dots as she looked mad. "Oh, right, I'm scared about this guy who just says lies to innocent people like us. You're such the drama queen, you know."

"GRRRRRRR!" the pogo-sword grunted. "You know what? You so deserve to get stabbed by awesome me tonight! Are you prepared to feel my blade?!"

"Not to mention he's like the old man..." Rita said with a frown before her pupils grew back. "Those sick innuendos are so stupid and annoying like you."

"WHAT?!"

"R-Rita, should we really enrage it?" Estelle asked concerned.

"I'm not even half-scared about this thing," Rita said. "Heck, Karol scares me more."

"He does?"

"Well, no."

"STOP IT!" the pogo-sword yelled. "IF YOU WANT TO DIE, THEN LET ME STAB YOU THROUGH!"

"I hope not below," Rita said annoyed.

"YES! ...I-I mean, NO! RIGHT THROUGH YOUR FLAT CHESTS!"

Both girls seemed to get angry a little bit because Estelle pulled out her rapier and Rita prepared her book of magic.

"Estelle, let's fight this weirdo and send him to hell!" Rita yelled as she glared at the pogo-sword.

"I-I agree wholeheartily!" Estelle nodded with a serious face.

"Dumb girls, I have a name! My name i-"

End of flashback

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Main Lobby

"And that's my story," Rita said as she waited for a response.

"...Pogo-sword?" Kirby said confused.

"Blab blah blah?" Pikachu said confused.

"Meteors?" Ike said confused.

"You stole a Smart Bomb and tossed it to the kitchen?" Fox asked.

"You touched my tail when I was fainted?" Wolf asked with a glare to both girls.

"What?" Rita asked with a bit of irritation. "That's the story as I saw it. Estelle knows it's the truth."

Estelle nodded in embarrassment. "T-that is the truth..."

"Well..." Rita looked at the Smashers. "...Gosh, Estelle. You pair up with the most weirdest people..."

"I-um," Estelle stuttered. "T-they're not hostile..."

"Okay, that aside," Rita said as she crossed her arms. "This may sound so sudden, but I have the right to stay in here."

"So you can blow up the mansion and US when you want?" Samus asked.

"Depends."

"Rita!" Estelle yelled.

"I-I mean, no..." She looked mad. "I'm just saying I have the right to live here as Estelle does. I won't blow up this place."

"But why can you live with us?" Ness asked. "You can't just barge in..."

"I did..." Estelle said embarrassed.

"Ha!" Rita laughed as she grinned, showed her teeth, moved up her face, and looked at them with a triumphant grin all at the same time. "I knew you were going to come up with something to kick me out, but I have a perfect excuse to stay here!"

"And that is?" Link asked.

"Remember the thing Estelle and I found?" Rita asked as she stopped grinning. "That thing was as much as dead. I think it gave all of you a hard time, right? We technically saved you from being rape-"

"Rita!" Estelle yelled.

"-Stabbed to death from it, correct?"

"In a way, she's right..." Zelda trailed off.

"But how in the heck did you 2 beat it?" Roy asked. "That pogo-sword was very hard to land a hit or a slash! We couldn't manage to hurt it a little!"

"You call that sword-thing hard? How strong are you?" Rita asked confused. "That thing was a total pushover."

"What?" Samus asked confused.

"It didn't take too long to defeat it. Heck, Estelle decided to attack it at close combat and not use healing spells as she does and she didn't have trouble with it."

"Care the explain?" Zelda asked.

"Fine, fine..."

Flashback

Outside

Tales of Vesperia - A Bet on this Bout

The pogo-sword stabbed furiously the mud as it advanced towards both girls.

"Estelle! Can you fight that thing at close combat?" Rita asked.

"Y-yes, I think I can!" Estelle said with a nod.

"Good. Try to distract him from interrupting my spells!"

"But why don't you use your Over Limit?"

Rita looked at the enemy and grinned a bit. "I don't wanna waste this with it. I want to see if it lives long enough to get to the worst part of my spells."

"H-here it comes!"

"STAB!" the pogo-sword yelled as it jumped high and descended down at a fast rate to Estelle. "MWHAHAHAHAHA!!!"

"Yiah!" Estelle raised the shield of her right arm and managed to stop the stab from above.

"W-what?!" the pogo-sword said in shock. "H-how did you stop my stab attack with that small shield?!"

"Y-you mustn't underestimate the properties of my shield!" Estelle yelled. "I get the best equipment I can get to punish the evil in things like you!"

"Estelle! Stop saying dramatic things and keep it there!" Rita yelled before she unrolled a long scroll before moving it and dancing in the same place to create a sphere with a glyph using the long trail of the scroll. "O righteous will, let fall thy sword of lightning upon those who bear fault! ...Thunder Blade!"

A blade of electricity struck the pogo-sword down to the muddy ground before electrocuting it even more in great pain. "YEEEEEEEEEOWCH!" the pogo-sword yelled.

"Use a Magic Lens to see its status!" Rita yelled.

Estelle nodded and took out a rod with a blue eye-shaped top to see the pogo-sword's status through it. "Hmm... Rita! It's not very dangerous as I thought it would be! It's weakness is light!"

"Great. It's pretty much easy to tell for its dark aura." Rita prepared another spell as the pogo-sword got up and grunted angrily at her before stabbing its way to Rita. "Estelle!"

"Right on it!" Estelle said as light came from below her. "O divine spear, run my enemy through! ...Holy Lance!"

Several lances of light came from below the pogo-sword and they struck it at all sides. "OUCH!" the pogo-sword yelled.

Unfortunately for the weapon, Rita was ready for another spell. "O beating of the earth, sacrifice thy body to crush my enemies! ...Ground Dasher!"

A light came across the mud before several stalagmites sprouted out from below the pogo-sword and raised several chunks of the earth with a divine energy that damaged it greatly.

"W-why you..." the pogo-sword said as it panted and glared at them in utter fury. "THAT'S IT!" it yelled before the Shadow Bugs gave more power to it. "DIEY, DIE, DIE!"

"It's not making sense with its speech now..." Estelle muttered. "A-and I don't think it's going to be easier to defeat it either..."

"Okay then," Rita said before she glared at the upcoming weapon. "I think it's time to give it real hell..."

"Uh-oh..."

"YOU DIE, PESKY IDIOT GIRL!" the pogo-sword yelled loudly as it advanced at Rita with utter fury and irritation.

The moment it leaped to Rita...

"I'm so gonna make you hurt!" Rita said as she spun one time, calling forth a force that pushed the weapon away as a rainbow aura covered her. "I'm going to give you true HELL this time..."

"And there she goes," Estelle said.

"BLAH BLAH BLAH, VIOLENT PAIN!"

Arrows of darkness came from below the pogo-sword and they pinned it down with great force.

And Rita decided to use a Burst Arte.

Burst Artes are basically enhanced artes (attacks) that have stronger effects on enemies if the user (like the people who are like Rita or Estelle) can use the Over Limit.

"O resplendent mystery! Mystic Drive!"

A big ring of light was raised from below and it created a purple light that caused severe pain to the pogo-sword as it yelled loudly in pain.

"BLAH BLAH BLAH, TIDAL WAVE!"

A huge whirlpool pushed the pogo-sword around the field as it got dragged around in the mud.

However, Estelle decided to join in with her spells.

"O power that tries souls, shine! ...Photon!" Estelle yelled out to call forth a shiny light from within the pogo-sword that sprouted out and caused a great pain inside it.

It was time for another Burst Arte from Rita.

"O dancing water! Diffusional Drive!" Rita yelled out as she raised a hand to the rain.

"N-no, no, NO!" the pogo-sword shook in fear as a huge amount of water sprouted out from the mud and pushed it upwards to the rain. "I-I won't disappear like this! N-no way! I was told to stab the Smashers, not 2 broken dumb girls like you 2!"

"That is is now!" Rita yelled loudly as she concentrated a lot of energy in her final spell.

Her Mystic Arte.

"Now, Rita!" Estelle yelled as the pogo-sword came down.

The whole field turned empty with a blackish red as a background with the weapon and Rita, who moved her hands to the front. "O power that lies at the root of all creation," she said as she put her hands closer with closed eyes as she spun around 1 time and spread 4 spheres of earth, water, fire, and wind across. "O memory inscribed in ages past!" she yelled as the spheres of elements began to shine brighter. "Hear my call and arise before me!" she called out before she opened her eyes. "Ancient Catastrophe!"

The 4 spheres suddenly shone brightly before firing themselves at the center where Rita was to create a massive explosion of element across the empty void where they were in.

"W-wait!" the pogo-sword said before it was engulfed by the massive explosion. "AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"

Music stops

As the field got engulfed in a bright light, it returned to normal as the rain fell around. The pogo-sword laid down on the mud as it sobbed in pain. Estelle put her rapier away and sighed in relief. "C-come to think of it, I didn't use my rapier at all..." she said embarrassed.

"This is the fruit of my research," Rita said as she adjusted her goggles and sighed after her aura vanished.

Both girls walked closer to the weapon and they looked down at it. The pogo-sword trembled in fear as its eyes' pupils shrunk with fear. "U-u-u-u-u-uuh-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!!! S-stay away from me! I-I-I beg of you!"

"You know," Rita glared at the pogo-sword. "I hate pushovers like you. I don't care and mind about you anymore from this moment and onwards."

'U-u-u-u-u-u-uhh..." the pogo-sword shook with fear.

"Also, you can go to hell now..." Rita narrowed her eyes as she put her hands on her hips. "...Matthew."

"N-NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" Matthew yelled loudly in extreme pain as the Shadow Bugs left their wielder. Matthew's eyes rolled back before it vanished in a light and disappeared from the girls' sight.

Tales of Vesperia - Boss Victory Theme

Rita looked at Estelle, who seemed eager to do their pose. "...Alright," Rita said with a small smile as she raised her left hand. "Here we g-"

"Yay!" Estelle high-fived Rita with her left hand and a jump with a spin to stand right beside the Genius Mage.

Rita crossed her arms, closed her eyes, and nodded. "...Good job," she said.

Music stops

"Whew..." Estelle sighed. "We did it..."

"What, are you tired?" Rita asked as she rolled her eyes.

"Its blade came down a little bit too fast on my shield..." Estelle said.

"Well, the thing looked strong but it was just showing off... It was pretty annoying with its words as well. Wait, my Over Limit is not full. Estelle, give me the doll."

Estelle looked at her. "B-but it's Repede's favorite!"

"I don't care! Give me that doll! Besides, the dog loves to munch it when he wants to!"

Estelle sighed and pulled out a small doll that looked like Raven except that it had a weird expression on its face.

Repede can put dolls on his back in order to gain different artes. Every doll is modelled after Yuri, Estelle, Karol, Rita, Raven, and Judith.

The Genius Mage took the doll of the old man and started to hit it several times so she could build up her Over Limit. Estelle looked a little bit displeased for the usage on the doll.

Estelle looked around. "...What do we do now?"

The Genius Mage glanced at the downed Smashers as she kept pounding her right fist on the doll.

"Estelle, grab the shovel. We're going to give our good byes to thes-"

"Rita!" Estelle yelled.

"Okay. What do you want to do then?"

"Take them all inside?"

"Well, if you want to do that, you have to help me carry some of them together. Unfortunately, some of them are taller than us so it's going to take a while."

"I agree."

And so the 2 girls started to carry the bodies back into the mansion, one by one. For Rita's luckyness, her Over Limit was ready to use at anytime she wanted and kept the beaten up doll away.

Until everyone's favorite Ice Climber appeared out of nowhere.

"KYAH!" Rita stepped back and let Yoshi's head fall and hit the concrete of the first step of the entrance.

"You girls are so l33t!" Popo said as he ran in his feet. "I mean, you took that toy out with frickin' magic!"

"W-where in the hell did you appear?" Rita asked annoyed.

"I got kicked away by that toy's owner but that's all! I decided to go undercover and think about a strategy to own that guy and his sword, but then you came in and OWNED the snot out of the toy!"

The Genius Mage didn't understand a word he said.

"You know this kid?" Rita asked.

"I-I believe his name is Popo..." Estelle trailed off.

"Damn right it is!" Popo said. "So, want me to give you some help?"

"Er..." Rita looked unsure at the hyperactive Ice Climber.

"C'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mo-"

Albeit to say, this "little" question mad the Genius Mage that she chanted another spell.

"O countless particles that wander the heavens, rain down and glorify the
land... Meteor Storm!"

The clouds were blown apart as several meteors rained down on the field. The Ice Climber looked up at the bright light...

And smiled.

"Look! Shooting stars!" Popo said happily before one crushed him and disappeared revealing his dead carcass.

"Rita!" Estelle yelled.

"He was getting on my nerves, Estelle!" Rita yelled before Estelle sighed disappointed.

End of flashback

Main Lobby

Tales of Vesperia - United Oath

Nana looked annoyed at her brother.

"It was weak?" Samus asked.

"I remember that thing was stupidly strong," Wolf said. "I wasn't able to slash that thing with my claws or kick it away."

"Of course it was weak," Rita said. "It was annoying as it was weak. We've faced worse before and this was not hard at all."

It was shocking that Rita and Estelle were even stronger than the Smashers themselves. Why would both be so strong? Were the Smashers lazy?

Many of them looked worried for a second.

"When we woke up, she was already bossing us around," Yoshi said.

"Because you looked hostile to me," Rita said with a sigh. "Some of you look very evil to me."

"It's not our fault he looks evil," Falco said as he looked at Wolf.

"Mind your own business, parrot," Wolf said with a glare.

"Anyways," Rita closed her eyes. "That thing is dead, you're safe because of us, everything is at least normal, and everyone is happy."

"You almost wrecked the first floor with your meteors!" Sonic said.

"But I didn't in the end, right?"

"Well, you didn't."

"Good enough!" Rita smiled happily. "I hope we make good friends with each other from now on. I wouldn't mind to search for that dog no-"

"Do you think we're going to give you access to the mansion with that attitude?" Nana asked.

"Okay, you guys should have been deaf and blind the entire time," Rita said with a mad look. "I SAVED you from that pervertic sword-thing."

"Bring them back from the abyss of death! ...Resurrection!"

Rita's eyes looked bored as Estelle revived the hand without previous advice.

As a light touched the hand, he started to move up and floated as he shook a little.

"...YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!" Master Hand yelled at the Genius Mage that he quickly hid in the hallway. "E-everyone, get rid of her!"

"Oh, come on!" Rita yelled. "I'm not going to murder you!"

"I-I'm not going to fall for that!"

Chris decided to break in. "I-it's okay now!"

"..." Master Hand peered from the hallway.

"Boo," Rita said.

The hand disappeared and some of the Smashers chuckled.

"Rita!" Estelle yelled.

"When are you going to stop me from...oh, forget about it," Rita said with a sigh. "Okay, we're clear I have a right to live and stay here?"

"O-only until we find Repede," Estelle said. "We're just looking for him before we return with Yuri and the others at Dahngrest."

"Actually, Yuri, Karol, and the dragon freak left shortly after you left. You were away for a long time and they left one by one before I decided to come here and look for you," Rita explained.

Rita refers Judith as "dragon freak" for the fact that Judith rides a dragon friend called Ba'ul that she has raised for her entire life. Since this nickname sounds offensive, Rita hated Judith for destroying Blastia without explaining.

"A-are you sure?" Estelle asked. "Oh, I'm so sorry! I didn't know I made you all worried for my welfare!"

"Estelle, I think we should stop talking between ourselves now," Rita muttered as she looked at the Smashers. "Those guys could be plotting to murder me at the most unexpected moment."

"W-why just you?"

"A hunch," Rita said as she rolled her eyes.

"W-w-w-well..." Master Hand stuttered as he came back. "Y-y-y-y-you can stay here as long as you want."

"Perfect!" Rita said with a triumphant grin. "Estelle, let's go. We should get our rooms closer so we can talk about the dog's whereabouts."

The Genius Mage turned to the stairs and hummed happily as she went away.

The princess watched her getting away before looking at the Smashers with an embarrassing look. "I-I'm so sorry for everything!" she apologized before she ran to the Genius Mage.

The Smashers looked at each other before looking at the hand.

"P-phew, she's gone..." Master Hand sighed in relief. "Let me get my composure back."

The hand turned.

Then he turned back to them.

"There," he said.

"Is it alright for her to stay here?" Pikachu asked.

"You heard her," Master Hand said.

"You're pretty much scared to death by the mention of her name, right?" Mewtwo asked.

"..."

"Thought so," Mewtwo said. "Though what she said about her strength was true. I can feel a very strong magic coming out from both of them."

"Wait," Jigglypuff interrupted. "Are you saying we're weak?"

"How is that even possible?" Pit asked. "We've defeated many before without that much of a problem."

"Except Culex..." Chris trailed off.

"Who?" Master Hand asked.

After a long explanation...

"Well, Geno and the others left, right?" Master Hand asked.

"Yes. But how did you say good bye when you were fainted?" Kirby asked.

"I woke up for a moment but fainted after I found Rita sitting on top of me..." the hand said and sniffed. "I-I had the demon waiting for my awakening just to be killed right after... It was a matter of life and death..."

"You do remember the city got destroyed, right?" Sonic asked.

"...No, no no no no no no no no no no no no..." Master Hand muttered before he went outside.

Outside

The hand got out in a hurry and floated high up to see the clouds above the ruined the city. Master Hand backed away in the air before he screamed loudly in utter horror.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-HO-HO-HO-HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" he screamed.

Main Lobby

The Smashers (most of them who were sitting on the almost burned sofas) heard the scream of agony echoing through the mansion before the hand came back and coughed.

"W-well, this is sure a shocking result..." Master Hand said. "Economy is pretty much dead in that city."

Some of them eyed him at his sudden change of attitude from agonized to normal mood.

"Can you repair the city?" Pichu asked.

"You wish! I can only repair much smaller things like rooms or the like!"

"Wait, Ness has a crazy amount of money in his ATM card. Ness, do you think you can use it all?" Pikachu asked.

Ness simply looked at him.

"...So?"

"My dad told me to spend my money wisely."

"So?"

"He would hate me if I spend it to rebuild a city. I know it's a good thing, but he would feel bad."

"Are you daddy's boy or what?" Pikachu asked with a glare.

"I am," Ness responded.

"..."

"What? Is it bad to listen to my dad? I like him!"

"...Uuuuuuh..." Pikachu sighed.

"What about Peach?" Luigi asked.

"I don't think I have enough servants to reapir the city," Peach said disappointed.

"And Hyrule doesn't have that passionate workers either," Zelda explained.

"And if we rebuild the city by ourselves?" Kirby asked.

"..." Nobody spoke.

"...Let's just wait until something comes up, okay? (Although it's very unlikely...)" Master Hand suggested and thought. "And you guys should have been stronger," Master Hand also said.

"Hello?" Sonic got up. "That's what we were trying to say to you!"

"So should I hit the GYM?" C. Falcon asked.

"No, I didn't mean that!" Master Hand said. "I meant...well...you guys will have to wait until tomorrow." The hand seemed to move away before he looked at his CD-breaker guy. "...What in the world is this bastard doing in here..."

"Dood?" Prinny said confused.

"I thought Etna took all of them away! I can't let this guy walk around the mansion on my watch!"

Prinny took Rita's example and decided to stand up for his fight to stay in the mansion.

Prinny glared at the hand. "Okay, dood. I won't let you boss me around! Only Lord Etna can, dood!"

The Smashers watched as Prinny jumped off from the sofa and stood in a fighting stance (which was hard to picture).

"Why isn't anybody doing nothing?" Pichu asked.

"We want to take this unnecesary little time to think again about this whole crap," Snake said. "Let the f(beep)r get toasted by the hand."

"I-I believe in you!" Peach cheered, making Lucario roll his eyes.

"Die, dood!" Prinny yelled as he...danced with a pink spotlight shining down on him.

Master Hand looked above and 4 frying pans fell on him.

"Did that do it, dood?" Prinny asked.

"...You. Out. Now," Master Hand threatened.

"..." Prinny sweated before he took out 2 long machetes. "A-aah!"

"..." Master Hand looked at him.

Pit frowned as he walked outside. "I'm going to be outside if anyone wants to talk to me..." he said before he closed the doors.

Chris followed right soon after and Lucario decided to follow him in order to make him go to the valley as soon as possible.

"N-now you all know my evil side, dood!" Prinny said in panic.

"We didn't know that you had an evil side until you just told us," Ness said bored.

Master Hand simply made a fist and pounded the Prinny 1 time like a swat. "There," Master Hand said.

"D-dood..." Prinny said weakly as Peach got up and went to him.

"Call Chris so he guides the bastard to Etna," Master Hand said. "Everyone, I think you should all rest for the day. I'll call you until the next advice."

The hand disappeared in a blink and the Smashers decided to go to their rooms while Peach seemed to be sad for her Prinny friend...before she decided to clean up the mess all by herself before the Prinny woke up and decided to help her.

Too bad it was going to take a while.

Outside

"Oh, you came out to talk to me?" Pit asked.

"Just because the Prinny was boring me out...or just because I didn't know what to do."

The angel wanted to change the topic. "Why did this have to happen?" Pit asked. "The city is destroyed because we failed, right?"

"We couldn't do anything about Culex at all..." Chris said disappointed.

"Let's not bring up that event again, please," Lucario suggested. "Chris, I came here to ask you to open the way to my home."

"Is he going away?" Pit asked.

"Just for a time in order to enhance my aura," Lucario explained. "I couldn't use it at my full strength yesterday so I'm going to seek a "cure" for it if you understand what I mean."

"I think I can understand that ver..." Pit trailed off.

"Why'd you stop?" Chris asked.

Pit took out his dual blades. "Something is coming..."

Lucario glared at his sides. "I sense someone coming as well..."

"..." Chris looked annoyed. "Hey, since when Pit can sense someone?"

"Because I DO hear and listen," Pit said.

"Hey!"

"Shh!" Pit whispered.

Chris frowned before he looked around.

The trio remained silent for a moment in order to find a sound or anything to spot the person coming to them.

The bushes nearby moved.

"Show yourself!" Pit yelled as he quickly turned his blades into a bow and fired a fast arrow at the bushes.

"Grrrrr!" a voice grunted angrily as a fast blur jumped out from the bushes and dodged the arrow in time. The blur came out and it seemed to stand in an stance full of awaryness against the trio.

However, they stopped their positions and stood normally.

"...Wait," Pit began. "...Why is...well..."

"..." Chris got a thinking position. "...A dog?"

The blur revealed to be a dog wearing several chains across the neck with a smoking pipe on its mouth and a scar closing its left eye. The dog itself had blue and white fur and it also had a weird shaped tail that had half the lenght of its body. The dog also wore a small brown seat on its back.

"I don't think its hostile..." Pit said as the dog stared at them.

The dog stopped showing its fangs...and it walked to them before sitting down.

"Grrrr..." Lucario grunted down at the dog.

"Lucario!" Chris yelled.

"S-sorry..."

"..." Pit knelt and approached a hand to it. "Are you lost? You seem to have an owner, do you?"

The dog simply looked at Pit's hand before it tried to bite it quickly. The angel managed to pull back his hand in time as the dog grunted and showed its fangs at him.

"Why do you want to bite my hand?" Pit asked angrily.

"I don't know," Chris said sarcastically. "Who wanted to hurt him with a pointy arrow?"

"Oops..."

"Here, let me try," Chris said as he knelt down and approached a hand to the dog's head.

"Chris, look out!" Lucario yelled.

The hand was able to get on the dog's head and the dog itself stared at Chris. "...Hmmmmmmmmm..." the dog hmm'd.

"Aw, you're so cute..." Chris said as he started to rub its head with care.

Lucario was getting impacient...and jealous.

"You look jealous," Pit teased a little.

"Grrrrrrrrrrr," Lucario grunted at the angel.

The dog pushed Chris's hand down with its snout and it licked the hand's back. The World Traveler chuckled happily as the dog licked his hand with care.

"H-hey, stop it. Y-you're making me laugh..." Chris said as he chuckled.

"Woof woof!" the dog barked.

"...Wait a minute..." Chris tried to recall something. "I think I know this dog somewhere..."

"Wait," Pit began. "Didn't Raven, Rita, and Estelle said something about a dog called Repede?"

"Woof woof, woof!" the dog barked.

"Did it said yes?" Pit asked.

The dog whined.

"..." Chris took out the photo that Raven gave him and tried to match it with the dog. "...This dog is..."

"..." Pit looked at the photo. "...This dog is Repede."

[DededeCloneChris]

"Woof woof woof! Woof woof, woof!" Repede barked in agreement.

"...Wait, Lucario, can you read his mind?" Chris asked.

"Why?" Lucario asked.

Chris stared at him.

"Ugh..." Lucario frowned and read Repede's mind. "...Yes, he is Repede. He says he's glad to have found someone who knows about Raven and the others."

"Woof woof woof!" Repede seemed to be understanding.

"He says he wants to see them as soon as possible."

"So if we show him to Rita, she's going to have to leave the mansion, right?" Pit asked.

"I don't mind her," Chris said.

"B-but did you see how she left the terrain out here?"

The 4 looked at the destroyed landscape in front of the mansion.

Repede whined and seemed to sigh as well.

"He says he can't believe Rita did all of this destruction in front of the mansion," Lucario explained. "But he says it's expected from her if someone said something to her that made her angry."

"...So he knows them," Pit said.

Repede nodded.

Chris chuckled. "You know, I'm so impressed that he can understand us. I haven't met a dog like this in all my life."

"And Lucario is not one?" Pit asked.

Lucario glared at him.

"You lick him."

Lucario blinked embarrassed.

"Anyway," Chris looked at the 2. "We should show him to Rita and Estelle."

"Woof woof woof!" Repede barked a little bit high-pitched.

"He says he wants to," Lucario said.

"Okay, let's go back," Pit said.

The 4 decided to go inside the mansion. However, Lucario felt uneasy about Repede impressing Chris just because he was well trained. Fortunately, this was not going to last for too long...

"Look! He's walking close to me!" Chris said as Repede seemed to lean his head to his leg.

"Because Pit is on the other side," Lucario explained.

"No, I don't think so," Chris said. "Look at his expression."

Lucario looked at Repede...and sure enough, he was smiling with a happy expression.

"..." Lucario glared at the dog.

Did Repede just chuckle to himself?

"Grrrr!"

"Lucario!" Chris yelled. "What is wrong with you today?"

Lucario snapped out from his glare. "N-nothing," he said quickly.

"...You better."

Main Lobby

As the 4 got in, Estelle walked from the hallway and spotted the dog. "Oh, Repede! Thank goodness you're okay!" she said happily as she ran to the dog.

Repede walked away from her.

"H-hey! Don't do this to me again!" Estelle yelled as she tried to hug the dog.

Repede kept getting away from her like he didn't care.

"W-why he doesn't like me?" Estelle asked confused as she prevented to shed a tear.

It is unclear why Repede gets away from Estelle. She has been trying to like him to the point to be serious about it.

"Oh yes, we found him," Pit said. "He came out from the bushes outside."

"He did?" Estelle asked. "So he did go away..." she trailed off as she looked at the dog walking back to the trio.

And to Chris.

"Huh?" Estelle tilted her head. "Weird, he's leaning your head to your leg..."

"Why is it weird?" Chris asked as Lucario stared at Repede.

"Repede doesn't get along well with any other people save for Yuri and Judith. ...I think he likes you for some reason. (B-but it's completely unfair! He likes him but not me?!)" Estelle explained and thought sadly.

It was not long before Master Hand came from upstairs. "Okay, it's time to get this floor back like it was before," he said before he snapped his fingers.

The whole floor shone brightly before everything on it got instantly repaired in a blink of an eye.

"Done," he said.

"...Hey, you could do this when they destroyed the kitchen that time?" Chris asked.

"I...er..." Master Hand trailed off. "U-um..."

Chris glared at him.

"...Hey!" Master Hand spotted Repede. "Okay, who brought the dog in? I thought I said I wouldn't let anyone else inside here! Dogs aren't allowed to roam in this place!"

Lucario seemed to smile a little.

"Except Lucario who is a dog!"

Lucario's smile disappeared and he glared at the hand.

"I-I'm sorry," Estelle said with a polite bow. "They found Repede and we were trying to find him."

"So does that mean Rita can get away from here?"

"A-apparently so..."

"...RITA!" Master Hand yelled and went after the Genius Mage.

The Smashers, Estelle, and Repede heard both of them from another floor.

"W-what the-what are you doing?! P-put me down!" Rita yelled.

"Never!" Master Hand yelled.

Master Hand came back and put Rita back on the floor. The Genius Mage looked mad at him. "Okay, do you want me to kill you right now?"

"Rita!" Estelle yelled.

"It's the 7th time you stop me in a row now!" Rita yelled before she looked down at Repede. "...The dog!"

"That's right," Master Hand said. "You can leave the mansion now." He moved around. "Ha-ha, you can get out, and leave me alo-ne, ha-ha."

"Just wait a minute there," Rita said.

"You can't stay here any longer," Master Hand said with a chuckle. "What don't you understand?"

"Sorry, but we have to stay here a little bit longer."

A record scratched.

"...WHAT?!" Master Hand asked in disbelief. "Why?! Why can't I get rid o-I mean, why?!"

"Because I've got word that Yuri, Karol, and Judith were here."

"Who?" the hand asked.

"She means our friends," Estelle said. "Some of you kindly told us...sort of."

"Who?" the hand asked again.

Toon Link came in and whistled innocently.

"You little rascal," Master Hand muttered. "What did you tell them?"

Toon Link looked freaked out. "I-I'm sorry! I-I was walking right next to their rooms when I was wondering about that Karol guy!"

C. Falcon peered from the hallway. "And I was wondering about that sex-I mean, good-looking beauty out loud by accident!"

Lucas peered out from the other side. "A-and I was wondering about that Yuri person as well... S-sorry!"

"...Rita menaced them!" Estelle broke in as she pointed an accussing finger to Rita. "S-she managed to overhear them that she wanted to kill them right off if they didn't say anything!"

Rita sweated. "I-I didn't do such a thing!"

"You did!" the other 3 witnesses yelled.

"SHUT UP!" Master Hand yelled. "Either way, you 3 can get out of the mansion!"

"Never!" Rita yelled back. "Or do you want to provoke me again?"

"Rita!" Estelle yelled.

"IT'S THE 8TH TIME YOU TRY TO STOP ME ALREADY!" Rita yelled furiously.

A big argument between Estelle, Rita, Master Hand, Toon Link, C. Falcon, and Lucas broke in as each other argued and argued for their good (and welfare). Rita would menace the hand by magic but the hand would yell back at her while Estelle tried to stop Rita from causing a repeat of the last incident as the other 3 Smashers argued between the 3.

Chris, Pit, Repede, and Lucario watched helplessly as the 6 argued back and forth.

Repede whined and laid down on the floor.

"I know..." Chris said as he knelt down and rubbed Repede's head. "This is the family I live with."

Lucario had an eye on the dog with utter rage, wanting to erupt out from himself.

However, it was clear that Master Hand was going to kick (or slap) the 3 out so Chris would stop his attention towards Repede. Lucario smiled at the thought.

Unfortunately, his fortune wasn't going to last that long because of a person that came from the hallway.

"Dood?" Prinny came in and looked at the 6. "Why are they arguing, dood?"

The 4 looked at Prinny.

Something about Prinny made Repede angry that he slowly showed his fangs.

"Well, they're arguing about Rita staying here at the mansion to wait for some of their friends," Pit said.

"Oh, I see, dood," Prinny said with a nod. "I think that hand is going to get the victory though."

Repede slowly got back on his feet and grunted.

"Dood, I want to stay here and see what kind of happenings...happen here, dood."

Repede's mouth seemed to be opening.

"And look!" Prinny looked at Repede. "That dog looks so coo-"

"GRRRRRRRRRRRR-RUAH!" Repede leaped at Prinny and started to bite him.

"AAAH, DOOD!" Prinny yelled in pain. "G-GET HIM OFF, GET HIM OFF, GET HIM OFF, DOOD! OH MY GOD, MY POUCH, DOOD!"

"R-Repede!" Chris yelled and ran to the 2. "W-what do I do to stop him?! U-um, Repede, u-um, b-bad dog!"

"Don't stay too close!" Pit yelled as he went to the 3.

Lucario watched both groups doing their things. Confused, he tried to think for the best action.

"AND NO! YOU CAN'T STAY HER-" Master Hand stopped yelling once he saw Repede biting the Prinny in a furious way. "Hey, what's happening?"

The 5 stopped arguing and they looked at the dog and penguin fighting against each other.

"Repede, no!" Estelle yelled as she tried to pull the dog away by the collar from the almost-dead Prinny. "C-come over here, boy!"

"GRRRRRRRRRRR, WOOF WOOF!" Repede barked angrily as he was pulled away by Estelle and Pit.

"M-my goddess, he wants to eat him alive!" Pit yelled as they tried to stop the dog from murdering the poor Prinny who ran behind Chris in fear.

"T-take me back to Etna, dood!" Prinny pleaded between sobs. "I-I don't wanna die, dood! I-I don't wanna stay here any longer, dood!" He hugged Chris in fear.

Chris sighed and hugged Prinny. "It's okay, it's okay now..." He rubbed his back. "You're alive and that's what matters to me..."

"D-dood..." Prinny cried a little.

"I-I'm going to take him back to Etna right now if you'll excuse me..." Chris said worried as he grabbed the Prinny's hand and lead him to the command room. "Don't worry, I'm going to tell her what happened and convince her to heal you."

"T-thank you, dood..." Prinny said before they left the lobby and everyone in there.

"..." Master Hand looked at Repede. "...Good dog!"

"What?" the 7 asked in unison.

"You gave that guy pure hell, good!" Master Hand said happy. "I'd never thought you would give such a proper punishment for breaking 258 CDs! They say dogs are man's best friend, and they were right after all!"

"But you're a hand," Rita pointed out. "And you're not his owner."

"Who cares?" Master Hand asked. "I never liked any dogs but this one, oh god, this one is the best one I've ever seen and met!"

"So what? That doesn't change anything."

"I'm going to let you 3 live and stay here longer for this priceless moment!"

"What?!" Pit, C. Falcon, Lucas, and Toon Link asked in shock.

Lucario's pupils shrunk in shock.

Rita blinked in confusion before a light bulb appeared on her head and made her grin. "Oh, so you're letting us stay here until we find our friends, correct?" Rita asked with a mischievous look on her eyes.

"Absolutely!" Master Hand said. "Without destroying anything though!"

"Hmm... Would you let me do my research with all your Blastia in the mansion?"

"Of course!"

"Yeah!" Rita nodded. "Then is this a deal?"

"Deal!" Master Hand shook Rita's right hand.

"I-I think you're being too generous..." Lucario commented.

The other 3 nodded and Rita glared at him.

"So what if I am?" Master Hand asked. "I hate Prinnys as much as Tabuu! Seeing this dog doing the unthinkable to one of them it's a priceless moment to watch and enjoy!"

"Seriously, you're being too generous over a ridiculous beating," Lucario said.

"Say that again and you're out of the mansion."

Lucario glared at the hand but he had to agree with a nod and a grunt of annoyance.

"I'm so sorry," Rita said in front of Lucario. "But you'll have to "tolerate" me a little longer, doggie."

"It's fine with you," Lucario said. "But..."

"You're a weirdo, you knew that?" Rita asked with a frown. "Okay, let me stay alone for a while and inspect every single Blastia in here."

The Genius Mage skipped away with happy hums as she left.

"I-I'm going to celebrate this moment with a cup of tea," Estelle said with a forced smile as she walked away to her room.

"And I'm going to use a tranquilizer dart to stop my brother from wrecking our room," Master Hand said as he left.

"..." Lucario glared at Repede. "You're not going to get away with this. Nobody here likes any of you 3 at all."

"U-um..." Lucas walked to Repede. "S-so who is this dog?"

Repede looked at Lucas and he licked his face several times.

"H-hey, stop it!" Lucas pleaded as he laughed.

"Hmm..." Toon Link walked to the dog and rubbed his back. "Heheh, this dog looks cool by the way he wears those chains around his neck..."

C. Falcon walked to them. "You know, I always wanted to have a tough-looking dog when I was little."

Lucario eyed the 3 as they got interested in Repede.

"Hey, dog," C. Falcon said as he took out a small cookie. "Catch it!"

He tossed the cookie to the air and Repede reacted fast and jumped straight to it to bite it down before landing back on the floor.

"Good boy!" C. Falcon said as he rubbed his head quickly.

"Hey, that looked so awesome!" Toon Link said in awe. "He jumped like 10-feet to the air!"

"Y-yes!" Lucas said with a nod. "He reminds me of Boney..."

"(You 3 can't BE serious...)" Lucario thought as he shook his head slowly.

Between all this event, Repede looked at Lucario and grinned a little to tick him off.

"Grrr..." Lucario grunted silently at the dog while the 3 rubbed some parts of his back.

Disgaea: Hour of Darkness

Laharl's Castle
Throne Room

"And that's the story of this Prinny," Chris explained.

"L-Lord Etna!" Prinny cried and hugged Etna's legs. "I-it's good to be back under your command, dood!"

Etna kept staring at Chris. "So that's it? You came back to return him here?"

"I thought you were going to miss one of them so I took him here," Chris responded.

Etna sighed. "Okay, okay, I get it. I'll keep this bastard from getting away from here."

"(Always being rude to them...) Just be sure to heal him. There are several dog's bites around him that need to be treated quickly."

"Yeah, yeah."

"...You're going to heal him, right?"

"I told you already!" Etna yelled angrily.

"Okay. I don't want to stay in here anymore because him would appear in any second..."

Etna chuckled. "Oh, by the way, he wants to murder any previous vassal if there's someone like you in the castle."

"...I knew it..." Chris muttered.

Suddenly, the big double doors of the throne room opened fast and the Overlord's son, Laharl, came in with his everyday glare. "ETNA! Where have you been all this time?! I've been waiting for you to get done with th preparations to strike that Lord Baal guy with those servants of yours!"

Lord Baal is supposedly a very strong demon that has been wandering the Netherworlds in order to challenge the strongest.

"..." Chris froze.

"...YOU!" Laharl yelled. "What the hell are you doing in my castle?! I told you to get away from my sight and yet you insist in barging in here?!"

"B-bye!" Chris yelled as he made the portal and entered inside before it vanished.

"Come back here!" Laharl yelled as he ran where Chris was. "Come back here, I say!"

"O-our prince is always as violent, right?" Prinny asked.

"Meh, you get used to him..." Etna said bored.

Prinny left your team

Smash Mansion

The afternoon went on...

Kitchen

"So," Master Hand said. "For your hard effort in saving the city, though it was ultimately destroyed and not saved as we planned, I arranged this special feast for you for protecting the mansion against Smithy's forces."

The kitchen was restored to its previous state. On the long white table, many kinds of different food and dishes were located as the steam of some food ornamented the atmosphere. The Smashers (everyone) seemed to be a little bit unsure about celebrating at this time.

"But is this fine?" Zelda asked. "We fought and won to protect the mansion but the city was..."

"Look, Zelda," Master Hand began. "We need to get our minds to forgive the grim events so we can work to save the worlds and defeat Tabuu someday. I thought a feast would be the most appropiate thing to forgive and have a good time."

Of all the Smashers, Kirby seemed to be the most happiest. However, Meta Knight was going to make sure that the black hole holder didn't swallow the entire food like the last time.

"If you say so..." Diddy said.

"Oh, alright. We're going to have a sack competition shortly then," Master Hand said.

It was humiliation or the feast, and the latter was the most appropiate as everyone took a seat.

Before Chris started with his plate, he decided to talk with Lucario. "So, I think you should go to the valley, Lucario."

Lucario nodded. "Yes, thank you for understanding. Take in mind that I'm doing this so you can be prou-I mean, safe during fights."

"Aw, thank you," Chris said as he rubbed Lucario's head for a moment. "I love when you say those things."

"Guuuuuuuuuuoooorgh..." Lucario growled happily before they chuckled a little and started with their plates while everyone was already eating.

As they were eating, the trio from the other city came from the lobby.

"Oooooooh, I haven't eaten for who knows how long..." Rita said as she walked to take a seat between Fox and Snake, who looked at her for a moment.

"Hey!" Master Hand floated to her. "What are you doing?"

"I believe we made a deal before, didn't we?" Rita asked. "Besides, my stomach needs to be feed and I haven't eaten anything good these days."

"..."

"Or do you want me to Violent Pain your butt (if he has any) to death?

"...Fine..." Master Hand said as he floated away.

Snake hid a small chuckle.

Estelle ignored them as she walked to Zelda. "U-um, may I have seat with you? This feast looks apetizing to me and I don't want to pass up this opportunity as well."

"Oh, sure," Zelda said with a nod, but she found Link already sitting next to her. "Link, would you?"

"I heard you," Link said with a sigh as he walked away to Ike and let Estelle have the seat.

Chris looked behind him where Repede laid down. "I think Repede got a liking to me," he said with a small smile as the dog opened his good eye and looked up to him.

"(And that's why he needs to get away from you,)" Lucario thought.

"Have a bone," Chris said as he gave Repede a chicken bone. The dog looked at the bone and he started to bite it with his sharp fangs.

"(I need to ignore him and I'm going to be fine,)" Lucario thought.

"Hmm," Rita hmm'd at the taste of the piece of turkey. "Hmm! At least the hand does a good work with the food in here..."

When she looked down at her right, she spotted a diagonal-shaped device...

...Or Fox's Reflector hanging on his belt.

The Genius Mage simply took it away and looked at it, ignoring the plate with food.

"...?" Fox looked at his left and found Rita staring at his Reflector. The vulpine moved his hand to her and motioned hins fingers to him to give the device back.

"I'll give it to you tomorrow," Rita responded without even glancing at the fox.

Fox swallowed his food down his throat. "Who said you could take it away that simple? Give it back."

"Nuh-uh," Rita shook her head (without looking at him). "So far, this Blastia looks interesting... I wonder if I could dismantle it."

At the mention of dismantling the device, Fox glared at her. "I can't let people like you know about the technology of Slippy. That guy wants to have privacy with his inventions and I swore to keep the promise to him."

"Too bad you failed today," Rita responded back and Fox narrowed his glare at her.

For some reason, Repede's ears perked up and he quickly dashed all the way around the table in silence and made it to Rita and Fox. The dog grabbed the device with his mouth from Rita.

"Y-you dog! Give it back to me!" Rita yelled.

Repede didn't listen and he hung the device on Fox's belt before sitting down and staring up at the vulpine.

"Um...thanks..." Fox said a little bit surprised before the dog walked back to Chris.

Nobody even looked at them for a second or Repede.

When Repede laid down behind Chris, he looked at Lucario and chuckled a little.

The aura wielder was watching his action and he grew uncomfortable. Fox probably found a liking to the dog for helping him to get his Reflector back (and Rita tried again, but Fox slapped the back of her hand away, making the Genius Mage angry at him before returning to eat with a grunt of annoyance).

"Hey, what's that smell in ta air?" Raven asked as he came from the other side of the kitchen and walked around. "You guys havin' a feast without poor ol' Raven? Seriously, call me if there's food involved!"

"..." Estelle blinked in surprise as the old man walked behind her without noticing. "...Raven?"

Repede's ears perked up again and he lifted his snout from the floor to look at the old man.

Raven froze without having a shocked face. Instead, he sweated.

"Raven!" Estelle yelled in happiness and hugged the old man from his back. "I knew I was going to find you sooner or later! Where have you been all this time? We were so worried about your welfare!"

"..." Raven's eyes twitched. "...Hidin' from Rita, that's why..."

"Hmm?" Rita stopped eating. "Did anybody mention my name in here?"

Raven got a shocked expression and looked directly to the Genius Mage. Rita turned her head athis direction and she simply blinked at him.

"...You..." Rita muttered darkly.

Every single Smasher stopped eating and they looked at the 4.

"Wait, how come everyone heard her?" Yoshi asked.

"...Mommy..." Raven whispered in a high pitched tone as the Genius Mage got off from her seat and walked to him while Estelle watched helplessly from behind him. "..." Raven looked at Rita.

"...So, you finally showed your face around here," Rita said with crossed arms. "You do know what happened the last time, right?"

"Yes..." Raven muttered.

Rita looked bored and glanced around to see nearly 30 characters staring at them. "You decided to hide in here so they could protect you from me, right?"

"Only Toon Link though," Ness said before Toon Link hit his head. "Oww!"

"L-look..." Raven muttered. "I didn't even think I could find a place like this in my whole life... I was able to convince them to let me live and stay here until you calmed down because I didn't want to throw away my life."

"And so you need to die," Rita said.

Raven hid behind Estelle.

"R-Rita!" Estelle yelled.

"...But you should thank Estelle for changing my mind," Rita said.

"...What?" Raven asked.

"Estelle made me think again about my actions that I found forgiviness for you. That accident in the bathroom is as good as forgotten," Rita explained. "Star celebrating because I won't kill you or punish you..."

Raven's eyes filled a little bit with tears.

"But take this in mind," Rita continued. "Do another thing like that and you'll be dead for sure. The only thing I hate the most in the world it's perverts like you, old man." She moved her hand to him. "Shake hands with me and we have a deal."

Raven sniffed.

"Go now," Estelle whispered.

The old man sniffed one time and walked to Rita. "I-I'm sorry if I made you angry... I won't do that again to save myself from murder."

He shook hands with Rita.

"Then we're clear," Rita said.

"T-totally..." Raven said.

It was not long before Zelda slowly started to applaud. Ike saw this and started to applaud as well. One by one, almost everyone started applauding as Raven seemed to have taken a whole deal of trouble off from his back as Estelle hugged him.

However, Rita seemed to grow annoyed.

"Do you want a Meteor Storm in here or what?!" she yelled in embarrassment.

Everyone stopped clapping and resumed to eat in silence as some talked and tried to forget the menace.

"Piss me off again and you're going to die for sure," Rita warned the old man as she went back to her seat.

"...Finally, I can rest in peace..." Raven sighed before he fainted.

"R-Raven!" Estelle yelled and knelt down to help the old man (as a small bubble with his face on it seemed to be getting out from his nose, signaling that it was his soul).

"Chris..." Lucario trailed off. "...I want to stay here."

"What?" Chris asked.

"I think I can train myself to build up my aura to its normal level without going to the valley."

"But are you sure?"

"I'm sure of it. I'm going to train hard."

"...Okay," Chris said, looking unsure. "But train hard, okay?"

"I will," Lucario said as the World Traveler resumed to eat, giving Lucario a small time to glare down at the down. "...I will..." he muttered with a grunt.

Repede merely grinned at him before closing his eye.

It was going to be a long struggle to get Chris back to him as Lucario thought.

"Hmm... Heheheheheh..." Pikachu (who seemed to watch both of them from his own seat) grinned. "I think I can help you, Lucario. Jealousy isn't that hard to ignore when I'm around..."

Sonic seemed to be watching the sun hiding in the horizon. The hedgehog made a serious face before he looked down. "(Am I going to change...tonight?)

TO BE CONTINUED...

...

"The Mansion's Mascot. This is going to get good very soon..." Pikachu muttered with an evilly chuckle.

Do you want to save your data?

Yes

Overwrite File?

No

What?

Yes

But you sai-

Yes

...

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