The moon in the night was clouded; The skies had rained like cats and dogs and thunder had roared over the forest below. What had echoed through the skies and made the animals scattered were the sounds of gunshots and dogs barking.

A young mobian, named Shadow ran away from the sounds, as he heard men shout, "DON'T LET HIM ESCAPE!"

Shadow was covered with cuts from the branches and thorns in the forest and bruises from the many falls he took trying to get away from them.

It had always been like this for Shadow, for weeks now it's been like this. About five weeks ago, a Senator named Senator Victor was assassinated, and everyone thinks that Shadow was the one that did it. But he knew for sure that it was a lie, from the very beginning it was lie. He was off duty from the G.U.N the day the Senator was killed, but many of the police reports had said that he was there at the scene of the crime.

He had tried to tell them otherwise, but his own people from the G.U.N called him a liar, and let's just say, Shadow had to resign from them. And now here he was, running from his life from the G.U.N, the C.I.A and the F.B.I. He had no one to turn too, no one to trust, he was on his own.

He was no hiding behind a tree as the rain continued to fall. He looked at his rocket shoes and saw that they were broken; probably beyond repair so if he was in a serious fork in the road, he would have no chance.

He heaved deep breaths after running for so long, he hadn't slept for days and nights, and he just wanted to shut his eyes and sleep for at least ten minutes. But he couldn't seeing how as he was a wanted criminal now. He didn't want to fight back. He didn't want to hurt the men he used to work with, the men that he respected, however if he was pushed back into a corner he knew that he would have no choice, but all in all he didn't want to hurt them.

"Damn it…" He thought, "I've never felt so helpless in my whole life. I've never had to run before until now. I need to get off the grid until the heat dies down. But I won't get that far with Chaos Control without a Chaos Emerald. So what am I supposed to do now?"

Soon enough, he was bought out of his own thoughts when he saw the rays of lights through the bushes and he heard the dogs barking within the distance. He quickly started to move when he heard them coming. He kept moving downhill until he reached the fork in road he hoped he never had to run into.

He found himself standing before a river that was flooding from the storm and the drop was at least 20 feet from where he stood. He frantically started to look around the area to see if he could get to the other side of the river. He soon sighed with relief when he saw that there was a fallen tree that had reached the other side of the river. He had started to run towards the makeshift bridge but was soon stopped in his tracks when a bullet nearly hit his foot.

"DAMN IT!" He shouted.

Many soldiers came and surrounded him from where he stood; Shadow backed up until he ran into the edge of the cliff.

"WE HAVE YOU SURROUNDED SHADOW THE HEDGEHOG!" A G.U.N soldier shouted, "YOU HAVE NOWHERE ELSE TO RUN NOW!"

Another had soon yelled, "PUT YOUR HANDS UP! NOW!"

Shadow instead of putting his hands up, he had prepared to take his inhibitor rings off.

"SHADOW! STAND DOWN! OR WE WILL SHOOT!"

Shadow had then replied, "You should know me already Aiden. That I would never attack any of the people I respect in the G.U.N."

"But-" One of them started to say, "You killed the Senator! You murdered him in cold blood!"

"I will say it before, and I will say it again." Shadow said, "I was off-duty that day. I was no where near the Senator. Just ask Rogue and Omega since you know for a fact that they would never lie about me."

"But you ran! You resigned!"

"That doesn't mean I abandoned you! If you still see me as one of you, than you will NOT pull that trigger!"

Soon enough the ones that were from the G.U.N soldiers lowered their guns, and the others who are members of the F.B.I & C.I.A were stunned that they did such a thing. Shadow let out a small smile and said "Thank you."

Shadow lowered his hands and prepared himself to use Chaos Control. But just when he was about to shout it out those two words, a thunder let out a loud roar of thunder which lit up the whole sky and then he felt a sudden rush of agony pierce like a knife through his side.

Everything was muffled the sound of the rain, the dogs barking and the protest shouting of the G.U.N to the other members of the C.I.A and F.B.I.

He slowly looked down and saw that he was shot at the side of his stomach and that he started to bleed. He felt the dizziness rush to his head, everything in his body felt heavy, his vision was fuzzy and he started to lose his balance.

He soon felt himself free falling before feeling the rushing water from river engulfing him.

Than soon enough, darkness had grabbed a hold of him.

…

After what had seemed like hours for him he slowly came too. Strangely enough as he awoke he didn't feel any kind of pain, even though he had a bullet pierce his side. His vision was all fuzzy at first; but after he blinked a few times his vision became clear. He found himself in some kind of medical room.

Without sitting up he turned his head and looked around, the room, but the only thing he found was what appeared to be at least 20 crystal like hearts. He sat up, still shocked at the fact that he didn't feel any pain, but that wasn't the only thing that surprised him. He saw himself wearing clothing, actual clothing!

He got up and went over to a single mirror that was within the room and proceeded to look at himself. He saw that he was wearing a grey hoodie with a white collar and what appeared to be a red circle divided into four pieces. Tied around just below the elbow was some kind of pack. With the grey hoodie he wore green navy pants; on his left leg he had a spike knee pad, and on his right leg he had yet another small brown pack.

"Okay…" Shadow said to himself, "What kind of dimension did I jump into this time?"

Soon enough he heard the door opened; He turned around and saw that it was a young human girl with long blue hair and a pair of blue eyes. In fact she had on nothing but blue; Her cape, her gloves, her dress, her leggings and boots, pretty much everything. Around it she had a type of brown belt around from her waist to her shoulder, something to hold her sword. Upon her head she had what appeared to be a small golden crown.

She sighed with relief when she saw Shadow up and about. "You're alright." She said, "Thank goodness. I thought for a minute that you wouldn't wake up."

Shadow gave her a quizzical look, "Who are you?"

She walked over to him and stuck her hand out to him, "Lucina." She said, as Shadow proceeded to take her hand and shook it, "It's a pleasure to finally meet you in person Shadow."

"You know me?" He asked, tilting his head.

"Well yeah, you could say that." The woman named Lucina replied, "Come on follow me."

"To where?"

"Where else? The cockpit of the ship."

Seeing as how Shadow didn't have much of a choice, he had followed Lucina out of the medical room. As they walked down the hall Shadow looked at some of what he thought were soldiers, they're what appeared to be orange and yellow balls with feet.

Shadow couldn't help but give a look to them.

"Oh, don't mind the Waddle Dees." Lucina said to him, "They won't do anything to you. They may not be fighters but they are very useful when it comes to running a ship."

"Waddle Dees?" Shadow said, "Is that really what they're called?"

"Yeah." She replied, "And before you even ask, I didn't come up with the name."

"Do you mind telling me exactly where I am?" Shadow asked her, still confused, "I know I'm on a ship, but I know I'm not in the same dimension as before."

"Dimension?" Lucina said, "You mean you know you're not in your world?"

"I've done some, "traveling" in my time. Just tell me, am I right or wrong?"

Lucina stopped in her tracks and let out a sigh. "You are correct Shadow." She replied, "You are not in the world that you once came from. This is a world that exist and yet at the same time it doesn't exist."

"What do you mean by that?"

"Well to be honest, I'm not sure what it means either.

"Don't worry, you'll get your get your answers. We're almost to the bridge."

They took an elevator which bought them one level up from where they were. They had entered the bridge and Shadow had seen that there were more of the the creatures that Lucina had called Waddle Dees. In the center of it all he saw yet another person who was just appeared to be a round ball but this time with purple feet.

For his hands he appeared to have what looked like white mittens and wore a blue cape, kind of like what Lucina had. When he turned to speak to a Waddle Dee, Shadow saw that he had on a silver mask and yellow eyes were seen.

Lucina called out to him, "Meta Knight!"

The person, whose name was Meta Knight, heard her, and noticed that their guest was up.

"Ah, Shadow!" Meta Knight said, "It's good to see you up and about."

"Huh…" Shadow said, "Good to see you know my name as well. Who are you?"

"Meta Knight." He said walking over to him, "It's a pleasure to meet you finally."

"A pleasure to be met." Shadow said back Meta Knight, "Your friend Lucina here was just telling about how I'm in a world different from mine."

"I had a feeling she would." Meta Knight had replied.

"His a Dimension Traveler Meta Knight." Lucina said to him, "He told me himself."

Shadow saw Meta Knight's eyes widened with surprise, "A Dimension Traveler you say? Now there is something that hasn't been seen for a long time."

"Dimension Traveler? Yeah, that's putting it lightly." Shadow had told him, "So this is world that exists but isn't actually real, do you know what that means?"

Meta Knight shook his head, "Unfortunately no. But I can tell you how this world is different from yours though?"

"Oh, really? Enlighten me than."

"This is world is what we call the world of Smash. The world of Smash is world that was created strictly for one thing only."

"And that would be what exactly?"

"Fighting."

Shadow gave a sort of quizzical look to Meta Knight. "A world entirely made to fight?" Shadow had said sort of surprised. "You don't sound all that surprised." Lucina said to him. Shadow had replied, "I would be. But then again after the worlds and dimensions I've been to, I honestly wouldn't be all that surprised."

Shadow looked at both Lucina and Meta Knight. "And by the looks of your appearance you two seem 'out of this world' yourselves."

Meta Knight slightly chuckled, "You're smarter than you look."

"I can't say everyone else agrees with it." He replied to Meta Knight.

"You're correct Shadow." Meta Knight said, "Myself, Lucina and many others are from different worlds, from the past the present and the future. Some are even from a world that makes no sense at all."

"If you all came from a different world and timeline, how are you all here than?"

"That my friend I'm afraid even I can't explain, but I can tell you this much. Fifteen years ago*, all of our worlds had how you say 'crossovered' with one another, and from that all of our worlds combined into the world we're in now. Fragments of our world were pulled into this and it was able to co-exist without our worlds collapsing on themselves."

(*The year 1999! That was the year of the first Super Smash Bros Game on the Nintendo 64 before Melee on the GameCube!)

"So all of your worlds crossed with one another, and yet your world and others still exist like nothing ever happened. Now there's a first."

"The creators of this world are two mysterious beings named Master Hand & Crazy Hand. Over the years they both caused all kinds of trouble for us, and many of the Fighters, the people of this world had defeated them both over and over again. And during that time some there were Newcomers that came to our world, many of the Newcomers however either came or went never to be seen again."

"Newcomers? I'm going to assume it's people like me than?"

"You are correct about that. However I'm afraid that you have come here to this world at a terrible time."

"What do you mean?"

Lucina had then replied to Shadow, "A few weeks ago during one of our tournaments four people calling themselves Trophy Hunters had arrived into our world, with companions that look like some of the Fighters that are here in this world, only instead they referred to them as Amiibos. At first they seemed harmless, but within a few days time, they started to round us up one by one. But we all know that they wouldn't be able to do something like this. Someone else is controlling these Hunters, the only problem is, we don't who it is."

"Do you know how many of you are left?" Shadow asked her. Lucina shook her head. "Meta Knight and I have been trying to figure out their plan for weeks, but so far, nothing has turned up.

"We've only managed to get a photo on two of the Hunters." Meta Knight said while motioning a Waddle Dee to bring up a picture.

Two pictures had popped up. One was of a girl with long grey hair and appeared to have orange dyed at the tips of her hair, the other was of a man with dark green hair and blue eyes.

"The girl is named Wolfram and the other one is named Hemlock." Lucina had said, "They were the first two that started to round up most of us."

"They do seem like the type of people that would cause a lot of trouble." Shadow had commented.

"Yes, but that's not the only thing that we have to worry about now." Meta Knight said.

Shadow gave him a confused look to Meta Knight as if to ask "What are you saying?"

"You weren't the only one that was brought into this world Shadow." Meta Knight explained, "Three other Newcomers were brought here into this world as well."

"Others?" Shadow had, "Are you sure?"

"We're certain." Lucina had said, "However we're unsure of their location, we don't even know if they were captured by the Hunters."

Shadow turned away and thought to himself, "So I'm not the only one who ended up in a world like this. Most likely it won't be anyone I know. If what these two said is true about other worlds crossing over with one another, than…"

He was soon bought out of his own thoughts when he heard Meta Knight say to him, "I know this is sudden, but we could use your help with this situation at hand."

"Well considering the situation I'm in, I don't have any other choice now do I?" Shadow said with a sigh, "So when do I start?"

A Waddle Dee had soon approached the three and said, "We're approaching the location now Sir Meta Knight."

"You can start right now." Lucina said to Shadow.

The ship had slowly landed at what appeared to be ruins of an ancient temple. Shadow had seen the landscape and he saw that the temple was surrounded with vines. He turned to Lucina and asked, "What do you hope to find in a place like this?"

Meta Knight had replied to Shadow after he prepared his sword.

"Hopefully, we'll find clues on what or who is really behind this."