Attention: this is chapter is not fic, skip to the next chapter to start the story, but this intro explains the rules I'll be following, so I highly recommend reading it.
Hello people of fanfic land! This is going to be my second real story (that Kingdom Hearts one is a mistake, read at your own risk...) Basically, this will be like if Smash Ultimate's world of light had a Subspace-style story mode. The twist though: there will be none of this "spirits possess clones" crap (Nintendo, I love you, but I hate this aspect of WoL) Instead, every spirit will be its own thing i.e. when Mario and Kirby fight a guardian, they really fight one, not just a big R.O.B. Other than that though, I'll keep as close to the mode as I can.
I'm sure not all of you want to read this whole thing, so I'll start with the basic rules I'll be following:
1. I will NOT include every single spirit. Case in point, in the first chapter I have Kirby fight all of the spirits from that first road except for Celeste. The reason I will leave some out will be because I don't want to over crowd chapters, there are WAY too many spirits for me to write about, or I just don't know the character well enough to choreograph a fight with them. And I'll also take out most FE characters, otherwise there would be one literally every chapter, which will get stale.
2. While I will introduce every single playable character, I will not use them in every chapter, since there are way too many. And yeah, I'm gonna be playing favourites. Olimar will rarely be used, deal with it.
3. Lastly, I cannot take full credit for this. While the story is all mine, there's no way I can remember every single spirit. So to help me organize things, I will be basing things loosely on a let's play, done by a YouTube channel called The D-Pad. And maybe a bit of ProJared. And some of my own personal playthrough. I like this game a lot, ok?
That's it for rules (and an obligatory shoutouts), you should safely be able to start the story proper now. For those interested though, here's some miscellaneous info!
To start off, I prefer Subspace over WoL. That's just me, I love story driven games and I absolutely cannot understand the hate for that mode. Complaining about the maze and Tabuu specifically is one, thing, but the rest of it is near perfect. Watch the video essay on it by the YouTuber Arlo. It captures my feelings pretty perfectly. Anywho, I decided to add a story to WoL, simple as that. And for those of you coming from my Smash 64 story, don't worry, it's on a brief hiatus, but I'll definitely finish it and definitely move on to do the other games. I just couldn't hold this one in any longer, I'm gonna work on this one until I'm burnt out, then I'll go back to the other one. And for those interested, I have Godzilla and Nintendo crossover fics in the works, so stay tuned if you enjoy either of those. That's it for now, enjoy the story!