And Chapter 2 is here, though before we begin, here's some more changes from the main World of Light
1. Any Assist Trophy and Pokémon that can summoned through the Poke Ball and Master Ball that Jacob and his friends rescue the spirits of will immediately get their bodies back so they can help assist the main fighters during the Spirit Fights and Captive Fights.
2. Characters that are well fitted for a boss battle, like Brawl bosses Duon, Rayquaza, and Porky and even stage bosses like Yellow Devil and Metal Face will get time in the spotlight alongside characters that haven't been a boss in any smash game, like the Death Egg Robot and the Metal Gear REX.
3. You know the branching paths where after you free one fighter the other two lock until you've defeated the boss of that path, yeah, instead of doing, all three of its fighters are gonna be rescued first, then Jacob and his friends will decide which path they want to take before Master Hand comes and locks the two they didn't choose.
Now that that's done, let's see what dangers await Jacob on his quest to save the Smash Bros. cast and restore the World of Light.
Jacob had just started his journey to defeat Galeem and restore the World of Light. He found himself in an empty field, he took notice of a sign that said The Starting Area. "Interesting, a bit generic, but interesting." He said.
Just then, the fighter tracker started beeping, "Fighter Detected, Fighter Detected." It said, "Huh?" Jacob said as he got the tracker out. "Which fighter is it?" He asked. "Fighter confirmed to be Fighter No. 6, Kirby." The tracker was indeed correct, Kirby's Trophy was in plain sight, though the eyes were a blood red instead of their normal blue and there were fibres made from pure energy holding it in place.
Jacob's heart sank, the thought that the star warrior and saviour of Dreamland had been made into one of Galeem's minions made him shake. "Well, here we go." As soon he touched the trophy, it teleported Jacob to a stage that he was all too familiar with, Final Destination.
"Huh, I guess touching a trophy corrupted by Galeem's influence teleports you to a stage best fit for the battle." Jacob said, then he saw Kirby, who was back in his physical form, but his eyes were still a murderous red. "You're not gonna go easy on me, are you?" He said.
Kirby said nothing, he just charged at Jacob like he was of King Dedede's Waddle Dees. "I figured not." Jacob sighed, pulling out his Beam Sword. "LET'S DO THS!" he shouted as he charged at Kirby, who suddenly turned into a fireball and flew right into him. "WHOA!" Jacob shouted as he dodged the attack. "That was close." He said. "Now, TAKE THIS!" He shouted as he swung his Beam Sword at Kirby, only for the pink puffball to dodge and swing his wooden hammer right into his face, sending him flying across the arena.
"OUCH!" Jacob said as he got back up. "How is my neck not broken?!" He shouted before noticing that Kirby was charging at him again. "Oh, not this time!" he shouted before he charged at Kirby and gave him an uppercut, sending him high in the sky. "It's a good thing Kirby's a lightweight fighter, otherwise I'd be at a disadvantage."
Suddenly Jacob noticed the ground under him get darker, he looked up and saw that Kirby had used his stone ability. Jacob held up a sign saying Help before realizing he could just dodge it and quickly rolled away before the pink stone crushed where he was standing. "HA! You missed!" Jacob shouted, this made Kirby more, well, angry, he then finally decided to try and use his powerful stomach to swallow Jacob and copy his abilities.
"Whoa!" Jacob shouted as he tried to get away from Kirby. "And to think this is how Kirby gets most of his powers!" He thought. Suddenly, he noticed that a Bob-omb had spawned, knowing that eating explosive items causes damage to the person that swallows it, Jacob grabbed the Bom-omb and threw into Kirby's mouth, it exploded as soon as Kirby closed his mouth, sending Kirby flying again.
"Alright." Jacob said as he grabbed his Beam Sword. "Eat this!" He then proceeded to hit Kirby several times with the Beam Sword, after about twenty slashes, Jacob once again hit Kirby with an uppercut. Poor Kirby was barely conscious at this point. "Okay, let's end this!" Jacob said as he charged up a Smash Attack, by the time Kirby was able to register what was happening, it was too late, as Jacob was able to hit Kirby with the Smash Attack, sending him flying off the stage, KO'ing him instantly.
"WOO!" Jacob shouted as he stood victorious. "That's how it's done!" He said as he was teleported back the Starting Arena, the energy fibres holding Kirby's Trophy disappeared with his eyes returning to their normal blue.
Jacob smiled, he knew that Kirby was back to normal, he then touched the base of his trophy and revived him. Kirby sat on the grass and opened his eyes.
"Poyo?" Kirby said. Jacob knew Kirby couldn't exactly speak English unlike Meta Knight and King Dedede. "Hey, you okay?" Jacob asked the star warrior.
Kirby got up and just stared at Jacob in confusion, but then he realized he wasn't under Galeem's control anymore, he smiled happily and did his signature victory dance. "Ah, that's the Kirby we all know and love." Jacob said.
"Poyo poyo poyo!" Kirby said, thanking Jacob for rescuing him.
"Hey, no problem!" Jacob said happily as he got out his checklist, "One down, about seventy or so to go." He ticked the Box for Kirby on the list. "Alright, now how about we go find the rest of your friends!" He said.
"Poyo!" Kirby said happily, and he cheerfully followed Jacob as he walked away.
Jacob and Kirby then suddenly noticed the Smoky Progg spirit, which took on the form of Mario, albeit with different coloured clothes, the three of them were then teleported to the Distant Planet, where a certain Hocotate employee had crash landed after his ship struck a meteor.
"Isn't this the Pikmin Planet a.k.a. PNF-404?" Jacob asked.
Kirby nodded, confirming it to indeed to PNF-404.
"Alright, now let's take care of that puppet fighter." Said Jacob as he got up his Beam Gun. "You go ahead and try and get a few hits on him, I'll take the offensive route." He added.
"Poyo." Kirby agreed and charged at the Mario puppet fighter, who did the same thing, Kirby was able to quite a few hits on the Puppet Fighter since it was weaker than the original Mario, with Jacob getting a good few hits on it from the Ray Gun, however, the Puppet Fighter then turned into metal and whacked Kirby away.
"KIRBY!" Jacob shouted as Kirby landed back on the ground. "Are you alright?" He asked. Kirby got back up to show that was okay. Suddenly, Jacob had an idea. "Say, do you think you could charge up your Hammer Swing? I've got an idea." He said to Kirby.
Kirby agreed and brought his hammer out, Jacob then charged at the Mario Puppet Fighter while Kirby let the hammer charge, Jacob and the Puppet Fighter then started beating each other out, with the Puppet Fighter getting a few lucky hits on Jacob. Then, Jacob grabbed it and threw towards Kirby.
The Puppet Fighter got up, but at the moment, its metal coat wore off. "NOW!" Jacob screamed, and Kirby unleashed its' fully charged Hammer Swing on the Puppet Fighter, sending it flying and KO'ing it. "Yes!" Jacob shouted. "You did it Kirby!" He added, Kirby cheered and the two of them were teleported back to the Starting Area.
"Well that was fun." Jacob said happily. Just then, he saw the Smoky Progg spirit go into a bag that had just materialized on the ground. Kirby looked at the bag in confusion.
"What the heck is this thing?" Jacob said, as he grabbed the bag, he noticed that the words Spirit Porch were stitched on it. "Huh, I guess we have something we can use to store the spirits we collect now." Jacob confirmed, he put the Spirit Porch around his waist and put his Ray Gun back in its holder.
"Alright, shall we continue Kirby?" Jacob asked, Kirby nodded in agreement, but he was worried, while he had only been under Galeem's control for a few hours, it was a horrific few hours to say the least, as Galeem had already used his Trophy to create more than enough Puppet Fighters for his army, and considering his fate also applied to his friends, it made him feel upset that he wasn't able to save anyone, let alone himself. Jacob noticed this and comforted him.
"Hey, it'll be alright Kirby, I know how it feels to be away from the people you care about, but don't worry, we'll get them back, I promise." Jacob said, this made Kirby feel a lot better. "That's better, now come on, I think I saw the next spirit." Jacob said as he started walking with Kirby following him, when they got to the Eevee spirit, it took on Yoshi's form with it being blue in colour, all three of them were then brought to Yoshi's home, the titular Yoshi's Island.
"Ah, Yoshi's Island, the place where Yoshi first met the young Baby Mario and helped him rescue his brother from Baby Bowser." Jacob said, who was looking back on Yoshi's history with Mario.
"Anyways, let's do th-" Jacob stopped talking when he noticed the red and white orb the Yoshi Puppet Fighter (who also had a Super Leaf in effect) was holding. "Is that a Poke Ball?" His suspicions were confirmed when the Yoshi threw the Poke Ball, right into Jacob's face.
"OW!" Jacob screamed. "WAS THAT REALLY NESSACERY?!" He said angrily, but then he noticed the Poke Ball opening, and Eevee, the Evolution Pokémon, was summoned from it.
"Uh… N-Nice Pokémon…" Jacob said nervously, Eevee obviously didn't comply as she immediately used Takedown which Jacob jumped over. "Don't worry about me Kirby, just take out the Yoshi clone."
"Poyo!" Kirby went on and did just that, starting by using his Final Cutter ability on the Blue Yoshi Puppet before comboing it with a few punches and finishing it off with a Hammer Swing. Just ten, another Yoshi spawned, this one being yellow in colour and equipped with a Screw Attack and a Red Yoshi with a Superspicy Curry running spawned shortly after.
"You've gotta be kidding!" Jacob said "Light Girl never said we'd have to take on multiple Puppet Fighters at once!" He added as he jumped over Eevee again, though this time Eevee fell right off the stage. "Well that takes care of the Pokémon, now- Wait a second." Jacob said.
"Blue? Yellow? Red? Holy cow, these Yoshi's represent Eevee's first three evolutions, Vaporeon, Jolteon and Flareon!" He realized, but then he noticed Kirby getting his butt kicked by the two remaining Yoshi clones.
"Uh oh." Jacob said as he got out his Beam Sword, "Better help him before he ends up trophified again." He then charges at the two Puppet Fighters, knocking the Yellow one off the stage when his Screw Attack came off. He did damaged the Red Yoshi clone with his Beam Sword while Kirby took some time to recover.
Just then, Kirby started glowing with a Rainbow light, his eyes turning golden, Jacob gasped, he knew what that meant. "The Final Smash Meter!" Jacob realized, the Final Smash Meter was one of the newest additions to Smash Ultimate, it allowed the Fighter to earn a Final Smash without using a Smash Ball.
Jacob stunned the Yoshi Puppet Fighter before moving away. "Alright Kirby, use your Final Smash, quick!"
"Poyo!" Kirby nodded and charged at the Puppet Fighter while donning a green cap and the Ultra Sword, he then slashed the Puppet Fighter multiple times.
Jacob just watched while munching on Popcorn. "Amazing." He said, Kirby then made the Ultra Sword bigger as he unleashed a powerful blow with it, causing the Yoshi clone to fly off the stage and get KO'd.
"Well done Kirby." Jacob said while clapping his hands. "That's another spirit defeated." He added, then he and Kirby were sent back to the Starting Area, with the Eevee spirit going into the Spirit Porch, but not before it dropped a Poke Ball. Jacob took notice.
"Hmmm?" Jacob picked up the Poke Ball. "If the Eevee Spirit dropped a Poke Ball then that means…" He threw the Poke Ball into the air to see what would happen, this his surprise, Eevee came out, though this time she didn't act hostile or use Takedown on him. "Eevee, Eevee." She said.
"Yeesh, what do I look like, a Pokémon Trainer?" He asked, thankfully, he had seen a lot of the Pokémon Anime so he knew that the Pokémon would be connected to their trainer, like how Ash Ketchum and Pikachu always looked out for each other during their ongoing Pokémon journey. "I think Eevee's body got restored after we freed it from Galeem's clutches." Jacob had found out that by freeing the spirit of a Pokémon that could be summoned by a Poke Ball, it's physical form would be restored and follow the user like it was its trainer.
"That could actually be useful." Jacob said as he called Eevee back to her Poke Ball. "I wonder if characters that are summoned through Assist Trophies like Waluigi and Shadow will work as well." He wondered. "I guess we'll find out soon." He said. "Alright, who's the next spirit?" Jacob asked Kirby.
"Poyo poyo." Kirby replied as he pointed at the Celeste spirit. "Okay." Jacob said, he and Kirby approached the spirit and it turned into that of a Jigglypuff with a ribbon her head. The next thing they knew, all three of them were at Smashville.
"Alright, we're at Smashville." Jacob said with excitement! "It's actually somewhat fitting considering Celeste made a cameo appearance on this stage." He continued.
"Poyo!" Kirby screamed to get Jacob's attention. "Huh?" What's wrong buddy?" He noticed the Jigglypuff Puppet Fighter was charging its Rollout ability. "Oh… Don't worry, I've got this!Jacob said, reaching for his Beam Sword and then running at the Jigglypuff clone, but it unleashed it's fully charged Rollout ability before he could land on it.
"Darn it!" Jacob said in frustration. Luckily, a well-timed Hammer Swing from Kirby sent the Puppet Fighter flying back in Jacob's Direction. "Alright!" Jacob said, preparing to use his Beam Sword for a Smash Attack. Kirby watched in amazement as Jacob unleashed the Smash Attack with his Beam Sword, dealing a lot of damage to the Jigglypuff clone. "Now that's a team effort!"
Jacob grabs Eevee's Poke Ball. "And speaking of teamwork, Eevee, let's go!" he screamed as he threw the Poke Ball.
"Eevee!" Eevee said as she was brought out. "Use Takedown!" Eevee responded to the commanded without failure, dealing more damage to the Jigglypuff Puppet Fighter, and sending it flying into Kirby, however, this time, Jigglypuff used it's Sleep ability sending Kirby flying and dealing massive damage.
"Oh no, Kirby!" Jacob screamed. "I've got ya!" He said, grabbing Kirby before he flew off the stage, then putting him down to rest. "You'll pay for that!" He said while giving the death stare to the Jigglypuff clone. "Eevee, Shadow Ball!"
"Eevee." The Evolution Pokémon charged up a Shadow Ball and fired it, sending flying in Jacob's direction.
"Alright, time for the big finish!" Jacob said, as he charged at the Jigglypuff clone, then hitting with a powerful uppercut, sending it flying before it disappeared, Star KO'ing it.
"Don't mess with the puff!" Jacob said, "Eevee, Eevee!" Eevee cheered and Kirby, who had just recovered, was grateful for Jacob saving him from getting KO'd. "Poyo!" Kirby said, thanking Jacob again.
Jacob, Kirby and Eevee were then brought back to the Starting Area, the Celeste spirit going into the Spirit Porch.
"Thanks for the help Eevee, now return." Jacob said, calling Eevee back to her Poke Ball. "Alright, where to nex-" He was interrupted when the fighter tracker started beeping again, "Fighter Detected, Fighter Detected." It said, "Oh new fighter." Jacob said, taking the tracker out.
Kirby looked at the tracker in wonder. "Alright, which fighter is it this time?" Jacob asked. "Fighter confirmed to be Fighter No. 1, Mario." This made Kirby excited, Mario was one of his best friends in the Smash Bros. Tournament, this made Jacob excited too, as Mario was one of the most, if not the most popular fighter in all of Super Smash Bros.
With nothing to lose, Jacob and Kirby went to look for Mario's Trophy. They eventually found it, though like Kirby's Trophy, there were energy fibres holding it in place and Mario's normal blue eyes were red.
"Huh, I guess this'll be like your battle with him at Midair Stadium all over again." Kirby shuttered at the mention of Midair Stadium, as it was one of the first areas where the Subspace army attacked and it was also the first location to be dragged into Subspace itself, Kirby barely escaped with Peach when the Subspace Bomb detonated.
"Anyways, shall we begin?" Jacob asked, snapping Kirby back to reality. "Poyo." Kirby said, nodding. "Okay!" Jacob said as he touched Mario's Trophy, teleporting the two of them back to Final Destination.
"Back here are we? Very well." Said Jacob, who was surprised to be back at the stage he fought Kirby on. He then saw the familiar Italian plumber who he had come to love over the years, but seeing him with red eyes made his heart sink a little.
"Alright, let's give it all we got!" Jacob said with determination, pulling out his Ray Gun. "You ready Kirby?" He asked Kirby.
"Poyo" Kirby said, he wasn't gonna let Galeem use his friend to create any more Puppet Fighters.
The brainwashed Mario charged at the two of them, but Jacob used his Ray Gun to slow him down a little, giving Kirby enough time to land some Ground Attacks on him. But then, Mario grabbed Kirby and threw him to the other side of the stage. "Poyo!" Kirby said as he landed.
Jacob gasped, but then he remembered Kirby's most iconic ability, "Kirby, use your Copy Ability!" he shouted. Kirby eyewinked and proceeded to use his Inhale move, Mario tried using F.L.U.D.D. to push him off the stage, but this distracted from Jacob who then hit him with a Forward Smash, sending Mario flying right into Kirby's mouth, allowing Kirby to copy Mario's abilities, once he swallowed, Mario came flying out and Kirby got Mario's trademark cap.
"Alright, now let's see what you can do!" Jacob said excitedly, Kirby started throwing fireball after fireball, having copied Mario's fireball ability. Mario got hit by each and every one of them, Mario then reflected some of them with his cape, but Kirby got out of the way before they hit him, but then Mario jumped and hit him with his Super Jump Punch, coins coming out like if Kirby was a Question Mark Block.
"Hey, two can play at that game!" Said Jacob as jumped up and uppercutted Mario, causing Mario to fall to the bottom of the stage. Kirby then had an idea. "Poyo poyo poyo poyo!" He shouted. "Oh, you wanna do the honours, huh?" Jacob asked, "Poyo, poyo!" Replied Kirby.
"Alright, go right ahead Star Warrior!" Jacob said with a smile on his face, Kirby cheered and immediately used his Stone ability, turning into a Thwomp. Mario was unable to react in time as Kirby came crashing down on top of him, sending Mario flying off the stage and KO'ing him.
"ALRIGHT!" Yelled Jacob in excitement. Kirby did his victory dance and Jacob hugged him. "You were amazing Kirby, great job!"
"Poyo!" Said Kirby as they were teleported back to the Starting Area, the energy fibres holding Mario's Trophy vanished and his eyes went back from red to blue.
"POYO!" Kirby yelled as he hopped out of Jacob's arms and went to touch the base of Mario's Trophy, reviving him.
"Oh my head." Said Mario as he got back onto his feat. "Hmmm? Where am I?" he asked, wondering where he was, but then he saw Kirby. "Poyo poyo!" Kirby said, greeting his friend.
"Kirby? Is that really-a you?" Mario asked, Kirby nodded, "Yahoo, you saved-a Mario, way to go!" Mario said as he shock Kirby's hand. "But, how did you escape from-a Galeem?" Kirby pointed at Jacob, and then told him how he rescued him from Galeem's clutches and how they had freed 3 spirits already before rescuing him.
"Okay… But who is this-a Jacob?" Mario asked Kirby. "Um, hi." Said Jacob as he waved. "Oh, hello there, it's-a me, Mario!" Mario said, introducing himself to Jacob.
"Of course it's-a you." Jacob said, shaking Mario's hand, "You know, I played a lot of your games as a kid but I never thought I'd get the chance to work alongside you." He added.
"That's-a nice to hear." Said Mario, suddenly, his cap came to life. "Phew, finally, I thought I wouldn't see the light of day again!" said the cap.
"Hey is that Cappy?" Jacob asked, recognizing the Bonneter that had helped Mario in his latest adventure almost instantly.
"Yep." Mario said, "He's-a kinda been my replacement cap so my old one kinda got shredded during my first attempt to stop Bowser from forcing Peach into marrying her.
"Ah, I see." Jacob said. Suddenly, two items, one resembling a baseball bat and the other resembling a bazooka dropped to the ground. Jacob recognized these as the Home-Run Bat and the Super-Scope. "Huh, guess we got rewarded with more items, neat." Jacob said as he picked up the Super-Scope and Home-Run Bat. "But where am I gonna put these?" He wondered, but then they vanished into thin air.
Jacob was shocked at first, but then the Home-Run Bat reappeared in his hand, Jacob wondered how that was possible, but considering Kirby was able to summon his Hammer and Cutter at will, he didn't question it.
"Hey guys, I think I see one of those spirits you've been-a helping with-a freeing." Mario said as he pointed at the Guardian Spirit.
"Alright, let's go!" Jacob said as he ran towards the Spirit, with Mario and Kirby following him. With two fighters on his side already, Jacob hoped to see what else the World of Light had in store for him, as the adventure continues…
Current Party:
Fighters: Jacob, Mario, Kirby
Items: Beam Sword, Ray Gun, Home-Run Bat, Super-Scope
Pokémon: Eevee
And that's another chapter done, not gonna lie, I was generally surprised that people actually decided to read this, I mean, it's already got over 100 views, so thank you guys, anyways, that's all for now, stay tuned for Chapter 3!
